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There are a few techniques that may help resolve this issue.
A. Upgrade your version of Internet Explorer
SketchUp connects to several Google APIs. At this time, Google web APIs support Internet Explorer 10 or higher. You can download the Internet Explorer 10 install file by visiting this page.
B. Clear Cache and Cookies in Internet Explorer
To connect to the Internet, SketchUp uses Internet Explorer even if you have a different default browser. Clearing the cache and cookies can often help resolve many Internet-related problems. To clear the cache and cookies in Internet Explorer, try the steps on this page.
C. Adjust the Microsoft Internet Explorer security settings
Custom or higher settings in Microsoft Internet Explorer can restrict access to functionality within SketchUp. As a troubleshooting step, open the Internet Settings dialog within Internet Explorer, navigate to the Security tab and change the slider to "Medium" to reduce the restrictions within Internet Explorer. In this same tab be sure to uncheck "Enable Protected Mode" which will restrict all internet activity.
D. Check your Internet settings
To check if the computer is connected to the Internet, SketchUp tries to contact www.google.com/ncr. If your network has a Proxy in place that tries to go to another location when contacting www.google.com, SketchUp may think that the computer isn't connected to the Internet. Similarly, if there are any Firewalls in place that are preventing SketchUp from contacting the Internet, that could be the source of the issue as well. We recommend that you contact your local IT administrator and share this information with that person. They should be able to investigate further to identify the source of the problem.
To address this issue, please open Internet Explorer and go to http://www.google.com/ncr. Once the page loads, now go to http://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/. Once the 3D Warehouse loads, close IE and open SketchUp. Now try to connect to the 3D Warehouse again from File > 3D Warehouse > Get Models.... You can do this same procedure for the Extension Warehouse or the Add Location features.
Alternatively, if you would like to change the URL that SketchUp uses to test connectivity, please ask your IT department to make the following change to your computer:
- Open a Windows Explorer window.
- Go to
C:\Program Files (x86)\SketchUp\SketchUp 2015\Resourcesfor 32-Bit or
C:\Program Files\SketchUp\SketchUp 2015\Resourcesfor 64-bit.
- Go to
C:\Program Files (x86)\SketchUp\SketchUp 2016\Resourcesfor 32-Bit or
C:\Program Files\SketchUp\SketchUp 2016\Resourcesfor 64-bit.
- Go to
C:\Program Files\SketchUp\SketchUp 2017\Resources.
- Go to
C:\Program Files\SketchUp\SketchUp 2018\Resources.
- Go to
C:\Program Files\SketchUp\SketchUp 2019\Resources.
- Open the
i18n.datfile with a text editor, preferably Notepad++
- Locate the line which looks like this:
- Change the value to a URL that you can reliably contact without any kind of redirect or Proxy interference. This could even be your company's Intranet site. For example…
E. Clear DNS cache
Sometimes, the Windows operating system stores information about Internet activity. Clearing the Windows cache, can help resolve this issue:
F. Ensure the proper ports and domains aren't blocked
SketchUp requires uninterrupted access to the internet for features such as the 3D Warehouse, Add Location and Extension Warehouse. To ensure connectivity you may need to adjust settings in your Firewall, Proxy or Internet Security software for your network or computer.
SketchUp needs access on the following ports:
80, 8080, 443.
For network licenses SketchUp also needs ports
5053 and 50530
SketchUp needs permission to visit all of the sub-domains for SketchUp.com, easily included as:


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006. Creating a Competitive Distinction
Instructor: Tim Underhill
Sunday, March 10, 2019
8:00 am – 4:30 pm
Full Description:
In today's market, strategic customers want more than just the lowest price. They want a supplier (distributor or manufacturer) that can help them reduce their total operating cost, improve efficiency and achieve a competitive advantage with their customers. Suppliers that can provide solutions and sell them effectively can enjoy a distinction that creates a competitive advantage, and allows both manufacturers and distributors to charge a premium for their products and services.
This workshop focuses on:
- What initiatives your strategic customers are pursuing and why
- What distributors and manufacturers are doing to align with these strategic accounts
- Identifying the solutions you provide that can help you align yourself with your customer
- How you can better sell your solutions and become the supplier of choice
- Solution Selling focuses on how your solutions impact the customer's Total Cost, Objectives, Risk and Performance
- How to identify who you should be selling to (who really cares about what you have to offer)
- How to approach the people who care about the solutions you have to offer
NOTE: This class does not focus on measuring Total Cost Savings. However, the Proving Total Cost Savings class the following day focuses solely on the measurement aspect of the value you add.
Creating a competitive distinction through the solutions you provide can help you to build relationships with key accounts and improve your overall profitability by setting you apart as the supplier of choice.
Who Should Attend:
This course focuses on winning, retaining and penetrating key or strategic accounts. Attendees should be outside salespeople, marketing or sales managers with a need to become the supplier of choice for strategic accounts.
1. Identification of the solutions you provide and how to sell these to strategic accounts
2. Tools to identify how your solutions impact your accounts and who to sell to (often different
than who you sell to today)
3. Process and tools for how to start solution selling
Overall Rating: 4.6/5
"Well laid out course. Covered information thoroughly and managed the course time well" – Territory Sales Manager
"Great examples and explanations of real world applications" – Marketing Team Leader
"Content was directly related to strategic planning at our company. I feel I will have framework to implement." Account Manager
"Instructor was very knowledgeable about the topic covered. This will be beneficial for me in the future." – Sales/Sales Management Trainee
"Very easy to follow the direction of the instructor. We covered many helpful topics without ever losing focus or getting off track." – Branch Manager
At the end of each session we asked the attendees to review and rate each course. These reviews are anonymous so we can only provide their job titles. Ratings are based upon the benefit of the course, quality of the course, instructor expertise, ability to communicate and quality of visual aids and are rated on a scale of 1-5.
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Regular Fair Categories
The fair has two major divisions, the Life Sciences and the Physical Sciences. Life science projects include behavioral and social sciences, biochemistry, botany, environmental sciences, medicine and health, microbiology and zoology. Physical science projects encompass chemistry, computer science, earth and space sciences, engineering, mathematics and physics.
Each division is further divided by grade with a additional categories for team projects, for a total of 10 categories. For major awards, a project will only be judged against projects in the same category. For example, Grade 7 & 8 Team projects are only judged against 7 & 8 Team projects.
Awards will be presented in each of the ten regular fair categories. The number of awards is determined from the number of entrants in the category and generally range from 10 to 20. The top four high school projects, two from Physical Sciences and two from Life Sciences, win all expense paid trips to compete at the International Science and Engineering Fair, ISEF*.
*Team projects are limited to 3 students.
Table of Major Division Category codes and project numbers
|1001 - 1999
|Life Team
|2001 - 2499
|Life 7
|2501 - 2999
|Life 8
|3001 - 3499
|Life Senior (9 - 12)
|3501 - 3999
|Life Sr Team
|4001 - 4999
|Phy Team
|5001 - 5499
|Phy 7
|5501 - 5999
|Phy 8
|6001 - 6499
|Phy Senior (9 - 12)
|6501 - 6999
|Phy Sr Team
Major Category Awards Sponsors
- The Jackson Laboratory Life Sciences Awards
Monetary awards, trophies and medallions for top winners and recognition plaques for all Life Sciences finalists.
- Lockheed Martin Physical Sciences Awards
Monetary awards, trophies and medallions for top winners and recognition plaques for all Physical Science finalists.
- Alexion Biotechnology Awards
The top high school project, individual or team, will receive an all expense-paid trip to compete at the Intel Science and Engineering Fair. Get Announcement.
Special Categories
Projects at the fair are also considered for awards in special categories. Projects are selected for these categories by a separate panel of judges than the regular category judges.
- [intlink id="sponsors" type="page"]Applied Technology[/intlink]
For projects applying technology to demonstrate a practical solution to a stated problem or by creating a functionally interesting use of technology. Sponsored by Barnes Aerospace
- [intlink id="sponsors" type="page"]Mathematics Awards[/intlink]
For projects demonstrating the application of mathematics or theoretical mathematics. Category is run by the Associated Teachers of Mathematics In Connecticut with major support from People's United Bank. Awards include cash prizes and trophies.
- [intlink id="sponsors" type="page"]Computer Science Awards[/intlink]
For projects which deal with computer architecture or software development directed towards better computers and software. Awards include cash prizes and trophies. Sponsored by Xerox Foundation
- Environmental Science Awards
For projects in environmental science and observational behavioral studies of animals in the environment.
- [intlink id="sponsors" type="page"]Alternative Renewable Energy Awards[/intlink]
For projects that address concepts in clean renewable/sustainable energy.
- [intlink id="sponsors" type="page"]Future Sustainability- energizeCT – Eversource Energy[/intlink]
For energy, engineering, and environmental high and middle school projects addressing future sustainability of our planet. In addition to monetary awards and trophies for top placing finalists, the top overall high school winner will receive the opportunity to compete at GENIUS Olympiad, Oswego, New York.
- [intlink id="sponsors" type="page"]Engineering Awards – UT Aerospace Systems- ISR Systems[/intlink]
For projects in the disciplines of electrical, mechanical, electro-optical, and optical engineering. Criteria include the demonstration of good engineering practices in the development of working hardware. Major cash award awards and plaques.
- [intlink id="sponsors" type="page"]Quinnipiac University[/intlink] Scholarships
Quinnipiac University selects one middle school and one high school student to receive a four year scholarships valued at $20,000.
- [intlink id="sponsors" type="page"]Petit Family Foundation Women In Science & Engineering Awards[/intlink]
For middle and high school projects by young women that show outstanding achievement in science and engineering
- Urban School Challenge – Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering / PepsiCo with IBM
7th – 12th grade students from public schools in the Connecticut Priority School District Program compete against one another for major prizes. Top High School Project either individual or team wins the opportunity to compete in the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair. Top Middle School Project wins a week at Project Oceanology's Ocean Camp. Get announcement and letter to school principals.
- [intlink id="sponsors" type="page"]United Technologies Corporation[/intlink] Awards for Excellence In Science & Engineering
United Technologies Corporation provides up to 8 awards of UTC common stock and a plaque. Criteria include innovation, topics of special interest to UTC and overall excellence in science and engineering.
- Broadcom MASTERS
Middle school top winners in all categories receive invitations to participate in the Broadcom MASTERS national middle school competition.
- Special Awards
There are also more than 180 special awards presented by [intlink id="sponsors" type="page"]eighty professional societies and businesses[/intlink] in a wide variety of subject areas. The selection and evaluation of projects for the special awards are made by a team of judges acting for the organization sponsoring the award.
What do the ribbons on projects mean?
Regular and special awards will be noted by ribbons placed on the projects. Recognizing that the projects at the Connecticut Science Fair represent the best from their school or local fair, relative rankings within the fair are further noted by:
|Third Honors
|up to the 40th percentile
|Second Honors
|40 – 80th percentile
|comprise approximately the top 20 percent of the regular fair categories
Many projects are adorned with ribbons in different colors by the wonderful fair volunteers. Here's is the breakdown:
Blue, Red, White, Yellow, and Green first, second, third, fourth, and fifth place overall in regular fair categories Blue, Pink and Light Blue – first (finalist), second and third honors, respectively, in regular fair categories
Green – Environmental Science finalist
Yellow – Mathematics finalist
Gold – Computer Science finalist
Maroon – Applied Technology finalist
Aqua – Renewable Energy finalist
Navy Blue – special award winner from a National special award Sponsor
Purple – special award winner from a Connecticut special award Sponsor
Certificates of recognition will be sent to the exhibitor's school before the end of the school year.


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Dear Beautiful Souls!
As you have noticed, my Energy Reports have gotten less frequent than before centering around specific cosmic influences that affect one on an individual level as well as the collective.
In giving my Energy Report Updates in the past, I listed the cosmic influences, and how it affects the mind, body and spirit connection in human form. This, as a way to help you tune into your body's physical cues at an energetic and cellular level. I did this on purpose to help you connect with your inner intuitive nature with the outter cosmic influences to the point you would not need to seek outside sources for confirmation and validation. Your body would tell you all you need to know if you began to tune in.
For those of you who have been following my Energy Reports from the beginning, over a year ago, I'm wondering….: did they help you to connect with your inner intuitive nature? Are you listening to your body? Are you seeking the cosmic influences to prepare for your next energetic upgrade and dowload? Have you learned to go with the flow, as we've learned nothing is constant but change in this new reality. Have you begun to adapt to change much easier than before?
2015 brought many upgrades and downloads on a consistent and continuous basis. These were extremely intense, and at times overwhelmed the body and the senses, while merging the mind, body and spirit merkaba.
While opening and clearing energetic blocks in the chakras. While bringing all to the surface of a lower vibrational frequency to purge and release. This integration phase kicked our asses big time! And some of you may just now be entering this phase, while some may well be past this phase.
As each portal opens and closes a new wave of souls begins to awaken to their truth. As each loses their fear and stands in their authentic light a ripple effect is created, like a pebble thrown in a pond. This sparks a remembering in another and another, and so on. Since 2011 there were very few people taking on leadership roles as guidance souls. And as the First Wavers awoke very quickly, they stood up and became the guiding force for others, to assist the next wave through so they wouldn't feel alone. You were automatically guided to those First Wavers for answers, validation, confirmation on what you felt and what you were going through. As you remembered, you became the Second Wavers guiding the Third Wavers. Now….there are thousands of guiding lights in this world helping to walk others home to remembering at their soul level. This is the ripple effect. You may resonate with one more than others, or a couple vs. all. That is your discernment pulling you to your soul groups and soul tribes. Someone may write something and you read it and you say, YES! THAT'S ME! I feel that! Someone else may write something and you say, What? That makes no sense at all to me. What is he/she talking about? That doesn't sound right to me and it does not resonate at my core.
2016 – The Year of Transformation
Here's where the transformation comes in. Where in the past you may have felt it necessary to comment, to state your opinion, to try and have others see it your way, you now just pass it by. Not wasting your time or energy knowing each perceives their own truth within their vibrational reality and that is okay! Or you engage in a learning conversation while respecting one another's views and truths. Acceptance ushers in. It is no longer a battle of wills, the ego steps aside and lets your higher self prevail in love and compassionate understanding. Compassionate listening ushers in. Have you said in the past, I don't need you to fix me, I just need you to listen, understand, support, accept, and don't judge me. When compassionate listening is enacted within, you have no choice but to just listen. Your mind can no longer be thinking ahead of a fix…there is none. We begin to listen to understand, not to respond, unless asked to. We do not force our beliefs, and projections onto another as we've learned they are only ours and ours alone.
Awakened Relationships~
As we integrated the energies of 2011-2015 and the transformative energies of 2016, the way we do, think, be and are… are different. We are not the same as we were 6 months ago, let alone 6 years ago. As we increase in vibrational frequency our perceptions and realities match the frequency we are resonating and vibrating at. The way you used to do, think, be is gone. All of the transformation you have integrated with has brought you to a new level of awareness. Through this relationships shift too. Many have become no longer a vibrational match to you and the relationship abruptly ends. You are no longer willing to go backwards, only forwards. You are no longer willing to stay the same, when your vibrational frequency has increased. Through the relationship evolutionary process of awareness, awakening, and remembering, we know there is more on a deeper level. We are no longer willing to accept anything less than the mind, body, heart and spirit connection. For those of you who are single and in the dating world, you begin to see how shallow, detached and unfeeling it all is. It's a huge turn off, no one seems to get it, you think, what the hell is wrong with some people? Why is their heart so closed, what happened? While your heart is bursting at the seems with unconditional love, few understand the meaning of that and confuse unconditional love with expectation, and go fearfully running off back into their safe bubble, pushing everyone away. Only by keeping the heart open no matter how many times it's been broken, stomped on, kicked and bruised will we ever connect with the true essence of unconditional love from a higher level of awareness with another soul. It all begins with self love and self mastery. It begins by allowing it all to surface and not being afraid to feel the raw, gut clenching pain. Through the pain the lessons are gained. With each new clarity on every past relationship, the denseness begins to fall away. The heart begins to heal. The heart begins to open with the self love, acceptance and nurturing you give to yourself. As you learn to love and unconditionally accept yourself you are in turn unconditionally loved and accepted by others. When one reaches this level of self awareness through much introspection, a lot of work and self mastery, there is no going backwards. There is no accepting any less than where you are, or is there?
No matter how much love and care you show someone, they can only meet you where they are, not where you are. This… another Ah Ha moment of clarity.
You begin to notice the Law of Attraction in your field. You begin to see what you think, do and say, it all comes right back instantaneously knocking on your door. Hello, this is your karma calling. I'm here to repay you in kind for your good thoughts and deeds and have you attune for the wrongs you have done. You have no warning when karma shows up. It will either give you a boost of good luck or it will kick your ass to wake you to the cycle of what you're attracting into your life.
This is your wake up call to what should continue with synchronicity confirmations or what you should cease to do that comes to you as a block you receive, a set back, an illness, a life altering experience, a near death experience. This is the Universal energies giving the wake up call to continue or stop and re-evaluate and re-assess your thoughts, words and actions. The blocks come when you are out of alignment with yourself and truth. The synchronicities come when you are in alignment with your path and truth.
As we have rode wave after wave of dowloads, upgrades and integrations thus far increasing our vibrational frequency, upgrading our DNA, and evolving us to other levels of awareness of inter-dimensional reality; ALL of our senses are heightened. We listen to our body's cues now, we rest when we need to, we disengage when we need to and we honor ourselves always now in this reality. Your free will is and been being returned to you. How and where you lend your energy now is specific.
Balance is more easily attained as you learn to integrate and accept both the light and dark aspects of self and know why one can't exist without the other. Both are equally nurtured and accepted to maintain constant balance.
You see beautiful souls, it's no longer just about the cosmic influences at play and how they will affect us physically, we have evolved beyond this level now.
And in this here and now, in your higher vibrational frequency, your awareness shifts to how you do things, what you say, what you think and how you react. Your awareness is from a higher level of self which gives you the clarity you need, the peace you've craved, the love to share, the bliss to just BE. Your awareness from this frequency shows you where and how to lend your energy. How to recharge your energy, how to transmute energy, and how to protect your auric field. From this frequency of awareness you see and feel the energy all around you; in living and in adament objects. In this level of awareness, through this vibrational frequency, you learn how to adjust your vibrational frequency to match the reality you seek. From this vibrational frequency of awareness instant manifestation is a daily occurrence. Here the magic happens every single day. This is 5D & higher.
In this vibrational frequency you hold, carry and emit, you become a beckon, a magnet, a guiding light to pull others out of their darkness and density. Your frequency is the signal you send out to attract your soul tribe, soul group, soul mates, twin flame. Then the ripple effect begins to take place all over again. The only thing constant in spiritual evolution is change. Learning to let go, relinquish control, go with the flow, be in the here and now and allow your signs and synchronicities, Angels, God Source, Ascended Masters, Guides and Goddesses to guide you, while tuning into the universal flow of energy and listening to your own intuitive nature.
You now know everything is how it should be. You are exactly where you are supposed to be. All the challenges, pain, abuse, suffering, hills and valleys, peaks and lows, has brought you through to the other side of 3D density to the evolved human you are today. This is not the end, this is only the preparation for what comes next.
Are you ready?
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There is a lot of misinformation out there concerning Apples OSX's operating system. For instance, many people believe that most software that runs on Windows can't run on a Mac. In the past, this may have been true, but most major software programs, including Microsoft's Office suite have been ported over to OSX. Even many game makers are now making Mac versions. Sometimes there may be a program that doesn't have a large enough user base to make a Mac version. For those instances there are options. Window's can be run as a virtual machine using programs like "Parallels" or you can install Windows in a dual boot environment using "Boot Camp".
You should also take note of the speed of the optical drive that you purchase. Faster is better. A 48X CD drive means that is 48 times faster than the first CD drive. The same concept applies to DVD drives. A fast Cd and dvd drive can greatly save you time when you are burning files onto a CD or Dvd.
Buying One: If you live in the coverage of Lemon or T-Mobile UK, the particular S 2 are going to be available on April 27th. You availability hasn't been unveiled yet, but gossips have it hitting Verizon wireless at least in May possibly. If the S A couple of follows the routine of the original Galaxy S, all four carriers will receive their own branded edition of the phone.
Brand-new, on-the-shelf items are often already past their prime – or about to be! The key is in understanding which products are obsolete and which are not. That's what I'm going to reveal to you here.
If you have been reading any of this website, then you probably already understand what computer hardware is, because that is what this website is about.
In addition to avoiding the very beginning of a product or technology introduction, you also want to avoid the tail end of it as well. Products in the stale tale phase are usually about to be phased out.
If you are thinking about working in computer software then you need to decide whether you want develop open source software. When you mention the term open source the first thing that comes to mind is linux, the world's premier open source operating system. If you believe in open source software then you support linux. Even if you want to work in open source software development you want to get paid for your work hence in this article we will find out how you can go about finding a linux job.


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As follow-up to the March 2005 Consultation, ICN convened an International Summit on the Global Nursing Workforce, which was held on 24 May 2005 during ICN's 23rd Quadrennial Congress in Taipei, Taiwan. Nurse leaders from research, management, practice and education joined representatives from health sector planning and human resources development to exchange ideas, opinions and solutions on priority workforce issues.
The Summit and findings from an on-site survey validate the five priority areas of intervention for ICN and nursing. The five areas are:
- Macroeconomic and health sector funding policies;
- Workforce policy and planning, including regulation;
- Positive practice environments and organisational performance;
- Recruitment and retention; addressing in country maldistribution, and out migration; and
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The Serious Fraud Office has brought criminal charges against former Barclays chief executive John Varley and three other leading executives over how the bank raised money from Qatar during the financial crisis.
Instead of going to the Government in 2008, as banks fought to secure their balance sheets against the credit crunch, Barclays sought a $3bn loan facility from the Qatari Government, as well as raising capital through two companies, Qatar Holding LLC and Challenger Universal Ltd.
The charges against the four executives are conspiracy to commit fraud.
Varley has also been charged with the provision of unlawful financial assistance contrary to the Companies Act 1985, as has Roger Jenkins, former Barclays Capital executive chairman of investment banking and investment management in the Middle East and North Africa, who was at one point regarded as the highest paid banker in the City.
The other two executives to face charges are former Barclays Wealth and Investment Management chief executive Thomas Llewellyn Kalaris and former European head of Barclays' financial institutions group Richard Boath.
Barclays Plc has also been charged.
The charges come nearly five years after the SFO opened its case. The defendants will appear before Westminster Magistrates' Court at the beginning of next month.


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Many of the photos we found were in front of Best Buy locations. Consumer electronics, as always, are hot items.
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Words and photos by Jennifer Tham
Singapore has come a long way to offer so much more than merely a shopping haven.
A greenery within the concrete jungle, Gardens by The Bay has quickly gained its fame in being the number one attraction in Singapore on TripAdvisor.
Also the World's Top 20 Most Checked-In Places on Facebook, there are many reasons why this place is a hit within the city.
Intended to be a national icon, which obviously is a success, the urban recreational space has attracted millions of visitors since its opening in 2011.
Consisted of three waterfront gardens, the most popular one would be the Bay South Garden where the two glass conservatories are.
First one would be The Flower Dome. It is packed with flower power where the attraction is categorised into seven gardens featuring plants from all over the world, especially the tropical regions as well as the Mediterranean.
It will never be a dull visit as exhibits on display change every few months such as "Tulipmania", where more than 100 varieties of tulips are brought all the way from Europe recently.
The next is the Cloud Forest. It welcomes visitors with its 42-metre high "Cloud Mountain", a waterfall surrounded with different themes of greens.
People can expect refreshing cool air in this glass forest especially when they walk near the 35-metre waterfall, or taking turns creating memories with picture-taking in front of this breath-taking scenery.
Both conservatories are glassed in special canopy where there is no additional interior supporting columns. The column-less glasshouses collect rainwater which sustains the vegetation on the Supertrees.
Enveloped in exotic ferns and vines, the Supertrees are the first thing you would see even before you stepped into the gardens.
The trees are self-sustained as they survive on solar energy as well as rainwater collected from the conservatories.
It's especially magical at night where the trees come alive with "OCBC Garden Rhapsody", a light and music play which takes place every night.
The attraction has also gained international spotlight as the location shoot in the film Hitman: Agent 47 as well as Planet Earth II, a documentary series where an entire episode was about the Supertree Grove.
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There are several reasons why Google can affect one emotionally. It's true these emotions aren't always positive. Sometimes, even, they verge on exasperation at Google's trickeration.
Happily, though, Google's small, but powerful Dept. of Human Beings--aka the Doodlers--is always trying to create an urge to cuddle, rather than cudgel.
Google's doodle for Valentine's Day offers a girl who is jump roping--or skipping, as they call it overseas. A boy offers her a flower. Oddly, the girl is not impressed.
The boy slinks away and googles some more ideas. He comes back with chocolates. She is equally unimpressed. He tries other gifts stimulated by Google's fine sales engine--I'm sorry, I meant search engine.
There is a frightening dinosaur sweater and, um, a diving helmet. Clearly the algorithm has been drinking. Nothing works. So he comes back with his own jump rope. Now the girl falls in love with him. All she wanted was a jump-roping partner, one who wouldn't skip town.
The music, Tony Bennett's "Cold, Cold Heart," is delightful, as is the animation. It ends charmingly with images of lovely pairings fill the screen-- the astronaut and the alien, the princess and the frog, the dog and the cat. Surely tears of joy will run down many cheeks and jowls.
How hard it is to find someone with whom one can do the simplest things: a gourmet meal, a day at the beach, a Golden State Warriors game.
However, I feel that if this film were played to a focus group of the analytical (perhaps some Googlies might be included), there might be another interpretation, one that would engender tears of anxiety.
For this film--to those of a left-minded bent--might be seen to be setting a very bad example for any little boys and girls who might watch.
It might be saying that the best way to catch a man is to get him to do exactly what you are doing--even if that means jumping rope. Or, one imagines, having a pedicure or reading People magazine.
What a troubling and retrograde suggestion this is. How frightfully illiberal, some might conclude.
On a day that is supposed to symbolize the essence of human love, I can only hope that any tears shed as a result of this noble attempt at art are of the loving kind.
Please monitor your work stations tomorrow to see whether some people are undergoing adverse, teary reactions. Please try to soothe them appropriately if they are.


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Thread: Carbide ballnose sharpening
10-11-2018 #1
Hi guys,
I have two of these 2mm can they be sharpened?
One I know is dull and doesn't cut, the other just turned red even with flood and air cutting ss. But still cuts it just went noisy.
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Yes of course they can be sharpened. It's very unlikely to be cost effective though. You can get 2mm ball nose in various forms from somewhere like apt for a fiver or less and the quality is perfectly usable.
I'm a little surprised you managed to make a carbide end mill glow red without it breaking especially one that small. Are you using a router style machine and with a high rpm spindle? The chances are that cutter will be totally foobared.
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When bits break I make face ills out of them. I polish the cutting edge so the finish is sharp too.
But round ball tips I would have to make a jig for
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It's obvious is mm Min. How can it be 117 meters a min? The fastest rapids out there are in the region of 60 mtrs a min. Even if it was inches it would be nearly 3 mtrs a min, Its obvious its not that speed for a 2 mm ball mill in stainless
For a start you have to remember speed and feeds calculators are a guide, often a very general guide you have to throw away. These speeds and feed will be optimum for optimum cutting conditions on a proper machine.
The problem he has is the machine. It's a very weak machine not deigned for cutting metals. You will be getting tons of deflection, if you deflect you do not cut, if you deflect you rub, if you rub you generate tons of heat compounded the fact you are working in stainless. A bad combination that will always be problematic.
Carbide needs to be worked and made to cut. If you don't have a machine with the rigidity to do this you will always be fighting a battle.
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When You're Barely Making it as a Mom and You're Supposed to be a Wife Too
A few years ago my husband came home from work one day to find me in a not so good mood. I didn't say much but he knew by my body language that I wasn't doing so well. All it took was one question, "Is everything okay?" for me to burst into tears. No everything was not okay. I was exhausted. My days and weeks seemed so full I could barely breathe. On top of that I was supposed to somehow not only care for all of my children, but be a good wife too. I felt like I had nothing left to give and I felt like a failure. My husband thankfully responded graciously and offered to step in where I needed some help (He is an amazing man and for that I am thankful). Although I don't have babies or toddlers in the house anymore (no more sleep deprivation!), I do have tweens and teens and if I were being honest, there are days I still struggle with this.
I know you get it. I hear you on the blog. I hear you on the Facebook page. I hear you in my email inbox. I hear you on Instagram. You struggle too. There are days where you don't feel like being a good wife because, well, you're tired and talking to one more person or helping one more person or serving one person just feels impossible.
I want to gently nudge you, my friend.
Don't try to walk this road alone.
Don't withdraw from your husband.
God, not only in grace but also in wisdom, has "gifted" us with our spouse. When we are challenged by the stresses of life, our spouse might not always seem like God's good, wise, and gracious gift to us. But to keep in focus the vision of our marriage as a gift of friendship and companionship from God, we need to value and treat our spouse as the most important relationship.
It won't always come in a pretty little package. Marriage is both a blessing we receive and a battle we fight for in love, commitment, sacrifice, and grace. The challenge in marriage is not how it starts, but how it continues, grows, matures, and flourishes over time. The transition from marriage to family creates a whole new set of complexities and threats to the marriage relationship that can make it difficult to keep our marriage vows. The work of keeping the husband-wife relationship a priority requires a lot of effort. But it is worth it. As you work on your marriage, focus on being on the same page, and learn to tackle life together, your load will grow lighter.
Well, today is the day that my husband and I tell the world our story. Yes, it is a little scary to share your life and marriage as an open book (literally). But to be completely honest, we wanted to tell you about our marriage and our family and just our real everyday life ---sometimes great, sometimes hard, sometimes hysterical--- because we want you to know you are not alone.
For Better or For Kids is about remembering that even when you feel worn out, over-extended, and neglected, you promised to be a team. Throughout the pages couples learn how to build a God-centered marriage instead of a Child-centered or Me-centered marriage, explore practical ways to parent together as one team, avoid the dangers of spouse-neglect and self-neglect, effectively communicate in the chaos, fan the flames and so much more.
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I would love for you to join me as we invite other husbands, wives, moms, and dads to make a vow to love their spouse with kids in the house. I'm 99.9% sure that you know at least one couple (besides yourself) who could use this book...this message right. now. Join us and tell him or her about it or better yet, if you have the means to do so, grab them a copy too. This sacred bond with intimate companionship and divine purpose is worth every ounce of energy required to hope for and work toward. Marriage will not always be what we expected or dreamed of, but marriage by God's design is good---very good!
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This beautiful watercolor print is made by a wonderful friend of mine, Ruth Simons from Gracelaced. Her shoppe is full of all kinds of beauty and I knew this print would be a wonderful addition to any home...a beautiful reminder of the bond between a husband and wife.
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Galleria d'Arte Maggiore G.A.M.
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With the opening exhibition of the new space of Galleria d'Arte Maggiore G.A.M. in Milan, the director Alessia Calarota continues the tradition of dialogues that has always distinguished the activity of the historical gallery. Art and Architecture will be the main theme of this exhibition focused on Lucio Fontana, great Master of the XX Century Art, who will be exhibited together with the famous architect Ico Parisi. The exhibition will infact show a corpus of rare works, realized by Lucio Fontana for the "Monumento dei Caduti alla Resistenza" in 1962, interesting testament of the monument conceived by both artists in Cuneo but never realized.
In a dialogue between art and architecture looking to a relationship with the Italian institutions and museums, Galleria d'Arte Maggiore G.A.M. presents in its new location in Milan the Monumento dei Caduti alla Resistenza of 1961-1962. It is a museum group of works, precious testament of the never realized monument in Cuneo that won a public contest and involved one painter, one architect and one sculptor. In fact in these four works on paper, realized by Lucio Fontana, it is evident that the project included the architectural scenary by Ico Parisi, a sculpture by Francesco Somaini, and the cut and the holes by Fontana himself in the opposite concrete. The artwork matches well with the interest shown by Fontana for the achitectural space as testified by his Ambienti spaziali - rooms and corridors projected and conceived by the artist since the end of the 1940s – and with the interest of Ico Parisi in creating an architectural work that would integrate art. His idea was so developed over the 1960s involving the main artists of that period - such as Lucio Fontana and Fausto Melotti - and reaching its peak in Operazione Arcevia (1973-76). Here Parisi draws a rural village, with an artisan and agricultural vocation, immersed in the hills of the Marche, for a 'existential community'. The project is characterized by the abundance of artistic presences, as those by Michelangelo Antonioni, Alberto Burri, Tonino Guerra, César and Rod Duddly.
As Flaminio Gualdoni writes in the catalogue promoted by Franco and Roberta Calarota and edited by Skirà in 1999: "The encounter between Fontana and Parisi is inevitable. At the Triennale in 1951 the artist realizes the fundamental ceiling in neon, in a period in which, thanks to the relationship with Luciano Baldessari, his contamination with the architectural experience – which started in the 1930s – reaches unprecedented levels of intensity. Parisi is present at the same Triennale mainly with furniture, among which there is a desk whose sides are decorated with reliefs by Vittorio Tavernari, the same author whose big sculputre is laying under Fontana's ceiling in neon. The encounter happens in that unique atmosphere. And it will lead not only to the work for Parisi's home but also to another fundamental moment of the postwar debate: the contest for the "Monumento ai Caduti della Resistenza" in Cuneo. The project proposes a structure digged in the ground and inhabited by a groove traced in concrete by Fontana and placed under an intense plastic form by Somaini. This is the year 1962: the project, widely considered to be the best, is finally abandoned, "italico more". Many works by Fontana are accumulated in Parisi's house. In addition to the tile hanged on the terrace's balustrade, now lost, there are two extraordinary oil paintings, one is black and hanged in the bedroom in the place where once there were popular artworks, the other one is pink, setted over the table-shelf in the living room. Then there are two ceramics on the shelf in the living room, dated 1957 and 1958, and, furthermore, drawings".
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The Secret Life of Storage Units in Honolulu
They may look like static warehouses on the outside but inside, Honolulu's self-storage units are bustling with hidden lives.
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Brian Werle has converted his storage space into a shrine to his life's obsession: bikes. There are about 30 rims in baskets, and bolts, chains, seats and inner tubes are stacked and piled in boxes and on jury-rigged carts.
Besides bike parts, all he has is a small work table and a stool, where he sits, lining up a set of cranks he just stripped from a bike. "I found five bikes this week, just abandoned," he says.
He pulls out a small hook scale from the corner, hanging the crank from its end. He likes to take steel parts off the bikes and replace them with aluminum. "Three-quarters of a pound in weight was saved with this new crank."
Since 2008, Werle has run an impromptu bike shop, refurbishing bikes off the street for the homeless and the poor, estimating he's made about 400 bikes. Homeless and a recovering addict himself, he gives the bikes away to friends and by word-of-mouth referral to those in need.
"When I find bike parts, they're dead. I give them new life. I don't know what else to do. I made some bad decisions, and this is me trying to give back."
Today he has two bikes in the hallway and is working on a third, painted over in black. Black is the hallmark of a stolen bike, and Werle has scraped away the paint to reveal the bike's make and model. He spends hours and hours inside his unit, slowly scraping, easing bolts free, working. "They have to kick me out every night," he says.
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Just get your things and go.
When things go bad, people's things go to storage. Sometimes, it's the first stop.
"You get the ladies that come in here crying. They don't know what they should be doing," says Sharon May, manager of Extra Space Storage in Kapolei.
"There was one lady, she came home, found out her husband was fooling around—she walked in on something—and then that was it. She threw her stuff in the car and started calling around to find where she could go with it. People don't mind showing up at a relative's door, but they don't want to show up with all their stuff."
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Divorce is what family law attorney Pablo Quiban does, and he does it right out of a Kapolei storage unit.
"I use my cellphone. I have my photocopier and desk, bookshelves with my Hawaii Revised Statutes and the Hawaii Digest, and some of my manuals."
When family court moved to Kapolei, Quiban found office space for dentists and doctors, but not lawyers. StorSecure advertised units for small businesses, so Quiban decided to try it, just for a month. That was last October.
"For the first 20 years of my law practice I was driving to town every day from Mililani," he said. With the new place convenient to court and home, and business still humming, Quiban has decided he's not going anywhere.
"I'm looking to practice for, at the most, another 10 years. The price is right and so long as the cases keep on coming, I'll stay here."
His clients seem unbothered by his stripped-down location. "They've been receptive to it. There's free parking—downtown it's ridiculous—and it's just a matter of giving people the right directions. I say just look for the Burger King and hang a left!"
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There's no one reason, but more often than you'd imagine, stuff in storage is forgotten. These abandoned lockers, if they're not paid for or emptied out, are sold at auction.
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Most months, he goes delinquent, but is brought back from the brink with a last-minute payment and frantic, pleading emails to Extra Space's Sharon May. "I've never met him in my life. I'm interested to find out what he's keeping in there; he's spent so much money on this unit and there's just boxes in there. He says to me, 'It's my life's work in there. If you sell it, it will mean nothing to someone else, but it means everything to me.'"


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Sent with love ~ Cheryl
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My friends, I have added a new page (look to the left) called "Addiction is a Disease". I hope you find it helpful. May it ease some of your anguish.
Sent with love ~ Cheryl
7/17/2013 07:44:12 am
Cheryl, Thanks for adding this information to your website. Yes this is very true and there are alot of misconceptions when it comes to the word "choice" Many of us do know how to put a drink or a substance down and know when we have had enough. However when dealing with an addict the choice was really never theirs. Once they were introduced to the substance they no longer had a choice. it just takes ove and consumes them. Most people do not recognize addiction as a disease and there is so much stigma surrounding addiction. Are you aware that this disease is now a medical diagnaosis and just not catergorized seperately. Finally the medical field has taken notice. The sad thing is..there is not enough treatment for the so many people inflicted with this insidious disease. i myself feel that if there is not something done sooner than later about how we treat addiction in this country we will be looking at an astronomical disaster. Actually i feel we already are. Thanks again for your wonderful website Cheryl..Peace and Love to you!
I have a 23 year old daughter who has been dealing with addiction to one of/all of these: alcohol,crack, weed, ectasy, crystal meth, heroin (depending what her drug of choice is at the time), since she was 15 yeears old. She has been to at least 5 Rehabs. It is an ongoing struggle.
8/7/2013 12:30:39 pm
doesn't matter the label they put on it. addiction is physical mental emotional and spiritual. I don't believe there are sides rather just people trying to understand and heal. I think and this is just my opinion that at 15 your brain because it is still forming reacts differently to drugs/ alcohol and addiction risk is increased. again just my opinion. Prayers for you and your daughter. ( it really sucks going through this doesn't it)
7/18/2013 04:08:19 am
I have a lot of question that some of you may be able to answer. First "choice', How do take responsibility/ seek treatment if you don't acknowledge some "choice" in getting involved in drugs? No one "chooses" to become an addict but they do "choose" to become clean. Also I have seen some new ads for treatment centers that claim to "cure" addiction. I always believed the only cure was to stop drinking/ using drugs all together. So many opinions on what causes someone to become an addict. Methadone is another big concern. I have read both the praises and concerns about it's role in in treatment. I agree we are facing an epidemic and am scared for all these "young" people.
7/18/2013 04:27:57 am
I believe the lack of sympathy for addicts is fueled by their destructive and sometimes violent behavior. This "disease" affects everyone the addict comes in contact with. Also the laws regarding mandated treatment are seen as punitive rather than life saving. In this country it is a "right" to be an addict. I have heard that in Europe there is a treatment that can stop the cravings for drugs. Does anyone know anything about this?
7/19/2013 02:30:34 pm
It seems that I have an came to an understanding of this some time ago. I realized that my son does not sit and ponder if he wants to use again, but is totally consumed - It is almost like the rest of us breathing. We breath he shoots u[ again, without thought. it is though he needs it to survive and at the same time it is killing him.
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7/20/2013 08:06:47 am
I had forgotten that David Sheff wrote two books, so I just read his first one Beautiful Boy. His experience was so parallel to mine- the over-achieving child, the bewilderment of how to handle the situation, the realization he could not control or cure his son. He is a gifted writer and I highly recommend that book. I remember going to an Alanon meeting and everyone was so sad, I decided not to go back. This was early on in my daughter's addiction. Now I understand, that yes, these meetings are sad! But we need to find people who understand what we are going through. I saw an interview with David Sheff about his book Clean, and I agree that we as a nation do not handle the disease of addiction in a way that has really helped. Most people agree the war on drugs is a failure. I think both his books would be very helpful on the website. Vicki
7/21/2013 11:59:26 pm
There really is no "cure" for addiction just like many other diseases. However there is recovery and like all diseases you have to take your daily dose of medication. It may or may not be in medication format. There are medications out there that do help with cravings...but the key to sobriety is daily reflection, therapy, group support, meetings if one is able to grasp the concept of AA or NA, spirituality, counseling etc. It is a large committment for the addict to undertake. Lets face it most addicts are looking for instant gratification a quick fix so to speak. So to turn this thought process around and make it a chore for them is a huge undertaking. The addict does have to choose to get clean. They have got to really want it. We all know that we cannot do it for them. Thats the hard part! As parents we all want to save our children from harm and from pain. Its a natural instinct. this is when things get complicated..The enabler, the co dependent etc...When as parents is enough enough. We all have our own personal journey when it comes to this. I know that I have made my fair share of mistakes with my son. I can not take advice from anyone and I know I hav to guage my decisions based on my relationship and the situation. i will never turn my back on my child. What good will that do. I love him and will be there but at the same time set the appropriate boundaries to help guide him and to also keep some self respect. Ultimately this is his life and his journey and as Cheryl said to me.....I open my hands and heart up to God and ask for his healing light and ask him to protect my son.
7/22/2013 01:00:26 am
I read that addiction is chronic and progressive. Is it "harder" to get off drugs the longer you use them? Is there a point of no return?
7/23/2013 01:28:17 am
Yes addiction is a chronic disease like so many others...diabetes, heart disease, cancer etc...and it is progressive. The longer you use substances the more tolerance you build up therefore needing more to achieve the same affect. I would like to believe there is a point of return if the addict really wants to remain sober. Unfortunately the longer and more you use any substance the more damage there is to your body, mind and spirit. Recovery is possible and that is the "cure". Other chronic diseases have no cure only maintenance medications. If you substitute addiction in place of (for instance diabetes) it is also maintenance that allows the addict to recover. Every addict is individual and has there own idea of what recovery might be for them. Some like AA NA others do not etc...however, there does have to be supports in place in order for the addict to maintain sobriety. Its a hard path to walk alone. I also beleive that education about the disease is imperative. If any of us were diagnosied with a a chronic disease we certainly would educate ourselves..understand it and how to treat it. I believe the same for addiction. Most people whether addicts or not have no understanding and that is a major problem in this country. this I feel creates the stigma and stereotyping surrounding this disease. We as a nation certainly do not turn our backs on others that suffer from other medical conditions so why as a nation do we tend to do this to people who struggle with the disease of addiction? The stealing lying and manipulating are just symptoms of the diesease. I truly believe that most addicts do not start out wanting to live this type of life and are generally great people who are very very lost. I could go on and on....
7/24/2013 01:06:51 am
The stigma comes from the lying, stealing, assaults, deaths caused by addicts and the belief that we are immune to becoming addicted ourselves. I do not believe it is genetic I do believe given the right circumstances any of us could wind up an addict.
7/24/2013 01:18:50 am
Pat..I agree that no one is immune to this disease. Mostl of us have some sort of addiction...smoking, eating, gambling etc.. anything that is compulsive enough to interfere with daily routine or is harmful to ones health can be considered addiction or addict personality. However, when it does come to drugs and alcohol its slightly different. One usually has a predispostion or a genetic link with in their family tree with alcoholism or drug abuse. Somewhere down the line there was someone in their family that also was inflicted. Just like most other diseases.
7/26/2013 11:01:09 am
As far a I know no genetic link has been found. If there were maybe a better treatment could be found. Maybe it should be treated as a mental illness like sexual addictions are. I wonder if the medical community gives researching drug addiction enough attention, seems rehab is a big money maker.
It's 4:30 am and I am yet another mother who happened upon this website while desperately trying to find answers. My 29 year old son is once again out using drugs and drinking alcohol because he knows he cannot do it in our house (boundary). This time though I suspended his cell service and am very much struggling with that decision and cannot sleep. He has been diagnosed as bipolar and I believe his drug/alcohol abuse is his attempt to manage his anxiety and depression. However, some say it's addiction that causes mental illnesses (?). When I read the statement "no genetic link" I felt compelled to make a comment as I truly believe genetics plays a big role. During my son's 5+ years of cocaine & alcohol abuse I have questioned and blamed my husband's genetics as both his father (alcoholic) and brother (alcohol/cocaine abuser) are long time addicts. In my family I had two great uncles who supposedly became alcoholics due to PTSD after war time. BOTH of our children are addicts but our daughter got clean and sober around age 25 and has managed her "illness" through participation in AA meetings for 8 years now. However, our son is having a much more difficult time. Our daughter was very independent growing up while our son was quite the opposite and yet they both became addicts. It was when we paid for our son to try Neurofeedback (after a couple rehabs) that I could actually SEE on a test they performed that his brain was very different from a non-addict. He completed the first phase (3 mos.) and a week after graduation relapsed again. Since then he has been in and out of sobriety. I think the longest he has been clean and sober is 5 months which makes me sad because I know it takes at least a year for the brain to repair itself. When his craving sets in nothing will stop him and he has tried to explain the feeling to us. But, of course, we will "never understand" what he is going through. Time is wearing me down and although I attend Nar-Anon meetings I feel like I am running out of options. I did complete a NAMI course which was helpful in understanding mental illnesses and made me realize my son definitely suffers from a mood disorder. Anyhow, my eyes are getting blurry and I welcome any comments and/or suggestions.
7/30/2013 12:31:41 am
Hi Cyndy,
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7/30/2013 12:57:19 am
Actually Sara, since you're mentioning my words, I'd like to describe my daily practice more difinitively, because it has been powerful for me.
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Thank you Cheryl. I have begun using this practice not only for dealing with my daughter's addiction but for dealing with all the stresses in my life. I have found some peace in doing this and I am grateful. You are a blessing.
7/30/2013 11:45:33 pm
I big THANK YOU for all of your support and heartfelt comments. I really appreciate this forum with the ability to have a voice and be heard. WOW ... just typing this gives me a feeling of calm that I haven't felt in quite a while. My daughter wanted me to watch a movie called "The Secret" which I am glad I did. It speaks about putting out positive life energy and I wanted to share that with all of you. Never in a million years did I think I would be on this journey with my adult children. When my kids were little and I heard about other parents' addicted kids ... I thought they must not be doing their job well enough. I was wrong to judge! I have come to realize that most of us are loving parents with wonderful children who just happen to have an illness called addiction. We didn't cause it, we can't control it and we can't cure it (the 3 C's I learned in Nar-Anon). I've heard over and over again that they have to learn to manage their illness just like a diabetic does. I just wish my son would realize this and take his medications for depression and anxiety on a regular basis. I have heard over again too that addicted people who suffer from mood disorders also struggle with taking their meds as once they start feeling better they think they don't need them anymore OR they just don't want to be different. It's sad to think there is still such a BIG stigma out there. I hope more light comes upon this prevalent problem that a lot of parents are or will be facing. I really appreciate the advertisement on TV that Glenn Close participates in about mental illness as it helps with awareness. HUGS to all you parents out there! It's a journey I surely didn't anticipate when my kids were little but I'm in it for the long haul because I love my adult children and I will never give up hope.
8/5/2013 08:38:02 am
My son is heading or is at rock bottom. He lost his girl and their son...Is in financial trouble...losing his housing and today I just received word he lost his job. I have enabled him time and time agian..twenty dollars here twenty dollars there and just recently took out a small loan for $1000.00 dollars to pay court costs and to recover his suspended license. I cant continue on like this. I am educated in this field and still keep making the same mistakes. I tend to wax and wain..Some days I am stronger than others and am able to say no but other days I give in. I know that I have to be consistent because I am not doing him or myself any good.
8/5/2013 12:25:57 pm
isolated, that is what happens when you have an addict take over your life. I am glad you found this site as I did. Support is so hard to find. Keeping you and your son in my prayers.
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Richard Long: A Line Made by Walking
Afterall Books, 2010 - Art - 86 pages
In 1967, Richard Long, then twenty-two years old and a student at Saint Martin's School of Art in London, walked back and forth along a straight line in the grass in the English countryside, leaving a track that he then photographed in black and white. The resulting work, A Line Made by Walking, was not only the starting point for Long's career as an artist but also a landmark for a new kind of art emerging in Europe and the Americas. The formal simplicity of Long's artwork suggested a relation to minimalism, but its location outside the gallery context and its suggestion of bodily actions also connected it to a new generation of artists whose work combined the organic, the temporary, the nonmaterial, and the performative to offer a critique of the art system and its language, forms, and values. Long's work bridged the concerns of his North American and European counterparts, connecting the industrial scale of Robert Smithson to the modesty of Gilberto Zorio, the exercises in dematerialization of Robert Morris with the organic forms of Alighiero e Boetti, and the performance of Yvonne Rainer with that of Joseph Beuys.
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Juanita (nee Owen) had four sisters and a brother. Three of the sisters lived in the Houston area. Maxine, who died before Juanita and I met, had nine children, seven of whom still live in the Houston area. We met up with them and their spouses in February along with Juanita�s surviving sister from Houston and the sister from California. Lots of reminiscing.
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I had mentioned our plans for bird banding. The following is an excerpt of an e-mail exchange with a friend:
<<Bird banding sounds interesting. Please tell me how that works out as I'm sure that will make for "great story" .
My mother's second husband owned a chicken operation. Massive quonsets with 4 birds stuffed into a 2ft by 2ft cage in rows with auto feed/water and egg collection systems. I used to help carry birds to trucks when they were old and not producing eggs, for meat processing. It wasn't easy work as 2 birds/hand and flapping wings in the face allowed for the odd escape. Trying to catch an agitated bird in a confined space was a challenge so I'm wondering how you'll manage with wild birds. Good luck!!!
I envisioned some similar wrestling match with angry, nasty waterfowl and took leather gloves and wore older clothing. The reality was more mundane and civilized.
They set up "mist nets" (so fine that you have to look at them from the correct angle to see them) vertically near bird feeders. Birds get tangled up in the nets and staff or members of the public with staff coaching untangle the birds and put them in cloth sacks with draw-string tops. The sacks are delivered to a table at which is seated a pair of "licensed" bird banders - a man and his wife. The sacks are hung on a line across the back of the couple's SUV and the birds in the sacks are processed in turn.
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Mahón Gin
The Data
Category Gin/Genever
Sub-Category Gin
Origin Menorca
Retail Price $47.99
Score 4.5 Stars/Exceptional! +
In the Glass
Brilliant, crystal clear.
The aromatics are quite beautiful as the grape spirit is very evident acting as the perfect platform for the vibrant juniper and citrus notes with hints of coriander, bark botanicals, and lavender.
The palate echoes the nose delivering a silky but sprite grape spirit core with a lovely marriage if bright juniper and lemon with earthy spices and soft wildflower accents.
Intensity & Texture
Medium to full-bodied with perfect balance and great length.
Cool Factor
I am a longtime fan of the Mahón style Gin as it is so versatile offering unique flavors and textures.
Value Grade
This is not cheap to be sure but if you are a Gin lover this is a must for your bar as it represents a distinctive style.
Gin from Spain? Not such a strange thing when you consider that Spain's Gin zone is the island of Menorca, which was belonged to the British crown over two centuries ago. Mahón is actually a style of Gin that developed out of a desire to sell Gin to British sailors while using the local wine as a base for the spirit. This tasty Mahón is produced by Xoriguer much as it was in its founding. The grape spirit is infused with juniper and other botanicals then rested in large, neutral oak barrels before bottling.
How to Enjoy
The Mahón Gin needs nothing but a slight chill and perhaps a lemon peel. It's great with just soda and lemon and just as good with ginger beer. In a classic Gin cocktail I find it makes a terrific and unusual Tom Collins.


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Some of the most beloved romantic comedies of all time have featured London itself as a background character, bringing its inhabitants together on its beautiful streets. On this first rate Romantic Comedy Tour, you'll hop a bus through some of the genre's most recognisable streets, visiting filming locations from Bridget Jones' Diary, Love Actually, Sliding Doors and more.
Gorgeous Georgian architecture around Notting Hill leads to the hustle and bustle of the City of London as you wend your way along the plots and paths of your favourite films. You'll also get plenty of information about the iconic and historic landmarks in the area, including Tower Bridge and St Paul's Cathedral, and there will be lots of photo opportunities, too.
From Kensington to Southwark, you'll find yourself transported to the worlds of the characters, both endearing and dastardly. You can watch clips on the coach to relive the best moments from these classic films and prepare you for the next stop. And your guide will have the inside scoop on what it's like to make a film set in lovely London!
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- Visit the locations used for Bridget Jones' homes in both films
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Dr. Alise Brown is an instructor of music education at UNC. She began her teaching career in Secondary English Education, but discovered that her love of music presented a more fulfilling career path. Dr. Brown received her Master of Music degree in Music Education and her Doctorate of Arts in Music Education from the University of Northern Colorado. She has taught music in private and public schools at all levels.
She holds Orff and Kodaly training, and is fully certified in all levels of the Ward Method. Dr. Brown has been privileged to study under the Gregorian chant specialists Father Robert Skeris, previously of Vatican City, and Scott Turkington.
Dr. Brown specializes in music literacy and expressivity as taught in the Ward Method. Her work with two children's choirs, ages 4 -12, and directing the Windsor Community Choir rely heavily on these same principles. She had conducted Ward Method workshops at UNC and Calgary, Alberta and gives in-service presentations to schools and organizations regarding the Ward Method and its tenets, including the 2013 Sacred Music Colloquium in Salt Lake City.
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The best way to get a high score on the TOEFL isn't by cramming, but rather by making thoughtful and steady progress towards your goals. With this in mind, we'll be going through a series of reading questions centered around one particular passage. Today, we're looking at Paul Revere.
These posts will contain a reading passage and sample problem; I'll provide answers and explanations in the next post. Today, let's take a look at the answer to sample vocabulary question #1. If you haven't had a chance to look over the question yet, it's repeated below; if you don't want any spoilers, take a look at the original post here.
Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
While many schoolchildren have learned about Paul Revere from the famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, fewer remember the historical details about Revere's midnight ride that Longfellow did not include. Sent by Revolutionary Joseph Warren after British army activity suggested that the troops were beginning to move, Revere rode to alert the Massachusetts Provincial Congress to move military supplies away from town.
Little over a week later, the British commanders in the colonies (as the United States was then known) received orders to "disarm" the rebels, literally meaning to take their arms away, and to imprison their leaders. British General Gage was told to conduct this mission with the utmost secrecy, so as not to inspire further rebellion among the colonists. However, Warren found out about this mission and told Revere, as well as another colonist named William Dawes, that the British troops would sail from Boston for Cambridge, and eventually Lexington and Concord. The two men were sent to warn leaders in Lexington, as well as militias in the area.
Meanwhile, Revere had previously asked the sexton of a church to signal by lantern to let Charlestown residents know about the movement of the British troops. One lantern in the steeple window would indicate that the army was coming by land, while two lanterns would signify that it was coming by water. Secretly rowing across the Charles River, Revere rode to Lexington and warning almost every house he passed. Many patriots began to join him on horseback; by the end of the night, as many as 40 men may have been riding throughout the county. However, unlike the apocryphal legend, Revere never did should "The British are coming!" To do so would have made him conspicuous to the British troops, as well as to the colonists.
The system that Revere and his fellow patriots used is known as "alarm and muster," which the group had developed after an ineffectual colonial response to an alarm in September of 1774. By using this system, the Americans were able to deploy local militia quickly in the event of an emergency. In fact, this system had been used in early colonial battles in the "Indian wars," but had fallen out of use during the French and Indian War.
Unluckily, Revere, Dawes, and another revolutionary were stopped by a British army control. The other two men were able to escape, but Revere was captured and held for questioning by the British. He informed them that the army was coming in from Boston, and also let it be known that a large number of patriots were gathered in Lexington. A British major led Revere towards Lexington, but approximately half a mile from the town, a gunshot rang out. As they approached, the town bell began to ring, which the captives told the British major was the militia's call to arms. Taking heed of this, the British soldier decided to let his captives free and to head back to his base to warn his commander. The battle on Lexington Green had begun. Meanwhile, Revere made his way to the house of a nearby friend, where both John Hancock and John Adams were lodged. During the battle, Revere aided Hancock's family as they escaped from the town.
Paul Revere would remain politically active for the rest of his life. He was passionate about the Federalist cause, and particularly concerned about the economy and power of the United States. Even after his 1811 retirement, Revere still contributed to petitions and political discussions. His actions were long remembered; even 40 years after his death, Longfellow's poem "Paul Revere's Ride," infamously beginning "Listen, my children, and you shall hear/Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere" commemorated his heroic actions. Though the poem is less than historically accurate, Longfellow constructed it this way deliberately, in order to make the subject even more poetic and dramatic, ensuring that the patriot would live on in the memory of the nation.
1.The word "rebellion" in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to
a. uprising
b. battles
c. anger
d. fighting
a. uprising
Why this answer?
To select the correct answer for TOEFL vocabulary questions, make sure that you study the context around the sentence. Here, looking over paragraph 2, we can pull out the sentence containing our term: "British General Gage was told to conduct this mission with the utmost secrecy, so as not to inspire further rebellion among the colonists."
It can be helpful to come up with your own definition of the right term, even if it's not perfect, before going over the answer choices. Here, you might guess something along the lines of "dissent" or even "trouble." Basically, the General was hiding his mission so that the colonists wouldn't make any more trouble.
Then, scan the answer choices to see which one makes the most sense in this context. Here, "uprising" is the closest we have to a synonym, so (a) is correct.
Why not the other answers?
You can double-check your answer by plugging it back into the sentence and seeing if the sentence still makes sense. "British General Gage was told to conduct this mission with the utmost secrecy, so as not to inspire further uprisings among the colonists." Makes sense!
Now, let's try that with the other answer choices. We haven't actually heard about a battle yet, so it wouldn't make sense for the General to try to prevent "further," or more, battles. The same applies to "fighting." While we might assume that the colonists were angry, we don't actually know this from the passage—all the passage tells us is that Revere had already made a rebellious ride.
How can I use this practice in my test-day strategy?
Vocabulary questions are some of the most common questions on the TOEFL. You'll come across about three per passage, but there can be as many as five. You want to watch out for words that make sense in the context of the passage, but aren't definitions of the word being tested. Returning to our example here, while "anger" makes sense in the context of colonists turning against colonizers, "rebellion" is an action, while anger is a feeling—so this can't be the definition in this case.