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Textbook definition of antenna pattern or antenna radiation pattern is a graphical representation of the radiation properties (e.g. TRP, gain, efficiency, EIRP, directivity, phase or polarization) of the antenna under test (AUT) as a function of space.
Until recently, the two dominant approaches for testing and evaluation of antenna parameters were near-filed and far-field measurement techniques. In the near-field range method antenna emissions are measured in the radiating-near-field region. The results are then projected to the far-field with well-developed and proven algorithms e.g. to offset RF reflections, mutual coupling between the AUT and the measurement antenna/probe, etc. This is critical because most antennas are intended to operate in the far-field region. A direct far-field measurement method can be performed in outdoor or indoor environments. Smaller antennas can be measured in an anechoic chamber. However, testing larger antennas often requires a remote open-air-test-site (OATS) consisting of a large area in a rural environment to avoid reflections. Both antenna pattern measurement techniques are costly and require longer times for Antenna Designers and Wireless Engineers to debug their designs, to do rapid prototyping, and to explore new designs, materials and geometries.
RFxpert is a desktop antenna pattern measurement system that characterizes antennas without the need for a chamber. It provides far-field patterns, bisections, EIRP and TRP in less than a second. Novel near-field results, including amplitude, polarity and phase give insights into the root causes of antenna performance challenges and help troubleshoot far-field radiation patterns.
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As American waistlines continue to expand, a lesser-known obesity-related disease is quickly becoming more common. In fact, in its most serious form, the disease is estimated to become the leading cause for liver transplants by 2020, outpacing even hepatitis C. It's known as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), an umbrella term for a range of liver conditions that, as the name implies, affects people who drink little to no alcohol yet have more than 5 percent of their liver made up of fat cells. According to the Mayo Clinic, NAFLD affects an estimated 80 million to 100 million Americans.
The more progressive — and therefore more worrisome — form of the disease is known as NASH, or nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. By this stage the disease has progressed to liver inflammation, which can lead to cirrhosis, liver failure and liver cancer — similar to the kind of damage occurring with heavy alcohol use. Dr. Rohit Loomba, chairman of the American Liver Foundation's National Medical Advisory Committee, estimates that about 30 million Americans have NASH.
Like many adverse medical conditions, NAFLD — and especially the more progressive form of the disease — is linked to obesity. Dr. Loomba says that 90 percent of the patients diagnosed with NASH are either overweight or obese. "Obesity and diabetes rates are very high in the U.S. and are also increasing worldwide," he says. "So when we look at the rising rates of NASH in people who don't drink and don't have hepatitis C yet are still developing cirrhosis of the liver, we know something is damaging the liver and we're not containing it."
Perhaps the most alarming aspect of NAFLD, says researchers, is that in its mildest form it typically causes no signs or symptoms, isn't readily picked up in a routine physical, and currently there are no drugs on the market to treat it (although several are in the pipeline).
Dr. Jay Horton, director of the Center for Human Nutrition at UT Southwestern Medical Center, says an individual will typically discover he or she has fatty liver disease if they have a liver function test that comes back abnormal or if they have a scan of their abdomen for some other reason, such as gallstones. "Even though they're finding out about it almost by accident, it's actually very easy to detect excess liver fat with an imaging modality, such as an MRI, CT scan or ultrasound," he says.
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A rainy day wedding to remember: Pranidhi + Komnieve, Part 1
Day one of two. The first ceremony, This wedding was so full of joy and energy it had to be split in two! The whole two-wedding was a celebration with prayer, family, friends, and dancing. Part One shows the Sikh ceremony, held at the Sikh Center of Orange County, and the Sangeet that followed in the evening. These galleries are true testimont to a thoughful couple who asked me to capture the geniune moments of everyone involved - The "secret life" of the guests as Pranidhi wrote to me. It was clear the day was not just about them. It was about everyone present and letting everything be what it wanted to be, including the stormy weather. To Pranidhi, Komnieve, and all their beloved guests, thank you for allowing me to photograph you with such freedom, ease, and joy.


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Now that it's officially holiday season, I'm sure you all need to see another wishlist like you need another cold sore (remember my Christmas in July wishlist?!). But mine's way better because no one wants any of these things. Except me. AND I SERIOUSLY WANT THEM (would I ever lie to you?). This list is from the Island of Misfit Gifts and I love it and I'll be really really jealous if I know you and I see you with any of these things.
Here's what I want for Christmas:
1. An iPhone cover that precedes me with an impossibly high bar
2. A dinosaur eating fried chicken ring
3. A bowtie so I can continue to dress like a man with boobs
4. A 26 lb. gummy bear that is meant for parties but would be just for me
5. A convertible shrug/scarf thingy that's cool, except I would wear it in some form every single day
6. A gold resin shark
7. Screw you slippers- for all the Screw University alums out there
8. Champagne... in a CARRYING CASE. Like a boozy superhero who is desperate for friends
9. The perfect combo of two things I love: French crap and Notorious BIG
AND finally,
10. MORE RfD FOLLOWERS! But not in a culty sort of way... well sort of in a culty sort of way. Like a cult of people who like design and humor and fried chicken and dinosaurs but who don't necessarily shave their heads or commit mass suicide. That sounds like a cult I'd be happy to lead. So follow me by subscribing to my RSS feed or by clicking Join this Site (you can sign up with one of your pre-existing gmail/facebook/twitter accounts). It's a gift that is FREE- probably the last time I'll ask you for a free gift so you're welcome.
Merry December! Riot on.


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Living with Difference – the Commission on Religion and Belief in Public Life,
This report took two years to research. The recommendations of the 144-page report are a plea for greater understanding, tolerance and knowledge of each other in a society in which religion is no longer a glue that binds, but all too often a source of division, mistrust and sometimes hatred. Baroness Butler-Sloss says that from recent events in France, to the schools so many of our children attend and, even the adverts screened in cinemas, for good and ill religion and belief impacts directly on all our daily lives. The proposals in this report amount to a 'new settlement for religion and belief in the UK', intended to provide space and a role for all within society, regardless of their beliefs or absence them."
The proportion of people who do not follow a religion has risen from just under a third in 1983 to almost half in 2014, the report states. Elsewhere, the report reveals that almost half the population today describes itself as non-religious, as compared with an eighth in England and a third in Scotland in 2001. (Though it also quotes 25% being non-religious in 2012) It says that thirty years ago two-thirds of those living in the UK would have identified as Christians while today it's two-fifths, and that fifty years ago Judaism – at one in 150 – was the largest non-Christian tradition in the UK. Now it is fourth behind Islam, Hinduism and Sikhism.
Only two in five British people now identify as Christian, the two-year inquiry found, while there has been a general move away from mainstream denominations to evangelical and Pentecostal churches.
Islam, Hinduism and Sikhism have overtaken Judaism as the largest non-Christian faiths in Britain.
The report suggests 'different social values and clearly shows a preference for Enlightenment and humanism'. It includes 'respect for human life', 'peace', 'equality' among these – surely these are Christian values. How religiously literate are the authors?
The report also recommends scrapping the law requiring schools to hold acts of collective worship (but they still want inclusive, spiritual assemblies – the UK Government told them that they were content with the law as it currently stands) , reducing the number of children given places at schools based on religion, and including non-religious figures on the BBC's Thought for the Day.
There also needs to be an overhaul of how religious education is taught, it argues. Many syllabuses tend to "portray religions only in a good light … and they tend to omit the role of religions in reinforcing stereotypes and prejudice around issues such as gender, sexuality, ethnicity and race."
"The pluralist character of modern society should be reflected in national forums such as the House of Lords, so that they include a wider range of world views and religious traditions, and of Christian denominations other than the Church of England," the commission said.
Dr Ed Kessler, vice-chair of Corab: "It's an anomaly to have 26 Anglican bishops in the House of Lords. There needs to be better representation of the different religions and beliefs in Britain today."
It suggests that funding for hospital chaplaincies should include humanists.
I don't know why they say that RE teachers in Scotland are better trained than in England.
Also, it isn't true that collective worship has to be Christian.
In the media, Islam is mentioned hundreds of times more than any other religion and nearly always in a negative light.
In TV and Radio debates, people with extreme views tend to dominate in gladiatorial style debates.
I had to look up 'Barelwis and Deobandis'.***
Most people are unaware of the positive good done by religious people, co-operating among faiths on things like foodbanks (where the government expects churches to 'make bricks without straw' yet tries to stop them campaigning and thus getting to heart of an issue rather than papering over the cracks).
Action for the common good is an important theme of the report – which singles out Citizens UK as an instructive example of the role religion and belief can play in challenging injustice. It's campaigns on the Living Wage and the welcoming of refugees show the difference between a bogus secular "neutrality" and a genuinely plural public square. The Commissioners express concern that the strings which come with public funding, and the restrictions imposed by the Lobbying Act make it harder for people of faith to challenge the status quo in the way that prophetic figures such as Catherine and William Booth have done in previous generations.
Counter terrorism legislation I contributing to a further demonisation of muslims.
Professor Maleiha Malik: 'Religion and belief in the UK has been transformed in the last two generations at the same time that religion has gained more salience in politics, law and public policy. In the year in which we celebrate 800 years of the Magna Carta, our report includes a statement of principles and values for how we all approach religion and belief in public life. We also made creative forward looking but practical recommendations in key areas such as reform of the House of Lords, education as well as controversial topic of the balance between anti-extremism policy and free speech.
However, Paul Vallely points out: The report quotes the British Humanist Association ten times, and the National Secular Society five, and even the Humanist Society Scotland gets three mentions. In contrast, there is a single quotation from an Anglican Archbishops' commission and a solitary reference to a report by the nation's Roman Catholic bishops. Humanists are crammed in… Church Times 11.xii.15
'Our recommendations include a focus on legal reform and public policy recommendations. We also call for much greater religion and belief literacy in every section of society, and at all levels, in order to challenge the potential for misunderstanding, stereotyping and oversimplification in public debates.'
recommendations include:
- Opening up representation in the House of Lords to other faiths
- Creating a grassroots "Magna Carta" style statement of values for public life, rather than a government-led approach to defining "British values"
- Refocusing anti-terror legislation to promote rather than limit freedom of speech and expression.
'religion has the potential to be both a public good and a public bad, and governments must have due regard for it.'
Funding for chaplaincies in hospitals, prisons and higher education should be protected with equitable representation for those from non-Christian religious traditions and for those from humanist traditions.
there is currently concern about the requirements of the terrorism and Security Act 2015 in relation to universities.' Enabling free debate within the law,' wrote Group of universities,' is a key function which universities perform in our democratic society. Imposing on non-violent extremism or radical views would risk limiting freedom of speech on campus and may drive those with radical views off campus and underground, where … [they] cannot be challenged in environment. Closing down challenge and debate could foster extremism and dissent …The intention non-violent extremism within the scope of Prevent work in universities is a particular problem, as with the obligation to protect free speech:' Further, universities are well placed to help the rest 'de-muddle' complex, controversial and sensitive issues, since they can provide space and scope for us conversations in which different and conflicting views and viewpoints can be respectfully and civilly . It is also relevant to note there are excellent models of multi-faith chaplaincy and worship areas in universities, as also in hospitals, and these too have implications for wider society."
The idea of human dignity is a common denominator in public discourse in the West and is fundamental. It is seen rather differently, however, from the perspective of Eastern worldviews. Buddhists, Hindus and Jains, for example, consider the concept of human dignity to be too limited for balanced legal definition, and to reflect speciesism (the term has been coined on an analogy with terms such as racism and sexism) in environmental and social policy. They would prefer to consider the dignity of all living beings, not of human beings only, as the moral basis for decision-making, and the it rights of future generations not of the present generation only.
First, major religious and philosophical traditions and worldviews of humankind have many deep similarities, overlaps and commonalities. At the same time, however, there are significant differences between them. To cite a single example, it was pointed out in our consultation that non-Abrahamic faith systems are very little understood in the UK, and they are 'forever compared to the Abrahamic faiths in order to make them easier to comprehend'.' For example, a correspondent said,'Sikhs do not necessarily believe in a distinct God figure and the supreme being in the faith, Waheguru, is genderless. However, the translations of the Sikh scriptures, which have their origins in research carried out on the Sikh faith as part of the British Raj in the 19th century, refer to Waheguru as "God" and have attributed a male gender to all references to Waheguru even when there is no gender specific reference. This imposition of an Abrahamic viewpoint on the Sikh faith … is a disservice to the spiritual and Dharmic origins of the faith.'
participants in the teaching and learning process must at the very least be able to meet people different from themselves in terms of background, heritage and worldview. Quality encounter, however, must go beyond just knowing about different religions and beliefs, and engage participants in an interactive process of building relationships based on awareness, honesty, dialogue and trust. ….In many schools simple encounter can be taken for granted — classes are mixed in several kinds of ways and encounter is inbuilt, though of course there still needs to be continuity and skilled teaching to make the most of interaction and exchange. But when schools are separate, whether by design or default, the encounters and exchanges of learning from and through difference are much harder to create.
require state inspectorates to be concerned with every aspect of the life of faith schools, including religious elements currently inspected by denominational authorities
ensure that in all teacher education attention is given to religion and belief that is of a similar level to that which is given to reading and maths, so that every primary class teacher is confident and competent in this curriculum area, whether implicit or explicit, and so that in secondary and further education teaching all staff have general awareness of relevant sensitivities
New social media platforms have no inherent positive or negative power, for online tools themselves do not make people more or less tolerant. Their impact depends on the people who use them — and how they use them. Access to the internet allows every person to be his or her own journalist and editor since it allows organisations, including religious organisations, to transmit their own version of events without the intermediary of professional journalism — in effect, they are able to put out unfiltered propaganda and opinions. Social media sites have no editors, and users (or moderators) are expected to edit inappropriate or inaccurate content. At best they have led to a democratisation of information and the increase in user-generated content, but at worst they have resulted in an abundance of misinformation and have permitted negative content to proliferate. They challenge traditional hierarchies, since individuals communicate their own interpretations of events and texts, rather than rely on the accounts of their leaders, religious or political. But they can also therefore be used by groups to attack particular religions or their followers, or to promote extremist ideologies in the name of religion. In addition, it is easy for local issues to attract global attention in a very short space of time; for example, a controversy in the Swat region of Pakistan can have a significant impact on the streets of Bradford just hours later
The less personal nature of online communication makes it easier for information to be distorted or misinterpreted. With the huge array of online communities and the ease of finding those with specific interests, there can be a tendency to self-select into like-minded groups, lessening the opportunity to encounter those with different opinions and be exposed to unfamiliar voices.
Whilst a religious affairs correspondent operates for the BBC this contrasts many national print titles and commercial television and radio where there is a noticeable decline of us literacy which may be associated with the loss of specialists. Losing so many such specialist staff creates the danger of a vicious spiral — the editorial judgment that religion is of declining public interest leading to the loss of specialist reporters, leading in turn to a trivialising or ignorant reporting of religious issues.
It is true that interfaith organisations do not have large memberships. However, that in itself is not an adequate criterion for assessing their value, for participants carry new understandings into their communities. In this way, participation is vicarious as well as direct.
In England at national level the Faith Communities Consultative Council (FCCC) came into being, but the coalition government of 20I0-15 dismantled it on the grounds that it did not favour stand-alone forums.
that people come to know each other better; and develop stronger relationships, when engaging together on a social action projects…Yet it is not a case of either/or. Rather; both social action and structured dialogue are needed and mutually reinforce each other, with each leading to the other.
Clearly, the dynamism of local initiatives, particularly those associated with religions and beliefs, should not be taken to imply agreement with a transfer of responsibility for welfare from the state to civil society. Often, providers of voluntary services (not least food banks) deeply regret the gaps in governmental provision which make them necessary. Practical action to deal with immediate need may go hand-in-hand with campaign work to challenge the root causes of poverty and other forms of social injustice. In addition to the concept of 'social capital', the concept of 'spiritual capital' is needed, the notion of an ongoing resource for community building that offers not only a theological identity and worshipping tradition, but also a value system, moral vision and a basis for personal hopefulness and faith.'
Now the mainstream cynical view is that it's a policy emerging from a simple fact: we can no longer afford to pay for a centralised approach to social care, so we have to find ways of helping people care for each other instead. The cost has to be shifted out of the public purse. The question is, shifted where? And churches look a good bet. The trouble is that it comes to us in this form: Churches, faith groups, we want more of what you can contribute but we want it at no cost to us. We want you to make bricks without straw
the British story has always involved a lively debate and dialogue about how to build a common life across four distinct nations, and that each nation has always contained a diversity of religion and belief traditions. The challenge of increasing pluralism is to make that debate and dialogue as inclusive and broad-based as possible.
It is also important to recognise and address the ambiguity of the concept of integration. Religion and belief have often inspired a critique of the existing state of a society.The work of William and Catherine Booth — exposing and challenging the exploitation of workers (and in particular children) in Victorian London — is one of many examples of religion and belief disturbing and challenging the status quo. The demand to integrate must not be allowed to silence the prophetic and disturbing voices of those who challenge injustice.
National government should review the provisions of the Lobbying Act,to ensure that charities working for social justice are not prevented from campaigning as well as meeting needs.
One issue raised in the Islamic Sharia Council's evidence to the commission concerned the performing of a Muslim marriage ceremony (the Nikah). In the absence of a civil marriage ceremony performed by a marriage registrar, a Nikah conducted in the UK is not recognised within the UK as a valid marriage.The absence of a registered civil marriage in addition to the Nikah ceremony has led to a number of Muslim women, after a Muslim divorce, being deprived of any recourse to the matrimonial financial legislation available in the UK, and being therefore treated as having been in a state of cohabitation with their partner.This has created serious injustice for Muslim women. It was considered by a Ministry of Justice working group, and led to a campaign by the National Register Office to do more to protect the interests of such women.The Islamic Sharia Council also referred to two recent cases in which the English family court had withheld the decree absolute until the husband had pronounced talaq to his wife or until the issue of dower had been resolved.This co-operation between the Sharia Council and the family courts is a helpful development.
The ways in which anti-terrorism policies operate in practice can have, however, unintended consequences. In particular, significant numbers of citizens may come to feel they are viewed as Other, namely as people who do not truly belong and cannot be trusted:them' rather than 'us', suspects or potential suspects, not ordinary citizens with the same values as everyone else. Counter-terrorism policies and measures may then not only fail to achieve their objectives but may actually make matters worse, such that both terrorism and the fear of terrorism increase, and both security and sense of security are diminished. At the present time it is Muslim communities in Britain that are most directly and obviously affected.All people, however, are of course affected by increases in fear and feelings of insecurity, as also all people in a society are affected by the ways in which majorities and minorities see and approach each other
To decrease the danger of unintended harmful consequences in counter-terrorism measures against Islam-related terrorism, the following five points need to be carefully considered.
The government needs to engage with a wide range of academic theory, research and scholarship about the nature and causes of terrorism. Amongst other things, this means it should encourage and promote, not seek to limit, freedom of enquiry, speech and expression, and should not loosely use words and concepts which scholarship shows to be controversial and unclear. Such words and concepts include 'ideology:radicalisation', 'extremism' and 'Islamism'."
The government needs to meet and engage with a wide range of Muslim groups and organisations, and to show that it understands, even if it does not agree with, the views about the nature and causes of terrorism that they hold. It cannot otherwise gain the trust and confidence of significant opinion leaders, and therefore cannot rely on their support and assistance.Their support and assistance are essential, however, if counter-terrorism strategies are to be successful. In its selection of organisations with which to engage the government must guard against the perception that it is operating with a simplistic good Muslims/bad Muslims distinction, or between 'mainstream moderates' and 'violent or non-violent extremists'.
There is no causal or inevitable link between conservative or orthodox theological and moral views on the one hand and propensity to violent and criminal behaviour on the other. Nor, more fundamentally, is there a simple, one-way causal link between a worldview, ideology or narrative on the one hand and specific actions and behaviours on the other.
There is no simplistic us/them distinction or clash between western or Enlightenment values on the one hand and the values of other cultures, countries and civilisations on the other, nor between Christian values and those of other religions.
Political leaders should seek not only to promote debate and deliberation about the causes of terrorism but also to challenge misunderstandings and negative stereotypes in the population at large and in mass-circulation newspapers — they have a duty to lead public opinion, and not only to reduce fear and insecurity in the majority population but also to give principled reassurance and moral support to groups and communities which feel vulnerable to violence or discrimination.
leaders of religion and belief groups should, with appropriate training, have good knowledge of the different traditions and communities within the UK, and should encourage their members to participate in dialogue and to help develop and maintain good relations within society
that faith communities should consider opening their places of worship at regular intervals to welcome and engage with those from other groups within their locality, and should explore the possibilities of twinning arrangements with other communities
*** I discovered: 'The Barelwis say that the Prophet knows everything that occurred and is to occur, unlike the Deobandis. The Barelwis believe that the Prophet is light and not human unlike the Deobandis. The Barelwis are very explicit in their grave-worship and openly call to it, making it clear that they believe in invoking the righteous dead for aid, assistance, rescue and benefit. As for the Deobandist they appear to proclaim Tawhid. The Barelwis are consistent and uniform in their grave-worship, they do not fall into contradiction, unlike the Deobandis. For the Deobandis refute the grave-worshippers at one time and then at another they also carry the same ideas as the grave-worshippers. Their connection to the Barelwiyyah is like the connection of the Ash'aris and Maturidis to the first Jahmiyyah. Amongst the Deobandis were those who came across the books of the Scholars of Ahl al-Sunnah in matters of Tawhidand thus, they acquired grounding in many areas of Tawhid al-Uluhiyyah and embarked upon refuting the grave-worshippers. However, some of the Barelwis, in turn, authored works exposing the contradiction amongst the Deobandis . This forced some of the Deobandis to acknowledge this is a matter of fact and that their roots are the same as those of the Barelwiyyah.'
Wiki was more helpful when it explained that Barlevis have their roots in Sufism whereas the Deobandi movement, was influenced by the Wahhabi movement.
India Today estimates that the vast majority of Muslims in India adhere to the Barelvi movement. Their [practices include: Public celebration of Muhammad's birthday, veneration of dead and living saints. This consists of the intervention of an ascending, linked and unbroken chain of holy personages claimed to reach ultimately to Muhammad, who Barelvis believe intercede on their behalf with God, visiting the tombs of Muhammad, his companions and of pious Muslims, an act the Barelvis claim is supported by the Quran, Sunnah and acts of the companions, but which some opponents call "shrine-worshipping", use of devotional music and leaving the beard to grow for men; the movement views a man who trims his beard to less than a fist-length as a sinner, and shaving the beard is considered abominable.
The Deobandi movement developed as a reaction to British colonialism in India. Some are also Sufis, though conservativism and fundamentalist theology has latterly led to a de facto fusion of its teachings with wahabism in Pakistan, which "has all but shattered the mystical Sufi presence" there.
They believe that a Muslim must adhere to one of the four schools of Sunni Islamic Law and generally discourage inter-school eclecticism.
According to a 2007 investigation by The Times, about 600 of Britain's nearly 1,500 mosques were under the control of "a hardline sect", whose leading preacher loathed Western values, called on Muslims to "shed blood" for Allah and preached contempt for Jews, Christians and Hindus. The same investigative report further said that 17 of the country's 26 Islamic seminaries follow the ultra-conservative Deobandi teachings which had given birth to the Taliban. According to Times almost 80% of all domestically trained Ulema were being trained in these hardliner seminaries
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The Indian River School District (IRSD) and Joshua M. Freeman Foundation will host a special program on Monday, April 16, aimed at parents to discuss bullying and teen suicide prevention. The program, called "The Choice is Yours," will be held at Sussex Central High School from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
"What we really want to do is create an awarness of what bullying really is, and what students and parents should do," explained Marilyn Graham, IRSD guidance specialist.
The program will be moderated by national teen motivational speaker Shannon Pickard, and the panel will include IRSD counselors, school resource officers, Delaware Guidance and Delaware Department of School Climate and Discipline.
National news headlines have been filled in recent years with reports of horrific bullying instances and suicides. Graham said that no IRSD students who were attending school at the time have committed suicide, but there have been 12 youth suicides in the state since January alone.
That has to give every parent pause.
We are in a new age of technology that features social media prominently. Kids are often on Web sites like Facebook and Twitter to converse with their friends and share photos, but the sites have also been used to terrorize kids through cyber-bullying and rumor mills. Bullying and rumors have been around since the dawn of time, but now those things can be more public than ever before, and can often seem like the world is coming down on the victim.
With that being said, we are thrilled that the IRSD is taking a proactive approach in this matter and talking with the parents of students in the district. By alerting parents to what to look for and who to reach out to if they see behavior like this occurring, there is a real chance of helping that student who might be feeling like there is nowhere to turn.
And we are equally pleased that the Joshua M. Freeman Foundation is on board with this. The organization has always reached out to the younger demographic in the area through performances at the Bayside stage and by exposing them to the arts, and their commitment to this community is only proven once again here.
Parents, take advantage of this program if you can. Even if your child is not a victim of bullying, chances are he or she knows somebody who might be. It really could help save a life.
For more information on this event, call Marilyn Graham at (302) 436-1000 or Patti Grimes of the Joshua M. Freeman Foundation at (302) 436-3003.


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MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — The Berkeley County Council voted unanimously Thursday to authorize issuing $3.2 million in bonds to help Shenandoah Community Health Center retire some debt and make renovations to its facility along Tavern Road in Martinsburg.
Attorney Kenneth J. Barton Jr. told county council members that the health center plans to restructure some of its financial obligations with BB&T bank, and is eyeing several renovations, including improvements for laboratory, dental, radiology and women's health services.
The bonds are to be purchased by BB&T, and the council only is to act as a "conduit," meaning the county faces no liability to pay off the bonds, according to Barton.
The bonds issued through the county can be tax-exempt, allowing a lower borrowing cost for the health system, which is part of the nonprofit Shenandoah Valley Medical Systems Inc.


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- Can I add my own details in the header of my SIP requests?
- What happens to the additional information in my SIP header?
If you include additional details in the header of your SIP requests, this information will be stripped and not relayed to the terminating carrier. It is not possible to include any additional information to be provided to the recipient using the SIP header.


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The Great Texts of the Bible: Romans 9–16
by Hastings, James•
Charles Scribner's Sons, T&T Clark 1911
The Great Texts of the Bible: Romans 9–16 is an extensive commentary made up of essays, sermons, anecdotes, and scriptural interpretations. Scottish Presbyterian minister James Hastings, who compiled The Great Texts of the Bible in the early twentieth century, provides helpful and personal observations on the Scripture texts. He presents word meanings, expositions, poetry, and quotations from many authors and thinkers, as well as a list of references. Each section is outlined into major topics and points, offering readable commentary.
The Great Texts of the Bible: Romans 9–16 is perfect for pastors and anyone else wanting expository notes on key Scripture passages. Hastings's work is encouraging, clear, and well researched. The volume contains both a topical and a scriptural table of contents for reference.
Want all 20 volumes of The Great Texts of the Bible? Get them here!
Key Features
- Expository commentary on Romans 9–16
- Readable, clear style
- List of references and literature used throughout
- Another Good Reckoning
- An Expectant Creation
- The Saving Grace of Hope
- How to Pray as We Ought
- Love's Prosperity
- The Inclusive Gift
- No Case
- An Inseparable Love
- Anathema From Christ
- The Heart and the Mouth
- The Body for God
- In Fashion or In Favor
- Business
- Outward, Inward, Christward
- For the Battle
- The Polemics of Christianity
- Debt
- Love and the Law
- Reading for the Dawning
- Eternally the Lord's
- Our Accountability
- A Definition of the Kingdom
- The Privilege of the Strong
Product Details
- Title: The Great Texts of the Bible: Romans 9–16
- Editor: James Hastings
- Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
- Publication Date: 1911
- Pages: 471
About James Hastings
James Hastings (1852–1922) was born in Scotland. A Presbyterian minister and theologian, Hastings was the editor of many biblical works, including Dictionary of the Bible, Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels, and Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics.


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JLL is marketing what will be one of New Zealand's largest inland ports, part of Tainui Group Holding's (TGH) Ruakura development in Hamilton, with 480ha of total development land encompassing logistics, industrial and commercial precincts and anchored by a 30ha inland port.<\/p>

The much talked about Ruakura development is about to become a reality. Fulton Hogan is well underway on earthworks for the first six hectares of what will be a major development for the Waikato and the upper North Island. Ruakura has also been recognised as a project of national significance by the New Zealand Government.<\/p>
Once completed, Ruakura is expected to bring economic, social, environmental and cultural benefits to the Waikato and New Zealand for many years to come. <\/p>
The 30 ha inland port and dedicated rail siding is under construction. Immediately adjacent to the south of the inland port is 60ha of logistics-zoned land, which allows for warehousing and distribution, container storage, container loading\/unloading and biosecurity\/customs. <\/p>
Just 3kms from Hamilton CBD, Ruakura is part of the Golden Triangle, which comprises of Auckland, Waikato and Bay of Plenty. The logistics hub will link into the Waikato Expressway with the East Coast Main Trunk railway dissecting the development. This will allow containers to be moved off roads and onto rail, which links to both the Auckland and Tauranga ports, effectively making it port neutral and giving cargo owners greater supply chain resiliency and choice.<\/p>
According to the Ministry of Transport, freight is carried by road, rail, air and coastal vessels around New Zealand, with road carrying more than 90% of New Zealand's freight tonnage, with 42% being moved in the Golden Triangle.<\/p>
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JLL's head of industrial, Sam Smith who is marketing the development says, "This project will be a game changer for the Waikato and potentially for Auckland and other areas of the country by offering genuine scale and efficiency for importers and exporters to move cargoes as sustainably as possible. The introduction of a rail system will allow many of the shipping containers to be transported by rail instead of adding to congestion on our roads.<\/p>
"Being part of the Golden Triangle makes this development really special as the Golden Triangle accounts for 50% of New Zealand's economic output. <\/p>
"At capacity it is expected that Ruakura will process 1 million TEU (20ft shipping containers) per year. Ports of Auckland and Tauranga combined currently process approximately 2 million TEU per year, so that's a significant advantage of the site."<\/p>
TGH has joined forces with LINX Cargo Care Group to develop and operate the new port with LINX and one of its subsidiaries C3 limited, having extensive experience in the industry. <\/p>
Anthony Jones, Group CEO for LINX Cargo Care Group and Chairman of C3 believes Ruakura will help transform the New Zealand logistics supply chain. "It will offer stable, efficient and cost effective networks for importers and exporters to grow with confidence in the future," he said. <\/p>
Tainui Group Holdings Chief Executive Chris Joblin says the consistent message from importers and exporters is that they want the freedom to choose between ports and shipping lines, and not necessarily be tied exclusively into either Auckland or Tauranga. <\/p>
"This 'port neutrality' is a key part of the Ruakura offer as we configure the rail and road connections North, South and East," Mr Joblin says.<\/p>
As well as providing a range of services Ruakura to the region's exporters and importers, Ruakura has the potential to support 6,000 -12,000 jobs within the precinct once fully-built.<\/p>
Hamilton presents an ideal location due to its global connections, proximity to international ports, Auckland International Airport, and the number of manufacturing, health, education and growing freight and logistics companies that are based there. It is also less expensive to do business when compared to Auckland, and has access to a skilled workforce with a growing youth population. The city is forecast to experience population growth of 74,600 residents (50% growth) between 2013 and 2043, which would see the city reach a total population of 224,800. <\/p>
With land in Hamilton being less expensive than Auckland and the fact that the city has a low natural hazard risk, Ruakura Port will tick a lot of boxes for potential tenants. <\/p>
The inland port site will be gated and secure with border security also in place. The lower cost of living in Hamilton is also more attractive to the workforce in a competitive employment market.<\/p>
Says Smith, "From having limited location options, all of a sudden logistics companies are being given the opportunity to reap the rewards of having top class premises in a rail and road friendly location, where they will spend less on leasing their premises and be able to attract labour due to the lower cost of living in Hamilton. In addition, they will also be located on a site where retail and green space will be readily available, something they wouldn't normally see at traditional port sites. Those who sign on early will also have the ability to locate and build their ideal operation on the site. It is for these reasons that Ruakura is expected to attract a lot of attention from prospective tenants.<\/p>
"When you combine location, scale, access and forward thinking, Ruakura will be New Zealand's leading industrial and logistics development. It is a carefully planned, multi decade development, which will create a thriving business and lifestyle hub, bringing economic, social, environmental and cultural benefits for the Waikato and the rest of the country."<\/p>
With stage 1 of Ruakura underway, the Ruakura Port is scheduled to open in the first half of 2019. <\/p>
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LISC to roll out $75 million investment fund on Oct. 19 to drive economic opportunity in Detroit neighborhoods
Detroit (October 17, 2017) — Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) will announce a bold new community investment strategy on Thursday, October 19, that includes $75 million to finance thousands of affordable homes, businesses and jobs in underserved Detroit neighborhoods.
The new Equitable Impact Investment Fund doubles LISC's traditional investing and is expected to leverage more than $225 million in total development activity over the next three years.
WHAT: Announce and explain LISC's Equitable Impact Investment Fund, detailing plans to expand grants, loans and equity investments to accelerate growth in Detroit neighborhoods.
WHEN: Thursday, October 19th 6-8pm (Program will begin at 6:40pm)
WHERE: Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, 315 E. Warren Ave.
LISC has been investing in Detroit for 27 years, including $202 million to address the needs of low-income residents and their communities. The new Equitable Impact Investment strategy builds on that foundation with an increased focus on economic development to attract new businesses to struggling areas and expand local income; outreach to nontraditional partners, especially anchor institutions, and connecting them to community planning efforts; and a clear focus on building the skills and earning power of local residents that have often been marginalized by the traditional economy.
"We are not only raising and committing more capital to our communities," said Tahirih Ziegler, executive director of Detroit LISC. "LISC is also working to make this work more efficient and effective, building stronger connections between local government anchor institutions, philanthropists, business leaders and local nonprofits. Detroit is filled with passionate, creative advocates for change and we need to better connect them to drive change."
LISC is setting ambitious benchmarks for success. By the end of 2020, its $75 million fund will support 6,000 new and preserved affordable homes, 5,000 living wage jobs for residents and 100 small businesses, and stabilize neighborhoods and support growth, most notably by shoring up the community development ecosystem of nonprofits and other partners. The fund's first $20 million has already been committed.
"Detroit has great synergies and investments from many partners working together throughout the city," says Maurice Jones, president and CEO of LISC. "We are eager to expand our long-standing efforts and support exciting local efforts, like Mayor Duggan's targeted walkable neighborhoods, commercial corridor infrastructure efforts and commitments to increasing housing opportunities across the city."
About LISC
LISC, the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, a national nonprofit organization that works to strengthen neighborhoods through affordable housing, better education, health, safety and economic growth. LISC has more than 27 years of experience working as a catalyst for community reinvestment in Detroit. It helps resident-led, community-based development organizations transform distressed neighborhoods into healthy places to live, work, worship, do business and raise families. Since 1990, Detroit LISC has invested over $202 million which has leveraged over $1.2 billion in revitalization efforts in Detroit, financing the creation of over 6,200 units of affordable housing and the development of over 2.9 million square feet of commercial, retail and community space.


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HTC Planning to Launch its Cheaper Phones for Mid-Ranged Markets
2013 has surely gone exceptionally well for a number of Smartphone manufacturing companies, as the biggest industry giants made billions out of it. While on the other hand some companies like Blackberry and HTC were not able to make anything out of it.
HTC which is known to be one of the biggest Smartphone manufacturers suffered a huge set back this year, as they not only did minimum sales, but they also had to pay a huge penalty over patent infringement to Nokia.
But the story doesn't end here, besides just paying for patent Infringement, Nokia had HTC ONE and other HTC's infringed devices banned in UK and in most of the European Countries, hence doing a great damage to HTC globally.
In order to overcome the losses of 2013, HTC is now planning to expand its scope by reaching mid-ranged larger markets where they can sell their products out much more easily and can make good profits out of it. HTC is planning to bring in their cheaper phone series, which will not only allow HTC to increase their sales, but will also help them to penetrate in the biggest mid-ranged Smartphone market (China). This HTC phone will come up with 8 cores from MediaTek. The Cheaper HTC Phone is expected to be launched in Second Quarter of 2014.
Previous experiments with offering cheaper Smart phones (iPhone 5C) has surely went terribly wrong, and the companies had to limit the production of their cheaper phones, but still a good number of tech giants are more than interested in launching their cheaper versions of their phones in order to capture mid-ranged Smartphone markets globally, as they think their strategy regarding cheaper phones will work effectively.
Blackberry might also be working on their cheaper Blackberry phones, which is to be called as Blackberry Americano, Samsung with its Galaxy Core Advanced and Motorola with its Moto Budget phone series.
The year 2013 was rightly called as the year of tech surprises, while 2014 is expected to be the year of budget phones and curved screens. These budget phones and curved screen phones are surely the experiments that can make 2014 an innovative success or an awfully drastic year of "Techs Gone Wrong", now all we have to do is to just wait and watch how the combination of budget phones and curved screens runs 2014 in tech world!


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With Game of Thrones over for an undetermined inter-season break, HBO is tasked with delivering a new sexy, addicting, costume-drama. If the pilot of The Deuce, which finds a cast of characters in 1970s New York before the explosion of the pornography industry, is any indication they may have done just that.
The Deuce, which premieres on September 10th, though HBO Go and HBO Now subscribers were treated to an advanced release, capitalizes on nostalgia just enough to make it even more effective and wrenching when it pulls the curtain back on it's obsessively-built world to reveal what exactly we're yearning for when we revise the reality 1970s Time Square.
But nostalgia–or whatever nostalgia becomes when one renders an unrecoverable past to critique it rather than relish in it–isn't the driving force of the show. Its equally as much the way the present crashes into the past that makes The Deuce even more delectable. George Pelecanos latest project may render a Times Square in which bright bulbs have yet to be replaced by digital screens and marquis lining the theater district, in which Guiliani era reforms have yet to convert the city from the mecca of sleaze to the heart of modern-day capitalism, but there are intervening disruptions that connect The Deuce inexorably to our present.
It's in the details that serve to show just how little, rather than how much, New York City has changed. Not only does Frankie (James Franco) ascend the same subway steps familiar to a New Yorker of the new millennium: when pimps Chris (Lawrence Gilliard, Jr.) and Larry (Gbenga Akinnagbe) troll the Port Authority looking for new prostitutes to turn out, they tell a soon-to-be recruit, Lori (Emily Meade) that "everybody here came from somewhere else," echoing a transplant-culture that continues to define the five boroughs.
The Deuce's relevance isn't relegated to winks to Big Apple dwellers, either. Without belaboring the connection between present-day media and present-day political dynamics, an NYU student, Abby (Margarita Levieva) asks Frankie, who runs a Times Square bar, if he think his waitresses like being objectified (his waitresses, just earlier in the evening, underwent a uniform change that now sees them in black tights and leotards). She then has to explain what objectification means, and while it's historically accurate that a university student in the seventies might be preoccupied with issues of objectification, her call for a world in which women are less sexualized has scarcely departed from discourse in the four decades since.
Abby's query about the waitresses being objectified falls on deaf ears. We know, from promotional materials, that all the pimps, prostitutes, barmen, cops, and students in the show are about to become embroiled in the burgeoning American porn industry, but Abby, the ambitious if not a little naive co-ed has no idea what's about to go down in the metropolis.
It's perhaps the subjugation of women, upon which Abby briefly attempts to intervene, that The Deuce is perhaps best at elucidating. The show is driven substantially by the life and times of a network of prostitutes. Many of them work for pimps Chris and Larry, but one of them, Candy (Maggie Gyllenhaal), works for herself, proudly declaring that no one will "make money from my pussy but me."
Candy has to work a little harder and be a little more careful on the streets by herself, she says, but Candy's empowerment and independence doesn't merely seem rare in the context of prostitution: it calls attention to the probability that few women in the straight world, too, are working for themselves without some man in authority, somewhere, skimming from the top of the fruits of a woman's labor.
The pimped out girls, like Lori, Darlene (Dominique Fishback) and Barbara (Kayla Foster), meanwhile, are getting abused both by their clients and the men that hustle them. Barbara's position as the bottom bitch is threatened when Lori comes to town, causing her to double down on her attempts to seduce her pimp, Larry. When she tells Larry she doesn't want to work in the rain, preferring instead to spend some alone time with him. Larry complies, but mutilates her while she screams in pain, announcing he doesn't care if she's tired, wet, or cold: she's there to make Larry money.
What is confounding about Barbara is that she appears genuinely and desperately in love with her pimp, despite the fact that he's sleeping with throngs of other women and abusing her. We learn that Barbara is fleeing a small town where she was likely treated worse by an overbearing and perhaps conservative family. It's here that The Deuce highlights that prostitution isn't so unlike any other economic arrangement available to women in the 1970s. Like a husband in the early 70s, a pimp may provide material comforts, security, and refuge from even-worse families; and, like a husband in the early 70s, they may additionally leverage abuse and control without consequences. For a woman on the streets same as in the straight world, one's body and sexuality must be exchanged for money to survive.
Pelecanos The Wire similarly grappled with power and subjugation in structures that seem indistinguishable from one another regardless of if we're discussing the straight world or the world of crime. The Deuce may be set in 70s New York, but above all, it shows the timelessness and lack of site-specificity of money, power, dominance, and subjugation is the real setting.


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Nothing can ever compare to the sorrow of losing a loved one, and there's no way that anyone or anything can take away the grief that it brings to the family. But that doesn't mean you should just let them wallow in their despair.
Didericksen Memorial explains that grieving families need all the support they need. So, as a friend of a grieving family, you can support them through this difficult time in these simple ways.
1. Be available by being there
Sometimes the situation is too difficult for the family to speak to anyone. During those times, let them be. But be sure you'll be there when they're ready to be around people again. That's an excellent opportunity for you to help out.
2. Cook for them or bring them food
In times of grief, food may be the last thing on their mind. Be there to prepare their meals or to remind them that they need to eat. Preparing meals may be a big task for someone in grief and being the cook for the family will help them significantly.
3. Keep up with housekeeping
People may come and go to say their condolences. Making sure the house is kept clean or that dishes are washed is a good way to lessen the things that they need to worry about.
4. Help with the necessities
Does the family have a pet that needs care? Are there supplies that they need to replenish? Be that person who takes the initiative to help them with these essentials.
5. When everyone's left, stay involved
For the wife left at home or the brother who needs to go back to work, the time when they're left alone is the most difficult. Stay in touch with a simple text message or phone call.
All these you can summarize in two words: doing something. Whether it's carrying flowers or helping serve guests, taking action will show them that you care and that there's someone they can count on in their time of need.


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Making the decision to go on a cruise is an extremely exciting moment. You can start planning what to take with you, what excursions you'd like to go on and what tasty dishes you can't wait to try in all of the incredible destinations you'll visit.
However, before any of that, you may have a few questions about making your booking. This can include anything from making an initial enquiry to adding extras like excursions and transfers to your package.
To help you choose and book a cruise which is right for you, here's some of our most frequently asked questions from customers who have recently booked a cruise with us.
There's a spectacular amount of choice when it comes to cruise holidays, and as well as selecting the right itinerary you also need to make sure you choose a cruise line which will offer the experience you're seeking. Cunard for example is more refined and suited to mature passengers looking for enrichment and a more traditional cruise experience whilst Carnival cruise line is all about fun and has a more relaxed and casual ambience. To start with, we'd recommend taking a look at the Penelope Cruise reviews on each of the cruise lines we work with to get a better idea of what they can offer you.
From there you can use our Advanced Search to filter your holiday search by date, duration, cruise line and even by ship. However, if you're interested in our Smart Packages which include flights and free hotel stays then try our Smart Packages page and filter your search by cruise line.
If you're still feeling unsure, then you can always call us and speak to one of our Cruise Consultants. We take the time to listen to what exactly it is you are hoping to gain from a cruise and use our dedicated expertise to secure a deal that best matches your requirements. So whether you are travelling solo or with a partner, friend or the whole family, there is a cruise line that can cater for all.
This will largely depend on which deal you have opted for, but generally speaking your cruise will include onboard accommodation, food, activities and entertainment. If you opt for one of our Smart Packages, these include flights and more often than not – free hotel stays too.
Items that you can expect to pay extra for are beverages, spa treatments, speciality laundry services and shore excursions.
This varies depending on when you book your cruise, the cruise line you've chosen and where your selected itinerary is. If you are booking a cruise within 12 weeks of the departure date you may be required to pay the full amount.
You will receive your travel documents no later than 21 days before your departure date. If your booking takes place within the 21 days, you will be sent documentation immediately. They can be sent via email if you prefer the electronic method, or via post at an extra charge.
If you're unsure about the travel documents you'll need for your cruise. Visit our dedicated cruise documents page.
Shore excursions and how to get the most out of them
So, you've made the first step to booking a cruise but you want to have a look at some of the excursions that may interest you. Below are a few key things to keep in mind when selecting the best trips to suit you:
For more information about shore excursions, take a look at our frequently asked questions page about the subject.
If you're new to cruising and have a question that we haven't been able to answer here, then why not ask us on Facebook or Twitter for a quick response.


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I have cabins on the mind this week, sorry. I have almost convinced my Mom (I still have a long ways to go with my Dad) to get new bedding for our cabin. I love the way Stephmodo decorated the rooms of her France house, I want to use this picture in my cabin inspiration book.
My family wants to rebuild our cabin eventually so from time to time I like to imagine the different things we could do. One thing we must do is to have a big window wall like this one. Amazing.
The other thing I would like to do is to have one room with bunk beds everywhere for all my nieces and nephew(s). Add guard rails to these bunks and you have perfection.
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Salthill Quarry Trail: GR [75504265]
© Craven & Pendle Geological Society
Salthill Quarry is an internationally important site for the study of Waulsortian Mud Mounds and Crinoids. In addition there are rare limestone flora to be noted on your way round so come prepared! Visitors to the Quarry should observe the "Code of Geological Fieldwork". A good reference for the visitor is the Salthill Quarry Geology Trail GA Guide N0.58 (1997) by A.Bowden, M.Webster and T.Mitchum
Paul Kabrna pointing out a compound coral Michelina cf megastoma
Photo: © John Singleton (Loc. 1., Salthill Quarry, 22 May 2010)


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Real Reviews of VCM2 clone SP177C SP177C1
Credits to all contributors/customers share good experience at http://mhhauto.com/Thread-VCM2-Ford-Diagnostic-Clone-Model-SP177C-SP177C1-Where-to-buy
Does anyone own a SP177-C or SP177-C1 VCM2 clone? I read online that those are the best.
Where should I buy it?
I asked a few sellers on AliExpress about that version and they seem to not know about it.
I found it on obdexpress site. Did anyone buy from them? Are they serious?
I'd really appreciate if someone bought a good clone to let me know where should I buy from.
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My sp177c1 failed an 08 escape PCM the other day.
That's the only problem i had so far
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- JanAnswered on January 30, 2017 at 04:55 PM
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to replicate the issue. I was able to drag and drop the forms in to the folders. I tested this in both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. I am currently using Windows 7.
I also tested this issue in Windows 10 Laptop using MS Edge, Chrome and Firefox. Are you using a laptop? Is it a PC or a MAC? Also, if you are using the touchpad, try using an external mouse just to check if it will work or not.
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BAKE pie shell according to package directions. Set aside.
MELT chocolate in a heavy saucepan over low heat or in a double boiler. Combine sugar and gelatin, stir into chocolate. Gradually add boiling water. Heat, stirring constantly until gelatin and sugar are completely dissolved.
BEAT egg yolks and add a small amount of the hot chocolate mixture. Gradually add eggs into the remaining chocolate mixture. Cook on low heat, stirring constantly for one minute longer. Remove from heat and stir in orange zest. Place a piece of plastic wrap directly on the surface and chill until mixture begins to thicken.
BEAT egg whites until stiff peaks form. Fold into the chocolate mixture along with whipped topping. Fill baked pie shell with chocolate mixture and chill for 4-5 hours. Garnish with dollops of whipped topping and dust with cocoa powder before serving.
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It's that time of the year again when we have to (reluctantly) trade in our breezy beach clothes for proper work attire and spend our afternoons sitting behind a desk instead of laying out on the sand. Summer has officially come to an end and no one's happy about it!
If you're already missing summer, Pinkberry has a new item on the menu that'll bring back all the good vibes from the sunny season! It's cold, creamy, and comes with all sorts of toppings, but it's not froyo if that's what you're thinking!
Pinkbee's: Pinkberry's own version of soft-serve ice cream
Pinkberry, created in California in 2005, came to the Philippines in 2011. Ever since they opened their first branch here, they've been well-loved for their delicious froyo, made with non-fat yogurt that's loaded with live and active cultures and real non-fat milk. Customers also love them for their fresh, hand-cut fruits and other other premium froyo toppings.
While Pinkberry may be known for their froyo, they have something new and different on the menu that's worth trying out. Pinkbee's, Pinkberry's take on soft-serve ice cream, is now available in all of their branches in Metro Manila!
It's indulgently creamy but you can eat it sans the guilt because it's light milk ice cream that's low in fat and rich in calcium and vitamins. This cold, tasty treat, served with honey and a Pepero stick, is just the thing to order up if you want to relive the summer!
Aside from the original Pinkbee's variant, there are six more kinds to choose from, each one served with different toppings.
If you love the rich, sweet flavor of honey, the Honey Honey is perfect for you, an order of which will give you Pinkbee's with honey and honeycomb (it's actually their first time to have honeycomb in their topping selection!)
Or you could go for the Honey Mochi if you want soft and sticky bits to go with your ice cream and honey.
For those who want their soft-serve ice cream to come with refreshing fruits, there are a couple of options for you too! Try the Tropical Mango, Pinkbee's with mango and honey, or the Berry Heaven, Pinkbee's with strawberry, blueberry, and your choice of either pomegranate or strawberry puree.
But if it's your cheat day and you want your sugar to come from sources other than honey and fruits, you won't be disappointed with the Choco Pearl, Pinkbee's topped off with dark crisp pearls and chocolate sauce. Another satisfying option is the Crazy Nuts, Pinkbee's capped off with caramel and toasted almonds!
Order ice cream and froyo to get yourself a free Pinkberry Notebook
With Pinkberry's 12 Days of Summer Promo, you can get a free limited edition Pinkberry Notebook! All you have to do is order at Pinkberry and collect twelve stamps–six stamps for Pinkbee's and another six stamps for Pinkberry yogurt products. Every single receipt has to be worth at least ₱300.
Catch the 12 Days of Summer Promo before it ends on August 28, 2017! For more promo details, just ask any Pinkberry goodness guide.
For more information on Pinkberry, you can check out their Facebook and Instagram pages.
Pinkberry can be found at these locations.
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Maker's Mic is a music makers podcast hosted by Mike Luckett and presented by LR Baggs. In each episode, we will explore the world of music by interviewing the people who bring it to life. Musicians, studio engineers, and more will offer up their stories and insights, as we take you backstage, into the studio, and behind the curtain for a glimpse into the life of a music maker.
EPISODE 15: Robert Earl Keen
Our guest this episode is the legendary Texas Troubadour, Robert Earl Keen. It's impossible to sum up such a long-standing career. Robert has released close to twenty albums in his three decades as a singer and songwriter. He's toured with Lyle Lovett, Guy Clark, and Townes Van Zandt. His songs have been covered by George Strait, Joe Ely, and The Dixie Chicks to name a few. With a career like that, you know he has some great stories to tell. We're also proud to announce that he premiered two new songs for us in our Handcrafted Video Sessions! Be sure to check out the videos for "The Unknown Fighter" and "Silver Spurs and Gold Tequila" as well as his cover of John Prine's "Hello In There" by clicking here.


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Configurable, Expandable, Customizable
Harris' Geospatial Internet Protocol (GIP) multiviewer
Large video walls are evolving into multiviewers that display the interaction of variously tasked sources and systems, managed by a handful of people working towards a common goal. Traditionally used in video production facilities to display live production or post production projects, they're increasingly being used in government, education and corporate applications.
by Robin Berger
And multiviewers' usefulness is enhanced by features that facilitate production of unique views on their respective mandates. For example, noted Hiro Tanoue, president of FOR-A Corp. of America, its multiviewers' display layout editor enables users to create customized "source display sizes, tally information and audio level monitoring."
Other multiviewers include this feature as well as geospatial data links, stereoscopic options and accommodation of compressed HD signals.
At the 2010 NAB Show, Harris Broadcast demonstrated its new Geospatial Internet Protocol multiviewer. "It's a product that lets users link video content with geospatial data," Harris CEO Howard Lance said in his keynote address at the NAB 2010 Military/Government Summit. "Users can see not only the action, but the actual geographic location and characteristics of that location, including where the video feeds are coming from."
This, Lance said, would be particularly useful to military personnel sending or receiving video and location-linked data to and from command centers and battlefield lines. In addition to being able to grab geospatial information (like the source of video) using GPS points, it can store hundreds of stills, provides close captioning and RSS feed (read only) options, and has a library of display layouts.
The technology is also a useful surveillance tool for nonmilitary government clients, said product manager Michael Garrido. Although the product has been optimized for FAME (Full-motion Video Asset Management Engine) platform, he said it can work separately from it, and is compatible with MPEG-4, MPEG-2, JPEG2000 and H.264 formats.
Miranda Kaleido-X at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command TV studio control room "We grabbed the core code for the [Centrio] product and changed it so it would accept decoded IP signals instead of baseband—now it looks at IP code," he said. A "rules designer" creates the actions; its virtual network connection enables it to control other devices.
At press time, Garrido said that Harris would be demonstrating the technology to special clients in coming months. He expected a formal release in August.
According to Miranda Regional Sales Manager Gwenn Tune, three of that company's new multiviewer products drew the most interest from government sector clients at the NAB Show: the lowercost, 8-input Kaleido KMV; the Kaleido standalone video-to-HDMI converter; and Kaleido's cuttingedge 3D processing capabilities.
"Kaleido's 3D signal display options allow production crews and control rooms to see both the final stereoscopic 3D signal as well as the dual link input for full confidence monitoring," said Tune. "In addition, the Densite 3DX-3901 provides the essential stereoscopic 3D signal processing with conversion to multiple 3D formats, including dual-link 1.5 Gbps, dual-link 3Gbps, single-link 3Gbps, and single-link 1.5 Gbps with side-by-side encoding." She said training and surveillance applications would be the most obvious draw for 3D from government clients.
The stereoscopic and compressed HD video signal options were beyond the scope of one current client, the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command TV studio, which installed its Kaleido-X two years ago.
"We're not capturing a lot from the outside world—we're pretty much self-contained," said Audio Visual Systems Engineer Kevin Crouch, who set up and runs the SDI baseband video sourced (HD-SD) system, which he finds robust and reliable. "Our primary focus is just trying to emulate CNN and FOX News."
Engineer Dave Sless with the Evertz MVP at the FDA control room The studio webcasts a mock-news ingest into the war games and emergency response scenarios for high-level (two-star generals') command staffs, said Crouch, applications that could reach hundreds of select users.
Crouch upgraded the initial purchase with an embedded audio option. The biggest technology plus for him is the flexibility of the video wall pre-sets for layout—a big improvement over individual monitors.
"We have multiple producers," said Crouch. "They like to see different content in different places on the screen. This is highly reconfigurable."
Introduced five years ago, Evertz' MVP system is modular so users can upgrade to new technologies simply by adding cards to the chassis. This year Evertz introduced a new IP decoder/monitor module for ASI or IP input, enabling it to accommodate analog, HD or compressed signals (H.264, MPEG-2, MPEG-4) as well as baseband video.
"MVP is attractive to [any] government entity that requires multi-format video displays," said Director of Sales Orest Holyk. "It's all decoded to a single platform."
One MVP user transitioning to HD is the Food and Drug Administration's Division of Communication Media. The group provides training video for personnel and industries seeking to bring their products to market, as well as news appropriate programming for television (such as details of the 2009 peanut butter recall). At press time, MVP was used in the control room to monitor live broadcasts and audio; once the system is upgraded to HD it will also be used in the tape room.
"There's so much capability in that system," said the division's director, Chad Heupel. He estimated that his group tapped maybe 20 percent of the potential so far.
Like Kaleido-user Crouch of the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, Heupel was most impressed by his multiviewer's preset layouts. Quick and easy access to preset layouts through MVP's desktop control panel ensured instant back up should a monitor fail, he said. He also praised MVP's audio monitoring and captioning display.
Unlike Crouch, Heupel saw the potential of a demonstrable stereoscopic option. For example, a 3D rendition could better demonstrate the DNA mapping of a particular virus as it relates to a vaccine submitted to the FDA for evaluation, he said.
Crouch has also set up systems for viewing multiple source displays in Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command meeting rooms.
"We have done four Vista Systems' Spyder installations for large conference room multi-windowing (model 365XO) and six Extron Electronics MGP464DIs for smaller rooms," he said.
Both technologies, he said, "do the job nicely."


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PM not keen on Bali bomb site proposal
People should not be allowed to "trample on the memories" of those who died in the Bali nightclub bombing, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says.
Fairfax has reported there are plans for a new nightclub and restaurant complex on the site of the Sari Club, where 202 people, including 88 Australians, were killed in 2002.
The owner of the still vacant block in the Kuta tourist district is determined to push ahead with the development as Australian plans for a park and memorial at the site flounder due to a lack of cash, Fairfax reports.
Mr Rudd called for the site to be maintained in a respectful way.
"I believe that when it comes to the future of that site, we shouldn't have anything which allows people to trample on the memories of those who tragically lost their lives in Bali," he told reporters in Lismore in NSW.
The Bali Peace Park Foundation, which wants to build the memorial, has asked the federal government for tax-free charitable status to help it raise funds.
Mr Rudd said Treasurer Wayne Swan would receive advice from Treasury in the next week or so as to whether this could happen.
West Australian Premier Colin Barnett wants state and federal governments to help fund the memorial park, and has offered to chip in.
"I think there should be some permanent memorial, a park is a good concept," Mr Barnett told reporters.
"That is something that is primarily for the federal government, but the states, including Western Australia, should be supportive of that."


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Comprehensive Cosmic |Catalogue 1966
To the left is the most comprehensive catalogue of equipment manufactured or offered by Cosmic that I have ever seen, it really was a comprehensive selection of items in the mid 1960's.
Cosmic Steering Wheels.
Advertising flier for their range of steering wheels.
Cosmic Road Wheels (1972).
The complete Cosmic road wheel catalogue from 1972.
Click the image to download a PDF.
Thanks to Jan Wulf for scanning the file and sending me it.
Visit Jan's excellent MINI WHEEL REFERENCE SITE.


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|Many times we have heard the translation as if from an easy task, for people who know both languages, they were: "Solo is passing words from a language to another" or "you can do it anyone who knows languages", but not have ever stopped anyone to think what's behind a good translation services in Dallas TX or, in other words that text that gets the same effect in the culture of the game than at the arrival? Here is the word "culture". The Act of translating, is not only a simple change of words from one language to another, but that is an act so linguistically and culturally; for this reason, the translator must be a professional who understands both languages very well and their respective cultures. Is true that, as time goes on, we are more familiar with other languages and cultures, therefore translators, currently, they tend to opt for the transfer technique, i.e. trying to translate the cultural characteristics of the source language as little as possible to make them known to the reader; Although this does not mean, for nothing to diminish the importance of culture in translation, but quite the opposite. If we compare two series translated, at different times, to the Spanish as Punky Brewster (28 years ago) and rules of engagement (current) can find some differences in the way of translating. On Punky Brewster, the translator is guided more by the technique of familiarity, is approaching the game culture of arrival; on the other hand, in rules of engagement we see more features of the transfer technique. An example of this evolution in the way of translating can be found in peanut butter, a few years ago this product in Spain, was not known, so the translators chose to translate it for butter or lard; Today, but, due to globalization, we can find this product in any supermarket, so it is not necessary to find an equivalent in Spanish, but it can be translated literally. Another example clear that culture determines the translations can be found in the translation of the Bible. As explained the translation theorist Eugene Nida, the expression "Lamb of God" not could be translated literally in the Eskimo culture, since their culture or it exists or the symbolism of this animal is known, that was translated by its equivalent cultural "seal of God". And finally, yesterday, watching TV, saw the translation of a cocktail, in English it was a "sex on the beach" and in Spanish was translated as "a cocktail of vodka", not could have maintained its original name?, or is that its consumption is not yet common enough among Spaniards? If we follow poking around in good translations could find thousands of examples of evolution and the importance of culture in translation, since there are many languages with their respective cultures in the world and, as we have said before, each one different from the other.
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Rwanda, Côte d'Ivoire, Burundi Lead Sub-Saharan Africa in Improving Business Regulation
Posted by Business in Ghana on October 29, 2013
Washington, D.C., October 29, 2013_A new World Bank Group report finds that Sub-Saharan Africa continues to record a large number of reforms aimed at easing the regulatory burden on local entrepreneurs, with 66 reforms adopted in the past year. Rwanda, Côte d_Ivoire, and Burundi were among the 10 economies globally improving business regulation the most.
Released today, Doing Business 2014: Understanding Regulations for Small and Medium-Size Enterprises finds that of the 20 economies improving business regulation the most since 2009, 9 are in Sub-Saharan Africa: Burundi, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, Rwanda, Togo, Benin, Liberia, Côte d_Ivoire, and Guinea.
The report_s data show that, of 47 economies in the region, 31 implemented at least one business regulatory reform in 2012/13. Rwanda implemented the most in the region, with reforms in 8 of the 10 areas tracked by Doing Business. Three African economies made the biggest progress globally in an area measured by the report: Burundi in the ease of registering property, Benin in the ease of trading across borders, and Côte d_Ivoire in the ease of enforcing contracts.
It is encouraging to see so many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa engaged in reforms aimed at reducing burdensome regulations and building up stronger legal institutions. In 2012/13, more than twice as many economies in the region reformed as in 2005, said Augusto Lopez-Claros, Director, Global Indicators and Analysis, World Bank Group. _Despite these achievements, more can be done to improve the quality of the rules underpinning the activities of the private sector, to ensure continued convergence toward the better practices seen elsewhere in the world.
Ghana made starting a business more difficult by requiring entrepreneurs to obtain a tax identification number prior to company incorporation. It was ranked 67 on the ease of doing business rank. For the first time, Doing Business this year measures business regulations in South Sudan, which gained independence in 2011. Despite the challenges of creating laws and regulations from scratch, South Sudan has already passed a company law, tax law, and insolvency law. Singapore tops the global ranking on the ease of doing business. Joining it on the list of the top 10 economies with the most business-friendly regulations are Hong Kong SAR, China; New Zealand; the United States; Denmark; Malaysia; the Republic of Korea; Georgia; Norway; and the United Kingdom.
In addition to the global rankings, every year Doing Business reports the economies that have improved the most on the indicators since the previous year. The 10 economies topping that list this year are (in order of improvement) Ukraine, Rwanda, the Russian Federation, the Philippines, Kosovo, Djibouti, Côte d_Ivoire, Burundi, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and Guatemala. Yet challenges persist: five of this year_s top improvers_Burundi, Côte d_Ivoire, Djibouti, the Philippines, and Ukraine_are still in the bottom half of the global ranking on the ease of doing business.


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The Brokk 250, first developed in the mid-1970s, remains a powerful combination of reliable technology and continuous development which has underpinned the Brokks reputation worldwide.
Unlike other members of the Brokk family, the 250 rides on rubber wheels, (although it can also utilise tracks as required). This makes it especially suitable for tasks where the state of the foundation requires extra consideration.
Thanks to the three-part robot arm, the Brokk has an extraordinary working radius. The machine also has a low centre of gravity and strong support legs that keep it steady, even when the arm is fully extended.
The Brokk 250 utilises a range of attachments, such as hydraulic hammers, concrete crushers, drilling equipment, different types of buckets, etc.
The Brokk 250 is ideal for demolition projects within the construction, cement, nuclear and processing industries making it a one size fits all solution for remote demolition tasks
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I'm Jess, iced-coffee-obsessed, saved-by-grace, allergic to small talk, and one of the biggest dreamers you'll ever meet.
basically, I'm your most awkwardly dramatic friend, and LITERALLY your biggest fan.
The Backstory
God writes our stories long before we're ready to read them. The story of Jess, XO goes further back than I can even track!
I used to be a social chameleon. I changed who I was based on who I was around. I never felt like I fit anywhere, so I tried to fit in all the places.
(Side note: I was GOOD. It's one of my talents. I'm a people-reader, people-pleaser and can effortlessly conform to situations. It's taken a while to use this power to SHINE instead of shrink.)
You see the problem. By fitting everywhere, I fit nowhere. I lost myself in the process. I didn't know who I was when it wasn't influenced or dictated by someone else.
Finally, I decided to INTENTIONALLY figure out who I was, what I loved, and what that meant for my journey.
The search involved processing through words (I started blogging), lots of coffee (and meeting sweet new friends for coffee dates), stepping into my strengths instead of trying to cultivate the strengths everyone else had, and of course a whole lot of Jesus.
Core Values
I'm the copywriter who gets you.
I want to shine a light on the magic in you that's been there all along. This business is my love letter + pep talk (hence the name) to all the dreamers who talk themselves out of the next step, the creatives who feel all over the place, full of unimaginable ideas, but lack the focus or know-how to put that into words.
// I GET that you have passion that can only be measured in buckets.
// I GET that you take on too much and dream too big.
// I GET that your heart is bursting, but your brain doesn't have the time or space to translate that passion into a message you can share with the masses.
It's my job to:
1. Shine a light on your greatness, and pinpoint what makes you EXACTLY YOU
2. Write copy that will ignite your business in the direction of YOUR DREAM--not everyone else's
3. Develop a plan of action to hone Your Bestie Effect, shouting that YOU-ness from the rooftops--or whispering it intensely--, consistently connecting with your people long after we work together
Who even is she?
//I taught high school English, so I'm a pro at breaking down concepts and coming up with STEPS for you to communicate YOUR STORY in the best way possible
//I'm an information-collector: podcasts, books, blogs, email lists--I listen to + read all of them; they're locked and loaded in my brain to share with you when you need it
//I'm real, and sometimes spicy when it comes to challenging you to get out of your brain box; here's the thing: what got you here won't get you there! You have to change, grow, and be willing to try some things that make you feel like you're sticking your arm in a wet pant leg. Get uncomfortable. It'll be worth it.
"Find out who you are and do it on purpose."
-Dolly Parton


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Dishes like this herbed chicken and hot-pepper sandwich are perfect for tailgating or a picnic because they're easy to eat — no need for utensils.
This flavorful, herb-flecked potato salad doesn't use any mayo, so everyone (vegetarians, vegans, and meat-eaters alike) can enjoy it.
A cooling ranch dressing adds the creamy element, while cavatappi — a spiral-shaped pasta — adds the curl in our summer salad.
Related: Creamy, Curly Macaroni Salad
Chopped celery, red bell pepper, and sweet and dill pickles add a colorful, flavorful touch to this classic summer salad.
Recipe: Summertime Potato Salad
Drop the oversized container of deli coleslaw and go for this fresh, lemon-zesty apple and celery root variation. If you can, make a day ahead as this slaw improves as it marinates in the dressing.
Recipe: Celery Root and Apple Slaw
Related: Tasty and Creative Coleslaw Recipes
You could spend all Saturday making this classic dessert — or try this recipe, which takes a mere 15 minutes to prep by simply folding cherry pie filling into refrigerated pie crust and brushing with egg white and sugar.
Recipe: Cherry Turnovers
This classic blueberry pie is perfect for a summer shower or family gathering. Buy the graham-cracker crust at the grocery store, but take a trip to your local farmers' market for sweet, juicy blueberries.
Recipe: Blueberry Cream Pie


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This series of candlesticks is hand-turned from mahogany with a 1/4" strip of maple sandwiched in the middle. The curve of each candlestick is created from data previously taken measuring my heart rate each hour over twelve hours of the day.
The series of seven represents one week. The viewer can experience the ebb
and flow of hear beats over time through the undulations of the wood. The passage
of time is also mirrored in the melting away of the candles as they burn.


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Ahhhh..... Spring!!!!!
With help from pollinating insects like this one we just might have our first successful fruiting on this young apple tree. I'll keep my fingers crossed ;0)
Pollination - Backyard Nature Photograph by Carolyn Hietala
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I have to confess, I have a thing about leftovers, and food going to waste.
This attitude is a product of what I like to refer to as an Orthodox Northern English Working Class upbringing.
Wastage of precious food was simply not an option in our household, and would not have been tolerated.
My parents grew up during the Great Depression, and witnessed first-hand real, grinding, poverty, of the kids-going-hungry-to-school-with-no-shoes-on-in-January kind, not some variant 21st. Century faux-poverté, defined as not being able to afford the latest X-Box accessory, or a new flat-screen TV.
They were lucky, both my grandfathers worked, so they themselves were never stalked by the spectre of hunger, but what they saw during those times shaped their future attitudes, and in turn, mine.
Which brings us to this delightful little lunch I cobbled together just the other day.
Mid-day was approaching, my supplies of fruit were running perilously low, and my belly was making it known quite clearly that it expected a cargo of fuel to be deposited in the engine room, and soon.
Luckily for me the fridge contained not only a cup or so's worth of sauce leftover from the previous day's Country Captain curry, but also a good couple of handfuls of mushrooms.
The mushrooms were and still are a bit of a mystery, as for the life of me I cannot fathom out who actually bought them or what indeed they were bought for!
They were still looking good to go, however, so after a quick wipe and a trim they were thrown into a frying pan with the leftover sauce and a little extra water, stirred well, and simmered until tender.
I ate the resulting curry with some roasted sweet potato wedges.
Some pennies saved, and a little precious fridge-shelf real estate reclaimed. Result.


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Gov scales back minimum markup law
Gov. Jim Doyle issued an order to the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection today to not enforce the minimum markup law on gasoline containing ethanol. The move ensures that those of us in Wisconsin that use blends containing ethanol, or those filling up with E85 gas will save at least a few cents when we fill up.
The minimum markup law has been around since the 1930s, and requires wholesalers and gas station owners to each charge 3% more than they paid for their gasoline.