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And here's Nikki's follow-up from her visit:
asked a question before i left for london that asked about the burial place of sir thomas more. we all agreed that he was buried within the chapel of st peter ad vincula, despite the fact that all hallows barking by the tower has listed sir thomas on their website as being buried there. i took a guided tour of the tower (again!) and at the end of the tour the beefeater takes you into the chapel for the final bit of the tour. he speaks a little about the burials that have taken place in the church, including anne boleyn, catherine howard and jane boleyn. he also stated that sir thomas more is buried behind a door which the public does not have access to. no pictures, of course! after the tour was over, i asked the beefeater if sir thomas was really there and told him about the all hallows website claiming to have sir thomas' bones. he said "he is here, would you like me to prove it to you?" i replied "absolutely!" he lead me to a door at the side of the chapel and i walked through. i turned and to my left was the tomb of sir thomas more! i couldn't believe it, i gasped and he asked if i would like to take a picture. here's proof of sir thomas!
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Saturday, March 28, 2015
Highsec Miner Grab Bag #75
Never trust a carebear's ship name. You will know a carebear by his actions--and his tears. Grab Bag time!
You might think Mirela Thai's suggestion to the Agent who ganked her was an idle one. You'd be wrong. In fact, Mirela had given it a lot of thought:
It seems carebears have only gotten worse since the "Fifty Shades of Grey" movie.
Miners always complain about the gankers shooting ships that can't shoot back. Yet for some reason, the miners rarely take the opportunity to use their hard-won kill rights.
Luckily, highsec has a Saviour who is only interested in making EVE a better place. I'm not in it for the money. The New Order is incorruptible.
BTB DK has it wrong. The New Order doesn't sell mining permits to protect miners from other New Order members. We do it to protect the miners from themselves. This is literally in the first paragraph of the Code.
Some carebears, like Dheathproof, offer IRL death wishes in the laziest way possible...
...But in Mother Russia, it's their custom to put some real effort into it.
For Nazareem Dmatto, having intercourse with his girlfriend is a back-up plan for when his ship gets ganked and he can no longer mine. Of course, first he has to finish writing a tearmail to the person who ganked him.
It was bad enough when Xenuria's name was scratched off the EVE monument, but this is ridiculous!
Miners have a funny way of describing events. They can tell a story about good things happening, yet make it seem as if bad things happened.
Jaysin Lock finally finished his complaint letter, urging the New Order to figure out its targets. Actually, we have a system for that, and it seems to be working perfectly.
Our final tearmail of the day comes from ryan "Don't Call Me Sir" Penshar. You know, I always give credit where it's due. ryan managed to come up with a brand new excuse for going AFK: To cool down his laptop. If only he could cool his jets as easily.
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- AnonymousMarch 28, 2015 at 7:34 PM
why do you even do these people the courtesy of putting them on the blog ???? these people are quite obviously defective?? and they DO NOT represent the majority of new eden AT ALL !!
ReplyDelete - AnonymousMarch 28, 2015 at 7:53 PM
Most people I bump seem to act this way. Some come around and apologize though.
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- AnonymousMarch 28, 2015 at 10:15 PM
Love how code members are so butt hurt at the idea of me that one has to make a fake me on here. So nice of them to need me this bad :)
-=M=- - AnonymousMarch 29, 2015 at 4:37 AM
@The Colonel... your disappointment is irrelevant, but it does make me smile.
- AnonymousMarch 28, 2015 at 9:34 PM
I do hope some player get a psych break and do something in real life to those gankers so they learn that there are players that don't want to play by your fake rules.
Not really a fan of violence but as long as Code followers keep claiming that everyone should have the same perception like they have I want something to happen against them.
More than 25% sees the world from a different view than "normal" players and as long as Code don't understand that I wish that they will have a visit from an angry diagnosed player.Replies- AnonymousMarch 28, 2015 at 11:07 PM
I find myself asking that question often of code members alana.
-=M=- It's typical arebear behaviour. They can't separate reality from a game. Here is a classic example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzAufWvuXEk- AnonymousMarch 29, 2015 at 4:44 AM
It's typical chode. behavior They can't separate their heads from their asses. Here is a classic example.
p.s. The Colonel spell check is your friend - AnonymousMarch 29, 2015 at 5:41 AM
Code fools don't want players with autism etc to play the game.
EVE EULA doesn't state that this kind of players aren't allowed to play.
My daughter can't see the difference of other players behavior in game and out of game.
So you mean she isn't allowed to play in your perfect little game world?
She's the kindest person I know but she would treat you in real life from your in game actions.
She is definitely not the only one with this special kind of mindset.
I live with her mindset 24/7/365 and get really upset when some Code followers say it's OK to mock and make fun of other players that clearly say they don't want to be mocked.
If my daughter feel harassed by any in EVE and she have told the other player to stop mocking I don't hesitate to use everything I can to have that player both banned and convicted in court.
If she will ever appear on this forum I will make it my life goal to make every day a real pain for all who support the "bullies"
Trust me, no one is anonymous on Internet even if you hide behind TOR and other technologies.
To all that will flame me, just wait until you get a kid with autism, you will grow as a person and will understand a bit more why you should stop at the gank and don't mock the player. This is an actual post. Somebody wrote this.
Poe's law incarnate.This is why we have all kinds of games. If one isn't suitable, you can find another. What you're asking for is for us to sterilize every game so that everyone can play. Whatever games those would be, though, are probably ones nobody would want to play.
People have already succeeded in neutering EVE. It's already more like you want it to be than it's ever been, and a pretty far cry from what it was, and people asking for changes are no more satisfied than what they were. So why did these changes even need to occur? If we don't like this game, why don't we just find another one and leave this one alone?
This attitude is what gave birth to CODE. It's why they hate us so much. We take from them, and in return we give nothing. No patience, no understanding. Just tantrums, like spoiled children. We want our candy even if it will rot our teeth.
You know what would be great? How about we change basket ball so that the hoops are on the ground, so everyone can reach them, and make it so that if anyone takes the ball from anyone else, they get a time out. Oh, and give everyone a ball, too, so that nobody feels left out. We could stop keeping score so that nobody had to lose. It'd be complicated with all those balls and easy dunks, anyway.
Do you see the problem with this?- AnonymousMarch 29, 2015 at 7:54 AM
What I ask for is players to respect when another player tell them to stop mock.
Since idiots like Code players exists in all games there will be real life interactions soon and it won't be good interactions.
Why do you need to mock the player to the point of rage? Verbal harassment is against the EULA. First, block the offending player so that they can harass you no more, then report the offense.
I know that being a CODE player doesn't make a player a bigot or idiot, though, and I know they draw a line between real life and EVE life, as a general rule. If you want to help ferret out the bad eggs, I'm sure they'd appreciate that, if you can find any.@Anonymous McChickenshit (5:41)
What is wrong with you? Are you that completely out of touch with reality?
If your kid feels like someone is mocking her on the internet, she should have been taught to simply block them and move on. If she's not capable of doing it herself, then surely you supervise her constantly while online and you can do it for her, like any responsible parent?
Being ganked and / or featured on this site is only bullying in the minds of idiot EU-drones, who get dumbass laws passed, like criminalising saying mean things to other people, because the police don't have better things they could be doing with their time. To normal people, when people do something dumb you make fun of them. All humour is predicated on belittling or humiliating someone or something to one degree or another. Even jokes about the Irish, though that's actually making fun of the English, which is why they have to be *simple* jokes. :P
Hell, I don't even know why people like you come here. Every day we get comment spam from people who hate us, yet can't keep away. Talk about needing psychiatric help.
Something else to bear in mind: no-one in a video game knows she's a kid (which, when you think about it, is a damn good thing). They also wouldn't know she's autistic, nor should anyone care within the context of the game - people lie all the time to get sympathy and only a fool would fall for such an obvious ploy. If she's not capable of playing the game the way it is then, for her own benefit, she should consider playing something else.- AnonymousMarch 29, 2015 at 9:38 AM
I'm talking about anyone who don't stop nagging when you tell them to stop, that is also against EVE EULA.
And Code followers are not the only ones who does that but if I see my daughters character here made fun of I will for sure react with all tools I have available.
I don't mind struggling my way through the justice system if I need to.
This blog only exist to mock players and make fun of them and even that is against EULA if the player clearly told you they don't want that.
Please do the only thing that gets your hard or wet and gank all day but stop the damn mocking you seems to have a hard time to avoid.
Don't hide behind the words "they use a bad language so I have to mock them" because if you do you sink as low as them.
After my daughter got diagnosed I have learned what can happens if you think you can mock players around all day and still thinking that mocking will stay at characters level. It won't, so stop the mocking if you aren't a sick person that do everything you can to get rage and other bad behaviour from other players.
And it's wrong to say that a player that don't want to be mocked should choose another game, EVE EULA is pretty damn clear about this issue and Code players and other still thinks it's ok to mock as long as you hide behind role playing.
Role play but do respect a player that want to be a non mocked player and stop it there or be a target for my future crusade against EULA breaching players.
Just for your notice, verbal harassment is a when the player clearly told you that they don't want to interact with you and you still continue. It doesn't need to be bad words etc it can be unwanted contact as the sole harassment.
And we will see a posting here as a harassment. - AnonymousMarch 29, 2015 at 9:45 AM
admiral root, So Code players can't stop mocking?
"McChickenshit" When did I give you permission to call me that?
One more time and I will for sure go through the justice system even if it takes me the rest of my life time.
I wil make everything to find you and have you pay for your harassment belive it or not but sooner or later we will find you even if you use anon services etc.
Code followers are the lowest users of internet that's clearly shown now.
Oh, she block but since Code is like the biggest cancer organism you need to block people all day. You have dedicated yourself to mock players forever, trust me I have logs from every mocking attempt and I will not use them trying to get CCP to udnerstand because they are retards and don't even know the real life laws. - AnonymousMarch 29, 2015 at 10:02 AM
admiral root, you can be sure she never use her diagnose to get advantage in games.
She tries to tell other players to stop when they mock but since you Code followers spread yourself like the biggest cancer ever she get new mockings from other players she have never had any internactions with.
And that must be from the blocked players, there is no reason to contact a random player and mock them right?
Mocking is not an allowed game play when the other part clearly said that they don't want that. Maybe reread the EULA once more?
So changing game is not the solution, the solution is for players like you to stop mocking when the other part says it's not ok anymore.
If it's so damn hard to do that you should stop playing and using internet at all.
But you will never understand other players reaction that's pretty clear so keep calling me names and see when it happens that you have to tell the justice system why you did harass me online hiding behind a keyboard. - AnonymousMarch 29, 2015 at 10:13 AM
Have we been reading the same blog? New Order Agents decommision illegal mining equipment, then explain why they did so. There is no breach of the EULA. They are bringing player generated content to the place that needs it most. The angry chat clips you see here that are borderline EULA breaches are, in fact, carebears.
Delete - AnonymousMarch 29, 2015 at 10:24 AM
Anonymous March 29, 2015 at 10:13 AM
Posts here are a completley different thing than what happens in game.
Not for every Code follower but some who claims they follow the Code it really are.
I have tons of logs that shows that some claimed Code followers don't stop nagging when asked to etc.
So either you have two sides of what you say you do or you have rotten players in your organisation.
There is a clear breach against the EULA when other players don't stop nagging, harassing and keep trying to contact a player. It really doesn't matter if you use another character to do that, it's still harassment.
So yes there is a breach but as always you are totally blind of your own groups error and mistakes.
I have never said that only Code followers go against EULA, I know there are to many players that don't really care at all of the EULA.
This blog only shows clips good for Code but never when Code player nag and mock players that clearly told the other part to stop and that they don't want interaction. - Ming TsoMarch 29, 2015 at 12:56 PM
You, and your daughter, (if you're a bad enough parent to let your autistic daughter play EVE Online) will take every bit of interaction the game allows for, for as long as you wish to play it. Beating your chest with vague threats about how "I love my daughter and I would more than beat up anyone who hurt her feelings" is most likely you using your own autistic children to level threats at our Agents in revenge for enforcing the Code. We do not have to stop interacting with you when you tell us to stop. It is you that should be stopping unwanted interaction with us, by maybe taking your daughter outside, not playing EVE, or maybe just paying us our 10 million isk that we are due by rights, and following the Code. That way you can still play EVE and not risk further enforcement action.
Delete - AnonymousMarch 29, 2015 at 2:49 PM
this blog does no service to anyone or anything, not eve, not ccp, not even the people who contribute to or write it.
it's full of mean spirited, childish,individuals who enjoy trying to feel superior to or better than each other. (both sides are equally guilty of this)
eve online is just a game and you so called adults know this. shame on you ....all of you. - AnonymousMarch 29, 2015 at 3:43 PM
To anon with the daughter,
I feel for you, but trying to get code to sympathize with you is like trying to skin a cat, it just won't work. I would suggest instead to take plenty of screenshots of every interaction with code, then getting in touch with CCP. With enough evidence of code criminal actions CCP will take action. Unfortunately, it usually just results in a few of code members getting banned at a time, but its better then no reply from them. Whatever you do, don't try to reason with code, they are just lowlife thugs, always have been and always will be. Best of luck.
-=M=- - AnonymousMarch 29, 2015 at 4:44 PM
"If she will ever appear on this forum I will make it my life goal to make every day a real pain for all who support the "bullies" "
I would help! In fact, why not send me her character name and I'll go out of my way to make sure no one bullies her, k? :)
-Galaxy Pig - AnonymousMarch 29, 2015 at 4:57 PM
"Being ganked and / or featured on this site is only bullying in the minds of idiot EU-drones, who get dumbass laws passed, like criminalising saying mean things to other people..."
Lmao amen to that, spot on, Admirable Root. o7
All I can ever do is laugh condescendingly when EU hippies try to apply their soccer mom laws to the rest of us.
-Oink TL;DR
People that get this worked up over a game, really need to step outside and get some air. Or go visit a shrink... I'm sure he could help you with that fountain of tears your gushing over this "1st world time waster".
Now I guess I'm an "evil, nasty, pycho" because I don't feel any sympathy for you at all. Why? Because it's a internet game about blowing up spaceship pixels and losing your shit over it is just idiotic IMO. Seriously... you can't handle it, either learn too and change your play style, or find another game. Because it's not going to stop kiddies. Ganking will continue. Piracy will continue. And there is nothing, besides "learning to play or quitting" you can do about it.... I guess you can continue to wail and gnash your teeth in impotent rage, but I don't think that's been working out so much.
But, hey... if you want to share those salty tears, be my guest. Personally I think you should grow a pair and grow the fuck up.- AnonymousMarch 29, 2015 at 6:46 PM
life advice from someone who role plays a sycophantic follower of some pseudo-religion in a video game just to generate tears,bad feeling,and yes sometimes even hatred. really? not sure if you need to grow the fuck up ,or just shut the fuck up. or maybe even both
Delete - AnonymousMarch 29, 2015 at 7:28 PM
Ming Tso you poor poor soul.
You think nagging and mocking is a part of game play?
You are really pathetic.
You almost deserve all names that you have been called, you think mocking is a part of game play even if EULA clearly state that mocking is not allowed at all.
Maybe I'm a bad parent that let her play a game when you are playing it, you seems to be a really bad person that do everything you can to anger other people. Really hope you only do this behind your safe keyboard, if you do this in real life I really wish you do that at the wrong person really soon.
Poor poor Ming, I don't level threats if you don't mock her, simple as that.
I know she block and tells everyone that mock her she don't want that interaction and you still keep mocking. (not exactly you Ming, haven't seen you in her logs yet)
I don't use my daughter like you seems to use other players when you hunt rage. I try to keep my daughter safe, that's what differ you and me.
I don't harass people if they say they don't want my interaction.
BTW I have checked with CCP about unwanted interactions so try me I know repeated unwanted interaction is against EULA and for sure a lot of real life laws.
I will do what I can to make everyone who think they can bully on internet and hide behind RP and anon servers to pay their price to our justice system.
I know the system is crippled but if I don't try nothing will ever change.
If you think I don't know the laws in US and EU you are wrong but keep trying.
As long as you don't mock she or I don't care if you gank her, kill her in EVE she is really good to adjust to rules. But mocking is not a part of the game play and it will never be. "It's typical chode. behavior They can't separate their heads from their asses. Here is a classic example.
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LOL@ Anonymous McChickenshit (9:45)
> "McChickenshit" When did I give you permission to call me that?
You're a chickenshit if you don't post with your main. I don't need anyone's permission.- AnonymousMarch 29, 2015 at 10:32 PM
To the anoymous fool sending Admiral Root such fan mail, let's look at the facts.
Eve is a game that is very loosely rated, where the publishers do not hold themselves responsible for what goes on inside.
A sandbox game that is designed from its foundations for maximum emotional impact, and where death is frequent and brutal.
Your daughter is, as you say, autistic. I assume she's still a child? And I'd guess that she too has trouble with her emotions, like so many autistic kids?
Let us quote you: "My daughter can't see the difference of other players behavior in game and out of game." and ponder that.
You are the one who is legally and morally responsible for what she is exposed to. A game for adults, who you would hope have some measure of self control and emotional maturity. I'd say letting an autistic kid onto an online game, let alone one like Eve, would be undeniable negligence.
A negligence which you are freely professing. Your repeated threats on this site - which I remind you is private property - are noted. I cannot imagine a jury thinking that letting an autistic child onto a game like Eve is evidence of good parenting. Nope, just can't see that one happening.
Oh, and for your information: there are very few extraditions for online harrassment. There are however many laws against threats made over a communications device, which take no notice of where the recipient resides. It's all down to the instigator.
So do your child a favor for once. Take meaningful measures to protect her and uninstall the game, and . And try to understand the laws you "think" you understand, and remember that no-one, yourself included, is truly anonymous.
- AnonymousMarch 29, 2015 at 7:47 PM
***WARNING*** If you read this, you may or may not get eye cancer. ***WARNING***
From: ryan Penshar
Also have you noted about bulling ? How about Cyber Bullying? Did you know Cyberbulling is most comment in online games, some if not most quit Eve online in this case, and kill them selfs in some cases. I don't want a war, just a game that. I can play with you rights not being taking away if me. I think you need a rain check, also
I studed progarming, and coding for 2 years. This is not a threat just a firendly chat. Your minnerbuming.com would look nice with a big free ISK sgin on it. this is not anonymous have a anonymous is not a group, but Idea. I think it's funny how soneone tried to hack my PC for 2 days. Do you clam thouse attacks?
We are legion
We don't forget
We don't forgive
Expect us
that is if C.C.P dose not take acton, because there is a line beween are MMO, sand, and cyberbullying. I here, because of one player who went out and got my attention. He said it take him 16 days to get a ship that he wanted, and he just fighting in it, you guys the code. hit him, or in eve online Ganked. We look at your rules form the high sec, and in that you said afkers, miners, and that is it. We also found out that C.C.P is changing the high sec. in your favor. I am why Dust 514 died mostly lol. We think that your paying C.C.P or your ccp members. I think it's funny how I did know the code. until I was hit. You going to try to use Torlling to C.C.P, and H.L.S ? Torlling is upsetting on the Internet, but then laster saying you was torlled, or say like, and sub for more etc..., but no minerbumping.com / Ip 18.104.22.168 is your fourms you frame it and/or for others to see and fear. In fact that is cyberbulling. You remind me of gangs in the realworld. They think there all that, and...
I an american citizen don't want this, or none of my mail, pics(ingame or RL), what i say in chat rooms, or nonthing I say, or do shared on social networks, blogs, fourms texts, and/ or emails, evemail, teamspeaks. etc... You breaking my right to privacy online, and off. This said in our bill of rights and /or Declaration of Independences. You and /or you group puts this on your minerbumping website (others), link some to this evemail/email servers. I puess charges on all of you for the max.
This is not a threat, has I don't know what that is. This is a warning. You have been warning. - AnonymousMarch 30, 2015 at 3:56 AM
I just want to know how old that downsy daughter is. If she is 18, maybe send me her name and number?
-=M=- - Agatha MonroeMarch 30, 2015 at 9:00 AM
Snigie Audanie is a false messenger, he doesn't really care, while he originally destroyed my retriever, I went and got another one and sat there and mined right in front of him while he did nothing. I guess he loses interest pretty quick and doesn't follow through. Does he have ADHD or something? I thought CODE would have higher quality agents.
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Planning a Play-Based Therapy Session
The big laminate-top kidney tables that many of us have in our school-based "speech rooms" are a great place to run through flashcards, worksheets, read and map stories, answer questions, and teach brand new skills. However, unlike infant–toddler SLPs, for whom playing on the floor is standard, school-based SLPs often overlook opportunities for such play-based therapy.
With play-based therapy, you can really capture a child's attention and make memories that will extend beyond the therapy session. These memorable moments support learning and retention, and are essential when treatment sessions are infrequent.
Play is flexible, non-literal, episodic and process-oriented. During play, the child is actively engaged and intrinsically motivated. True play has no extrinsic goals, but we sacrifice some of that to ensure that target skills are practiced. When designing play-based lessons, the less you deviate from true play, the better. Here's how:
Required targetsThe first step of planning a play-based therapy session is to select targets to teach. Next, you'll identify a way to require those targets during play. Start with the lesson, not with the toy or game! You may think in terms of how to give access to something the child wants following skill demonstration. This "something" can be toys, food, parts of a whole (for example, puzzle piece, song phrase, portion of a motor sequence), social interaction, or a funny or amusing consequence. You'll also have suggested targets that are encouraged but not required. This is because requiring target demonstration at too high a frequency quickly turns the play session into drill-based "work" and begins to peel away the benefits of playful learning.
Example: "Sleepy Sue," target = /s/-initial words. Let the student choose dolls for each of you. Make your doll's name "Sue." Explain that Sue has a pesky tendency to fall asleep (*insert snoring*). When she dozes off, the child's job is to wake her up by saying, "Sue! …Sue!" You assist with correct articulation, then commence with doll play until Sue falls asleep again. In a short period of play, the word "Sue" will be required many times, but you may also model things Sue and her dolly friends like to do, like sew, sing, or sit—targets that will be suggested but not required.
Memorable episodeThe more episodic and story-like your play-based session is, the better. This is because associated events scaffold memories. Later that day, if a child can't tell mom "what I did in speech today," you aren't reaping the benefit of repeated recall. Consider the "Sleepy Sue" example above—the more related the activities that Sue and her doll friends do, the better. It's too easy to *think* you're using playful learning, when in reality you've set up a nonassociative work–reward–work–reward structure (as with many games).
Memorable targetsIn addition to the play episode being memorable, it's perhaps even more important that the targets be memorable. I've used "Sleepy Sue" with a five-year-old who called me out the next session because I accidentally called Sue, "Sam."And that was great! But a lot of kids wouldn't remember that target, just like they won't likely remember many of the target words in a series of flashcards. So I've also had "Sleepy Sue" do a cooking episode.
Example: "Sue Makes Soup,"target = /s/-initial words. Sue loves to cook, and the student can help Sue by choosing the ingredients for her soup. The child can add salsa, sausage, seeds, soy sauce, syrup, sour cream, and such. Of these targets, some can be the real thing! And how much fun is it to put real salt or real seeds in the soup bowl? "Salt" and "seeds" can be your required targets, and you hold the shakers until the student needs them. The student may even take some of the "targets" home to show dad. The other words may be required or suggested targets, depending on the student.
Play-based learning can be done with children of any age. What would play-based learning look like for a fifth grader? Start by considering how fifth graders play with one another (for example, talking about their favorite TV show), and design from there. Play-based learning is also excellent for students with autism—check out this article and this one. Whatever the child's age or skills, always ask yourself—"Could we be playing with this?"
Meredith Poore Harold, PhD, CCC-SLP, is a speech–language pathologist and independent scholar in Kansas City, Missouri. She works primarily with infant-toddler and elementary-aged children, and provides resources for parents and clinicians at www.meredithharold.com.


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TRANSCRIPT: This week marks the one year anniversary of the release of emails and documents from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia that we now know as Climategate.
Sitting here now, one year later, it's becoming difficult to remember the importance of that release of information, or even what information was actually released. Many were only introduced to the scandal through commentary in the blogosphere and many more came to know about it only weeks later, after the establishment media had a chance to assess the damage and fine tune the spin that would help allay their audience's concern that something important had just happened. Very few have actually bothered to read the emails and documents for themselves.
Few have browsed the "Harry Read Me" file, the electronic notes of a harried programmer trying to make sense of the CRU's databases. They have never read for themselves how temperatures in the database were "artificially adjusted to look closer to the real temperatures" or the "hundreds if not thousands of dummy stations" which somehow ended up in the database, or how the exasperated programmer resorts to expletives before admitting he made up key data on weather stations because it was impossible to tell what data was coming from what sources.
Few have read the 2005 email from Climategate ringleader and CRU head Phil Jones to John Christy where he states "The scientific community would come down on me in no uncertain terms if I said the world had cooled from 1998. OK it has but it is only 7 years of data and it isn't statistically significant." Or where he concludes: "As you know, I'm not political. If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn't being political, it is being selfish."
Or the email where he broke the law by asking Michael Mann of "hockey stick" fame to delete a series of emails related to a Freedom of Information request he had just received.
Or the email where he wrote: "If they ever hear there is a Freedom of Information Act now in the UK, I think I'll delete the file rather than send to anyone. We also have a data protection act, which I will hide behind."
Or the other emails where these men of science say they will re-define the peer review process itself in order to keep differing view points out of the scientific literature, or where they discuss ousting a suspected skeptic out of his editorial position in a key scientific journal, or where they fret about how to hide the divergence in temperature proxy records from observed temperatures, or where they openly discuss the complete lack of warming over the last decade or any of the thousands of other emails and documents exposing a laundry list of gross scientific and academic abuses.
Of course, the alarmists continue to argue—as they have ever since they first began to acknowledge the scandal—that climategate is insignificant. Without addressing any of the issues or specific emails, they simply point to the "independent investigations" that they say have vindicated the climategate scientists.
Like the UK parliamentary committee, which issued a report claiming that Phil Jones and the CRU's scientific credibility remained intact after a rigorous one day hearing which featured no testimony from any skeptic or dissenting voice. After the release of the report, the committee stressed that the report did not address all of the issues raised by climategate and Phil Willis, the committee chairman admitted that the committee had rushed to put out a report before the British election.
Or the Oxburgh inquiry, chaired by Lord Ron Oxburgh, the UK Vice Chair of Globe International, an NGO-funded climate change legislation lobby group. The Oxburgh inquiry released a five page report after having reviewed 11 scientific papers unrelated to the climategate scandal that had been hand-picked by Phil Jones himself. It heard no testimony or evidence from anyone critical of the CRU. Unsurprisingly, it found the climategaters not guilty of academic misconduct.
Regardless of what one thinks of the veracity or independence of these so-called investigations into the climategate scandal itself, what has followed has been a catastrophic meltdown of the supposedly united front of scientific opinion that manmade CO2 is causing catastrophic global warming.
In late November of 2009, just days after the initial release of the climategate emails, the University of East Anglia was in the hotseat again. The CRU was forced to admit they had thrown away most of the raw data that their global temperature calculations were based upon, meaning their work was not reproducible by any outside scientists.
In December of that year, the UN's Copenhagen climate talks broke down when a negotiating document was leaked showing that--contrary to all PRŃ-it would be the third world nations bearing the brunt of a new international climate treaty, with punishing restrictions on carbon emissions that would prevent them from ever industrializing. The document, written by industrialized nations, allowed the first world to emit twice as much carbon per person as the third world, and was widely seen as an implementation of a eugenical austerity program under a "green" cover. This agenda was further exposed by the influential Optimum Population Trust in the UK, which began arguing that same month that rich westerners offset their carbon footprints by funding programs to stop black people from breeding.
In January 2010, the United Nations' much-lauded Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change began to fall apart as error after error began to emerge in this supposedly unassailable peer-reviewed, scientific document asserting human causation of catastrophic climate change. That month it was revealed that a passing comment to a journalist from an Indian climatologist that the Himalayan glaciers could melt within 40 years found its way into the much-touted Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's fourth report on climate change via a World Wildlife Fund fundraising pamphlet. When IPCC defenders tried to pass the universally derided prediction off as a legitimate mistake, the coordinating lead author of that section of the report admitted that the IPCC knew that the report was based on baseless speculation in a non-peer reviewed work, but included it because "We thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action."
Later that month, doubt was cast on another claim in the IPCC report, this one that 40% of the Amazon rainforest was in danger of disappearing due to manmade global warming. These doubts were confirmed in July when the claim was sourced back to pure, unverified speculation on the now-defunct website of a Brazilian environmental advocacy group. Just this month, the exact opposite of the original claim was shown to be the case when a new study appeared in Science demonstrating that forests in past warming periods were not decimated but in fact blooming with life, experiencing a "rapid and distinct increase in plant diversity and origination rates."
Also in January, the UK Information Commissioner ruled that researchers at the CRU had broken the law by refusing to comply with Freedom of Information requests, but that no criminal prosecution would follow because of a statute of limitations on prosecuting the illegal activity.
In February, the UK Guardian revealed that a key study co-authored by Phil Jones that purported to show there was no such thing as the well-researched Urban Heat Island effect was found to have relied on seriously flawed data. This, according to the Guardian, led to "apparent attempts to cover up problems with [the] temperature data."
In September, John Holdren, the man who had previously advocated adding sterilizing agents to the water supply to combat the overpopulation problem which he thought would ravage the Earth by the year 2000, and who currently is the Science czar in the Obama White House, advocated a name change for global warming to "climate disruption," further affirming the theory's non-scientific status as an unfalsifiable prediction that anything that ever is due to manmade carbon dioxide.
Later that month, Britain's prestigious Royal Society rewrote its climate change summary to admit that the science was infused with uncertainties and that "It is not possible to determine exactly how much the Earth will warm or exactly how the climate will change in the future..."
In October, a carbon reduction advocacy group called 10:10 released a video to promote its campaign in which those skeptical about participating in the program are a poll of its own readers that found over 77 believe natural processes to be the cause of climate change and almost 80 responded that they would not be willing to pay a single penny on schemes to "forestall" the supposed effects of supposedly-manmade global warming (warming that even climategate scientist Phil Jones now admits is no longer taking place).
And this is only the briefest of overviews of the range of information that Climategate.tv has been tracking over the past year. The reports undermine the data, its sources, the scientific processes used, the scientists themselves, and their conclusions. It shows that the main temperature records that are used to determine the highly-problematic concept of the global mean temperature are in fact in the hands of scientists like Phil Jones and James Hansen with a direct stake in the continuation of the alarmist scare. When these scientists are questioned on the sources of their data they advocate deleting emails and even deleting data itself. They admit that key data underlying their calculations has already been deleted.
And yet, with all of this, they have the audacity to continue to suggest that there is overwhelming concensus on the "science" of global warming. They call for public debates with skeptics who they invariably accuse of being funded by Big Oil, and then, when those debates are actually organized, they then back out of those debates. They then continue to call for the imprisonment of anyone who dares to question this supposed iron-clad .
And now, they are preparing to meet once again.
Next month, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will descend on Cancun, Mexico, to once again try to hammer out a globally-binding agreement on the restriction of carbon emissions. They will once again act as if carbon dioxide is a vile poison and not one of the essential ingredients of life on this planet. They will once again pretend that a causal link between carbon dioxide and catastrophic or unprecedented warming has been established. They will once again pretend that inflicting severe austerity on the third world in the name of greening the earth is anything other than eugenics by another name.
This year, though, there will be a difference. The public at large is another year older, another year wiser, and less prepared than ever to accept unquestioned the dire assertions of grandstanding politicians and the scientists they fund that the world is on the brink of imminent destruction. When they say the science is certain and settled, we will know better. When they say that this is humanity's last chance, we will see them for the Chicken Little's they have always been.
This is not a call for complacency. In fact, now that the public is more skeptical than ever about the climategaters and others of their ilk, the danger of binding international agreements enacted by unelected institutions and empowering global taxation is at an all-time high. They are hoping to ram through an agreement that will put the final nail in the coffin of climate realism before the corpse of the global warming hoax even has the chance to rot.
We have to speak out against this fraud now, and more loudly than ever. We must make our voices heard when we assert that science is about honesty, about openness, about the search for the truth, and that those who reject those principles will no longer be heeded by a public that has been stretched long past the point of credulity.
Once again the UN-funded scientists and politicians are telling us that the hour is nigh, and perhaps, for once, they are right. The end is almost here for those who are trying to establish their global governance in the name of a scientific fraud. If we continue to speak out on this issue, perhaps there will be no UNFCCC conference next year after all.
For if climategate has taught us anything, it is that just one year can make all the difference.


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Your loved one will have ups and downs. That's normal. Help them focus on the positive. Sticking to lifestyle changes will help them feel better and be healthier. Think about making the same changes, too. That can help your loved one make and keep these new healthy habits. Always talk about your concerns with your loved one. Keep the conversation open.


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Higher education is at a crossroads.
Transformational technological advances, unpredictable enrollment trends and stark economic realities are reshaping the delivery of courses, the significance of degrees, and the fundamental "college experience." At this watershed moment for higher education, there is a pressing need to build on our strengths, anticipate changes, and position the university to be responsive to the inevitable challenges ahead.
This month, we are embarking on "Strategic Plan 2030: The University of Choice – Making a Difference," a blueprint for the path ahead based on Oakland's mission, vision and values with a focus on timely initiatives and priorities. The four-phase plan will be in place for the 2024 academic year.
Refreshing the current strategic plan with traditional higher education and emergent issues in mind is the mission of the Strategic Planning Oversight Committee (made up of the president and cabinet), and the 18-member Strategic Planning Leadership Council that consists of faculty and staff.
The ultimate goal is for Strategic Plan 2030 to support Oakland's aspiration as a preeminent catalyst for education, cultural understanding, economic growth, community engagement and practical research that benefits the region and state.
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MacMillan: US premiere of Clemency
James MacMillan's Clemency, his new one-act opera, is staged for the first time in the United States by Boston Lyric Opera in February
James MacMillan's new one-act chamber opera Clemency receives its first American performance in February, presented by co-commissioner Boston Lyric Opera. The opera features a libretto by poet Michael Symmons Roberts, which depicts a dramatic Old Testament tale of Abraham and Sarah. The couple are nearing the end of their lives and are childless, but receive wonderful news from three mysterious strangers, which ultimately leads to Abraham pleading for forgiveness of clemency based on past transgressions. Boston Lyric's production, February 6, 7, 9 and 10, 2013, a chamber orchestra led by BLO Music Director David Angus, along with baritone David Kravitz as Abraham and soprano Christine Abraham as Sarah.
Clemency (2009–10) received glowing reviews following its 2011 premiere at the Royal Opera's Linbury Studio Theatre in London. Noted The Observer: "the best MacMillan score I've heard… as densely coloured and detailed as the Russian Orthodox icon which in part prompted it. Its starting point is the Old Testament story of Sarah and Abraham before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. One can imagine that MacMillan and his librettist, Michael Symmons Roberts, wrote in a white heat of intensity."
"…in James MacMillan's music, every note counts. And never more so than in Clemency, which packs questions powerful, emotional, philosophical and religious into just 45 minutes… MacMillan has created a terrifically intense, focused and inspired musical work on a thought-provoking parable, updated to the present day."
— The Independent
"Clemency's economical treatment of a slice of scripture, its casting for just five voices, four of them male, and its quasi-ritualistic manner of proceeding evoke the Britten of the church parables. MacMillan's restlessly inventive string-writing—biting, resonant, athletic, but with an expressionistic edge—sounded terrific."
— Sunday Times
MacMillan's Piano Concerto No. 3, The Mysteries of Light (2007–08), receives three more American performances this Spring with soloist Jean-Yves Thibaudet: Nashville Symphony May 2–4; Atlanta Symphony May 30–June 1; and the Indianapolis Symphony June 7–8.
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Title: Dangerous Kiss
Author: Crystal Kaswell
Publication date: November 2nd 2016
Genres: New Adult, Romance
He was supposed to glue my broken heart back together. Instead he threw me away.
Now he's just another rock star asshole.
He gets everything he wants.
But not me. Not again.
Ethan Strong was the first man I ever loved. He was the one person who understood me, the one person who made me feel whole, the one person who set my body on fire.
We were supposed to be together forever. Then things got hard and Ethan forced me to choose between him and everything I've worked for.
Now he's back in my life. He says we'll be friends. It's been a long time. I can forgive, but I can't seem to forget. The taste of his lips, the sound of his groans in my ears, those calloused fingers between my legs– I'm going out of my mind remembering all the pleasure he brought me.
Worse, I keep thinking how happy he made me.
I can't fall back in love with Ethan. It doesn't matter how badly I crave his gorgeous blue eyes, his tattooed arms, and his strong guitarists' hands. It doesn't matter that his smile still lights me up inside. It doesn't matter that I need him like I need oxygen.
I'm not giving Ethan another chance to throw me away.
He waits to speak until his drink is melting ice. "I know you think Mal is pulling strings to get us back together."
"Is there a reason why you don't object to this?"
"Mal doesn't listen to anybody but Mal. Besides, I've seen him stressing about numbers. He doesn't have the expertise. And I'm not saying you do, but he's right. You're somebody we trust." Ethan's eyes find mine. "If you want the gig, you should take it."
His voice is even, effortless. Usually, Ethan wears his intentions on his face. But not right now.
No. That was the old Ethan, the one I knew. This playboy rock star version of Ethan… who knows what he does or why.
I take a long sip of my now lukewarm drink. "Won't that bother you?"
"No." His voice is shaky for a moment. "Just, well… I'm not gonna be celibate just because you're around."
"Excuse me?"
"I get it. You think I'm a manwhore. I won't argue." He runs his hand through his wavy hair. "You're right. I fuck a lot of women. That isn't going to change if you join us on tour."
"Thanks for the update on your sex life."
"Don't want you to get upset if you see me with someone else." His voice is clipped, his expression is frustrated.
But why? I stare back at him. "I don't give a fuck where you stick your dick."
"Yeah, great. Is that it?"
"Pretty much."
I stare back at Ethan. I'm getting in the last word here. "Goes for you, too. I didn't swear off sex when we broke up."
Okay, so I've only slept with one guy since Ethan and I broke up. Denny and I dated for a few months. He was crazy about me—he wanted to move in together—but I never felt the same. After we broke up, he nearly evaporated from my mind. It still goes back to Ethan every time I pull out my rabbit-style vibrator (he did buy it for me). Or every time I touch myself sans mechanical assistance.
I clear my throat and smile my most confident smile. "Don't get upset if you see me with someone else."
"You're sleeping around?"
"That's not a crime, is it?" I chew on my lower lip. It's not the case either, but he doesn't need to know that.
"No. Of course not. I'm glad. Anybody I know?"
"You coming often, at least?"
"Excuse me?"
"We're gonna be around each other. We should be friendly."
"Pretty sure you coming often goes past most people's idea of friendly."
"Of course, Vi. Would never want to make you uncomfortable." He smiles, the look in his eyes screaming I guess that's a no.
I clear my throat. "Yeah, I'm coming a lot. Every night." By my hand, but that's a technicality. "Sometimes multiple times."
His expression flares with frustration. "Great."
"And you? Enjoy screwing strangers at bars?"
"Depends on the stranger."
I laugh-scoff. "I guess it would."
He smiles.
Even though we're hate-flirting, I fucking melt.
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Give your kitten a safe place to adjust to her new home: A young kitten, especially, might be nervous in her new surroundings. To minimize your kitten's anxiety and assist with training, confine her to a quiet, secluded area such as a small bedroom or a bathroom for the first few days. Along with her litter box, place her bed, food and water dishes in the room; just be sure to keep them well away from the litter box since neither kittens nor cats will eliminate near their food.
Prepare the litter box: Make sure the litter box is big enough for her to move around in, and easy to step in and out of. Fill the litter box with roughly two inches of litter. It's best to avoid scented litter; while humans may prefer the smell of rosebuds over fresh cat poop, your kitten does not, and it may deter her from using the litter box.
Plan your strategy: Associate the litter box with positive behavior. Kittens usually need to eliminate within a half hour of eating, drinking or sleeping. When the time is right, put your kitten near the litter box and play with her for 10 or 15 minutes. Gently swish the litter around to stimulate your kitten's interest and encourage her to hop inside to investigate the box. During the training process, place your kitten's stool in the litter box to help establish a connection between elimination and the litter box.
Provide positive reinforcement: : Supervision is key during the first few days of training. One of the signs that she may need to eliminate is scratching at the floor or disappearing behind a couch or chair. If you witness this behavior, calmly pick your kitten up and place her in the litter box. Help jumpstart her natural instincts by taking her paw and scratching at the litter. If she is successful, provide immediate, positive reinforcement by praising and rewarding her with a treat. If she has an accident, don't punish her; at best, you'll make her afraid of you and, at worst, she'll come to associate the litter box with punishment. Remain patient with her and soon enough she'll get the hang of it.
Clean the litter box frequently: If waste is allowed to accumulate, your cat may decide to do her business elsewhere. Scoop out or replace the soiled litter, ideally once a day. Thoroughly wash the litter box at least once a week, adding a small amount of bleach to the water to neutralize odors. Don't use soaps, detergents or ammonia which have harsh smells that may inhibit your kitten. Once you find a litter that is agreeable to your kitten, don't change it. And avoid moving the litter boxes to another location which will only cause her confusion.
Provide adequate litter boxes: If you have a large home, it's wise to place a litter box on each floor. Similar logic applies if you have more than one cat; it's best to maintain one more litter box than the number of cats in your household (i.e. 5 cats/6 litter boxes).
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In the city of Lublin, between winding cobbled streets, stands a bright yellow building that's impossible to miss.
It has eight columns out front and a wide staircase that leads to large, carved wooden doors that let out a long moan as they swing shut.
It was built almost a century ago as a Jewish house of study, but today is being used for a purpose that no one who designed it would have ever imagined.
"I started looking for places to house refugees, because it was clear that Putin was going to do something," said Michael Schudrich, Poland's chief rabbi.
This building has been through a few transformations in its life. Rabbi Schudrich started laying the groundwork for its most recent rebirth a few weeks ago — before Russia invaded Ukraine.
"I said 'I prefer to have places for people to shelter and nothing to happen, than not to be prepared and have a disaster,' " he said. "But I, and almost the rest of the world, never dreamt that Putin would actually do what he did."
As he looked for places that Poland's Jewish community could use to house Ukrainian refugees, the rabbi in Warsaw thought of this grand yellow building in Lublin.
In the 1930s it was a renowned center of study. The Lublin yeshiva had the best teachers, the best students, the best library. And then the Holocaust nearly obliterated Poland's Jews.
"The vast majority of the students were killed," Rabbi Schudrich said. "Most of the library was destroyed ... and then the Jewish community received the building back as part of communal restitution, about 10 years ago, and the question [became] what we're doing to do."
They decided to restore the old synagogue and turn what used to be a dormitory into a working hotel. Today the sign on the facade of the building says: "Hotel Ilan: Feel the Tradition."
But two weeks ago, this hotel stopped booking tourists and corporate groups.
The basement is now crowded with boxes of clothes, strollers and diapers for babies, as well as food and medical supplies. A swarm of volunteers fold up clothes for the Ukrainians who arrive only with the things they were able to carry.
In one corner a little girl plays with a stuffed toy dog while her mother goes through a box of shoes for her to try on. Across the room a woman digs through a box of jackets for something that might fit.
It was once a conference room, but it was transformed in two days into a place to give those fleeing war the most basic things to survive.
Agnieszka Litman is a 28-year-old volunteer, surrounded by piles of clothing stacked five feet high on the tables around her.
"They need all the basics," she said. "We also have some toys for kids, and just to make their life a little bit better, a little bit more fun."
On the day Russia invaded Ukraine, Jacob Hincza heard about this operation. He dropped everything in Warsaw and came to Lublin with his girlfriend to help out.
"I'm really glad I came here. Actually, I might lose my job but I think it's worth it to experience the help that we can give to people," he said.
"There are people coming here that lost their whole life. They are still smiling, they are still nice. Rich people with expensive breeds of dogs, and they just are looking for warm clothing. They don't care about how it looks, it just needs to fit them. They need Pampers. They need baby food."
Jacob has seen about 100 people come through here each day. There are only 40 rooms, all full, so the hotel staff and volunteers help the rest find other rooms in town.
One recent arrival is Natalia Mishchenko. As she entered the building, she put her passport on the front counter then dissolved into tears.
She had fled with her two children while her husband stayed in Ukraine. Men of fighting age are not allowed to leave.
"I feel very scared, because I don't know what to do next," she said.
Another refugee is a 48-year-old woman named Nechama, who asked us to use only her first name.
She's still trying to comprehend the way her life has transformed in the last week.
"We thought that we will stay there, that we can't leave Kyiv. And one woman from the community phoned us and told us we have a bus from Kyiv in an hour and a half," she said.
"My father is an invalid, he's very, very sick."
Nechama had 90 minutes to get to the bus that was leaving from the synagogue in Kyiv. She took her 18-year-old daughter, her husband, and her elderly parents.
"I forgot documents and forgot money and forgot all the things. I had only my passport in my bag," she said.
Birth certificates, diplomas — all left behind.
The bus left Kyiv at a crawl. Police frequently stopped it and took Ukrainian men of fighting age off. Nechama's husband was allowed to stay on because he's an Israeli citizen.
The bus ride that is usually five hours took 18. And when they reached the border, they waited in line another 12 hours to cross.
"It's just amazing that we are alive till now," she said.
Nechama said her daughter was scared. She was valedictorian of her school and got into a prestigious university in Kyiv. Now she doesn't know if she'll ever be able to attend.
The staff at the hotel are still doing the same jobs they did when paying guests were staying here.
Anastasia Boretski works behind the bar. She is also Ukrainian and came to Poland in 2017 to study. Hearing about what these refugees have gone through makes her afraid for her own family.
"My mom, she says 'All is OK, we are safe.' But I know that it's not true," she said.
Anastasia said she was supporting her family and her family was supporting her, and everyone was trying to convince each other that everything was alright.
"They will stay [in Kyiv] because my mother is a nurse and my father and uncle want to save their country," she said. "I'm proud of them but I would prefer them to come here and stay safe."
The director of the hotel, Agnieszka Kolibska, never thought she'd be using her skills as a hotelier to help Ukrainian refugees.
"It's very hard because workers still need to get paid," she said. "We gave up a lot of money when we stopped taking big groups."
Still, she connects the history of the building and the Holocaust with what is happening with the refugee crisis now.
"We owe a debt. My father survived the Holocaust. I am second generation," she said.
This moment is not lost on Rabbi Schudrich either.
"This is one of the great historical ironies, that for hundreds of years, we are used to the stories of Jews fleeing Poland. Now Jews are fleeing into Poland and they're safe," he said.
"It's too overwhelming ... and it does show the human capacity for change, that we need to be aware of the fact that history is important but does not dictate the future. We dictate the future."
He says sometimes he has the feeling that this is the reason the building was constructed almost 100 years ago: For the purpose it is serving today.
As for how long he will keep doing this?
"That's a very easy answer: As long as it's necessary," he said.
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Today I'm featuring Powder and Patch, my most recent read, because everyone should read a little Georgette Heyer every now and then. I am also participating in two linkups - Book Beginnings and the Friday56
How it works is you...Grab a book, any book. Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader (If you have to improvise, that's ok.) Find any sentence, (or few, just don't spoil it)
Here's my P56
BookBeginnings is a weekly meme, hosted by Rose City Reader. To participate, share the opening lines and your thoughts about a book you're reading, or about to.
If you searched among the downs in Sussex, somewhere between Midhurst and Brighthelmstone, inland a little, and nestling in modest seclusion between two waves of hills, you would find little Fittledean, a village around which three gentlemen built their homes.
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Cleone Charteris's exquisite charms have made her the belle of the English countryside. But Cleone yearns for a husband who is refined, aristocratic and who is as skilled with his wit as he is with his dueling pistols.... Everything Philip Jettan is not. As much as she is attracted to the handsome squire, Cleone finds herself dismissing Philip and his rough mannerisms.


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From the PRC Official Website
The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announces that 320 out of 571 passed the Chemist Licensure Examination given by the Board of Chemistry in Manila this September 2013.
The members of the Board of Chemistry are Ms. Adoracion P. Resurreccion, Chairman and Ms. Soledad S. Castañeda, Member.
The results were released in two (2) working days after the last day of examination.
Registration for the issuance of Professional Identification Cards (ID) and Certificates of Registration will be on September 24 – 25, 2013 at the Registration Division. Those who will register are required to bring the following: duly accomplished Oath Form or Panunumpa ng Propesyonal, current Community Tax Certificate (cedula), 1 piece passport size picture (colored with white background and complete nametag), 2 sets of metered documentary stamps and 1 short brown envelope with name and profession and to pay the Initial Registration Fee of P600 and Annual Registration Fee of P450 for 2013-2016. Successful examinees should personally register and sign in the Roster of Registered Professionals.
The date and venue for the oathtaking ceremony of the new successful examinees in the said examination WILL BE ANNOUNCED LATER.
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- Performance of schools in the September 2013 Chemist Licensure Examination
- List of successful examinees who garnered the ten (10) highest places
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- 1915mm (6ft 2") Wide Aluminium Greenhouse - Practical size.
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