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I heard an amazing message again this weekend from An.drew Wom.mack from his Finan.ce se.ries, but I just want to mention a part of it that deals with faith.
An.drew Wom.mack says, "You need not only say that you trust God, that you have faith, and that what you believe will happen – you also need to act upon it."
James 2:14 (NIV): "14What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him?"
He used the following scripture as an example: 1 Kings 17: 3-6 (NIV): "3Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan. 4You will drink from the brook, and I have ordered the ravens to feed you there. 5So he did what the LORD had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there. 6The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook."
When God told Elijah that he needed to go to the Kerith Ravine, and that the ravens would feed him there, God had already made provision. It was already done – the instruction was given to the ravens to bring food to a specific place. Elijah had to act upon it to get the food. He had to go to the right place to receive the food that God had already provided.
If Elijah said he had faith that God would provide, but stayed right there where he was, he would have starved from hunger. He had to be obedient to God's instructions and act upon what God wanted him to do. If he didn't do it, God wouldn't have provided where he was, but that could not be blamed on God… It could only have been blamed on Elijah because he didn't do what his instructions were.
Hebrews 11: 6-8 (NIV): "6And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. 7By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. 8By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going."
An.drew Wom.mack said' "Faith reaches over and receives what God has already given you." He also said, "Faith produces actions – the actions themselves may not be faith, but they have to be generated by faith."
Matthew 14: 29-31(NIV): "29Come, he said. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came towards Jesus. 30But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, Lord, save me! 31Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. You of little faith, he said, why did you doubt?"
One example that comes to my mind is when Peter stepped out of the boat to walk on water. The actual stepping out of the boat was an act of faith for Peter. Anyone can jump over the side of a boat, but they will end up in the water and drown if they were in a similar storm. They wouldn't be walking on water, because they did not have faith that they can in fact walk on water.
What I love about this example is that, yes, Peter stepped out in faith; he walked on water, but only for a little bit. Then his faith waivered, but he cried out to Jesus to help him and Jesus was there, and he saved him. I found this to be so relevant in my life. Believe me, I have stepped out in faith and waivered shortly afterwards many times, but Jesus was there every single time to catch me. Every time I cried out for help He was there! So don't worry about whether you will waiver or not, just remember to call upon Jesus when you are in need. Step out in faith and get out of the boat – Jesus is there for you, just call upon Him when you are in need and He will help you.
Last year November I realized that somewhere deep inside me there was this hope that should God not give me a natural miracle pregnancy within a specific time that I could maybe go back to my FS and that he might be able to give me some treatments – if not IVF then maybe another IUI with Intra.lipids or something like that. And then I realized that while I kept that option open in my mind, my faith was not in what God could do. My faith was once again in my own abilities, and the abilities of my FS and medical technology. That was why I had to decide that I will not ever go for fertility treatments again. While I had that option open, my faith was not strong enough that I could believe that God would heal me completely. It was not easy to make this decision; everything in me screamed that I could not make such a vow, but I knew it was the right thing to do. It was what I had to do.
Let me give 2 other examples: I've always hated to POAS. I always got negatives, until the day we found out I was pregnant with my last IVF. That day I was impatient and couldn't wait until the afternoon to find out and we decided to test after I went for my blood test. That was the only time I had ever gotten the elusive 2 lines.
After the decision in November I decided that I would start buying HPT's again and test every month. I usually started spotting a day or 2 before AF was due so I decided to test with a HPT at 12dpo. In December I tested for the first time while we were on holiday but it was negative. The next 3 months I started spotting before I could test twice, and one month I got a negative again.
So in April I decided to see how early one can test. I searched the inter.net and I decided that if I could get a sensitive test that I can test at 10dpo. It seemed like the earliest day to get a BFP, so I looked for a sensitive HPT and finally I found one at a local pharmacy. The next morning I woke up at about 6am with an urgent need to relieve myself, so I got out the sensitive test and POAS. Within a minute or so I saw a very, very feint pink shadow where the second line was supposed to be. After a few minutes it was just a little bit darker, but it did look to me like a very feint second line.
I waited until DH was up and then I took the HPT to him and asked him if he too saw a feint second line. DH was not convinced there was a second line – he thought it might be my imagination. But the next day the line was there and darker and I went for a blood test and the beta came back at 50. I was pregnant. So, you see it was totally out of character for me to test so early. I've never done anything like that before – never, ever. But it was a way for me to act upon my faith.
I also bought some stuff for our babies before I was pregnant (I bought 2 of everything because I want 2 children.) I bought some clothes every now and then if I was at a shop that sold baby clothes. It wasn't much and it was always cheap stuff, but I bought it and that was the important thing. I was acting as if I expected to get pregnant soon.
Now this was what worked for me – I think each of you must search your minds and see what is difficult for you to do. What do you usually avoid doing and use that as your act of faith. I always avoided POAS unless I was about 3-5 days late, I never bought stuff for a future baby and like I said it was incredibly difficult for me to give up fertility treatments for ever, but since we could not afford any more treatments, I had no option – I had to believe God will make me pregnant naturally. I realize that not everybody is like me – there are certainly people that POAS every month and some of them start early, so that might not be your act of faith. What is it that would be a real act of faith for you to do?


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High profile Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull says he doesn't foresee himself as a future leader of the Liberal Party.
The Environment Minister said today Treasurer Peter Costello would be the party's next leader, a sentiment echoed by Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer.
At a joint media conference in Adelaide, Mr Turnbull and Mr Downer said there was no question Mr Costello would be the next Liberal leader.
"Alexander and I agree, Peter Costello will be the next leader of the Liberal Party," Mr Turnbull told reporters.
"I don't foresee myself as being anything other than the Member for Wentworth and the Minister for the Environment.
"I live very much in the here and now, I have learnt in my life that if you focus on doing the job that you have got well, do the task at hand well, then the future will look after itself.
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Grade: A
Doing it at: 29%
Catnip: Reformed Bad Boy; Guilt; Southern Boy; Cop and Criminal; Bar Sex; Handcuffs; Marked Men; Crownover
Shame Scale: I'm not ashamed of this. Are you ashamed of this? (note from Cleone: No Shame)
Fantasy Cast: Joel Kinnaman and Danneel Harris
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Jay Crownover's New York Times and USA Today bestselling Marked Men series continues with the much anticipated story of southern charmer and certified criminal Asa Cross.
Starting over in Denver with a whole new circle of friends and family, Asa Cross struggles with being the man he knows everyone wants him to be and the man he knows he really is. A leopard doesn't it change its spots and Asa has always been a predator. He doesn't want to hurt those who love and rely on him, especially one luscious arresting cop who suddenly seems to be interested in him for far more than his penchant for breaking the law. But letting go of old habits is hard, and it's easy to hit bottom when it's the place you know best.
Royal Hastings is quickly learning what the bottom looks like after a tragic situation at work threatens not only her career but her partner's life. As a woman who has only ever had a few real friends she's trying to muddle through her confusion and devastation all alone. Except she can't stop thinking about the sexy southern bartender she locked up. Crushing on Asa is the last thing she needs but his allure is too strong to resist. His long criminal record can only hurt her already shaky career and chasing after a guy who has no respect for the law or himself can only end in heartbreak.
A longtime criminal and a cop together just seems so wrong . . . but for Asa and Royal, being wrong together is the only right choice to make.
We've got a crush on Jay Crownover. Her books make us stupid, like: googling "clip on cock piercing" (<– NOTE: Does not exist), "excellent male butts," and youtube videos of "men with hot Southern accents." This is the last book in her Marked Men series, and to say we were excited for it is an understatement. We stayed up late on release night to download, neglected our children and work, and generally checked out of life and into Fantasy Denver for awhile.
Mary: This is definitely her hottest cover model. I feel like he's an apology for Better When He's Bold. If I hadn't read any of the other books in this series, I still would have bought this one because of that smolder. Congratulations to whoever dug up this guy. And his mother.
Cleone: I kept going back to the home screen to look at the cover model, until M suggested Joel Kinnaman at a *very* opportune book moment- then my brain switched into over drive.
M: Since this book is part of a series, we had been introduced to Asa way back in Jet, and he was pretty despicable. I don't want to ruin anything because I think everyone who likes trashy books should read these ones, but I pretty much wrote the character off as irredeemable. I was picturing him as an Alex Pettyfer with the personality of Sick Boy from Trainspotting. I definitely needed the three book buffer for my feelings to mellow on him. When this book picks up, he has been on the straight and narrow for a year or so, and it definitely helped for us to actually see him earning that in Rome, Nash, and Rowdy, not just picking up with his story after some truly heinous shit and asking us to trust him straight away.
C: The way they have time pass in this series always pleases me, we get to check in on the characters from the previous books AND the characters personal growth feels a lot more believable when it didn't just happen over a three-day sex-a-thon.
M: This one starts off with Hot Lady Cop Royal (yes, every single character in this series has a weird name) having an emotional breakdown over her partner being shot off of a building. Like shot with a gun, then he fell. He'll live though! She's consumed with irrational guilt and looking to self-medicate with some vitamin D. Specifically Asa's D. Royal and Asa have been dancing around each other for a while. Asa keeps turning her down because she's a cop and he's a newly reformed criminal who's certain he'll relapse, and because he's trying to be a nice guy, and he's pretty sure she'll regret him when she's gotten her head straight.
They push and pull, and when they finally get to the hokey-pokey, its glorious. Jay Crownover writes some hot smut. I bookmark like crazy. Asa's strategy for brushing off her advances for good is to lure her into the bathroom where she can see that he's jacking it in a steamy shower instead of taking her up on her many offers. Because that's obviously a logical plan.
C: I don't usually think of being stared at while a guy jerks off as being particularly hot, but Crownover proved me wrong. She does know how to write the smut, and I bet she'd be very fun to get drunk with and talk trash.
M: Their relationship is easy-ish, with most of the drama revolving around Asa's terminal guilt for his past misdeeds, and his absolute conviction that he will fuck up everything nice in his life, including Royal. It's like he has preemptive guilt. Honestly, it's a little over the top.
"She lathered up her long hair either unaware of or purposely ignoring the fact that I was a boneless, shaking mess behind her. I had never had anyone offer something up without expecting something, usually more, in return. I couldn't get my erratic heartbeat under control so I could put all that emotion her selfless actions had awoken in someplace safe."
Her selfless actions causing this emotional upheaval are of course, a blow job. LOLOLOL
C: The Crownover books don't usually provoke eye rolling, but that definitely did it, I refuse to believe that a boy who is crazy charming, super pretty, and has been around the block has never before received a blow job without the quid pro quo. Also:
"He was filling me up with his emotion and his impressive erection"
That one made me laugh so suddenly that I bit my tongue a little, and Mary informed me she highlighted the same line, possibly my new favorite romance line ever. It kind of sums up the genre, no?
M: I don't feel like I'm spoiling anything by saying that there was a breakup, and it was dumb. I hate to criticize Jay, you know she's my girl, but I can think of a dozen more interesting/plausible reasons for them to break up.
C: Yes, without being spoilery, or defaming our main writer squeeze, the drama in this one could have been way more interesting or scandalous. We made a list but it is kind of spoilery, so I guess email us if you want further ramblings.
The ending was very sweet, and gave us a nice update on where everyone else in the series is in their life. We're going to miss the marked men with their tattoos, pierced dicks, and feisty ladies. Luckily Crownover is doing a new series in their expanded universe, and maybe the new gents have cock piercings!
(Note: We're 80% certain that after reading this series, we can convince the Paperback Purist to convince her husband to get an erotic piercing and report back to us on whether or not these books were being accurate.)
"No one has a headboard made for handcuffs in the real world."
They don't, but they should, we are #teamhandcuffs
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How to Fix a Common MT4 Feed Formatting Error
Over the last few years, the term beta has been somewhat misused. It used to be that when you used beta software, you expected to encounter problems. But when Google started throwing around the term for its offerings, people came to expect that beta software wasn't so bad. Still need an example? Despite Gmail arguably being the leader in web-based email systems, it's had that tag for more than two years.
There are plenty of examples, but hopefully you get the point I'm trying to make - that beta just doesn't mean what it used to. So there really shouldn't be a surprise that people install beta software. It used to be that only a certain crowd would install beta software, but these days, just about everyone will do so, thinking that they can expect to get what they have come to expect. That's not always the case, as sometimes you can get nasty surprises.
One of those surprises comes in the form of a malformed feed in MT4. Take a look at this screenshot (thanks Tim for letting me use you for this exercise!).
You may notice that there is absolutely no formatting within. Luckily, there is also a very easy fix for the problem. But first, a small explanation of exactly what is happening.
When MT 4.01 was released, the release notes said that a bug (#56367 for those keeping track) had been fixed. We were told that the formatting for Markdown was not processing correctly in feeds. In actuality, this isn't really accurate.
The problem doesn't have anything specifically to do with Markdown - it has to do instead with the fact that in an earlier beta of MT4 distributed feeds with the wrong attribute on the MTEntryBody and MTEntryMore tags. It may look like any of these:
<$MTEntryBody encode_xml="1" convert_breaks="0"$>
<$MTEntryMore encode_xml="1" convert_breaks="0"$>
<$MTEntryBody encode_xml="1" convert_linebreaks="1"$>
<$MTEntryMore encode_xml="1" convert_linebreaks="1"$>
What is happening is that the convert attribute - whichever one you are using - will override your text filter (perhaps Markdown, as Tim was using in the screenshot above) and you will end up with garbage. To correct the problem, simply load up your feed templates and change the lines to this:
<$MTEntryBody encode_xml="1"$>
<$MTEntryMore encode_xml="1"$>
You may need to do a bit of digging, because if you are using something like the Continue Reading link, the fields might not be right next to each other. Also, make sure that you check for both Atom and RSS templates, because both will be affected by this "bug".
If the first version of MT that you installed was after MT4 and prior to 4.01RC2, then you may be affected by this, so check your templates. If you upgraded your blog from a previous MT release, then you should be fine - as long as you don't create a new blog using the default templates before you upgrade to MT 4.01. Finally, if you haven't upgraded to MT 4.01, you should do so now!
This tutorial is written by LMT author Chad Everett of Everitz Consulting.
Tutorial cross posted on Don't Back Down and LMT.


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Book List
What are your favorite English cookbooks or books that feature authentic Chinese food? Some of mine are:
"The Intriguing World of Chinese Home Cooking: Cooking secrets from the Kitchen of Angela Chang"
This one is great for homestyle northern Chinese comfort food. (though not necessarily too health conscious)
"A Spoonful of Ginger" by Nina Simonds. There's a lot of great stuff in here about the health philosophy of Chinese eating. (There are also some things from Thailand, Malaysai, etc, but it's mostly Chinese.) It also has good adaptations for making things in American kitchens, but the dishes still come out pretty authentic. (e.g. baking chicken wings at high heat to get the effect of frying without frying, or steaming in the oven for those that don't have steamers. . .) Since it's health focused, the recipes also tend to use less oil.
"An Encyclopedia of Chinese Food and Cooking" No pictures and minimal directions, but a lot of more obscure ingredients and authentic dishes not found in a lot of English cookbooks for Chinese food. NOT health focused.
Not a cookbook, but I just got "Vegetables From Amaranth to Zucchini," by Elizabeth Schneider and am thoroughly enjoying it.
Not everything in here is asian, but she does cover a lot of stuff found in asian markets. What's invaluable is she tells you how to pick out stuff at the market - stuff your mom would've usually taught you if she ever even bought that kind of vegetable. The recipes are probably more American.
Not a book, but "Flavor and Fortune" magazine is a quarterly that often features articles about a specific unusual vegetable per issue, along with appropriate recipes. The last one was bitter melon. I think before that it was about Chinese pumpkins, and before that about dates and longans. They also usually have an article on different restaurants to eat at in one featured city in China (e.g. Shanghai.) The rest is usually a restaurant review for the U.S. and several reviews of Chinese cookbooks written in English.
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Name: Indian Hockey Team
Discipline: Hockey
Category: Men's
Qualification: The Indian men's hockey team qualified for the Rio Olympics back in 2014, when they beat Pakistan in the 2014 Asian Games at Incheon to earn a direct Olympics berth.
Strengths: A young and talented unit, the current Indian hockey team has been relatively untouched by internal politics or controversies. Their biggest strength, therefore, will be this unity and team spirit, as has been evident from their recent medal-winning performances.
Past record (recent best performances): Gold medal in 2014 Asian Games at Incheon
Silver medal in 2014 Commonwealth Games at Glasgow
Silver medal, their first ever, in 2016 Champions Trophy
Silver medal in 2016 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
Past Olympics performance: While India has been the team with the most number of gold medals in Olympic history, that record is from the team's illustrious, distant past. More recently, the Indian team finished 12th at the 2012 London Games and did not qualify for the 2008 Beijing Games.
Rio Prospects: The Indian hockey players are often touted to be medal hopefuls, but Rio 2016 offers them a chance to be actual medal contenders after the silver medal-winning performance at the recently-concluded Champions Trophy. If they can maintain their strong teamwork and produce another inspired show under new captain PR Sreejesh, they stand a chance to make it to the podium.
The Indian men's hockey team are considered as Olympic medal hopefuls every time they participate in the Games, mainly because of the rich history of the sport. India are, after all, the most successful field hockey team at the Olympics. However this time, the medals hopefuls look like genuine medal contenders, owing to their strong performances in the recent past.
Since their Olympic qualification through winning the 2014 Asian Games gold by beating arch-rivals and defending champions Pakistan, Indian hockey has been on a positive trajectory. Earlier that year, they had clinched the Commonwealth silver, losing to Australia in the final. In the 2015 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup, India won the bronze after beating South Korea. In the same event, they won the silver the following year, losing to Australia in the ultimate match. The pattern was repeated at the 2016 Champions Trophy as well, where India lost the final to Australia in June this year. However, this performance stood out as it was India's first ever silver medal in the tournament's history, won in the penalty shootout after the team fought to maintain a 0-0 draw.
These performances have raised hopes from the new look unit. However, this also puts an added burden of expectations on the relatively young team. However, there is also a certain depth of experience with seven players having been part of the 2012 London squad – PR Sreejesh, Sardar Singh, Manpreet Singh, SK Uthappa, VR Raghunath, Danish Mujtaba and SV Sunil.
But the journey till here has not been easy, especially due to factors off the field. A major setback was the rapid sacking of foreign coaches, with Paul van Ass being sacked only a year before the Olympics. (Terry Walsh was sacked just days after he coached the team to gold at the 2014 Asian Games.) However, the then High-Performance Director, Roelant Oltmans, was appointed coach and he has done remarkably well with the team. The 61-year-old Dutchamn, who has been associated with Indian hockey for close to three years before the appointment, played a big role in making Indian team the strong unit it is today.
In another significant decision, Hockey India named senior goalkeeper PR Sreejesh as the captain, removing long-time skipper Sardar Singh. It was under under the keeper's leadership that Indian won the silver medal at the blue riband six-nation Champions Trophy and he was rightly rewarded. Sardar, who has been going through a rough patch both on and off the field, due to allegations of a sexual assault, was captain since 2012 and will be part of the team at Rio.
This year, the International Hockey Federation (FIH) has also introduced a new competition format. As per the new format, the 12 teams have been divided into two pools of six, with each team initially playing round-robin games within their pool. Following this, the top four teams from each pool will advance to the quarter-finals. Previously, the top two teams from each pool used to directly qualify for the semi-finals. India is placed in Group B along with Argentina, Canada, Germany, Ireland and Netherlands, which may be considered the easier pool of the two, and gives them a stronger chance of making the quarters.
It's been a really long time since India won an Olympic medal in its national sport, a sport in which they once dominated and boast an overall tally of 11 Olympic medals. India has won a total of eight hockey gold medals at the Games — the most by any country — of which six were won successively from 1928–1956. But the last of these came way back in 1980 at the Moscow Games. This young team may have grown up watching the heroes of 1980 play and will be keen to replicate that success.
The men's hockey team may not be the outright favoruites for a gold medal after 36 years, but they are sure to improve on their 12th place showing at the 2012 London Games, if not go further. However, both the team and the country's expectation will be a podium finish.
Squad: PR Sreejesh (captain and GK), Harmanpreet Singh (defender), Rupinder Pal Singh (defender), Kothajit Singh (defender), Surendar Kumar (defender), Manpreet Singh (midfielder), Sardar Singh (midfielder), VR Raghunath (defender), SK Uthappa (midfielder), Danish Mujtaba (midfielder), Devender Walmiki (midfielder), SV Sunil (forward and vice-captain), Akashdeep Singh (forward), Chinglensana Singh (midfielder), Ramandeep Singh (forward), Nikkin Thimmaiah (forward).
Coach: Roelant Oltmans
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After completing Outrider, you have unlocked Snail Trail. This challenge of GTA San Andreas game involves killing of an unknown journalist and his informer. Let us look at its walk through. To summarize:
- First and foremost, arrange a bike as you have to chase a train.
- Collect the sniper rifle hidden by Frank Tenpenny nearby. Location of the rifle will be marked on your game map with a green color blip.
- Then chase the train whose position is shown on your map and it is nearby your garage. Inside it is a reporter whom you have to kill to complete Snail Trail mission.
- It stops at a station and he gets out and prepares to meet a journalist.
- Follow him on bike till both meet at a place and then kill both using sniper rifle to complete the challenge and to unlock Ice Cold Killa.
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Note: While chasing the train, you should always be behind and not along side. If you are alongside then the oncoming trains on other track will kill you to fail the mission.
I will jolt down few other points. Carl Johnson gets no money for completing it as it is given by Tenpenny and his police team who are a bunch of corrupt officers. This challenge is easy to complete but it does take some time during the chase.
When you follow your target, a spook o meter appears on your gaming screen. If that meter becomes full then your target is alerted and you fail Snail Trail in GTA game.


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Thursday, 01 March 2012
Bridget Di Certo
The Phnom Penh Post
Cambodian judges and officers at the Khmer Rouge tribunal are continuing to block civil party applicants from participating in the government-opposed cases 003 and 004, while international judges continue to base their decisions on civil party rights in spurring the two cases forward.
Outspoken Khmer Rouge victim advocate Theary Seng was yesterday rejected by default as a civil party in controversial cases 003 and 004 after Pre-Trial Chamber judges issued lengthy considerations but could not reach a consensus on her case.
Cambodian judges in the Pre-Trial Chamber said there were no relevant suspects in the cases as no one had been charged and so rejected Theary Seng's appeal to be granted civil party status. "Errors committed" by then Co-Investigating Judge Siegfried Blunk and his Cambodian counterpart You Bunleng, whom rejected Theary Seng's civil party application, were so grievous as to render any determination of the application "unfair", they said.
Due to a failure to agree, the rejection of Theary Seng's civil party application stood. Theary Seng has previously denounced the court as a "sham" and attempted to cease all participation in proceedings.
International judges Rowan Downing and Katinka Lahuis noted in their decision that the co-investigating judges still had discretion to grant Theary Seng civil party status, as UN-nominated reserve Co-Investigating Judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet had with New Zealand civil party Rob Hamill.
However, lawyers for Hamill said in a press release yesterday that despite Kasper-Ansermet granting their client civil party status, Cambodians court officials have blocked their access to the case file in Case 003 on the basis that the national side of the court does not recognise Kasper-Ansermet's authority.
The lawyers called the action "a stealthy attempt to override the decision of Judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet" as there had been no public information released that the national side of the court would not recognise any decisions of Kasper-Ansermet.


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Dear Bill and Melinda,
I am a retired teacher from the Rhode Island School for the Deaf. I taught English Language Arts in the middle school and high school until retiring in the fall of 2011.
One of the events that precipitated my decision to retire was that the RI Department of Education labeled the RI School for the Deaf a Persistently Lowest Achieving School, based largely on students' scores on the standardized state assessments.
I've been researching the Common Core and high stakes testing for several years. The information from the American Psychological Association in my comment below is from the work a former colleague of mine is doing as part of her responsibilities with the RI Teacher Advisory Council. She is researching the impact of high stakes testing on students with disabilities.
According to information from the American Psychological Association, potential negative consequences of high stakes testing need to be identified and minimized, as well as monitoring the impact, particularly on racial and ethnic-minority students or students of lower socioeconomic status.
Special accommodations may be needed to ensure that test scores are valid for students with disabilities. Test developers should include students with disabilities in field testing and document the impact of particular modifications for test users. Has this ever been done?
Challenging students, having high expectations for them, encouraging them to reach their full potential, does not mean that they should be able to show the same proficiency in the same time frame on the same tasks in the same format (primarily multiple choice) as students without the various obstacles that students with special needs are dealing with.
Anyone who has ever worked with children would know this. It is a travesty that those foisting these unreasonable and harmful practices on teachers and children not only shield themselves from reality but treat with disdain those who are trying to provide meaningful instruction to all students.
Even with accommodations, the necessary scaffolds are not in place to validly evaluate the learning of many special needs students, due to the sophisticated linguistic demands of the tasks. Also, testing students at their grade level, as opposed to their actual academic level as determined by specially trained teachers and written into their IEP's, cannot possibly provide meaningful information for teachers to use to benefit the students.
Appropriate diagnostic testing is essential to provide program supports and to challenge the students in their zone of proximal development.
High stakes one-size-fits-all mass administered, grade level testing accomplishes nothing beneficial, and only gives a false picture of failure.
Sheila Resseger, Retired Teacher


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Unlike the usual puzzle-platform gameplay that accompanies Super Money Ball titles, this latest release from SEGA is more of a 3D adventure with NPC-driven puzzle-platform overtones. And, considering that the game's familiar series characters (AiAi, MeeMee, Baby, and GonGon) are restricted to being inside the prerequisite 'Monkey Ball' for the entire game, Super Monkey Ball Adventure offers up an oddly appealing challenge that requires constant player precision in rolling, jumping, and bouncing throughout various detailed and tricky environments.
The game's central component is Story Mode, where players choose one of the four aforementioned monkey characters and embark on a largely 'action-errand-based' quest to spread joy and happiness across Super Monkey Ball Adventure's five troubled Monkey Kingdoms. Princess DeeDee of Monkitropolis and Prince Abe-abe of Kongri-la have met and fallen in love, but the disharmony felt across the kingdoms frowns upon their relationship, so, with nowhere left to turn, the young lovers seek refuge on Jungle Island. However, players can use their favourite character to travel the kingdoms to solve 50 standard-issue ball-balancing puzzles, restore joy to the monkey world, cast useful and impressive spells over their ball, defeat the evil 'Naysayers' who are sucking the monkey world dry of its invaluable happiness, and help DeeDee and Abe-abe to finally unite with a peaceful and euphoric blessing. Sounds cute, doesn't it? It is.
Beyond the Story Mode, Super Monkey Ball Adventure offers up Challenge Mode and also Party Games. In Challenge Mode, players go up against the clock across varied progressively difficult shifting-platform puzzles (also found during Story Mode), which will be a welcome addition for the more traditional Super Monkey Ball fan; whereas Party Games Mode can be played in single player or network multiplayer modes (for up to four players) in fun quick-fix events such as Monkey Race, Monkey Target, Monkey Fight, Monkey Bounce, Monkey Cannon, and Monkey Tag.
Super Monkey Ball Adventure is as impressive on the PlayStation Portable as it is on the PlayStation 2; its general level of graphic presentation and overall visual quality being instantly appealing and thoroughly respectable for either platform. If anything, the PSP version of the game is a slightly more standout achievement in that it successfully utilises the notorious analogue nubbin for complete and intuitive Ball movement, while mapping camera controls to the Left and Right shoulder buttons. Naturally, the PS2 relies on twin analogue sticks to accomplish movement and camera control, but a recent deluge of otherwise promising PSP games have crumbled and died thanks to truly awful camera restrictions. Not so here, which certainly elevates the game above more high-profile PSP releases such as Tomb Raider: Legend, Monster Hunter. Freedom, and Splinter Cell: Essentials.
Game music and sound effects are typically catchy, cute, and representative of the series—in terms of being best suited to the younger generation—perhaps never more so than when a Monkey Ball teeters precariously on a high platform, cliff edge, or overhang, and its cuddly little occupant whimpers fearfully for its life. Also, the nonsensical NPC chatter that's passed out while assigning specific 'make me happy' errands and quests to the player's chosen monkey is amusingly babyish—if not a little repetitive and annoying once some way into the game.
Gameplay is fairly simplistic in essence but also strangely compelling. The core mechanics of the game are built on rolling throughout various pretty environments, chatting to the locals, accepting tasks, pushing, knocking, smacking, and bouncing, up, over, and on various platform-friendly elements, and generally making the world a much happier place. There's little else to do—except open mysterious locked doors between separate level areas via timed platform-shifting Super Monkey Ball puzzles in another dimension (essentially the puzzles in Challenge Mode). Yet, despite its somewhat limited variety, the relatively laid back pacing of the gameplay quickly allows for a warm association between Monkey Ball and player, whereupon time slides by unnoticed even though there's rarely anything within the game to pose a considered and lengthy challenge. It's just one of those games that's likeable without being frustrating to play or overly taxing on skill levels.
By that notion, Super Monkey Ball Adventure falls into the same critical category as games like 'Ty the Tasmanian Devil' and 'Pac-Man World 3', insofar as they're obviously slightly reduced on the challenge of their core difficulty and a breeze to play for the more hardened gamer, yet they provide a welcome respite from the mundane rinse and repeat first-person shooters, banal third-person fighters, and seemingly endless sports sequels. That's not to say that Super Monkey Ball Adventure surpasses the likes of Half-Life 2, NBA 06, or Dead or Alive 4—it clearly doesn't—but it's not supposed to. Ultimately, as a stand-alone title, it's catering for the more youthful demographic that perhaps prefers its gaming thrills without gallons of fist-pummelled gore, the incessant tinkling of spent shells, a body count running into the thousands, or endlessly dull team statistics and behind-the-scenes management. Super Monkey Ball is simple, direct, and appealing in its 3D platformer delivery, and it successfully harks back to a time where gaming could be fun without having to annihilate an entire alien race in the process.


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It makes sense that at 18, "my turning 30 year old fears" consisted of things like grown up responsibility, expectations of settling down, and 'bigger picture' focusing… Clearly, these views were a reality, a year later, but yet, 30's gloom still has lingered through the last 12 years.
Still, I don't know how to express or justify these feelings into words, but I'm sure someday, reflection will bring perspective on this milestone birthday and the significants of it as well. But for now, my going with the idea that my 30th birthday is like most people's 40's "big gulp moment" {as my friend Erica put it} and I'm just mature and wise beyond my years.
Despite that avoidance of acceptance, the overwhelming show of love from my friends and family's birthday wishes, their thoughtful gifts received, and supportive texts and call, did wonders in softening the blow of the day's purpose.
In these 30 years of mine, I've made it a point to surround myself with people who are worth my efforts and allow myself to selfishly pull from the natural goodness they bring to this world daily…. but when this generosity of theirs is focus it on me, I can't help but find it humbling.
I'm very lucky to have all of them part of what has made up the good in my first 30 years of life and can hope I am just as lucky to have them as what I'm sure will be the best parts of the next 30…
{Don't even get me started on my thoughts of 60!!}
Happy Sunday!


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Wednesday, 12 October 2011
on a bridge, groping
(perhaps their vision)
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The bridge. Like the uncertain sands of the Zone. A continuum. A mirror.ReplyDelete
fantastic shot.ReplyDelete
"You an' me baby, we're like a stormy day on a shaky ol' bridge the river wants to take away. But I sure hope that river ain't gonna take us. And I wonder, as I stare out at the rain, how much thunder could set the sky to flame, and burn away this cloud we live under. I wonder."ReplyDelete
Sorry, I can't remember the artist who penned this song. hug.
hello my beautiful friend,oh I love this masterpeice,- the mauve colours of violation,although I have been playing around with computer contrasts and colours and I am not sure what is real anymore haha and playing around with illusions and delusions for a life time haha.and I am not sure what is real anymore or how would you define real anyway-if you can't define it it probably doesnt exist or the synergistics would come the closest to defining.oh well I am rambling.ReplyDelete
but I love this title to be on a bridge groping.the violation lies in the subjective colours as the blind man that you refered to has the inner struggle of violation of an inner world as opposed to the world of the senses.
to continue
and the bridge has always imspired me to venial visions and today it means that our inward struggle may also be a violation, a violation against the self words and memories and beleifs became rogues out in a drowning sea of the mind,attacking the pitiful groping unsuspecting self on the bridge....ReplyDelete
however mon amie magnifique,bises de tendresse et de la paix....
Like the "impression" of this photo.ReplyDelete
Les lèvres ente-ouvertes, simplement : Oh....AmitiésReplyDelete
At times in my life I have felt like a blind person groping to cross a bridge. I have a friend that after an extreme and traumatic experience, described the steps to rebuild her life as, "knitting a bridge over a great chasm with her toes." A deeply touching post. It was an added treat to see the inspiration and read about Hakuin Ekaku.ReplyDelete
This is such a beautiful picture, like that of Ekaku's. Thank you.ReplyDelete
Hope all else is well?
We are all groping, searching, stumbling in the darkness, in the fog, falling, falling, falling...ReplyDelete
Enfin... une vue sur Le pont flottant :)ReplyDelete
Amitiés ;)
Like a Troubled Bridge Over Water (the little known flip side to Simon and Garfunkles' big hit).ReplyDelete
Came across this line from De Waal...thought you might like it:ReplyDelete
People on a bridge, 'it is like the start of the world: a litany of perfect movements and shadows'.
beautiful picture, like a painting.ReplyDelete
passer un pont, à tâtons ! se demander si on continue d'avancer (ou pas)ReplyDelete
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Prospero, the Zone! i wonder whether there can be a higher praise than that. thank you, it means so much to me.ReplyDelete
i am glad you like it.
myth, i wonder too. thank you for sharing this wonder with me.
Madeleine, i also don't know what is real and what not any longer (especially when it comes to this picture, i won't tell anything about its 'reality', does it matter? :-). it is very interesting how you read this post, you see this struggle and groping as taking place on an interior battle field, not merely as against others or whatever obstacles life may bring. to use an analogy from a different spiritual background, one may see Kurukshetra, the land where the Mahabharatra war was fought and Krishna revealed himself to Arjuna, as the field of our own consciousness.ReplyDelete
thank you, dear friend, je t'embrasse de tout coeur et te souhaite une semaine tranquille et reposante...
T.Becque, thank you for visiting, yes, the photo may make one think of impressionism, which is not alien to the Bridge at all :-)
K'line, j'adore ton OH :-)
Stickup, thank you. for those wonderful words of your friend as well... for understanding. for being here.
billoo, i hope all is well with you too, are those 'last words' eternal ones? (just because i know you hate the word 'eternal', or such is my impression :-)
owen - yes - but now and then we stumble upon a door, perhaps even a half-open door, and there is a chance of a miraculous encounter. a bit of hope here, for this bleak post :-)ReplyDelete
Jeff - une vue un peu floue, mais c'est seulement de cette maniere que le Pont se laisse voir (entrevoir) :-)
bisous et encore une fois merci pour ton octobre rouge...
oh Lynne, this is such a wonderful song... indeed, the perfect accompaniment for my post. thank you, dear friend, so much...
billoo, hi again.
yes, i love this quote, i wonder how you've known this (just joking, it is self-evident on the Bridge - if anything is self-evident on the Bridge :-)
Marion, thank you :-)ReplyDelete
Karine, oui. et parfois il n'y a pas de reponse...
Michael T., perhaps the Zone is nothing but a homecoming -
'Ah, not to be cut off,
not through the slightest partition
shut out from the law of the stars.
The inner -- what is it?
if not the intensified sky,
hurled through with birds and deep
with the winds of homecoming.'
this bridge glimmers and wavers, from presence to presence, it spans from birth to birthReplyDelete
do we all cross it together? or singly, holding the thought of another behind our ribs, like a bowl we balance carefully?
do we leave ourselves and cross over to ourselves?
what a shot ... it seems to have always been ... what would the world have been without this?
yeah, perhaps their vision, a floating vision ...ReplyDelete
a beautiful photo
Un pont que je ne me lasse pas d'explorer,pour la douceur de ses brumes ,pour le talent de sa creatrice,pour cette intelligence subtile qui flotte aussi dans l'air,pour l'originalité de chaque photographie,pour tout ce qui est suggéré , tremplin pour mon imaginaire...merci d'etre là dans ce grand monde virtuel Roxana..et mille excuses d'avoir été silencieuse si longtemps..je crois que ça va un peu mieux...il est dur ce passage vers les saisons ou la vie peu a peu se fige...ReplyDelete
Pensées douces et pluvieuses...:o)
How wonderful this is, made all the more so for me by the painting at the link. Together they speak volumes and see much.ReplyDelete


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Manchester United will be looking to avenge the 1-0 loss to Manchester City earlier in the season, and going off form there is no better time for the game against local rivals, with much more than pride at stake.
It has been four years since United won a league derby at Old Trafford, when Wayne Rooney scored that wonder goal to give United all three points.
The lads haven't had a better chance than this upcoming game in recent years, and there hopes were further boosted by Manuel Pellegrini's press conference today.
The Chilean confirmed that Wilfried Bony will certainly miss the game, whereas Vincent Kompany is a major doubt for the clash.
That could leave Martin Demichelis and the inconsistent Eliaquim Mangala as their central pairing, and Wayne Rooney will certainly fancy his chances against those two.
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Just wanted to wish you all a very healthy and safe Holidays! I will be posting more often on this blog by next year. Also I will be getting back into youtube. I've been slacking badly! That will be my New Year resolution. Hopefully I stick to it! lol
If your wondering about those delicious looking cookies, yes I made them and I will post the recipes up on my blog soon!


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Breaded Pork Cutlets (Pork Schnitzel)
Why This Recipe Works
While classic Wiener schnitzel features a thin, tender veal cutlet coated in ultrafine bread crumbs and then fried until puffy and golden brown, many recipes—to avoid the toughness and high price of veal—substitute pork. But too often these recipes yield dry, tough pork cutlets with greasy coatings. We wanted tender pork cutlets with the crisp, wrinkled, puffy coating that is Wiener schnitzel's signature.
Dismissing pork chops and prepackaged cutlets, we chose tenderloin, which has a mild flavor similar to veal and isn't tough. We cut the tenderloin crosswise on an angle into four pieces, which when pounded thin gave us long, narrow cutlets that would fit two at a time in the pan. Schnitzel is breaded with the usual flour, egg, and bread-crumb sequence of coatings, but we had to figure out how to get the characteristic puffiness and "rumpled" appearance of the finished cutlets; with good schnitzel you should be able to slide a knife between the meat and the coating. Drying bread in the microwave produced extra-dry crumbs that helped with the crispness, and a little vegetable oil whisked into the egg helped separate the coating from the meat. But the real breakthrough was in the frying method: Instead of sautéing the cutlets, we cooked them in a Dutch oven in an inch of oil, shaking the pot to get some of the oil over the top of the meat. The extra heat quickly solidified the egg in the coating, so that the steam from the meat couldn't escape and puffed the coating instead. With the traditional schnitzel garnishes of lemon, parsley, capers, and a sieved hard-cooked egg, these cutlets, with their tender meat and crisp coating, delivered on all fronts.


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A bill designed to allow cloning of human embryos for destructive research while forbidding the birth of babies created in this way has been defeated in the US House of Representatives. The White House confirmed that President Bush would have vetoed the bill because it would have allowed the creation of embryos destined for destruction in stem-cell research. [Reuters, 7 June] Calling for legislators to reject the bill, Cardinal Rigali, chairman of the US Catholic bishops' committee for pro-life activities, pointed out several flaws in the bill, in particular that "For the first time in U.S. law, Congress would define a new class of humans it is a crime not to destroy." [Zenit, 6 June] The National Right to Life Committee explained that the deceptively named "Human Cloning Prohibition Act" didn't ban cloning at all, only the transference of cloned embryos into a uterus or its functional equivalent. [LifeSite, 6 June]
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Separate studies in Japan and America were published in the journal Nature on Wednesday showing that embryonic stem cells can be made by reprogramming some of the genes in adult skin cells, without having to create an embryo. The results of work on mice are preliminary, and proof of principle, according to Rudolf Jaenisch, a professor of biology at MIT and member of the Whitehead Institute, leader of one of the groups. But he claims that it is necessary to continue studying embryonic stem cells through traditional means, and expects increased funding for this work under a new presidential administration. [Financial Times, 6 June, and Guardian, 7 June] The Financial Times article also reports on a paper in Nature claiming that newly-created embryos, rather than ova, can be used for cloning in mice. The significance of this, if applicable to humans, is that frozen embryos could be used, which are more widely available than unfertilised eggs.
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LEWIS Hamilton has cut Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg's world championship lead to a mere point after the Briton charged to a crushing win in a lively British Grand Prix.
In changeable track conditions, pole man Lewis Hamilton led every lap in a grand prix that started under the safety car in wet conditions, but then dried out.
It was Hamilton's fourth win in his home grand prix.
If Rosberg wasn't dispirited enough watching Hamilton bag a dominant win, his mood would have slumped further when stewards demoted him from second to third for illegally receiving technical advice over his radio.
Rosberg also had other problems extending beyond the Red Bull threat led by Max Verstappen, who was impressive again, overtaking the German around the outside of the attention-getting Beckett's.
If Hamilton was supreme to the point of invincibility, the action through the field was loaded with tight battles in the awkward conditions.
As the track dried, drivers came in for intermediates. And, later, slicks…
Hamilton's only concern came when he slid on a greasy wet patch but was able to continue without losing ground.
On a dry track, Rosberg was finally able to catch and overtake Verstappen, but those positions were later reversed by the stewards.
The penalty related to a mechanical issue that surfaced late in the race. Engineers advised Rosberg to reset systems in his Mercedes and also avoid using seventh gear.
He fought on to cross the line ahead of Verstappen in second, but was then given a post-race 10-second penalty.
Rosberg pointed out after the race that the issue was critical and that he was stuck in seventh gear and likely to stop on track.
He must also be wondering where the hell his massive early season points lead has gone.
And where was Daniel Ricciardo in all this?
Bored, apparently.
After starting alongside Versappen on the second row, the Australian was never quite in the hunt.
"I think for the team and for the points it was really good," Ricciardo said after his fourth-place finish the race.
"Obviously we gained a bit on Ferrari which is nice, but for me it was lonely and a bit boring. We lost a lot of time with the virtual safety car and that was just bad luck. This was out of our hands and there's nothing we could have done different. It just came at the wrong time for me and we lost the position to Perez and then more than 10 seconds behind the leaders. Then not stopping again for the rest of the race you can't catch this much. When the pace in the front is what it is you can get a tenth here or there but not half a second per lap. I was ready for a battle and some action today, but unfortunately it wasn't given to me. It is what it is now and hopefully Budapest works better."
Ferrari drivers Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel had a tough race; the Finn a repeat offender at Abbey three times before hanging in to overtake Force India's Sergio Perez for fifth place.
Vettel was another spinner at Abbey, and was classified 10th after copping a five-second penalty for helping the Williams of veteran Felipe Massa off the track.
Qualifying revealed that Mercedes still holds sway with Hamilton and Rosberg locking out the front row. But Red Bull is clearly improving, with Verstappen and Ricciardo barely separated in third and fourth, and ahead of the Ferraris.
Heading into Silverstone, after another controversial incident with Rosberg, Hamilton said he was strongly opposed to Mercedes introducing team orders to the F1 title fight because it robbed fans and, for the drivers, took the joy out of racing.
Triple world champion Hamilton told BBC Sport: "I've been in that position before. It goes against all racing values."
Mercedes will be happy that the team orders issue didn't arise at Silverstone. Hamilton was simply too far ahead.
Red Bull Racing dominates Townsville Supercars round
IT WAS a Red Bull double act on the streets of Townsville at the weekend with the energy drink's two drivers sharing the spoils in the twin 200km races – Jamie Whincup winning on Saturday with Shane van Gisbergen triumphing a day later. The overall round winner was the Kiwi, with the Giz also taking a second place in the earlier race.
Ominously for the rest, Whincup and van Gisbergen now own the top two places in the championship.
Whincup, from pole, was cruising to victory on Saturday when an unwelcome safety car intervention wiped away his five-second buffer and put him in the gunsights of van Gisbergen and Prodrive's Mark Winterbottom.
But Whincup nailed the restart for the two-lap dash to the chequered flag.
"The car was fantastic," said Whincup. "I am rapt with the result. Like always, you have got to have quick cars to win races and we had two rockets today so a big well done to the engineers.
"The cars were consistent, it was a great day. There has been plenty of frustration going on behind the scenes. But there's no need to worry about that now."
Winterbottom took third, with Ford's Chaz Mostert fourth. Tekno's Will Davison mugged James Courtney right on the line to snaffle fifth.
Still, Courtney and HRT teammate Garth Tander revealed some decent car pace, and hinted that even better things are not far away.
On Sunday, though, van Gisbergen won his third race of the year from a rejuvenated James Courtney, who benefited from a late safety car called in eight laps from the end. The HRT driver was one of a few who gambled on the upped pace offered by fresh tyres. The frontrunners chose to stay out on old rubber while Courtney slipped to ninth at the stop but then went on a hard charge to pip Winterbottom for second. Whincup was fourth.
Van Gisbergen managed his tyres rather well and had some rubber to play with right to the flag. "I was a bit worried after the safety car but had heaps of grip – I'm so stoked," van Gisbergen said.
Courtney's grin was back after his fruity drive to second, just 1.25sec away from the winner.
Crowd fave Craig Lowndes took 10th after struggling with his tyres throughout.
The Townsville weekend was also laced with speculation about the future of HRT and its drivers, whose contracts end this year. HRT still doesn't know if it will benefit from factory Holden support next year, with the carmaker expected to reduce its financial commitment, but to what extent isn't known yet.
Perhaps seriously, perhaps cheekily, Courtney told news agency AAP he's considering several alternatives next year and may even take his family overseas to ply his craft. "Just weighing it up; it's a big move for the family," he said.
Courtney agreed that the looming decision from Holden on its future motorsport commitments will influence his decision.
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The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Thursday March 22 2007
The list following our report below included the Rio Grande-Rio Bravo as a South American river. In fact, the Rio Grande, in the US, or Rio Bravo, its title in Mexico, forms part of the border between those two countries and is therefore a North American river. This has been amended.
Many of the world's biggest rivers, including the Nile, Ganges, Yangtze and Danube, are facing catastrophic collapse due to man-made problems, according to a leading conservation group. A wasteful attitude to water use and inadequate protection of rivers has destroyed ecosystems while threatening the livelihoods of people living in river basins.
"We're talking about a complete collapse of the system - they're so polluted, so over-extracted or so cut up by dams that it's really not functioning as a river any more," said Tom Le Quesne, freshwater policy officer at WWF-UK, the conservation charity that published a report yesterday on the threats to the world's rivers. "It's a challenge that humanity faces not far off the scale of climate change."
The report, launched ahead of tomorrow's World Water Day, highlighted problems facing Asia, where five of the 10 rivers listed in the report are found - the Yangtze, Mekong, Salween, Ganges and Indus.
"If these rivers die, millions will lose their livelihoods, biodiversity will be destroyed on a massive scale, there will be less fresh water and agriculture, resulting in less food security," said Ravi Singh, secretary-general of WWF-India at a briefing in Delhi yesterday to mark the launch of the report.
Rivers are the world's main source of fresh water and, according to the WWF, almost half of the world's supply is currently being tapped. Dams cut off rivers from flood plains, which dry up and destroy habitats. The WWF said that fish populations are being affected in areas where fish provides the main source of protein for hundreds of thousands of communities worldwide.
The report added that the Danube, which runs from Germany through south-eastern Europe to the Black Sea and contains more than half of all fish species in Europe, has lost 80% of its wetlands and flood plains as a result of too many dams and projects to make the river more navigable.
The world's longest river, the Nile, has served as a source of drinking water for thousands of years but, according to the WWF, it will face scarcity by 2025.
The Yangtze basin is one of the most polluted rivers in the world because of China's rapid industrialisation. The WWF highlighted how, at the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric project, "garbage heaps, boat effluent, pig and animal waste, factories, hospitals and mines containing hazardous and possibly radioactive waste on the bottom of the reservoir are creating serious pollution".
The Rio Grande, which flows along the US-Mexican border and contains 69 fish species found nowhere else in the world, is threatened by excessive extraction of water, mainly for agriculture. "If you stand on the banks of the Rio Grande, which is the second longest river in the US, it's got no water in it, it's almost unbelievable," said Mr Le Quesne. "That has pervasive effects on people who depend on the water to grow their crops and it destroys ecosystems."
In India, the Ganges plain makes up one-third of the country's land area and one in 12 people depend on the water for fishing and farming. According to the WWF, the tributaries flowing into the Ganges are beginning to dry up as barrages divert water for irrigation.
Mr Le Quesne said that problems highlighted by the WWF report have been man-made. Impending climate change will just make things worse. Up to 40% of the water in the Ganges comes from glaciers in the Himalayas, which could retreat if the world warms up.
"We've all been used to taking water for granted. We've assumed that water is a limitless resource. It's not any more," said Mr Le Quesne. "It's a question of using water wisely and managing it. It's a question of political will."
Top 10 Ebbing away
Salween China
Damaged by infrastructure, dams
Danube central Europe
Damaged by infrastructure, navigation
La Plata South America
Damaged by infrastructure, dams and navigation
Rio Grande-Rio Bravo North America
Damaged by over-extraction of water
Ganges India
Damaged by over-extraction of water
Indus Pakistan
Damaged by climate change
Nile-Lake Victoria north Africa
Damaged by climate change
Murray-Darling Australia
Damaged by invasive species
Mekong-Lancang South-East Asia
Damaged by over-fishing
Yangtze China
Damaged by pollution


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Release: When The Clock Strikes, 1988
Covers: Front | Back | Insert | Lyrics | Vinyl A | Vinyl B
Label: Private / Limit Music Production #LMP 001
Genre: Christian / Melodic Heavy Metal
Country: Sweden (Örnsköldsvik)
Bitrate: 320kbps
Recommended to fans of LEVITICUS.
Formed in the ashes of REFLEX. Trazan later joined forces with ROMANCE and became KILLER BEE. Mårten Eriksson also attended the Swedish Eurovision Song Contest in 1996 with the song "Förlorad Igen".He ended on 4th place with 41 points.
Mårten Eriksson - Vocals, Bass (Reflex, Mårtens Hjältar)
Rolf "Trazan" Nordström - Guitar, Backing Vocals (Reflex, Killer Bee)
Peter Olsson - Drums, Backing Vocals
Anders Svedberg - Keyboard, Backing Vocals
Urban Johansson - Choir
Helena Sehlberg - Choir
1. When The Clock Strikes
2. Lifeforce
3. Honestly
4. There is Power
5. Over and Under
6. King of Love
7. You are Called
8. Come
9. Marching Out
10. Passion Sea
11. Divine Wind
Comment | Labels: -Sweden, *1980s, *1988, *Melodic Metal, *Swedish Heavy Metal, +Album, Limit (Swe)
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you can find most of it and more at Heavy Metal Rarities
you can find most of it and more at Heavy Metal Rarities


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I need a shower something awful. It's been weeks of birdy baths( quickie sponge baths). I
|Notice these are teaspoons not tablespoon
Let's do the math everyone...
- I know the care of my husband during the day will take four spoons.
- Fixing and eating meals can run two to three spoons a day depending on how much I have to prepare before cooking.
- Care of my animals (cats, dogs, Guinea pig, and rabbits) will take another spoon if it's not a grooming or cage clean out day. If it's a grooming day or clean out day = 2 spoons.
- Hospice visits. Sometimes three a day one spoon.
Now add in or subtract...
- Therapy days-twice a week= Occupational therapy 1 spoon for each session.
- Grocery shopping= 2 spoons because I have to make a list, shop, and then bring the groceries in and put them away. It's really closer to three.
- Any other shopping like yarn, clothes, appliances, etc =an easy 2-3. Stores are huge!
- Each doctor appointments = a good one spoon if not two. Botox is definitely a 2 and my heart doctor is closer to 1 1/2 because of lab work I have to get before my appointment.
- Dropping off and picking up laundry= 1 spoon that's even with putting the folded clothes away. Now, if I did my own laundry= 3 spoons.
- Picking up take-out from a restaurant, even Mickey D's =1 spoon.
- Sweeping, vacuuming, dishes, dusting...you know, housework = an easy 2+ because the size of my house. I'd like to hire a housekeeper, but can't afford one.
- My every Wednesday Night Knitting group = 1 spoon.
- My once a month Stroke group = 1 spoon.
- Knitting or spinning wool= 1 spoon.
- Spending quality time with one grandchild = 1 spoon. I have eight.
No wonder I'm so exhausted all of the time! That's even without a bath.Yes, my kids were nice enough to install a walk-in tub the second Father's Day after my stroke, but I rarely have the time to really soak in it. The best I can do is stare longingly at it when I take a minute to go pee, or change my own diaper, or washing out urinals most times.
The last time I had a shower? Er, um, let me think...two weeks ago when my #1 daughter came for a visit. That sounds horrible doesn't it? But it's my cheat to make my short supply of energy last. I often said watching my growing kids or grandchildren, "I wish I could bottle their energy."
Wouldn't that truly be a blessing.
What has been your tumble or stumble during the week?


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Bändin jäsenet
M. Snook - Vocal
Ryan Buckley - Bass
Hiroshi Sembon - Percussion
Masa Sasaki - Guitar
Katy Cone - Guitar
Tietoa bändistä
Formed December of 2004, Motherseat is quickly making waves in the Boston Rock scene. Songwriter Matt Snook has teamed up with Berklee students Katy Cone (guitar) and Hiroshi Sembon (drums), Berklee grad Masa Sasaki (lead guitar), and veteran bassist Ryan Buckley. Together they create original music that is full of edgy riffs, poetic lyrics, haunting melodies, and blistering guitar solos. Motherseat's five members are all dedicated and professional musicians; their music is their day job, their night job, and their passion.
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Mohammad Pournik has been managing advisory services in economic and social policy, human development and MDGs, as the Poverty Practice Leader at the UNDP Regional Centre for Arab States in Cairo since August 2009. He has expertise in political economy of development, community driven development, heterodox macroeconomics and micro finance.
He has mostly worked on political economy of sustainable development and poverty reduction. He joined UNDP Iran in 1984 and has since worked in Laos, New York, Nepal, Sudan and Yemen. As the regional coordinator for the South Asia Poverty Alleviation Programme, he lead a multi-country intervention to promote economic inclusion of marginalized rural communities through social mobilization at the local level. In Sudan he served as Senior Economist and was associated with the joint assessment of post conflict needs assessment for the reconstruction of Sudan, both South and North. In Yemen he was the Principal Economic and Governance Advisor focussing on the links between governance systems and developmental outcomes and member of a development partners group that supported the national reform agenda. Prior to joining the UN he served briefly with the Iranian Plan and Budget Organization after several years of private sector experience. Mohammad Pournik received his academic training as an economist at the American University in Washington, D.C., the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of London and the University of Sussex, respectively at doctoral, master's and bachelor's levels.


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Second Major in Sustainable Food and Farming
UMass students interested in Sustainable Food and Farming often ask if they can earn a Minor. We do not have a Minor in SFF, but we do offer a Minor in Plant, Soils and Insect Sciences. However, the requirements for the Minor is 27 credits in the Stockbridge School of Agriculture. A much better option is the Second Major which requires 30 credits in Stockbridge.
In general the requirement includes:
- Either STOCKSCH 108 - Botany or a biology class with a lab
- STOCKSCH 105 - Soils
- A total of 30 credits in Stockbridge
The second Major is a flexible degree option that may work for you. Students generally fulfill their Junior Writing and Integrative Experience GenEd requirement in their primary major. You can "double count" courses in the primary and second major. If you are interested in a Second Major, contact Program Coordinator, Dr. John Gerber, to discuss your options.
Here is a list of our courses: STOCKBRIDGE Courses.


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So after seeing a beautiful look on makeupgeek I just had to get this palette. It is my first from Wet n Wild and I am definitely impressed lol. Well yesterday when I received this palette I decided that I would have a good at my first picture tutorial and that I would also include swatches. I would love to hear feedback from you guys about everything!!
Here are my swatches of the colours all under Nyx JEP in milk (Yeah I probably should have blended that a bit more lol)
Top is flash & macro (which made my hairs stand out more- they're not that dark IRL!)
bottom is natural light
Product: 5/5
Packaging: 3/5
Quality: 5/5
Price: I got mine for about $7.99 on ebay (not including shipping) however I'm sure you can find it a lot cheaper in the US.
Would I buy again? For sure! I think I may have to go and order more palettes now :)
Soo here is my first picture tutorial....I just had to do one with this palette. I also added an extra colour because I feel like it needed it. Please leave feedback!! I just feel like I need to add that I haven't used the palette to it's full potential here lol, because I had just received it this day and was feeling a bit overwhelmed so i am very sure you can just dupe this look with the 120 palette! lol
<-- A numbered picture of the palette so you can tell the colours I've used by the numbers I've pointed out.
1.Prep & Prime your eyelids. Here I have applied TFSI then NYX JEP in Milk. Then I have applied colour 1 all over the lid and the lower lashline.
2. Using a crease brush apply 2 into the crease, it doesn't have to be neat!
3. Apply 3 into the outer V, sweeping up into the first colour.
4. Blend out the crease & V. I used 1 again to help blend out the crease without adding any extra colour.
5. Just to add a little something, I have blending hot pink from the 120 palette right above the crease colour with a fluffy brush.
6. Take a pencil brush & add 2 + 3, respectively, under the lower lash line going about 3/4 of the way in. Join 3 up into the outer V.
7. With an angled liner brush apply 6 onto the top and lower lash line. You may wet the brush if you want to intensify the liner & glitter. Go in as far as you like.
8. Line your waterline if you wish to intensify your eyes. I only went as far as the purple and also tight lined the top waterline. I used Nyx JEP in Black Bean with the Sonia Kashuk bent liner brush
9. Woops almost forgot to highlight! Because everything is so matte I applied Nyx JEP in Cottage Cheese to the tear duct & brow bone then applied Nyx White pearl e/s over the top for some shimma.
10. Lastly curl your lashes and apply your mascara, fill in your eyebrows (not done here) and we're finished with the eyes!
..::Full Face Look::..
Cheeks: Nyx rouge cream blush in glow
Lips: Nyx strawberry milk
Thank you for reading!!!


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I've joined a virtual writing group developed by my friend Saleem and I'm quite enjoying it. 2012 has been marked by a feeling of disengagement and detachment and being connected to friends in far away countries has been very helpful for me. We were discussing the books that we read in 2012 that we liked a lot and I adapted my response for the blog to share with you all - faithful readers.
I like Goodreads (a social network for readers and writers) because it fits the "librarian inside" of me... I can sort the books I've read by categories, analyze trends, keep track, and challenge myself. I'm in a challenge this year to read 43 books. Last year I only managed 25 - an all time low for me but also a symptom of a pretty unhealthy year - spending hours on social media feeling lonely and unattached from the world and being strung along in a pretty unfulfilling relationship. It seemed like a marker of unhealthiness... I could only process short things online and my attention span was getting shorter and shorter.
And this year, I notice that I started out with very easy to digest books (which coincides with me leaving my job at the UN and coming to terms with the fact that I didn't have a full time job or attend school full time for the first time since I was 18 years old.) So as my mental health got steadier, I notice that my reading got deeper. And then I re-approached it as a pleasurable activity again.
But I also like knowing what my friends are reading. I miss my book club from Washington DC and in my sad little Asia expat life, I find that no one here reads. They may have read 50 Shades of Grey or the latest UN communique but who is reading anything else? I'm not even sure how to go about finding other readers because I'm sure they are here.
So my Goodreads feed has my bookish friends in it. I can comment and discuss with my friend Celeste and her husband in Ireland about the latest Booker winners, I was following a War and Peace reading club with another Irish friend, an Italian friend has plunged into obscure Polish novels and now I'm intrigued, a virtual friend from Germany reviews feminist novels for her grad school, and a friend from South Carolina is always reading funny things and writing great reviews. My DC bookclub friends were on it for a while but they seem to have disbanded so I guess they are not reading either. So for me, Goodreads helps me keep in touch with literature in this shallow bubble in Bangkok.
So - no big thundering novels from 2012's infant terribles this year but the books that I liked that I read in 2012 include:
Jeanette Wintersen: Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?
(loved Oranges are Not the Only Fruit and the Passion... I want to re-read them now)
William Boyd's Waiting for Sunrise (I quite love William Boyd - I've been hooked since the Ice Cream War)
Marguerite Duras: The Lover (beautiful and tiny and exquisite) plus I read it while going down the Mekong..
Hillary Mantel's: Wolf Hall (a book I had schlepped along to probably 12 countries before I just plunged in and then I couldn't stop)
Arundhati Roy's God of Small Things. I had a snit for a few years where I didn't want to read Indian novels by Feminist writers because it seemed like such a cliche. Instead I wanted to read books by old white men -prferebly English. I do still love the way of writing that the old masters from the turn of the century have but I'm starting to open back up my mind again and not be judged by what people think about what I read.
I love the humor and humanity of Colin Cotterill's Dr. Siri novels aboul Laos in the 70s. I love Henning Mankell's dreary and resigned Kurt Wallendar. I like the funny and dry Inspector Van Wetteren from Hakan Nesser's books. I like a good psychological thriller like Eric Ambler's books. And I like the sensation of being drawn into a book, being unable to put it down and caring so much about the characters.
This year, I can chart my emotional healing through the novels I've read. I started out with adolescent literature - the Hunger Games. It allowed me to accept the angry adolescent inside - its not fair! why does it happen to me? I'm helpless! and then I slowly turned to the mystery genre - I'm solving problems, I'm in an odd situation but I have to make the most of it, and the soothing repetitiveness of my favorite detectives - Kurt, Dr. Siri, Inspector VV... and now, I'm back: Into Tudor England with Anne Boleyn, Going through the crazy Soviet regime of The Master and Margarita, into Kerala where women are not free to have the lovers they want and seek help from the God of Small Things, in McCarthyite Asheville North Carolina longing for Frida Kahlo in Kingsolver's Lacuna, and now discovering the elegant and intriguing expat world of Mavis Gallant (thanks to my friend Saleem). It feels good to plunge back into books again and turn my back on Facebook and Gawker and re-experience what it feels like to lose myself in another world.


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Trump's warning to Syria 'should be heard': Guterres
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls U.S. President Donald Trump's warning to the Syrian government concerning its reported planned chemical weapons attack a ''serious warning'' that ''should be heard.'' Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called U.S. President Donald Trump's warning to the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad on its reported planned chemical weapons attack a "serious warning" that "should be heard." Guterres took the question from a reporter during a visit to the U.S. Department of State in Washington on Wednesday (June 28) after being welcomed by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. U.S officials said the Syrian government appeared to heed the warning. The White House said on Monday (June 26) Assad and his forces would "pay a heavy price" if it followed through with a chemical weapons attack.


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Week 2 was horrid. It started with Ian getting sick, and Mr. G and I followed about 24 hours later. I was down for days. Mr. G was finally able to go back to work on Wednesday. I still felt yucky on Thursday. (probably because of my arthritis medication. It's an immune system depressant, and it always takes me longer to recover.) So I had a rough time being way less than my normal self and having a toddler to chase. We watched a lot of Pirates, and Aristocats, and Despicable Me. So most of my photos are from Friday -Sunday this week. We can make that work!
I used the Paislee Press wood grain card template to make my title card this week. The tissues, Tylenol and hand sanitizer seemed to sum up the week so well. I used Ali Edwards on the picture of Ian and I playing outside. ( Thank you Mr. G for picking up the camera!)
These cards are from the January Studio Calico PL kit. Now that I have moved my craft room back upstairs, (Post coming this week) I am hoping to actually use those awesome veneers and other embellishments I have been hoarding.
This card is from Seafoam and the book stack is from Paislee Press Book of Firsts kit.
Yes, the dates are incorrect on my title card. I have fixed it. I had my week three dates wrong too. Ian is usually on my brain and I frequently find little mistakes I have to remedy. lol
Friday, Ian's grandma came to take us to lunch and for a bit of shopping. I needed to get Ian a few shirts and pants. He had grown since his birthday already and all his clothes were too short. We also went to Target which I don't normally do because they don't have a lot of the things on my list and they have a ton of things that aren't on my list. I got out spending less than $40 so I grabbed some Starbucks to enjoy when Ian and I were home and he was napping. mmmmmmm.
I did a flip card to add a few random shots from the week. My parents celebrated their 39th anniversary on Sunday and Ian actually posed and smiled for the photo! My parents were miserable sick so we didn't get to visit. So thankful for Facetime this winter! We are all only 30 miles apart, but between someone being sick, and the horrid weather, we never get to see each other.
I feel like I have really found my groove for Project Life now. It takes me a lot less time to prepare my photos and put my spreads together. Doing hybrid has forced me to be more selective with the photos and I have gotten better at taking pics too so that helps. It only took a year! I will try to do a post in February about my hybrid process.


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Green Day's 'American Idiot' Returns to U.K. Chart Prior to Donald Trump's Visit
On the strength of a social media campaign, Green Day's 2004 single "American Idiot" has returned to the U.K. singles chart, where it currently sits at No. 18, 14 years after it peaked at No. 3. The campaign timed itself to coincide with the arrival of President Donald Trump on Thursday. Billboard reports that back


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In SAMUEL MATEUS PAPERS you will find not only some of my papers available for public access, but also information on conferences related to Communication, Publicity and Modernity.
Most of my papers have been published in academic journals in Communication and are written in English or Portuguese.
Although all the articles in Portuguese have an English abstract, should the need arises I will provide the English full-translation.
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