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Minneapolis, MN, November 09, 2017 –(PR.com)– RxFunction announces it has appointed Thomas Morizio as Chief Executive Officer of RxFunction, Inc., manufacturer of walkasins® – the first Wearable Sensory Prosthesis (WSP™) to help improve balance in patients who experience gait and balance problems due to peripheral neuropathy.
An estimated 20 million Americans have some form of peripheral neuropathy, according to the Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy, commonly a consequence of diabetes or chemotherapy and widely present in the elderly population. In these patients, the nerves in their feet are damaged such they may lose sensation, which affects balance and increases their fall risk. In the United States, almost 3 million emergency visits are made annually by the elderly due to injury caused by an unexplained fall. According to the Centers for Disease Control, peripheral neuropathy is a leading cause of falls in this population.
walkasins® detect when the wearer begins to lose balance and send a signal to a cuff worn around the lower leg, bypassing the damaged nerves in the feet. The cuff vibrates to help the wearer know which way they are leaning, allowing them to quickly correct their balance. Because they can now more easily sense their feet on the ground, this improves their walking speed as well.
In a recent clinical trial of walkasins® at the VA Medical Center in Minneapolis, most patients utilizing walkasins® moved from being a high-risk "faller" to becoming a normal risk one based on their clinical outcome. This occurred immediately because it is easy to learn, and the impact is significant. Patients also demonstrated significant improvements in walking speed, an indication of overall health status.
"The novel walkasins® technology is addressing a large unmet need using a simple and elegant solution; we believe there are approximately 3 million potential patients in the U.S. with peripheral neuropathy that could benefit from this technology," said Thomas Morizio, CEO of RxFunction.
Morizio, formerly President and CEO of ACIST Medical System and HLT, brings over 31 years of extensive medical device business leadership experience to RxFunction. Prior to these roles he spent many years in senior positions at Medtronic and Baxter.
"Tom's background and experience is precisely what RxFunction needs at this stage. We are very fortunate to have him onboard and look forward to bringing walkasins® to market under his guidance," said Lars Oddsson, Co-founder and Director of RxFunction. "Tom's leadership and experience brings important credibility and confidence as we prepare walkasins® for FDA registration and market entry."
"I'm impressed with how far the company has come essentially with federal grant funding from NIH," said Morizio. "The technology is near market ready, months away from FDA registration. I look forward to continue building the RxFunction team and bring walkasins® to market for patients in need."
"Tom brings senior experience to the highest level of the company," said Dan Leach, Interim CFO and Co-founder of RxFunction. "We are happy and fortunate that he has joined our company and board of directors. Tom's skill set and track record of building value and rapidly bringing new technology to market is what we have been looking for and what RxFunction needs."
Development of walkasins® has been supported by a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the NIH (AG040865).
About RxFunction, Inc.
RxFunction is a wearable technology company with an initial focus on developing and leading a new business segment within the U.S. medical grade assistive technology marketplace. The company's vision is to improve physical ability for social participation and quality of life for patients with sensory peripheral neuropathy. Privately held and headquartered in Minneapolis, MN, RxFunction has taken assignment of patented technology developed by co-founder Dr. Lars Oddsson as a research professor at Boston University's Neuromuscular Research Center, and funded privately and supported under grant No. AG040865 awarded by the NIH's National Institute on Aging. walkasins® have not been submitted to the FDA for review, and are not available for sale at this time.
RxFunction website: www.rxfunction.com
Contact Information:
RxFunction, Inc.
Dan Leach
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Read the full story here: https://www.pr.com/press-release/735775
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(Guest post by Josie Stein, Marketing and Communications Manager at XMPie. @josiedaisy. This blog originally appeared on XMPie.com.)
Hint: It's All About the Customer Experience
Here at XMPie, we use a few phrases to explain what you can do with our software. You'll see the terms Cross Media or Multichannel, and Omnichannel in various articles and resources on our site. These reflect the two common approaches that brands are using to reach their customers and prospects, and our customers are using both.
The terms are often used interchangeably, but there is a distinct difference that separates omnichannel from the others. If you're a print shop considering how best to expand your print services or an enterprise considering how to improve the entire customer journey, it's important that you understand the different options.
Marketing Strategies: Omnichannel vs. Multichannel Marketing
The main difference between the two relates to the 'Customer Experience'. You've probably heard this term a lot lately – it's a hot marketing trend that is helping brands to re-define their communication approaches. At the highest level, the customer experience is the sum of all interactions that a customer will have with a brand.
Multichannel Marketing
With cross media or multichannel marketing, the focus is more on hitting a variety of channels in the hope that it will spur the most action and highest levels of engagement among customers.
Omnichannel Marketing
Omnichannel marketing is a much more strategic and targeted approach, and it aims to build a stronger customer-brand relationship over time. With this tactic, the brand will still use a variety of channels, but will offer an integrated, personalized journey to ensure a single and consistent experience.
For the customer during an omnichannel campaign, each interaction is a seamless extension of their previous interaction, no matter which channel they are on now or which channel they just left. Their context and history will continue to the next channel with them. The channel itself isn't important anymore. What's important? Delivering the best customer experience.
Delivering a Customer-First Experience
The customer isn't interested in channels or devices. They don't want to jump through hoops. They want an effortless and seamless interaction when they make a connection with a brand, and they want to feel valued.
And even though the omnichannel campaign might be delivered on a massive scale to thousands or even millions of recipients, each customer will still feel that they are the single recipient of the campaign.
In order to create these individual customer journeys effectively – and to scale, you need the right tools to orchestrate and automate your campaigns.
Our software is used by print service providers, marketing service firms, SMBs and enterprises to deliver exceptional customer experiences that put the customer front and center. You can read about some of these companies and projects in our Resource Library.
Recent examples include:
- PremCom, a UK Service Provider that streamlined and automated a referral and reward program for a leading mortgage company
- @horton which galvanized Harding University alumni generosity with a multichannel donation campaign (and did it again the year later)
- Rethink CCM which scored big with retail store promotion and customer loyalty launch
- Docustore which created a uniquely memorable omnichannel brand experience for the young club card members of the Imaginarium store.
Each XMPie product is powered by a core omnichannel platform, PersonalEffect. This means that users can choreograph five-star customer experiences across a variety of print and digital touch points.
Each touch point is powered by the common PersonalEffect architecture, which uniquely employs a modular approach whereby the data and business rules are shared across multiple channels. Whether a campaign consists of print alone or a combination of print and digital media – with XMPie, the data is always synchronized across all the channels enabling a truly holistic brand experience.
Either Data, Logic, or Design can be changed or replaced without forcing a change in the other two. The Data and Logic are shared for all touchpoints. Everything is brought together just in time for output production.
Use the latest technologies and industry-standard design tools to create a best-in-field Design. We work with Adobe InDesign for Print media and any leading solution you prefer to create Digital communication touchpoints.
Design is Media-Specific
Logic and Data are shared across all channels, even without a common Design.
The Shift to Omnichannel
We've seen that an omnichannel approach is the best way for brands to improve the customer experience and foster customer loyalty. Rather than focusing on individual touchpoints such as an email, a direct mail piece or a coupon, a winning customer experience is carefully choreographed to be almost effortless for the customer and is critical to the success of a campaign.
It's a challenge, but the potential results and ROI are huge.
And that's the reason we're seeing a massive shift underway, as both print and marketing providers and enterprises are racing to leverage their data and deliver well-executed customer experiences for their customers.
Get in touch if you'd like to see how to manage the omnichannel customer experience with the XMPie platform.

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Richard III may have had an ignominious resting place under a Leicester car park, but spare a thought for Henri IV. First the French monarch was disinterred from the royal sepulchre by revolutionaries and thrown into a mass grave. Then his head was cut off and – allegedly – turned up in the attic of a retired tax inspector.
Richard III may have had an ignominious resting place under a Leicester car park, but spare a thought for Henri IV. First the French monarch was disinterred from the royal sepulchre by revolutionaries and thrown into a mass grave. Then his head was cut off and – allegedly – turned up in the attic of a retired tax inspector.
Worse, while British experts have confirmed that the deformed skeleton found in Leicester is "almost certainly" that of Richard, bearing signs of fatal wounds he suffered during the battle of Bosworth, French scientists are still fighting over the disputed remains of Henri, who was assassinated in 1610 by a Catholic fundamentalist.
Unlike Richard III, who was reviled during his lifetime, "good King Henri" was credited with kindliness and seen as a potent symbol of national unity and reconciliation. Baptised a Catholic but raised a Calvinist, he ended bitter religious wars in France and took pains to ease the daily travails of his poorer subjects. "If God gives me life, I will ensure there is no labourer in my kingdom who has not the means to have a chicken in his pot each Sunday!" he is said to have pledged.
In death, however, the much-loved monarch has caused disagreement and division. On Friday, the rifts that have for decades split historians, scientists, researchers and descendants of France's pre-revolutionary ruling families – the Orléans and the Bourbons – were prised open again by a new book.
In Henri IV: The Mystery of a Headless King, authors Stéphane Gabet and Philippe Charlier claim to have solved the enduring enigma of what happened to the king's remains – specifically, his head. They insist that a mummified head found five years ago in a box in the attic of a retired tax collector, Jacques Bellanger, is that of Henri.
Facials hairs, a large beauty spot, a broken nose, a knife gash to the upper lip from an assassination attempt, all point to the skull being his. "Rubbish," cry critics, who insist that the book owes more to fiction than fact and point to a lack of scientific proof and the fact that the brain – albeit shrunken to the size of a walnut – was still present, when it would have been removed by royal embalmers.
Meanwhile, the head of the man who may or may not have been king – and who may or may not have said on converting back to Catholicism for his coronation that "Paris is worth a mass" – sits in a bank vault near the Bastille where, symbolically, the mystery is rooted.
After his death on 14 May 1610, Henri IV was buried with previous kings in the Saint Denis basilica outside Paris. In 1793, French revolutionaries dug up his remains and tossed them unceremoniously into a mass grave.
It is unclear exactly when Henri's head was separated from the rest of his corpse, but when the public grave was opened in 1817, it was missing. A head said to be his came to light in 1919, when Joseph Emile Bourdais, a photographer, bought it at auction for three francs.
Bourdais spent much of his life unsuccessfully trying to confirm its authenticity and offered it to the Louvre before his death in 1946, an offer that was refused. Then in 2008 a head was found in the attic of a house in Angers, western France belonging to Bellanger, who claimed to have bought it in 1953.
"In the loft, in an old wardrobe, was a box," Gabet says. "Inside, there was something wrapped in an old towel. Jacques Bellanger folded back one side of the towel, then the other. The mummified head appeared, well conserved, impressive. It was a magic moment."
The author says experts later reported: "There were a few long moustache hairs still visible and others broken at the roots. The nose was broken and bent to the left … the head was a brownish colour, with the mouth wide open … Almost all the soft tissue remained."
Although the head had not been cut to remove the brain or embalmed – as would have been expected – a facial reconstruction from the skull matched portraits of the king.
Charlier, a pathologist who is an expert on historical remains, said that DNA tests on samples from the head and a trace of blood from Louis XVI linked the two royals.
"The DNA is clear: the mummified head found again in 2008 has the same genetic heritage as the dried blood of Louis XVI found on a handkerchief the day of his decapitation in 1793," Charlier said in a statement.
There are now calls for the head to be reburied in the Saint Denis basilica, but while the scientists continue to argue, it remains in a Paris bank vault.
The row has split descendants from France's two royal dynasties. Henri d'Orléans, Count of Paris and Duke of France, described the book as a "pseudo inquiry". "This affair seems closer to a novel than scientific or historic truth," he told French journalists. "What are we supposed to see from this supposed facial reconstitution – that he had a Bourbon nose?"
Prince Louis de Bourbon, Duke of Anjou, disagrees. "Now that we have found and authenticated the head, we have to organise its return [to the rest of the body]," he said.
However, Dr Olivier Pascal, president of the French Institute of Genetic Testing, told the newspaper Le Figaro that there was still no conclusive proof that the head had belonged to Good King Henri. "This information wouldn't stand up in a court of law," he added.
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The No-Text Challenge — Could You Do It? [POLL]
Do you think you could go a entire week without sending a text? If so then you should sign up for this challenge.
There's a woman online who has taken a pledge to put down the keyboard on her phone for one whole month. She has blogged about it with some good days and bad days, but one thing is certain: For most of us, it's way harder than it looks.
Could you survive the challenge?
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Emporio Armani's collections are characterised by a noble elegance, rigorous lines and muted colours. Giorgio Armani is one of the greatest fashion designers of the 20th century. After starting his career as a modest window dresser, he went down in fashion history with his combination of jeans and blazer, the so-called Armani look. Since then, his creations have also been highly sought after by various celebrities. Even the actor Sean Connery stood out on the big screen in an outfit by the high-class label. The brand logo, a stylized eagle, stands for strength, sharp-sightedness and grace, perfectly representing the label. The fashion designer's creations have always been timelessly classic and will make you shine at least as much as the stars do!


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Virginia Anne Rice Williams (1919–1970)
Biochemist Virginia Anne Rice Williams helped develop more nutritious grains through her pioneering studies of rice, a major Arkansas crop. She conducted important research on the B-vitamin content of rice, on ways to keep rice from turning rancid in storage, and on the vitamin fortification of rice.
Virginia Rice was born in North Little Rock (Pulaski County) to Roderic J. Rice, a banker, and Mattie Thurman. Her high school teachers urged her to pursue music as a career, as she was a gifted musician. Fearing that she would not succeed as a concert musician, however, she opted for science, a field in which she also excelled.
In 1940, Rice graduated from Hendrix College in Conway (Faulkner County) with a BA in chemistry. She married fellow chemist Hulen B. Williams in 1942. The couple moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where Williams enrolled as a graduate student at Louisiana State University (LSU) and her husband became dean of LSU's College of Chemistry and Physics. She earned a doctorate in biochemistry from LSU in 1947.
Williams remained at the school, dividing her time between teaching and research, for the rest of her life. She helped organize the campus chapter of Iota Sigma Pi, a national honor society for women in chemistry and related fields.
Williams began her research in the early 1940s, studying the effect of milling on rice. At the time, little was known about the cellular function of vitamins in the human diet. During two decades with the Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station, from 1942 to 1962, she focused her research on enzymes—substances that promote chemical changes within the plants and animals that produce them. Her early studies of enzymes and rice served as the basis for a lifelong interest in the ways humans digest foods.
Williams's husband recalled that she "had a rare sense of those things that are important and worth doing in research." He explained that most enzymes have a "key-and-lock type function," but that this function was not well understood when his wife undertook her research: "It was still to be unraveled, and that's where Virginia chose to focus."
Publications gained Williams an international reputation in the field of enzymology. Her work on vitamin B, nutrition, and the metabolism of bacteria led to her 1954 election as the first LSU faculty member to the American Society of Biological Chemists.
In 1955, Williams was one of twenty-eight American scientists awarded grants from the National Science Foundation to attend the Third International Congress of Biochemistry in Brussels, Belgium. A paper she presented there on bacterium cadaveris established her as one of the first scientists to report on the relationship between that enzyme and human metabolism.
Over the next several years, Williams continued her investigation of bacterium cadaveris in hopes of learning how it used proteins and carbohydrates to survive. Her work helped scientists find new ways of controlling the bacteria. In 1967, Williams and her husband co-authored Basic Physical Chemistry for the Life Sciences. The Journal of Chemical Education rated the introductory textbook one of the best in its field.
By 1969, Williams's work had expanded to the study of histidase and aspartase, enzymes that play a vital role in the ways bacteria, higher plants, and some animals use proteins and carbohydrates. She was awarded a large federal grant to continue this research because a correlation had been discovered between histidase and certain health problems, such as leukemia and liver damage.
Williams published more than sixty scientific papers, many of which contributed to scientists' understanding of rice's fundamental chemical composition. She was one of the first scientists to recognize the role that biotin, a water-soluble B-vitamin, played in the synthesis of fatty acids. Her work also led to breakthroughs in the scientific understanding of enzymes. At a time when few women reached the higher ranks of science, Williams won international acclaim for the creativity with which she applied principles of the mathematical and physical sciences to her own field of enzymology.
Williams died on June 16, 1970, from complications following surgery for cancer. The Virginia Rice Williams Library and Classroom Building at LSU, which houses the school's chemistry library, was named in her honor. Family and friends also established a $1,000 scholarship in her honor, to be awarded annually to a female biochemistry major.
For additional information:
Media Services. Louisiana State University. Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Williams, Nancy A., ed. Arkansas Biography: A Collection of Notable Lives. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000.
Mara Leveritt
Little Rock, Arkansas
This entry, originally published in Arkansas Biography: A Collection of Notable Lives, appears in the CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas in an altered form. Arkansas Biography is available from the University of Arkansas Press.
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- Thou shall not steal thy neighbours stuff
- Thou shall not shoot thy friend with an arrow to the head (unless thy friend likes it)
- Thou shall not ask the gods for free stuff (see rule 4)
- Thou must not moan when life is not perfect (you die and lose your stuff, see rule 3)
- Listen and heed the words of the Admin, else suffer thy consequences
- Do not speak the forbidden words.
- Do NOT ask for staff, admin, mod or op. NEVER EVER! GOT IT? (This includes asking in a joking or "not really asking" asking sort of way!!!).
- Thou shall not cheat, use hacks, grief, steal etc
- Thou shall not preach words of false deity's.
- Thou shall not proclaim to be a false Prophet.
- Peddlers shall not be welcomed unto the mighty city of Castrolvalva. Take thy snake oil somewhere else for thou is banished forever
All knowing, all seeing with the power of the fabled scrolls, able to crucify mere mortals with a single command, has the ability to call on the gods for lighting strike, fire or nuke (think carpet bombing), has time travel ability to roll back changes in minutes or hours for the whole world or just an area, able to read the pick marks on blocks, ability to see trails where there is no trail, who pays homage to the mighty Hosting Deity, the power to remove offensive language from the mouths of the heathens before they can even say the forbidden words, and finally, not known for their generosity in handing out free stuff.
MOD status
Moderators have the authority (with many of the admin commands) to help run the server or make decisions, take action without referring to an Admin for settling disputes. Their decision will be backed by Admin.
- scrolls – server log
- time travel – restore the world or local area to an earlier state
- pick marks on blocks – identify who placed a block/item anywhere in the world
- to see hidden trails – identify who removed a block/item anywhere in the world
- hosting deity – pays the host the monthly rental in real life money
- forbidden words – chat filter that strikes the foul mouthed ones with lightning
- free stuff – dont ask for free items, or for creative mode, the answer is always NO
- consequences – May the hammer of Thor strike you dead with lightning and thunder
- gods – Admin or mod
- false deity's – Advertising other servers and thou shall be banished (banned forever)
- steal - To take ANY item that you did not earn, buy, trade, mine or freely given by another player
- false prophet - Using that tired old scam you are from PlanetMinecraft
- arrow to the head - PVP is NOT allowed unless the other player wishes to PVP
- peddlers - The equivelant of door to door salesman and charlatan's
- banished - banned
- snake oil - promises of increasing player numbers, making the server run better, trying to sell plugins etc, offering hosting or server reviews etc etc


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Monday, December 6, 2010
Chocolate Sand Cookies
Here's a recipe for a cookie that's fantastic to bake and give. These cookies are named for their unique sandy texture. Package them with loose leaf tea for a lovely gift.
Chocolate Sand Cookies
Printable Recipe
1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
¼ cup plus 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
¼ cup cornstarch
¼ teaspoon kosher salt
6 ounces (1 ½ sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 cup powdered sugar
2 tablespoons milk, at room temperature
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
Preheat the oven to 350˚F. Whisk together the flour, ¼ cup of the cocoa powder, cornstarch, and salt in a medium bowl. In a mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat together the butter and 1/3 cup of the powdered sugar on medium until creamy. Add the milk and vanilla and mix on low until blended. Add the dry ingredients and mix on low until the dough comes together, stopping the mixer once or twice to scrape down the sides of the bowl. Scoop the dough by the tablespoonful onto parchment-lined baking trays, roll each scoop of dough into a ball, and arrange the balls about an inch apart. Bake for 16 to 18 minutes, or until the edges are firm. Transfer cookies to a rack and let cool for about half an hour, or until barely warm. Sift together the remaining 2/3 cup of powdered sugar and 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder. Roll each cookie in the powdered sugar mixture to coat.
Makes 32 to 34 cookies. Cookies keep for several days in a tightly sealed container in a cool, dry place. Perfect with a cup of Earl Grey tea.
Cookie recipes,
Gifts from the kitchen
5 comments:
- Stanislav said...
I'm not an experienced baker, so I'm not sure if that would work or not.
Thanks for all you do! - December 7, 2010 at 12:34 PM
- Linda from NJ said...
Oh boy! These look great and perfect for gift giving. They seem like a nice adult cookie which is what I am looking for. I will be making these for sure. And if they are on your blog I know they are going to be delicious without a doubt.
- December 7, 2010 at 3:36 PM
- Lynn said...
Yum, these look great!
- December 7, 2010 at 8:39 PM
- avaserfi said...
Thanks for the recipe. I just coated them in the powdered sugar/cocoa mixture. They are great if you like sand cookies. I think these would be especially good with a Mexican chocolate style mixture too.
I do have one question. The bottom of my cookies flattened a little while baking. Is this normal? - December 10, 2010 at 1:56 PM
- Lucy Vaserfirer said...
Yes, it's perfectly normal for these cookies to develop a flat bottom. - December 10, 2010 at 2:30 PM


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Free Module 2: Shapes & Form Feng Shui
Chapter 10: Choice of Site
The Rule of Thumb in choosing a site
either for dwelling or burial site
The best shapes of land are either square or rectangular. The following plot of land are acceptable:-
Avoid irregular shaped plot of land as it can affect fortune and health. Do avoid land especially with many corners or triangle shaped:-
In general, there are several rules of thumb to assess a site. Some of these are:
1. The front portion of the plot of land should be lower than the back. The back should preferably face a hill, mountain or higher ground. This forms a `protective' barrier for the back. The front should preferably be facing a pool of water e.g. swimming pool, a serene lake or slow flowing river but not a pool of stagnant water or a well. As a well is thought to harbor `spirits'.
2. Site must have good drainage, dry and with clean top-soil. I once remembered renting a house at Saint Michael's Estate, Singapore: The house was `damp' as it was near a canal and it was infested with termites!
3. The site have a `perfect' natural scenery where the front should face the sea, valley or lower ground with a fairly good view in front and slightly elevated ground at the back. Many old Chinese Temples in Singapore are located on a hill overlooking the sea.
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The Bone Woman
By Clea Koff
By Clea Koff
By Clea Koff
By Clea Koff
Category: World History | Politics
Category: World History | Politics
Feb 08, 2005 | ISBN 9780812968859
Dec 18, 2007 | ISBN 9780307431998
In Secret (Movie Tie-In)
The Decay of the Angel
What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding
Signora Da Vinci
The Battle for God
How to Succeed with Women, Revised and Updated
Dancing Fish and Ammonites
Privilege and Scandal
I Am Radar
"The beauty and significance of Koff's work and of her drive to do it come through most powerfully when she is crouching over a mass grave, untangling limbs, scraping dirt from a corpse's clothes and finding, within what most of us would see as horror, something human that speaks. . . . Surprising, compelling, and worth reading."
–The Washington Post Book World
"Only Koff herself can explain what happens in the heart when the living meet the dead. . . . [The Bone Woman relives] what a good many people cannot imagine ever enduring. . . . Koff's seven 'missions' into fields of death erase all qualitative differences between horrors dreamed and horrors unearthed."
–Los Angeles Times
Koff knows that bones talk, and she simply lets the bones she exhumes give testimony. . . . In descriptions free of sensationalism or sentimentality, [this] emotional distance gives The Bone Woman its pared-down power."
–MAUREEN CORRIGAN, NPR's Fresh Air
"A highly personal account written in an engaging [style] . . . An accomplished writer . . . Koff speaks of her work with an irrepressible enthusiasm, and the kind of conviction that she believes she was born to do the job."
–The New York Times
"Every detail — the marbles in a dead boy's pocket — seems to tell the same story, of human suffering on a scale nearly too awful to contemplate. But with each Body that Koff can prove belonged to a non-combatant, it becomes easier to successfully prosecute charges of war crimes. Her work is the place where science, idealism and humanism most intersect."
—The Independent on Sunday
"Thomas Keneally wrote about the awkwardness of "good" as a literary subject. It is harder to make interesting than evil … but sometimes he concluded, you find yourself staring at good in the face and just have to recognise it. So it is with The Bone Woman."
—The Times (London)
"Her book — indeed, her life — is a testament to an idealism that shines through a grim, bloody reality."
—The Glasgow Herald
"Part science, part expose, part personal narrative, The Bone Woman offers a rare insight into both the role of a forensic anthropologist, and the role of the UN tribunal's forensic team … Yet, for all its forensic detail, it is Koff's deep sense of connection to the bodies she came to exhume, her unflinching sense of obligation to them, and her willingness to look at what they represent, that renders The Bone Woman compelling reading."
—Sunday Times (Perth)
"It is a highly personal account written in an engaging I-was-there-style … she gives a sense of the survivors and the guilt and grief they live with … an accomplished writer …"
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text: Historical memory is unwelcome by people who have too much at stake in the short term to realise that they may have much more to lose in the medium and/or long term. Historical memory is also unwelcome by people who wish that economic history could fit neatly within the theoretical constructs that they favour because of ideological, political, moral or pecuniary commitments of theirs (cf. Francesco Boldizzoni, The Poverty of Clio: Resurrecting Economic History, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011).


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Our CR&S strategy in the Middle East begins with our core business strategy and extends to the way we interact with our clients, our people and the communities we work and live in. In essence, this strategy embodies Deloitte's purpose of making an impact that matters.
The CR&S strategy revolves around four core pillars; namely, business, people, community and the environment. Taken together, these represent a consolidation of our most significant impacts and the key concerns and expectations of our stakeholders.


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I dare not say "I'm back."
I don't even know where I've been. Writing in my head only again, for months, it's now so full of words I feared the explosion would take out a city block.
I feel fake and false sharing the days' small trials and triumphs, the trivia that pile up to assemble my life right now -- meals and homework and mountains of laundry and paperwork, attending to my children's mental and physical health -- when throughout flows this raging undercurrent of grief, still; ten months in.
Ten months.
More than enough time to gestate. And yet what do I have to show for it? This egg-like orb of nothingness that is the palpable absence of my mother, lodged under my chest; barely dissipated, still.
But I feel I cannot yet either wear my mourning on my writer's sleeve. Even though it suffuses everything subtly, the constant filter on my lens, as a topic it is gray wisps, ghostly vague, deadly dull.
I am well aware that to go on and on about missing my mother now will likely incite impassioned and compassionate admonitions to "look forward" and "move on" which will make me want to shank my well-meaning readers. Never a good place to be.
And Thanksgiving coming up.
Last year with my mother and uncle. This year without.
I almost can't look at the photos, the longing they engender so great, I fear the molecules of the screens upon which the images burn will burst apart from my desire to hold those people again against my actual body and not just in my metaphoric heart.
Mom and Uncle Walter, Thanksgiving 2012 |
So here I am.
Once again with all these little stories I want to tell, yet they remain untold.
I know it's okay to smile and laugh in the middle of grief, and I do, every day. I know that my mother, of all people in the world, would want me to enjoy each and every moment with my children with all my soul. And I do. Every day.
I hope the floodgates open soon (yet can make no promises).
Until then, here, now, is my one toe back in the water.
It feels good.
Even if it is just a pool of tears.


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I started experimenting with knife making at the age of 13 and later with the help of a local friend set up a knife making shop and knife making became my hobby. I was fortunate to meet Bill Ruple which was the one to really make an impression in me as to where I wanted to get with the knives that I make. He has been the one to really refine my skill and I'm now blessed to call him a friend.
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Russia Bizarrely Promotes Upcoming Olympics by Making People Exercise for Train Tickets [VIDEO]
The Olympics are a showcase of the world's greatest athletes, but pretty soon they may also be a showcase for the world's fittest fans.
To help get people psyched for the upcoming Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, a specially-rigged ticket machine was set up at a train station in Moscow, in which people could only get tickets by doing 30 crunches.
That's right -- they had to physically exert themselves. We don't know if that got people fired up for the Olympics as much as it got them pumped for Gatorade, but, considering all the bad press Russia has gotten leading up to the Games over its anti-homosexual policy, we say it's a victory just by virtue of the fact people are focusing on a non-controversial issue.
We can't imagine a scenario where this would work in the US, where obesity is our national pastime and the most physical exercise we get is surfing the web looking for the latest pictures of Miley Cyrus sticking out her tongue. About the only thing we'd do 30 crunches for is a cronut and we'd probably quit halfway through and enjoy a cigarette.


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Thousands of people are fleeing a border town in the Gaza Strip after Israel dropped leaflets warning of stepped up attacks on the sixth day of an offensive. Meanwhile, an Israeli commando squad crossed into Gaza today to destroy a Hamas rocket-launching site.
The commando raid is the first incursion of Israeli troops into Gaza since the beginning of the offensive, which Palestinian health officials say has killed 170 and wounded more than 1,100 others.
NPR's Ari Shapiro, reporting from Jerusalem, says that up until now, it's been entirely an air war. The deployment of the Israeli commandos, who arrived from Gaza's Mediterranean side via an amphibious operation, represents "a significant shift, but it's not yet the all-out invasion that many fear," Ari tells Weekend Edition Sunday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated Sunday that the Israeli army was "prepared for any possibility."
"I don't know when the operation will end, it might take much more time," Netanyahu said in broadcast remarks before his weekly Cabinet meeting.
The air-dropped leaflets warned Gaza residents that failure to comply with instructions to evacuate "will endanger their lives and the loves of their families," according to Reuters. The area is home to at least 100,000 people.
The BBC quotes the Israel's military as confirming that it dropped leaflets in the area this morning.
"We do not wish to harm civilians in Gaza, but these civilians must know that remaining in close proximity to Hamas terrorists and infrastructures is extremely unsafe," the IDF said.
On Saturday night, Hamas made good on threats to fire rockets on Tel Aviv.
Reuters says:
"Those rockets and the ones unleashed on Sunday were intercepted by the Israeli-built, and partly U.S.-funded, Iron Dome missile defense system that has proved effective against Hamas's most powerful weaponry.
"No one has been killed by the more than 800 rockets the Israeli military said has been fired since the offensive began, and during Saturday night's barrage, customers in Tel Aviv beachfront cafes shouted their approval as they watched the projectiles being shot out of the sky."
Families in the northern border town of Beit Lahiya "are piling their kids and belongings into carts and cars and crowding into schools for shelter," NPR's Emily Harris reports from Gaza.
Palestinians in cars, motorbikes and donkey carts are following Gaza's main road south to escape the fighting, Emily says.
Jamil Sultan, traveling on a cart with two grandchildren tells NPR that he couldn't sleep last night "because of the shooting and bombing."
"Then today the Israelis told us to leave," he says. "They called on the phone and said to go this morning. We left our clothes and personal things at home. We brought things to sleep and sit on."
The Associated Press says:
"On Sunday, Palestinians with foreign passports began leaving Gaza through the Erez border crossing. Israel, which is cooperating in the evacuation, says 800 Palestinians living in Gaza have passports from countries including Australia, the United Kingdom and the U.S.
"U.S. citizen Ahmed Mohana said he had mixed feelings about leaving friends and family behind in the troubled Gaza Strip.
" 'It is very hard, it is very tough,' he said. 'We are leaving our family, our relatives and brothers and sisters in this horrible situation — we have to do what we have to do.' "
A spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) noted a "dramatic rise" in the number of people coming to the agency's shelters.
"Thousands of people are on the move and approximately 17,000 displaced people have come to UNRWA shelters seeking sanctuary from bombardment," Chris Gunness says. "In response UNRWA has doubled the number of shelters it is running for displaced people from 10 to 20. So there are now 17,000 people in 20 UNRWA shelters."
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"A hundred people dancing so hard they've thrown off their shoes . . ."
Playing in the Band
All over this moonlit mountain neighbors call
the cops, and the cops call TURN IT DOWN,
but it's too late to stop "Wild Night"
with a hundred people dancing so hard
they've thrown off their shoes.
I'm turning fifty with a star-burst
guitar hanging on my hips,
rhythm hand keyed to the high hat cymbal,
and when Billy rakes E-D-A and sings
Let me tell you 'bout my baby,
we crank it up another notch,
sweat pouring, wine pouring,
fireflies flashing like a marquee,
Billy belting out G-L-O-R-I-A, Gloria!,
his hair grown back from chemo, a glory,
my step-father, on vacation from chemo, a glory,
Steven, smiling, one day post-chemo, a glory,
James in his tux, finished with chemo, a glory,
Marlena and my mother dancing
without their breasts, a glory,
all of us shimmering in summer's halo,
bandaged by rags of music and moonlight,
playing in this glorious band of the living,
shaking in time to our lives.
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aliases, addresses, forward - addresses and aliases for sendmail
These files contain mail addresses or aliases, recognized by sendmail(1M) for the local host:
Mail addresses (usernames) of local users.
Aliases for the local host, in ASCII format. Root can edit this file to add, update, or delete local mail aliases.
The aliasing information from /etc/mail/aliases, in binary ndbm(3C) format for use by sendmail(1M). The program newaliases(1M) maintains these files.
The aliasing information from /etc/mail/aliases, in binary, Berkeley DataBase format for use by sendmail(1M). The program maintains these files.
Depending on the configuration of the AliasFile option in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf, either the single file aliases.db or the pair of files aliases.{dir, pag} is generated by newaliases(1M). As shipped with Solaris, sendmail(1M) supports both formats. If neither is specified, the Berkeley DataBase format which generates the single .db file is used.
Addresses to which a user's mail is forwarded (see Automatic Forwarding).
In addition, the NIS name services aliases map mail.aliases contains addresses and aliases available for use across the network.
As distributed, sendmail(1M) supports the following types of addresses:
Each local username is listed in the local host's /etc/passwd file.
Messages addressed to the absolute pathname of a file are appended to that file.
If the first character of the address is a vertical bar ( | ), sendmail(1M) pipes the message to the standard input of the command the bar precedes.
If domain does not contain any `.' (dots), then it is interpreted as the name of a host in the current domain. Otherwise, the message is passed to a mailhost that determines how to get to the specified domain. Domains are divided into subdomains separated by dots, with the top-level domain on the right.
For example, the full address of John Smith could be:
if he uses the machine named jsmachine at Podunk University.
. . . [host!] host!username
These are sometimes mistakenly referred to as ``Usenet'' addresses. uucp(1C) provides links to numerous sites throughout the world for the remote copying of files.
Other site-specific forms of addressing can be added by customizing the sendmail.cf configuration file. See sendmail(1M) for details. Standard addresses are recommended.
/etc/mail/aliases is formatted as a series of lines of the form
aliasname:address[, address]
aliasname is the name of the alias or alias group, and address is the address of a recipient in the group. Aliases can be nested. That is, an address can be the name of another alias group. Because of the way sendmail(1M) performs mapping from upper-case to lower-case, an address that is the name of another alias group must not contain any upper-case letters.
Lines beginning with white space are treated as continuation lines for the preceding alias. Lines beginning with # are comments.
Special AliasesAn alias of the form:
owner-aliasname : address
sendmail directs error-messages resulting from mail to aliasname to address, instead of back to the person who sent the message. sendmail rewrites the SMTP envelope sender to match this, so owner-aliasname should always point to alias-request, and alias-request should point to the owner's actual address:
owner-aliasname: aliasname-request aliasname-request address
An alias of the form:
aliasname: :include:pathname
with colons as shown, adds the recipients listed in the file pathname to the aliasname alias. This allows a private list to be maintained separately from the aliases file.
NIS Domain AliasesThe aliases file on the master NIS server is used for the mail.aliases NIS map, which can be made available to every NIS client. Thus, the /etc/mail/aliases* files on the various hosts in a network will one day be obsolete. Domain-wide aliases should ultimately be resolved into usernames on specific hosts. For example, if the following were in the domain-wide alias file:
then any NIS client could just mail to jsmith and not have to remember the machine and username for John Smith.
If an NIS alias does not resolve to an address with a specific host, then the name of the NIS domain is used. There should be an alias of the domain name for a host in this case.
For example, the alias:
sends mail on an NIS client to root@podunk-u if the name of the NIS domain is podunk-u.
When an alias (or address) is resolved to the name of a user on the local host, sendmail(1M) checks for a ~/.forward file, owned by the intended recipient, in that user's home directory, and with universal read access. This file can contain one or more addresses or aliases as described above, each of which is sent a copy of the user's mail.
Care must be taken to avoid creating addressing loops in the ~/.forward file. When forwarding mail between machines, be sure that the destination machine does not return the mail to the sender through the operation of any NIS aliases. Otherwise, copies of the message may "bounce." Usually, the solution is to change the NIS alias to direct mail to the proper destination.
A backslash before a username inhibits further aliasing. For instance, to invoke the vacation program, user js creates a ~/.forward file that contains the line:
\js, "|/usr/ucb/vacation js"
so that one copy of the message is sent to the user, and another is piped into the vacation program.
The ~/.forward file can be used to specify special "per user" extensions by creating a .forward+extension file in the home directory. For example, with an address like jsmith+jerry@jsmachine, the sendmail(1M) utility recognizes everything before the "+" as the actual username (jsmith) and everything after it, up to the "@" symbol, as the extension (jerry) which is passed to the mail delivery agent for local use.
The default value of the ForwardPath processing option in sendmail(1M) is:
O ForwardPath=$z/.forward.$w+$h:$z/.forward+$h:$z/.forward.$w:$z \ /.forward
where $z is the macro for the user's home directory, $w is the macro for the local machine name and $h is the extension. For example, for mail using the address, jsmith+jerry@jsmachine, the sendmail(1M) utility checks each of the four following file names, in the order given, to see if it exists and if it has "safe" permissions, that is, that neither the file nor any of its parent directories are group- or world-writable:
~jsmith/.forward.jsmachine+jerry ~jsmith/.forward+jerry ~jsmith/.forward.jsmachine ~jsmith/.forward
The first file that meets the conditions is used to forward the mail, that is, all the entries in that file receive a copy of the mail. The search is then stopped.
Password file
Name service switch configuration file
Mail aliases file (ascii)
Database of mail aliases (binary)
Database of mail aliases (binary)
Database of mail aliases (binary)
sendmail configuration file
Forwarding information file
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
passwd(1), uucp(1C), vacation(1), newaliases(1M), sendmail(1M), ndbm(3C), getusershell(3C), passwd(4), shells(4), attributes(5)
Because of restrictions in ndbm(3C), a single alias cannot contain more than about 1000 characters (if this format is used). The Berkeley DataBase format does not have any such restriction. Nested aliases can be used to circumvent this limit.
For aliases which result in piping to a program or concatenating a file, the shell of the controlling user must be allowed. Which shells are and are not allowed are determined by getusershell(3C).


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10 Ways to Help Those Who Are in the Hospital
Many of us know someone who will spend this time of year in a hospital, whether it's a friend, neighbor, or family member. While they would obviously rather be home with family, there are many things you can do to bring them cheer while making their hospital stay more positive and meaningful.
Here's a look at some of the ways you can bolster a patient's spirits while providing comfort during days otherwise filled with doctor visits, treatment, preparing or recovering from surgery, and more.
1. Spend Time with Them
There's probably nothing more important that you can do for a patient than spending time with them. Your presence will help the time go by more quickly for them while easing their anxieties and fears. And remember, laughter helps the healing process, so don't leave your sense of humor at home.
2. Give Gifts
Gift-giving can be a great source of joy, and giving gifts to a friend or family member who's in the hospital is no exception. It's best if you give a gift that they can use such as an e-book reader or iPad. Another great idea is to give gifts to their family members, such as hospital parking passes, or a few nights stay at a local motel if they're from out of town.
3. Help with Things at Home
While your friend is in the hospital, things at his or her home may be left undone – such as taking out the trash, getting the mail, feeding their pets, or watching their kids. You can even run their errands and take their children to lessons, sporting events, and school or seasonal parties.
4. Decorate their Room
You can make their hospital room more enjoyable by stringing colorful lights and supplying other festive decorations. You can also gift wrap the door with colorful paper and ribbons, or hang cards around the room.
5. Bring them Treats
Homemade cookies, baked goods and other treats can help lift a patient's spirits.
6. Skype
If a patient has a close friend or family member who lives far away, you can set up a Skype visit between the two.
7. Read to Children
Sharing read-aloud stories is a great way to lift the spirits of hospital-bound children.
8. Watch Movies
You can watch movies on a variety of digital devices these days, so schedule a movie-watching session with your hospitalized friend. Humorous movies will especially help lift their spirits.
9. Be a Listener
Most patients have plenty that they want to talk about when they're in the hospital because, for many of them, being there is a new experience. You'll help them feel better if you allow them to share their experiences without overdoing it with your stories and concerns.
10. Give the Gift of Music
Do you have a musical talent? Or, a group of friends who you like to play music with you? With the hospital's permission, of course, you could sing in your friend's hospital room or ask the floor nurse if you can play a mini-concert in the hallway for all patients on the floor.


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This discussion took place during the Stack Exchange 1.0 days, when FogCreek sold Stack Exchange licenses for a fee.
It is worth noting that Stack Exchange licenses are still being sold for intranet use.
Important Caveattm: this is something we are merely discussing that may happen more than one year from now, if it happens at all. Bearing that IMPORTANT CAVEAT in mind, please read on.
Joel is convinced that open-sourcing Stack Overflow, in any way, shape, or form, will destroy the business model of StackExchange (pushing prices down to hosting commodity levels) and possibly the Stack Overflow family of sites as well (fragmentation & dissipation of audience via army of clone sites).
Does open sourcing Stack Overflow even make sense at all? What do we (stackoverflow.com llc) get out of it? What does the community get out of it? Is it "win-win"? Or does someone lose?
Are there "hybrid" models of open sourcing that could work? Rather than treating this as an "all or nothing" scenario, is there a way to open source parts of what we're doing, or restrict licensing so that we don't compete with ourselves in the hosted StackExchange part of the business?
Aren't there other companies pursuing open source and hosting businesses at the same time? Such as Six Apart and Movable Type? I'm not sure how applicable this is to hosting business models, but certainly Slashdot and Reddit have gone open source. DotNetNuke also runs a similar business model, apparently.
Won't we be competing with open source versions of ourselves anyway in the long term? There are certainly already open source Stack Overflow clones, and lots of open source FogBugz competition and clones. Over time, won't the competitive pressure increase from the continual improvement of open source copies of what we do? Would it make sense to do it ourselves so we control it?
Could there be "enterprisey" closed source and "public" open source parts of the business? I've always said that StackExchange is going to have to fork because their private small, medium, and large business audience will want very different things than the public internet audience we serve. Wouldn't this be one way to segment the "free as in whatever the heck it is we're calling free these days" open-source dev work from the value-add closed source product?
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I love this from one of my favorite authors and preachers, Max Lucado. This came in my email inbox five days ago…I'm just reading it this morning. I think God is really drilling home to me this new year that He is with me (and all of us) and that He can be trusted. He loves us so much, and I'm glad that He still comes. Enjoy!
He Still Comes
The world was different this week. It was temporarily transformed.
The magical dust of Christmas glittered on the cheeks of humanity ever so briefly, reminding us of what is worth having and what we were intended to be. We forgot our compulsion with winning, wooing, and warring. We put away our ladders and ledgers, we hung up our stopwatches and weapons. We stepped off our race tracks and roller coasters and looked outward toward the star of Bethlehem.
We reminded ourselves that Jesus came as a babe, born in a manger.
I'd like to suggest that we remind ourselves he still comes.
He comes to those as small as Mary's baby and as poor as a carpenter's boy.
He comes to those as young as a Nazarene teenager and as forgotten as an unnoticed kid in an obscure village.
He comes to those as busy as the oldest son of a large family, to those as stressed as the leader of restless disciples, to those as tired as one with no pillow for his head.
He comes and gives us the gift of himself.
Sunsets steal our breath. Caribbean blue stills our hearts. Newborn babies stir our tears. Lifelong love bejewels our lives. But take all these away—strip away the sunsets, oceans, cooing babies, and tender hearts—and leave us in the Sahara, and we still have reason to dance in the sand. Why? Because God is with us.
He still comes. He still speaks.


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If you live in Colorado, Washington or Oregon, your state may soon be the first in the nation to allow possession of marijuana—in limited quantities—for recreational use. It all depends on what happens Nov. 6.
Pot is no stranger to the ballot in Colorado, where smokers consume more than two million ounces of marijuana each year and the state spends more than $40 million annually enforcing its prohibition. A ballot initiative to legalize marijuana failed 59% to 41% in 2006, six years after a referendum approved medical marijuana for use in the state. This year, cannabis advocates filed eight different petitions to legalize marijuana for recreational use under the state's constitution, a proposal whose fate voters will decide on Election Day.
Supporters argue that a regulated marijuana market would yield an economic boon. An August report from the Colorado Center on Law and Policy found that the amendment could generate $60 million from criminal cost savings and new tax revenue. Proponents plan that the first $40 million generated would go toward the state's school construction fund, which would help create nearly 400 new jobs. "Regulating marijuana like alcohol will take sales out of the hands of cartels and gangs and put them in the hands of legitimate Colorado businesses," says Mason Tvert, co-chairman of the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, which has out-fundraised its opponents nearly four to one. "The question is whether we would prefer it be strictly controlled and sold by licensed businesses in a regulated market, or whether we want to continue with the current system in which it is strictly uncontrolled and sold by criminals in the underground market."
Coloradoans favor marijuana legalization 48% to 43%, according to a recent Denver Post poll, down slightly from a 51% to 40% lead last month. Much of the new resistance comes from women, who flipped from supporting the measure 49% to 39%, to opposing it 48% to 40%. "Amending Colorado's Constitution to make our state the marijuana capital of the US is wrong for our kids and our economy," says Laura Chapin, communications director for Smart Colorado, one of the main groups challenging the proposed amendment.
Washington also has a marijuana legalization initiative on the ballot—and supporters of the measure led in a recent poll 54% to 38%. The Washington initiative, like Colorado's, would treat marijuana like alcohol at new state-licensed marijuana stores; users would have to be over 21 and purchases would be limited to one ounce. Oregon is attempting to pass a similar measure, but polling indicates it is less likely to succeed: opposition leads support 43% to 36%.
If any of the recreational marijuana measures pass, federal authorities have indicated they would likely initiate a challenge. US Deputy Attorney General James Cole told 60 Minutes that the Justice Department would continue to watch for "dangers to the community from the sale of marijuana" and if so, "we're going to go after those dangers." Federal prosecutors cracked down on medical marijuana in California last year, closing hundreds of dispensaries.
Medical marijuana is making three ballot appearances this year, in Massachusetts, Arkansas and Montana. (Montana voters approved a medical marijuana law in 2004, and this new measure would repeal it to create a new marijuana program.) California—the first state to make medical marijuana legal after voters passed Proposition 215 in 1996—attempted to more broadly legalize pot on the 2010 ballot, but the vote fell short. Medical marijuana use is currently legal in seventeen states and the District of Columbia.


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Galactic Federation & Spiritual Hierarchy via Sheldan Nidle
7 Caban, 10 Kumku, 8 Manik
Dratzo! We come with much to tell you! Currently, our associates are preparing for the events we have been describing to you. The dark cabal is reeling from some major accusations that are reaching the mainstream media in a number of European nations. These accounts of wrongdoing include the daily fraud involved in setting the interest rates for most of your world. And yet these revelations are only the beginning of what is to follow. Your world is engulfed in a tide of ever-mounting debt that is the result of these self-serving activities, and it is for this and many other reasons that the dark ones have reached the end of their protracted rule upon your world. They have long withheld from you a wide range of advanced technologies and related appliances, and our Earth allies have insisted that one of the first acts of the new governance is to bring these discoveries into the limelight. These technologies can vault your societies forward to a point where first contact makes more sense. Added to our own technology, your now-suppressed devices can reveal to you how best to serve your planet and your fellow humanity.
This shift in consciousness by its very nature is tied to divine service. We humans are physical Angels whose primary purpose is to serve the multitudes of living stars and planets that make up our Milky Way Galaxy. We come from faraway worlds to set the stage for a first contact with you, which will be complete once you have transformed back into your fully conscious Selves. Only then can you begin to understand why you fell into limited consciousness in the first place, and how the wisdom garnered there can assist you to create Light Bodies for the denizens of the formerly dark empires of Anchara. This is a venerable task which requires your unique wisdom and your infinite reservoirs of Love. The Agarthans realize that once you return to full consciousness there is much you can teach them, and they look forward to coming together with you to form a great star-nation. This new entity is to secure a galactic peace and make it possible to move nearly half the galaxy into the Light. It will be a time for carrying out divine prophecy!
These present moments lead up to a series of events which will change your world forever. Those who are to arrest certain individuals in your society are being prepared by various procedures that are reaching their formal conclusion. The heads of state of several western nations are being made aware that their resignations will shortly be expected and we are poised to use our technology to ensure that these detentions proceed exactly as planned. The purpose of these detentions is to separate the dark cabal members from their positions of power and thus create an opportunity for corrupt banking and financial institutions to be reformed. This will be accompanied by across-the-board debt forgiveness. The ever-mounting debt of most nations is the result of massive spending, brought on by the political and fiscal policies of the cabal. What is needed is a means to rectify this, and debt forgiveness accomplishes this. It also sets the stage for the universal abundance that will quickly follow.
This abundance is the prime financial vehicle. It is necessary to raise up the expectations of a world that for too long believed in the supremacy of the few and the intractable poverty of the many. This belief is to be replaced by a new one. There is no need to be poor, or to accept lack and limitation as a given. Rather, you need to see that the wealth and freedom being provided is only a stepping-stone to a new level of Being. Higher levels of consciousness understand how to create and use money, and abundance ushers in this capability for all. Wealth ends poverty, but not poverty-thinking. Hence, we are to ensure that your new governance impresses upon you the need to rethink your perceptions about wealth and prosperity, and the fact that money is merely a transitional tool between your present existence and the new one that is ready to manifest. You will see that money per se is soon to disappear, as new technologies make it possible for all to obtain the basics for a comfortable life. Further, you will move from being job-oriented to passion-oriented.
Blessings! We are your Ascended Masters! We come to you with a progress report. It is essential that the dark cabal and its myriad henchmen be isolated from you. Until this is accomplished, it is almost impossible to deliver your prosperity without dire consequences. This is why we have begun to implement a plan to isolate them, and once this is done, to take them into custody. You most definitely need a proper physical separation from those who continue to intend you harm. Each one whose name appears on the very long arrest lists are having their auric field 'marked,' and this temporarily prevents them further seriously damaging the planet or you. However, these dark ones also need to be physically restrained by the proper authorities. We are now completing the procedures that can deliver what is required. We ask you to add your great Loving energies to what we are doing as the time for your liberation is at hand!
Indeed, the blessed waves of Angels and the local Administrative Councils of Heaven are acting to bring about your liberation. For eons the dark has fostered a group of disembodied dark energies that have inhabited the Earth realm and caused all manner of mischief. These energies are concentrated in particular spots around your globe and our galactic friends are removing this negativity, which is clearing the way for all to move into the Light. We are assisting, and joining with our Inner Earth family to help in freeing Gaia from this muck. We can report that we have nearly finished this job. The cabal realizes that its powers are weakening, and the time comes to transform this magnificent world back into the beacon of Light that it was when Lemuria was founded some 900,000 years ago.
Every one of us knows the necessity of completing the liberation of surface humanity in right divine time. We have asked our galactic and Inner Earth families to do what is deemed necessary to deliver you from your bondage to the dark. Those in the various sacred societies that dot our planet are also doing all they can, with divine intelligence, to finish their projects in right divine time. Heaven and the Light remain in charge. The divine time that you are presently in is collapsing into a single time-reality, and this reality is wholly of the Light. The dark comprehends fully what is taking place, and can only delay this for a short span of cosmic time. You are close to the transition point when this dark-controlled surface world morphs into a realm of Light, Abundance, and full consciousness! Hence the dark knows that its time of dominion over you is truly over.
Today, we reviewed the activities that are transitioning your reality to the Light. It is also a time for disclosure and first contact. Be ready for some immense changes and for announcements that will change for the better how you view life on planet Earth. We will soon have a most wonderful celebration! Know, dear Ones, that the countless Supply and never-ending Prosperity of Heaven are indeed Yours! So Be It! Selamat Gajun! Selamat Ja! (Sirian for Be One! and Be in Joy!)


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- America became a free independent nation. With the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783, the former mother country, England, recognized that its children, the colonies, were now on their own. A constitutional republic was birthed, and thus the challenges began. Slavery, the "Peculiar Institution," was a monumental issue facing the country. Would it die or would it survive and possibly take a nation divided with it? This sectionalism followed Americans up into the Civil War. Dissect this crisis by addressing parts I and II below.
For the next part of this assignment you will create an outline of the main points you want to address in this paper. This will serve as the basis for your Assignment 2.2 Final Draft. (Note: Please use the Purdue Owl website to assist you with this assignment; this website can be accessed at: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/engagement/2/2/55/.)
Part 1:
- Write a thesis statement that is one to two (1-2) sentences long in which you:
- State your thesis on the significance of this slavery issue, as exemplified in your research. Justify your response.
- For the first part of this assignment you will create a thesis statement. A thesis statement is usually a single sentence somewhere in your first paragraph that presents your main idea to the reader. The body of the essay organizes the material you gather and present in support of your main idea. Keep in mind that a thesis is an interpretation of a question or subject, not the subject itself. (Note: Please consult the Purdue OWL website with tips on how to construct a proper thesis; the website can be found at: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/545/01/.)
Part 2:
For the next part of this assignment you will create an outline of the main points you want to address in this paper. This will serve as the basis for your Assignment 2.2 Final Draft. (Note: Please use the Purdue Owl website to assist you with this assignment; this website can be accessed at: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/engagement/2/2/55/.)2. Write a one to two (1-2) page outline in which you:
- Describe two (2) outcomes of the 3/5ths Compromise, Missouri Compromise of 1820, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the Dred Scott Decision. Note: Be sure to provide two (2) outcomes for each legislation.
- Suggest three (3) reasons why slavery was and is incompatible with our political and economic system.
- List three to five (3-5) driving forces that led to the Civil War.
- Use at least three (3) academic references besides or in addition to the textbook. Note:Wikipedia and other similar websites do not qualify as academic resources.
- Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
- This course requires use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.
- The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
- Recognize the main factors that led to America's early development.
- Identify and discuss the different ways that the heritages of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction have shaped America's history.
- Summarize and discuss the ways that formal policies of government have influenced the direction of historical and social development in the United States.
- Examine how changes in social and economic conditions and technology can cause corresponding changes in the attitudes of the people and policies of the government.
- Specify ways that women and minorities have responded to challenges and made contributions to American culture.
- Use technology and information resources to research issues in American History to 1865.
- Write clearly and concisely about American History to 1865 using proper writing mechanics.
- Click here to view the grading rubric.
- Write a thesis statement that is one to two (1-2) sentences long in which you:
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Bar Fight! Canned Beer – Dale's Pale Ale vs. Phoenix Pale Ale
Welcome to Bar Fight, the weekly competition where two beers, liquors or mixed drinks fight it out and only one can come out on top…before hitting the bottom of our stomach. In this week's match-up, someone is getting kicked in the can.
Canned beers should not be overlooked. Sometimes considered low brow because they are mostly associated with being cheap, and largely distributed by the macro-breweries. In actuality cans make a better vessel to contain beer and the craft beer movement is taking advantage of that. No light gets in and for the most part they are air tight keeping the beer fresh.
This week, we match-up two canned beer heavy hitters– Oskar Blues Dale's Pale Ale and Slyfox Brewing Co. Phoenix Pale Ale. Both of these breweries know how to make a absolutely delicious canned beer. We want to know what you think.
Touted as America's first hand-canned craft beer, Dale's Pale Ale is a classic. Rich and flavorful with a medium hoppy body, DPA keeps you going back for another sip. Craft brewed by Oskar Blues in Longmont, CO. and named after the breweries iconic founder Dick "Dale" Katechis, DPA is a classic representation of the American Style Pale Ale.
From Phoenixville, PA, Sly Fox Phoenix Pale Ale bowls you over with its crisp beginnings and smooth hoppy finish. Although, it does have a distinct toasty uniqueness which is rarely found in American style pale ales. Sly Fox is an award winning brewery with a fantastic line of canned beers that are sure to please everyone.