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Apartment 3 rooms 2 bedrooms, located Rue des Acacias, 75017 Paris, in the district of Ternes. This apartment can accommodate 4 people and get 2 bedrooms, 2 sleeps. With amenities such as : wifi. .
- dryer
- elevator
- internet
- washer
- shower
- TV Satellite/Cable
- espresso maker
- bathtub
- Area
- bathtub w/fixed shower
- dishwasher
- microwave
- oven
- outdoor balcony
- washing/dryer combined
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This bright and luxuous two bedrooms apartment is located on rue des Acacias in the 17th district of Paris (area of 59 sqm). It lies on the 5th and last French floor with elevator and overlooks a peacefull and quiet courtyard.The decoration is very neat and modern with high quality furnitures.You will find at your disposal a fully equiped kitchen with all the modern appliances, internationnal TV channels, free secure and unlimited wireless internet connexion, separated toilets.
Please not that furnitures and bedding are brand new.The apartment can welcome 4 people (ideally 2 or 3).The parental bedroom is equiped with a TV (French channels) and a very comfortable double bed.The second bedroom is equiped with a double sofa bed and a closet.Both bedrooms are en suite, you have to cross the small to access the master bedroom and bathroom.
Please note that the heating is collective. Advantageous in winter.


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A packed house at the Letter in the Attic roadshow
Photo by Tony Mould
Venue for the Open Day on 14th June at the Jubilee Library, Brighton
In June 2008, the Letter in the Attic project held a free Family Archives Roadshow at Brighton's Jubilee Library.
Over 130 people came and got free professional advice on looking after your their own family archive or other precious documents. There was also a display of the fascinating range of letters and diaries that the project has been collecting.
Some of our contributors brought along their letters and diaries and told the stories that lie behind them. There were also exhibitions and displays of material from the East Sussex Record Office, the Mass Observation archive, QueenSpark Books and My Brighton and Hove.
We're still collecting new material. So get in touch with us via email@example.com and we'll tell you how it can be added to the Letter in the Attic archive.
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GTA Online has been a huge success as it is played by millions of fans around the world. It has not only changed the way we see GTA, but has also impacted the way Rockstar does things in its studio.
Rockstar keeps adding more and more stuff to do in GTA Online and players just can't get enough of it. Developers are constantly working on GTA Online content, in addition to other projects.
Speaking about how GTA Online has changed the flow of development at Rockstar, Director of Design, Imran Sarwar said:
Grand Theft Auto Online changed the flow of development from what we were traditionally used to, which has been a learning experience for everyone.
He went on to say:
The shift to working on an evolving online game means there are fewer pauses in production – we are constantly producing content for GTA Online alongside everything else we are working on. We have been really excited by the idea of online multiplayer for a long time, and with the evolving nature of what GTA Online has become, we've been able to realize a lot of our ideas which has been a fantastic experience.
An online mode in GTA V means that fans would expect online components in GTA VI as well. This may put extra pressure on developers as they would have to out do themselves next time around, which won't be easy.
However, if anyone can do it, it's Rockstar.


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Here at Ascension of Our Lord Catholic School, Christ is the center of everything we do. Our students flourish in an environment of academic excellence filled with challenging opportunities to learn and succeed at all levels. Ascension of Our Lord's tradition of great faith and strong academics are carried out through the curriculum. We are committed to building a strong spiritual, academic and moral foundation that empowers our students to strive for success. A wide array of extracurricular activities and enrichment classes are offered, allowing each individual to excel to their fullest potential. We invite you to take a tour of our campus to experience first-hand what it feels like to be a part of the Crusader Family.
Ascension of Our Lord School admits students of any race, color and national origin to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities made available to students of the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color or national and ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies, extracurricular activities and other school administered programs.


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Three supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi have been killed and several wounded by gunfire after Egyptian troops opened fire on demonstrators as they marched on a barracks in Cairo where the deposed president was being held.
Islamist allies of Morsi called for a Friday of protests calling it "a day of rejection" to protest against the overthrow by the army of the first Egyptian president elected in democratic elections.
Tens of thousands chanted "Down with military rule" as they marched along a boulevard and pledged to continue their demonstrations until the Muslim Brotherhood's leader was returned to his position as elected president.
The military took over on Wednesday after four days of mass protests by millions of ordinary Egyptians demanding his removal and protesting against what they said was a betrayal of the revolution that ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak.
Morsi has been accused of putting power in the hands of his own Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists.
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Egypt Morsi Coup: Who are Adli Mansour and Abdul Fattah al-Sisi?
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Egypt Morsi Coup: Adli Mansour Sworn in as Interim President [VIDEO]
Egypt Second Revolution: Military Raid Offices of Al-Jazeera and Close Three pro-Morsi Stations [VIDEO]
Obama Avoids $1.5bn 'Coup' Label for Egypt's Second Revolution [VIDEO]
Ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi Held in Custody by Military [VIDEO]
Egypt in Chaos: Army Tightens Control Over Cairo
Egypt in Chaos: Morsi Allies Denounce Military Coup as Army Deadline Expires [PHOTOS]


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ArmaLite's SPR Mod 1 AR-type rifle offers interchangeable rails on three sides so operators can add a variety of weapon accessories and customize it to their liking.
The forged, one-piece upper receiver and rail system includes detachable side and bottom rails designed to meet an operator's changing needs for sights, lights, lasers, grips or swivels.
The rifle arrives with three extra rails, including a Picatinny rail with quick-detach-sling swivel hole. Two inserts arrrive with the rifle—a low insert for when a bare rail with a low profile is needed and a plain insert with a quick-detach-sling swivel hole.
Changing rails and add-ons on the SPR Mod 1 is as easy as turning a torque wrench, according to ArmaLite.
The SPR Mod 1's one-piece construction also offers a continuous optic platform (COP). There's no gap to bridge between the receiver and upper rail when installing a scope or sights. The one-piece construction also gives the sighting platform extra rigidty that helps sights stay zeroed during the most challenging conditions.
The SPR Mod 1 has a chrome-lined, chrome moly vanadium 16-inch steel barrel; two-stage trigger; patented steel bolt assembly; and hard-coated finish.
The rifle is chambered for .223/5.56x45mm with a rifling twist rate of 1:7 for 69-80 grain ammunition. It arrives with one 30-round magazine, a sling and black case. It retails for $1,529.


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Kikyou looks really scared that he is trembling badly. Yuulin quickly grabs the charm and says this is because she wants to exorcise demons so she asked Kikyou to teach her about charms! Reishou and Kikyou are surprised by that. Reishou suspiciously asks, ...exorcise?
With a forced smile, Yuulin exclaims that's how it is so let's talk about this again later on. She starts pushing Reishou away while Reishou keeps on staring at her. She tells him okay, let's go, Your Majesty!! Kikyou just quietly watch them leave.


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Snarling Cats can bounced back just like Kerry did - Bonnar
"Kilkenny will still have a big say in this championship," he insisted.
"To me they are the only team capable of beating Tipperary. On this occasion our display wasn't good enough. We needed to take very opportunity we had." - Colm Bonnar on Kilkenny.
KILKENNY are well capable of doing a Kerry on it and bouncing back like the great football team from the Kingdom to win further glory after missing out on the All-Ireland five in-a-row.
Kerry won the senior football championship in 1978, 1979, 1980 and 1981 but just like Kilkenny in the hurling decider last year, their bid for five was halted in the final.
However, the men from the Kingdom bounced back to capture the Sam Maguire Cup in 1984, 1985 and 1986 and the Cats are capable of following a similar career path, Wexford hurling manager, Colm Bonnar, has suggested.
"Right now it would appear that the only team capable of beating Kilkenny would be Tipperary," suggested the Wexford boss in the wake of a disappointing defeat in the Leinster semi-final on Saturday.
"The team that will beat them will be capable of going on and winning the All-Ireland," he continued. "If they are not beaten, obviously they will win it themselves.
Kilkenny are good
"They could be like the great Kerry football team that missed out on the All-Ireland five in-a-row. They came back to win another couple of All-Irelands. That is how good Kilkenny are."
The former Tipperary star admitted that Wexford were very disappointed at the manner of their defeat, but it was only right that the winners should be given due credit.
"Kilkenny will still have a big say in this championship," he insisted. "To me they are the only team capable of beating Tipperary. On this occasion our display wasn't good enough. We needed to take very opportunity we had."
He recalled that Rory Jacob had two great chances of goals in the first half. Wexford needed to take those to have any chance.
"When you are the underdogs you need to put it up to the opposition, to create a doubt in their minds," he said of the challenge faced by Wexford. "You need to give the home support, which was great for us, some reason to get behind you.
"We looked dangerous when we got the ball into the full-forward line in the first half. We should have taken more scores. That gave us some hope that if we could get the ball in during the second half that we could achieve something.
Lost too much ball
"We lost too many breaking ball in a round midfield. We couldn't get any momentum going. Kilkenny then just powered through. As much as we tried we couldn't break them down."
He didn't want to make excuses, but he felt the loss of centre-back, Darren Stamp before the game and then Ciaran Kenny 10 minutes or so later really hurt Wexford. That double loss tore the heart out of the defence.
"Things didn't work out for us after that," the manager felt.
However, he was sure there was a big kick left in Wexford and they could make their mark in the Qualifiers.
"We can get stronger," Bonnar insisted. "We can play an awful lot better. I was disappointed the way the game just fizzled out. We had hope during the opening 10 minutes of the second half when we went point for points with Kilkenny.
"The crowd was just willing for something to hang on to, to cheer about. There are positives to be taken out of the game. We scored 1-15. We could have scored at least two more goals, and at the end Stephen Banville might have scored a third goal.
"We need to take every opportunity. If we had finished closer, maybe kept the difference to four or five points, it would have given us more confidence going into the Qualifiers. We have a lot of work to do."
He didn't try and hide the fact that Wexford were fiercely disappointed the way the game finished with Kilkenny strolling over the line.
Another beating - hard to take
"The players are at the end of a beating again from Kilkenny," he reminded. "That is hard to accept. The statistics are that Wexford have won once in the last 14 years. That shows the strength of Kilkenny.
"I still think we have an awful lot more to give. There is more in this team. With the Qualifiers coming up we have the chance to advance a stage or two further in the championship. If we can do that that will give us hope going forward. We have to pick ourselves up."
While he freely admitted it would have been a big ask of Wexford to win the game, losing by 11 points was more than they had bargain for.
"If we had taken our opportunities you wouldn't know what way Kilkenny might react, bearing in mind what happened to them in the League final," he continued. "At the end of the day they showed they are still a tremendous team. You can't take anything from them. They are still full of ambition. They still have fierce drive."


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Monday, May 8, 2017
View From Page Thirty: Girl with a Pearl Earring
Book: Girl with a Pearl Earring
Author: Tracy Chevalier
Genre: Historical Fiction
Goodreads synopsis:
With precisely 35 canvases to his credit, the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer represents one of the great enigmas of the 17th-century art. The meager facts of his biography have been gleaned from a handful of legal documents. Yet Vermeer's extraordinary paintings of domestic life, with their subtle play of light and texture, have come to define the Dutch golden age.
His portrait of the anonymous Girl with a Pearl Earring has exerted a particular fascination for centuries - and it is this magnetic painting that lies at the heart of Tracy Chevalier's second novel of the same title.
Girl with a Pearl Earring centers on Vermeer's prosperous Delft household during the 1660s. When Griet, the novel's quietly perceptive heroine, is hired as a servant, turmoil follows. First, the 16-year-old narrator becomes increasingly intimate with her master. Then Vermeer employs her as his assistant - and ultimately has Griet sit for him as a model.
My view from page thirty:
I jumped into this novel completely blind, not even having read the synopsis of the book. Even though I'm only 30 pages into the book, I am enjoying it so fat. I don't really know what to expect, or what will happen, but I am still excited.
I am curious as to how Griet will adapt to the Vermeer's household. She seems like a great character so far, and I really hope I'll connect with her and grow to care for her as the book continues.
There's not much more to say really, as there hasn't really happened that much yet, but it hasn't been boring either.
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[The following is an excerpt from Peter Kline's forthcoming book, Passion for Nothing: Kierkegaard's Apophatic Theology]
Writing with apophatic desire within Christendom is what leads Kierkegaard to adopt what is perhaps his most basic and pervasive literary form, namely, irony.[1] Writing with passion requires the indirection of irony because Christendom has confined theological speech within what Kierkegaard calls a "dreadful illusion."[2] Coming late in a theological and religious tradition that had formed itself into a body of social institutions and patterns of speech in which one was a Christian automatically, simply by being born into a Christian society, Kierkegaard was disturbed with what he regarded as Christendom's ability to deceive people into the belief they were living a Christian life when in truth what surrounded them was a self-deluded caricature of Christian speech and action.
The reason such "reduced circumstances,"[3] as Kierkegaard names them, call for irony, as apposed to a direct form of speech, has to do with what makes Christendom's illusion dreadful. It is crucial not to underestimate or caricature Christendom, even if one's judgment is that Christendom is itself a caricature of Christianity. For Kierkegaard, what made Christendom's illusion about itself dreadful was not that it was false in relation to an objectively measurable and presentable understanding of Christianity's truth. Christendom is not a doctrinal error. Nor is it simply an ethical error, a failure to live up to an objective Christian ideal. What is dreadful about Christendom is not any easily identifiable lapse or hypocrisy but rather its profound intellectual and emotional sophistication. Such sophistication has the capacity to embed one in an illusion from which it is nearly impossible to extricate oneself, at least by any straightforward means. Christendom includes earnest debates about doctrine and ethics, intentional divisions into denominations each of which defends the truth of its perspective, thoughtful reflections on the history and mission of the church, etc. For Kierkegaard, therefore, the way to approach truth and break through illusion is not to step back and "reflect" objectively on one's situation and the ideals, values, and doctrines one is striving to embody. Such a move simply places one squarely within Christendom, no matter how "radical" such reflections are.
Rather than produce a dogmatics or a system of doctrine, Kierkegaard sought to write theological truth by cultivating in himself and in his reader what Jonathan Lear calls "anxious, disruptive experiences of irony."[4] Irony as Kierkegaard sought to cultivate it, however, has nothing to do with apathetic detachment or a refusal of commitment. For Johannes Climacus, "the presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that."[5] Kierkegaard, like Socrates, deploys irony for ethical-religious purposes, as a way to deepen commitment and intensify earnestness. He assumes on the part of his reader a basic commitment to and familiarity with Christian identity, that is, he assumes Christendom. Yet he also assumes that a truly earnest pursuit of Christian truth under the "reduced circumstances" of Christendom will involve an "awakening" to how modern familiarity with Christian identity has reduced Christian speech to a species of "chatter," even (or perhaps especially) when it is most sophisticated. Kierkegaard writes, "every Christian term, which remaining in its own sphere is a qualitative category, now, in reduced circumstances, can do service as a clever expression which may signify pretty much everything."[6] A "qualitative category" is one that withdraws from conscription into quantitative projects of identity and power, projects to which Christendom's bishops are wholly committed in Kierkegaard's view. Categories such as "revelation," "God," "Christ," "salvation," etc. are for Kierkegaard categories of self-dispossessing action that have "no relation to survival as evidence of [their] truth."[7] Christendom, however, has turned such categories into terms for leveraging its own power, that is, ensuring its own survival on the condition of reducing Christian categories to place holders for whatever powers and identities are in vogue. As Mark Jordan puts it, such categories become "terms used by everyone for everything—say, in churches, used by the weak for dictated testimony and by the powerful for repeated judgment in the name of 'tradition.'"[8] Christian speech has in modernity lost touch with its "own sphere." It has surrendered its own capacity for disturbing speech, for passion, in order to ensure its own survival.
To cultivate passion for truth in such reduced circumstance requires exposing the familiarity with which one assumes Christian identity and speech to disturbance and disruption. Such disruption generates experiences of irony insofar as I am led to experience my once familiar pursuit of Christian identity and speech as suddenly strange and difficult. I experience irony when I experience my own earnest attachment and performance of Christian speech as a form of chatter, uncannily hallow and bereft of truth, caught up in the interests of power, domination, and clever evasions of truth-telling. This is not because I am able to glimpse objectively the distance between chatter and "authentic" Christian speech—the fantasy of Christendom's bishops, theologians, and self-assured converts—but because I longer know or have an objective sense of how to speak or live Christianly. My Christian identity has become a problem, a difficulty, an open question.
For Kierkegaard, the passion of Christian living is sustained by keeping the problem and difficulty of Christian speech and action open rather than closed. The truthfulness of a Christian life is conditioned upon it never ceasing to be an ironic existence, ever disruptive of a settled Christian identity, ever responsive to a voice from another sphere that withdraws from the objectifying patterns of speech that ensure Christendom's survival. As Jordan puts it, "we restore weight to the old Christian terms by realizing that we have never been able to carry them or use them skillfully."[9] There is that within the Christian categories to which I am committed, what is "qualitative" in them, that breaks my own understanding and use of them apart, that never allows me to handle them with authority, as grounds for cultivating an easily adopted identity. Such dis-possession, again, does not entail a deflation of earnestness. It is the condition of an ever-deepening engagement with and commitment to an infinitely difficult truth. It is the possibility of a passion for truth-telling that does not "fall down before the golden calf of whichever System or Anti-System happens to be in vogue."[10] This is a passion that must "adopt despised speech,"[11] speech that refuses the interests of easily assumed and cultivated identity.
Kierkegaard's authorship multiplies and performs various forms of despised speech, speech without authority, ironic speech that withdraws from any certainty about itself. Perhaps its most ironic gesture, or the one that gathers together all its preceding ironic gestures, is Kierkegaard's final word as a Christian author in which he unsays even his own name as he declares, "I am not a Christian."[12] This declaration occurs in the middle of his "attack on Christendom," an attack on the familiarity of Christian identity and speech that is animated, as Jordan puts it, by "his hope that the 'specific weight' of Christian words might be felt on the other side of a satire that would devour Christendom, of an indirectness that displaces his own authorship, making even his own name the ironic token of missing voices from the other sphere."[13] Søren Kierkegaard, that author who gave up every attachment in order to devote himself to the task of writing out what is entailed in "becoming a Christian," declares at the end of his life that he has not, finally, become a Christian. "Christian" is not an identity that he can adopt, in part because becoming a Christian is not about assuming an identity but about undertaking a living response to a voice that calls him out of even his own name. Kierkegaard does not yet know how to respond to the voice that calls him, that calls him to give up everything, to become nothing. Yet, ironically, this not-knowing is what keeps him in proximity to this voice, straining to let it be heard, not least by himself.
Kierkegaard's straining to hear and respond to the divine voice within the reduced circumstances of Christendom shows itself in his experimentations with form, his experiments with writing otherwise than as doctrinal exposition or self-assured moralizing. What is characteristic of Kierkegaard's ironic writing experiments, for Jordan, is that they are "nearer burlesque than austere irony."[14] The forms of the authorship perform their own distance from reassuring objectivity by way of passionate caricature that re-stages theological and philosophical characters and themes at slant, with a wink, with "histrionic gestures and fantastic scenes."[15] Jordan: "read him as re-staging fans' passions for Hegel, for Father Abraham, for Greek lyric and versions of Don Juan, for fairy tales and drunken speeches, even for the endless scribbling of the despised Adler."[16] Even at its most Christianly religious, Kierkegaard's writing does not settle down into measured and calculated forms "since any theology of God incarnate as a poor man executed for blasphemy must speak in the mode of ridiculous passion for an object otherwise despised."[17] And within Christendom such ridiculous passion "requires choices both of institutional affiliation and devices of writing that are more exaggerated, like the choices of a bad actor or a buffoon. Kierkegaard makes such choices when he writes polemic in his own name against the memory of Bishop Mynster and his Christendom."[18] Such earnest buffoonery offers itself as "a parodic invocation, a bit of camping, an artifice of fantastic desire."[19]
Kierkegaard's irony is apophasis under the conditions of modernity, apophasis when negation no longer prepares the heart for praise but drives the logic of "the system." It is apophasis as an act of mourning the loss of forms appropriate for praising a God who will not be made the guarantor of the church's survival at the hands of the state. Irony negates performatively by letting an un-masterable difference into its speech, the infinite qualitative difference between an identity and the self becoming nothing before God.
[1] For my reading of Kierkegaard's irony, I am helped by Jonathan Lear, A Case for Irony (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014).
[2] Kierkegaard, The Point of View for My Work as an Author (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998), 41-4.
[3] Kierkegaard, The Book on Adler (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009), 146. Hereafter BA.
[4] Jonathan Lear, Wisdom Won From Illness: Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016), ch. 4.
[5] Kierkegaard, Concluding Unscientific Postscript (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992), 277n.
[8] Mark Jordan, "The Modernity of Christian Theology or Writing Kierkegaard Again for the First Time," Modern Theology 27:3 July 2011, 445.
[9] Jordan, "Writing Kierkegaard Again," 449-50.
[10] Jordan, "Writing Kierkegaard Again," 444.
[11] Jordan, "Writing Kierkegaard Again," 450.
[12] Kierkegaard, 'The Moment' and Late Writings (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009), 340.
[13] Jordan, "Writing Kierkegaard Again," 445.
[14] Jordan, "Writing Kierkegaard Again," 449.
[15] Jordan, "Writing Kierkegaard Again," 449.
[16] Jordan, "Writing Kierkegaard Again," 449.
[17] Jordan, "Writing Kierkegaard Again," 449.
[18] Jordan, "Writing Kierkegaard Again," 448.
[19] Jordan, "Writing Kierkegaard Again," 443.


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I've been in a funk lately. Here's why.
Psychologists use the term "schema" to describe the result of collecting information, analyzing it, and creating a view of the world based on that analysis. A kind of rule book of how things are. These schemata play a part in every decision made, every judgment cast, and every new piece of information we take in for the rest of our lives. It's a term closely tied to child development–in fact, it was introduced by Jean Piaget, the king of child development himself.
My job as a teacher requires me to observe children under two, record their actions, and ultimate try to guide them by manipulating the information they take in. I give them a bucket of water, they explore the physical properties, I supply the language necessary to categorize them, and then teach them how to clean up. They hit another child and steal his toy, I show them the child's tears and explain that their actions resulted in someone else's pain. Everything is a brave new world when you're brand new to it. Schemata form by the moment. They're dependent on the environment encountered and the child's interaction with it. Childhood is, in effect, a 20-year-long experiment in brain development.
Here's the thing about schemata. They can be very difficult to shake. Another term psychologists like to throw around is "cognitive dissonance." This occurs when new information presents itself in contradiction to established schemata. The resulting dissonance can be so unpleasant that the individual will go to great lengths to reduce it while maintaining the fundamentals of the established schema, resulting in massively flawed rationalizations. That's why certain worldviews, like racism, are so hard to dislodge from someone's psyche.
Last week I endured a viewing of the excellent but brutal Twelve Years a Slave. From our modern, enlightened viewpoint, the white slaveholders in this movie are incomprehensible. Can they not see that their actions have no true basis, are damaging, are fundamentally wrong? We can see it, why can't they? Our schemata are different. The majority of people in this society are not raised to view entire segments of humans as inferior based on skin color. Though discrimination of course still exists, in both racism and class discrimination, modern enlightened people are not taught that slavery is a god-given right to a select group to subjugate another. So we watch characters behave in intolerable ways and wonder, "How can they be so cruel?" It's obvious to us.
The most interesting character, in my view, is William Ford, played by Benedict Cumberbatch. Ford is the slave owner who buys main character Solomon Northrup right off the boat, putting him to work on his plantation in Louisiana. Ford quickly discerns the intellectual and artistic capabilities of Northrup and displays a certain amount of kindness toward both his physical and emotional well being, defending him against less compassionate overseers. However, when the time comes for him to make a choice that brings his entire worldview into question, he ultimately fails, and with apparent great inner turmoil. Rather than siding with an individual who had already proven his worth, he chooses to uphold society's proscribed roles for both of them. You can see the conflict in Cumberbatch's exquisite acting and in the details of the set dressing, as Ford guards his beloved slave with a shotgun and explains how he has no choice but to sell him to a cruel new master, Northrup's bloodied head rests on a delicate lace pillow. Ford is so close to doing what he most likely knows in his heart is right, but societal pressures prevent him from overturning his deeply-entrenched schemata. In the end, Northrup is sold, and Ford no longer has to defend his actions to anyone.
All this is by way of illustration. My funk has nothing to do with racism, but it's an apt analogy, because good people have fallen victim to such lies. Contrary to what people like to think, there were even good Nazis (I keep meaning to watch Schindler's List). Good people can be taken by lies. They can believe them with every part of their being, and they will die for them. And that's what scares me, because the people who get taken are much more normal and intelligent than you might think.
Needless to say I am going through a change. It's been long in coming. Almost my entire life has been dedicated to a single purpose, and over the past seven years or so, in reflection I recognize myself trying to make sense of it. It's not until your mid-twenties, after all, that your prefrontal cortex fully develops. This is the part of your brain responsible for "executive functions," which, according to Wikipedia:
differentiate among conflicting thoughts, determine good and bad, better and best, same and different, future consequences of current activities, working toward a defined goal, prediction of outcomes, expectation based on actions, and social "control" (the ability to suppress urges that, if not suppressed, could lead to socially unacceptable outcomes).
Last week I turned 27. Instead of joining the 27 Club, I'm instead learning to think for myself. My schemata have proved to be based on logical fallacies and, in many cases, wishful thinking. It's all good and well to teach children to obey their parents, but to obey unquestioningly? That's insulting the intelligence of the child. A child can easily learn why it's best not to play with fire by playing with it and getting burned. Parents try to avoid that by teaching children to keep their hands off. One method, involving instilling unquestioning obedience, usually results in children testing their parents' command and playing with fire anyway. Others are more successful. Teaching children how to reason on matters, explaining the facts to them, and helping them form conclusions is more beneficial to the child. After all, the unquestioning child, instead of rebelling against the parent's wishes, may grow up to fear fire, never learning to discriminate between safe and unsafe use and therefore miss out on the benefits it has to offer.
I am reaching the point in my life where I'm putting what I was taught to the test and discovering where it does not hold up. It is a long and exhausting process, full of disappointment. At times I feel betrayed, but mostly I feel free. Not necessarily free to do whatever I want, like the child who breaks away from mother in a toy store and runs wild, but free to not to be afraid of things that have terrified me my entire life. People are not bad; I do not have to be afraid of them. I can form friendships using good judgment that will benefit us both, unconditionally. I no longer have to turn people away because they don't subscribe to a particular belief system. I'm free to form connections, share information, and experience love in a way I never could before.
A little more about that information. It's the free exchange of information that got me out of this funk. I am grateful to so many people who directly and indirectly were able to remove the scales from my eyes and help me to see reason. If you want more specific information, I encourage you to look at Steven Hassan's BITE model of mind control. The organization I grew up in hits on all four categories in profound ways.
My goal here is not to write a diatribe against my former belief system. There were many positives to growing up as I did. Other people are working actively to expose the fallacies and are doing much better than I ever could. It is not in me to dwell on so much negativity, although I must admit my first reaction to finding out the truth was anger.
Besides, if I get too deep into the specifics of what's happening to me, people who read this blog and who currently hold my previous beliefs can get me and my loved ones into serious trouble. I don't want to cause trouble for my loved ones. I don't want to force upon them an impossible choice, namely, choosing between me and their beliefs. For my part, I want us all to get along. I want us all to be able to form our own beliefs without fear of reprisal, criticism, or ostracism. If the wrong people gather enough evidence of my "change of heart," I will be ostracized from the social group I have been in my entire life, and my own family with be restricted from associating with me. I do not want to do that to them, but at the same time, even though they are as much taken by the destructive beliefs as I was, the choice will ultimately be theirs. Believe what others tell them is true, or endeavor to decide that for themselves. And accept the consequences of their actions, just as I have to accept the consequences of mine.
I've probably said too much. I have tried to hold back, but my love of truth prevents me.
One final thought about the title of this post. In Shakespeare's day, "doubt" had the alternative meaning of "suspect." The line can thus be interpreted to mean "suspect truth to possibly be untrue." Do not just take someone's word for it, or the word of a group of people, even every person you know. They can be wrong. Prove it to yourself. Keep testing, keep proving what it is you believe, and never stop.
Alternatively, read George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. He possibly says it better than me.


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In a previous post I had wished for Oracle to clarify its position as regards the use of their databases on a cloud platform, well it looks like they have!
They have officially certified Amazon EC2 as a supported platform on which to run their software, not only that, they appear to be embracing the cloud big time, providing pre-configured AMIs and management tools.
For someone like me who has Oracle in the blood (since Version 5 in the 1980's) this is very good news. As I've said before….
As for using Oracle on EC2, yes please. Most of my datasmithing career has been spent behind the wheel of an Oracle database, the front-ends might have been Excel or some BI package, the end results might have been SAP master data take-ons or an Essbase cube, but the blood and guts were always Oracle. And this was before Oracle Apex – think what wonders could have been achieved if I had access to such a product in the past.
Although the licensing is not a pay-as-you-go model, it's a start, who knows some enterprising firm of DBAs might purchase enterprise licences and repackage access for those wishing to use it for "cloud bursting" (adding utility resources to scale-out / scale-up). Also, there's Oracle's free XE edition for low-volume datasets and for developers who need access to the enterprise editions, the usual "free to develop on" OTN licenses apply, except now there's no need to first source a suitable spare machine or download a multi-gigabyte install package and of course no more installation headaches, just fire up an Amazon EC2 AMI, easy peasy.
Oracle is also providing a Oracle Secure Backup Cloud tool which brings the power of Oracle backup and restore technology to S3. This, combined with Amazon's Elastic Block Store, makes the EC2 platform an ideal home for many Oracle database applications.
The major attractions to me of Oracle as a datasmithing tool (besides my 20+ years experience of using same) are…
- Oracle Appliaction Express (aka APEX, previously known as HTML DB). For fast, robust data-centric web apps for deployment within the firewall (or via VPN), it's hard to beat (but also see WaveMaker). In a micro ETL environment, it provides a quick and easy means of distributing data cleansing tasks such as adding additional attributes or assigning hierarchies to dimensional data.
- Oracle SQL engine/optimizer technology is fast, powerful and can handle anything you throw at it (as long as it's valid SQL).
- PL/SQL, the best DSL for data handling and data cleansing.
- Oracle's market position as a "safe and respectable" home for corporate data.
While I still have reservations about Oracle's commitment to further develop (and patch) XE, at least its appearance at the heart of their cloud initiative reassures me that they are unlikely to abandon it totally.


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While some LBM dealers are just starting to consider how online retailers like Amazon may affect their bottom line, a small-town Arkansas dealer has already climbed that hill.
In Mountain View, Ark., Gentry Hipp of Hipp's Modern Builders has been in the online retail business since 2012. We asked him for advice for retailers looking to get into the online game as well as compete with behemoths like Amazon. Hipp shared five tips for online retail success.
1 Don't View Amazon As a Threat
Amazon hasn't cut into Hipp's special order business. He said he never hears someone come into his store looking for something and just say they'll get it on Amazon. Logistically, lumber and hardware items aren't going to be stocked on Amazon, he said. Weight, size, length, none of it makes sense for them to stock.
"Don't view them as a threat," Hipp said. "They're a company that is willing to take risks, so they're opening grocery stores and not paying a lot of overhead like other grocers, but they're not opening lumberyards. Their business model is just too different to be seen as a threat to us."
2 Beat Them With Service
Even if you have a customer who is going to Amazon. com for a product you don't have in stock or can't beat their price on, there is no way Amazon can compete with a real- life LBM dealer's service.
"They don't have any customer service," Hipp said. "People still long for customer service. Our customers know they can come into the store and talk about their water leak, their shingles blown off, their deck repairs and we can walk them through it and get them what they need."
Through his supplier, Do it Best Corp., Hipp said that he can get pretty much any product shipped to his store in two days, sometimes even next day.
3 Let Your Customers Know
Special orders and expedited delivery are great tools to have at your ready when a customer claims they can get a product on Amazon. But how many of your customers know you can compete with online turnaround times? You have to go out of your way to let them know.
"We mention it and have banners hanging up in your store, some of which are provided by Do it Best. It's a matter of training our employees to not just tell customers that we don't have it. Instead, we tell them how much it is and when it can be here."
With the number of buying groups and distributors available, Hipp said, any independent dealer has access to products. You just have to know where to order it.
4 Don't Be Afraid to Take a Low Margin
It may seem counterintuitive to most retailers, but Hipp says he doesn't mind discounting a product if he knows it is for a good customer who is buying more from him. If it's a product that costs a little more to get to the store than the customer would spend on Amazon, Hipp said there are times when he will eat the margin.
"You don't want your local competition to figure it out before you do. Personally, I'd decide to take a cut on that item to keep that customer in my store. I do what I have to do, aside from giving it away," he said.
5 Don't Partner With Amazon
In the online retail game for five years, Hipp has learned a thing or two through trial and error. One big lesson he has for others looking to start selling online, is to avoid partnering with Amazon.
As an Amazon partner, you can sell products on their site as an affiliate. Hipp found out the hard way that when it came to the bottom line, it wasn't a very equitable partnership.
"We used to partner with them but we don't anymore. They're the ones wanting to make money if you want to sell through them," he said. "But I have people. I'm paying to warehouse or co-op a product. Amazon wants to be selling it at your cost."
To read more about beating Amazon, read Real Issues. Real Answers: The Amazon Factor.


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Leave the kids at home. Communities in Schools of Nevada is trying something new for its biggest fundraiser of the year. The Today for Tomorrow gala hits the Cosmopolitan on November 5, taking over the Belmont Ballroom from 6 to 10 p.m. for a 1920s speakeasy-style party. The goal is to help students, but the bash is strictly for adults.
"It's a different kind of gala, because it's not a formal sit-down dinner," says Board Chair Susie Lee. "It's definitely a fun time, and we'll try to raise as much money as we can to support the work we do."
The new approach includes plenty of drinks and casino games like blackjack. The idea is to generate additional revenue sources, and if all goes according to plan, more than $300,000 will be raised in one night. The party will skip large dinner tables and white tablecloths in favor of a lively lounge setup with food and drink stations from the Cosmopolitan's lineup of restaurants, including STK, Jaleo and Scarpetta. There will also be entertainment from roving magicians, acrobats and other performers.
It's all to benefit CIS of Nevada a nonprofit organization that currently serves 58,000 students, grades K–12, in 59 schools around the state, especially in Clark County, the nation's fifth largest school district, where resources are stretched thin. Each school has an office or "resource room" that is monitored by onsite coordinators, often recent graduates who were helped by CIS of Nevada themselves and are returning the favor. The rooms come stocked with food, clothes, school supplies and anything else a young student might need.
"Kids will come into our resource centers looking for a pen," Lee says. "One thing leads to another and they then have an advocate and someone on the school site who is helping them with daily challenges. That makes a difference."
There's no limit to what might be needed. Over the course of a school year, CIS of Nevada provides anything from baby supplies, dental care, winter clothes and even prom dresses to those looking for help. Volunteers also assist at-risk kids stay on track to graduate.
Lee, who was a founding director for After-School All Stars, has been working with CIS of Nevada for more than six years. She's familiar with the struggles that students face.
"I grew up in a big family. We didn't have a lot and people helped me out along the way," she says. "We're all going up and down the ladder of opportunity in life. Sometimes you're in a position to give a helping hand and other times you're putting your hand out to get help."
That's why fundraisers like Today for Tomorrow are so vital.
"It's a casual, upscale experience where people can mingle, gamble and more importantly, raise resources that we need to operate our program and expand it into more schools," Lee says.
Ticket prices range from $350–$5,000. Log on to CISNevada.org/events/today-for-tomorrow/ for information.


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It's completely free, researched based, and very easily down loadable right from the link above! I love how it moves the children through word lists in a very sequential order. The word lists include "no excuse words" as well as academic vocabulary. I just have a file folder for each child and I have them reading from the appropriate list for their reading level. For second grade, I use mainly the last 3 lists (however, the last list is very difficult and I only have a few children who make it there).
The other thing I have parents doing with my students is high frequency words. I assess my students and then we do an activity that you can read about {here}. You can get all the materials from this set (on sale!)
The actual flash cards are not included in these sets, but all the materials to conduct a math fact program are. I have had GREAT success with my math facts since changing to this "program" :)
Writing is my last area... I do spend more time focusing on the above two and I start writing about mid-year. Here is a sample of the letter I have with my writing materials:


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02/30 Mango
April 5, 2014
I've never cut a raw mango before
Never hacked the fruit away from the immense pit.
Attempt to peel the green and red skin from the orange pulp.
Can count on one hand the number of times I've eaten mango
But that moment, a beacon on the chalkboard sign
"On Sale: $1.50" and I said Can't be that hard.
My sticky counter and dulled knife now argue that hypothesis.
Black faux granite shining with juices
Spilt over cutting board and hangnails
With just enough juice seeped in to make it sting
My own skin not split quite wide enough to actually rinse out.
Mangos don't come with instructions
like pineapples do.
Little cardboard attachment to stalk
Info card attachment to stalk
One side cutting methods
Converse to random facts
Did you know the pineapple is actually multiple fruits fused together?
I did not.
Mango is singular
Enough fruit post-hack job for one.
Fairly certain I've hacked enough toughness out of the center
I sit down and feed a piece to my girlfriend.
She exclaims That's pretty good
Stinging in my fingers dulled for the moment.


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How should you use liquid highlighters and powder highlighters?
As a beauty enthusiast, I love trying new products and techniques in the world of beauty. With trying different products and techniques you have to sometimes take a step back and educate yourself. I am all about the glow-up for spring and summer this year and I'm happy I've found the products that work best for me to do it. Highlighters are definitely a must for adding a little shine to your look and they come from many brands and in different forms: including powders and liquids. But which one do you use and when? Is there a difference? Yes ma'am (or sir) there is!
So, when do I use a liquid highlighter?
Liquid highlighters are not for the faint of heart. You know why? Because they are more concentrated and involve a more intensive application process; they are a bit unforgiving. When I say concentrated, I mean pigmented and a little goes a long way with this type highlighter. You want to use liquid highlighters to enhance specific spots like the high points of your cheek, nose, and cupid's bow.
Ok, cool, what about powder highlighters?
Powder highlighters are less intense and are great for those just starting to highlight. They are definitely more forgiving than the liquid highlighters and are generally easier to work with. I gravitate toward powder highlighters when I'm looking for a more natural and everyday look. These could be used to enhance the overall glow of your look or focus on specific areas.
Here are some liquid and powder highlighters to try:
NARS Highlighting Blush in Albatross
Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector
Pixi + ASPYNOVARD – Glow-y Powder
Urban Decay Afterglow 8 Hour Powder Highlighter


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This is one Easter craft that children would love to make - the Angry Birds Easter eggs.
what you will need
regular eggs,
paint, pens etc
pictures of Angry Birds for reference.
How to make it
First you will need to put a base colour on your eggs, you can do this by boiling them in food colouring or you can paint the hard boiled eggs with normal kids paint.
When they are dry, draw on the beaks and eyes with a black marker pen, then colour them in.
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Thursday, August 21, 2008
Edwardian "Lingerie" Dress Diary, Part 4: Skirt Seaming
Last weekend the Edwardian lingerie dress lurched further towards completion: I seamed the skirt. The bodice would have been completed but I hadn't brought the sleeve pattern along with me for my sojourn at my mother's house, so it still lacks sleeves.
As a reminder to readers, I used Jennie Chancey's Sense and Sensibility Beatrix skirt pattern, trained view. I added four inches to the top of each piece to get the Edwardian version of the Empire look. Because linen frays so easily, I used french seams.
Photo: the skirt all seamed except for the final seam that draws it together.
Here is the skirt placed with the bodice. Even with the distortion introduced by the camera lens angle, the high-waisted proportions of the dress are apparent. Here's hoping that this will help pull off the elongated, willowy silhouette I am seeking!
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Will 'Sharknado 2' Cause Another Twitter Meltdown?
A follow up to the Syfy Hit 'Sharknado' is filming in New York, but it's not clear yet whether the freakish shark-and-tornado force will light up Twitter again. Co-founder of video ad-measurement group BrandAds Ryan Pamplin joins the News Hub with his take. Photo: "Sharknado"/The Asylum.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Queensland business calls for sun to be regulated
The lack of daylight saving in Queensland is something the south tends to find amusing, with lots of jokes about the extra sunshine fading the curtains and so forth. The Goss Labor government introduced it way back, but was persuaded to hold a referendum on the issue in which it was soundly defeated.
Now the push is on, mainly from business and tourism to reintroduce it.
Daylight saving is a product of the rather quaint belief in the southern states that their governments have the power to regulate the time the sun rises and sets. Witness the advertisement from Travel Victoria:
"If you're planning to get the first rays of the morning sun on Queensland's Gold Coast, you'll need to ensure you're up at the unearthly hour of 4.47am on December 21,'' mocks Travel Victoria's website. "However, you can almost forget that evening BBQ in the sun, with darkness falling from 6.42pm."
This assumes that, were the government up here to be as progressive as the Victorian one, the sun would rise an hour later as ordered at a much more convenient time for their people to shit the bed and get up and have breakfast. It also ignores the fact that with the extra heat of our summers, most Queenslanders have the sense to wait till the sun goes down to have their barbeques under lights, (yes, we have electricity up here) in the cool of the evening.
The real problem for Qld business is not that the sun rises and sets too late, it is regulation of trading hours; something that they in the main have demanded. You can't after all allow that prick in competition with you start at an hour more conducive to trading with southern companies, nor have him put on a smaller skeleton staff to take orders after the regulated trading hours, in case he gets the drop on you. Many businesses tend to regard a level playing field as one where all trade when, how, and where the government allows them.
Were trading hours to be deregulated, companies could chose their own hours according to need, pressure in infrastructure would be relieved with peak hours being extended, and the public could use their free will to make choices.
One thing that hasn't changed over the years, Is the arrogance of those living in the more populous South East. In a poll accompanying the report, more than 35% of those living there believe the whole state should be subjected to daylight saving even though it means an 8:30PM sunset for the West. During the previous poll in 1992, there was an offer made to allow the SE corner to have daylight saving but for the rest to stay on Eastern Standard Time. Businesses in Brisbane and the Gold Coast insisted that such a scheme would cause chaos and be unworkable.
After the referendum defeated DS time, they suddenly had a change of heart on that, but too late. The reason they objected to the rest of Qld having EST was the possibility that businesses outside the SE corner might gain an advantage over them by being in the same time zone, whereas the South would have been an hour different.
The SE corner wants its cake and eat it too, but the rest of us should be obligated to provide it courtesy of big government.


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A man riding a motorised bicycle was killed after an accident with a lorry along 4 Changi South Lane on 15 June 2015. According to eye witnesses, the man was riding a bicycle back to his workplace from lunch when he met with the fatal accident
A spokesperson for the Police said:
Police received a call on 15 June 2015 at around 1.29pm, informing us of an accident along Changi South Lane.
Upon police arrival, it was established that an accident involving a lorry and a bicycle had occurred at the the said location.
The 49-year-old male cyclist was pronounced dead by paramedics at the scene.
The 60-year-old male lorry driver was arrested for causing death by negligent act.
Police investigations are ongoing.
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July 30, 2010
Only 40% of customers receive any award and those that do receive, on average, only about 30% of damages. That number includes many uncollectable large awards against insolvent Finra firms and the award is often substantially consumed by the the high forum fees.
If the process was actually fair, fast, and inexpensive it would not have to be forced on customers with contracts of adhesion. If the customer were given a choice, the Commission would see the real vote as investors rejected the forum and Finra would have to actually try to make the process appear neutral. At present, Finra staff are employees of the brokerage firms and have no incentive to give the customers a fair hearing.
Forced arbitration has, as a practical matter, eliminated state securities acts because arbitrators are trained to ignore them. In the two states where I practice, there has never been a statutory award under the Kansas or Missouri Securities Act in the 20 years of mandatory arbitration. A securities industry trade association should not be allowed to void state investor protection laws for the financial benefit of its members.


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The sad, chaotic aftermath of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 plane crash continued Tuesday as confusion grew over the number of bodies taken for repatriation via to the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. As The Washington Post reports, one Dutch forensic expert initially claimed that the train was only conveying the remains of some 200 victims, not the 282 bodies Ukrainian investigators had confirmed. Rescuers say they have recovered 87 body parts believed to belong to 16 others who perished when the plane was likely shot down by pro-Russian rebels in this corner of eastern Ukraine.
The dark context of the plane's downing clouded the rescue operation, with rebel fighters playing a meddling, obstructive role, bagging remains improperly and allegedly tampering with evidence amid the wreckage. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, whose country had 28 nationals aboard the flight, pointed an accusatory finger at the rebel forces who took charge of the crash site. "This is still an absolutely shambolic situation. It does look more like a garden clean-up than a forensic investigation," Abbott said on Monday.
The same day at the United Nations, the Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans made a moving speech at the Security Council. The majority of the 298 people who died on MH 17 were Dutch citizens. "For the Netherlands, one priority clearly stands out above all others: bring the victims remains home."
Timmermans went on, expressing shock and disgust at the way the situation has been handled so far. "Until I die, I will not understand that it took so long before rescue workers were able to do their difficult job in Ukraine," he said, "and that human remains were used as a political game. I hope that I never have to see that again." You can watch his full statement above.


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1. Romney aka Marsh Romney aka Kent (Romney) : these sheep originated in the Romney marshes area along the southeastern coast of Britain, facing France. It's a long-wool breed, originally bred for the worsted wool market. The breed is excellently suited to damp conditions and was exported to New Zealand in the mid-1800's, where today it (and its crosses like Coopworths and Perendales) makes up the bulk of the sheep population there. It also appears to be quite popular here on the we(s)t coast of Canada, so its fiber is available at local fiber fairs. This batch I got from the Cowichan Fiber Fair last fall, it was a carded roving (commercially prepped by a small local mill, I think) and dyed in nice autumnal colours. After my previous experiments with a cable-plied longwool (which I didn't enjoy), I did a straight 4-ply to mix up the colours as much as possible. The fiber does not feel as slippery as Border Leicester, but it is easy to spin fine. It feels very strong, but not elastic, which is what you expect from a longwool. Because of the carded prep, the yarn is fuzzy - not smooth.
[Romney Ram, photo courtesy of Wikipedia]
I knit up a pair of socks and these feel much nicer than the cable-plied Border Leicester ones I made a few months back. The knitting experience was more pleasant (more "give" to the yarn) and the resultant socks a bit more elastic - though not as springy as a downs breed! I'll have to give them some months to see how they wear compared to my downs breeds socks.
[jacob sheep]
[3-ply crepe or cable plied jacob/shetland yarn]


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Big Titty Bikini Babe McKenzie Lee Covered With Galons of Cum
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I'm sure I missed the memo, but Hotline no longer shows "level of involvement" pies. I liked these, as they gave me an indicator or experience and trustworthiness (not that almost empty pies were untrustworthy - au contraire -- just that I had a better idea of who I was getting info from).
I'm sad to see them go as well. I enjoyed the challenge of achieving more pie. =)
SeaJambon - you are on top of it! I didn't even notice...and I've been working so hard to complete my pie this whole time :{
I think you need to have invested in the business to get a full pie. ;-) At least, I think that would be only fair!
Pegeen, no matter how long you had worked at it you never did get a complete pie.
Perhaps they are working on the site and the disappearance of the pie icons is only temporary.
I didn't even notice it, which I guess speaks to the value-add (or lack thereof) they brought for some users like me. Truth is, I'm still perplexed by how some users became "trusted sources." It's not as though I mind at all. Quite the opposite. I'd just like to know the criteria to be able to determine what stock I put in it.
Pierino, shame on you! Do not disrespect people who give freely. I actually don't like pie. Or baking. At all. But I respect everyone on this site.
Pegeen, I think you misinterpreted my answer. I'm not disrespecting any user. The point I was trying to make (badly) is that the pie icon never get's fully filled in. There's always that last sliver that you can't complete.
I still see the pies! I typically only access Hotline through my iPhone app, but they show up there. So maybe it's an issue only when you access via the Internet?
Yes, I also still see the pies on my iPhone app.
And I also would like to know how someone becomes a "trusted source."
(Not to mention who has "voted the best answer"!)
Voted the best answer is, I'm pretty sure, based on the number of "up votes" an answer received.
Pierino - Oops. My apologies. I didn't read that as the "royal you."
Although they've been around for awhile now, we consider the trusted source taglines as part of an MVP pilot program, so there isn't a specific set of criteria in place yet for selecting MVPs. The first round of participants are a small sub-set of our most helpful, knowledgeable, and active community members, that were hand-selected to start the program. As we expand the program, we'll get more specific standards in place -- in the meantime we've been taking note of recommendations, so drop us a line at [email protected] if you have someone in mind for us to consider.
I don't necessarily find a correlation between the trusted sources and the quality of their recipes or help on hotline. A few yes, but many others, no. I'm still wondering what the idea behind it is.
Also, how about a link from the website directly to an editors email account? As silly as it sounds (because writing an email with your address is so simple), this feature would probably make it far more likely that users would use the email vs hotline.
Hmm... I now see the pie next to names in the hotline threads. However, I don't seem them next to names in article comments or on my profile page. Weird...


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Sougayilang LV100
Reels are the hottest topic for TackleTour. Everyone wants to know what the latest and greatest is and how they compare to the old guard. What's the best for light stuff, or what's your suggestion for heavy cover. Do we really need different retrieve ratios? It's all in here.
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Saw these cheap reels on Walmart.com for $29 and my first thought was they look like a copy of a TD-Z/OG Fuego/Zillion. They actually look sort of cool and wondered if anyone has fished with one. The reviews of the reel on Amazon (though no longer in stock) are decent. Youtube doesn't have much of anything but it peaked my interest. For $29, I might give it a try and see just how "bad" it is.
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Post from the past,general consensus is that these reels are worth avoiding
Post from the past,general consensus is that these reels are worth avoiding
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The Automatic Cable Ceramic Outlet Hole is amazing tech. You should sell all your SV103s and replace them with the much superior Sougayilang LV100s.
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Haha! Never! Those SV reels are my favorites outside of my Chronarch SF and Calais 100A. This reel just "looks" intriguing...that's why I asked the original question.
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I forgot to mention that I will buy those icky SV103s off you for $40 a piece to get rid of them. They're just too heavy and old to be viable today.
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So I bought one more or less just to see how junkie the reel is. It was $29 shipped to my door for this thing. It is definitely a copy of a TD-Z/OG Zillion/SV103 with a Steez style handle on it. I hate to say it, but it is smooth considering and the free spool is really good. It may only last a few trips but it only cost me what a spool of good braid or flouro would cost so what the heck.
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Makes 6 servings
Protein: 26.5 grams
Net Carbohydrate: 5 grams
Fat: 3 grams
– 1.5lbs of skinless, boneless chicken breast
– 1 can of Ro*Tel Mild Diced Tomatoes and Green Chilies (if you do not like spicy food, try mild salsa instead and check the ingredients to ensure no allergens)
– 1/2 packet of Trader Joe's Taco Seasoning Mix (If you use regular store bought seasoning mix, be sure to read the ingredients as it may contain gluten – look for a natural brand like Trader Joe's that is only herbs/spices)
1. In a Crockpot, mix together tomatoes with your taco seasoning.
2. Take the chicken breasts and tuck under the sauce mixture.
3. Turn Crockpot on low and cook for 6-8hrs or on high for 3-4hrs.
4. Once chicken is thoroughly cooked, use two forks and gently pull chicken apart until completely shredded.
5. Serve on a bed of greens or on a low-carb tortilla.
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I made this hat for a friend using the "Loom Knitter" not expensive and very easy to use.
With the help of YouTube lol I have learned to do alot of different crafty things.
The flower I learned how to do by crocheting it also from YouTube! Some videos seemed complicated but I kept searching until i was able to finish it. Then I just added my finished flower to my hat.


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Protecting San Francisco's Character Has Transformed It
"My friends keep moving to Oakland," observes Gabriel Metcalf, the executive director of SPUR. "Gone from San Francisco for greener pastures and cheaper rents, because it's just gotten too hard, by which I really mean too expensive. Their move signals that something has gone terribly wrong in this most progressive of American cities."
Due to several factors, the city simply hasn't produced enough housing to keep up with demand. "There's a lot of housing under construction now, and for the next couple of years, we'll see more built," he notes. "But a few years of strong housing production, building out neighborhood plans that the city has worked on for the last two decades, is going to be too little, too late to undo the larger trend."
Yes, policies could be adopted to help increase the amount of units (affordable and otherwise) constructed in the city, but Metcalf argues that a regional solution is necessary to more evenly distribute the growth pressures afflicting San Francisco and other areas.
"We need our own 'metropolitan' strategy that ties the region together in better ways, and creates walkable, diverse communities in more locations," he urges.


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Who doesn't love some finger-lickin' good chicken wings?
Leadership Vestavia Hills is hosting the annual Wing Ding, the 2016 hot wing challenge and festival, on Saturday, June 4. This festival puts local chefs to the test. Attendees enjoy the area's best chicken wings from festival competitors, refreshments, live entertainment and children's games and activities.
Last year's event was attended by more than 2,500 people, and this year's festival will be bigger and better, with a new location, at Vestavia Hills City Hall. Sign-ups for competitors are open now, and event sponsors are currently being sought.
Wing Ding will be held Saturday, June 4, from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Admission is $5 per person; children eight and under are free. Wing Ding is a chance to come together and celebrate our great community while helping out a worthy cause. Proceeds from the event benefit local charities. For more event details, visit leadershipvestaviahills.com or call 205.585.7564.
Residents at Harris Doyle Homes' Steelemont are about a six-minute drive away from all of the fun and competition of Wing Ding 2016 at Vestavia Hills City Hall. Steelemont is an exclusive new community of just 27 homesites located in the heart of prestigious Vestavia Hills. Homes start in the low $400,000s and $500,000s, and offer up to five bedrooms, four bathrooms and over 3,600 square feet of living space.
Homes at Steelemont are a combination of both basement and low-maintenance slab-on-grade homes that are packed with amenities. Vestavia Hills is known for its fantastic quality of life, top notch city services and award-winning public schools. To reach Steelemont, from Columbiana Road heading North, take a right onto Old Columbiana Road. Turn right onto Jacobs Road and go about three-quarters of a mile and the entrance to Steelemont will be on your right. For more information about Steelemont, call Diane Godber at 205-369-5583, or visit harrisdoyle.com, where you can learn about all of Harris Doyle Homes' central Alabama new home communities.
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Come and let your dog be pampered by our Stylist to the Stars! Dog Star Ranch offers a full service bathing & grooming salon for all breeds of dogs. Grooming your dog is an essential way of keeping them healthy and happy.
Tucker Out Service – Try our Tucker out special!
All grooms qualify for our one of a kind "Tucker Out Service" which includes a 6-hour stay in addition to your groom, during their stay your pet will enjoy a field trip in our parks, their grooming, and special star buddy time.
- Tucker Out Special is an additional $16.00.
- Extended grooming stay is $4.00 / hour
Call and ask about our Standing Appointment Discounts! Once your pup's had their first grooming with us, reschedule for 6 weeks and receive 10% off your grooming! Need a bath in the middle? A bath in between is 50% off!
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The crossings on the Mara River in Kenya, occur any time between mid July and late September. They are not guaranteed and in some years they may not occur at all, it's all weather dependant. The best years to see a crossing in the Mara are drought years, when food is limited and the majority of the herds head north and into Kenya. In a year with good rains the herds can be spread out from the Mara, south into the Serengeti of Tanzania.
To experience a crossing is a test of patience, and one can wait 4 to 5 hours for a crossing to occur (you can also be lucky and witness one in minutes). When they do happen, it's spectacular, as thousands of wildebeest lunge into the murky river and dodge the crocodiles waiting an easy meal. It's life and death.
There is no set pattern to the migration, though ultimately the wildebeest want to be on the short grass plains of the southern Serengeti. This is where the grass is most nutritious. However there is no permanent water down there in the dry season, so they are forced to move to better pasture and water, which the Masai Mara can provide.
Once they arrive in the Mara they only stay until they sense rains are falling in the south, then off they charge again. Again it's all about rainfall, with the short rains coming in October and November. They also don't move in one mega herd (there's a million wildebeest); herds of thousands are the norm, and some herds stay longer in the Mara than others.
The best areas to see the herds heading south (October/November) is also along the Mara River, though on the Tanzania side in the northern Serengeti.
It's a sight worth seeing, though also popular, so essential to book your camps well in advance for the July/Aug/Sept period.
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Sales contacts of Lufthansa Technik
Get in touch with us
Via this page you can directly get in touch with Lufthansa Technik's sales teams. Please choose the sales division of your interest and follow the respective link. You will be led to our sales teams with their phone- and fax-numbers as well as e-mail-addresses.


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RBC Global Asset Management Inc. Launches 7 New ETFs on NEO
NEO Exchange Inc. ("NEO Exchange" or "NEO") is pleased to announce
that RBC Global Asset Management Inc. ("RBC GAM Inc.") has launched
seven new Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) on NEO that began trading today.
With the launch of these new index-tracking ETFs, RBC GAM Inc. becomes
the sixth and newest fund provider to list with NEO in 2017.
The following RBC ETFs to begin trading today:
|Fund name
RBC Canadian Short Term Bond Index ETF
|RBC Canadian Bond Index ETF
|RBC Global Government Bond (CAD Hedged) Index ETF
|RBC Canadian Equity Index ETF
|RBC U.S. Equity Index ETF
|RBC International Equity Index ETF
|RBC Emerging Markets Equity Index ETF
"We are excited to expand our family of RBC ETFs to include a suite of
index-tracking solutions listed on the NEO exchange," said Mark Neill,
Head of RBC ETFs.
While this is the first time RBC GAM Inc. has listed ETFs on NEO, many
existing RBC ETFs already trade comfortably on the exchange. In the
month of August 2017, NEO accounted for 52% of all volume in RBC GAM
ETFs listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
"We are thrilled that our success in the ETF listing space has given RBC
Global Asset Management confidence to list these new ETFs on NEO," said
Jos Schmitt, President and Chief Executive Officer, NEO Exchange.
"Through our ongoing efforts to educate the investor community about the
benefits of competing listing venues and the implementation of
NEO-listed data across all relevant market data distribution channels,
we are working to build a healthier, more competitive market in Canada.
We look forward to building a long-lasting partnership with RBC Global
Asset Management."
RBC GAM Inc. joins BlackRock Asset Management, BMO Global Asset
Management, Invesco Canada, Mackenzie Investments and Redwood Asset
Management as ETF providers with listings on NEO. Today's launch of RBC
ETFs brings the total number of ETF listings on NEO to 25, comprised of
42 symbols.
About NEO Exchange
Aequitas NEO Exchange Inc. is a new Canadian stock exchange using a bold
new blueprint that puts investors, businesses looking to raise capital
and dealers first. Launched in March 2015, the NEO Exchange currently
offers an innovative trading venue and a value added listing venue for
capital raising companies and investment products. The NEO Exchange is a
wholly owned subsidiary of Aequitas Innovations Inc., a company founded
by a diverse group of prominent investors representative of all Canadian
capital market stakeholders. For more information, please visit: aequitasNEO.com.
Join us on social media: twitter
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About RBC Global Asset Management
Global Asset Management (RBC GAM) is the asset management division
of Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) and includes institutional money managers
BlueBay Asset Management and Phillips, Hager & North Investment
Management. RBC GAM is a provider of global investment management
services and solutions to institutional, high-net-worth and individual
investors through separate accounts, pooled funds, mutual funds, hedge
funds, exchange-traded funds and specialty investment strategies. The
RBC GAM group of companies manages approximately $400 billion in assets
and have approximately 1,400 employees located across Canada, the United
States, Europe and Asia.
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The winners of the record-breaking, $1.58 billion Powerball jackpot appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Wednesday to talk about their amazing win. Lisa and John Robinson purchased one of three winning Powerball tickets for the January 13, 2016, jackpot that sparked Powerball fever across the nation.
The Robinsons are from Munford, Tennessee, and have stated they want to keep their lives as close to normal as possible. The other winning tickets were sold in California and Florida. As of this writing, the other jackpot winners have yet to come forward. Only Lisa and John Robinson have spoken about their epic win, and their down-to-earth story has resonated with many across the nation. The couple are hardworking and have no plans to use the money to radically change their lifestyle. They also plan to keep their jobs and use the money wisely. You can watch the video of Lisa and John Robinson as the appeared on Ellen in the video player below.
They won the Powerball and were here to tell me all about it. What a story. https://t.co/DoYpjVtlXJ
— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) January 27, 2016
Munford, TN residents and Powerball winners John and Lisa Robinson are on Ellen today! Check out @NC5 at 3 pic.twitter.com/MabZ4iLIxu
— Rebecca Schleicher (@NC5_RSchleicher) January 27, 2016
One of the most fascinating aspects of the Robinson's Powerball win is that it almost didn't happen. John Robinson spoke to Today shortly after purchasing the winning Powerball ticket to explain that he hadn't been feeling well and wasn't planning to stop off and buy a few tickets for the billion dollar jackpot on his way home. John Robinson explained how he came to purchase the Powerball tickets to Today.
"Actually I was on way home from work, and she had called me and said, 'Are you going to stop and get a couple lottery tickets?" John said. "I really didn't feel like stopping that night, but I was like, 'Yeah, I'll stop.' I came home, and I wasn't feeling good, and I handed the tickets to her and said, 'I'm going to go lay down.'"
What's it like to win $528M? Powerball winners talk 'overwhelming experience' https://t.co/IiYeBSwcOa pic.twitter.com/fKwA7OX3YL
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) January 19, 2016
While on Ellen, DeGeneres asked the lucky couple how they came to purchase the ticket. John Robinson spoke first. While saying he purchased the ticket, his wife Lisa interjected that it was at her request. He explained how it happened.
"I was on my way home from work, she called me and said, 'Would I stop and get a couple of lottery tickets?' John explained, "I really don't feel like stopping, I didn't feel good."
Ellen then asked the couple if they normally play the lottery or Powerball, and John responded that they only play when the lottery is huge. The couple isn't alone in that aspect, as many people choose to only play the lottery, Mega Millions, or Powerball when the jackpot rolls over to hundreds of millions or, in this case, billions of dollars.
Continuing, John Robinson explained how he came to pick the winning Powerball numbers.
"I stopped at the store and I just went in there and told the lady I want four quick-pick tickets, got the tickets, came home and I handed them to her [Lisa], told her I don't feel good so I'm fixin' [sic] to go lay down."
Another fascinating aspect of the Robinson's Powerball jackpot win is that they did not choose the winning numbers by themselves but opted for the Quick Pick choice. The Hoosier Lottery explains how to play Powerball and includes a section of the Quick Pick. You can see an instructional video on how to play Powerball in the video below.
While many lottery and Powerball experts recommend that people pick and choose their own numbers, it can't go without notice that the winning numbers for the largest Powerball jackpot in history were selected by a computer during a random Quick Pick.
Lisa and John Robinson then told Ellen how they discovered they were Powerball jackpot winners. John Robinson explained he went to rest and was feeling hot so had a cloth on his head. Lisa shared how she watched the drawing on her local station and wrote the Powerball winning numbers down so she could compare her tickets with the draw results. To her amazement, her Powerball ticket matched the winning numbers.
Lisa explained her reaction to matching the Powerball winning numbers to Ellen.
"I watched it at 10:00, when they gave out the numbers. I wrote them down, because I knew if I didn't write them down, I'd forget the numbers. So I write them down, I start looking at the tickets, I get to the third one, and I was like…'Okay, this number matches… this number matches. The closer I got to the Powerball number I was like, oh my gosh, these numbers are matching up.' So I took my finger and hit the number on the paper and the number on the ticket, paper… ticket… I was like… oh my gosh, these match."
Lisa said she knew her sleeping husband was going to freak out, but she went running down the hallway calling his name to share the incredible news. John said he checked the Powerball numbers four times but wanted to wait until morning to make sure that a winning Powerball ticket had been sold in Munford, Tennessee. The couple didn't get a wink of sleep all night, and by morning it was confirmed that a winning Powerball jackpot ticket had been sold in Munford, letting them unofficially know they were, in fact, the winners. Lisa Robinson described the experience of being a Powerball jackpot winner as overwhelming.
There were three Powerball winners in the January 13, 2016, drawing. There hasn't been another jackpot winner since January 13, and the Powerball jackpot has continued to roll. The next scheduled drawing is set for January 30, 2016, and is currently for $96 million.
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Civil Aviation Ensign
In 1937, the New Zealand Air Department was established and the regulation of aviation, both civil and military, was undertaken outside the Defence Department for the first time.
Against this, and a background of rapid development in civil aviation, the Governor General of New Zealand wrote to King George IV in 1938, requesting, on behalf of Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage, to have a New Zealand Civil Air Ensign approved. The intention of the Ensign was for it to flown by British civil aircraft registered in the Dominion of New Zealand. On 16 November 1938 the British Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs replied that His Majesty had been most pleased to approve the proposal.
It remained only for the government to promulgate the Royal wish and this was done by Gazette on 17 April 1939. Rules for flying the Ensign were first set in Regulation 9 of the 1953 Civil Aviation Regulations. These same rules are continued as stipulated in the Civil Aviation Act 1990, Section 30(e) and set out in the Civil Aviation Rules, rule 19.5 (PDF).
The New Zealand Civil Air Ensign may be flown:
- by the Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand on its buildings and aircraft; or
- on any New Zealand registered aircraft; or
- at any aerodrome; or
- by an airline owning a New Zealand registered aircraft upon or in proximity to any building occupied by the airline as its principal office or place of business; or
- by any person to whom permission in writing is granted for the purpose by the Director at such places and subject to such conditions as may be specified.
Except as provided in the rule, no person shall fly the New Zealand Civil Air Ensign on any aircraft or on any ship, or boat, or on any building, or elsewhere in New Zealand.
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Over 30 earthquakes jolted the area in and around the City of Azle, Texas —20 miles north of Fort Worth—last November through January. In response to citizen concerns, the Texas House Committee on Energy Resources created a Subcommittee on Seismic Activity, to investigate whether there was a link between earthquakes and increased oil and gas production and disposal wells. In addition, the Railroad Commission of Texas—the agency with jurisdiction over oil and gas activities in Texas--hired a state seismologist and, on August 12, approved a draft of proposed rules that would require companies to do a seismic survey before obtaining permits for new oil and gas disposal wells—so-called Class II injection wells. Representatives of both the Texas oil and gas industry and environmental groups are supportive of this proposal.
Texas, in particular, has been part of the tremendous increase in oil and gas exploration and production activity nationwide through hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling. Although "fracking" per se does not appear to result in quakes, there is a concern that related disposal well injection might. The Railroad Commission proposal is intended to address this concern. Some have suggested the Texas proposal could be a model for other states.
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