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The reason behind writing this article is to help you select which option is the most beneficial in averting the foreclosure process against you.
The best way to do that is through collecting related information, as much as it is possible. You cannot have too much information when it comes to the foreclosure process. The greater you understand, the better enlightened you are of your alternatives.
As explained by various foreclosure lawyers, There is no need to head into the foreclosure process blindfolded, there are precautionary measures that you may want to take.
It's important you know the options that exist for you. Your options that you select will rely on whether you want to keep your home or sell your home. This statement can provide you a few of the info regarding these selections.
See, you need to understand that all the foreclosures will vary and all features a unique group of circumstances. If you genuinely want to get Foreclosure Prevention you need to keep patience and work smartly.
Exactly why people get into foreclosure is because of a lack of income. This may occur due to a loss of employment, an illness or perhaps a divorce.
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• Reinstating your loan can contain more choices. You might borrow funds from an third party and get your loan up to date. You can speak to your lender how much you will need to borrow to be able to avoid the foreclosure process and get a loan current.
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• In some state governments, there is no reinstatement obtainable after the judgment has been entered and the date of the foreclosure sale set.
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Job: Research Grant for candidates with BSc ("Licenciatura")
Job/Fellowship Reference: BI_LtPICS_2018B
Main research field: Mathematics
Sub research field:
Job summary: A call is open to the attribution of 1 (one) Research Grant (BI) for candidates with BSc degree "Licenciatura" (without MSc and PhD) within the Thematic Line Inverse Problems in Health Sciences (PICS) of the Center for Research and Development in Mathematics and Applications (CIDMA), with the financial support of the FCT/MCTES through national funds UID/MAT/04106/2013.
Job description: A call is open to the attribution of 1 (one) Research Grant (BI) for candidates with BSc degree "Licenciatura" (without MSc and PhD) within the Thematic Line Inverse Problems in Health Sciences (PICS) of the Center for Research and Development in Mathematic and Applications (CIDMA), with the financial support of the FCT/MCTES through national funds UID/MAT/04106/2013.
Admission Requirements: The candidates should have the BSc degree ("Licenciatura") in the area of Mathematics. Preference will be given to candidates with good knowledge in Analysis, Differential Equations, and programming skills in MatLab. Capacity for initiative, critical spirit and autonomy will be considered as very positive aspects in the selection of candidates.
Equality policy practiced in CIDMA (in accordance with the FCT regulations): no candidate can be privileged, benefited, impaired or deprived of any right or exempted from any duty based on, namely, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, economic status, education, social origin or condition, genetic heritage, reduced working capacity, disability, chronic disease, nationality, ethnic origin or race, place of origin, language, religion, political or ideological convictions and trade union membership.
Work plan: Study of some classes of special functions and fractional Fourier transform, as well as, some of its applications to optics. Implementation of the results using MatLab.
Laws and regulations applicable: Law no. 40/2004, of 18 August (Legal Status of Research Fellowships); Grants Regulation of the FCT Research, IP approved by Regulation No 234/2012 of 25 June, amended by Regulation No 326/2013 of 27 August 2013 (cf. htip://www.fct.pt/apoios/bolsas/regulamento.phtml.pt), and Grants Regulation of Scientific Research of the University of Aveiro - Regulation No 341/2011, published in Diário da República, 2ª série, n. º 98, of 20 May.
Working place: The work should be developed in the Center for Research and Development in Mathematics and Applications under the scientific supervision of Auxiliary Professor M. Manuela Rodrigues and Auxiliary Researcher Nelson Vieira.
Grant Duration: The duration of the grant is of 5 months, and it is expected to start the 1st August 2018, on an exclusive basis, without renewal.
Value for monthly allowance: The remuneration will be based on the FCT rules for grants (http://alfa.fct.mctes.pt/apoios/bolsas/valores), 745 € for candidates in the Country. Payments will be made monthly, via check, bank transfer, or another equivalent method.
Selection Methods: The selection and ranking of the candidates will be based on: Curriculum vitae (60%), experience (10%) and interview (30%). The Selection Committee reserves the right not to select any candidate if none of the candidates possesses minimal requirements (i.e., final total classification higher than 50%).
Selection Committee composition:
Forms of publication and notification of results: Final results will be publicized in the form of a list sorted by the final score, which will be posted in a public place of the University of Aveiro, and sent to the candidates via e-mail.
Deadline for applications and form of presentation of the applications: The call is open from April 23 to May 8, 2018. Applications should be sent via electronic mail only, to firstname.lastname@example.com, with CC. to email@example.com and email@example.com, accompanied by the following documents:
Vacant posts: 1
Type of contract: Temporary
Job country: Portugal
Job city: Aveiro
Job company/institute: CIDMA, Universidade de Aveiro
Application deadline: May 08, 2018
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Organization/institute: CIDMA - Centro de Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Matemática e Aplicações da Universidade de Aveiro
Address: Campus Universitário, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro - 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
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The HOA Board of Directors approved a revision of the SunBird Dance Policy at their September 25 meeting.
For HOA-hosted dances where tickets are on sale at the HOA Office, each SunBird home may purchase up to eight tickets for visitors/guests. Advanced ticket sales may be limited for non-residents to purchase as advertised. SunBird residents get priority before sale to non-residents.
For tenant-hosted dances where a homeowner or tenant sponsors a dance (also known as "Free Dances"), the sponsor of the dance will provide the HOA office, one week prior to the dance, a list of all personal guests invited by the sponsor. Admission to the dance will be either:
A) SunBird resident with a valid homeowner's ID
B) Be on the list as provided by the homeowner/tenant sponsor
C) Be a guest of a homeowner with a valid ID and enter the dance with said homeowner – limited to no more than four guests
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23 Jan Writing Down Your Goals
I've always felt like I was a bit 'old school' about this because I really like to put pen to paper even more than type to computer when I write down goals. For me, it's that tactile act that makes it real. If I want to take it a step further, I tell someone I trust, then I might tell someone else I don't know so well in random passing. Both are valuable, the first feels like an admission because if I verbalize I'm going to do something then gosh darn it, I am. That's just the way I'm built. If I tell someone else in passing, that's part of me really owning the idea and getting more comfortable with it.
My most recent goals are with my books and my writings. Either they sit in the figurative "drawer" on my computer or they go live into the world. I often ask myself, what's important about having people read my words? Is it narcissism? Is it self-promotion? Both cringe-worthy thoughts! I know part of it is more noble–wanting to make a positive impact and entertain at the same time and of course, if I want people to read something I need to tell them I wrote it.
Fingers crossed this year I will have both my thriller and my non-fiction book ready to share with you or at least in the process of getting in print. I'm excited about this goal and the fact I'm sharing it here says a lot for me. It's that goal thing of both writing it down and then telling someone to keep myself accountable. To boot, I'm excited about this goal and also realistic of what work I need to do to make it happen.
It's one thing to write a goal down and talk about it. The real work comes by taking action. I'm a believer in dreamy goals and realistic ones, but mostly it's about the commitment to doing the work.
What's something you're excited about and want to achieve? Can you write it down for yourself and make it real? Will you tell one person? Or perhaps you subscribe to the not telling mindset as described by this 3 minute TED talk below. Perhaps I'm the combination of both, I don't say a goal until I'm absolutely ready and serious about making it happen. Which one are you?


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4th DAY OF THE NOVENA OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
164th CLASS OF OUR LADY'S SCHOOL OF HOLINESS AND LOVE
(Most Holy Mary): "My beloved children, I Am the Immaculate Conception! I Am the All Pure, the All Beautiful, the All Full of Grace, I Am the All Holy.
I Am Holiness itself and whosoever comes to Me will not be helpless, nor confused. Whosoever comes to Me will be lead by Me by the road of eternal life, by the road of holiness that pleases God and will become holy like Me, to please the Most Holy Trinity, to give Them joy and glory and at the same time to glorify My Immaculate Heart, before all the nations and all the souls of the entire world.
Come to Me, all ye who find yeselves lost in this world's tempestuous sea. Come to Me, all ye who find yeselves confused in the midst of all that disorder that now reigns in the world, in families, in the Church and everywhere else.
Come to Me, obey My Messages and ye will see how Heaven's Light, the Holy Spirit's Light, the Light of My Immaculate Heart will mightily break forth within your souls.
Try it, put My Messages in practice and see the peace, see the divine love, see the sanctifying grace, see the love and the grace of the Holy Spirit that will take care of your souls and of your lives.
Then, ye will see My children, with how much reason it was said that My Name was Mary, in other words, the Star of the Sea, the One who with Her Light shines and leads all those who find themselves lost in the revolting sea of this world, leads all to God.
Continue praying the Meditated Rosary every day, continue to do all the Prayers that I gave ye Here.
I bless ye with Love, from Lourdes, from Bohan e de Jacareí."
(Marcos): "See You soon, dear Mother."


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We are in the process of finalizing the program for the Langebaan Lagoon Celebration. This year promises to be even bigger and better.
Please assist us in marketing this family event on 26 & 27 April on the main beach and surrounding area of Langebaan.
There will be something for each family member to enjoy!
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Iceberg memories. Bright blue sunshades. Watching kids play basketball. Good-natured yelling. I realize that I am recognized, I just know.
Tinfoil hat time. Still at the BB game. Or is it BBs and skeet shooting? Sleet when no one is looking? This is me when the drugs kick in.
But I've been clean for three reality shifts now. Took the cure back in Room 77, the sweat room, psychDad photos on every wall, plastered.
How long had I been searching for Calumet even after I thought he was dead? Why wouldn't I have gone after Mantell or Degnan, next to go?
The river Calumet drowned in has dried up, his remains long since drifted in the AC/DC air-conditioned diagonal curvature, current carried.
Into the lake, begone! No more current in the river's West Branch, unless it rained or more likely a hobo pisses like a banshee, wailing.
Bubbly Creek, the South Branch, is still there. Ghosts of slaughtered stockyard cattle and stocky slackers, grocery store baggers, selective
this city can be, it will rain in dissections. There is a subdivision where the West Branch watered, now nothing but sunshine over riches.
And I'm stuck in Joy Motel. When did I start my last manuscript and more importantly, what was it about? A mnemonic memoir, sci-fi HI-FI?
State of the art computer repairs? A cookbook to serve man (wrong-o, liabilities ensue!). Kindred at Earth Online dot c'mon you know, why?
It all makes sense at times, if I let the morphing drip begin and the revels halt: SCI-FI RECORDS in the 70s, the parrot a parakeet, tweet.
Forget Mantell, I contemplate for three days. I can leave here because I'm special. Degnan is on the border & ultimately out of luck. Tweet!
Its 1 in the morning, 20 degrees below zero, Venus has gone past the horizon, the church steeple on the corner is not lit. And so I set out.
I crawl across a white landscape pebbled with black lines, curved and straight, clumped in clusters with spaces between, windtunnelempty.
My fingers are turning black, not from cold or gangrene. But what? They smell pungent. Tin? Lead? Ink? I pause and look back, squintpanting.
Barren as an ice floe, Antarctic blindwhiteout. I stab my blade into the surface, testing. It rips a neat hole with tattered edges. Paper?
I'm on a piece of paper covered with text. It stretches to the horizon on all sides. I wander until I find a curve I recognize. Sweeping J.
It takes ten minutes to walk from the top of the J down the main shaft and around the curl to the tip. Several yards away, thick black line.
Exploring. It's an O. J-O. I spend the rest of the morning tracing out letters. J-O-Y-M-O-T-E-L. And a plain of smaller letters tumbling.
I appear to be on a manuscript. Am I the protagonist? Am I the villain? Am I the author? Am I in the Joy Motel? Or a novel called Joy Motel?
How to find your way at Joy Motel
To READ Joy Motel from the beginning
then follow the link at the bottom of each chapter.
To JUMP to any chapter, use the list of chapter titles in the panel on the right side of every page.
Or use the SEARCH box after each chapter to find what you're looking for.
then follow the link at the bottom of each chapter.
To JUMP to any chapter, use the list of chapter titles in the panel on the right side of every page.
Or use the SEARCH box after each chapter to find what you're looking for.
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Understanding and reducing air pollution, and its causes, is the theme of a new interactive exhibit launched this month at the Glasgow Science Centre. It encourages school pupils and the public to consider the causes of air pollution such as traffic congestion and industrial production, and how it affects our health and the environment. The exhibit shows that it's the choices we make that are the difference between good and polluted air quality.
The exhibit, developed by the Glasgow Science Centre and SEPA, was funded by the Scottish Government. Designed to help deliver the outcomes of the Cleaner air for Scotland (CAFS) strategy launched in November 2015, the exhibit is one of a series of activities of being rolled out to help educate and inform primary and secondary pupils on the issues around air pollution in Scotland.
We know that the air we breathe is something that we all take for granted, as we cannot actually see it. However, air is very important and essential to us, and poor air quality can make us feel unwell, affecting our health in a negative way – Primary 7 pupil from St Ninians primary school
It allows visitors to discover the different sources of air pollutants and how poor air quality affects our health and the environment. The exhibit also features a city model where visitors get the opportunity to control traffic, allowing them to experience how different modes of transport contribute to air pollution in our urban environments. Data from the monitoring stations dotted across Scotland, which continually monitor our air quality, is displayed in the exhibit, and visitors are encouraged to build their own virtual monitoring station too.
SEPA has been working with partners involved in delivering Cleaner Air for Scotland to raise awareness of air quality among young people, from developing the www.learnaboutair.com teaching pack to participating in this year's VentureJam. To launch the exhibit, pupils from St Ninians primary school in Hamilton were invited along to share their experiences of studying air pollution and to try out the new exhibit.
Our own research showed that in our local area unnecessary short car journeys is something we could stop! In school we have been encouraging families and friends to walk, cycle or even skateboard to school – stopping the school runs which are not needed is our priority – Primary 7 pupil from St Ninians primary school
Colin Gillespie, Principle Air Quality Scientist at SEPA: "The exhibition highlights ways in which we can individually help to improve quality of life both for ourselves and our wider communities; it also shows the wider influences that planning and transport policies can have on the quality of the air we breathe.
"The new exhibit is the start of a larger educational package being developed by the Glasgow Science Centre on air quality and will provide inspiration for younger people, amongst others, to tackle air pollution and understand its effects on our own health, communities and the wider environment."
Stephen Breslin, Chief Executive, Glasgow Science Centre: "Our team of scientists and designers worked closely with SEPA to develop the exhibit and help bring the value of good air quality, and the causes and harms of air pollution, to life in an engaging and interactive way. We are excited for our visitors to get hands on and discover more about the role they can play in improving air quality."
You can visit the exhibition the second floor at the Glasgow Science Centre, 50 Pacific Quay, Glasgow, G51 1EA.
For further information on the Scottish Government strategy for reducing air pollution in Scotland, see the Cleaner Air for Scotland strategy on their website.


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Sunday, October 10, 2010
I was never sure if I did want to do biology in my twelfth standard or hold a yet another engineering degree till end of my life. I am still not sure. Those were days when decisions were made for me. I have no regrets; I never have regrets with things I have done but to think of the fact that I could have done something else and been someone else makes me wonder. Everything I have done so far in my life has had significance and I have done quite well. When I look at the profile that has been prepared now, I think I have quite justified with whatever opportunities that have crashed down the door. Still, in one corner of the heart, an annoying call of guilty retains.
Should I have done things I really wanted to do? I remember telling my neighbour that I would become a 'forensic detective' someday. It was triggered plainly by some Enid Blyton books which I used to adore and follow religiously. I still smile at that remark made. But, I haven't changed since then. I still would love to be a forensic detective because I still love those books. Do childish ambitions like this ever come true? 24 of years of living, I still can't answer that.
I have often seen parents imposing their ambitions on their children. The most surprising part is that they are eventually achieved. It is because parents go to any extent of sacrifices to get the best out of their progeny. In this vivacious cycle of desires, do the children fail to know what they want? Have I forgotten what I wanted?
20 years down the lane, will I be doing the same? I have told myself that I would teach my children dance and a music instrument. Have I forgotten the golden rule of respecting a child's wishes? But my child wouldn't what he/she wants. Was it same with my parents? Didn't I know what I wanted? Questions have been unglorified and in the end it has been what others have wanted. They have what they wanted. Here is a girl of their wishes and will carry the torch of family forward.
I wonder what I am filled with. Guilt? Annoyance? Ignorance? Ambitions? All I want to do right now is run away from the world and make time to introspect.
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- Vinothraj J said...
Ah we all feel the same way I guess. But many people never cross the stage where they feel they need to take control of their lives. They still work at mind-numbing jobs whch their parents feel are "safe", marry a person chosen by their parents,etc., and live under the illusion that they run their own lives, when all they do is go with the flow. I wonder if they'll feel anything when they look back upon their lives.. That they never took life by it's horns and did what they wanted to.
Granted, It is difficult to throw it all away and start anew. But it's not impossible to nudge your life into a path that is acceptable to you.
My motto, it's never too late to take control of your own life. :)
- October 10, 2010 at 12:51 PM
- Murthy said...
Nice .... thoughts...
I had similar thoughts and will keep having them :) :)
My heart wants to cut up stuff and fix them, mostly like a doctor, my mind likes computers I was fascinated by them, at least I got one, but now I want the other too...
- October 10, 2010 at 9:36 PM
- subs said...
wow. Thats a blog post in its own way . I can see frustrations running high and I know I am not alone :)
Think I would be saying the same thing all my life too!
- October 12, 2010 at 11:13 AM
- Vinothraj said...
Heh.. Reminds me.. I need to start my own blog ;)
and yeah, you are NOT alone.. :)
- October 12, 2010 at 1:22 PM
- subs said...
Pls do. Looking forward to it :)
- October 30, 2010 at 9:16 PM
This is a common feeling of frustration or anger throughout our country. I personally feel that the freedom of choosing ones line of interest will be possible only when all kind of jobs are respected equally.. a ceo should be proud to say that his/her spouse is a carpenter.. its not too far. we are catching up fast. :)
- November 1, 2010 at 3:07 AM
- subs said...
Are we? I doubt that
- November 1, 2010 at 9:53 AM
- ajit said...
hi everybody!
i was searching for hr interview tips; found some good ones by subs and then came across this blog in the last line. its the first i am following. well, i was bit fortunate to select my career options. but still there are times of frustrations (everything doeson't happen as per expectations). i would suggest one thing... go for trekking. it helps a lot (i am unable to express in words). but it may add another feeling...when u r on top of a mountain, standing alone looking around at very large stones/ structures/ whatever...its nature all around. u start thinking... for how long this is all there and nothing would change in our life span... and u may also think... whats the life all about?
- November 10, 2010 at 3:16 AM
- subs said...
Wow!! Thanks a lot for coming up here and commenting.
ANd what an idea! baffled. Never thought anyone would give me an idea like :) Thanks again.
- November 12, 2010 at 5:30 AM
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- November 12, 2010 at 5:30 AM
- Siva said...
Was randomly browsing and came across this blog post. Like the attitude/attempt of learning from own experience and thinking of not doing the same to your kids later. :)
At times I also get pissed off at things and wonder what do to and mostly take a break and roam arnd (trek as Ajit mentioned is also one of my fav as it gives some pride and accomplishment along with the fun), but have not wondered as to what else would I ve become. So for some curiosity, given a choice what else would you have become, realistically ?
- November 16, 2010 at 11:10 PM
- subs said...
I would have become a writer. Hmmm..I still can.
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Archive for October, 2016
Summer 2016 DEW Workshops
This summer the CEEO ran a variety of 3-5 day workshops for students in Kindergarten through 8th Grade. While workshops differed in age range and theme, they all engaged students in the Engineering Design Process in fun and hands-on ways. Below are some highlights from the workshops we ran this summer.
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Kingsley Montessori-Transforming the Ordinary into the Extraordinary Through the Power of a Child's Imagination
by Melanie Flores
What happens when you combine the energy and imagination of a kindergartener with the engineering design process? As an educator and a former engineering, I could stand in front of students and describe the engineering design process all day long, but there's no replacement for learning by doing. This year, Kingsley Montessori School piloted a Kindergarten Engineering Design Workshop to introduce a new spin on our science fair model. True to our school's value of "innovation through collaboration", all of our early childhood educators joined hands to bring the workshop to life.
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Shocking revelations from "records and interviews" reveal at least 40 federal agencies are using undercover officers to infiltrate everyday scenarios including having them pose "as business people, welfare recipients, political protesters and even doctors or ministers to ferret out wrongdoing," according to a New York Times report.
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At the Supreme Court, small teams of undercover officers dress as students at large demonstrations outside the courthouse and join the protests to look for suspicious activity, according to officials familiar with the practice.
At the Internal Revenue Service, dozens of undercover agents chase suspected tax evaders worldwide, by posing as tax preparers or accountants or drug dealers or yacht buyers, court records show.
At the Agriculture Department, more than 100 undercover agents pose as food stamp recipients at thousands of neighborhood stores to spot suspicious vendors and fraud, officials said.
Undercover work, inherently invasive and sometimes dangerous, was once largely the domain of the F.B.I. and a few other law enforcement agencies at the federal level. But outside public view, changes in policies and tactics over the last decade have resulted in undercover teams run by agencies in virtually every corner of the federal government, according to officials, former agents and documents.
Of course, many departments point to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as the reason for more undercover surveillance, but many of these agents are employed to root out petty crimes like tobacco and alcohol sales to minors or to infiltrate non-criminal activity like simple political protests.
The next time you head to the Supreme Court to protest in favor of expanded gun rights or against big government legislation like Obamacare, consider this:
At the Supreme Court, all of the court's more than 150 police officers are trained in undercover tactics, according to a federal law enforcement official speaking on condition of anonymity because it involved internal security measures. At large protests over issues like abortion, small teams of undercover officers mill about — usually behind the crowd — to look for potential disturbances.
The agents, often youthful looking, will typically "dress down" and wear backpacks to blend inconspicuously into the crowd, the official said.
At one recent protest, an undercover agent — rather than a uniformed officer — went into the center of a crowd of protesters to check out a report of a suspicious bag before determining there was no threat, the official said. The use of undercover officers is seen as a more effective way of monitoring large crowds.
A Supreme Court spokesman, citing a policy of not discussing security practices, declined to talk about the use of undercover officers. Mr. German, the former F.B.I. undercover agent, said he was troubled to learn that the Supreme Court routinely used undercover officers to pose as demonstrators and monitor large protests.
"There is a danger to democracy," he said, "in having police infiltrate protests when there isn't a reasonable basis to suspect criminality."
The guy holding the protest sign next to you might just be an undercover agent.
Earlier this year, Eric Holder's Department of Justice revived a law enforcement group to investigate instances of "domestic terrorism," citing increased right-wing political activism as one of the reasons.
A 2009 report — during the height of the early "tea party" protests — from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed Big Brother (or, in this case, Janet Napolitano as Big Sister) was looking into instances of "rightwing extremism." Michelle Malkin was one of the first to raise the red flag.
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The Feminine Way to Business Success – How to make the most of LinkedIn – Day 15 of the Youtube Challenge
Day 15 of the Youtube challenge!
So we're looking at relationship building through communication and as LinkedIn is a brilliant way to facilitate great business connections, it's important to know how to use our natural relationship building and communication skills to make the best of it:
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A fantastic family day out filled with medieval madness. Try your hand at archery; watch a re-enactment, feast on medieval food, browse the Medieval Market and marvel at a magic show. A Tapestry of Music will accompany the weekend in between the projectile warfare demonstrations and the Battle of Bannockburn!
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We must be aware that this time of the year, specifically "good friday" is a time during which there is a large amount of negative "witchcraft" taking place, including within the christian tradition. Many Paleros work with Ndoki during this time, and many practitioners develop lists of enemies who they throw witchcraft at. We do not adopt this practice within our Munanso at this time, for reasons that are multiple. However, I am going to share this article (below) to give insight into aspects of my thinking on this issue. I am also going to follow this by another article that will question certain assumptions that have been made concerning the christian god and the so called jesus the christ.
Our Great Ancestor, the Great Cacique Hatuey, has brought us a clear message in the moments of his death. The picture below shows him being burnt, and depicts the evilness of the consciousness of those men who with premeditation murdered him. It also shows their barbarity in the documented practice that they inflicted upon our pregnant women when they invaded our Caribbean Home, in which they would slice open the women's wombs, remove the fetus and stomp on it.
In the moments before Hatuey's death, he was asked if he wanted to be baptised so he could go to "heaven". He asked them if they when they die, would also go to that "heaven". When he heard them affirm that they would, he said that he preferred to go to their hell. Hatuey has sent us a message over a time of 500 years that calls into profound question the christian definitions of "god", "savior", "heaven" and "hell", as well as what the ceremony of "baptism" is truly about. In the article following this one, we will focus on the history and assumptions concerning these concepts or spirits or energies.
Bear in mind that the excerpt is from a much longer paper that discusses the historical and spiritual roots of mental illness in this continent from an Indigenous-Afro-Caribbean perspective.
Perhaps I will utilize this moment to remind my People, Indigenous People of this continent, and in particular, of the Caribbean, where my Ancestral bones have been from the beginning and to the point where the bandit psychopath serial killer Columbus and his mob brought their rage to my Grandmothers, my Grandfathers, my Caciques, and Medicine People, to cite that the rage that was brought by these brutal bandits affected the mental body of the Old Ones in Boriquen (misnumbered Puerto Rico), and throughout the Caribbean. The point is that people who were experiencing for generations a healthy mental body found themselves resorting to the killing of their Children and they, themselves, committing suicide or drinking the poisonous herbs in order not to subject their Children to such brutality and hatred for Life and for the Creator of Life! People, who were in love with Life, now resorting to the taking of their own lives, and using their medicines and Spiritual gifts to curse those Europeans who only understood Life through brutality and hatred for the Mothers and the Earth itself! The Europeanamerican must realize that the malediction that they came with was amplified by the curses of the Good People, who were in this Continent, thriving and developing powerful Foundations that insured a conception of Creation and of the Creator of their Creation. We, Indigenous People, must realize and recognize thoroughly that they have turned our Continent into a mental institution. And we must further realize that the Spirit of the Ancestors is no longer silent, and will not be silent, because it is echoing its voices, its dreams, or its nightmares throughout Creation in awakening and drawing its Children back to the Sacred Fires of Our Yucayeques (Villages)!
As we continue, let's take a look at the two fathers of the 7 Deadly Sins, Pope Gregory (I) the Great, and St. Thomas Aquinas, who are responsible for drafting and defining the Seven Deadly Sins. Now, to the Indigenous People of this Continent, it is important that we analyze these 7 Deadly Sins as outlined by these two psychopaths, because these deadly sins have been engraved within our mental body and our capacity to accurately utilize our common sense within our development in the experience. These sins, in our cultures, were not our everyday concern and engrossment, so let's explore.
Concerning Pope Gregory I (the Great), he forbade the opening of schools, and made the papacy into the richest landowner and slaveowner in Europe by persuading the wealthy to hand over their property to the
Church since the end of the world was at hand. He wrote in Be Friends of God:
"If we knew at what time we were to depart from this world, we would be able to select a season for pleasure and another for repentance. But God, who has promised pardon to every repentant sinner, has not promised us tomorrow. Therefore we must always dread the final day, which we can never foresee. This very day is a day of truce, a day for conversion. And yet we refuse to cry over the evil we have done! Not only do we not weep for the sins we have committed, we even add to them…
"If we are, in fact, now occupied in good deeds, we should not attribute the strength with which we are doing them to ourselves. We must not count on ourselves, because even if we know what kind of person we are today, we do not know what we will be tomorrow. Nobody must rejoice in the security of their own good deeds. As long as we are still experiencing the uncertainties of this life, we do not know what end may follow… we must not trust in our own virtues."
What deranged consciousness continues to creep up in the pages of his-story! We continue to witness undeniable facts concerning the mentality and the thinking of these people in Europe, and there is no doubt that we witness this same mentality and thinking in the USA. It is so obvious that their mission is to keep people Spiritually bankrupt and in obedience, fear of the Creator, of Life, so that we may not recognize the god that they are truly speaking about, which is a god of evil, fear and brimstone! It is so contrary to the words of the Prince of Peace, Imhotep, who said, "Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we shall die." It is clear, through their own writings and thinking, that these people are plagued with an insanity that has perverted the Creation in which we are having our experience, and we are accepting this behavior as normal and healthy and rewarding within the experience of Life.
Furthermore, with Gregory I, the ascetic psychopath, continuing into the mentality behind his 7 deadly sins, we take a look at the practices of Roman Childrearing during his life. Severe child abuse was considered normal at the time. Fathers had the power of life and death over their entire family. The Roman patriarch was unpredictable, harsh and punishing. Gregory, through his writings, clearly had a typical Roman childhood of cruel and irrational abuse. As he grew older he turned to extreme asceticism, fasting to the point of ruining his digestive system permanently and undergoing self-inflicted sufferings and harshness in order to avoid the much greater and eternal punishment that he was convinced awaited humanity in the "hereafter." In an article entitled "God the Father and Gregory the Great: The Discovery of a Late Roman Childhood." by Carl A. Mounteer he writes:
"Also Gregory's writings are filled with the notion of the unpredictability of God's punishment. Even though one's conscience must be probed for sin 'as teeth tearing the flesh,' one can never know if one has punished oneself enough because one can never know the extent of one's sins. Gregory frequently expressed his fear that, because of God's unknown and unpredictable severity, man could never know if he inflicted enough suffering upon himself to propitiate God. Therefore one can never perform too much penance because excess penance counts as merit. But if one does not engage in enough self-punishment, one's soul could be damned. Thus he praises as ideal penitents those who are 'guilty of no sin, and yet they afflict themselves fiercely as though every sin oppressed them.' For those who did not succeed in imposing enough self-punishment in this life Gregory prepared the definitive medieval version of Hell as a bottomless chasm of fire for the eternal physical and psychological torment of the wicked. The scholastic theologians of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries would adopt Gregory's description in its unabridged entirety. From these thinkers, particularly Thomas Aquinas, this portrayal of the damned found its way into Dante's Divine Comedy."
Gregory portrayed God as more malignant than any previous Christian or Jew had.
We continue to probe into the consciousness that has destroyed billions of lives, through the black book, the sword and the European brutality that has been inflicted upon this Sacred Continent, not excluding Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Asia and so on. We cannot avoid recognizing a mental illness, not just a mental illness, but an extremely advanced case of mental illness, among this mentality of Europeans and Europeanamericans! Here we can see how they have inflicted this godly punishment upon us all, and through menticize we are freely participating in this drama of psychopathic behavior which is bred and thrived upon by the Europeans of the time and in the times! Concerning Thomas Aquinas, we inform the reader that he became engrossed in the teachings and practices of Pope Gregory I, and was a descendent of the Lombard kings, who were very brutal; in other words, psychopaths. So we encourage you to look him up for further acquaintance with his activities and mentality, because he fortified and glorified the Seven Deadly Sins. The writer of this paper is saying, from a Spiritual perspective, that Gregory and Thomas and their fraternities were aware of, or responsible for, awakening and unleashing the demons behind the Seven Deadly Sins. Pope Gregory I says outright that the devil works for God! So these men we must look at so that they do not play hide-and-go-seek with us in the present. And as Indigenous People within Turtle Island, South, Central and the Caribbean, we must return back to our consciousness to realize that these demons have have infiltrated our consciousness, our traditions, our cultures, and our practices! We must look carefully at these so called seven deadly sins because these are the imposters that are invading our intelligence, our common sense, and our ability to unshackle ourselves from this modern slavery that threatens our coexistence and the coexistence of our future children within the spiritual entity. And the Europeanamerican, we say to you, listen up and look back at your past which you conveniently want to forget, because of your comfort within this sacred continent, that is not rooted in your essence or your ancestral bones, so that you may find the courage to overcome the malediction that has been plaguing you for centuries, not excluding the mental illness that is haunting you each moment of your life!
Concerning the seven deadly sins, Carol and Dinah Mack in their book A field guide to Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels and Other Subversive Spirits state that the seven deadly sins "... are one of the most virulent and chronic of the possession species that roost within the Psyche. They are seen as tendencies, temptations, passions - all interconnected strands of the fabric of the human condition, the stuff of exaggerated cravings that cause mortal suffering (251)."
As we examine the detriments of the indoctrination into the psyche of the people/Indigenous People of Turtle Island, South, Central and the Caribbean, we are able to understand the crippling and the denial that is taking place by a small minority upon an astronomical majority who is suffering the effects of these European demons inside of their psyche. And, it is through this psychological attack of these demons that the European has been able to dis-empower and affect the mental body of the Indigenous People of this Sacred Continent to the degree that the suffocation is occurring in the here and now. But, we must understand that before the psychological infiltration of our Mental Body occurred, there was an undeniable physical brutality, and a physical feeding of the Ancestors to these demons had occurred. In other words, they, meaning the Europeans, had to first allow these demons to ingest the physical bodies of our Ancestors in order to direct these demons to the psychological dismantling of our Sacred Hoop and our Healthy Mental Body, that would eventually dismantle our Spiritual Foundation of the Evolution and Integrity for All Life! So we must realize that through the brutality, the murder, they were able to digest the Essence of the Ancestors who were being sacrificed to these demons for the benefit of colonizing the whole continent and the establishing of a Europe outside of Europe; this we must understand. We must be able to understand that the Ancestors of this Sacred Continent were forced to deal with barbarianism at the hands of the Europeans, to the extreme of barbarianism. We are people who were rooted in Spiritual Development and who understood the Spiritual Entity with reverence, dignity and respect, and we knew how to use the Medicine for the benefit of the Whole. And we must return to that memory of utilizing the Medicine for the Whole, because if you open your eyes, you will see that the Medicine of the Ancestors is being used against its descendents, the Indigenous People of Turtle Island, South, Central and the Caribbean, not excluding Africa, and the likes. We must remember that Hatuey went to speak to all of the People, that Sequoia went to speak to all of the People, and that Imhotep was concerned with all of the People as well.
The Seven Deadly Sins are:
As Indigenous People, we must travel into the depths of our mental body, so that we may uncover and discover that these are European virtues, white male supremacist pets, and each of their pets have a name: Pride- Lucifer, Greed- Mammon, Lust-Asmodeus, Envy-Leviathan, Gluttony- Beelzebub, Anger- Satan, Sloth- Belphegor. And you are encouraged to dig out the roots of their pets and continue to explore the mentality of the masters of these pets, so that you can clearly understand that these European virtues, which have become our curse, have nothing to do with our Culture, Traditions, and Practices! The only thing they have to do with us today is the shutting down of the vital principle of awakening the pineal gland in our development in order to disconnect us from our Ancestral Roots and from the totality of the Creation and the Creator of Life. Women, Men, and Children of the Spirit of this Sacred Spiritual Entity, we must realize, all together, that these European virtues have infiltrated the vast majority of the Lovers of Life. And we are able to see the manifestation of these demons in the reflection of our mirrors, and we must shatter these mirrors, these reflections, and return to the reflection of the mirror of the River who did not betray our reflection, when we were Healthy and Vibrant inside of the Spiritual Entity, known as Life! And for you, Europeanamericans, Mothers and Fathers, who are seeking a holistic treatment for the mental illness that is plaguing and haunting your children, you must understand that these so called deadly sins, that were shoved down the throats of my Indigenous People, are the very root of your malediction and the mental illness that you are looking to deliver your children from. In order to treat the mental illness of your children, you must understand the root of that mental illness in the first place, as we have been stating through this paper. Let's remember that these seven deadly sins are the seven principle demons that the white male supremacist of Europe and the USA have been working with for centuries, and who have dismantled countless Cultures, Traditions and Practices through these principle demons of evil destruction. And furthermore let's raise a brow to the fact that Greed, Envy, Pride and Anger are the four demon generals that they set loose when they go to fight wars and declare wars against innocent children, women and men!
It will be helpful to us to analyze the seven deadly sins, which are connected to the psychopaths and the breeders of a mental illness within this continent. We must allow ourselves to analyze these things, or these seven words, because perhaps there is a healthy utilization of these words, but in realizing that they have been demonized, we must allow ourselves to break and dismantle the spell of these sins, that are tools of the colonizers and bloodsuckers of Life, and who are the graduates of Dr. Frankenstein's laboratory. These sins, or pets, of the Europeans gave justification to burn people alive or split them in half with their swords, or just dismantle bodies, part by part, because, according to them, they were dealing with heathens, savages, beasts. And I inform you, Europeanamericans, that the People that these sins gave justification to be torn apart, were far, exceedingly far, from being savages and beasts. For these People were highly developed Spiritually, Morally, Ethically and were rooted in a profound Love for their Children, their Wives, their Mothers, and Grandmothers, and their Elders, and had dignity and an astronomical respect for the Natural Environment, which they understood was a Spiritual Entity within the Totality of the Whole of Creation, and who respected and lived by the principle of guarding the Sacred Hoop of Life for the Continuation of Life! So once again, to the Indigenous People of this continent, not excluding the African, it is time, and it has been time, for us to analyze the mental illness that has plagued us through the process of indoctrination and colonization of our Natural Essence to coexist within this Creation, as Co-Creators of our Evolution!
So for a moment, or so, let's look at the seven heavenly virtues.
Humility------------- Pride (Lucifer)---------- Jupiter (Zadkiel)
Sufficiency --------- Greed (Mammon) ----------- Sun (Raphael)
Chastity ------------ Lust (Asmodeus) ---------- Venus (Aniel)
Charity ------------- Envy (Leviathan) --------- Moon (Gabriel)
Sobriety ------------ Gluttony (Beelzebub) --- Mercury (Michael)
Patience ------------ Anger (Satan) ----------- Mars (Sammael)
Diligence ----------- Sloth (Belphegor) ------- Saturn (Kafziel)
To begin with, we must realize that these heavenly virtues are the dungeons of colonization within this continent, extending globally, and in this realization we must thoroughly be willing to analyze these virtues. And when we do so, we may uncover Ancient Deities of African Origin or of Mayan, Inca Origins and so on, who have been perverted and dismantled by these psychopaths and dismantlers of Sacred Cultures, Traditions and Practices of Peoples who have profound understandings of the Spiritual Entity, the Creator, and of Life. In our wakefulness, we are able to decipher the tricknology that has been used to subjugate our minds and to allow us, willingly, to allow the Ancestors to remain in their dungeons of forgetfulness and dreadfulness and utter desperation. We must not be fearful of uncovering, and unlocking, the doors of the dungeons in which they have imprisoned the Ancestral Spirit, and imprisoned our minds, amd which allowed us to be abusive to ourselves, our Women, our Children, and our Elders. Let's remember that the truth stares us eyeball to eyeball each day that Grandfather Sun rises in the East and settles in the West. We must see the scheme that these heavenly virtues and deadly sins have poisoned our minds and have replaced our Ancestral shrines with Michelangelo's cousin as the blue-eyed, blonde headed jesus the christ! In these heavenly virtues and deadly sins we must be dubious concerning Gregory the (so called) Great and Thomas Aquinas, because as we trace the facts of their lives, there is no doubt that we are uncovering psychopaths, maniacs, fanatics and definitely a personality disorder, which is common within Europe at the time that these things were written by these two men, at different periods. When we look at the atrocities that these maniacs have engaged within their own continent, we must withdraw our admiration for these maniacs, and their heaven, because we cannot decipher if their heaven is more evil than their hell, or vice a versa. Because when we honestly analyze the facts, their heaven is hell and their hell traps you into their heaven, which leads you back to the same dungeon and to the same insane asylum, which they are the masters of! We must remember, Indigenous People of this continent, not excluding the African, that our Ancestors knew the Afterlife, and how to return to the Afterlife with respect, dignity and reverence for the Lives that would remain in the physical experience (body). They knew the Ceremonial Practice of the Dead, or if you like of the Departed, they knew the Ceremonial Practices of the Living within the Spiritual Entity, and we must return to our Ancestral Practices that can Liberate us, and allow us to surmount the courage that was evident in our Cultures, our Traditions, and our Practices! We cannot continue to allow ourselves to be hired assassins for this brutal mentality of white male supremacy, wars of suffocation and deprivation of the dignity of Life with our Brothers and Sisters around the Globe. We must be willing to dismantle their mental indoctrination of our minds, which pervades this whole continent. It is the only way to address this mental illness that is plaguing us, and we must remember that for the psychopaths it is just another day! We must realize that for the small minority of Europeanamericans who are seeking a holistic treatment for their Children and who are perhaps attempting to have a voice against these atrocities that are occurring globally, or for those Europeanamericans who are weighing their comfort in one hand against the lives of People which are being lost for that comfort, you must begin to understand that for you the task will be greater, because the only heaven you have known throughout the centuries has been the one laid out by your Ancestors who brought the destruction upon this continent, not excluding Africa and the Globe. And we stand firm in our statement that the heaven that you know is actually the hell that you live each day of your life! And I remind you in this paper that these statements are not coming from a term that is commonly used by you Americans, Europeanamericans that is: "reverse racism"! These statements are coming from historical facts and from the Spirit of the Ancestral Body of the Sacred Hoop of Life that has been dismantled within this Sacred Continent, and this is a fact! And it is a fact that the Indigenous People of this Continent, not excluding Africa, have been placed, through your brutality, in an insane asylum dictated by your supreme psychopaths. We have in the living flesh been placed in the purgatory of your hell, and this is a Fact! Because, these heavenly virtues and deadly sins are in fact a purgatory and your definition of purgatory is what this continent finds itself within. We are, in fact, tracing mental illness and the more we trace it, the more we find it in Europe and the Europe that was established in this continent!


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By Maytaal Angel
LONDON (Reuters) - Gold steadied on Tuesday as the dollar trod water against a basket of currencies, with investors reticent to bid up the metal in the face of looming U.S. interest rate increases and escalating Sino-U.S. trade tensions.
Since its April peak gold has dropped more than 12 percent as a trade war between China and the U.S. has driven investors to seek safety in the dollar rather than in gold, a traditional safe haven.
Bearish bets on Comex gold have risen to record levels while investors have liquidated exchange-traded gold fund holdings.
"(There's) a generally strong dollar backdrop, which is keeping the precious metal under pressure. The market is very short gold futures," said ICBC Standard Bank analyst Marcus Garvey.
He added, however, that financial positions are becoming so short that it would not take much of a surprise to spark a short-covering rally.
"There's a good chance gold recovers back to $1,200 and possibly a bit higher," Garvey said.
Spot gold dipped 0.1 percent to $1194.55 an ounce at 1144 GMT while U.S. gold futures were flat at $1199.70.
The dollar was little changed versus a currency basket, with the euro underpinned by easing concerns over Italian debt and the British pound near five-week highs on hopes of a Brexit deal with the European Union.
Broadly underpinning the dollar were Friday's comments from U.S. President Donald Trump that he was ready to impose tariffs on virtually all Chinese imports to the United States.
Furthermore, U.S. payrolls data last week cemented expectations that the Federal Reserve will raise U.S. interest rates in September. That would be the third increase this year, with expectations of another in December.
Higher interest rates increase bond yields, making non-yielding bullion less attractive. They also tend to boost the dollar, making dollar-priced gold costlier for non-U.S. investors.
Gold is finding strong resistance at $1,200, with investors selling into any rallies that threaten to push it above that level, ANZ analysts said in a research note.
Physical gold buying waned slightly in Asia this week as investors waited to see if prices would fall further, traders said.
In other precious metals, silver fell 0.3 percent to $14.1 an ounce, platinum firmed by 0.4 percent to $785.30 and palladium was down 0.7 percent at $969.10 after hitting its highest in nearly 12 weeks at $991.15.
(Additional reporting by Nallur Sethuraman in Bengaluru; Editing by David Goodman and Kirsten Donovan)


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Meet the 10-year-old Memphian touring with 'School of Rock'
The national tour of the "School of Rock," hits the Orpheum Theatre, starting Wednesday, Oct. 9. It is based on the film of the same name and features music by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Sami Bray, a 10-year-old from Cordova, is one of the musical's stars.
Sami made her Broadway debut last year in "1984" and was part of the national tour for "How the Grinch Stole Christmas." Her television credits include "Law and Order, SVU" and "Gotham."
The Daily Memphian reached out to Sami to find out more about her career and life on stage.
Daily Memphian: You're about to bring "School of Rock" to your hometown. How does that feel? What are you most looking forward to?
Sami Bray: I am very excited to bring "School of Rock" to my hometown. I am most looking forward to having my friends and family able to come see my show.
DM: What's your favorite part of performing?
SB: My favorite part of performing is being able to inspire young kids in the theater. I love to talk with other kids and let them know that they too could be on the stage. I loved meeting actors before I became one and I love being able to inspire others as well.
DM: What was it like being in "1984"?
SB: Being on Broadway was an incredible experience. I loved living in New York and feeling the energy of the city. I loved working on a Broadway stage with such incredible talent. It was a true honor and an experience I will never forget.
DM: What is your character in "School of Rock" like?
SB: My character, Summer Hathaway, is a very bossy, smart, intelligent, young girl. She grows throughout the show though and becomes more confident and more lovable.
DM: Why did you want to be an actress?
SB: I wanted to be an actress because I love performing and entertaining people. I also love meeting new people. This experience allows me to see the whole country and work in lots of different environments. I have been lucky enough to get to work with the most incredible and talented people I have ever met.
TopicsOrpheum Theatre School of Rock Andrew Lloyd Webber Sami Bray Cordova 1984 "How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Elle Perry
Elle Perry covers arts and culture and other news for the Daily Memphian. She is a native of Memphis and a two-time graduate of the University of Memphis. Elle previously worked for the Memphis Business Journal and has written for publications including The Memphis Flyer and High Ground News.


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Foodborne Illness Information
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CLEAN - Clean your hands with soap and warm water before handling food. Clean surfaces before preparing food on them.
SEPARATE - Do not use utensils on cooked foods that were previously used on raw foods and do not place cooked foods on plates where raw foods once were unless it has been cleaned thoroughly.
COOK - Cook foods to a safe internal temperature (See Chart). Use a meat thermometer to make sure foods are cooked to a safe temperature. Color is not an indicator of doneness.
CHILL - Chill foods promptly after serving and when transporting from one place to another. Keep your refrigerator at 40°F or below. Keep hot foods hot and cold foods cold.
FoodSafety.gov "gateway to federal food safety resources"
Food Safety at a Glance (Information on preparing, cooking, and storing food)
Food Safety Page at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Douglas County Health Department Contact Information:
Epidemiology Section (Disease Surveillance/Outbreak Investigation) - (402) 444-7214
Food & Drink Section (Restaurant Inspection and Licensing) - (402) 444-7480


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In hunt for good cultured company
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