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I like to bake something on Sundays. I used to do it religiously during Charlie's Sunday nap each week. Something that we can munch on for breakfast or after school or when we need a little something to tide us over until the next meal. It just makes me feel good to have a homemade baked good sitting on the island that screams love all week. Muffins, a loaf of bread, cake, granola. Banana bread was on heavy rotation before Ben came along. Charlie loves baked goods as much as I do, thank goodness. Mike's just not into the breads like we are. I hope I passed on this wonderful love to Ben too.
My Sunday baking routine has been a little bit rocked by Ben's arrival though (as have many other things hehe) so we've been surviving on teddy grahams and granola bars lately. This Sunday though, I managed to put Ben in the baby k'tan for some baking while Charlie was taking his afternoon nap and Mike was out working on the yard.
I had blueberries in the freezer from a couple weeks ago when pints were going for $1. You know I stocked up. They've been on my mind lately, as they tumble out of the freezer with a crash each time I open the door, so I browsed around online for some blueberry recipes during a quiet nursing moment and found this easy blueberry cake on Taste of Home. It looked like just the thing for a summery week of snacking.
I hope this baking session means that I'm learning how to live life as mom of two and can get back to some of my other normal routines – like showering regularly and eating dinner at a normal speed rather than scarfing down as much as I can before someone needs me 😂.
What you need:
1 stick butter (softened)
1 cup sugar + 1-2 tablespoons for topping
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 3/4 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup blueberries – fresh or frozen
What to do:
+ Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
+ Cream butter and sugar until fluffy, 3-5 minutes.
+ Add eggs, milk and vanilla.
+ Mix in flour and baking powder until just combined.
+ Gently fold in blueberries by hand. If you want to prevent them from sinking to the bottom of your cake, mix with a tablespoon or so of flour to cost before adding. I skipping because, babies.
+ Pour into greased 8 inch cake pan OR 9×5 loaf pan.
+ Top with reserved sugar.
+ Bake for 45-50 minutes.
This was such a quick and easy everyday cake recipe. I'm sure you could substitute with other fruits that you might have on hand, but the blueberry was especially yummy.


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You work hard at growing your subscriber lists. Okay, they're here! Now what are you going to do with them?!
Similar to your website traffic analytics, you can learn a lot from keeping a close eye on your email marketing efforts. Email marketing can help you communicate with and advertise specials and important messaging to your customers. Beyond that, it can help you better identify your audience, determine what messaging is effective and help you push forward with the right marketing strategy.
As more and more customers join your list, they become one of your most valuable resources to gain insights into your buyer personas. With some of the most popular email newsletter companies (we love Mailchimp) there is a wealth of great information you can read from their reports. You can create custom forms to collect everything from email, addresses, phone numbers, ages and other important demographics and preferences. One of the most important points of info is their signup method and location. Understanding how your customers found you is crucial to better target them in the future and give you a better idea of where to focus your marketing and advertising efforts.
Let's say that you find that many of your newsletter subscribers are coming from a specific landing page, promotion or page on your website. Maybe they are coming from a certain social media platform. Wherever it is, you may want to shift more focus towards connecting with customers via those strategies you are finding success with. Many email platforms, like Mailchimp, allow you to segment people in groups based on where they have come from. You can send different messages to those that have purchased vs. those who have yet to purchase.
You can try creating newsletter signup forms in various locations of your website, social platforms or other media channels and this will allow you to see where your subscribers are coming from. What is peaking their interest and drawing them in might surprise you. This data is being collected for a reason and is a valuable value add that these companies are providing. Don't skimp on your time analyzing this data to gain further insight into your customer. Make sure you are thinking about ways to interpret this information and apply it to bring your business further success. This may require some help from a trusted marketing team. Most good email platforms also allow you to set up specialized abandoned cart or custom messaging to compel those who weren't initially sold on your product to be drawn back in.
One of the coolest things about some of the more popular email platforms, like Mailchimp or Constant Contact, is the information that you can garner about results of specific campaigns. You can get a lot of information from these reports. Learn more about click through rate, opens and other essential metrics. If you find that your customers aren't engaging in your campaigns then you are wasting your time. You need to use data like this to hone in on data that your customer seems to find interesting and then tailor your marketing strategies around this invaluable information.
Every little peak and valley in results does not need to send you into mourning or celebration. Pull together reports from multiple campaigns to start to see trends in time of day, content or calls to action that seem to be more successful than others. If you start to see consistent down trends it might be time to do some adjusting. Do you need a new email template design? Is there a certain promotion you should run? A new offering you should try highlighting? Maybe your email blast just needs to be sent on a different day of the week or time.
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I, was born in 1980, in FREEPORT GRAND BAHAMA , the nation's second city.
At the time I was an only child living with my mother in a single parent home. At the age of 9yrs old my mother and I moved to Nassau the capital, in search of a new life closer to the rest of my family. Before this time I never knew who my father was, even though my father was in my life now my mother still played a 95% role in my life. She showed me the way of life an what its all about. My mom worked very hard during my younger day, so I spent a lot of time bouncing throughout the lives of my aunts an uncles, learning and picking up many different trades and ideas, an personalities,! It was like they all were grooming me for the real world. I found my identity through the love of sports! I played for many different teams, played almost every sport, but my love was baseball and basketball. In these two sports I would excel an travel the world. I've been places like, Utah, Tennessee, Alabama, Daytona beach, north carolina, olando, Atlanta georgia, just about all over south florida playing ball. I graduated from C.I Gibson senior high school in 1999, where I spent the best of my years, its also where I got my stage name from. that's right my pears in school from about grade nine the whole school either called me cardo or money, an it stayed with me ever since. My last year in school was alittle disappointing but as I look back as a man I thank the lord for the way my life turned out, because many people would probably thought I would have became a failure by the way things ended for me in school. I was one of the most popular students, an one of the most honored, had nine different scholarships to nine different foreign schools an a baby on the way by my high school sweetheart!!,. On November 20th. I watched my first born Talicia Archestia Ranesha Johnson enter the world, I held her in my arms just 5 seconds in the world her eyes were opened, she looked at me, she never cried I did, an from that moment on I made my decision to put all fun an games asides and made my way into society, that same year I left my mothers womb. I left the game of sports as a young teenager and the streets made me a man in an instant. Yeah I'll not lie, I been locked up many times did many 48's an I did a lot of wrongs in the past to feed my family but I always stayed focus. At the age of 21yrs old I had my own business!, EXECUTIVE JEWELLERS est.in 2001. The hater scale blow off the charts, friends turned into enemies, I mean everybody was trying to put a scheme on me . I was robbed by gun point, shot at many time, followed by robbers, had a home invasion attempted robbery, been stabbed in the back with an ice pick, people already tried knocking me down intentionally off my motorbike an all, so you know I know all about ups an downs. I always had a love for music, my grand father Willie Wilson was a one man band, I would watch him rehearse an sing for me during my very early age in Freeport, an my mother was a dancer in the la cabrie theatre in Freeport so music is in my soul , she often tell people she danced with me in her belly for about , I think she said about 7 or 8 month. Now I have 4 kids ,1 son an 3 daughters , I was married finalizing the divorce, all of my kids live with me .But god has been great to me an sent me an angel just for me ,my last child's mother Crystal Forbes one day Johnson has been good to me and she's my ride or die. We are so much alike, yeah we have ups an downs but we enjoy life together. She's part of what inspires me to sing. I'm the c.e.o of Executive Studio's here in the Bahamas , I have over 8 singles mastered already, I'm an official B.M.I. registered artist, I have a band name the G.G.B.BOYZ aka./GO GET IT BOYZ, consist of right now 5 artist (RICARDO JOHNSON aka. J-MONEY , DEVARIO COLEBROOKE aka. Captain, WILFRED SIMON JR aka. Ice, an a mother daughter duo going as the heartfelt dynamic duo, so far we've dropped songs such as IN MY LIFE, GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN, LETS GO PARTY, GET YA SHINE ON, an many more soon to hit the streets of the 242. Currently we have underground sales going very well also. Sky is the limit!


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US woman accused of trying to join, martyr self for IS group
Philadelphia, Apr 4: A woman has been arrested on charges she tried to join and martyr herself for the Islamic State group, a day after two women in New York were charged with plotting to wage jihad by building a bomb and using it for a Boston Marathon-type attack.
Keonna Thomas, 30, was preparing to fly to Spain with hopes of reaching Syria to fight with the terror group, authorities said.
Instead, she was arrested yesterday at her family's town house in a public housing development, which has three small US flags adorning the porch.
Authorities said she communicated with an Islamic State group fighter in Syria who asked if she wanted to be part of a martyrdom operation.
She told the fighter that the opportunity "would be amazing, ... a girl can only wish," according to the documents.
A federal magistrate ordered Thomas held pending a detention hearing Wednesday. Prosecutors will oppose bail. Last month, Thomas bought a ticket to fly to Barcelona on March 29.
She likely planned to take a bus to Istanbul and then reach Syria, according to an FBI affidavit filed in the case. Authorities put a stop to the trip when they raided her house March 27.
In court, Thomas wore a burqa as she acknowledged she understood the charge against her attempting to provide material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organisation.
She was appointed a public defender, who did not comment on the charge. Thomas appeared to show little emotion as she was led out of the house yesterday morning in handcuffs, neighbour Ronni Patterson said.
Patterson said she had seen investigators searching the home, where Thomas appeared to live with her mother and grandmother, a week ago.
The women in the New York case are accused of plotting to wage violent jihad by building a bomb and using it for an attack like the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings.
They were ordered held without bail after a brief court appearance Thursday. The lawyer for one of them said his client will plead not guilty.
Thomas is charged with attempting to provide material aid to terrorists, one of the same charges filed in 2010 against another Pennsylvania woman, Colleen LaRose, known as Jihad Jane, and two co-defendants in a terror plot that prosecutors say also involved online messages and recruitment for overseas terror suspects.


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|Posted by Eric Robinson on July 6, 2012 at 10:50 AM
In the last post, I talked about the Importance of Buy a 'Used Guitar' over Buying a 'New Guitar'. One of the Most Important things that I look at when Buying a Guitar... - The Materials Used to Make the Guitar!!!
Let's say that - You want a Guitar that has the 'Famous' Fender American Deluxe Strat sound. But, you don't have $1,500.00 to buy one. A way to get a Guitar that has a similar sound is by, Buying a Guitar that is made with the same Materials. The Fender American Deluxe Stratocaster is made with an Alder Body & Rosewood or Maple Fret Board. There's a lot more Materials that make up the Guitar. But, looking for a Guitar that has these components are a Great Start!
I have found that there are quite a few Brands (many people haven't heard of), that are trying to 'Make A Name'. These Smaller Companies are trying Really Hard to compete with the Bigger Companies. Many of the Smaller Companies are producing High Quality Guitars at a fraction of the price of the Bigger Companies. - See, the Smaller Companies only become Bigger Companies, if people buy their products. So, many of their Guitars have the Quality of the Bigger Company Guitars. But, they are available for $300.00 (or less) - for a New Guitar!
--I would rather have a 'Top Of The Line Guitar' from a Smaller Company that isn't well known than, a 'Bottom Of The Line Guitar' from a Bigger Company that is well known.
Keep in Mind - The Smaller Company is trying hard to prove that they can compete with the Bigger Company. Their 'Top Of The Line Guitars' will have their Best Quality parts.
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Dance contest raises $23,000 for Diabetes Association
What started out as a dance event in a young girl's driveway in 2000 has become a full-scale organization, founded by a UCF graduate, that raises thousands of dollars each year to help find a cure for diabetes by having dance groups from the Central-Florida area perform.
"Each and every year [Dancing for Diabetes] grows in such magnitude that the potential for what lies ahead is pretty amazing to think about," said Elizabeth Stein, founder and president of Dancing for Diabetes.
This year, UCF's Knights and Damsels Dance Company performed at the 14th annual Dancing for Diabetes event at Seminole High School on Saturday. Stein said the event raised around $23,000. A portion of these funds will be donated to the American Diabetes Association and another portion will be used to send kids with diabetes to diabetes camp.
"I went to UCF for my master's degree and it was great to see Knights and Damsels represent UCF with a program that means so much to the Central-Florida area," Stein said.
Junior elementary education major Adrina Burney, a dancer for Knights and Damsels Dance Company, said it felt awesome representing UCF for this cause and the event was a big success.
"It was great seeing how all the companies were exited to dance for a great cause. Seeing as we were the only college group there, it didn't matter what age we are since we were all dancing for the same cause," she said. "I felt like the whole program was a great way to raise awareness and it was one of those things where I felt like I did make a difference."
Junior advertising-public relations major Shoshanna Babitt, vice president of Knights and Damsels Dance Company, has performed for Dancing for Diabetes in the past while attending Seminole High School as part of the Dazzlers dance group. She said she enjoys continuing to be a part of the event while in college.
"Watching the show grow is great and I think it's great that [Elizabeth] is making it bigger and bigger every year," she said.
Burney said she felt a close connection to the cause as she looked at all of the dancers who were wearing Dancing for Diabetes shirts, since her father was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
"When we were all wearing our shirts I was like 'Wow, this is for my dad,'" she said.
Stein said there were 658 people in attendance, and 350 dancers and volunteers.
"I was really excited for the large turnout," Burney said. "When I was on stage and the lights came on it was pretty awesome seeing how many people came out for [Dancing for Diabetes]."
Stein said the Knights and Damsels Dance Company was a fantastic addition to the show and that she would like to see a UCF group participate again in Dancing for Diabetes in the future.
"UCF is part of the fight against diabetes already with research and programs, and when we all come together for programs such as Dancing for Diabetes, what actually gets accomplished is so much greater," she said.
Babitt and Burney both said they would like to perform at Dancing for Diabetes in the future.
"Dancing at the event felt like it was more than just a performance, it was for a cause," Burney said.


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Fox Sports Español to air World Series
Fox Sports World Español has acquired Spanish-language telecast rights to the fall 2001 Major League Baseball playoffs and World Series from Fox Sports.
Fox Sports World Español will produce on-air graphics, audio and video package specific to Spanish-speaking audiences to reach more than 2.2 million Latino households - and a total of four million households. Fox Sports holds all telecast rights to the league playoffs and World Series through the 2006 MLB campaign as part of its current six-year deal at $417 million per year.
Fox Sports World Español moved into baseball coverage in 1999 by acquiring U.S. telecast rights to the Dominican and Venezuelan Leagues, and the Caribbean World Series. Terms of the deal with Fox Sports were not disclosed. Fox's Spanish-language cable sports network is affiliated with Fox Sports International, a venture between News Corporation Ltd. and Liberty Media Corp. - Richard Tedesco


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I Am Able
I believe we all have moments of weakness. Sometimes there are just days that we may feel like "throwing in the towel" or we may justify our "right" to throw ourselves a good ol pity party. Life is unpredictable, sometimes hard, and oftentimes messy.
When these "messy" days come, I like to think back to an old song that probably many of you know and it goes something like this… Count your blessings name them one by one, count your many blessings see what God has done! It's good to remember all the many ways that the Lord has blessed us, isn't it? Our lives are messy because we are all imperfect, but it's a beautiful mess. The Lord is truly gracious to us.
Another great "go to" thought I once learned is this: on those I –think –I-might-should-just-go-back-to-bed-and-start-over-tomorrow kind of days, to remind yourself "I AM ABLE." I learned this "I AM ABLE" idea from a Lisa TerKeurst bible study I once led. I love this idea! It gives such a wonderful perspective for this messy kind of life.
Well, last week was definitely a messy week. My week first started off by quickly loading my kids into the car for school only to find that a sippy cup of milk had been left in the hot car all weekend long. Apparently some of the milk had leaked out onto the carpet, right underneath the driver's seat, resulting in a horrid smell. I spent most of the week chauffeuring my family around to various activities with the windows rolled down, trying to air out the death-like odor that was seeping out from under my chair. I kept trying to remind myself of my little "go to" thought: "I AM ABLE". I am able to drive, I am able to smell, I am able to own enough sippy cups that this particular cup was able to be missing for an entire weekend, I am able to buy milk, I am able to clean the carpet in my car, I am able to have a car in the first place…Yes, thank you Lord, for all these blessings!
The next day, I was folding laundry and feeling very good about my productive afternoon. The kids had had a great day at school, I had given them an after school snack, we had snuggled for a while, I had folded the laundry (left on top of my bed and still needed to put it away), and now the kids were playing while I began to cook dinner. My plan was to put away all of the laundry that was nicely folded on my bed, after dinner had been started. Then, I heard laughing. It was the kind of laugh that my sweet boy lets out when he is having one of his "Autism moments". The only way I can describe this laugh would be: complete abandon. Its goes beyond silly. It is a very peculiar noise. It is the kind of laugh that does not signal regular "happy play", but rather a very odd since of being detached from reality. I followed the laughing only to find every single article of clothing that I had folded to be put away, scattered all over the bedroom. There were socks hanging from fan blades, underwear on the curtains, t-shirts in the floor…it was a mess! I am able to fold laundry, I am able to have clothes, my child is able to throw, look at all these clothes that the Lord has provided for us!…Thank you Lord, for all these blessings!
Then, there was bath time. It was towards the end of a very messy week. I was tired. I ran the bathwater and put my sweet boy in to play. He loves bath time! It's one of the happiest times in his day. Ezra loves to lie back in the water and feel the bath bubbles cover his skin. It's a sensory thing! He played for quite a while and had a great time. When it was time to get out, I reached in to pick him up out of the water only to realize that beneath the bubble topped water, my little man had pooped. Gross!!! I disinfected the kid. I disinfected the tub. I am able to clean the tub, I am able to give my child a bath, I have running water, I have soap, my child has well-functioning bowels… who am I kidding? This is disgusting! I mean really, how much more messy can this week get? Can't I catch a break? Ahhhhhhh!!!
That's right. I was done. I was done with my messy week. It didn't seem like a beautiful mess at all. It was smelly, gross, and messy. I felt completely justified in having at least a small pity party for myself. And I was pretty sure I was getting a head cold. What else could possibly happen?!
Later that same night, our family sat on the couch together for our customary pre-bedtime snuggles. Grace was curled up in her daddy's lap on one side of me and Ezra had actually climbed up in my lap and was snuggling me. He sort of shifted this way and that way until he was sitting with one leg on either side of me and we were nose to nose. And you know what? My three year old, mostly non-verbal, Autistic son looked me straight in the eyes and said, "Hi Momma!"
This is probably only about the fifth or sixth time I have ever heard him say my name.
I am able to hear my sweet baby's voice, He was able to say my name, I am able to sit and hold my babies on my couch, I have a family, and I am able to care for my children. All these messes are evidence of a full home and a full heart. Even when life gets tough, I AM ABLE because You Lord, give me strength from day to day and You provide my every need.
Thank you Lord, for all these blessings! Thank you for my beautiful mess! Thank you that I AM ABLE! And thank you Lord, for the refreshed perspective.


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Nama reports €102m profit for first half of year
Nama made a profit of €102m for the first six months of this year, and has guided that it will complete its work by the end of 2017 or mid-2018, according to its annual statement, published yesterday. This was almost double the €55 million surplus achieved in the same period of 2013. The report shows that Nama's cash generation accelerated in the six-month period, generating cash of €5.4 billion during the first half of this year compared with €2 billion in the same period of 2013.
NAMA is also focusing on the completion of a number of residential properties in London in 2015 and 2016, while it is also planning and facilitating the delivery of office accommodation in Dublin with a special focus on the city's Docklands Strategic Development Zone. The agency has committed to ensuring that a pipeline of large portfolios of mainly Irish property assets will be put up for sale, adding that packaged deals for properties with a minimum value of 250m will be offered for sale every four months.
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England Have My (Winter) Bones
I love winter indoors. Outside, not so much. I'm not a fan of snow, bitter temperatures, ice, chilling rains, and many gray days in a row that constitute a Virginia winter. Even as a kid, I didn't like winter sports.
So, every January and February I escape Virginia and head to Britain. I read British books, buy British travel magazines, and scour the international aisle in Wegman's for lemon curd, crumpets, and imported cookies. And tea!
My taste in tea is white–the only kind I drink because it's mild and low in caffeine. White tea has suddenly become very popular for its health benefits. I can make little tea sandwiches, but I'd rather cut to the chase and fix scones, crumpets, and shortbread. I don't care if I never see another sprig of kale or grain of quinoa.
My tastes in reading are broad: from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (but not Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno), to chick lit by Jenny Colgan, whose characters are always running tea shops or bakeries in remote Cornwall or the Outer Hebrides, and Sophie Kinsella's London-infused capers, to the hunting and gun dog mysteries of Gerald Hammond, to the country house sagas of Elizabeth Jane Howard and Susan Howatch.
I also read older British authors. Just look at Frances Hodgson Burnett's autobiography, The One I Knew the Best of All. This copy, that I paid less than $9, was given to "Agnes, from Mamma, Christmas 1893. A tea-worthy book if ever there was one.
In January I dip into the novels of Angela Thirkell, best known in the 1930s and 40s for her satirical look at rural village life. Elizabeth Jane Howard's Cazalet Chronicles is another favorite.
When I'm not reading British books, I'm watching British television. I just finished Season 2 of "The Crown," and am champing at the bit for Season 3. Until it's out in DVD, I'll be satisfied with biographies of the royal family.
The title of this post comes from T.H. White's memoir England Have My Bones. T.H. White was born in British India at the turn of the century. Like most children of colonial parents, he was sent to school in England. He is best known for The Once and Future King, a series of four novels about King Arthur. You might know The Sword in the Stone from the Disney movie. His children's book, Mistress Mashem's Repose, is a classic.
I revisit all these books each winter and discover new ones (eagerly awaiting my reserve library copy of The Gown by Jennifer Robson, about the women who made Princess Elizabeth's wedding dress), teacup by my side. Join me in a cuppa?
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BISCUITS! Not COOKIES!!! 🙂
I love your photographs – they are right on with the trend going on over at Instagram: #bookstagram
It is beyond awesome, you have a book with an 1893 note.
When I find op-shop books with messages from the original buyer, it gives the book a magical quality. Your copy of "The One I Knew The Best Of All" must have a soul.
It just so happens, I'm reading "The Secret Garden" to the girls, at the moment.


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When you become a parent, your top priority is keeping your child safe, happy and secure. We hold our children close those early years, and provide them all the love and guidance they need. Then, we prepare them and send them off to kindergarten, where they'll continue to grow and be shaped by their teachers and peers.
They'll learn their ABCs, how to read, and interact with other children. They'll skip rope, play hopscotch and tag, giggle and laugh, sing songs and feel sleepy during story-time. We'll pick them up when the bell rings, and their eyes will light up as they share what they've learned at school, excited for tomorrow to come again.
That is what children should be doing in kindergarten – have fun learning, making friends, and being kids. They should be singing The Itsy Bitsy Spider and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star – the original versions – not remakes with lyrics that will send chills up your spine.
Georgy Cohen from Somerville, Mass. was saddened to enter her child's classroom and see a sign telling the children what to do when a school lockdown occurs.
"Lockdown. Lockdown. Lock the door
Shut the lights off. Say no more
Go behind the desk and hide.
Wait until it's safe inside
Lockdown. Lockdown. It's all done
Now it's time to have some fun!"
This should not be hanging in my soon-to-be-kindergartener's classroom. pic.twitter.com/mWiJVdddpH— Georgy Cohen (@radiofreegeorgy) June 6, 2018
Reading it alone is disturbing; now sing the lyrics to the tune of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and picture a classroom of four-year-olds singing in unison.
"This should not be hanging in my soon-to-be-kindergartener's classroom," Cohen wrote on Twitter.
No, it shouldn't. It's saddening to know that children may have to sing this at some point – and have perhaps been practicing it already in the classroom. This is the society that we live in today.
Sadly, this is the society we live in today. So far this year in the U.S., there have been 23 school shootings where someone has been hurt or killed according to CNN. That averages to about one shooting per week.
Children should be having fun being kids, not worrying about whether their classroom will become a bloodbath.
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, nine out of ten public schools now drill students and teachers to respond to mass shootings.
Unfortunately, these drills have become the new normal. When it comes to preparing children for school, it never entered our minds that we'd have to prepare them for lockdown drills too.
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Snow no more: Last remnant from April blizzard has finally melted
The final remnants of the blizzard that dropped over 20 inches of snow on the Fox Cities has finally melted.
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APPLETON - The final remnants of the April blizzard that dropped over 20 inches of snow on the Fox Cities has finally melted from the inside of an Appleton parking ramp.
The snow pile located inside the Yellow Parking Ramp between Washington and Morrison streets, now reduced to a wet patch of concrete, took nearly three months to melt.
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The city of Appleton announced the "sad news" through Twitter on Monday morning.
Sad news to report friends. The snow pile that was hanging around in the Yellow Ramp, is now gone. July 9th has to be some sort of record though isn't it?— City of Appleton (@cityofappleton) July 9, 2018
But for those who will miss it, don't be sad. It could easily be back in like four months! #snowgone#gonebutnotforgottenpic.twitter.com/Ak8lQoBSZW
During its three-month life span, the snow pile withstood heat indices around 100 degrees on multiple occasions. As of June 6, the pile was estimated between 12-15 inches tall by a USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin reporter.
Yes there is still snow in #Appleton. JP Heim shared this photo with us of a snow pile that is still in our Yellow Ramp. @AppletonDPW had to dump all that April snow somewhere! pic.twitter.com/uUigGrPAX8— City of Appleton (@cityofappleton) June 5, 2018
The snow was originally dumped inside of the parking ramp after workers removed excess snow from snow banks along city streets.


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Today the OECD made a finding that Australian companies operating overseas should comply with the OECD's Human Rights Principles. This is the first case of the Australian OECD contact point making a finding against an Australian company for a breach of the human rights of people seeking asylum.
For the past two years, the National Justice Project (NJP) and Australian Women in Support of Women on Nauru (AWSWN) have been fighting for justice for a woman known as "Najma" who was raped on Nauru. Following her rape, her sensitive personal details were released to the media by Mercer PR, an Australian communications agency acting for the Nauruan Government.
AWSWN and NJP made a complaint to the Australian OECD contact point on Najma's behalf to demand justice for the breach of her rights and to protect other women on Nauru from similar breaches.
The right to privacy is set out in Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as follows: No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
Adjunct Professor George Newhouse of NJP said "it is my view that by releasing these intimate details, it is likely that Mercer PR and the Nauru government have made women on Nauru unsafe by deterring them from making complaints about rape and gender-based violence to the police. Their actions have also retraumatised Najma."
Julie Macken of AWSWN said "in my opinion, the Nauruan government put the sensitive details of a woman's assault into a media release to send a clear and brutal message to any other woman wanting to speak about their sexual assault."
Najma's sexual assault on Nauru is the tip of the iceberg. It exposes the violence that vulnerable women experience on Nauru and the attitude that the Nauru government has towards them. The statistics on sexual violence in Nauru are horrific with nearly half of all women (47%) experiencing sexual violence perpetrated by someone other than an intimate partner since age 15.
This case shows that Australian companies working for foreign governments need to maintain international human rights notwithstanding their client's instructions. The NJP is investigating whether further legal action could be taken.


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New Delhi :- Cricketer 32 years old Ajit Chandila was life banned for his involvement in the 2013 IPL spot-fixing scandal, while Mumbai batsman Hiken Shah was slapped a five-year suspension for making a corrupt approach by the BCCI disciplinary committee today.
However, the committee, headed by BCCI President Shashan Manohar and comprising Jyotiraditya Scindia and Niranjan Shah deferred a decision on Chandila's co-accused Pakistani umpire named Asad Rauf till February 12,2015 giving him a final deadline of February 9 to file his reply.
"He is held guilty of misconduct and corruption within the Articles 2.1.1; Article 2.1.2; Article 2.1.3; Article 2.1.4; Article 2.2.2; Article 2.2.3; Article 2.4.1 of the BCCI Anti Corruption Code.
Ajit Chandila is banned for Life from playing or representing cricket in any form or to be associated in any way with the activities of the Board or its Affiliates," BCCI Secretary Anurag Thakur said in a statement.
Batsman Shah, on the other hand, was found guilty of making a corrupt approach to a fellow Mumbai player in the domestic circuit.
"He is held guilty of committing breach of Articles 2.1.1; Article 2.1.2 and Article 2.1.4 of the BCCI Anti Corruption Code.
Hiken Shah is banned for five years from playing or representing cricket in any form or to be associated in any way with the activities of the Board or its Affiliates," the BCCI Secretary said.
The hearing of Rauf was scheduled for today but he did not appear in person and sent a reply stating that "no fair enquiry has been conducted in his matter and hence a de novo enquiry be held by appointing another enquiry officer."
The request was refused by the BCCI Disciplinary Committee.
According to the BCCI report , The date of the hearing and the final order has been scheduled for February 12, 2016 at Cricket Centre, Mumbai.


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This article reviews that efficiency on a small scale and a means of curbing emissions make fuel cells an investment for the future. The Connecticut Clean Energy Fund put up the $1.25 million to purchase the fuel cell-power plant from a local company, Fuel Cell Energy Inc., in Danbury. The motive for funding fuel cells goes beyond boosting for local industry, though. As pressures mount on available resources and the environment, fuel cell systems can play a major role in the future of stationary and mobile power generation. Many adherents believe that fuel cell systems promise to provide benefits in a variety of applications. Systems based on PEM and direct methanol technology promise to make power more portable and convenient, and proton exchange membrane (PEM) technology also promises to provide a more efficient, cleaner technology for the automotive industry. PEM, phosphoric acid, molten carbonate, and solid oxide fuel cells are likely to be applied in cogeneration applications that use the exhaust heat.
A fuel cell has made it into Yale. This summer, the university will fire up a new 250-watt fuel cell system, which will meet about a quarter of the electricity needs of the school's Environmental Sciences Building.
The installation is interesting on a number of levels.
It's an experiment in distributed power generation at one of the world's leading scholarly institutions. The system will feed a headquarters for the study of our world's environment, and it's in Connecticut, the state that has begun to bill itself as "the fuel cell capital of the world."
The Connecticut Clean Energy Fund put up the $1.25 million to purchase the fuel cell power plant from a local company, FuelCell Energy Inc., in Danbury. Subhash Chandra, the chief technology officer and managing director of the fund, pointed out that Connecticut is also home to United Technologies Corp.'s fuel cell unit in South Windsor and to Proton Energy Systems Inc. in Wallingford, as well as to a number of smaller companies that are involved directly or indirectly in the field.
According to Chandra, the fund he heads has spent almost $29 million on fuel cell projects over the past couple of years. It has put money into the Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center at the University of Connecticut and directly into fuel cell companies as equity investments, he said.
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The motive for funding fuel cells goes beyond boosterism for local industry, though. As pressures mount on available resources and the environment, fuel cell systems can play a major role in the future of stationary and mobile power generation.
They make highly efficient power plants. Especially on a small scale, they reach much higher average efficiencies than other technologies do. Higher efficiency not only means more electricity per pound of fuel, but also fewer emissions of all kinds per kilowatt-hour. In other words, the only product of a fuel cell's electrochemical reactions is water, while the chemical reactions for fuel reforming, if present in the system, occur at temperatures low enough to make emissions of nitrogen oxides almost nonexistent. The elimination or significant reduction of other emissions (e.g., sulfur dioxides and carbon dioxide) is also a feature of these systems. In addition, the heat generated in high-temperature fuel cells can be captured and used to generate steam in a combined cycle.
Yale's fuel cell system, the DFA 300, is listed by the manufacturer as having a low heating value peak electrical efficiency of 47 percent, which is very high indeed for a 250-watt generating plant. FuelCell Energy claims that NOx emissions are less than 0.3 part per million by volume. Both carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds are less than 10 parts per million.
Yale's installation will use the heat energy to power environmental control systems in a part of the building that houses delicate specimens and artifacts.
Fuel cell systems are expensive now, but as with any technology, prices are expected to fall as sales increase and manufacturing improves. A spokesman for FuelCell Energy said that the company's eventual goal is to price an installed fuel cell system at between $1,000 and $1,500 per kilowatt. That may not compete with the cost of a natural gas plant on a large scale, but it can provide an economical and environmentally friendly source of local power generation.
So, the question arises: How do fuel cell systems stack up (no pun intended) against competing technologies? The simple answer: quite well. One reason is that during. the last three decades, there has been a significant surge in both research and development.
By no means a new energy conversion process, interest in fuel cells ceased in the late 19th century and did not re-emerge until the work of Francis Bacon and his co-workers in 1932, gaining much impetus during the 1960s from the American space program. What is remarkable is the comparatively high efficiencies and relatively low emissions that these devices already exhibit in an early stage of development, both for transportation and for portable and stationary power production. Advantages exhibited by these types of systems are: high energy conversion efficiencies at full and partial load (the latter provides a significant advantage for fuel cells over other more conventional systems); performance roughly independent of system size and load factor; lower emissions (but not zero emissions); no moving parts in the stacks, resulting in lower maintenance costs; high power density (i.e., units are compact); modularity (a feature conducive to meeting different power needs); low operating temperatures; and relatively low pressures.
Five Ways to Go
There are five basic types of fuel cells that have seen, or are seeing, significant development. A sixth, the alkaline fuel cell, is no longer considered a viable candidate for most applications of interest.
One of the most promising types of fuel cells is the proton exchange membrane, or PEM, fuel cell. It is often considered as a potential replacement for the internal combustion engine in transportation applications. The efficiency of a PEM fuel cell stack operating on hydrogen and pressurized air at typical current conditions would be approximately 50 percent. The PEM fuel cell also provides very high power density. Automotive fuel cell systems based on PEM technology have demonstrated a power density as high as 1.35 kilowatts per liter, which is comparable to that of an internal combustion engine.
This power is produced while the cell operates at a relatively low temperature of 60° to 80°C. The low operating temperature lets the fuel cell warm up quickly.
Tumbling Costs
Unfortunately, the low operating temperature leads to very slow chemical kinetics. Precious metal catalysts, typically platinum, must be used at the electrodes to facilitate the reactions. As recently as 10 years ago, the cost of the catalyst alone was as high as $184 per kilowatt of electricity, making the PEM fuel cell too expensive for most applications. In recent years, advances in the design of the electrodes and the application of the catalyst have led to catalyst costs approaching a design goal of $3.50 per kilowatt of electricity.
Nonetheless, further advances in technology and manufacturing are needed to reduce the cost of other cell components, particularly the collector plates, which are typically machined from graphite. Assuming the application of the mass manufacturing techniques that would be associated with a large-scale deployment of PEM fuel cell technology, such as in automobiles, the U.S. Department of Energy has established a goal of $35 per kilowatt for the fuel cell stack. Even at 10 times this price, PEM technology would be attractive in a wide range of stationary and portable power applications.
The direct methanol, or DM, fuel cell typically uses a polymer membrane as the electrolyte. The fuel is methanol, dissolved in liquid water and supplied to the anode. Since it is a liquid, methanol is easy to transport, and since it is used directly in the stack, there is no need for a fuel processor to separate hydrogen, a requirement of most other systems. However, because the reaction rate for methanol on currently available catalysts is slow, direct methanol fuel cells have relatively low efficiencies and power densities. Furthermore, since methanol is soluble in the polymer membrane, it can cross over to the cathode where it reacts without producing electrical power, thus further reducing efficiency.
Direct methanol fuel cells can be competitive with batteries in terms of storage density. At present, the most promising applications for DM fuel cells appear to be as replacements for batteries in small portable power applications , where the simplicity of the system and the portability of the liquid methanol fuel outweigh the relatively low efficiency.
THE U.S. NAVY, which generates electricity from sunshine in the California desert, is trying a new way to store energy for use when the photovoltaic panels shut down for the night. Instead of batteries, there is a system built around a fuel cell. Electricity generated during the day powers an electrolyzer, to make hydrogen fuel from water. When the sun is no longer generating electricity in the panels, the fuel cell kicks in.
The test unit is at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, a large tract of arid federal real estate in California. The station needs electricity in various parts of its 1.1 million acres to power things ranging from communication receivers to warning devices that keep wanderers from straying into the line of test fire. These are remote places, out of reach of the grid and difficult to reach at all. According to Doris Lance, a spokesperson for the station at China Lake, travel between sites inside the Naval reservation is measured in hours-say, a two-hour drive and another hour of hiking.
Not only is it hard to truck fuel out to those sites, but they are environmentally sensitive, so a spill could prove disastrous. Given the desert sunshine, solar has been a good way to go.
The only catch has been the batteries, which store energy to use when the sun goes down. According to Sam Edwards, systems engineer for the renewable energy office at China Lake, a battery room can be 40 feet square. Maintaining the batteries can tie up two people in a battery room for three days a month, he said.
The system is linked to a solar array capable of generating 7,000 to 8,000 watts of electricity during the day. Excess electricity, power not needed to run external electrical devices, is used for electrolysis of water.
The electrolyzer, from Proton Energy Systems Inc. of Wallingford, Conn., uses a proton exchange membrane and electricity to break down water into its constituent parts. David Wolff, Proton's vice president of marketing, called the process "a fuel cell run backwards."
Earlier this year, Proton landed a $375,000 contract to package the system. Proton was hired through the Ridgecrest, Calif., office of Jacobs Sverdrup Technology Inc., a contractor to the Navy.
The hydrogen is stored at 200 psig (almost 1,400 kilopascals above ambient) in a 2,5OO-gallon exterior tank for use in a 1 kW fuel cell made by Ballard Power Systems Inc. of Burnaby, British Columbia.
The fuel cell system isn't exactly portable. Not counting the tank, which can hold just a little under 10,000 liters, the system is housed in a cube 8 feet on a side at 5,000 pounds-about 2.4 meters in each dimension at almost 2,300 kilograms. It is transportable, however. According to Edwards, the unit is designed to be taken to a site where it will stay. The overall system design, including control electronics, was handled by Northern Power Systems Inc., based in Waitsfield, Vt.
The area of the desert is called China Lake, but the lake itself is dry. There is very little ground water, and water is at a premium. The water that is the source of the hydrogen will run in a closed system. Hydrogen passing through a fuel cell combines with oxygen to form an exhaust of water, which can be recycled for electrolysis.
As Edwards explained, "If I didn't want to be trucking fuel out there, I certainly wouldn't want to truck water."
Phosphoric Acid Systems
The phosphoric acid, or PA, fuel cell was the first fuel cell to be commercially available. PA systems operate with efficiencies that are comparable to proton exchange membrane fuel cells, but power densities are lower. The operating temperature of the PA fuel cell is approximately 200°C. This temperature is high enough to facilitate the recovery of heat produced within the stack for water and space heating in buildings. However, the operating temperature is not high enough to overcome the need for precious metal catalysts.
Furthermore, despite a number of years of intensive development, the costs of these systems have not come down sufficiently. Phosphoric acid fuel cell systems, each of which includes a natural gas fuel processor, are commercially available at an installed cost of approximately $5,000 to $5,600 per kilowatt.
Nonetheless, phosphoric acid systems have been practically demonstrated through a number of projects. One of the largest demonstration projects is the U.S. Department of Defense Fuel Cell Demonstration Program that has placed 30 systems in a variety of applications. They include boiler plants, hospitals, dormitories, and office buildings at military installations, including the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Edwards Air Force Base in California, and the New London, Conn., submarine base. The DOD program is detailed on a Web site, http://www.dodfuelcell.com.
While this program and others have demonstrated the technical feasibility of applying PA fuel cell systems, the widespread economic feasibility of these systems will depend on reducing costs by at least a factor of two.
The type of system that is being installed at Yale, the molten carbonate fuel cell, is typically designed for mid-size to large stationary power applications or for shipboard use. The molten carbonate, or MC, fuel cell operates at a very high temperature, approximately 650°C. At this temperature, precious metal catalysts are not required for the fuel cell reaction. In addition, the heat available from the stack can be used to produces team and hot water.
Furthermore, at this temperature, fuel gases other than hydrogen can be used by reforming the fuel within the cell stack in a process called "internal reforming." This greatly simplifies the "balance of plant" equipment required to operate the fuel cell. Heavier hydrocarbons may still require external processing.
Development efforts for molten carbonate fuel cells are focused on reducing costs and increasing the life of cell components in the harsh, high-temperature environment within the stack. Systems based on this technology are expected to be available within five years at costs ranging from $2,000 to $3,000 per kilowatt of electricity.
Target markets for the technology include small distributed generation systems for utilities as well as building cogeneration systems at sizes of 0.1 to 2.0 MW of electricity.
The solid oxide, or SO, fuel cell operates at the highest temperatures of all fuel cell systems, 800° to 1,000°C. These high temperatures simplify system configuration by permitting internal reforming. They also facilitate the development of cogeneration systems as well as hybrid power systems that use fuel cells as topping cycles for gas, steam, or combined turbine cycles.
Refinements Needed
Developers of solid oxide fuel cells are seeking ways to reduce manufacturing cost, improve system integration, and lower the operating temperature to a range of 550° to 750°C. The lower operating temperature would still provide the advantages of internal reforming without the material problems associated with very high-temperature operation.
Systems based on SO fuel cells are being considered for a variety of purposes, ranging from small applications such as residential power systems and vehicle auxiliary power units, where the simplified fuel processing requirements are attractive, to large utility-scale applications.
Many adherents believe that fuel cell systems promise to provide benefits in a variety of applications. Systems based on PEM and direct methanol technology promise to make power more portable and convenient, and PEM technology also promises to provide a more efficient, cleaner technology for the automotive industry. PEM, phosphoric acid, molten carbonate, and solid oxide fuel cells are likely to be applied in cogeneration applications that use the exhaust heat.
With combined-cycle and cogeneration thermodynamic (exergy) efficiencies potentially above 70 and even 80 percent, these applications promise to reduce energy use and environmental impact. Many research and development organizations, manufacturers, and regulatory agencies are working to ensure that fuel cell systems fulfill their promise in each of these areas


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What is Net Neutrality? Why is it important? Is it going to be dead?
Net Neutrality is the hottest topic over the last few days, many of you already know what it means
But for those people who don't know the meaning of Net Neutrality, its high time to understand what it is? and why it important to understand it,
What Is Net Neutrality?
It is the principle for the Internet service providers to treat all the data on the Internet with equality,
Internet providers should treat all web traffic equally, exactly how the internet has worked since its creation, they should not discriminate or charge differently to anyone.
Why Is It Important?
To understand its importance you need to understand how it can impact your lives, if there is no net neutrality, internet service providers will have the power to shape internet traffic to derive benefit from it, they can divide your internet usage, can slow down your connection on a specific website or even can restrict your surfing area, for example= suppose internet service providers get paid by Netflix to gather maximum traffic to their site, to make this happen the ISP's can charge you to provide the service of 'Youtube' and at the same time allow your free access to 'Netflix',
They can even make your 'Youtube' loading speed slower, ultimately giving you bad user experience on Youtube and shaping all traffic to Netflix,
In short, Net Neutrality support freedom on the Internet.
Is it going to be dead?
Yes, we can say it recently on 14 December, the FCC voted to repeal net neutrality policies of US, which were put in place in 2015 during the Obama administration, this decision is taken by the FCC chairman Ajit Pai,
The rules that were repealed by FCC
BLOCKING– Internet service providers could not discriminate against any lawful content by blocking websites or apps.
THROTTLING– Service providers could not slow the transmission of data based on the nature of the content, as long as it is legal.
PAID PRIORITIZATION– Service providers could not create an internet fast lane for companies and consumers who pay premiums, and a slow lane for those who don't.
Many major companies including Apple contact FCC calling for the cancellation of today's vote,
You can also fill the petition against the FCC decision by clicking here, or here also
the petition is running on these two websites Savetheinternet.com or Battleforthenet.com
I highly encourage you to sign this petition and support the Net Neutrality
This is a matter of concern for the freedom of the internet,
this will affect the lives of people from small businessman to a common man,
In few last month, some countries lost their Net neutrality and suffer some major issues, you can get idea from this tweet,
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I revise multiple times, even when I'm convinced I've finished the last draft.
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Do you have a child with a disability? Do they struggle to fit in? Then, they will probably relate to Gloria, the main character in Gloria and the Unicorn. Gloria was born with a droopy cheek on one side of her face.
In addition, her Mom died giving birth to her and her Dad gave her to a children's home. She had a rough start in life. However, the owner of the children's home, Miss Libby Langdon, is incredibly loving and kind and has given her a nice home.
Miss Libby doesn't send Gloria to school though because she wants to protect her. You have probably felt that too. It's hard to send your little one out into the big world and trust that things will work out okay.
But, Gloria wants to go to school and learn like the other kids. Kids today take getting an education for granted but imagine if getting an education wasn't available to you. That's how Gloria felt.
Then, a fabulous thing happens, a unicorn named Sir Louie shows up. He helps Gloria to accomplish her dream by first teaching her to read. Do you have a child that needs help learning to read? It can be such a challenge but they feel so victorious when it finally clicks and they sound out their first word!
Now Gloria has to face school. It doesn't go so well. In addition, she has magical powers from Sir Louie's sparkly dust that he leaves behind after each visit and she can travel into the books she reads. However, the Wicked Wizards of Malcardore don't like that idea very much.
The Wizards capture Sir Louie and it's up to Gloria to figure this out and then make a life-altering decision. Will she risk her life to save her friend's?
Come along on the journey of Gloria and the Unicorn. You can even read this to your child and enjoy the story together. It encourages treasuring education, empowering children to be themselves and facing one's fears.


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Overwhelmed by Guilt
All Christians are aware of the theological truth that all are sinners. Knowing this truth and feeling the impact of it are not the same thing. Many sinners roam planet earth with absolutely no sense of guilt toward God. Guilt is the sense that one has of failure to fulfill expected responsibilities. With little regard for God as Creator, many humans march through life with little feeling of falling short. And there are plenty of voices in society that attack any such feelings as simply low self-esteem.
Reading Psalm 130, it is clear that the Psalmist understood this feeling of guilt due to sin, as well as the blessed state of forgiveness. He begins, Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD. His sense of sin before God was real, thus he cries to Him from that low place. He acknowledges the general truth that none would be able to stand before God if He were to mark iniquities (vs. 3). His hope is clearly stated in verse 4, But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.
There are those times in the believer's life that a deep sense of sin races over the soul and brings an overwhelming sense of guilt. It may come from memories of past sins that have been dealt with, yet return to haunt the soul. David was pressed with such thoughts at times as he prayed, Remember not the sins of my youth. How are we to respond to such feelings of guilt?
There are times when the general sense of how far short we come to the glory of God overwhelms us. There is no particular sin that can be singled out, but the keen awareness of not loving God as we ought and failing to live completely for His glory. Sometimes our souls are pressed with the guilt of our spiritual sluggishness. How should we respond to such waves of guilt?
It may be that our soul is overwhelmed by the guilt of some specific sin that we have kept hidden for some time. This is that secret sin that no one knows about but ourselves, or perhaps one other person. That act we have committed, or continually commit, that has not yet been discovered by anyone else. We feel bad about it, but so long as no one knows about it, we feel that it is no big deal. We perhaps have stopped the sin and figure we can just get on with life. But the guilt keeps rising within. Perhaps someone has preached a message that has singled us out. Or, perhaps the sin has been uncovered by another sent by God, like Nathan was sent to David. Whatever the source, our soul is overwhelmed by the guilt of that sin. We can't ignore it any longer. The feeling of guilt has you trapped and there seems to be no relief. How do you respond to such overwhelming feelings of guilt?
The answer to all of the above scenarios is clearly given in Psalm 130. Begin by crying out to God! Out of the depths of guilt and despair, cry out to God. It is against Him that you have sinned. He is the only one who can truly forgive. And the blessed truth is, there is forgiveness with thee that thou mayest be feared.
Here is where so many go very wrong. There is the sense of the need for forgiveness and so the heavy soul begins to construct ways to earn that forgiveness. But forgiveness does not come from God by way of your efforts! Some have concluded that if God would send great affliction, then after a while perhaps the guilt of sin would be lifted. The sense of paying for sin has too many Christians bogged down with an approach to forgiveness that will never work! You cannot cry long and hard enough to earn forgiveness. You cannot work long enough or hard enough to earn forgiveness. If forgiveness is sought by the way of the flesh, there will be no forgiveness!
Forgiveness from God comes only by way of mercy! Psalm 13:5-8, I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning. Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption. And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities. Not a word about the works of the sinner! The crying sinner waits and hopes! He waits and hopes on the basis of the mercy of God. There is forgiveness with God because of the work of the Son of God. This is the clear message of Ephesians 1:7, In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace...
When you understand that forgiveness comes from God to the penitent soul on the basis of mercy found in the Lord Jesus Christ, peace replaces the weighted down feeling of guilt. You can cease your efforts to repay God and simply receive His merciful gift of forgiveness.
This sense of God's mercy motivates the forgiven sinner to fear God (that thou mayest be feared ). God becomes the object of worship and devotion! When you understand that He has released you from the guilt and condemnation of your iniquities, you can rejoice and serve Him with the gladness of a forgiven sinner!
So, meet those waves of guilt that would swallow your soul with grief with the promise of God's merciful forgiveness! Others may not forgive you so quickly or freely. Others may actually hold your sin against you. But God is not like others. There is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared. And if you know the pardon of God you can forget those things that are behind and press on toward the mark of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus!
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Rajul Kulshreshtha sets up Xposure
The aim of the media planning and buying agency is to propagate an environment where the brand stands paramount
Published - Mar 21, 2013 7:47 PM Updated: Mar 21, 2013 7:47 PM
Rajul Kulshreshtha has formed a Delhi-based media planning and buying agency, Xposure. Sundeep Sharma, till recently, Country Head, Motivator, a GroupM company, has joined Kulshreshtha in the venture along with Manish Sharma as co-founders.
The aim of the company is to propagate an environment where the brand stands paramount.
Rajul Kulshreshtha, Co-Founder Xposure, said, "We were tired of doing excel sheet media planning and it was difficult for us to build brands on this premise. The whole media planning exercise was reduced to a four-letter work called 'deal', which irritated us even more. We found the work boring and wanted to bring back the buzz in our life. This made us form an agency whose fundamental premise was to work for the brand and not the clients."
The X symbol in Xposure is a combination of the greater than and the less than sign, denoting optimal exposure for a brand. The agency has started working for Matrix as its first client and has business worth Rs 50 crore. With a core team of five people, the agency also does a lot of consulting for creative agencies.
According to Kulshreshtha, Xposure is a location independent agency and is ready to expand as per business requirements. It doesn't plan to bring investors on board.
"We focus on the strategy and not tactics. For us, planning is more crucial and rates are means to an end and not an end in itself," he added. The agency plans to offer the best possible solution for a brand and become an effective media agency.
A key observation pointed by Kulshreshtha is that a lot of large brands refuse to sell inventories to big agencies. A small percentage of business is given to the larger agencies and the smaller ones are gifted with better deals. According to him, media has become a commodity; hence, the agency was started with a vision of working for brands. "We have the experience, attitude and the honesty to make Xposure the most effective agency that offers optimal solutions for a brand," he remarked.
Both, Kulshreshtha and Sharma have experience of 20 years working with some of the big ticket clients such as GM, Ford, Coke, Nestle, Reckitt Benckiser, Havells, Yamaha, UNICEF, among others. They have worked with agencies such as GroupM, Universal McCann, ZenithOptimedia and Ogilvy.
Kulshreshtha had taken on the role of Managing Director at Kinetic Worldwide in 2010. Under Kulshreshtha's leadership, the company bagged several businesses and projects and also took some important steps such as the release of Moving World India, a study done on the changing out of home (OOH) industry and consumer behaviour in context to OOH.
Kulshreshtha has been with the WPP and GroupM side since 1994. It may be recalled that in June 2006, he was elevated to the Managing Director's post for Motivator. He spearheaded Motivator's pan India role for five years. Prior to that, in May 2004, he was General Manager, GroupM, Team LG.
Sharma started his career at Lintas as Media Executive in 1994 and moved to WPP in 1995 as a Senior Buyer at Ogilvy. He became a part of the core team that launched Maxus in 2001 and was also the part of the core team that launched Motivator in Delhi.
Within a short span of the last few years, 'desi' independent agencies such as Taproot India, Scarecrow Communications and Curry Nation, among others, have proved their mettle by lapping up some big ticket accounts. However, the industry hasn't seen birth of many independent media agencies. Xposure is perhaps the first break away media agency.
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