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We, humans, are different from one another, different between ourselves as individuals. Hardly anyone will argue with this indisputable fact of nature. Why then will I dwell on it? The reason is that my working on the topic has led me, and hopefully will lead the reader, to some far-reaching thoughts.
The book entertains the two primary themes alluded to in its title. One theme is aiming at developing appreciation for the multitude of variables and complex interplays between them that reflect upon the differences. We will also ascertain an empirically obvious fact that the variances in the values of any variable are large. The other theme concerns with the enormity of the implications of being different. Our goal is to assert that the property of being different is at the root of a number of social phenomena which we have had difficulties to understand and, or because of that, have kept unsuccessfully fighting against.
The book, as I would like to see it, is of a scholarly character. For one, I have avoided political and any other biases as fully as humanly possible. For two, reasoning is intended to be the primary piece of the book's weaponry.
You will notice that certain methodological tactics permeate the book. I will start with something so obvious that hardly anyone would argue with, and then build on it, sometimes up to the borders with political controversy and factual sloppiness. I am also often appealing to the reader's, as well as my own personal experiences.
Where I list examples and references to historical situations, you will often find that I have missed more significant cases and that the list is too short. First, please treat this edition as an abstract. Second, I would really like to get you into an argumentative mood so that you start thinking of other and better examples and then conclude that either you agree or disagree with me.
The ideas presented in the book started to brew two decades ago. More or less organized sketches date back to January of 1991. But I have only been able to concentrate on the writing during the last six months. The first forewarning of the book came out on its web site at the end of October, 1998. The first two Case Studies were released on the web site on January 27, 1999.
As I have already mentioned, the book has to be viewed as an expanded abstract. I intended initially to put all the material together, but by mid-1999 started to sense that it would take another year. In addition to this, I was under pressure to publish whatever I could assemble before the year 1999 is over.
The book is divided into parts (Foreword, We Are Different and so on), a part may contain chapters, and a chapter may contain sections.
There are no illusions about the book gaining a wide readership. Its audience would be the kind of people who take pains in thinking about such unearthly themes as the history and present state of human societies, their possible evolutions and destiny, the order and governance, freedoms and their inevitable limitations, fairness and its rarity, the strengths and shortcomings of democracy, free markets and autocracy, the peculiarities of our individual characters, the origins of our achievements and misfortunes, the environmental eventualities, and, sliding to a lighter side, life on other planets and the possibility of highly advanced celestial visitors taking a purely gastronomical interest in us. The following circles come to mind: university students in humanities and pure mathematics, employed philosophers and unemployed economists and executives, and a person here and a person there from any walk of life. Futurists and visionaries? I don't think so; they already understand all and know the future. I hope to strike a chord, first of all, with young people of various persuasions, and of course with those of all ages who have not rusted away from concerns beyond the pressures of the day. Collectively, I would associate the people who might be interested with these traits of character: spirituality, intellect, civic duty and pragmatism.
Reader feedbacks regarding any aspect of the book, both supportive and critical, are welcome, especially those that will bring to my attention relevant facts, organizations, publications, unpublished and ongoing works, etc. As to the criticism, whether or not it is put forth in a friendly way and sounds nicely is not important, as long as it is constructive. Readers' input will serve as a guide, a compass so to speak, in my further efforts. Ideally, I would like to have another edition of the book written with the readers involvement. All contributions will be acknowledged, provided the publisher has the explicitly stated permission of the contributor.
And, maybe (dreaming on!), the book and debates around it will stimulate others to take upon the gray areas and arguable issues, wherever their competencies may lie.
I beg the reader not to judge this book as a literary work. With my second-language English, it cannot possibly be a fine piece of linguistics. Although my good friends Arnold Rose and Randy Carey have tried to make my English more palatable, I am sure a fair number of grammatical errors and stylistic imperfections remains, for which the responsibility is solely mine.
My good old friend Gregory G. Menshikov has helped me with recalling some particulars of the Soviet past.
My son Dan Shakhmundes has sprinkled his imagination onto the book's cover.
The publisher's addresses as well as the book's web site domain name are shown on the copyright page.
November 9, 1999
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Curses, Foiled Again
Detectives investigating an armed robbery at a convenience store in Greentown, Ind., caught a break when one of the crooks left his credit card at the crime scene. When they executed a search warrant at the suspect's home, they found evidence leading to the other three suspects, along with money, guns, clothing and other items associated with the robbery, as well as a home video-surveillance system. "Examination of the system's memory showed all four suspects preparing for and returning from the robbery," reported investigators, who arrested Luke K. Spence, 22, Elliott V. Shoffner, 22, Christopher A. Taylor, 26, and Gregory M. Riley, 25. (Kokomo Tribune)
Shahid Mohammed Kalam, 22, deposited a $1,000 forged or stolen check at a credit union ATM in Hernando, Fla., then tried to withdraw cash, according to police, who noted his ATM card had expired and that he was using an improper personal identification number. When the machine took the card, Kalam backed his vehicle against the building, tied a seatbelt to the ATM and tried to rip it from the wall. When that tactic failed, he fired a stolen .25-caliber handgun through the front door. Police used the ATM surveillance camera to identify Kalam as the suspect and arrested him when he returned to the credit union for other business. (Hernando Today)
Looking for Loopholes
Nite Moves strip club in Albany, N.Y., is seeking to avoid paying $124,000 in back taxes by claiming its nude lap dances are exempt under state law as "live dramatic or musical arts performances." An administrative law judge agreed with Nite Moves, pointing out, "The fact that the dancers remove all or part of their costume … simply does not render such dance routines as something less than choreographed performances."
But the state Tax Appeals Tribunal disagreed, as did an Appellate Division court, which ruled Nite Moves didn't establish that private dances offered at its club are choreographed performances and noted Nite Moves dancers aren't required to have any formal dance training. "It's definitely a form of art," one dancer, who declined to give her name, insisted. "Some girls are up there practicing for hours." (Associated Press)
New York's Finest
When New York City police spotted Tamon Robinson, 23, digging up decorative paving stones, he fled on foot, only to be struck and killed by a pursuing police cruiser. The city billed his family $710 for the damage his body did to the vehicle. City officials eventually acknowledged the collection notice was sent in error and apologized. (New York Times)
Lost Soles
Neglect, termites, mold and tropical humidity are destroying the shoes of Imelda Marcos. After she and her husband, President Ferdinand Marcos, fled the Philippines in 1986, they left behind his clothing and at least 1,220 pairs of her shoes. Two years ago, staffers at the presidential palace noticed the apparel was threatened, so they transferred 150 cartons of clothes and shoes to Manila's National Museum for safekeeping. There, the items deteriorated even further because the boxes were abandoned in a padlocked hall that had no facilities to protect the relics and was inundated by tropical rains due to a leak in the ceiling. An extensive rescue effort is under way, although many of Imelda Marcos's shoes are beyond repair.
Meanwhile, in suburban Marikina city, where officials borrowed 800 pairs of the former first lady's shoes in 2001 for a shoe museum, about 765 pairs survived floods and still look almost new due to the museum's meticulous care, which includes displaying them in airtight and dust-free glass cabinets in an air-conditioned gallery, away from direct sunlight. Noting the shoe collection draws a daily crowd of 50 to 100 Philippine and foreign tourists, museum manager Jane Ballesteros said, "The first word they utter is, 'Wow,'" adding, "Her shoes never fail to astound people years after." (Associated Press)
Recipe for Disaster
In a recorded interrogation presented during the Los Angeles murder trial of David Viens, 49, the chef admitted boiling the body of his 39-year-old wife for four days until little was left but her skull. His motive was to hide evidence of her death. A jury convicted Viens of second-degree murder. (CBS News)
Fetish of the Week
Police who arrested Eric Carrier, 24, in Hampton, N.H., said he posted an ad on Craigslist seeking a female caregiver because he "could not control his bowel movements due to a brain injury." According to investigators, he "indicated that he required assistance in changing soiled under garments." After he met with a woman and asked her to change his soiled underwear, she became suspicious and called police, who learned that Carrier isn't disabled and was convicted of a similar ploy this summer. (Boston's WBZ-TV)

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Lockheed Martin's Response to '60 Minutes': The F-22 Is Pretty Cool
Lockheed Martin's F-22 Raptor may have a design flaw that causes pilots to lose oxygen but, hey, it's a really fast plane!
Lockheed Martin's F-22 Raptor may have a design flaw that causes pilots to lose oxygen but, hey, it's a really fast plane!
That's one way to interpret the company's response to a Sunday 60 Minutes investigation by Lesley Stahl into the plane's faulty oxygen system that's causing pilots to become disoriented while at the controls. In an unprecedented move, two decorated Air Force pilots, Maj. Jeremy Gordon and Capt. Josh Wilson refused to fly the plane and put their careers on the line by airing their concerns on the CBS program last night.
On camera, Gordon and Wilson claimed that "a vast, silent majority" of Raptor pilots believe their lives are in danger because the lightning-fast jets make them black out or temporarily lose control—a hazard they say has caused Air Force doctors to say no one should be flying the $400 million jets. (Meanwhile, worried pilots are taking out extra life-insurance policies as the Air Force keeps the planes in the air and, the two men say.)
But on Sunday, Lockheed Martin launched a counter-messaging campaign on its Twitter feed, lauding the technological superiority of the plane and eschewing any talk of oxygen deprivation or hypoxia, as the condition is called among military health specialists.
"F-22 enables complete control of the skies for uncontested 4th gen fleet," read a tweet, which garnered a responses from several tweeters. "So does the F/A-18 Super Hornet only it does it in a combat instead of on paper and for only 25% of the cost, responded @MarkinZeroLand.
"Did you know that F-22 supercruise speeds are greater than Mach 1.4 without afterburners?" read another Lockheed Martin tweet. "Pity the pilots don't want to fly them though..." responded @ThatDamonGuy.
As you can see to the right, the promotional campaign continued tweet after tweet about the craft's speed, agility and "360 degree battlespace awareness" but nothing on its stubbornly problematic oxygen problems.
As for the Air Force's part, it grounded all of the Raptors after an F-22 pilot crashed in Alaska in 2010 after having blacked out (the incident was blamed on pilot error) and other pilots reported signs of oxygen deprivation. But the planes were brought back online after a few tweaks were made that haven't, as of yet, sovled the problem.
According to the Air Force, keeping the planes in the air is part of the inherent risks involved in flying planes. "We live in a community where risk is part of our lives," Gen. Mike Hostage, the Air Force's top fighter commander, said last month. "Right now, we believe that risk — although it's not as low as we would like it — is low enough to safely operate the airplane at the current tempo."


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Welcome to Deidre Dreams
Hi! Welcome to my shop!
Everything you find in this shop is handmade by me.
I use both new and recycled or up-cycled materials, like polymer clay, rhinestones, fresh water pearls, gem stones, disassembled vintage jewelry, hand dyed and hand spun yarn, vintage and new yarn, new and up-cycled filigrees and whatever else I can get my hands on that works for a new idea.
Although I love the water (seas, oceans, rivers, lakes) and taking baths, my goodies not so much, they can handle a little spatter, but other than that, they don't like bathing.
They also don't like to be bounced on the floor.
Do not put too much pressure on clay parts of items, they are not of the same sturdiness as metal. When for instance, you are putting in earrings, do not press down on the clay parts of the jewelry.
Because, while polymer clay is strong, it is not unbreakable. Take special care with protruding and small bits of clay in the pieces.
This is why my pieces are not meant for children. Please remember this, should you wish to purchase something for a child anyway.
Everything is made in a smoke-free environment!
Please note that all pieces are created by hand, so no two items are identical, which makes each piece unique.
Please allow for slight variances from what is shown in the made to order photos.
Payment goes through PayPal.
I ship when payment is received in full.
For custom orders I have to ask full payment up front.
I strive to ship ready to ship items within 5 working days when payment is received, for made to order items, count creation time added to this. For items that need to be shipped with tracking, it might take a day or 2 longer to ship.
Shipping is done with standard postage to the address on PayPal, let me know if it should go to a different address.
Shipping times can vary.
Within The Netherlands, packages usually arrive within a few days.
Packages to European countries can take longer, which can be up to 2 weeks.
Packages to the rest of the world can take from a few days up to 4- 6 weeks.
If your item doesn't arrive when we both expect it to arrive, please contact me so we can work on a solution together that is satisfactory for the both of us.
Since I ship with standard postage, I don't get a tracking number, unfortunately.
Up-grading to insured shipping is of course possible, but contact me if you want this, so I can check out the modification for the shipping costs beforehand so you can also decide whether you want this, since secured shipping is much more costly than standard postage in the Netherlands.
Several high priced items in the shop do come with tracked shipping. Should you want to purchase other items to go with these (which can be shipped in the same package), excess shipping fees paid will be refunded after my trip to the post office.
I ship in envelopes and small boxes that fit in the mail slot to keep shipping costs down, since parcel post is so much more expensive in the Netherlands than letter post.
Please note that buyers are responsible for any and all duties and customs charges that may be charged in your country of residence.
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I want to give the best possible customer service, so if a pysically sent item shouldn't be to your liking on arrival, please let me know within 1 week of receiving the item.
Physically sent items can be returned and you will be reimbursed for them, except for the shipping cost it took to get the item to you and back to me.
Refund will be given once the item arrives safely back with me. All items must be returned in good condition.
I do not give refunds for digital products.
If you should want to have an item custom made for you, this is of course, possible, but I cannot take returns for custom made items.
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If you have any questions on ready to ship items, before you want to purchase, please do contact me.
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Wonderful house, Excellent location, Super Easy commute and Beautiful neighborhood! Move-in condition, classic 5 bed 3 1/2 bath center hall colonial in Upper Montclair has all the amenities you seek: modern updated kitchen, mudroom, pantry, family room, library, master bedroom suite, office, laundry and rec room. There are both formal and informal entertaining spaces: formal living and dining rooms as well as French doors from the kitchen lead to the deck and backyard. Perennial gardens of peonies, irises, azaleas, and rhododendrons outline the exterior of the home and a vegetable garden is steps from the deck. This 3100 sq ft home is located on a lovely tree lined street just 2 ½ blocks from Watchung train station, 2 NYC transit bus stops, boutiques, restaurants, cafes, book store and more. Welcome to Montclair!
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Broadway newcomers Gbenga Akinnagbe, Sophia Anne Caruso, Jeremy Pope and Paddy Considine are among this year's Theatre World Award winners. A New York theater tradition since 1945, the awards go to a dozen performers making their Broadway or Off Broadway debuts.
Also announced today by the organization's president Dale Badway: The 7th Annual John Willis Award for Lifetime Achievement will go to three-time Tony Award winner Nathan Lane, currently starring on Broadway in Gary: A Sequel To Titus Andronicus. The 75th Annual Theatre World Awards ceremony is set for Monday, June 3 at a Broadway theater to be announced.
Previous winners of the newcomers awards include Meryl Streep, Rosemary Harris, Marlon Brando, Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Anne Bancroft, James Earl Jones, Liza Minnelli, Alan Alda, Zoe Caldwell, Christopher Walken, Alec Baldwin, Bernadette Peters, Audra McDonald, Al Pacino, Grace Kelly, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Cynthia Erivo, Danielle Brooks, Lupita Nyong'o and John Krasinski.
The line-up of honorees for outstanding Broadway or Off Broadway debut performances during the 2018-2019 theatrical season is:
Gbenga Akinnagbe, To Kill A Mockingbird
Tom Glynn-Carney, The Ferryman
Sophia Anne Caruso, Beetlejuice
Paddy Considine, The Ferryman
James Davis, Oklahoma!
Micaela Diamond, The Cher Show
Bonnie Milligan, Head Over Heels
Simone Missick, Paradise Blue
Jeremy Pope, Choir Boy (pictured at top)
Colton Ryan, Girl from The North Country
Stephanie Styles, Kiss Me, Kate
Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag
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Sketchbook: Introducing The Heritage Collection & New Design, Riverbank
Here at Oscha Slings, we are proud to celebrate our Scottish heritage with designs inspired by the artistic and cultural history which surrounds our wee workshop outside of Edinburgh. With this in mind, we have created the Heritage Collection, an ongoing collection which celebrates the richness of our Scottish arts and crafts heritage along with the modern art scene in Scotland.
This new Collection will include our current designs inspired by Scottish culture, including Fair Isle-inspired Croft & Sonsie, our stunning tartan slings, and our designs featuring intricate Celtic knotwork - Braid & Caledonia. Alongside these classic patterns, we have also been working with Scottish-based artists to create new designs which capture the magic of the Scottish landscape and history.
Shop the Heritage Collection here.
The first of these new designs has been developed with Edinburgh based artist, Ursula Hunter, who works under the name Little Axe. Ursula works with woodblock prints to create stunning homeware & accessories, similarly, this design was originally developed as a print before being translated into a woven wrap.
You can see the evolution of Ursula's work here:
Ursula has created the gorgeous Riverbank design for us, this new pattern is inspired by the endangered flora and fauna of Scotland's lochs and rivers. Maintaining the look and feel of the print was an important part of this collaboration. So as we worked with Ursula's print to translate the bold lines of the print to a woven fabric, we were careful to reconstruct the marks and textures which are the hallmark of the traditional woodblock style.
We are so happy to be releasing the product of this collaboration: Riverbank Luna. Ursula's pattern is picked out with a bright turquoise blue, organic combed cotton weft, which adds grip and a little cush to this shimmery soft Tencel warp.


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North Korea details Guam missile plan, dismissing Trump warnings as 'nonsense'
(Worthy News) – North Korea dismissed warnings by U.S. President Donald Trump that it would face "fire and fury" if it threatened the United States as a "load of nonsense" and outlined detailed plans on for a missile strike near the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam.
Experts in South Korea said the plans unveiled by Pyongyang ratcheted up risks significantly since Washington was likely to view any missile aimed at its territory as a provocation, even if launched as a test.
North Korea's apparently rapid progress in developing nuclear weapons and missiles capable of reaching the U.S. mainland has fueled tensions that erupted into a war of words between Washington and Pyongyang this week, unnerving regional powers and global investors. [ Source (Read More…) ]
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The Wichita City Council workshop scheduled for 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, July 22, will be held in Council Chambers on the first floor of City Hall, 455 N. Main.
The only agenda item is a wrap up of a proposed "Sales Tax Initiative & Strategic Plan." The proposed sales tax initiative was presented to residents during a series of recent community engagement meetings.
The community engagement meetings are part of an initiative titled "Building a Better Future," a way for residents to weigh in on shaping the city's future and identifying key priorities for 2015 and beyond.
The "Building a Better Future" meetings included a presentation and feedback session on the proposed city sales tax, which, if approved by voters, would fund key community priorities related to water supply, a jobs initiative, public transit and pavement maintenance.
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Spirit of Life, which in the beginning hovered over the abyss,
Help humanity of our time to understand
That the exclusion of God leads to being lost in the desert of the world.
And that only where faith enters, do dignity and liberty flourish
And the whole society is built on justice.
Spirit of Pentecost, which makes of the Church one Body,
Restore in the baptized an authentic experience of communion;
Render yourself a living sign
of the presence of the Risen One in the world,
Community of saints that lives in the service of charity.
Holy Spirit, which trains to the mission,
Make us recognize that, also in our time,
So many persons are in search of the truth
about their existence and the world.
Make us collaborators of their joy
with the proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
Grain of the wheat of God, which renders good the terrain of life
and assures the abundance of the harvest.
His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI
Papal Address to General Assembly of Italian Bishops
26 May 2012
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Saint Philip Neri
Philip was born to noble parents on 22 July 1515 in Florence. As a child, Philip received a careful and tremendous education from the Dominican friars at San Marco in Florence. In his later years he gave much credit to the Dominican friars for his achievements. At the age of 18, Philip's parents sent him to live with his uncle, who was a wealthy merchant in San Germano. His parents hoped that Philip would gain his uncle's confidence, and one day inherit his prosperous business.
History tells us that Philip did, indeed, win his uncle's confidence, but as a young man his cares turned their attention from the world to the heavens. Saint Philip relocated to Rome in A.D. 1533.
After arriving in Rome, Philip took work as a tutor in the house of a wealthy Florentine aristocrat. After two years, Philip began to pursue his own studies under the guidance of the Augustinians and, following his studies, he began to work among the sick and poor of the city, which later gained for him the title "Apostle of Rome." He ministered to all in need, and in A.D. 1538 began home mission work.
In A.D. 1548, Saint Philip with his confessor (Fr. Persiano Rossa) founded the confraternity of the Santissima Trinita de' Pellegrini e de' Convalescenti, who took as its object ministering to the needs of the thousands of poor pilgrims that annually flocked to Rome. On 23 May 1551, Saint Philip was ordained a priest. After his ordination he considered going to India to work as a missionary, but he was persuaded by others to remain in Rome and continue the mission work he had begun there.
Now Father Philip Neri settled down at the Hospital of San Girolamo della Carita, with some companions, and there began the formation of the Congregation of the Oratory. Initially, the group decided to hold a series of meetings in the Hospital oratory for prayer, hymns, readings from Scripture and the Church Fathers, and a lecture. These meetings, however, soon proved to be popular and built a means of attracting many new missionaries to work with the poor and needy in Rome. History also tells us that these meetings drew many to the sacrament of confession, a pursuit to which Father Philip Neri devoted much time, and achieved many conversions to the faith.
In A.D. 1564 the Florentines asked that Father Philip Neri oversee their newly built church in Rome, San Giovanni dei Fiorentini. Although at first reluctant, Father Philip took on this new task, with the consent of Pope Pius IV, while still remaining in charge of San Griolamo, where the exercises of the oratory were maintained. In A.D. 1574, the Florentines built a large mission hall for Saint Philip's society next to San Giovanni and the headquarters of the society moved there.
As the work and reach of the society's missions grew, it soon became clear that a church of its own was needed. So, the society relocated to the church of Santa Maria in Vallicella, located in the middle of Rome, where a new larger church was built to accommodate the mission needs of the society. Immediately after taking possession of the new church, Saint Philip organized, under the permission of a papal bull dated 15 July 1575, a community of secular priests, called the Congregation of the Oratory. The new church was consecrated in A.D. 1577, but Saint Philip did not leave San Girolamo until A.D. 1583 and, then, only at the urging of the pope that as superior of the community he should reside with his congregation.
Saint Philip was the first elected superior of the congregation for a term of three years, but in A.D. 1587 he was nominated to serve as superior for life. Having no personal ambitions, however, Saint Philip decided that all congregations founded on his model outside of Rome should be autonomous and self-governing. This governance was later confirmed by Gregory XV in A.D. 1622.
Saint Philip died on 25 May 1595, the Solemnity of Corpus Christi that year, after spending the day hearing confessions and receiving visitors. About midnight it became clear that the Lord's call was approaching, and he was asked to give a blessing to his spiritual sons before dying. Although unable to speak, Saint Philip blessed those there with the sign of the cross and died.
Saint Philip Neri was beatified by Pope Paul V in A.D. 1615 and canonized by Pope Gregory XV in A.D. 1622.
History records that Saint Philip Neri possessed a playful humor and a shrewd wit. He considered a cheerful temper to be more Christian than a melancholy one, a spirit that he is said to have carried with him throughout his life.
Another excellent biography of Saint Philip Neri can be found here.
O holy St. Philip Neri, patron saint of joy,
you who trusted Scripture's promise
that the Lord is always at hand
and that we need not have anxiety about anything,
in your compassion heal our worries and sorrows
and lift the burdens from our hearts.
We come to you
as one whose heart swells with abundant love for God
and all creation.
Bear us, we pray,
especially in this need [insert your request here].
Keep us safe through your loving intercession,
and may the joy of the Holy Spirit which filled your heart,
St. Philip, transform our lives and bring us peace.
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25 May 2012
The Need for the Holy Spirit
All of us sin,
All of us fail,
All of us fall,
some more than others; some frequently,
some not.
The mud,
the mud,
sucks us in. It is the devil's grasp.
We cannot free ourselves
of our own accord.
We must rely,
we must trust,
we must have FAITH,
in the One God that saves.
Christ Jesus, the only begotten Son,
mediator between humanity and the Father,
from whom together, the Spirit is begotten.
And, will be with us always.
Thanks be to God for the Paraclete.
Thanks be to God for His mercy.
Thanks be to God for God's sake.
All of us fail,
All of us fall,
some more than others; some frequently,
some not.
The mud,
the mud,
sucks us in. It is the devil's grasp.
We cannot free ourselves
of our own accord.
We must rely,
we must trust,
we must have FAITH,
in the One God that saves.
Christ Jesus, the only begotten Son,
mediator between humanity and the Father,
from whom together, the Spirit is begotten.
And, will be with us always.
Thanks be to God for the Paraclete.
Thanks be to God for His mercy.
Thanks be to God for God's sake.
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01 May 2012
Thank you Father Perez
Great thanks must be extended to the pastor of St. Stephen parish in Pensacola, Father Hector Perez, for the gift of his celebration of the Gregorian Rite--the extraordinary form of the Liturgy of the Church yesterday in Quincy.
Thank you Father Perez for your travel, your ministry, and the blessing of your presence with us in the Tallahassee area.
Thank you Father Perez for your travel, your ministry, and the blessing of your presence with us in the Tallahassee area.
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House in La Zamora
Build size
- Reference: V0562-3
- Type: Villa
- Status: Sold
- Location: Zamora Alta, Los Realejos
- Bedrooms: 3
- Bathrooms: 3
- Build size: 190m2
- Plot size: 475m2
Morfitt Properties Tenerife have for sale a very nice house with an additional 2 studios, each with 34m2. The house is very modern. It has a very large living room with views over Puerto de la Cruz, Los Realejos and the Orotava Valley. The living room which measures 83 m2 is equipped with a bar / kitchen combination in the middle of the room. With its 6 very large windows, each of 3 x 1.5 meters. Therefore all rooms are flooded with sunlight. The living room has a double bed which folds away in to a wall unit. In this space, as well as in the bathroom were installed 100 meter LED lights which give great effect. It has also been catered with 13 wall speaker for an optimal sound inside and outside. The bath was built very generous with 12,5 m2.. The separate toilet is equipped with a high-quality hanging toilet, bidet and urinal. Furthermore there is a bedroom / dressing room is approximately 21,5 m2 on this floor. A side room with washer, dryer. This floor can be transformed individually and thus all wishes can be realized. A spacious terrace with about 35m2 which allows a beautiful view over Los Realejos and the Orotava Valley. In the lower floor there are 2 studios, each with 35m2. These are fully equipped and have a private entrance. A nice large garden with bananas, oranges and avocado trees leave no wish unfulfilled. A lockable garage, 2 parking spaces for 2 cars and a terrace with garden house for a barbecue is on top. All around a great house for a large family or many friends.


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Sometimes I feel like I'm losing it all
Abused and beat down I'm thrown to the wall
How can they do this to someone at all?
Something so awful
Woke up this morning I hoped and I prayed
Nothing can stop me I'm well on my way
If I can have anything that I want
How can this happen
We gain, we lose, we fall
And we stand right up again
We gain, we lose and we fall
And we stand right up again
I can be anything I want to be
Losing myself in a world that can't be
Coming together and falling apart we stand.... We fall....
I can see clearly the crack in your soul
Searching for something to patch up the hole
If you need someone to reach for, console, just call my name...
You have been searching for so long inside
A meaningful calling your heart can't deny
I try so hard just to stand on my own
How can this happen? (again)
I can finally see the light
No more darkness
I feel so much more alive


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I am getting ready to leave for China and while this was an unexpected trip I kind of like the last minute nature of it, not a lot of time to think! It also helps me really get organized, necessitating numerous decisions bringing projects to fruition.
Once again I will be traveling around to many different locations, going further north than ever before,to Qingdao, and visiting new towns and tea gardens in Fujian province as well as visiting some old favorites like Mr. Fong in Tunxi, Anhui province and Huangshan Mountain. The spring harvests are late this year due to the extreme winter in China this year. I also hope to travel to one of my favorite cities Nanjing, to see the plum blossoms in full bloom.
Many of the new teas we have been formulating over the past 3-4 months are arriving in the US today and we hope to have them to share with everyone by the end of next week. We are working on many new blends with the newly formulated Organic Relaxing Blend and Organic Cold Comfort already released for sale.
Lots of other cool things are happening with Teas getting a lot of media attention recently, especially with the launch of the CarbonFund green feature on the website.
Oh and check out the new flowering tea video on youtube! It's the Golden Prosperity set to music, so turn on your speakers. My son Chris shot and produced the video so it is particularly good from my point of view. Hope you enjoy it and until next time, Beth


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The stars glow blue. The trees are swaying.
A routine evening. Routine winter, too.
All is forgiven. Nothing's forgiven.
Music and gloom.
We are all heroes, we are all traitors;
all words are worthless, each and every one.
My dear contemporaries –
having fun?
by Георгий Владимирович Иванов (Georgii Vladimirovich Ivanov)
a.k.a. Georgy Ivanov
translated by Maria Bloshteyn


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Just A Minute With Justin Young
In this week's installment of Just A Minute, RivalsHoops.com National Recruiting Analyst Justin Young takes a final look at the Spiece Run N Slam, Greg Oden's dominance in the post, the NBA Draft and more.
He's not going to win any points for style and grace but Luke Harangody (left) will earn the respect of true hoops fans. The 6-foot-8, 245-pound class of 2006 prospect is a blue collar post player that loves to battle for boards, dive for loose balls and score inside the paint. The Andrean High School (Ind.) product has received a fair share of interest of late from Xavier, Wisconsin, Illinois, Purdue, Dayton, Indiana and Northwestern. Harangody will be a strong candidate for national rankings when we release our updated list for the class of 2006.
Harangody's SYF teammate Jamil Tucker also drips high major potential. The 6-foot-8 sophomore small forward from Gary, Ind. is an intriguing prospect. He showed off his great high-arching shot and handles the ball like a guard. Big Ten schools have been actively involved and many more will be involved after the ABCD camp where he'll likely shine.
Wilson Chandler (right) was one of the come-out-of-nowhere national recruits. The 6-foot-7, 185-pound small forward from Benton Harbor (Mich.) High School was always around the basket, grabbing rebounds and scoring in traffic. He displayed good athleticism and solid ball handling skills.
The class of 2005 prospect said his school list consists of Xavier, Michigan, Michigan State, Ball State, Eastern Michigan, Central Michigan and Bowling Green. Chandler said Xavier, Michigan State and Ball State visited him during the live period and caught a glimpse at the promise he has as a potential high major player. There is one school that he thinks highly of.
"Michigan State - they are my favorite," Chandler said.
While the Spartans are relatively new on the scene, the interest level on both sides is certainly there. Chandler said he's open to new schools and hopes to shine on a bigger stage with the Michigan Hurricanes. The Spiece Run N Slam was his first tournament with the club. He was originally playing with the Michigan Mustangs.
Elliot Johnson was another player that established himself as a top recruit over the weekend. With ranked teammate Wes Matthews, Jr. missing in action, Johnson took advantage of the opportunity and boy did he cash in. Johnson is a versatile 6-foot-8 small forward that does a little bit of everything. He's solid with his mid-range game, he's not afraid to get inside to rebound and he's fairly athletic.
Stanford, Wisconsin, St. Louis, Notre Dame, Wyoming, Purdue, Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Akron have all shown a variety of interest in Johnson. He'll be at the Tournament of Champions in North Carolina later this month.
The class of 2006 is stacked with talent, particularly the big men. Rivals.com has - and probably always will - Greg Oden ranked as the number one player in the nation. He did nothing to change that at the Run N Slam. A number of players had the opportunity to prove their worth against Oden, though. Mitchell Carter (left), the No. 13 ranked player in the class of 2006, was one of those players.
Carter, who stands 6-foot-11, 250-pounds, matched up with Oden in the tournament field on Saturday night. On paper, the match up was intriguing prior to the game but the numbers didn't lie in the end. Oden finished with 17 points in the 79-49 stomping while Carter added eight points.
Oden started the game off with a beautiful turn around hook shot and converted on an and-one dunk. Carter did play solid defense at times, forcing Oden to step on the baseline for the turnover but he struggled boxing Oden out underneath.
In the second quarter, Oden scored twice around the bucket but displayed amazing body control, scoring on a reverse layup and a beautiful pivot move. Carter again played solid defense, pushing the 7-footer off the blocks, forcing him to step out of his comfort zone. Carter later scored on a 15-footer.
Carter did display a nice soft touch and rebounded well against a younger Aaron Pogue (a very talented class of 2007 prospect). But in the end, it was Oden prevailing. Who's next?
In a year where former preps-to-pros players Kevin Garnett won the NBA Most Valuable Player and LeBron James won the NBA Rookie of the Year, the 2004 NBA Draft will be dominated by a number of players with goals to become the next KG and King James. Six of the top ten players in the Rivals150 have declared for the draft.
Dwight Howard (No. 1), Shaun Livingston (No. 2), Josh Smith (No. 3), Al Jefferson (No. 4), Sebastian Telfair (No. 6) and J.R. Smith (No. 8) have all entered their names for the draft. Livingston, Jefferson and J.R. Smith all decided to go public on Monday.
Howard is still considered a top two pick. Livingston, who some scouts believe is the best long term player in the entire draft, is considered a top 10 selection, according to our sources. Josh Smith is being looked at by every lottery team and from there, it gets interesting.
Telfair has already hired an agent and is in the process of inking a major shoe endorsement deal. The hype has clearly generated a marketing buzz despite the lukewarm reports from those inside the league. Telfair hasn't received rave reviews from those with the high picks but his ability to pour on the charm may sell season tickets for a struggling franchise.
With each of these instant impact players skipping the college game, the opportunity is open for a number of players next year as true freshman. Who will be the Carmelo Anthony and Luol Deng in 2004-05? Rudy Gay comes to mind. The UConn bound small forward has star potential and the minutes are available with the National Champions. Do do Malik Hairston and Randolph Morris - the only two players in the top 10 not committed. Both expected to make their college decisions this week.
Hairston has put Kansas, Michigan, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Oregon and UCLA fans through an emotional roller coaster ride over the last couple of months. His plans change almost daily and he's played his cards very close to his vest. Expect it all to end this week.
Morris will announce his decision on Thursday at a press conference, according to Landmark Christian head coach Bryan Bartley. He told us Georgia Tech and Kentucky are neck and neck in the race and the option of the NBA is still being considered.
April was the busiest month in recent memory here at RivalsHoops.com. We've blanketed the nation, covering seven major AAU tournaments in four weekends. Now that we are home, we've gone through our notes and revamped our top 150 list for the class of 2005 and it will be released in the coming days.
May is a quiet period for coaches but it won't be here. We will continue to pump out the content on the nation's top players and the up and coming prospects waiting in the wings.
We will hit the road again at the end of the month for the Tournament of Champions in the Raleigh-Durham area in North Carolina and Nike Memorial Day Classic in New Orleans.


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The perils of a tweeter in chief
All political leaders, presidents in particular, dream of using technology to avoid the media filter and speak directly to the American people.
Thomas Jefferson – both eloquent founder and appalling political hack – weaponized the pamphlet, commissioning scandalmonger James Callender to write a hit job on Alexander Hamilton. Warren Harding pioneered the political use of radio, which was perfected by Franklin Roosevelt, whose ambitions were aided by having a good radio voice. Not everyone was a fan of the medium. When a radio microphone was put in front of diplomat Elihu Root, he is said to have responded: "Take that away. I can talk to a Democrat, but I cannot speak into a dead thing."
John Kennedy's political appeal was unimaginable without televised images of his youth, vigor and physical grace. Ronald Reagan talked to the camera like an old, single-eyed friend.
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But no president has really possessed the technical means to routinely avoid edited, moderated mass communication until now. President Trump holds his office, in part, because of his talent for Twitter. He has shown a remarkable ability to dominate the news cycle and redirect the national conversation in increments of 140 characters. For Trump, this medium is a living, snarling and hungry thing.
Make no mistake: This is not only change, it is regression. I make this judgment both as a fogey and a former speechwriter. A presidential speech may be two or three thousand words, every one of them run through the staffing process (in which senior White House officials can comment), fact checked and approved by the president before delivery. A good presidential speech is the result of both thought and craft. A great presidential speech reflects literary, historical and moral inspiration and can speak far beyond its moment.
I understand the usefulness of social media in aggregating flows of information that people trust, enjoy and need. It allows people to essentially be their own editors (the value of which is determined by the news literacy of the user). And some people have a remarkable knack for communicating in vivid fragments. Pope Francis (with 10 million Twitter followers) distributes little bits of wisdom and comfort like virtual communion wafers. Katy Perry (with more followers than the population of Germany) says, well, whatever it is that Katy Perry says.
But in politics, Twitter has dramatic limits and can become a disturbing substitute for disciplined thought.
One hundred and forty characters are suitable to expressing an impulse, but not an argument. It is the rhetorical equivalent of a groan, a shriek, a sneer or a burp. If reason and persuasion are what our politics lacks and needs, Twitter is not the answer.
Trump's mastery and extensive use of Twitter are revealing in a way he does not intend. This is the only area in which Trump can be considered a great communicator. His stump speech was a disorganized, repetitive, unfocused mess. His inaugural speech was memorable only in ways – such as its dark, shrunken view of America itself – that deserve to be forgotten. His recent speech at the CIA was strangely inappropriate and offensive. So he often returns to the comfort zone of Twitter. He claims Hillary Clinton lost in a "landslide," or goes after a specific news organization, or makes entirely unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud.
Some feel that journalism would be better served by ignoring such shiny objects. But the shallowness of Trump's preferred form of communication indicates deeper things. His mind seems perfectly suited to a medium that rewards impulsiveness, that ignores fact-checking and that encourages incivility. Those are not generally the traits we hope for in a new president.
And Trump's use of Twitter raises the prospect of a serious abuse of power. A private citizen with 22 million followers (as Trump has) can be a vindictive jerk, attacking the owner of the Cubs, the head of the United Steelworkers or a Gold Star family by name. A president with 22 million followers, including the shock troops of Internet bullying, can destroy an individual's life as surely as targeting by the FBI or the IRS.
At moments of frustration, Trump will be sorely tempted to attack specific people on Twitter. But a government official should not be allowed to take the reputation or peace of any citizen without due process. It is the president's job to enforce laws without distinction, not to choose specific men and women for harm. This would be the practice of personal rule, and a scary detour toward Putinism.
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Chinese censors chop 40 minutes out of 'Cloud Atlas'
The embattled "Cloud Atlas," which opened to polarized audience reaction and commercial nonexistence in the US in October, faces a new challenge in China. The centuries-spanning ensemble saga from directors Tom Tykwer and Andy & Lana Wachowski has been trimmed by almost 40 minutes from its original length by Chinese censors.
The version American and European audiences saw was 169 minutes, but the edit of "Cloud Atlas," which featured popular Chinese actress Zhou Xun in a small but memorable role, that played in Beijing was reportedly a mere 130. The new cut was prepared without the directors' participation by co-producers Dreams of the Dragon Pictures.
The deleted material, according to a Shanghai publication, consisted mostly of exposition and "passionate love scenes," specifically any hint of the affair, implicit in the novel on which the film was based, between Ben Whishaw and James D'Arcy's characters, as gay material is strictly forbidden by Chinese censors. One, more explicit, heterosexual coupling was cut as well.
Although Tykwer and the Wachowskis were not involved in the editing process, they told Chinese media that they understood the reason for the changes, made to conform to the specifications of the Chinese government's State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television.
"Cloud Atlas" is not the only recent film to face cuts for Chinese release. "Skyfall" recently bowed in China with some material removed from the portion of the film set there, though nowhere near the 40 minutes removed from "Cloud Atlas."


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A Real Cardinal of the Kremlin: An Asset In The Kremlin Exfiltrated and Blown By Russia and MSNBC
Breathlessly and with great hyperbole the MSNBC report came across my iPad as I sipped my morning coffee. The reporter eagerly reporting on their "scoop" of locating, potentially, the Russian source inside the Kremlin's whereabouts in Washington DC. As I sat agog at their reporting, a mix of "OMG OMG OMG LOOK AT US!" and "Sorry, I can't report the details because two guys in an SUV came at us after we rang a doorbell!" as the bile rose inside of me. I then took to Twitter and began to get information that surprised me and made it all the worse. It turns out that MSNBC buried the real lede in their reporting. It seems their "tip" on the possible asset that was exfiltrated in 2017 was in fact from the Russian government by proxy of a news site called Kommersant.ru.
The Kommersant article, posted yesterday before MSNBC made their rush to the address of the alleged Russian asset in DC, gives the name plainly, which I will not do here, and links to earlier stories of the missing official who went on vacation in 2017 and "disappeared without a trace"… Of course the Russians would have readily known who the asset was after the EXFIL, but, to post it online was an interesting move. Originally "The Storm", another Russian news outlet posted in October 2017 of the missing Russian official but no one in the media took note it seems. The updated story in Kommersant though was prompted by the stories in the media about how Trump could not be trusted with intel much like (think Lavrov and Kislyak in the Oval) where Trump released code word intel to them and blew an Israeli operation. As the stories swirled from CNN quoting that the exfil had happened because Trump, the Russians I am sure began to ponder how they could stick a finger in the eye of the US and the CIA.
What they did was just remind everyone that the name of the asset in their opinion was <REDACTED> and that his new address was <REDACTED> in Virginia USA. They actually gave the address in the article. MSNBC got the tip somehow (likely monitoring sites like Kommersant) and immediately dispatched a crew to go to the address and knock on the door Geraldo style and get the scoopy scoop and win the news day! Pay no mind to the potential intelligence disaster it may cause to someone who did a great service to this country.
…But hey HEADLINES! CLICKS! ADS! BYLINES!
Anyway, the asset has been moved I am sure but a lot still needs to be discussed here about this whole thing. I mean, why would they re-settle this guy and his family under his own name? Why would they allow them to purchase a rather large house under their names? I mean, once upon a time when you were exfiltrated from Russia (SOV Bloc) you got a new name and you got some money and lived quietly as you are consistently debriefed. Has the CIA lost it's collective mind? Is this even the guy? What the hell is going on here? With that question upon my mind I will give this a bit of thought.
Is this the asset in question? … Given the details of their disappearance in 2017, and his role in the Kremlin, I am going to lean toward yes.
Why was this guy allowed to buy property and live in the open under his real name? … I honestly have a few theories:
- The CIA wanted the Kremlin to know as a poke in the eye and a challenge. If this guy gets a polonium enema in the US, shit is gonna go plaid.
- Also, the assets new life in a free country with considerable assets would perhaps entice others.
- His EXFIL was pretty out in the open once he went RED RABBIT, so, perhaps there just was no need for an elaborate re-settlement and name change.
- Lastly, perhaps there is some incompetence going on? Who knows, maybe the asset demanded they live free and under their own name?
What is going to happen now? … Well, if this asset has been moved as I suspect, then they likely will get that name change because they are spectacularly blown because of Kommersant and now MSNBC and all the other services. I mean, I did not name the guy here but Kommersant did and with just the name I tracked them down to the house through sales records online!
All in all, this whole affair just makes me scratch my head. I mean, we are really through the looking glass in 2019 with everything that has been going on since 2016 but wow. This whole thing at least moved me to post, something I have been uninterested in doing for a long while now, so there is that. I will watch the game unfold and see what plays out. I gotta say though, recent events regarding losses for the CIA in China and Iran have me worried that we have lost some of our skill sets in HUMINT. I would love to find out that this whole debacle was really a play at something larger by the CIA, but, I fear it wasn't.
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History and Rationale
In 2005, the roguelike community established a yearly event, the 7DRL Challenge, in which all the world is challenged to create a roguelike in a one-week span. This allows one to have the shared misery of knowing you are not the only one tracking down a bad pointer at the 167th hour. As a suggested schema for proposing the challenge the 7DRL Voting Specification has been created.
The annual event occurs during a week in late February or early March. There is a chance that some other challenges may arise out of schedule, thus allowing more than one challenge per year.
7DRL Challenges are NOT about being a fast coder, but rather proving you can release a finished, playable roguelike to the world. There is no winner of the challenge, but rather all those who finish are honoured for their work, the criterion is completeness.
Event rules
- You CAN use external libraries, game engines, pre-existing generic code/algorithms, pre-existing generic art, etc. You can even start your game from an existing game, if you are willing to turn it out into something unique, you must however say what resources were reused.
- It is allowed and recommended to have a rough design idea of your project before starting
How to participate
- After the initial date chosen for the challenge, post your starting development notice on rec.games.roguelike.development
- 168 or less hours after this initial post, post your results on rec.games.roguelike.development; if you were sucessful, post your announcement on rec.games.roguelike.announce
- The challenge is always Saturday to Sunday; if you start after Sunday you will have less than 168 hours as in-challenge 7DRLs must be completed by the closing time. You can still use 168 hours and have a normal, out of challenge, 7DRL, however
To the date, there have been seven annual 7DRL challenges and one bonus Orange October Minigun festival.
- March 5th to March 13th 2005. 7DRL Contest 2005
- February 25th to March 5th 2006. 7DRL Contest 2006
- October 15th to October 23th 2006 Orange October Minigun 7DRL Contest 2006
- March 10th to March 18th 2007 7DRL Contest 2007
- March 8th to March 16th 2008 7DRL Contest 2008
- March 7th to March 15th 2009 7DRL Contest 2009
- March 6th to March 14th 2010 7DRL Contest 2010
- March 5th to March 13th 2011 7DRL Contest 2011


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The Keltner Channel was introduced in 1960 by Chester W. Keltner in his book How To Make Money in Commodities, and is also explained by Perry Kaufman's book The New Commodity Trading Systems and Methods. Keltner Channels plots three lines, consisting of a simple moving average (typically of the average price) with upper and lower bands plotted above and below this moving average. The width of the bands is based on a user defined factor applied to the Average True Range, with this result added to and subtracted from the middle moving average line.
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The 2 in 1 machine runs Android apps, thanks to the Google Play Store support added to Chromebooks a few months ago. It can also run apps installed from the Chrome Web Store, by the way. Lenovo Flex 11 Chromebook has a sealed touchpad and reinforced ports, so if you spill your coffee on it, the damage won't be major. Specs include a 11.6 inch screen with a 360 degree hinge, as well as a quad core ARM chipset clocked at 2.1 GHz.
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As Far as CA Intermediate | CA IPCC Advance Accounts is consider i will not list down the Most Important Chapter but following is the list of those chapter which **`one should NEVER keep for option`** 1 Accounting Standards 2.Branch Accounting 3.Departments 4.Amalgamation 5.Partnership 6.Banking (Only Profit and Loss Account) 7.Insurance (Only Revenue Account) Form Past two the Institute has raised the level of Question as compare to Past attempts where the pattern of question to be asked were predictable All the Best
> what are the important chapter in Adv.accounts in CA Intermediate | CA IPCC - As a CA student i will advice u to go through all the chapters of the subject as there are no standard weightage to the chapters. However, based on the ICAI past exam pattern i would suggest you following topics to be emphasized more than others:- -- Accounting standards issued by ICAI -- ESOP -- Redemption of debentures --Amalgamation -- Banking companies Interest and bill discounting topic -- Branches
According to my knowledge there is no important chapters in adv.accounts in CA Intermediate | CA IPCC.but in exam point of you banking and insurance accounts and company accounts are important but in knowledge point of you all chapters are important.
Every chapter is important from Exam point of u but these are some of important chapters as Examiner the way questions are asked from past exam trend are 1)Accounting Standards 2)Partnership 3)Amalgamation/Reconstruction(covered in a/c1) 4)Banking(Just 16 Schedules) 5)ESOP(or)Buy Back(or)underwriting(4-8 marks) 6)Redemption of Debentures(if u have GR-1 A/C'' investment'' Chapter knowledge is required) 7)Liquidation(3 types of problems) FOR THIS CHAPTERS ARE LESS TIME CONSUMING AND GIVE MORE THAN 70+ MARKS IN IF U HAVE TIME THEN GO FOR BRANCH(FOREIGN ALONG WITH AS-12)
there are no important chapter and non important chapter in ca exam according to the best of my knowledge the most important chapters are banking and insurance where you can easily score marks upto 12 marks and next is amalgamation and some of the most important accounting standards i,e 19 and accounting for foreign exchange and acconting for earning for share.
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Friday, July 22, 2016
relax! There is nothing at all wrong with the "blog." The culprit that drove me mad was just a curious virus that only I could see, infecting a particular browser in the hotel's business center... the very business center immortalized (in a tastefully fictionalized version, of course) in my almost-new book MOVIE STARS, suddenly the toast of New York town! I, however, was out in Los Angeles, and I brought my jotting book of precious jottings, but in my new anti-"blogging" spirit, I jotted nearly nothing on my trip. And yes, I made that decision out of pure spite! Okay, I will tell you one thing. Julia and I walked up to Ako and I said, "Ako, tell Julia what you told me about the miraculous powers of coconuts!" And Ako shouted with hilarious urgency, "IT'S NOT TRUE!" It turns out that I have been going around telling lies that Ako accidentally told me about the miraculous powers of coconuts. One day, as she related to us ruefully, she was telling the same story when it dawned on her with the force of epiphany how suspicious it sounded. So she looked it up and was mortified at the extent to which she had been misleading an innocent coconut-buying public for so many years. Then she explained to Julia and me what the powers of coconuts REALLY are, and to be honest, the coconuts still sounded pretty miraculous. Okay, I feel bad for you, so I am going to tell you two funny things from the airplane ride home. There was a peperoncino garnishing the plate of food they gave me. So I bit into it. It was just a small, ordinary peperoncino but it seemed to contain an abundance of juice. The amazing quantity of juice expelled even by my rather timid bite squirted all over my personal airplane video screen. It even squirted onto the ceiling over the passengers in front of me! So it dripped down on them and they urgently pressed the button to summon the harried flight attendant. "The airplane is leaking bright green fluid!" they told her. "We're doomed!" Or words to that effect. So I had to confess that I had squirted the peperoncino juice that had rained down on them like the stinging hot portent of a deadly malfunction. Then I was enjoying THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON by H.G. Wells, my chosen airplane reading, and I suddenly came to a chapter called - in embarrassingly big letters - "Experiments in Intercourse"! Ha ha! So I put my thumb over the word "intercourse" so the guy in the next seat wouldn't think I was reading something too sexy for an airplane. Wells just meant that his heroes were trying to find a way to communicate with the moon men. He didn't mean anything dirty! He meant "intercourse" in the sense of "communication." That's how people talked back in crazy times! But I hid it with my thumb anyway. Okay, I'll tell you two more things. Look at this picture. Adam says it's okay to show it now. I was going to wait until season seven of our show had concluded. There are still two more wildly surprising episodes to come but Adam says the titles are out there in the public now and everybody knows them so it doesn't matter. Well, some quite literal spy took this spy picture with her sneaky spy camera very early in the season and spread it around the "internet" without compunction, our most personal and private business, including some very revealing episode titles, though I don't believe I've given a large enough representation for you to see them. But the funny part is the map of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County that's on the wall. Look and you will see it! You may furthermore recall when it was presented to Kent and Pen. Scores of young detectives taken in by this remorseless charlatan and thief thought it was some kind of map of a previously unknown territory of Ooo, the land where ADVENTURE TIME occurs - as did, no doubt, the budding Mata Hari herself. Well, there are probably tons of 13-year-olds all inspired and debating ABSALOM, ABSALOM! now, propelled forward by their initially misguided researches - so everything turned out all right; aren't you as sure of it as I am? In my preferred version of these events, the emotionless miscreant helped everybody learn and grow even though she was trying to hurt and spoil! I'll finish up with something I've been sitting on for a month or so because I don't care about you anymore. I started reading a book called THE YEAR OF LEAR, about KING LEAR, sort of, and it has owls in it, but not even the same owls that KING LEAR has in it! Some other owls. Thomas Dekker is describing a miserable denizen of a plague house: "And to keep such a poor wretch waking, he should hear no noise but of toads croaking, screech-owls howling, mandrakes shrieking."
Posted by Jack Pendarvis at 11:27 PM
Labels: adventure, buttons, coconut, dirt, juice, Los Angeles, money, NYC, paraphrasing, pepper, spirit, thumb, toast, William Faulkner
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
I Feel Bad
[Before you read this and get all worked up, it's fine now. We're preserving it because historians of the future will need to know. - ed.] Hey! It looks like some weirdos have hacked my blog and added a bunch of links to shady-looking websites. So please don't click on any of links you see here, even though most of my links are great! But none of them can be trusted right now. I have not put any links in this post, for example, so if any appear, they were placed here by some criminal who is probably just trying to feed his or her family by selling - as far as I can tell - cheap clothes, cigarette lighters and knockoff Pop Tarts. I love you all and will try to fix my blog when I get home from Los Angeles. If I can't fix it I'm just going to delete the whole thing, yes, the whole darn blog, even though I worked on it for ten years and it is the only way I can remember anything that ever happened to me during that time period. So enjoy it while you can, if "enjoy" is the right word. I'm in the very lobby where I once saw Garry Marshall and now he is dead. I was going to link to that very remembrance [like so - ed.] but the post is riddled with suspicious commerce and mysterious links to shady enterprises. I will mention that this very day Kent and I sat in his office and watched Garry Marshall's scene in LOST IN AMERICA for inspiration. Normally I would put a hyperlink on Kent's name and it would be fun for everyone to click on Kent's name and see all the wonderful waggery [like this. - ed.] he has gotten up to over the years. But criminals - and the lax security robots of the Google corporation, I suppose, who make it impossible to speak to a sympathetic human person - have conspired to ruin everything we hold dear. Well, anyway, Donald Trump is running for president and just look what happens.
Posted by Jack Pendarvis at 9:05 PM
Labels: declarations of love, light, Los Angeles, mysterious, robots, the future
Wednesday, July 06, 2016
Listen to the Owls
You'll understand why I'm breaking my silence! I'm reading the new Shirley Jackson bio recommended by Megan Abbott, even though I read a different Shirley Jackson bio just a few years ago. This one has owls in it! I would never be surprised by the sudden appearance of owls in a book having anything to do with Shirley Jackson. Shirley Jackson says that her publisher has "an owlish aspect" and within a page or two she is comparing herself to an owl as well. Finally, some hundred pages or so later, we get actual owls. "Shirley liked to sit and listen to the owls calling outside," we are informed.
Posted by Jack Pendarvis at 1:00 PM
Labels: silence
Saturday, July 02, 2016
Funeral Bikini
Email from an excitable McNeil. "Wooo Hooo" it was titled. That's right, three o's. Or six. Half a dozen o's lined up like eggs in a carton. "I saw Dabney Coleman in a bit part on I DREAM OF JEANNIE last night!" McNeil wrote. Which reminded me that Dr. Theresa and I had seen Dabney Coleman in an early COLUMBO, a fact I duly reported to McNeil in response. Dabney Coleman played the thankless role of a flunky on the police force, a type often seen in COLUMBO, but Dabney Coleman really put in some effort, ferociously smacking his gum in every scene and creating a vibrant presence. One might say a character! Even though I knew better I was like, "Wow, Columbo's gettin' a sidekick!" Here we see Dabney Coleman giving guest-murderer Martin Landau the old stink eye as Columbo gets to the bottom of things. But that was long ago. Dr. Theresa and I have already made it to season four, the one where Robert Conrad is the guest-murderer. Columbo goes to his house and Robert Conrad's secretary is there wearing a bikini! Columbo is surprised! Columbo is thinking, "I guess anything goes these days!" I realize that "secretary" is an outdated term but that's what they call her. Then Columbo tells them some guy is dead. And I ad-libbed a line for Robert Conrad. I said in a deep, growly voice, "Why don't you change into your funeral bikini, baby?" Well, it got a laugh from Dr. Theresa. I'm not googling "funeral bikini" because God knows what would happen. So I apologize to the thousands of others who have no doubt already made this same wisecrack in whatever dubious context. It's July already and you know I have to "blog" about McNeil at least once a month so I can do his regular birthday tribute as promised, even though I'm not "blogging" anymore, obviously.
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When someone we love is drowning in addiction, we want them to seek treatment. We're often scared for their safety and sometimes our own. Addiction is the elephant in the room that no one wants to mention. Usually we see their problem long before they do, and we're tired of riding the emotional roller-coaster. Over and over, we say:
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This answer is wildly unpopular. I cannot do anything to make anyone else change. I can only change me. I'll never forget the first time I heard this truth. It took me two weeks to process this idea. There's nothing I can say to make "him" go to rehab. Nor can I do anything to make "her" quit drinking.
At first, I felt hopeless. It was heartbreaking to watch my loved one continue down a destructive path. Finally, I found a way to cheat the system. I can control one person's recovery – mine. Alcohol and substance abuse are diseases. They affect the whole family. I can't do anything about someone else's use, but here are three ways I can help myself:
- Learn about the disease of addiction
- Set boundaries
- Take care of my immediate physical needs
These are the types of things friends and family can learn in recovery. Many groups like Al-Anon, Nar-Anon, Family Support, and Adult Children of Alcoholics help friends, spouses, and parents recover.
Suffering Is Also Optional
Addiction is a disease that steals our relationships, finances, and too often our peace of mind. Yet, through family counseling and support groups many have found their own recovery. Finding your own recovery doesn't guarantee your loved one will follow your lead. However, it's the best thing you can do to help them.
Finding Treatment For Yourself
While Recovery Guidance lists treatment centers and rehabs, it also lists family counselors and support groups. These professionals have an understanding of how addiction impacts relationships. You can click on the image below to search for counselors near you.
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Pam is the author of Co-dependent In The Kitchen, and she's a contributing editor for Recovery Guidance. She's a recovery advocate who likes long walks on the beach and chocolate.