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A massive car bomb ripped through a busy market in the Jamrud subdivision of Khyber Agency on Monday, killing at least 21 people, including women and children, and injuring dozens more.
The white car, rigged with explosives, was set off by a remote control in the middle of Jamrud Bazaar, Assistant Political Agent Jehangir Azam Wazir confirmed to The Express Tribune.
"At least 21 people, among them women and children, were killed and 64 others were wounded," Wazir said. "Some of the bodies were mutilated beyond recognition," he added. "Nine of the injured are said to be in critical condition."
According to Agency Surgeon Dr Sameen Jan Shinwari, most of the injured were shifted to the Civil Hospital, Jamrud, while those with critical wounds were referred to hospitals in nearby Peshawar.
"Four women were among the dead and they were all Afghans. These women were coming from the border in a hired car, which was destroyed. These women's Afghan passports were found in a bag," said Shinwari.
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Witnesses spoke of harrowing scenes after the explosion. "The white car exploded right in front of my shop. Thick, black smoke and dust enveloped the bazaar soon after," shopkeeper Syed Rehman told The Express Tribune.
"Another car standing nearby also caught fire, killing all five people inside – all women and children," he added. "They appeared to be Afghan nationals."
Driver Taj Muhammad, 40, said he was entering Jamrud when he heard the explosion and saw a ball of fire.
"I rushed to the site and saw people engulfed by flames. There were pieces of human flesh and blood everywhere. I saw a little child who was injured and crying. I took this boy to hospital," he told AFP.
"When I picked up the injured boy he looked like my son and I was really sad."
Another witness said it was the third major blast in the Zakakhel bazaar. "Sixty-five people were killed and over 100 injured in two earlier blasts on April 29 and January 10," said the witness, Muzamil Khan.
An official of the Bomb Disposal Squad from Khyber Rifles said the car was packed with over 20 kilogrammes of explosives.
Political Agent Mutahir Zeb played down the idea that the government office was the intended target, but said authorities were still investigating. "We are still ascertaining what procedure exactly was used to blow up the vehicle," he said.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the blast.
The bomb attack came two days after a brazen Taliban attack on Peshawar airport and a day after militants, who had fled the airport attack, were killed in an operation by police and army commandos in a village near Peshawar. (With additional input from AFP)
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Friday, July 11, 2014
To Wash Or Not To Wash Is The Question
There's a kickball league that my co-workers play in and they needed a dude so I volunteered.
It was actually a lot of fun especially since I haven't played since I was probably in high school.
So where am I going with this?
Well after the game ended I had some time to kill because Mrs. Shife was hosting a doTerra party at our house. If you are unfamiliar with doTerra here's a link to become enlightened. You're welcome.
I ended up going to the mall to meet a new friend.
She posted an interesting ad on Craigslist.
She seems normal, right?
OK I lied.
I went to the mall to get a new hat. And a new shirt. I really liked the shirt. Here it is:
I guess World Cup fever got to me and I wanted a shirt of Bob Marley playing soccer.
Sorry I couldn't include my head and arms.
I'm just extremely private.
Ooops how rude of me. I suppose you might want to see a picture of my new hat too.
Here it is:
What do you think?
It's just hard to find a good feathered, horse hat these days.
On with the story.
Eventually I killed enough time to come home after Mrs. Shife's party was over.
I knew I wanted to wear my new shirt to work but I knew it was too late to start a load of laundry so I was faced with a dilemma.
Not as much of a dilemma as that girl in the Craigslist ad must contend with when she goes down the bread aisle at a grocery store.
Should I wear my shirt without washing it?
I'm sure there are plenty of sanitary reasons why I should but I threw caution to the wind and wore it to work without washing it.
Scandalous, right?
Probably going to ruin my chances of running for public office.
I guess if I develop an awesome rash I will not need to hire a detective to solve that mystery.
So is this a guy thing or do ladies wear newly-purchased clothes without washing them first?
Thanks for stopping by. Hope you had a good 4th of July. Here's a picture of the kiddos with a friend of ours while I was lighting off some of our fireworks. Hayden might have been a little surprised at the noise or she was hoping to unhear that her daddy used to be Mrs. Epsteen.
I will persevere. I will keep moving forward. I will be the stream.
6 comments:
- kden said...
It depends; thrift store purchase--definately! Brand new; probably not unless it has wrinkles.
My daughter insists on washing clothes first before wearing. It kind of defeats the purpose of wearing something new, by the time I get around to doing laundry, it's already old.
- 7/11/2014
- texlahoma said...
Kickball sounds like fun, I'm surprised there not a professional kickball league.
You know, if there's an essential toast oil and you play your cards right, you could probably be covered with butter and jam by Saturday night.
Have a good weekend.
- 7/12/2014
- billy pilgrim said...
excellent t shirt mr shife. i always found that it was ok wearing a t-shirt without washing it if i'd drank about 8 beers.
should be a great game tomorrow. messi vs the mighty krauts.
- 7/12/2014
- Jon said...
If it comes from anything but a thrift store, I'll wear it without washing it. That is, unless I really see a reason not to.
- 7/13/2014
- Valerie said...
Well this is news to me, Matt. I didn't know you were supposed to wash new things before wearing. Or is it just men's shirts that need to be washed?
- 7/15/2014
- Kenneth Noisewater said...
Those feathered horse hats are outstanding. Miley Cyrus' big horse teeth would look terrific in one.
You see how I did that? Pointed out a flaw in a celebrity because they can't make fun of me because I'm not famous enough for them to find me?
It makes me feel better about them having so much more money than me.
Hey, congrats on the new shirt! Don't you just love cool t-shirts? So hard to part with the good ones when they have faded or shrunk too much . . .
- 7/17/2014


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Thursday, July 5, 2012
Think God can't use you? Read this list and be glad He doesn't!
Terrible, just terrible! Poorly thought out doesn't begin to describe it! If you've actually read the Bible you'd know that most of these cases are the opposite of motivational! Nevertheless Christians just love this thing and I don't know why. I mean if you just stop to think about it... Oh wait, I think I just figured it out...
Anyway, I'm just need to get this out of my system! This list sucks! Here is why:
Noah was a drunk.
No he wasn't. The Bible records him getting drunk exactly once. That hardly makes him a drunk! (Unless you subscribe the the Comfort-Cameron school of fucking terrible philosophy) Being late once doesn't make you tardy. Missing work once doesn't make you lazy. Getting bad marks on one test doesn't make you stupid. Getting drunk once doesn't make you "a drunk". Not that any of this matters, since Noah only got drunk after God used him. You know, with the whole "drowning the world" thing.
Abraham was too old.
For what exactly? Having kids? Yes he was. However by that time he had been working for the Lord for a long time already. In fact, leaving his home and country behind to work for God was something he did as a much younger man. Really THIS would have been a better place to use Noah. God used him to build the ark at age 600! Isn't that a better example of "you're never too old for God to use you"?
Isaac was a daydreamer.
Really? The man was nearly a human sacrifice, got married at 40 in an arranged marriage and got conned by his wife and least favourite son when he was old and feeble and we're going with "daydreamer" here? Really? Joseph was the dreamer. Isaac was just the guy you hear about a little bit during the short detour between the grand stories of Abraham and Jacob. Apart from keeping the bloodline going, how exactly did God use him?
Jacob was a liar.
Yes he was and he got very rich and successful because of it.
Leah was ugly.
Poor Leah! Hers is a terribly tragic story - she's the homely girl who is forced to marry a guy who only has eyes for her hot little sister. Again, how exactly did God use her? Her only role was to be one of the women Jacob had sex with - reluctantly - and she gave birth to some of his children.
Joseph was abused.
OK I guess Isaac had to be stuck with the "daydreaming" thing because Joseph was going to get the "abused" thing. Here's the thing though, Joseph getting abused was how God used him! All that getting sold into slavery and the abuse that went with it? That was God using Joseph. See for yourself, it says so right there in Genesis:
"I am your brother Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt! And now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you. For two years now there has been famine in the land, and for the next five years there will be no plowing and reaping. But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance. "So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God. "
Moses had a stuttering problem.
Did he though? I know that's what he said at one point but I always wondered about that. See later we are told that "Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action" (Acts 7:22) so that makes it sound like he was just making excuses when talking to God. It's debatable though. Point is Moses was a bit more than just some dude with a speech impediment! He also happened to be a highly educated man groomed for leadership.
Gideon was afraid.
Yes he was. He also came from a rich and powerful family. Pretty sure that came in handy when it was time to raise an army.
Sampson had long hair and was a womanizer.
OK, WTF was that? Throwing out his long hair like he was some kind of hippie that God managed to use despite his unwillingness to get a damn haircut! His long hair was the very thing showing to the world that God was using him! Cutting his hair meant he was no longer able to beat people to death for the Lord so it was kind of crucial to the whole "being used by God" thing!
Rahab was a prostitute.
Don't be so modest! She was so much more than just a prostitute! She was also a traitor who sold out her people and traded her own life (and that of her family) for that of every man, woman and child in Jericho!
Jeremiah and Timothy were too young.
Meh, not bad but I would have gone with Samuel instead. He started working for God as a child already! Beat that!
David had an affair and was a murderer.
I love how this always gets mentioned as if the whole Bathsheba incident was the only time David ever tripped up. Forget Sampson, David was the guy who went through women like they were pringles! He had a bunch of wives, more than one harem and even when he was too old to do anything with them he still had the most beautiful girl in the land brought in to keep him warm at night. Worst beauty pageant prize EVER! But fair enough, God considered David a man after His own heart and certainly used him a lot so I concede this one.
Elijah was suicidal.
Fun fact though, he was only suicidal because God was using him! It's not like God found him about to jump off a cliff and decided to make him a prophet. No, it was his prophetic career that led to him wishing he was dead!
Isaiah preached naked.
He didn't preach naked because he was some kind of crazy nudist who was called to preach by God. He had to preach naked because God told him to. Preaching naked was how God used him! Isaiah 20:2 "the Lord spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, "Go, and loose the sackcloth from your waist and take off your sandals from your feet," and he did so, walking naked and barefoot."
Jonah ran from God.
Yes he did and was famously kidnapped via fish and put back to work. Which makes me wonder, doesn't Jonah's story make this whole list pointless? Clearly if God wants to use you He will do it. Against your will if need be!
Naomi was a widow.
Of all the widows in the Bible, why choose Naomi? Whoever made this list must not like women much because they chose really shitty examples! Naomi pimped out her (also widowed) daughter in law to a rich guy. I'm not judging, if you're a poor widow in a patriarchal bronze age society, you do what you must to stay alive. But how did God use her exactly?
Job went bankrupt.
I would just like to take a moment to point out that Job did not "go bankrupt". God had Job's livelihood destroyed in order to win a bet. So Job wasn't used by God despite losing everything, he lost everything because God was using him. To win a bet. With Satan.
John the Baptist ate locusts.
Perhaps, though it's much more likely a reference to the fruit of the Carob tree than actual bugs.
Peter denied Christ.
Yes he did.
The Disciples fell asleep while praying.
Indeed. Though all night prayer is pretty tough. All night anything really!
Martha worried about everything.
In her defense, she kind of had to. Jesus and His crew were crashing at her place and her sister decided to just hang with the guys leaving Martha to do ALL THE THINGS! Also, I'm getting a little tired of typing this but apart from waiting on Jesus and the disciples (and her lazy ass sister), how exactly did God use her?
Mary Magdalene was, well you know.
No, I don't know. She was what? A disciple of Jesus? One of the very few of His followers who dared to stick around for His crucifixion? The first person to see Him after the Resurrection? Ohhhh, you mean slut-whore. That's not actually in the Bible. She only became the slutty one during the middle ages when the Pope decided she was a prostitute.
The Samaritan woman was divorced, more than once.
That's very possible but it's an interpretation. All Jesus said was that He knew she had been married 5 times. Doesn't mean she was necessarily divorced. What if her husbands just kept dying on her? There is after all that whole provision in the Law of Moses that if a man dies his wife goes to his brother (and if he dies she goes to the next one and on and on). I'm just saying that's a possibility we should at least consider! But fair enough, she had multiple marriages (the shame! the horror!) and God still used her to evangelize a Samaritan village so finally, an example of a women used by God that actually got used by God! Woohoo!
Zaccheus was too small.
Err, correction. Zaccheus was short. Not small. There's a difference. Still, his height wasn't much of a handicap when it came to being a rich and powerful tax man so I fail to see how it would have prevented him from working for God in the first place...
Paul was too religious.
Wait, being too into working for God is a handicap when it comes to working for God? Who knew?! Certainly not the guy who wrote most of the New Testament and basically founded the Christian religion!
Timothy had an ulcer…
Yes, though I'm pretty sure he got that AFTER God started using him!
Lazarus was dead!
Yes he did die. Twice! God only used it once though so that's OK.
There you have it, one deeply anti-motivational list! Seriously, after seeing what "being used by God" can end up meaning any sane person would have really serious reservations about being used by God!! Who wants to end up broke, naked and abused for God?!
4 comments:
- M Fj said...
This is what I think Eugene;
the list is to help those of us Christians, who have lived really messed up lives - running from God, to see that He can still use us!
He will take all of the bad and use it for His good. For His glory.
Just like with everyone mentioned on this list.
This list is motivating to me.
I once was lost, but now I'm found :) And, Loved and Forgiven by the Creator of the universe.
Another purpose I believe this list serves, is; so anyone judging me (thinking that I shouldn't be teaching a Sunday School class, for example) can see that I am in good company. Many of the saints of the bible also messed up at some point in their lives.
Enjoy your day ~
- January 31, 2013 at 9:21 PM
This poster is full of biblical inconsistencies and text taken out of context to suit some poetic idea. I do agree with the fact that sometimes God tends to use the most unfit people.
And yes, serving God is difficult and painful at times but if we need a biblical inconsistent poster to motivate us then we show the world that we dont even know the text on which our faith stands.
However serving God, despite the pain, is wonderful...
- July 15, 2013 at 3:38 PM
But just think, this is showing that God did use these people even though they did all these bad things. This shows Christians that even though we mess up at times, God can still use us. He can use us even though we have characteristics about us that are not perfect or what society claims to be okay. God can use everybody!
- November 8, 2014 at 3:32 AM
Maybe the Paul reference is to his preconversion religious life. Later he starts living the spiritual life.
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Although Title VII does not include an official definition of "race" and the EEOC has not
adopted one, race generally involves a handful of factors. You may not discriminate against an individual based on:
Other race-related factors that require a sensitive, non-discriminatory stance are:
Whether an employee or job applicant's ancestry is Mexican, Ukrainian, Filipino, Arab, Native American or any other nationality, he or she is entitled to the same employment opportunities and rights as anyone else.
The EEOC prohibits this under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which covers employers with 15 or more employees. It is also illegal to discriminate against individuals on the basis of national origin or citizenship status under the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA).
National origin discrimination includes negative treatment based on:
For example, suppose an Egyptian employee claims he is being harassed by coworkers about his Arab ethnicity. He also is being subjected to derogatory comments about Islam even though he has told his coworkers that he is Christian. This employee could charge both national origin and religious discrimination.
As the U.S workforce grows more ethnically diverse, the number of employees who are not native English speakers has increased. Although you may have legitimate business reasons for basing employment decisions on linguistic characteristics, be aware that these characteristics are closely associated with national origin. As a result, you must be certain the business reason for relying on a linguistic characteristic justifies any burden placed on individuals because of their national origin. Similarly, you must carefully scrutinize employment decisions based on accent to ensure they don't violate Title VII.
Generally, you are protected under Title VII only in cases where effective verbal communication in English is required to perform the job. Examples include teaching, customer service and telemarketing. Even for these positions, however, you must determine whether the individual's accent truly interferes with his or her ability to perform the job.
Another common workplace situation is requiring staff members to be fluent in languages other than English. If you provide services to Spanish-speaking customers, for instance, you may have a solid business reason for requiring that some of your employees speak Spanish. As with English, fluency requirements for foreign languages must be proven necessary for the position.
A business with a diverse clientele may delegate work based on foreign language ability, as well. For example, you may assign bilingual Spanish-speaking employees to provide services to customers who speak Spanish, while assigning employees who speak only English to English-speaking customers. In most cases, you may lawfully assign comparable work to employees based on their language skills, and are not required to provide additional compensation for work performed in a foreign language.
Some employers have instituted workplace policies restricting or prohibiting communication in languages other than English, or "English-only rules." Title VII permits this only under certain circumstances. As with any other workplace policy, an English-only rule must be adopted for nondiscriminatory reasons, such as safety, efficiency or effectiveness, and generally should not be enforced during an employee's break time. For example:
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), which is enforced by the EEOC, makes it unlawful for employers with 15 or more employees to discriminate against a qualified individual with a disability. The ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA), which was signed into law in 2008, expands ADA coverage through a broader interpretation of the types of disabilities it covers.
The legal definition of "disability" is a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities. (Or put another way, the functions an average person can perform with little or no difficulty, such as walking, breathing, seeing, hearing, speaking, learning and working).
This protection extends to all employment practices, including benefits, firing, hiring, job assignments, layoff, leave, pay, promotion, recruitment and training.
In addition to having a substantial impairment, another condition of ADA protection is that the individual be qualified to perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation. As an employer, you should carefully examine each job to determine which functions or tasks are essential to performance. (This is particularly important before recruiting, advertising, hiring, promoting or firing).
The ADA also requires you to make a reasonable accommodation for a qualified applicant or employee if it would not impose an undue hardship on your business. However, you are not obligated to lower quality or production standards to make an accommodation; nor are you obligated to provide personal-use items, such as glasses or hearing aids.
Frequently, the reasonable accommodation requested by the qualified individual is obvious, typically based on previous life or work experience. However, when the appropriate accommodation is not readily apparent, you must make a reasonable effort to identify one. The best way to do this is to consult with the applicant or employee about the adjustments that would allow him or her to participate in the application process or perform the essential functions of the job.
Reasonable accommodations may include:
Refusing to provide a reasonable accommodation to a qualified individual with a disability is a violation of the ADA, unless doing so would place an undue hardship on your business. This means that the accommodation would be significantly difficult or expensive, based on the size of your business, your financial resources, and the nature and structure of your operations.
Title 1 of the ADA also covers:
The U.S. workforce is experiencing a surge of older employees, largely due to more Baby Boomers choosing to work later in life rather than retiring. At the same time, age-related discrimination charges are on the rise due to employers overstepping the legal boundaries designed to protect older workers.
Now, more than ever, you need to be mindful of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA). The law, which applies to businesses with 20 or more employees, protects applicants and employees 40 years of age or older from discrimination in any aspect of employment, including:
It is also unlawful to retaliate against an employee for opposing age discrimination practices, filing an age discrimination charge, or participating in any investigation or proceeding involving ADEA claims.
Be aware that age discrimination can involve harassment that, when frequent or severe, creates a hostile work environment. Examples of harassing comments include, for example, coworkers repeatedly calling an older employee an "old geezer" or "pops" or a boss suggesting "this new technology is probably way over your head." It can also play out in more subtle actions and attitudes that result in adverse employment decisions, such as:
Although the ADEA is designed to protect older employees, employers are allowed certain provisions under the law, too. You have the right to:
Employers can also ask employees to waive their rights or claims under the ADEA, either in settling an ADEA discrimination claim or in connection with a termination agreement. For a waiver to be considered valid, it must:
In an ideal, fully compliant work world, discrimination would never occur – certainly not intentionally. But what if, despite your best efforts, one of your managers has acted in a way that puts your business in the spotlight?
In fact, filing a charge is a necessary first step before filing a lawsuit. It's also what triggers an investigation, where the EEOC explores the charge to determine whether any laws have been violated.
Unlike other government agencies, however, the EEOC rarely sends an investigator to an employer's facility without notice. Instead, it will schedule an on-site investigation days or weeks in advance, giving you time to prepare and respond to the charge.
You will receive a charge notification package from the EEOC with deadlines for submitting your company's statement of position (more on that below), as well as responding to written inquiries and document requests. The information in the package is usually brief, where the allegations are summarized in one or two paragraphs.
Obviously, you should take an EEOC charge seriously. Respond to all requests within the prescribed deadlines, or request an extension. Extensions may be granted for a number of reasons, such as the need to seek legal counsel (which is strongly recommended), gather inaccessible or stored documents, identify and interview witnesses, or take other actions to ensure a thorough response to the EEOC's demands.
From your first contact with the investigator, make sure you establish a positive working relationship and communicate your willingness to cooperate in all aspects of the investigation. That being said, here are some important "don'ts" to follow:
The charge notification package from the EEOC will explain your recordkeeping obligations. Records pertinent to your case may include:
Depending on the nature of the claim, you may also need:
The statement of position (SOP) is your opportunity to tell your company's side of the story in writing. It must be clear and factually accurate. Explain your nondiscriminatory reasons for any challenged actions, and back up your statements with specific examples and documentation.
When preparing the SOP, assume the investigator knows little or nothing about your company or your policies, practices and procedures. Don't make vague, generalized statements. Instead, use details to demonstrate that your company's actions were not discriminatory.
If possible, determine ahead of time what the investigator plans to do at your facility. Know who will be interviewed, which documents will be examined, and which areas of the facility will be inspected.
Later, after the EEOC completes the investigation and closes the file, it will issue a right-to-sue notice to the employee (indicating whether the EEOC determined there was a violation). The employee has 90 days to file a lawsuit and attempt to recover damages for the alleged discrimination. In the case of a violation, the EEOC also may bring a lawsuit against your company. Then, if the court or a jury finds you liable for violating the employee's rights, you'll be ordered to remedy the violation, which may include:
You may also be ordered to take corrective or preventive actions to eliminate the source of the discrimination and reduce the chances of it happening again, such as providing company-wide training. Another step you may need to take is to post employee notices outlining the details of the discrimination charge and informing employees of their rights under EEOC-enforced laws – beyond the mandatory federal postings already required of employers.
An amendment to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions. It applies to employers with 15 or more employees, as well as employment agencies, labor organizations and the federal government. In some cases, state laws may also grant job-protected parental leave (paid or unpaid) for childbirth and/or to care for a newborn child.
Under the PDA, women who are pregnant must be treated in the same manner as other applicants or employees with similar abilities or limitations. Specifically, Title VII's pregnancy-related protections include:
If an employee is temporarily unable to do her job due to pregnancy, she must be treated the same as any other temporarily disabled employee. For example, if you allow it for temporarily disabled employees, you must also modify tasks, alternate assignments or offer leave without pay to affected pregnant employees.
A pregnant employee must be permitted to work as long as she's able to perform her job. If an employee has been absent from work as a result of a pregnancy-related condition and recovers, she's not required to remain on leave until the baby's birth. You also may not prohibit an employee from returning to work for a predetermined amount of time after childbirth. (If you require employees to provide return-to-work statements from a physician after taking a leave of absence for sickness or disability, you may do the same for employees returning after childbirth.)
Finally, you must hold open a job for a pregnancy-related absence the same length of time as jobs for employees on sick or disability leave.
You must treat employees with pregnancy-related disabilities the same as other temporarily disabled employees with regard to accruing and crediting seniority, calculating vacation time, increasing pay and providing temporary disability benefits.
Also, it is unlawful to retaliate against an individual for complaining about discrimination, filing a charge of discrimination or participating in a discrimination investigation or lawsuit.
Be aware that pregnant women are entitled to additional workplace rights beyond those covered in the PDA – such as eligible leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and break time for nursing mothers under a provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination based on religion in hiring, firing and other terms of employment. While protecting all aspects of religious observance, practice and "sincerely held" beliefs, Title VII broadly defines religion to include traditional, organized religions, as well as newer or less familiar beliefs that aren't part of a formal church or recognized denomination.
Specifically, you:
What if one of your employees, a Sikh male, wears a turban? Although some people in the company are uncomfortable with the turban, you can't ask the employee to remove it. It is a religiously mandated article of clothing, so the employee must be allowed to wear it unless it poses an undue hardship, such as a safety hazard if he worked in construction.
Additional examples of religiously mandated articles of clothing include other head coverings, such as yarmulkes, as well as prayer shawls, burkas and saris. You can prohibit an article of clothing only if you can prove it presents a safety concern or other undue hardship.
In March 2014, the EEOC issued guidance on Title VII's application to religious garb and grooming in the workplace, largely due to a significant spike in religious discrimination charges filed by employees in recent years. While the guidance didn't create any new obligations, it highlights the sensitivity surrounding the issue. Employers should be careful not to question whether a belief is "sincerely held" or to refuse an accommodation, even if it violates the company's dress code, uniform policy or guidelines for appearance.
While it's important to follow the legal guidelines regarding religious protections and accommodations in the workplace, keep in mind you have the right to:


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We were delighted to welcome Ray back in our midst, and Angela directed another fine evening of music and song ...
Pleasant and Delightful: Angela
Blue Moon: Paul
I Will: Lucy
Seven Days: Lynda & Mike P.
This Land is Your Land: Ray
Love Farewell: Colin
Turkish Lady: Roland
Going to the Zoo: Yvonne
Sat in a Circle in the Sun: Mike H.
Widow Maker: Eddie
Convict Maid: Annie
Cliff's Birthday Tribute: Berry
Dimming of the Day: Jane & Roger
Bermuda Triangle Exit: Mick
Times Like This (?): Roger
Teacher Teacher: Mike P.
Song for Ireland: David
The Tryste: Nigel
Ten Thousand Miles: Ken
Stone Walling Song: Mave
Georgie Girl: Les
Bright Morning Star: Angela
Three Wooden Crosses: Les
If I Die an Old Maid: Mave
Over the Waves: Ken & Berry
The Town I Love So Well: Nigel
Leaving the Land: David
Motherless Child: Roger
Cruel Mother: Jane
Past Caring: Annie
Thousands or More: Eddie
Cockles and Mussels: Yvonne & Mike H.
Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy: Roland & Colin
Blackbird: Paul & Mick
Rolling Home: Ray
Here's Ray ...
During the proceedings Jane announced some plans for our special night for Children in Need 2011.
We will mark this and raise money with the rest of the nation on Friday 18th November.
Watch the blog for further details.
Better still ... come along to the club!
Saturday, October 15, 2011
3 comments:
- parkingspaceman said...
Indeed a nice night, but could I recommend a course in photography to whoever takes these pictures of MCs and performers, rendering them either almost unidentifiable or unflatteringly?
- October 21, 2011 at 2:11 PM
- Dogsbody, Scrivener and Wretch said...
Perhaps this photo from my archive would be better in sepia-tint?
- October 21, 2011 at 2:24 PM
- parkingspaceman said...
If you're referring to the picture of Dogsbody alongside the comment, it would be better in black-and-black.
- October 21, 2011 at 3:18 PM
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A performance by Theresa Byrnes
Friday June 15 2012
Performance – 7.30 – 8.30 p.m.
So here I go again, another performance, another time for making an event appear out of deep thought and decisive action.
My new volunteer/assistant Amy Sanchez appeared, my friend Riz Rich and neighbours helped me collect items needed for the installation, the construction site next door donated the wood for the performance structure. I met a young fashion student on the Street, HONG YU, and we collaborated on the costume.
As an artist belief in an idea and respect and faith in my work becomes Tender. People assist me to fulfil artistic projects NOT FOR legal tender (money) but for creative tender, establishing an economy of respect to achieve intellectual progress and community.
"TENDER" a performance about money and the economy.
We see cash as cold and hard and inhuman, but it is the product of our primary human quality to balance, weigh and value and then to share, trade and sell.
Our INTRINSIC IMPULSE TO BUY & SELL brings people, communities and civilizations together and is central to the human experience.
People place money and the economy as a force unto itself and often as the enemy. But the only reason the dollar is accepted it is because we accept it.
The primary human dichotomy is that of debtor and creditor. The scale of justice is our own body. Primordial debt can be cleared by complete respect and tender care for the earth, the only true wealth.
Queens Art Express Festival
Currency Gallery @ SUPERNOVA
26-19 Jackson Avenue
Long Island City
Friday June 15
Performance – 8.00 – 9.00 p.m.
Exhibition & installation 6 – 9 p.m.
www.theresabyrnes.com | www.queensartexpress.com


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Sometimes it is the strong south-west summer monsoon, sailing on that cool, humid air that moves towards the land. Sometimes, it is also the north-east winter monsoon, nudging cool, dry wind towards the ocean.
Sometimes there are uniformly strong winds over the whole Indian Peninsula, sometimes over the Tamil Nadu coastline and sometimes, they get blown smartly by and around the industry that can spin them into power.
Nascent for long in the realm of alternative energy and fuels, wind has finally emerged quite strongly on the global and Indian stratosphere in the last few years.
The Wind power programme in India that took feet towards the end of the Sixth Plan, in 1983-84 set a new wave into motion, and soon enough the potential of wind as an energy source started being tapped with more vigor.
The Power in Wind Power:
Wind, the natural movement of air across the land or sea, triggered by uneven heating and cooling of the earth's surface or its rotation, has been a latent source of energy for centuries while mankind was besotted and busy with coal, fossils and electricity for long.
But slowly, industry and experts started recognizing its innate but hidden advantages. Wind Power comes with not only capital cost gains, less construction times, zero fuel costs (relative to other power sources) but also helps with low operational costs, ability to add capacity modularly, and environmental-friendly strengths. Today, technology allows generation of competitively priced grid-interactive wind power in a way that harnesses wind energy well, and is an advantage when one considers how the cost per kwh goes down over a period of time vis a vis rising costs for conventional power projects. Besides regulatory incentives around costs and subsidies, this form of power has been seen to entail fast payback periods, low gestation time windows, low manpower ratios and less marketing risks when compared to other sources
Technology, too, has abetted this edge and change. Wind turbines can range from stall regulated to pitch regulated that aligns with grid-interactive power. The industry is using various approaches like fixed rotor blades or adjustable rotor blades or lattice, steel tubular and concrete tubular towers as well as rotors, gearboxes and generators.
The idea is to reasonably, timely and profitably convert kinetic energy available in wind to electrical energy. Usually the concept is simple. When wind turns the blades of a machine, these rotating blades in turn, move the shaft to which they are attached and these turning shafts power a pump or turn a generator, thus producing electricity. Depending on the size of blades or speed of the wind, the output can increase manifold.
As to India, the output and momentum of wind power has shown a positive growth. From an installed wind power base of some 1.6 GW in 2002 (according to MNRE); the wind power generation capacity has grown to over 25 GW in 2015. The good news is that the base is growing fast, largely driven by the government's aim to have an installed wind power capacity of 60 GW by 2022.
Wind Over Matter
Wind power comes with several good dimensions that make it more viable and environmental friendly than other mediums. In fact, the pollution saving from a WEG with an average output of 4,00,0.00 kWh per year has been estimated like this: Sulphur - dioxide (SO2): 2 to 3.2 tonnes, Nitrogen - oxide (NO); 1.2 to 2.4 tonnes, Carbon - dioxide (CO2): 300 to 500 tonnes and Particulates: 150 to 280 kg.
Also, fossil fuels' usability is not there all the time like that of wind. They have to be procured and made usable through time-consuming and environmentally-negative processes. Transportation, processing, emissions, over reliance on Oil etc are other sides of fossil power that tip the scale in favour of wind power.
Air Pockets
Wind power however, has been witnessing some constraints and barriers that de-accelerate its rise as a widely-used power generation mode. Here location strategy is strongly dependent on strong wind availability; the energy produced is unpredictable as well as intermittent thus forcing the need for a strong back-up supply from other sources.
This also makes wind power amenable for serving only part of a utility's total energy needs. There is also a serious issue regarding utility power balancing, demand-supply alignment and load-following factors that wind power has to adequately catch up to. Damage of blades due to high winds and lighting, repair and maintenance of high-seated rotating parts and fluctuations of voltage and power factor are other concerns too.
What is required right now for winds to sail well in India is a host of factors – strong technology innovation, availability of latest advancements in turbines and components, opening up of new sites, adaptability and involvement of utilities and industry, focus on infrastructure capability along with capacity for manufacture, installation, operation and maintenance of wind electric generators; and of course, timely and positive policy support.
The time is right for wind power to gush ahead with a new force and this is when the industry and the market here have to remind themselves of these words from Edward Gibbon
"The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."
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Astrology - June 2012 Monthly Horoscope (Rasi Palan)
June 2012 Monthly Rasi Palan (Horoscope) for each moon sign
Sun will be transiting onto Risbha Rasi and Midhuna Rasi during the month of June 2012. Saturn goes Direct Station on Jun 25, 2012 on Kanya Rasi is one important event during this month. Mars is entering on to Kanya Rasi on June 21, 2012 is another important event since it stayed on Simha Rasi since Oct 31, 2011. Nearly Mars stayed 8 months on one Rasi because of retrograde staion is unusal scenario and it is going to affect mainly on real estate sector. Since both Saturn and Mars are joining on Kanya Rasi from June 21, 2012, the effect will be huge. Of course, for some people it would be positive and others not. Venus going direct station on Jun 27, 2012 is another important change to watch.
Cick on your moon sign below to find your rasi palan (Horoscope) for the month of June 2012 on this page.
|Mesham (Aries)
|Rishabham (Taurus)
|Midhunam (Gemini)
|Katagam (Cancer)
|Simham (Leo)
|Kanni (Virgo)
|Thulam (Libra)
|Vrichigam (Scorpio)
|Dhanush (Sagittarius)
|Makaram (Capricorn)
|Kumbam (Aquarius)
|Meenam (Pisces)


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I love fall, its my favorite of all the seasons. The colors, the food and of course, Halloween! The pumpkin patch we usually go to moved this year so we tried a new one. We went to Kruger's Farm which is located on Sauvie Island. I loved it. They have local beer served up in mason jars and lots of good food.
I opened a new etsy store - Souly Stones Lite. It carries simpler & less expensive jewelry and clearance pieces. I've started making pin-pendants again featuring my hubby's photography which you can find at my new shop. And something new I'm working on - handmade jewelry boxes. The boxes are 100% recycled - many more sizes and themes to come. http://www.soulystoneslite.etsy.com
Front of pin-pendant
Back of pin-pendant
Handmade Jewelry Box


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Art Education
Art education studies art, its traditions and cultural roles, with a focus on the processes whereby individuals and communities create and experience art. We understand the arts as expressive, symbolic and communicative practices that exist in all human cultures in various forms and with different meanings, depending on their historical and social context. Students of art education familiarize themselves with traditions and theories of art as well as with contemporary art movements and art educational practices. Phenomena belonging to everyday and environmental aesthetics,re as well as the use of art in educational settings, cultural institutions, working life and hospitals are also taught and studied. Research and teaching in art education relates to all the department's focus areas, but especially to artistic expression, experiencing and interpreting art, as well as children's and youth culture.
Our aim is to train broad-minded, visionary and competent people for responsible positions within the artworld and cultural field. Students can work with planning and administration in the arts and culture sector, as journalists or museum educators, cultural producers or researchers. Note: we do not train visual arts teachers for schools. The choice of minor subjects is important with respect to future career possibilities.
Art History
Art creates visual appearances to the operations of the human mind, feelings, beliefs, imagination, and reasoning. An art historian focuses on these operations, studying and interpreting those phenomena of art which can be visually observed. It can be a question of an artist's life or profession, the ways of making art, its appearance and thematics, its social, ideological, cultural, religious, philosophical or scientific background, modes of reception, or the theories of art.
Art History takes into consideration the historical premises of making and thinking about art. Art historians also consider art history itself as being subject to historical change. Today, the field of study not only covers the traditional visual arts and architecture, the so-called "high art", but also the phenomena of visual culture and cultural environments in a larger perspective. Furthermore, the history of art history, as well as the theories of art have also become a critically studied part of the discipline.
Contemporary Culture
The purpose of the Contemporary Culture is to represent and advance multi- and cross-disciplinary work in cultural studies, especially with a view to combine humanities and social science approaches. The focus of the research is on today's cultural phenomena. Starting from a broad definition of culture, the research is concerned with the relationship and interaction between the cultural and social spheres, the issues of everyday life and the meanings and functions of the media and the arts. Sociocultural modernization has affected the status and characteristics of culture and its relations to the social and economic spheres. As a consequence, identities and meanings in these terms have lost their former contours, and their constructions and changes pose new challenges for empirical research and cultural theory alike.
Empirical research has been concerned with the production, distribution, reception and use of cultural products. In particular, research has been targeting the reception and use of literature and audiovisual culture, especially the media culture for/of children and youth. Fandom studies have also been prominent in this area. Other important strands have been narrative and autobiographical studies and digital culture studies. Methodologically, discourse analysis, narrative approaches, the sociology of culture, and online methods have been strong in the discipline.
Creative Writing
Creative writing is a line of specialization in the advanced level of studies in Literature. It combines creative writing, the pedagogy of writing and research. The studies lead to the degree of Master of Arts (with literature as the main subject). It is also possible to complete a doctoral degree in creative writing.
The aim of the studies is to familiarize oneself with writing on a theoretical level, as well as to develop textual skills and artistic working methods. The studies on creative writing emphasize the student's relationship with literature and the specialization on a particular theme in writing. The student may focus on a genre or the pedagogy of writing. Research can also be conducted on scriptwriting, translation, online writing or therapeutic writing.
A degree that emphasizes creative writing is the student's specimen both artistically and research-wise. When conducting the master's thesis work, one can utilize new possibilities of research. The student may, for example, include artistic work as a part of the research.
Hungarian Studies
Hungarian Studies in the University of Jyväskylä ventures to teach Hungarian language and culture as well as to enhance and generate international research in the field.
The subject of Literature researches and teaches Finnish and comparative literature in interaction with each other. Literature fosters and develops national literary culture and aims to deepen the understanding of other cultures and internationality via foreign literatures. The research and teaching within Literature focuses on contemporary literature, modern trends in Finnish and European literature, narrative theory, theory of the novel, as well as on the interfaces between literature, philosophy, cultural studies, and technology.
Literature is also responsible for educating teachers of the Finnish language and literature. Furthermore, research and teaching under Creative Writing Studies is incorporated in Literature on the advanced and post-graduation levels.
Despite its name the main goal of museology is not the museum, because museums are only tools in the heritage process. The discipline is defined at Jyväskylä University as follows: "Museology (heritology) explores the way in which the individual and the community perceive and control the temporal and regional environment through taking into possession pieces of evidence from the past and the present." In this way the heritage and the process that produces it is the main interest of museology. The discipline also offers practical tools for working with cultural and natural heritage, as well as with art in museums or in other heritage organizations.
Music Education
In music education, the aim of the studies is to acquaint students with the contents and methods used in the field as well as to give them the knowledge and pedagogical and attitudinal skills required in teaching music in comprehensive and secondary schools. The students are also prepared to conduct scholarly research and follow current research in the field. Among other things, the studies also include both pedagogical and multicultural educational aspects.
As a scientific discipline, musicology seeks to understand musical activities on a cultural and personal level. Music itself is a rich collection of phenomena, which can be approached from various perspectives, including aesthetic, cultural, acoustic, social interactionist and music theoretical perspectives. At the University of Jyväskylä, musicological research has focused on Finnish art music and musical life, and society in general. Since the early 1990s, music cognition (cognitive musicology) has been a special area of expertise. Musicology has been taught as a major subject at the University of Jyväskylä since 1968
Music Psychology Training
Music plays an important role in every society and culture. It is an important part of all aspects of life, including various social, religious, recreational and cultural occasions. Many people spend a considerable amount of time daily listening to music or playing a musical instrument. Music can affect and regulate our mood and emotions, and can be used as a therapeutic medium.
Music Psychology Training focuses on how these issues can be investigated using scientific methods. It consists of two Master's Degree programmes: Master's Degree Programme in Music, Mind and Technology (MMT) and Master's Degree Programme in Music Therapy (MT).


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Titanic: 100 Years Later represents the Virginia Newspaper Project's effort to highlight the potential of newspapers as a source for historical and social research. It offers a gateway to a great human-interest story with cultural significance, enduring appeal, old and new controversy, and excellent, often spectacular newspaper coverage.
In fact, the Titanic disaster can be seen as an event that pushed the newspaper industry to fully grasp and exploit available and developing technologies. Not only to get the story straight but to get it out faster and, if possible, with eye grabbing imagery.
Given that newspapers covered the Titanic from Sydney to New York, to Richmond, VA to London, England, it is easy to see the Titanic as one of the first truly international news events providing readers with gripping daily updates. Newspaper coverage of the sad tragedy at sea serves as a teasing preview that decades later Marshall Mcluhan called the information global village.
The Titanic sank on April 15, 1912, in the North Atlantic Ocean. The disaster reveals the full breadth of humankind's potential for bravery, self-sacrifice, cowardice and willful negligence. The dramatic and tragic events of one of the greatest peacetime maritime disasters is made even more compelling by the very real questions relating to cause and effect, as well as the tragedy's enduring aftermath.
But the sinking of the Titanic is more than an isolated historic event. The ship was the product of early 20th century industrial vigor, a definitive sign of western progress that supported a naive confidence in the boundless limits of technology in man's conquest over nature. And in turn, the disaster is often viewed as an example of hubris on a grand scale.
The images themselves represent a sort of social history, 1912 caught in the amber of newsprint. In this context, it is not just what is covered—society, fashion, world events—but how the news is conveyed that reveals a past era's norms of public expression. The Titanic story provided the burgeoning newspaper industry with the perfect jumping off point for in-depth human interest stories, hard core journalism and sensational imagery from photographs to detailed diagrams, all with the purpose of bringing a disaster in the distant North Atlantic to the reader's living room.
Note: In order to provide equal access to information on our site, we offer text transcriptions of the articles offered here. Due to the age and condition of the original documents, we cannot guarantee that the transcriptions are exact.
The Virginia Newspaper Project, once focused on cataloging and preserving through microfilming newspapers housed throughout the commonwealth has more recently been engaged in digitizing Virginia imprint newspapers published between the years 1836 and 1922. The Library of Virginia was one of six original awardees of the National Digital Newspaper Program, funded in large part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Library of Congress is the host institution for Chronicling America, the NDNP's dynamic text searchable database and repository of historical United States imprint newspapers.
We encourage readers to visit Chronicling America to delve deeper into the darker mysteries surrounding the sinking of the Titanic.


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Acupuncture is the Ancient Chinese practice of using fine needles on specific points of the body to clear blocked channels of energy. This eases many aches and pains and promotes the balance necessary for good health.
Acupuncture is widely available throughout the whole of Andalucia, but you will find more English speaking practices concentrated on the Costa del Sol. This is especially true of the stretch from Malaga and Torremolinos to Estepona to the west - and Nerja to the east. Many thousands of UK residents and tourists live in and visit these areas the whole year round and acupuncture is becoming ever more popular and widely available. Many British and other foreign residents and tourists discover acupuncture for the first time when the come to Andalucia.
Make sure you are comfortable with the practitioner and if you see no evidence of the usual framed certificates on the clinic walls, then don't be shy to ask for details of their training and experience. If you are unsure, or new to the area or simply on holiday, it's a better idea to attend a reputable clinic in a main town, than to reply to a small ad or to have a home or hotel visit.
Acupuncture has been practiced in China for over 3,500 years. The Chinese see the body as having two opposite but complementary forces - Yin (negative) and Yang (positive). When these two forces are balanced, then the bodies energy, Chi, flows freely along routes known as meridians. Imbalance blocks the Chi and causes ill health. When the acupuncturist places the fine needle in the appropriate point of the meridian, it taps into the body's natural energy flow and rebalances the Yin and Yang to bring back harmony and good health.
My first experience of acupuncture was in Torremolinos. I was depressed and run down after a family bereavement. A close friend recommended an experienced Acupuncturist in Torremolinos. Spanish, but with good knowledge of English and an assistant to translate where necessary, I was immediately put at ease and had full confidence in the treatment, which soon put me back on track to face life with renewed energy. I had ten sessions over about 5 weeks and already saw big improvements after the third visit.
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Some groups are at greater risk, per trip, of dying in a crash. Educational attainment plays a dominant role in motor vehicle occupant deaths but race/ethnicity, independently of education, also affects death rates.
These are some of the key findings of an Institute analysis of 1995 data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System and Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey. The study looks at passenger vehicle occupant deaths per 10 million trips among people 25-64 years old by race/ethnicity (blacks, whites, Hispanics), gender, and socioeconomic status as indicated by educational attainment.
Death rates per unit of travel differed considerably by race/ethnicity and gender. Black men, and to a lesser extent black women, had higher death rates than whites. Per trip, black men were about 1.5 times more likely to die, compared with white men.
Hispanic men, but not Hispanic women, had higher rates. The men were about 1.3 times more likely to die per trip, compared with white men. Women's death rates were less than half those of men across all racial/ethnic and socioeconomic groups.
In every racial/ethnic group, the highest death rates were among the people who hadn't completed high school. Men and women without high school diplomas had about 3 times the fatality risk of people who had some education beyond high school. The very highest death rates were among white men who hadn't graduated from high school.
Some of the racial/ethnic differences in death rates changed when the rates were compared among groups with the same educational levels. Hispanic men had the same or lower risk of dying relative to white men. This wasn't true for blacks — those with high school diplomas or further education were more likely to die in crashes, relative to whites. A slight elevation in death rates was observed among Hispanic women with education beyond high school, compared with white women of similar educational attainment.
"It's important to realize that socioeconomic status was the key determinant of occupant death rates per trip. Death rates went down with increasing levels of education for all racial/ethnic groups, but the rates went down more for whites than for blacks, so we saw higher death rates for blacks than for whites in the groups with more education," says Elisa Braver, senior researcher at the Institute.
Researchers also looked at differences in the risky behaviors that affect death rates. Fatally injured drivers who had not completed high school had the lowest rates of safety belt use and the highest blood alcohol concentrations (BACs). In addition, there were racial and ethnic differences in these two risk factors. Hispanic male drivers who died in crashes were more likely than whites or blacks to have high BACs. This partly reflects the lower educational levels among Hispanic men killed in crashes.
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Hello and happy Monday.
I know I'm supposed to post my Friday Night Sew In results on a Saturday, but I never get a chance. Better late than never though. Except it's not as I've forgotten to take a picture! I had embroidered some words for a notebook cover for my dad, but as I then took it upstairs ready to be sewed to the notebook cover, I forgot to take a photo! I will post it when the notebook is done.
It's not all I did on Friday night though, I also made these little drawing pins. Not great, but my dad should appreciate them! They're to go with the fabric covered notice board I'm yet to make him!
We also had a bit of a Sunday Morning Sew In with my stepdaughter and her friend - both aged 11. They were sitting right next to me staring as I finished one of the drawing pins above so I asked them if they wanted to make something, oh they did! So I got out my basket of felt and fetched down The Cute Book and Felties and asked them to choose one each.
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I made sure to tell Mr Crafter'sApprentice to say they were fantastic, just in case he forgot!! It was so hard resisting the urge to snatch the needle out of their hands and do it myself!
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The House Built in 1840
So my crazy husband and I were out yard sale hunting this past weekend (in the snow). I know, I know. We are crazy! But boy am I glad we did because we just happened to find this house that was having an estate sale.
Pretty sure I freaked out. You could tell it was super old by the looks of it and I had always wanted to see the inside. Turns out the house was built in 1840 and still had the original slave quarters in the back, hand blown glass in the windows, and many of the original paintings from 1840. Talk about a find.
We didn't find anything to buy other than some notecards simply because I felt bad that we were spending so much time looking around and thus was determined to find something to buy. (Most all of the items were over $1,000!) But the house itself was neat.
I would bet money on saying the house is haunted. It was just plain creepy.
I tried to snap as many pictures as I could quickly but the owners were a little weary of my phone so after getting caught twice I snapped one more photo, bought my notecards, told them they had an aewsome house, and left. So without further ado here are the pictures I was able to snap...I apologize in advance for the quality.
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The 280-metre long walkway is suspended 40 feet off the ground with five bridges. It is within one of the country's lesser known tourism sites in the Eastern Region – The Bunso Arboretum.
It has six platforms where tourists can make stopovers to explore and soak in the breath-taking fauna and flora.
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Soccer News of Tue, 17 Jun 201422
US coach warns Ghana over Germany's smashing form
United States coach Jurgen Klinsmann has warned Ghana that they must get a result in their next World Cup match against Germany on Saturday or forget about progressing in the tournament in Brazil.
The Black Stars face Germany in their next match in Fortaleza on June 21 after losing their opening match 2-1 to the Americans in Natal on Monday night.
Ghana were stunned after just 30 seconds when Clint Dempsey finished off a great move down the left by weaving through the Africans' defence to beat Adam Kwarasey at the keeper's far post.
Andre Ayew struck an 82nd minute equaliser for the Black Stars but only four minutes later second-half substitute John Brooks headed a late corner through the defence and past Kwarasey to send the huge USA support at Estadio das Dunas wild.
Ghana, quarter-finalists in 2010, now face a huge task to qualify from a group which includes Germany and Portugal. Earlier, Germany thumped Portugal 4-0.
Klinsmann, who is German, is heaping pressure on the Ghanaians by claiming that their next opponents can be dangerous following the demolition on Portugal.
USA coach Jurgen Klinsmann — who led the Mannschaft to third place as coach in 2006 — warned: "I think Germany is the favourite in this Group. Ghana will face Germany next, and they have to get a result.
"We watched the Germany game today and I can only give them huge compliment. Impressive, no doubt about it."
Ghana came to Brazil hoping to improve on their performance in 2010 when they narrowly failed to make the semi-finals when striker Asamoah Gyan missed a penalty against Uruguay after Luis Suarez stopped the ball with his hand on the line.
Uruguay went on to win the penalty shoot-out, and later claimed a fourth place finish.
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