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Putting an end to the confusion of students amid the speculation of major changes, IIT to continue with their existing pattern of the two-tier selection process. IIT JEE Advanced is going to be held on May 22, 2016. However, this time the 2 lakh students will be able to sit for the exam as against 1.5 lakh for the upcoming year. IIT Guwahati will be conducting the JEE Advanced 2016.
The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has decided to continue with the existing pattern of boards marks as well. Like every year, 40 per cent weight will be given to board marks and 60 per cent to the JEE-Main score. The eligibility criteria will also remain same for the students, although, those students who have already accepted any of the seats in any of the IITs or ISM in 2015 will not be allowed for the JEE Advanced in 2016. Continue reading


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We all know how expensive Christmas can be, so it's always good to find ways to keep down costs. Using discount stores is always a good way to find a few bargains, especially as they often sell branded goods at reduced prices. So to test this, Poundland armed me with vouchers and challenged me to 'do' Christmas for just £30 - to include enough decorations, gifts, cards and food to stretch my festive budget.
In Poundland, £30 equates to thirty items which equates to a whole lot of goodies purchased for Christmas! I was very impressed with my haul, getting a great range of festive items at just £1 each! It's so easy to keep track of your spending in Poundland, making keeping within your budget a breeze!
Branded Confectionery
Christmas isn't Christmas without sweets and chocolates and if you are looking for confectionery from Cadbury, Thornton's, Haribo or Nestle, Poundland sells loads at just £1. This can make your money go much further. Take for example the Smarties Santa and Friends 3 pack which is on sale today in one of the big supermarkets for £2. Butterfinger Bites are also £2 for a box, again making Poundland's price a real bargain buy.
American Hamper
American candy hampers are a great gift to give to a loved one, but they can be very expensive to buy online costing upwards of around £20. With Poundland you can create your own hamper using some of the range of US branded goodies alongside some other American style goodies. Just package them up in a pretty basket or even a box covered in gift wrap and you have a great gift for a fraction of the price of ordering a hamper online. Kellogg's Pop Tarts can cost up to £3.50 a box, so buying them for £1 is a great saving. Reese's and Butterfinger products are excellent additions to an American food hamper and cost half of what they do in supermarkets. Bubblegum Bottles from Haribo, dry roasted peanuts and bbq pretzels complete the contents. This is such a good present idea allowing you to buy favourite products at just £1 each and creating a bespoke hamper without going over budget. Poundland also stock Nerds, Hershey's, jelly beans, Reese's Cups, Chupa Chups and Maom - all great for a cut price US style hamper.
Christmas books are a lovely way to build excitement and count down the days to Christmas by sharing a story with the kids every night at bedtime. Poundland has a range of both reading books and activity books with a festive theme to keep kids happy until the big day. I love the Disney Christmas books (RRP £3.99) featuring favourite characters in seasonal stories and The Christmas Surprise is a colourful, pop-up board book with a reassuring story about Santa being able to find you wherever you are on Christmas Eve. They are great if you are making a book advent this year (where you wrap up 24 Christmas books and unwrap one each day of December until Christmas Day).
Gift Wrap and Cards
With rolls of wrap and assorted sizes of gift bags, Poundland have a wrapping solution for every present. From giant sized gift bags and sacks to bottle bags to multipacks of assorted bags, I love the ease of packing up presents this way. The Poundland ones are a fraction of some found in stationery shops.
Individual cards for the special people in your life are available in an assortment of designs, alongside bumper boxes of 40 cards. This makes it easy and cheap to spread good wishes this Christmas.
Christmas Decorations
From dressing the tree to decorating the house, Poundland have a real variety of decorations in a range of styles. From traditional to funky, however you want to express yourself this Christmas, Poundland can help. The cheery inflatable characters will be a hit with little ones, while the wooden pieces add a rustic charm to homes. The packs of baubles are so reasonable when compared to garden centres.
These ceramic star shaped bowls are an absolute steal at £1 each. Perfect for holding sweets or snacks, they will look great on the table at Christmas. They'd also make lovely gifts if filled with sweets and wrapped in cellophane.
The drink cup I got for Freddy's stocking comes in a fun design and has a curly straw. Perfect for cold drinks on Christmas Day.
For tea on Christmas Day, I like to use paper plates to make cleaning up easier and to create a fun, party atmosphere after the formality of Christmas dinner. Poundland has two partyware ranges: Frosty Friends and Red Snowflake, both consisting of packs of 20 plates, cups and napkins plus a tablecover. So for just £4 you have all the tableware you need to host a party for up to twenty people. Most party stuff comes in packs of 8 so getting 20 for £1 is a huge bargain. The quality is good and the design is festive. You can't go wrong.
The cost of stocking fillers can add up to a lot of money. For just £1 each, Poundland has a range of toys and games that will bulk out the kids' pressie pile. Disney's Frozen merchandise is bound to be popular and there is a lot of it to choose from in store. Poundland also have Block Tech toys, which are compatible with Lego but cost a fraction of the price. There are lots of other bits to choose from including craft sets, puzzles, games and cuddly toys. Poundland is a good place to buy presents for children's friends without spending too much money.
My top 3 favourite pieces from Poundland this Christmas
I love this Merry Christmas sign made of wood and rope, with love, hope and joy written on hearts suspended from it. It's very cute and pretty with a rustic, vintage feel. Something similar could cost in excess of ten times the £1 price tag in a specialist vintage shop or online.
This moose ornament is another rustic piece that looks like it should cost a lot more than the £1 I paid for it. It is crafted from wood and has a string bow around its neck with bronze coloured bells attached. The distressed paint finish makes it look vintage. I love its simplicity and quirkiness.
My last item that has been picked out as a favourite is the coir Merry Christmas door mat. It has three Christmas trees and the Christmas greeting on it in black rubber. It makes a great novelty gift idea or will look great outside your front door throughout December. I was gobsmacked to find one that looks identical to this on Etsy for £12.50! For something that I will be using over Christmas and then disposing of, I know how much I'd rather pay.
As you can see from my Poundland haul, there are lots of genuine bargains to be found in store or online including branded goods. Many of the decorative items are similar to things that can be found in other stores or online that cost so much more! It's great to be able to make your money go further by shopping in Poundland for some of your Christmas needs.
You can find all these items in store at Poundland or on Poundland online where you can also check out the latest promotions and offers including some Black Friday deals.
I used mysupermarket.co.uk for price comparisons with supermarkets on branded confectionery.

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|Reference : Modelling Late Miocene vegetation in Europe: Results of the CARAIB model and comparis...
|Scientific journals : Article
|Physical, chemical, mathematical & earth Sciences : Earth sciences & physical geography
Physical, chemical, mathematical & earth Sciences : Multidisciplinary, general & others
|Modelling Late Miocene vegetation in Europe: Results of the CARAIB model and comparison with palaeovegetation data
|François, Louis [> > > >]
|Utescher, T. [> > > >]
|Favre, E. [Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Labo de physique atmosphérique et planétaire (LPAP)]
|Henrot, Alexandra [> > > >]
|Warnant, P. [> > > >]
|Micheels, A. [> > > >]
|Erdei, B. [> > > >]
|Suc, J*-P [> > > >]
|Cheddadi, R. [> > > >]
|Mosbrugger, V. [ > > ]
|Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
|Elsevier Science Bv
|Sp. Iss. SI
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|[en] Miocene ; Europe ; Vegetation ; Model ; Palaeovegetation data ; Plant functional types ; Biomes
|[en] The CARAIB (CARbon Assimilation In the Biosphere) model is used to study the vegetation distribution during the Late Miocene (Tortonian). In this version, the plant classification is specifically adapted to best represent Miocene European vegetation. Compared to other plant classifications used in global models, this adapted classification is more refined, since it is specifically developed for European vegetation and it includes various thermophylous tree types, which were present in Europe during the Miocene. The corresponding climatic tolerance parameters are based on the study of Laurent et al. (Journal of Vegetation Science, 15, 739-746, 2004) for the tree types currently present in Europe and on the distribution of analogue species in southeastern Asia and North/Central America for the thermophylous (sub-tropical) trees. The same classification is used to characterize the palaeoflora at the available Late Miocene localities, allowing a model-data comparison at the plant functional type level, rather than at the biome level. The climatic inputs to CARAIB are obtained from the COSMOS atmosphere-ocean general circulation model. The climatic anomalies (Tortonian minus Present) derived from COSMOS are interpolated to a higher spatial resolution before being used in the vegetation model. These anomalies are combined with a modern climatology to produce climatic fields with high spatial resolution (10' x 10'). This procedure has the advantage of making apparent relief features smaller than the grid cells of the climate model and, hence, makes easier the comparison with local vegetation data, although it does not really improve the quality of the Tortonian climate reconstruction. The new version of CARAIB was run over Europe at this higher spatial resolution. It calculates the potential distribution of 13 different classes of trees (including cold/cool/warm-temperate, subtropical and tropical types), together with their cover fractions, net primary productivities and biomasses. The resulting model vegetation distribution reconstructed for the Tortonian is compared to available palaeovegetation and pollen data. Before performing this comparison, the tree taxa present at the various data sites are assigned to one or several model classes, depending on the identification level of the taxa. If several classes are possible for a taxon, only those that can co-exist with the other tree classes identified at the site are retained. This methodology is similar to the co-existence approach used in palaeoclimatic reconstructions based on vegetation data. It narrows the range of tree types present at the various sites, by suppressing in the data the extreme types, such as the cold boreal/temperate and tropical trees. The method allows a comparison with the model simulation on a presence/absence basis. This comparison provides an overall agreement of 53% between the model and the data, when all sites and tree types are considered. The agreement is high (>85%) for needle-leaved summergreen boreal/temperate cold trees (Larix sp.) and for tropical trees, intermediate (>40%) for other boreal/temperate cold trees and for needle-leaved evergreen temperate cool trees, broadleaved summergreen temperate cool trees and broadleaved evergreen warm-temperate trees, and poor (<40%) for most temperate perhumid warm trees. In many cases, the model is shown to be better at predicting the absence than the presence, as observed for tropical trees. The modelled distributions of cold boreal/temperate trees tend to extend too much towards the south compared to the data. B contrast, model sub-tropical trees (temperate perhumid warm and needle-leaf summergreen temperate warm trees) appear to be restricted to some limited areas in southern Europe, while they are present in the data from central Europe up to at least 50 degrees N. Consequently, modelled Late Miocene climate appears to remain too cold to produce assemblages of trees consistent with the data. The predicted modelled trends from the past to the present are in the right direction, but the amplitude remains too small. For the simulations to be in a better agreement with the data, higher CO2 levels may be necessary in the climate simulations, or possibly other oceanic boundary conditions may be required, such as different bathymetry in the Panama seaway. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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RECENTLY I WAS one of about 100 L.A. Jews invited to attend a fundraiser for a Jewish organization that seeks to counteract anti-Israel disinformation and propaganda. The guest speaker was Wafa Sultan, the Syrian American woman who in February gave a now legendary interview on Al Jazeera television, during which she said that "the Muslims are the ones who began the clash of civilizations" and "I don't believe you can reform Islam."
The audience warmly greeted Sultan, a psychiatrist who immigrated to Southern California in 1989. One of Time magazine's 100 "pioneers and heroes," she said she was neither a Christian, Muslim nor Jew but a secular human being. "I have 1.3 billion patients," she quipped early in her remarks, referring to the global Muslim population. Sultan went on to condemn inhumane acts committed in God's name, to denounce Islamic martyrdom and to decry terror as a tool to subjugate communities. Those statements all made perfect sense.
Then this provocative voice said something odd: "Only Arab Muslims can read the Koran properly because you have to speak Arabic to know what it means -- you cannot translate it." Any translation is, by definition, interpretation, and Arabic is no more difficult to accurately translate than Hebrew. In fact, the Hebrew of the Bible poses many more formidable translation problems than Arabic. Are Christians and Jews who cannot read it ill-equipped to live by its meanings?


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Hi everyone, today I am going to show you the Dolce and Gabbana Blush in Rose which lovely Ruby from Miaka's Life and Loves passed to me to play with.
Rose is a muted brown rose shade. What I love about these D and G blushes is that they aren't overly pigmented and thus very easy to apply. These blushes are finely pigmented and soft. They blend very well and stay on me for a long time. If I have to nitpick it is the fact that the black cloth casing it comes with, is a tight squeeze. I have a slight problem getting the blush out of the casing everytime I want to use it.
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Zarbia Camel Tote
Lalla, in Marrakech Morocco
The Zarbia bags are a Studio Lalla Signature. They're made from traditional blanket-like wall hangings printed in wild scenes. Laetitia, the amazingly talented and lovely designer behind Studio Lalla, has chosen a desert Red Camel landscape in deep red jewel tones for this seriously chic catchall bag! This is how the gypset do duffle bag.
Or choose the Zarbia Duffle Bag – not your average travel-on in Marrakech blue peacock pageant!
This item was made by Lalla, in Marrakech Morocco.


text: Revelation 13:16-18 – And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads The dopest part about the internet is that it's always working around the clock for you. The scariest part about the internet…is that folks like Google, who have monopolized much of what we know as the internet…are always working around the clock for you…or rather…your soul. Now before I scare you all away with my pyscho-babble, I ask that you just stick this one out with me. We all know that Google…has literally dominated the internet for as long as you or I can remember. They've made impressive progress in making the internet useful to all of us…or at least those who care to utilize it. There's the part of me who appreciates things like Google's spot on internet search engine…or Google Maps, which far far surpasses my car's navigation system. That same part of me…is enraged when people ask Googleable (just made that up) questions on social networks…as if a social network is their first option for finding out information. I mean…much of my professional career, from my 9 to 5 to music and video production work to writing for this site have been supported through education gained via Google's search engine. For that I'm thankful. Had I put it to swifter use, I may have saved myself a few bucks in student loans. I digress. Now that praises are out of the way, it's time to shift gears onto the double edged sword that is Google. The internet giant…and now tech giant, filed their patent application back in Q4 2012. The patent, discovered by the good folks at Patent Bolt is for none other than a camera component embedded inside contact lenses. At first glance, this seems like something straight out of a science fiction film. An average person may not give a care about this breakthrough. A savvier consumer may explore the idea of the benefits such a technological breakthrough could provide. Potential sight to the blind…better vision for those in need of it…and supreme vision for those with the right security clearance. This is where we come into play. We're here to keep your most important eye open and seeing clearly at all times. Though the potential benefits are real, this takes invasive to a whole new extreme. Think about it for a moment…a set of camera lenses…in your eyes…that are powered by a constant signal from your mobile device…that is already accessible by government agencies…with questionable motives…who pay companies like Google…to have access to this information (your phones calls, texts, selfies, Facebook posts, even the ones you type..then delete and never post)…so they can run it all through their databases…under the guise of providing you with some sort of national security? Too much? Am I crazy to think that with a pair of Google's contact lenses on…that I'm the only who would have access to the feed of information being taken in via those camera components? Surely I can't be the only worried about potential exposure…and overexposure from the radiation produced by such a device…located directly on top of such a sensitive orifice such as the eye. I guess I'd be off my rocker if I were to even hint that one way or another…someone out these is trying to gain access to and eventually control our every move. I mean, let's face it…they've done a pretty bang up job of pacifying us as a society with waves of brainless degenerate entertainment, that we're literally forced into, because the majority of us spend 8+ hours of our day overworked and underpaid…at jobs that don't even closely align with our true passions in life. My vision has never been clearer…and I don't anticipate any need for Google's contact lenses…ever. Visit CLPNation.com daily for our take on things creative and eye opening. Follow CLP Nation on Twitter: @MDofCLP @AlecBurnright @CLPNation Related


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Rages (rā´jēz) or Rhagae (rā´jē), ancient and medieval city of Persia, located on the site of modern-day Ray, N Iran, a suburb of Tehran. Rages is mentioned in the Avesta and in the inscriptions at Behistun. Because it controlled the NE Persian trade route, it was occupied by the Parthians and the Arabs. It flourished under the Seljuk Turks. Fierce religious conflict between Sunni and Shiite Muslims resulted in the destruction of much of the city in 1186; further damage was done by the Mongols in 1220, and by 1400 the city was deserted. There are ruins of walls and towers at the site. The city was the scene of some of the principal events in the Old Testament book of Tobit.
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CD-i Emulator 0.53 not working on Windows 7?
>> Saturday, January 29, 2011
A few members reported problems with CD-i Emulator 0.53, like Luigiblood: "I just changed my PC, with better hardware, and with Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, and for some reason : I can't start anything. Not even the BIOS. .I have three BIOS ROMs, two of them used Mono-I boards (i think, but at least one of them uses it).
And CD-i Emulator says i've exceeded the time limit, AT 00:00.04 ! Which is obviously wrong."
The problem has been confirmed by someone else using Win7 x64 and today new member NaoikiS reports that it doesn't work on x86 either. CDifan is currently looking into this! We'll post any updates as soon as we get them.


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Michele Bachmann: GOP House Will Not Compromise on Tax Increases (Video)
Conservative Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) told FOX News today that Republicans will not compromise on tax increases.
Via Freedom's Lighthouse:
Bachmann said GOP members are committed to putting the nation's fiscal house in order.
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I have continued to dive into Atmosphere. And I must say, there's a surprisingly powerful synth under there. The filter is actually quite usable (I once thought it was crap), and while there are limits to the available modulation, there's enough to inject a little expression into your patch. It's the underlying samples, of course, that make it shine. There are some absolute gems in there. I actually went through and auditioned every single one, and discovered over 200 singles that moved me. That's 200 quality patches in a synth, without counting the layers. I didn't even have close to that on my EX5. Atmosphere is a spectacular synth.
As I suggested earlier, even though many (almost exactly half) patches aren't clearly labeled, there seem to be a few trends in the names of synths that come up most in the patches I like.
First, it's not a JP-8000 I meant in the last post, it was a JP-8. Oops! That's a pseudonym of the powerful (and hard-to-find) Jupiter-8. I shan't be buying one of those any time soon! I did download Arturia's Jupiter 8 V, and I'm sorry to say I was unimpressed. It's probably not fair to compare Arturia's soft-synth to Spectrasonic's samples. The samples are probably piped through some of the best compressors/reverbs/EQs on the planet, so they come out all punchy and full. And "fat" isn't always good is it? Is it? I dunno. At the moment, I'm jonesin' for the punch, so I passed the JP8V by. I don't need it.
The Moog came up a lot, once I got out of the pads and into the synth patches. But I knew I liked Moogs. I also know I can't afford them. Atmosphere covers the few bases I would want from a Moog, anyway.
The Virus came up more than any other identifiable synth. This doesn't surprise me on two levels: one, Eric Persing clearly makes very (!) heavy use of them, so there were more Virus patches to pick from. And second, I know that the Virus is my favourite line of synths. Period.
Most surprising was the number of CS-80 patches I had on my short list. Almost as much as the Moog! I remember trying Arturia's CS80 V way back when it first came out, and I was at once over- and under-whelmed. The sound seemed thin and old-school to me, and the interface was HUGE and intimidating. I considered grabbing the demo, but I was reminded by the JP8V that there's no need: I have what I need in Atmosphere.
So, in short, I fell back in love with Atmosphere. It's expensive, sure, but I think it's the biggest bang for the buck in my arsenal.


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Now when the Pharisees gathered together to him, with some of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem, 2 they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands defiled, that is, unwashed. 3 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they wash their hands, observing the tradition of the elders; 4 and when they come from the market place, they do not eat unless they purify themselves; and there are many other traditions which they observe, the washing of cups and pots and vessels of bronze.) 5 And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with hands defiled?" 6 And he said to them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, `This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; 7 in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.' 8 You leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men." 9 And he said to them, "You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God, in order to keep your tradition! 10 For Moses said, `Honor your father and your mother'; and, `He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die'; 11 but you say, `If a man tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is Corban' (that is, given to God) — 12 then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother, 13 thus making void the word of God through your tradition which you hand on. And many such things you do."
ExhortationsWhat makes a person unclean or unfit to offer God acceptable worship? The Jews went to great pains to ensure that their worship would conform to the instructions which God gave to Moses on Mount Sinai. God's call to his people was a call to holiness: "be holy, for I am holy".
In their zeal for holiness many elders developed elaborate traditions which became a burden for the people to carry out in their everyday lives. The Scribes and Pharisees were upset with Jesus because he allowed his disciples to break with their ritual traditions by eating with unclean hands.
They sent a delegation all the way from Jerusalem to Galilee to bring their accusation in a face-to-face confrontation with Jesus. Jesus dealt with their accusation by going to the heart of the matter – by looking at God's intention and purpose for the commandments. Jesus gave an example of how their use of ritual tradition excused them from fulfilling the commandment to honor one's father and mother.
If someone wanted to avoid the duty of financially providing for their parents in old age or sickness they could say that their money or goods were an offering "given over to God" and thus exempt from any claim of charity or duty to help others. They broke God's law to fulfull a law of their own making.
Jesus explained that they void God's command because they allowed their hearts and minds to be clouded by their own notions of religion. Jesus accused them specifically of two things. First of hypocrisy.
Like actors, who put on a show, they appear to obey God's word in their external practices while they inwardly harbor evil desires and intentions. Secondly, he accused them of abandoning God's word by substituting their own arguments and ingenious interpretations for what God requires.
They listened to clever arguments rather than to God's word. Jesus refers them to the prophecy of Isaiah (29:31) where the prophet accuses the people of his day for honoring God with their lips while their hearts went astray because of disobedience to God's laws.
If we listen to God's word with faith and reverence, it will both enlighten our mind and purify our heart – thus enabling us to better understand how he wants us to love and obey him.
The Lord invites us to draw near to him and to feast at his banquet table.
Do you approach with a clean heart and mind? Ask the Lord to cleanse and renew you with the purifying fire of his Holy Spirit.


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One hundred and seventy seven years after the signing of Te Tiriti, Dr Aroha Harris wishes that a Prime Minister taking the time to pause among Māori and other New Zealanders on Waitangi Day wasn't a cause for opinion or comment or media attention
Over coffee a few days ago, a dear friend asked me what I thought about Jacinda spending five days in Te Tai Tokerau, my favourite part of the world because I'm from there (specifically Hokianga).
I shrugged my shoulders.
My dear friend persisted: "What do you think? It's a great thing isn't it?"
I shrugged again.
"So you don't have an opinion? Really?"
In that moment, I genuinely had no opinion to offer. And my friend was right in thinking that meant I didn't particularly care. On reflection, if I have an opinion it is probably that I wish there was no expectation that I should have one.
One hundred and seventy eight years after the signing of Te Tiriti, I wish that a Prime Minister – any Prime Minister – taking the time to pause among Māori and other New Zealanders, in Māori territories, on Waitangi Day or any other day, wasn't a thing, wasn't a cause for opinion or comment or media attention. In a similar vein, I wish that 125 years after New Zealand women were granted the vote we didn't have to defend women holding public office.
I look forward to a time when Prime Ministers visiting and gathering with Māori, like Jacinda is doing, is a normal part of our calendar of events.
I wish that when a Prime Minister announces her pregnancy, we can respond by congratulating her and her family and wishing them well. Fullstop. I wish there was no debate about the impact of her child-bearing prowess or her womanhood on her Prime Ministership, because I wish this – all of this, pregnant Prime Ministers and Prime Ministers on the ground in Te Nōta, the North, for five days straight – was normal: customary, well-established, what we're used to. What we expect rather than what we're surprised by or grateful for.
I look forward to a time when Prime Ministers visiting and gathering with Māori, like Jacinda is doing, is a normal part of our calendar of events, that we need not spend time expressing how we feel about it and what it might mean, but instead focus on the issues and business of the day and the outcomes of the engagements. The idea of governments meeting with Māori chiefs is not a novel one.
Even in the 1830s, when James Busby was Resident Magistrate, annual hui were proposed as a venue for law and decision-making. At the 1860 Kohimarama conference, the government promised to conference annually with Māori. As Premier in the 1890s, Richard Seddon made many well-known visits to Māori communities. Through these and similar engagements, Māori fully expected to be more actively involved in government decision-making. It never happened. But Māori expectations have remained, and remain, unfulfilled.
I am sure Jacinda's five days in Te Nōta is as intrepid as the visits with Māori of Prime Ministers past. And, like others before her, she is not alone. She has some solid Māori MPs around her who are no doubt feeling the weighty responsibility of supporting her to have a successful Waitangi stay. Thinking positively about the team, and not just the Prime Minister on her own, I am hopeful for genuine transformative action to alleviate the oppressiveness of the grinding economic and social poverty that is too normal in too many Tai Tokerau homes, the historical net result of local and national policies, and economic exploitation, which shepherded Māori into society's margins.
Jacinda's 2018 visit to Waitangi and the North may be seen as part of a long and complex history of iwi Māori attempting and advocating to hui with Premiers, Prime Ministers, and governments on Māori territories, and in pursuit of Māori goals. These long historical roots might be more visible if we cared enough to (a) look for or notice them, and (b) come to know them.
I hope Jacinda's Waitangi is useful and worthwhile. I hope it is infused with the kinds of challenges that spur her to ensure it bears fruit – genuine political fruit, that might finally deliver the kind of sustained and grounded relationships with governments that Māori have long sought, within which five-day visits are par for the course, and through which we can all do the mahi (work) together.


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Congratulations to anti-Fed, libertarian Congressman Ron Paul, who just won the first "primary" of the 2012 election!
Well, technically it wasn't a primary, it was a straw poll held at CPAC, the huge conservative convention that's been going on the last few days.
In the straw poll, Paul easily whipped second-place finisher Mitt Romney -- the former PE chief and liberal Massachusetts governor, who's trying to ride Scott Brown's coattails to a second chance at his party's Presidential nomination.
Of course, this was a narrow field -- only CPAC attendees were eligible for the vote (no Sarah Palin this year) -- and only 25% of attendees voted. But still!
Meanwhile, the 2012 re-election is in full swing on the Democratic side. Already there's chatter about someone from the left trying to primary Barack Obama, and on this morning's Chris Matthews show, he even asked whether Obama is 100% running for re-election (frankly that seems to absurd to contemplate, though it makes for good TV).
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I am hiding from the winter cold, the frost's bite and the wind's fury.
Tucked beneath leaves, where the moisture lies.
So I can ponder and dream of sodden fields, flower buds and things with wings.
I love the images. I find I search for hidden faces in crowds....I am just certain I see loved ones I have lost.....they are all around me, in my mind, heart and soul. Thanks for this beautiful images on a cold winter day. Carol
Oh my! You ARE talented! Those images are just a delight to look at and observe. Thank you for sharing them!
This post was such a delight, your are so very talented. And I love the music!
How cool is this?! I really, really had to look for the last one. So when are you creating your book? Get thee busy. It's a good way to stay warm.
Yes, I found them all!! I love the first pic...how did you get it to look so real?? I really want to know!! Thanks for sharing and try to keep warm....I am!
WoW very cool Abbie~I loved that post! You have a very special talent girl! Have a wonderful weekend~Smiles~Tam!
Great post...I went back and searched!
Stay warm!Gotta say, I am being to feel frustrated beingindoors ALL the time!
Those are great! The last one was tricky, but I love it!
Hi Abbie
I have just stop bye your blog ...wow what can I say ....the pictures are truly amazing...thanks for sharing .....................
Very enjoyable. Reminds of of the hidden pictures from the magazines in the doctor's office only much prettier and perfect for grown ups!
Oh those ones are wonderful! I found all except for one....have to look at it again.
Spring,that's what I'm long for too.
Thanks for stopping by the other day on my blog, I'm doing better, was good thing only two days. It's ok with the kids, due to feeling good again it's not that hard. Hopefully it stays like that, we will see.....smiles your way, Anke ;)
Hello! I have just discovered your beautiful journal. Thank you for sharing it with us and for all the wonderful free things to play with. Just one question - how do you keep your home so clean and tidy?????
Do pop by my blog sometime!
I love these! So fun and pretty! They are like happy little secrets! Thank you!!
Ok---I'm just not seeing the last one. I know there's something different in the lower right hand corner but is it a person or a thing? Help---
these images are fascinating. i too feel like hiding from winter in the images in my mind of winged creatures and imagining the beauty of spring. i did find all the images. very cool.
Oh my thoses were just wonderful!
Like every pictures was alive!
Wonderful, you clever girl! They all make me think of Spring, which is a good thing on this rather dark and dreary Georgia Wednesday.
Thank you for the lift.
Oh, what FUN! I love these, Abbie. We had a miserable mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain today, so the sight of all these lovely flowers is a wonderful thing! Is there room for me? ;)
Yes...I found them all. I was entranced. How very beautiful...
I somehow feel the need to ..whisper..
Hi Abbie,
How cool are you! That is totally awesome.. I love the pregnant Mom!
So sweet, sensitve and caring for nature..
I have just started my blog the past few days of working on it.
I posted your blog to my blog so I can share YOU..
Big hugs, Darlene xo
Yes, I found all your lovely little surprises...what fun it is to look for them. You are so good at hiding them too!!! (((hugs)))
Thanks so much Abbie ~ for everything!
These are so wonderful - a fresh and intriguing way to use vintage images. Thank you for posting them!
amazing... it's too amazing!!! wow!!
i love your blog!
i love your creative and artistic expression... you are very unique!
i've been enjoying these "digital photo stories" links. did you know that when you click on the "it's the little things in life" link, it doesn't work? at least not for me... that was actually the first one i clicked on, because the title intrigued me. so i just checked out some of the others. love them!
i'm sorry to hear percy and bloom will be "going off the air". but i have enjoyed it while i've had the chance. i'll just have to enjoy what you are doing on this space, instead.
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Now here's one of her with J, from a few days ago:
We like Chalcy. She's pretty good, except when people come over. We're working on that.
For Chalcy's first birthday, we bought her a Big Girl Bed, which she really likes. Periodically we've done trials to see how she will do if we leave her out of her kennel at night, and she has usually failed. Months ago she chewed a bare spot into our bedroom carpet when we tried to let her sleep in our room. A few weeks after that we tried to let her sleep in her room (aka. the guest bedroom) without closing her kennel, because it has fake-wood floor instead of carpet. She chewed the edge of trim around the window. So, even though she is kind of too big for her kennel, she kept having to sleep in it anyway. Lately, we've tried letting her sleep in her room on her Big Girl Bed and it works. She does just fine! So we tried letting her have access to the whole house at night. That works a little less well, because she will come stand outside our door, and just stay there. Her favorite place to sleep is on the floor by my side of the bed. When I get up, I have to watch out or I'll step on her. During the day she sleeps there a lot too.
Chalcy is almost always silent, which is nice, because I don't really care for barky dogs. She does alert us when she sees a strange object or hears an unusual noise. There have been a few times where she's started barking in the middle of the night. We always help her investigate, until she is satisfied that everything is okay. Otherwise she'll keep barking for quite a while. When she does bark, she is very loud. This last weekend, our city had "Country Days," which is the annual city festival thing here. As we were falling asleep, we could hear the country music from a few blocks away. That was fine. After that was all over they started doing fireworks. Fireworks make a loud "BOOM" sound, and it concerned Chalcy. She started barking and barking from her room. So, we brought her into our bedroom and opened the blinds, and showed her that the fireworks were the cause of the noise. She stopped barking right away, and we all sat there and watched the entire firework show from our bedroom window. Chalcy was fascinated.
Chalcy still knows tricks. She is still good at all of her puppy preschool stuff, usually. We've taught her a few other tricks too:
- J taught Chalcy "Back!" which means "You're too close, scoot back." Chalcy has a different concept of personal space, so it isn't unusual for her to come up and lean against us or put her face right up close to our faces while we're sitting down (because we're her height!), etc. "Back!" has been a fantastic trick because Chalcy gets so excited when people come over that sometimes she's a little too friendly. We tell guests they can tell her "Back!" and she'll scoot away, and they try it out, and it works, and it makes them feel a lot more comfortable to know she will leave them alone if they want her to. It is also a good way to remind her that she is not allowed to be near us when we're eating.
- For Jessica's birthday I taught Chalcy "Giddy up!" which means, "Come through my legs so that I'm standing over you like I'm riding a horse." Every time Jess would come over, she would always try to stand over Chalcy, because it kind of looks like you're riding a horse. Chalcy always backs up, though, instead of just standing there. So I taught her this trick because I thought it would be funny. And it is.
- Chalcy knows "Jump!" which means, "Jump!" This is pretty impressive and amusing, because she is massive and she'll jump up (not just forward) and get her back legs off the ground too.
- We taught Chalcy "Speak!" which means "Bark!" Since Chalcy is so quiet, it is my secret hope that if we wanted her to defend our house, I could motion to her to bark without the invaders noticing me, and then she would look fierce. Actually, though, an invasion would most likely be pretty unusual and it would be enough to get her barking anyway. Chalcy was surprised and a little confused when I taught her this trick, because we also taught her "Quiet!" because she used to bark if she wanted to come inside, or if she wanted to come out of her kennel because people were over. Now she just stands by the door when she wants in or out. So learning "Speak!" was kind of like teaching a kid to eat cupcakes on command, or something. (REALLY? You really want me to?)
Chalcy also knows some "tricks" that are not really tricks.
- We discovered this one when my brother was over last week. If you pat your lap, Chalcy will come put her head in your lap, where you pat. That's how I usually tell her she can cuddle with me that way. I didn't realize it was a trick, though, until I was demonstrating to Jason how to get her to put her head in his lap and she came across the room to put her head in my lap instead, because I'd just pat my lap. It seemed impressive. Then the next time Jess came over she wanted to see that trick. Uh, she's always done that. It isn't a trick. But it kind of is.
- Chalcy is polite about being fed. It started because I didn't want her to rush me when I fed her, back when she was a puppy. Here's how it works: I fill her food dish, and put it where it goes. I tell Chalcy to sit, and she does. I tell her to wait. I go fill her water dish, and put it where it goes. Sometimes I'll make her "wait" a little longer, and then I tell her "Okay" and she'll go eat her food. It's a pretty strict routine now, so I don't even really have to tell her what to do. I bring food out, she sits down. I get water, she waits, and she'll only approach her food after I give her permission. It's nice.
- Chalcy goes into her kennel very readily. This isn't an exciting trick either, but it is useful. Our main command is "Kennel up!" and that means "Please get in your kennel, and if I don't look angry you are not in trouble and you will get treats for getting in your kennel" or it means "You are in big big trouble because you did something you knew was wrong, and the only way that I will be happy with you is if you go into your kennel, RIGHT NOW. No treats." She always kennels up, immediately. Very good. There are also a lot of other things that mean "Kennel up"--"Time for bed!" and "Back to bed!" and "Sorry!" all mean to kennel up. Plus, if I put my shoes on and pick up my purse, Chalcy will go get in her kennel, because she always has to be in there when I leave (and I'll give her treats).
Chalcy loves toys. Any toy we give her is the Very Best Thing she's EVER seen in her Entire Life (!!!!!). It's really cute. She tears stuffed toys apart really quickly though, even "durable" ones, so she doesn't get many of those anymore. Chalcy also loves tug games and fetch games and play-rough games, and basically any game you can think of. She also likes sticks and bones.
Chalcy loves people. All of them. She wants to be near us all the time. And preferably, very close. She is very affectionate. Also with our guests.
Chalcy likes dogs. Especially little ones because puppy preschool had puppies in it, and they were her friends, and I don't think she realizes they grew up too. Big dogs are more intimidating, but Chalcy is not aggressive at all; it just takes a little time for her to warm up. When dogs bark at her she looks at them, but she doesn't bark back. This makes me proud of her when we go on walks, or to the dog park.
Chalcy loves chickens. They squeak and have feathers that fluffle all over, they flop around really cool when you shake them in your mouth, and they run on their own--until they stop. We raised a few sets of chicks inside, and that helped Chalcy realize that we do NOT put our mouths on chickens. EVER. Except, when we're outside with her, occasionally she forgets and starts chasing a chicken until we remind her not to, so now she just doesn't get to be where chickens are unless she is under close supervision.
Our puppy is probably pretty close to full size now, and I'm looking forward to her rabies booster shot this summer (who looks forward to that??), because when we visit the vet we can find out how much she weighs. Can you imagine if she were to continue growing at the same rate next year too?? She won't.
Anyway! We like our dog. That's all.


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Yesterday, the Supreme Court found that evidence of discrimination against other employees may be admissible in an age discrimination case, depending on the circumstances. In Sprint/United Management Co. v. Mendelsohn, the Court found that whether this type of evidence should be admitted is a "fact-intensive, context-specific inquiry" that should be made by the district (trial) court. That court is in the best position to judge whether the relevance of evidence is outweighed, on balance, by its potential to create prejudice in the minds of the jury, which is the ultimate test for deciding whether evidence can be admitted at trial. (For more on this test and the underlying facts of the case, see my previous post.)
Mendelsohn lost her age discrimination case at trial, after the district court excluded testimony from other employees. The district court found that other employees should be allowed to testify only if they were claiming that Mendelsohn's direct supervisor had discriminated against them, close in time to when Mendelsohn said she was discriminated against. Mendelsohn appealed and won; the Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit said that the evidence should have been admitted. The Supreme Court found fault with both of the lower courts -- the District Court for failing to adequately explain why it was excluding the evidence, and the Court of Appeals for deciding evidentiary issues that should be left to the District Court. The Supreme Court sent the case back so the District Court could explain itself.
For the parties in this case, the decision was mostly a victory for the employer. Sprint already won at trial, and the Court of Appeals' decision would have forced a new trial with the evidence from other employees included. Depending on what the District Court says in explaining why it kept the evidence out, Sprint may still come out on top.
For everyone else, however, this decision could be a win for employees, mostly because of what the Supreme Court didn't do. The Supreme Court could have made a blanket rule that evidence of discrimination against other employees is never admissible unless the same decision-maker is involved -- but it didn't. Instead, the Court found that this has to be a case-by-case decision, dependent on the facts and the legal theories involved. This means that employees remain free to try to introduce this evidence, and trial courts may not reject it out of hand without taking a close look at the facts. As Linda Greenhouse points out in the New York Times article "A Case-By-Case Ruling on Discrimination," it also may mean that more employees are able to defeat an employer's motion for summary judgment (a request that the judge throw the case out before trial) and get their cases in front of a jury.
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So far, Hurricane Harvey has claimed 60 lives and created almost $200 billion of damage. In a few days, Irma, a much stronger storm, will be pummeling Caribbean islands and the Southeast U.S. with even stronger winds and a similar deluge. Many families have lost everything. Few have flood insurance. Elected officials promise help, but nothing will be able to erase the anguish, fear, and loss that these two "acts of God" have created.
What have been the human responses? Some looting. Widespread feelings of defeat and despair. Some blaming and anger that "they" aren't doing enough or didn't do more.
The biggest story, though, headlined by news outlets as diverse as The Washington Times, cnsnews, and newstalkers is, as the daily signal.com puts it, "Hurricane Harvey Brings Out the Best in Americans." http://dailysignal.com/2017/08/29/hurricane-harvey-brings-best-americans/
In this outlet's frequently-reprinted words,
"Pictures of destroyed homes and flooded neighborhoods are heartbreaking, but the inspiring images of neighbors helping neighbors and average citizens performing heroic acts has shown Texas, and America, at its best. . . .
There is no telling how many lives have been saved because countless individuals took it upon themselves to wade through streets searching for family, friends, and strangers trapped by rising flood waters, using their personal boats, kayaks, and jet skis to reach people rescue workers could not, and opening up their homes to those who had nowhere to go. . . .
. . .Civil society, the little platoons that philosopher Edmund Burke referred to, while missing from most headlines and cable news, is still there."
As the photo records show, these acts of personal heroism, collaboration, and love happened without concern for age, gender, political, or racial differences. Before offering aid, nobody was checking voting records, immigration status, or skin color. Engagement, support, assistance, and comfort were offered person-to-person. Whatever people had, they gave to others because the others needed it--a saving boat ride, bottles of water, a place to regroup or sleep, dinner, help filling out FEMA forms. Person-to-person.
It's ironic and unfortunate that it often takes the worst "Acts of God" to bring out the best in us. How can the fundamental human caring that this storm triggered be energized in our everyday lives? How can this desire to help however I can, and to help whomever needs it replace our desire to shout down political enemies and marginalize people we think are different from us?
Underlying all the magnificent, humane generosity is the recognition that all human beings are reflective choice-makers with emotions-spirit-personality, beings who can be mindful, and each of whom is unique. Each generous, life-giving or life-saving gesture also embodies these same qualities of the person giving the gift. He remembered back when his family was flooded. She chooses to help even though it takes her away from work. He felt his neighbors' pain and fear, even though he's black and they're white. She was mindfully present to the flood refugees she comforted in the temporary shelter. All this is what it means to communicate "as personally as possible." Each of these events is an example of what can happen "when uniquenesses meet."
And when "the best of us" comes out in these ways, all over the hundreds of square miles affected by a storm like Hurricane Harvey or Hurricane Irma, we come closer to living out our full potential as human beings.
The storms knock us out of the echo chambers where we've been living, listening to and talking with only those who agree with us. It destroys the cardboard signs with their simplistic and hateful slogans that we carry as we protest the views of those with whom we disagree. It shifts our priorities from "winning" to "collaborating," from watching and correcting to listening and connecting.
Might this be the real reason for and the greatest benefit from climate change? So there'll be more storms that Bring Out The Best In Us?


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Green smoothies are a great way to start your day. Greens contain antioxidants, which help neutralise free radicals molecules responsible for ageing! They are also packed full of calcium, magnesium, iron, potassium, phosphorous, zinc and vitamins A, C, E and K.
Delicious, nourishing and natural.
Rubefacient essential oils help to stimulate local circulation. Apply daily. Use in conjunction with dry brushing.
* 8g beeswax
* 20ml sweet almond
* 20ml avocado
* 10ml wheatgerm
* Essential oils of blackpepper (15 drops),
ginger (15 drops),
lavender (10 drops),
sweet marjoram (10 drops)
* Melt beeswax on low heat and remove from heat.
* Add sweet almond, avocado and wheatgerm. May require further warming before adding essential oils.
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* 8g beeswax
* 20ml calendula
* 10ml comfrey
* 10ml jojoba
* Essential oils of benzoin (15 drops),
geranium (15 drops),
lavender (10 drops),
yarrow (10 drops) or cistus or German camomile instead of yarrow
* Melt beeswax on low heat and remove from heat.
* Add the calendula, comfrey and jojoba.
* May require further warming before adding essential oils. To make a 'thinner' ointment add more vegetable oil.
Top Tip
Use a pyrex dish in a pot of heated water for melting the beeswax.
The Ingredients...
* Buckwheat flour (160g)
* Plain flour (65g)
* Eggs x2
* Milk (600ml)
* Salt ½ tsp
* Roasted buckwheat groats (45g) finely ground in a coffee grinder
* Melted butter about 2 tbsp
* Cooked ham - 6 slices
* Grated comté or gruyère cheese (2 cups or 2 large handfuls)
Step 1
Whisk together the flours, eggs, milk, salt and groats. Put the batter in the fridge overnight.
Step 2
Heat a pan over a medium heat. With a paper towel, rub a little butter around the pan, then ladle in about 25g of batter.
Step 3
Let the galette brown on one side, then flip it over. Remove the galette from the pan and set it aside.
Step 4
To fill the galettes - lay each one top-side down, place a slice of ham on top, sprinkle with cheese, and fold.
Put the galettes on a baking sheet and drizzle with melted butter. Pop in a preheated oven (200C/gas mark 5) until crisp. Serve with the salad.
Serves 4 to 6
- 300g Cashew Nuts
- 150g unsweetened shredded dried Coconut
- 960ml water
- 12 capsules Udo's Choice® Probiotics
- 150g blueberries (or any combination of berries of your choice)
- 60ml Udo's Choice® Ultimate Oil
Soak the cashews and coconut in the water for 8 to 12 hours. Pour into a blender and process until smooth. With the motor running, open the capsules and add the probiotics, discarding the capsules. The blending action will help thicken the mixture.
Strain the mixture through a medium-fine mesh sieve, pressing down on the solids to express as much liquid as possible into a clean glass container. Keep in a warm place for 12 hours. The mixture should have a slightly sour taste, similar to yoghurt.
Return mixture to the blender, add the blueberries (or other berries) and oil and process until smooth. Cover any remaining smoothie and, stored in the fridge, you can use it for up to three days.
The addition of Probiotics, beneficial bacteria, is a wonderful way to boost your immune system, aid digestion and absorb more nutrients from your food.
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Flower Gothic Victorian Dress
Princess Gothic Victorian Dress
This one features the short and white dress. It is an improved one. Because the formal and the traditional one should be in the style of the above two dresses. The white colour on the one hand shows the style it belongs to; on the other hand, it gives the feeling of the elegance. It is a mixed combination of wildness and elegance.


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CAPCOM's monster slaying franchise is more accessible than ever
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate
Platform: Nintendo 3DS
Score: 9/10
EVEN though its profile sails far below the stratospheric popularity it enjoys in Japan, the Monster Hunter series has a cherished cult following on these shores. The action RPG's premise may be straightforward - the player must embark on various quests around the globe, hunting down a series of fearsome creatures - but it is a test of skill, perseverance and guile that can easily eat up hours of your time in a single sitting.
This is the most obvious attempt to date by Capcom to garner mainstream appeal for the franchise, yet it is careful not to compromise the essence of the Monster Hunter experience. Niggling, time consuming necessities such as having to constantly buy items and supplies are overhauled with a new bulk purchasing system, while western audiences finally have the option to play online multiplayer. There is also an expanded narrative, which is welcome if ultimately irrelevant to seasoned players.
The classic Monster Hunter experience is refined and improved
Elsewhere, this is classic Monster Hunter. As the monsters you must slay grow in size, so you amass greater quantities of weapons and armour. The grinding system which sees you repeatedly embark on hunts to improve the items at your disposal is present and correct and although it might sound unappealing to those unfamiliar with the game, teaming up with friends to take down the creatures is one of its best features.
The graphics are among the most ambitious yet for a 3DS title and although there are a few textural glitches here and there, they work well. Indeed, there is a far richer variety of monsters to contend with in this version, something that was lacking in previous instalments. This cannot be underestimated in enticing you to sink days into the game and the sense of progression and conquest is keenly felt.
This one of the most involving games available for the 3DS
Ultimately, this is the best Monster Hunter game yet. It combines the classic combat experience with a spectrum of well judged refinements that make what could well be an overwhelming title considerably more accessible. It is still a game that requires extended periods of play if you are to make inroads but give it a chance and you will be rewarded with one of the most involving games for the 3DS yet.
Local multiplayer is always a better bet than online as it allows you to communicate and plan strategies
Master how to dive out of the way when under attack. It is a simple move but it will often save your skin
Experiment with different ingredients for your meals to find out which one is best suited to your weapon class


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The Central Connecticut volleyball team, in conjunction with Quinnipiac Volleyball, will be participating in the Dig Pink event on Friday, October 24. Dig Pink is the Breast Cancer awareness rally being held all of October 2008 to raise money for breast cancer research. During their 7:00 p.m. match, Quinnipiac will be collecting donations and giving away prizes to raise money during this National Breast Cancer Awareness month.
Hundreds and potentially thousands of high school and college volleyball matches will be held in order to educate and raise funds to eradicate this terrible disease. Proceeds will be distributed among research teams focused on target therapies and molecular profiling, as well as "living with cancer" organizations nationwide.
A website has bee set up as a way to collect donations from
those who cannot attend the event on October 24. Any donations you
are willing to make would be a huge help. You are able to donate
online with a credit card at the event site, found here: Side-out Volleyball. Dig Pink t-shirts and
other merchandise are also being sold at this website: Dig Pink Apparel.
Come join the effort and watch Central Connecticut Volleyball
take on Quinnipiac in this Northeast Conference match on Friday
October 24 at 7:00 p.m. on Burt Kahn Court.


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As a writer, one of my jobs is to scour any document until it is entirely free of what Watson calls weasel words. I think the people who use this jargon believe they're sounding smart. The fact is, they're sounding unintelligible and needlessly obtuse. An example from Watsons book is a fine example"
Just as the skill and processes are not compartmentalized in the creation process, the evaluation of outcomes will occur against a background of understanding that separation of outcomes into discrete components is subordinate to the evaluation of the total process as a comprehensive outcome."Is there anyone on the planet who knows what that paragraph means? If someone does, they need not call me, but should consider calling the nearest linquistic therapist for an urgent appointment.


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It looks like there was a falling out between petflytraps.com and GardenWeb. That is still no excuse for the spam attacks on GardenWeb. It looks to me that GardenWeb had no choice but to install a spam filter to protect themselves.
Unfortunately, it looks like some people were banned from GardenWeb because they were innocent victims of the spam drive-by shootings.
>you might want to mention to him that it is illegal for him to monitor (even by proxy) the content of email between people the same way it is illegal to open and read someone elses mail.
If that is the case, then the spam filters used by most of the other ISP's such as AOL, Earthlink and hotmail are illegal as well.


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Next Episode of Rokushin Gattai God Mars is
not planed. TV Show was canceled.
Modest, reclusive and closed Kira ASO is a student in grade 10 school. Kira is a loner who is reluctant to contact, and therefore avoid her own classmates. Her loneliness caused child injury, and due to the fact that Kira has no friends, she spent most of time spends drawing. Once Kira noticed a guy with a very good reputation, ray Cassino. Kiera is frightened at first ray because of his reputation and was horrified to learn that Rey will not only be in the new school year in her class, and sits next to her. Rey is also interested pictures of Kira and ray gradually get to become friends with Kira. Soon Kira even asks him to pose her. She delighted in the character of ray and his attitude to life, the ease with which he makes friends and his brightness. But their closer classmates is not happy. Casino girls jealous and think that Kira steals ray. But the fact that ray had a twin brother who died, thrown off the roof, does not leave anyone indifferent... And at first Kira sees Rei in Sowing, because it is the same quiet, modest, likes to draw, but later he realizes she's not like This...
Masataka Kubota(Kirishima Makio)
Fujigaya Taisuke(Kashino Rei)
Iitoyo Marie(Aso kira)
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It is amazing what the quiet holding of the soul before the Lord will do to the external and seemingly uncontrollable tumult around us. It is in that stillness that the voice will be heard.
A Lamp For My Feet (pg 104) By Elizabeth Elliot
And after the earthquake a fire;
but the LORD was not in the fire:
and after the fire a still small voice.
1 Kings 19:12
Elizabeth Elliot is one of my favorite authors. She writes with such love and passion for the Lord. The books that I have read written by her have inspired me to seek God in such a way. I can't imagine that God would use me the way that He uses her through her experiences and books but to know that if I make myself available He will use me in some way within the world He has placed me. As long as I am in tune with His voice…paying heed to the instructions He gives me for each step I take.
In that thought, it makes me wonder why it is so very hard for some Christians to hear God? One simple answer is the sin. The sin in our lives blocks or grieves the Holy Spirit, it keeps God from working in our lives. It also keeps us from hearing God's voice.
In meeting many Christians, it seems to me that there are at least three types. Those that are completely surrendered to God walking and growing with Him. Excited about who He is and what He is going to do each day. Being blessed in every way in their life, always giving God the glory.
Then there are those that are nominal. Going to church, mentioning God when convenient but never going deeper with Him than hearing a message on Sunday morning and singing a hymn or two. And the only way you would know that they were Christian is they pronounce which church they attend.
The third type of Christian is somewhat elusive. They know God. They believe God has done great things in other people's lives but they often question whether He would do it in their life. They struggle in many areas. They are defeated, hopeless sometimes and even uncertain that they ever really accepted Christ as their Savior. They go back and forth in their worship, their faith, and their walk. What they don't understand is that what they need is already indwelling in them.
The very same power that raised Jesus from the dead is living inside each one who professes Him as Savior. All one has to do is take time to get to know HIm. To watch Him work, weaving the good and bad in our lives into something beautiful. The secret is that He already knows everything about us. I love telling people that….cuz it is true. Scripture says He formed us in our mother's womb and that He knows the very number of hairs on our heads. He knows how much we can take, He knows what to allow into our lives to keep us drawing near to Him.
I know there are those reading this who are probably saying what beautiful thing could possibly come out of a senseless death of my loved one? Or losing my job and my home? Being raped? My child being addicted to drugs? My marriage falling apart? Betrayal by adultery? Diagnoses of terminal cancer? Why on earth would God allow those things to happen to people, especially Christian people who have made the decision to trust God? This question is often asked especially when life is sooooo very hard to take. The truth is we live in a fallen world. The moment sin entered into the world, evil existed in our flesh & we began to die. Pretty much everything awful that happens can be associated with that fact. To many, that answer is often inadequate.
While God is always present in every event of our lives he will not control what people do because He has given us free will. He does not promise a trouble-free life but does promise He will never leave us nor forsake us. Often, we as Christians, are quick to question the purpose of God. We think we have to figure it out.
The Christian filled with the Holy Spirit will not question why but what, what do I do with this? The nominal Christian will lose faith or give into resignation and go on in their shallow faith. The struggling Christian will wonder if they themselves have caused God to punish them. They do not know God well enough to know that God does not strike down punishment on us as a cruel dictator. They won't always understand that sometimes the trials that we go through are brought on by consequences of our sin or the sins of others, not a punishment from God.
It is not hard to get to know Him. It just takes time. Time spent seeking Him. Conversing with Him. Getting alone with Him. Get to know Him first before you make a judgement on Him. Give Him a chance to show His love for you. Allow Him to change your heart and life. Saturate your mind with His words. There is no formula except to spend time daily and consistently. Otherwise what type of Christian will you be? Or want to be?
One of the things you will discover is that He is very, very personal. And only you can know if you hear His voice or not because His voice becomes in tune with your heart and soul if poised to hear it.
To hear the still small voice when quiet before the Lord is the most incredible, indescribable thing you will ever experience. I pray that you would desire that…
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Chicken (slosh) in crock pot (similar to pot pie)
Easy good and served over Gluten Free Linguine it is great! This is cooked in the crock pot.
2 large chicken breasts
2 cups chicken broth (could use more if desired)
2 cups pinto beans (would be good with Northern beans too)
2-3 stalks celery(sliced up)
2 carrots (sliced up)
pepper and salt to taste
1 tablespoon of dried onion flakes
1 tsp of dried oregano
1/2 tsp ground cumin
1/4 to 1/2 ground/powdered garlic
place Chicken, broth, pinto beans and seasonings in slow cooker. Saute the celery and carrots until tender and add to the slow cooker.Cook on high 4 hours and reduce to low until ready to serve. It is done after 4 hours but you can serve it much later. Serve over linguine or rice or potatoes or whatever you desire. We had some whole string beans on the side and a glass of wine.
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Regatta Day
The 2008 Regatta was a resounding success. The event is held primarily for the kids but this day showed that there is a little bit youngster in all of us. The events were varied and some had a diabolical bent like the egg catching contest and the water balloon basketball event. The food was excellent abley handle by Mike and Diane O'Hara. I tried to make a list of the contributors but it was obvious that every adult in some way or another contributed to the success of the day.
Valerie McCoy deserves a standing ovation for her management of this Day. This involves recruiting cottagers to assist plus organizing the food, cooking equipment, prizes, events and all the logistics that surround running such an event.
Valerie and Rick. Well done!!!! Over to Susan and Caroline


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Arcata Leather Ottoman
Item #: 722110_1OB939L7871
33" w x 23" d x 16" h
Arcata Leather Ottoman
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33" w x 23" d x 16" h
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Comfort abounds in this perfectly scaled, contemporary seating collection. The Arcata ottoman features a signature wood base with tapered legs anchoring a semi-attached seat cushion.
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Farm Renewable Energy
Can you generate enough electricity on the farm not to have to pay any electricity bills ever again? Or even get paid something back? How is that done? What are the costs? Discuss here
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farm wind turbines
Thanks Mike,
I originally planned to be off-grid, i.e. use the wind turbines (and PV solar panels) to charge a battery bank and use an inverter to supply all our electricity requirements. But I am having second thoughts on this. I think that initially we will have one wind turbine grid-connected, i.e. supplying electricity directly to the grid and thus lowering our consumption and therefore our bills. At the same time we get ROCs (renewable obligation certificates) for all the power generated (regardless whether used by ourselves or flowing to the grid), which can be sold.
However, I do have all the batteries necessary for the off-grid system, so that when the grid start shutting down on a regular basis we will be able to switch to complete independence.
And, yes, the power is enough for the farm as our animals do not require any significant additional power (unlike dairy farms, where refrigeration of the milk is a significant further energy drain).