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How do you say delicious in Tagalog? ADOBO! If you've ever been to a Filipino restaurant, you've noticed the unusual use of vinegar in the dishes. Very inventive, very cool. Adobo is a classic, traditional dish and there are thousands of different ways to make it. Here's mine. Ordinarily I'd pump up the flavors with rice or coconut vinegar, but I wanted to use plain old generic and boring white vinegar here just to show that it too has culinary use! And there's not excuses, anyone can get white vinegar.
2 lbs chicken pieces
1 1/2 C white vinegar
1 C water
1/2 TBS peppercorns, whole
4 cloves garlic, peeled and lightly smashed
2 bay leaves
3/4 C soy sauce
In a big pot add your chicken pieces, vinegar, water, peppercorns, garlic cloves and bay leaves. Turn on the heat and bring it up to a boil. Cover with a lid, turn the heat down to low and let simmer for 20 minutes. Add the soy sauce and continue simmering, lid on, for another 20 minutes.
At this stage you could eat the chicken. It will be delicious. But to take it a step further I love to brown the braised meat and reduce the sauce further. Remove the chicken pieces from the pan and set aside. Turn the heat on the pan to medium and let the sauce reduce and thicken.
While the sauce is reducing Heat up a sauté pan over medium high heat and add a couple tablespoons of oil (canola, peanut or my personal favorite OLIVE). When hot, add the chicken pieces and brown each side well.
Hopefully you'll time it all just right and you'll have reduced the sauce by half just as you finish browning all the chicken. Serve the chicken and the sauce together over rice and go crazy!


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According to the recent market research in spite of Apple's new offering of $ 75 gift card on the purchase of every iPad 2 Amazon's Kindle Fire has won the crown of best selling tablets in the Black Friday deals.
Kindle Fire has also secured the top position of Best Buy's best selling tablets, in terms of being the lowest priced tablet, mentioned Business Insider. But from the survey it must not be assumed that Kindle Fire has overtaken the sale of iPads; rather Fire has turned down only selected models of ipad. However, the record is very special for Amazon because Amazon's Xoom and Nook has fallen much behind in the race.
It has been claimed at the company's side that 4 times more Kindle Fire had been sold during the yearly shopping session in the last year. So, the outstanding sale in the Black Friday deals has just brought bonus profits for Amazon. Since the last 8 weeks before the black Friday deals and the Monday Shoppers deals the Kindle Fire has maintained the first position in the best selling product list of Amazon's website.
Before that we never get sales records of Kindle products but market researchers were tracking on the records of kindle Fire sale as its selling records were continuously going up. According to them Amazon is about to ship 20 per cent more Kindle Fires this year. A market analyst at Barclays Capital, Mr. Anthony DiClemente has mentioned that if the Kindle Fire continuous to sale in the same way then during the fourth quarter of 2011 13.6 million Kindle products will be sold which means a rise of 2.6 million than before.
Very cheap price is undoubtedly the major factor behind Kindle Fire's sale although a few months ago market research firm iSuppli mentioned that Amazon was running on a loss by selling Kindle Fire.

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If you are a student, faculty member, or researcher in the United States, you can learn about IPUMS data through an exhibit or workshop at professional conferences held on multiple occasions each year. Thousands of U.S. demographers, geographers, sociologists, economists, ecologists, health researchers, and others have learned about IPUMS through these events. But what if you are student, teacher, or researcher in Africa, where resources are far less plentiful?
Posts related to IPUMS DHS
Data Release Details: IPUMS-DHS now includes 90 surveys from 20 African countries and India
As of May 2016, IPUMS-DHS includes over 2000 integrated variables from 90 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) in 21 countries, and allows researchers to select women, children, or births as their unit of analysis.
Addressing the Importance of Data
In April, MPC Director of Data Integration Matt Sobek was invited to speak at an event for the United Nations' 49th Session of the Commission on Population and Development. The special session, "The Data Revolution in Action: National and International Experiences with Microdata Dissemination and Public Use," was created to show attendees examples of national and international organizations distributing data for public use.


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PATRIOTIC pensioners at a Warwickshire retirement home are determined to fly the flag for St George today.
Residents at Leonard Perkins House in Bulkington have gone all out to honour the saint with the recognition they believe he deserves.
They are planning to make today a big party celebrating everything English.
Care manager Gloria George said: "We were sitting down talking and people were saying everybody celebrates St Patrick's Day or St David's Day, but not the English day.
"A lot of them used to celebrate when they were younger and they were enthusiastic about doing something - the residents don't think we celebrate it enough."
The home has been decorated with pictures of the Queen, red roses and many English flags donated by Kennings of Kenilworth. A duo will lead a sing-song.
"I think we will do it again next year, and hopefully keep it as a tradition here," added Ms George.
"I think St George's connection with Coventry makes the event all the more significant for residents."
In Coventry, the City Centre Company has organised an event to mark St George's Day.
Tour guide Roger Bailey - dressed as St George - was today due take on his fire-breathing foe before crowds in the Precinct, while Coventry Mummers were to perform traditional ritual plays.
Peter Walters, press officer for Coventry and Warwickshire
Promotions, said it began promoting St George's Day events in 1998 to boost the city.
He said this year the organisation was letting the City Centre Company take the lead.
Some Coventry pubs have been granted an extension on their licence tonight.
But Coventry has been criticised for not making enough of its St George connections.
Legend has it that St George was born at Caludon Castle in Wyken, the son of Lord Albert, although history suggests he was born to Christian parents in Turkey.
Beverley Nielsen, chief executive of the Heart of England Tourist Board, highlighted Stratford's celebrations on Shakespeare's birthday and said Coventry should do something similar in honour of St George.
Elsewhere, Rugby hosted its first St George's Day festival on Saturday, which organisers hope will become an annual event as popular as St Patrick's Day celebrations within the Irish community.
And on Wednesday, the Mayor of Nuneaton and Bedworth, Cllr Diana Hawkes is to host a St George's dinner and cabaret in support of the County Air Ambulance at the Civic Hall in Bedworth.
Cllr Hawkes promised an evening "celebrating all thing British" with entertainment and a menu of roast beef.


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Learning From Poetry
No matter what kind of writing you do, reading poetry can be a great way to improve your writing skills. The principles of poetry can be applied to nearly every kind of writing you do. Let's take a look at what we can learn from poetry.
1. Poetry teaches word economy.
In a poem, not a single word is wasted. Poets strive for finding the most effective words to convey each thought, emotion or idea.
2. Poetry uses powerful imagery.
Poems are the epitome of "show, don't tell." In a poem, you don't have a lot of time or space to spend narrating or telling the reader what's happening. Poets create strong visuals for their readers, truly giving the reader a glimpse of their subjects.
3. Poetry is inspiring.
Love it or hate it, poetry elicits powerful emotions. A well-crafted line of poetry can stick with us for a long time. Sometimes, a poem or even just a memorable line, can make us want to write about that. The emotional response we have to the poem can often lead to an outlet for our own ideas.
There are a number of sites that offer daily poetry either delivered to your inbox or by RSS feed. The Writer's Almanac from Garrison Keillor offers daily poems as well as historical information. Poetry Daily is another daily poem site. If you prefer, you can get get a haiku a day from Daily Haiku or tinywords. You can also check out any number of poetry anthologies. One of my favorites is Risking Everything, edited by Roger Housden.
If you really hate poetry, try reading some Dr. Seuss or Shel Silverstein! You can also look to song lyrics, which have been a great source of inspiration for me.
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There is another type of writing that can help with improving your own, and that is comedy. Books such as Seinfeld's SeinLanguage – where the writing is exactly how he delivered the stand-up. In particular, word economy is huge in stand-up comedy. for some reason, it's not funny if it's wordy.
Great tip, Tom. Thanks!
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11 Only in Oman moments!
Oman is one of the most beautiful countries in the world, the slogan to the country that we live in is "Beauty has an address" What more could we want!
But as well as the beauty and amazing nature, Oman's a pretty strange place too! Here are 13 only in Oman moments, that will crack you up!
1: When you're congratulated for the temperature
THIS IS NOT AN ACHIEVEMENT #onlyinOman pic.twitter.com/kRA4lOFJsq— Sheri (@SheriousBlack) May 21, 2016
2: When we tried to lose some "Fatty"
Source: Instagram
3: We don't think Gerard Butler agreed to this...
@GerardButler , just wondering if you knew you are the face Super Max Razors? Only in Oman. pic.twitter.com/u2luAr2zJp— kev jordan (@kevjordan96) November 9, 2015
4: When we weren't sure what we could do on this diving board?
Source: Instagram
5: When the sign posts make you look twice!
Only in Oman :') pic.twitter.com/QgbKJ6SpUX— The Muyaser♚ (@MuyaserNasser) May 11, 2014
6: When camels decided to gate crash a camping trip
Source: Instagram
7: When the holidays come to town... Desert style!
Christmas Mubarak! Only In #Oman :D— Moosa Al-Lawati (@MoosaAllawati) December 21, 2013
- courtesy: Nasser Al Balushi pic.twitter.com/BWlAYFAIEM
8: The best way to celebrate National Day!
Source: Instagram
9: When the thunderstorms arrive...
Only in oman pic.twitter.com/ZX36j8fs7A— Not Shelby (@iTommyShelby) October 7, 2016
10: When your construction workers look like this
Source: Instagram
11: When it is totally possible to get your car this dirty!
only in Oman. pic.twitter.com/wZIZaMcBvK— L U L Y (@Halalsnaccbar) September 1, 2016


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A hands-off demo of LA Noire, Rockstar Games' dark detective game, was available for the public to watch at PAX East this past weekend. Though some design choices give us small doubts about the pacing, the mood and execution of the visual elements of the game are thrilling contributions to LA Noire's position as an interactive fiction game, and we can't wait to see more.
In LA Noire, players assume the role of Cole Phelps, an LA detective who solves crimes and murders alongside his grudging partner. If you are familiar with Aaron Staton, an actor best known for his role in the television show Mad Men who provides Phelps' motions and voice, the first thing you notice is the stunning accuracy of Phelps' gestures and facial expressions. Every furrow of the brow and tuck of the chin look perfect, and the character as a whole is very well-acted.
The captures are best viewed during Phelps' interviews with witnesses and suspects, during which players evaluate the tone of voice and behavior of the interviewees and decide whether to believe or doubt what they say, or else call them out on a lie. At any time, players can consult Phelp's notebook and use noted evidence to back up their accusations. Choosing correct options opens the interviewee up more, while choosing the wrong one will cut the discussion short.
Interviews in the game were a bit more engaging than inspecting crime scenes, another major component of LA Noire. Picking up suspect objects will trigger short cinematics that let Phelps observe any incriminating characteristics, such as a street address on a discarded lighter.
Players are encouraged to immerse themselves in the mind of a detective in order to pick up on all available clues, but your partner will guide you back to anything you miss. Detective games often seem to have somewhat rote definitions of evidence, and we weren't really struck by the sleuthing shown in the demo.
But to be fair, the demo showed only the beginning of a case, and it stands to reason that the game and detective work may grow more nuanced as you dig deeper (according to the Rockstar reps, the cases are based on real events in 1947 LA). How creative LA Noire can get with evidence-finding and how well it can stimulate the detective thought process in a player will be important factors in player engagement.
LA Noire is scheduled for release on May 17 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in the US, and on May 20 in Europe.


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The day we snapped photos, it was dark and rainy and there had been a hard frost the night before. The 360 degree view was amazing. We agreed we would both create a square piece of art inspired by this scene. I made a version for her...
I called it 'September Three Sixty'. It's 5" x 5" matted, framed, and under glass. It's a poor photo - I had a computer crash and so this is one I took through the glass and tried to edit. How entirely frustrating. ***There is a much better photo of my piece on Nicki's BLOG*** While I worked on this one though, I made a larger version at the same time. It's available at the Saskatchewan Craft Council Boutique. Of course, it's not the same since I work on a blank piece of dyed cloth. Each threadpainting works out differently.
Here is the image we chose to work from.
We took a lot of photos that day!! It was hard to chose one.
And... tada! She made this version for me...
|'Brigit's View' 12x12 acrylic painting
I love it! It really glows. It looks good on my cream/pale yellow walls. Oh, and my pumpkin spice living room walls too! Yummy. I put it on my pastel purple studio walls and it actually made me laugh. Not great. lol Nicki's livingroom was a pale sage green / grey, a colour you can see in the painting itself. (Again, you can see her wall colour on her blog). It looked amazing on that wall too. It's fun to see how things look on different backdrops.
What else can I say... I'm starting to find that I'm disliking the 'tiny' and the 'tightness' of threadwork. Oops! Did I say that? I don't know what it is... but I just want to get into bigger shapes and looser styles. In fact, I recall the first time I saw threadwork. I think my immediate reaction was just that - tight and bunchy. At the same time, I'm thoroughly enjoying the architecture I've been working on with my sewing machine. Who knows where I'll go from here?
You can see more of Nicki's work at her blog HERE. Please enjoy


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Practice Management
Special-Needs Clients Require Specific Skills
A growing demand for financial services for the special-needs population is spawning a niche advisory industry specializing in providing them.
This Practice Management article is intended for financial advisors only (registered representatives of broker/dealers or associated persons of Registered Investment Advisors).
On a recent busy day this spring, Scott Adams rushed in late to an appointment at his office at the Community America Credit Union, where he works as a financial advisor.
Dressed in his trademark jeans and open-collar shirt, he explained, apologetically, that he unexpectedly had to "hay the horses" before he could head off for the office. Adams isn't in rural Nebraska or South Dakota working as a farmer and running a small advisory practice on the side. He actually works full-time in bustling Kansas City, Missouri, commuting in from his home in Lawson, about 20 miles northeast, where he lives with his wife and his six kids on a former horse farm that is now a budding goat dairy.
If that doesn't sound like your typical financial advisor, it's not. But the real way in which Adams has differentiated himself is with the niche he's carved out. He and his business partner Heath Burch have a very special clientele: families with children who have special needs. It's a market niche he has a special affinity for: three of his own children have special needs.
"I started working as a financial advisor right out of school back in 1991," Adams says. "I had majored in political science, but there were no jobs when I graduated. A friend's dad ran an agency in Kansas City, so I started out working there with Connecticut Mutual selling 401(k) plans. I moved into management fairly early, and worked for a series of insurance companies." Then he decided that management wasn't for him, and he decided to go into planning.
That was about the time Adams met his future wife, Lisa, who had a doctorate in education with a specialization in autism and behavior disorders, and was running a private practice of her own.
They got married, and while Adams was working for MetLife, they decided they wanted to adopt a child. When they went to see about an available child, the state agency said, "Oh, by the way, there are two siblings." Adams recalls that his wife turned to him and said he would be an "ogre" if he only would consider taking one of the kids in the family. "So we took all three."
As it happened, all three children had special needs of one kind or another. Shortly after the adoptions were arranged, his wife became pregnant with the first of three birth children.
Adams says that as he and his wife—who gave up her practice to apply her skills to the needs of their own brood—negotiated the many issues faced by parents of special-needs children. That included finding experts, arranging for appropriate schools, and thinking about how to care for their children after they were grown.
At first, the couple naturally turned to others for help, but as their expertise grew, Adams found himself becoming a resource for the many other parents out there with children like his own. Then he realized just how big the demand is for this type of help.
"Initially, I just started doing a monthly workshop, mainly as a way to give back after all the help that had been offered to us," he says. "But pretty soon I realized there were an enormous number of families facing these issues and others of their own."
Growing Demand
After about six months, he says he was overwhelmed. "I begged Heath, who was the smartest guy in our group at MetLife—very detailed and very good on the planning side—to help me." Burch, who was already on the boards of two organizations that work with kids with special needs, including Mid-American Games for the Disabled, was a good fit. That was nine years ago. The two later left MetLife and set up an independent firm called the Special Needs Planning Center. "We kicked it off with a $5,000 investment and a prayer," he says, adding, "I told my wife to trust me, which fortunately she did."
Adams and Burch decided to focus their advisory business 100% on special -needs families. Why that narrow limitation? "It's such a special niche," explains Adams. "You can't do anything else, really. It's all-encompassing. To do this, you have to have a practice that focuses on the families and the kids." Even their office, he says, is unique, with an office and a playroom that features low lighting and a bunch of toys and Wii consoles.
He says, "I have the absolutely best life now. Our clients are our friends. Their kids are friends with our kids. We wear jeans to work, because most of our clients and their kids have seen enough doctors wearing dress pants and ties."
He adds, "Right now, we have over 300 clients, and we know everyone. When we get to the point where we don't know all the kids of our clients, we'll hire more people—but we're not there yet."
Meanwhile, the advisory business has kept growing, and not just in the Kansas City area. "We have clients from 49 states—all except Hawaii," says Adams.
They have overseas clients, too. He mentions getting an inquiry from an Indian family in Minnesota that wanted advice on whether to leave a family inheritance in rupees in an Indian bank or to bring it to the United States.
"There's a real hunger out there for what we're doing," says Adams, who adds that about 40% of their work is done pro bono.
"Of course, there's the financial planning and the investment advice, and that's important," he says, "but a lot of it is about informing people about the resources that are out there and how to get them—things like subsidized transportation, help with getting job training and jobs for special-needs kids, setting up irrevocable trusts for these kids so that they can be eligible for assistance when they're emancipated at 18, and also guardianships."
Once children with special needs are emancipated, he explains, as long as they have no more than the federal cut-off level of $2,000 in assets, they become eligible for assistance programs like Supplemental Security Income, Medicaid, subsidized or free transportation, "and all the things to help them become independent."
Parents can put resources in a dedicated trust to help such children, but it has to be controlled by someone other than the child in question so they don't end up with assets that would make them ineligible for assistance.
For that kind of specialized legal work, Adams and Burch hired and trained a young lawyer, Leslie Byram, who now has "an extremely successful practice 100% with us," handling the legal issues of their clients, including dealing with the setting up of such trusts.
Legal services are offered at a steep discount, Adams says. The starting point of the process, he says, is developing a financial plan for any new client family. "That takes a good eight to 10 hours," says Adams.
"We work through all kinds of scenarios with them, and we have a vault that stores all the planning documents we develop, including the continuity-of-care plan for each child. That includes the children who don't have special needs, which we think is important."
He explains, "Some kids who have special-needs siblings; when they're older, will they say to their parents, 'You neglected me. Now I'm out.' When that happens, parents are devastated. I have to say, 'You know, kids have a right to say no, and they may come back. Don't alienate them. Just be happy you have them."
He recalls a situation from long ago. A mother had lost her husband. She had a son who had just graduated from college and a special-needs daughter. While the mother was in Adams' office, she turned to her son and said, "It's your responsibility to take care of your sister."
Adams immediately saw a look on the son's face, just as he said, "Mom, that's your problem. I have to live my life." Adams paused a second. Without disclosing the mother's reaction, he said, "Now if she'd just told him, 'I'm so proud of you,' and left it there, he might have come around later."
In the end, he says, "We manage a fair amount of assets, but really it might be 15 minutes we spend talking about the clients' funds, and the rest of the time it's about the family and the kids, and that's what makes this so fun. At the same time, you see a lot of hurting parents in our business, and many of them are facing great expenses."
Doing Well by Doing Good
A year ago, Adams and Burch decided to cease being independent and to hitch their wagon to the Community America Credit Union (CACU), a local CUSO-affiliated financial institution with some $2 billion in assets.
"The credit union had approached us earlier," he says, "because they did a survey of their members and found that there were 4,500 of them who had special-needs children. They asked us if we could help them."
Eventually, they decided to team up with the credit union and focus exclusively on serving members of the credit union.
Now, the credit union does all the marketing, payroll "and the other things we don't like to do," says Adams. That frees Adams and Burch to focus on serving their growing client base.
"Initially we took a pretty good haircut going over to the credit union," Adams concedes. "Being independent paid us more, but going with CACU made us more secure. And long-term, we think we'll come out way ahead, with more advisors and more clients." He adds, "The credit union is 100% behind us in this."
That "long-term" prediction didn't take long to pan out. Adams reports that his and Burch's production—they share all the work, clients and profits equally—rose from $600,446 in 2012 to $764,606 in 2013, a gain of 27%.
Assets under management over the same period grew from $40.3 million in 2012 to $46.1 million in 2013. But Adams says the two men have bigger ideas.
"We have plans to expand our practice beyond Kansas City," he says. "Before our merger with the credit union, we had branch offices in Dallas and New York. With the credit union, we're still looking at what we can and can't do. I'd love for other credit unions to do this for their customers—banks too."
He says, "I'd love to see this thing grow. We see so many families whose plans for their special-needs kids are just wrong. And if we're seeing that among our credit union's members, God knows how many plans out there are wrong."
He says it's encouraging that the American College of Financial Services just established a new certification program for a Chartered Special Needs Consultant—a three-course program that is only open to people who already have a CFP, ChFC, or CLU certification.
This is far from a competitive threat, Adams says. "We have no desire to have a monopoly in this field. The demand is huge. But to do it right, you have to do it full-time, not just with one or two of your clients."
"It's easy to see that Scott's intentions in this business are pure," Burch says of his partner. "He has both the knowledge base and the personal experience of living with children who have special needs. So he gets both sides of the equation."
And that farm Adams and his wife own? He explains that his wife knew that their children—especially the kids with special needs—would do well with animals around, so they bought a former horse farm.
Then they got some goats, which it turns out their oldest son has a real affinity for. Now Adams' goal is for his son to basically develop and run a goat milk dairy on their farm—a career that he clearly enjoys and that could work into a profitable venture, with a little help from mom and dad.
— Dave Lindorff
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GOOD MORNING and congrats Oscar nominees: Billy Crystal was among those anxiously awaiting this ayem's results — for two reasons; first, possible nods for "Mr. Saturday Night," secondly to get inspirations for his m.c. chores March 29. Crystal admitted he finally agreed to reprise his (masterful) m.c'ing following delivery of a horse's head (fake, natch) in a large box. It was the finale of Gil Cates' campaign. "He (Gil) had previously sent me a funeral wreath saying, 'The Show Is Dead Without You.' " In truth, Cates started asking Crystal to m.c. again after last year's second commercial break — following the Jack Palance calisthenics. "He (Cates) kept sending me funny messages. But after the horse's head — I laughed for five minutes." But Crystal admitted to me, "I really enjoy doing it." What's the plan of humor attack this year? "I may just be myself," he said. "And start off with 'Good evening.' " But after studying this ayem's cast of characters, we can expect another creative opening, we're sure. Among "Saturday Night" nominations he hoped for was a "supporting" for David Paymer who played Billy's older brother … Just back from successful London press screenings of "Saturday Night," Crystal's now busy with scripters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel on "City Slickers II." They hope to reteam Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby and Patricia Wettig. Not Jack Palance, you recall — his dramatic demise won him an Oscar last year.
IT'S THE BEST COMPANY I've seen since I bought Panavision," admits Sy Weintraub of his return to the world of showbiz — via scientific development. The former chairman of the executive committee and office of the president, Columbia Pictures Industries Inc., prez of National General TV, producer of "Tarzan" movies and TV series, is now chairman of AuraSound Systems' advisory board. He says, "It's the technology of the 21st century." And one of its programs is the electronic projection of film in theaters from a central point sans prints. Plus new sound systems. Apart from showbiz, the company also has developed a compressor to convert natural gas into auto fuel. "I go where there's a challenge," Weintraub explained of his new involvement … Sean Penn's set to join Al Pacino in Universal's "Carlito's Way." He'll play a shrewd lawyer and potentially dangerous friend to Carlito (Pacino) — who wants to go straight after departing prison following a career of organized crime. A March 8 start is set with Brian de Palma directing David Koepp's script for producers Martin Bregman, Michael Bregman and Willi Baer. Louis Stroller exec produces … Sally Fields is Robin Williams' ex-wife in Twentieth's "Mrs. Doubtfire" in which Robin masquerades as a (femme) housekeeper in order to see his three children. Robin and wife Marsha produce for their Blue Wolf Prods. with Chris Columbus directing … John Kassir, the voice of the "Crypt"-keeper, plays his one-man show "Confessions of a TV Junkie" at the Hudson Theater where, tomorrow, following Kassir's show, Denny Dillon of HBO's "Dream On" bows her "Saints & Survival: An Evening of Stand-Up Confessions" en route to NYC during her "Dream On" hiatus.
IT'S A "CAREER SWITCH" for Jackie Mason who is entering politics — but not as an NYC mayoral candidate. His latest political fundraising stand was in Boca Raton last p.m. … Rosemary Clooney's feeling fine and winding two final weeks at N.Y.'s Rainbow & Stars, having missed one performance after suffering a dizzy spell that found her emergency-treated (seven hours). She sounded terrific on the phone yesterday. Clooney's readying two Singers' Salute to the Songwriters here. The first, April 20 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, will honor Irving Berlin, Leslie Bricusse, Edward Eliscu and Neil Sedaka. The second, May 12, same site, salutes country singers, and will honor Johnny Cash, Buck Owens, Harlan Howard, Hank Cochran and Roger Miller. Both nights benefit the Betty Clooney Foundation for Persons With Brain Injury … Last night at Universal Studios, SHARE kicked off its Boomtown '93 (May 8) with the presentation of funds raised from last year's event. SHARE president Pam (Mrs. Tom) Korman officiated as $ 885,000 in checks was presented to 31 beneficiaries. They included ARC, Caring for Babies with AIDS, Center for the Partially Sighted, ERAS Center, L.A. Goal, So. Calif. Counseling Center, etc. … More than $ 1.3 million was raised via Nancy Davis' "Race to Erase Multiple Sclerosis" in Aspen over the weekend. Hammer held sway in almost every event including auctioneering at the Little Nell. He also donated the $ 30,000 he won to the charity. And was also race announcer of the Pro-Celeb Ski races. He didn't race. "I tried to bring my skis but they refused to come," he explained. Jimmy Connors and George Hamilton auctioneered the live event and David Foster, Dennis Miller, Kenny G and Michael Bolton were among the entertainers for Davis' successful event … Add sports note: Julian Myers celebrates his 75th birthday Monday, running 18 miles prepping for his 11th marathon race, competing for the fifth time in the L.A. Marathon, March 7.


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Welcome back to Lore of the Underlings, a trail of tales to the end of things, and maybe a bit beyond…
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Radiohead announce North American tour (3 nights at MSG)
Radiohead have announced a new round of North American tour dates. Following spring shows in South America, they'll head up to North America in July for some headlining shows, including three nights at NYC's Madison Square Garden: July 10, 11, and 13. Tickets for the MSG shows go on general sale Saturday, February 24 at 10 AM, with a W.A.S.T.E. presale on Wednesday, February 21 at 9 AM EST. The rest of the tour goes on general sale 2/23 and 2/24 - find full on sale details here. See all of Radiohead's upcoming tour dates below.
UPDATE: A 2nd Chicago date was added.
UPDATE: A 4th NYC show date was added.
Radiohead released A Moon Shaped Pool in 2016 and a 20th anniversary edition of OK Computer, OKNOTOK, last year. Thom Yorke recently soundtracked a new short film for Rag & Bone, while Jonny Greenwood is preparing to attend the Oscars, where he's nominated for Best Original Score for his work on Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread. Jonny discussed the score on a recent podcast interview, where he also spoke about the late Mark E Smith of The Fall, calling him "the voice of my teenage years."
Radiohead - 2018 North American Tour Dates
Sat July 7th: United Center, Chicago
Tue July 10th: Madison Square Garden, New York
Wed July 11th: Madison Square Garden, New York
Fri July 13th: Madison Square Garden, New York
Mon July 16th: Bell Centre, Montreal
Tue July 17th: Bell Centre, Montreal
Thu July 19th: Air Canada Centre, Toronto
Fri July 20th: Air Canada Centre, Toronto
Sun July 22nd: Little Caesars Arena, Detroit
Mon July 23rd: Schottenstein Center, Columbus
Wed July 25th: US Bank Arena, Cincinnati
Thu July 26th: PPG Paints Arena, Pittsburgh
Sat July 28th: TD Garden, Boston
Sun July 29th: TD Garden, Boston
Tue July 31st: Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia
Wed August 1st: Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia


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Ansar Ahmed named head of Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology
Dr. S. Ansar Ahmed, of Blacksburg, Va., has been named head of the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology in the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech.
Ahmed, a professor of immunology who has been a biomedical sciences and pathobiology faculty member since 1989, had been serving in an interim capacity in this position over the past few months.
"Dr. Ahmed is an accomplished researcher and administrator," said Dr. Gerhardt Schurig, dean of the veterinary college. "His leadership will be vital as we continue to build our research program."
Ahmed holds a doctorate in veterinary medicine from the University of Agricultural Sciences in Bangalore and a Ph.D. from the School of Veterinary Studies, The Murdoch University, Australia. He is a member of the American Association of Immunologists and the International Cytokine Society.
Ahmed's research is focused on studying the relationship between estrogens and naturally occurring estrogen mimicking compounds in the environment, the immune system and the development of autoimmune disorders.


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Read the relevant grant description within the College and Community Innovation (CCI) Program before you complete the application.
The applicant of an Innovation Links Grant can be from either a college or university. If the application is submitted from a college, the applicant will be a senior manager in the administration of the college delegated by the college president and the co-applicants will be the university principal investigator, university faculty who will receive funds from the grant. If the application is submitted from a university, the applicant will be the principal investigator from the university research team, and the co-applicants will be the university faculty who will receive funds from the grant and the college administrator of the grant. (In the on-line application, the college co-applicant and college researchers are referred to as "participants.") Whether from a college or university, the applicant must complete the application and include all required documentation using NSERC's On-line System.
The Personal Data Form (Form 100 for university researchers and Form 103CV for college participants) must be completed by the applicant, co-applicants, and college participants.
You are responsible for submitting a complete application that conforms to the presentation standards established by NSERC. Incomplete applications and applications that do not meet the presentation standards may be rejected, or be at a disadvantage, in comparison with those that are complete and respect the presentation standards. Where page limits are stated, pages in excess of the number permitted will be removed.
For more information, read the NSERC On-line Presentation and Attachment Standards.
The collection, use and disclosure of personal information provided to NSERC are outlined in the following policy statements:
The information you provide in your application is collected under the authority of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Act. NSERC is subject to the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act (ATIP). The information you provide is stored in a series of NSERC data banks described in Information about programs and information holdings .
Title of proposal
The title will be used for publication purposes. It should describe the subject of the research to be supported. It should not contain a company or trade name. Spell out scientific symbols and acronyms.
Enter the time to be devoted (in hours per month) to the proposed research/activity by the team members.
Research subject codes
Consult the NSERC Code Tables. If the applied research focus of the proposal is in the natural sciences or engineering, you are required to select a research subject code for the primary area of research from the list of Area of Research subject codes. You can also select a secondary research subject code.
Area of application codes
Consult the NSERC Code Tables. If the applied research focus of the proposal is in the natural sciences or engineering, you are required to select a code for the primary area of application from the list of Area of Application Codes. You can also select a code for a secondary Area of Application.
Key words
Provide a maximum of 10 key words that describe the proposal.
Before completing this section, consult the Requirements for Certain Types of Research.
Research involving humans: If you select Yes, you must provide your institution's administration with the appropriate certification indicating that research involving humans has been reviewed and has received the required approval.
Research involving human pluripotent stem cells: If you select Yes, or if through peer review the application is found to fall into this category and is recommended for funding, it will be forwarded, with your consent, to CIHR's Stem Cell Oversight Committee (SCOC) to ensure compliance with Chapter 12, Section F of the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (TCPS 2). The SCOC review is in addition to the normal review by local Research Ethics Boards (REBs). Funding will not be released until approval has been obtained from the SCOC.
Research involving the use of animals: If you select Yes, you must provide your institution's administration with the certification from the animal care committee at the institution that the experimental procedures proposed have been approved and that the care and treatment of animals is in accordance with the principles outlined in the Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC) guide.
Research involving hazardous substances: If you select Yes, you must provide your institution's administration with the certification from the biosafety committee at the institution that the laboratory procedures being used comply with the safety precautions necessary for the level of containment required by the research.
Environmental impact: The Impact Assessment Form (Appendix A) may be required. For more information, consult NSERC's Guidelines on Impact Assessment.
Since all College and Community Innovation Program funds are institutional grants, faculty and staff involved with the proposal can be listed as participants. List each participant's name, personal identification number (if known), organization name, as well as the time (in hours per month) each participant will devote to the proposed applied research/activity or the use of equipment.
Only the main participants should be listed on the proposal. Participants need to obtain their organization's approval and must provide a complete College Personal Data Form (Form 103CV), including a signed copy of the Consent to Disclosure of Personal Information form, to the applicant.
Participants, except those from the applicant's institution, must advise the authorized officer of their organization that NSERC will be seeking their signature through its secure site, agreeing to their participation.
By submitting this form, the applicant certifies that the individuals listed as participants have been informed of the precise uses and disclosures of their personal information by NSERC (see Use and Disclosure of Personal Information Provided to NSERC) and have authorized the release of the information by the applicant.
Enter information about each supporting organization's signing officer (other than the applicant's organization). For supporting organizations such as a private-sector partner or a government department, enter information about the authorized representative(s).
The college applicant and up to five participants must provide their curricula vitae (CV). The CV for the college applicant and participants is made up of two sections and a consent form. Part I collects specific information on the person using the NSERC form entitled College Personal Data Form (Form 103CV). Part II is free-form text limited to five pages and used to list contributions such as the person's relevant experience and contributions to applied research and innovation.
When completed, the applicant's and participants' CV, together with signed copies of the Consent to Disclosure of Personal Information forms must be saved into one PDF document and attached to the application.
See the instructions for completing the College Personal Data form.
The university applicant and any co-applicant(s) must provide their NSERC Personal Data Form (Form 100). Co-applicant(s) from outside the applicant's institution must advise the authorized officer of their organization that the applicant, or the applicant's institution, will be seeking their authorized officer's signature and agreement of the co-applicant(s) and participant(s)' involvement before the application is submitted to NSERC.
To invite co-applicant(s) to link their Personal Data Form (Form 100) to the application, enter the e-mail address of the co-applicant(s) as it appears in the participant's Form 100, as well as the family name. When you select Save, an automated e-mail message will be sent to the person(s) to whom you have granted access to your application, informing them that they have been invited to participate in your application. The status will appear as Not Linked.
Important Note: For the Innovation Links Grant application process, the applicant (if from a university) must also invite themselves in order to link their Personal Data Form (Form 100) to the application.
When a co-applicant links a Form 100 to the application, his/her personal information will appear in the "Participants and Co-applicants" page, and the status will change to Linked. At this point, enter the time (in hours per month) that each co-applicant will devote to the proposed research/activity or the use of equipment or a facility.
By submitting this form, the applicant certifies that the individuals listed as co-applicant have been informed of the precise uses and disclosures of their personal information by NSERC (see Use and Disclosure of Personal Information Provided to NSERC) and have authorized the release of the information by the applicant.
A collaborator is a member of the research team. Examples of collaborators are: government scientists, academic researchers, company staff members or research scientists. The collaborator will not have access to the grant funds and must be qualified to undertake research independently. Collaborators are expected to contribute to the overall intellectual direction of the applied research project and to bring their own resources to the collaboration.
List each collaborator's name, personal identification number (if known), organization name, as well as the time (in hours per month) they will each devote to the proposed applied research/activity.
If necessary, curriculum vitae (maximum five pages) from each collaborator can be submitted with the application. The applicant must save all the CVs from the collaborators in one PDF document and attach the PDF document to the application.
The summary is intended to explain the proposal in language that the public can understand.
Using simple terms, briefly describe the nature of the work to be done. Indicate why and to whom the work results are important, the anticipated commercialization outcomes and how Canada will benefit.
This plain language summary will be made available to the public if your proposal is funded.
If you wish, you may also provide a summary in the other official language in the text box identified for that purpose.
List the activities/steps required to achieve the objectives for each year of the grant. Indicate the start and end dates for the activities leading to the milestones, as well as the major results expected.
The milestone definition and the work plan (provided in the Proposal page) will be used to assess whether a project is feasible and whether the available resources are adequate to complete it on schedule.
Use the guidelines outlined in the NSERC On-line Presentation and Attachment Standards to provide the requested information in a document to be attached to the application. Using the headings below and in a maximum of 10 single-sided pages (this page limit does not include literature references), describe your proposal. Contact NSERC staff if you feel that additional pages are needed to describe what is being proposed.
Refer to the description of the Innovation Links Grants - Selection Criteria for a list of criteria that will be considered by reviewers when evaluating the applications.
Synopsis: Provide a concise overview of the scientific or technical objectives; approach; the potential for commercialization; and the new knowledge, expertise or technology that can help the partner companies' commercialization efforts. Indicate the benefits expected to accrue to Canadian companies, to the academic institution and to the applied research, scientific or engineering discipline(s).
Background: Relate the proposal to current scientific, technical and commercial developments in the field, referring to the current literature and market conditions. Provide information on the competitive environment and any "prior art." Explain why the project results (i.e., products/processes/services to be commercialized) are improvements to what is currently being offered in the market. Describe the background research on which the project is built. Provide information on the potential market, the end users of the research results and how the commercialization efforts will provide Canadian companies with a competitive edge.
Detailed proposal: Discuss the technical issues, research issues, applied research problems or technical adaption and transfer challenges, and describe the methodology and experimental design proposed to explain or resolve them. Provide a work plan and relate it to the milestone schedule from the Activity Schedule section. Describe the roles of any students or postdoctoral fellows who will be involved in the project. If applicable, justify the need for any additional support staff such as research assistants, technicians or other professional staff who may be required to carry out the project.
Synergies – College University Collaboration: Describe how the collaboration between all partners enhances the research proposal. This may include items such as the enhancement of critical technical expertise, availability of highly qualified personnel, access to specialized research tools and facilities, background Intellectual Property (IP), and relationships with private-sector partners.
Team expertise: Describe the roles and explain how the knowledge and experience of each expert relates to the expertise needed to accomplish the project objectives and how the contributions of the team members (including company personnel) will be integrated.
Research management: Provide a plan for how the project will be managed to provide both day-to-day direction and scientific leadership, as well as to maintain good communication between the college and university research group(s) and the private-sector sponsor(s). If applicable, please detail the project manager's qualifications, involvement, role and responsibilities.
Training of highly qualified personnel: Describe how the knowledge and experience gained by students, postdoctoral fellows, research assistants or others (including company personnel), are relevant to further commercialization efforts, the advancement of the field, innovation and applied research in the private sector.
Potential for technology transfer and commercial benefits to the private-sector partner(s): Describe the anticipated value of the project results, highlighting the relevance of the scientific or technical advances to the private sector, or the innovative techniques, processes or products that will be developed or innovatively applied. Clearly identify how the work will benefit the private-sector partner(s) by showing how the outcome will address a current or future company or market need. To the extent possible, indicate the additional work the company partners will have to do to exploit the results of the applied research for commercialization. Describe how the exploitation of the project results will benefit the Canadian economy within a reasonable time frame as well as any social, and/or environmental benefits that will, or could be, realized in Canada.
Before completing this page, read the instructions and consult the grant description, the Tri-Agency Financial Administration Guide and the College and Community Innovation Program Tri-Agency Financial Administration Guide for information about the eligibility of expenditures for the costs of research and the regulations governing the use of grant funds. The budget items for both the cash and in-kind contributions must be filled out separately for the college and university.
Provide a detailed explanation and justification for each budget item identified in the Proposed Expenditures page. Provide sufficient information to allow reviewers to assess whether the resources requested are appropriate. These pages should only contain information pertinent to the budget.
Also, explain and justify the proposed cost-sharing ratios between NSERC and the private-sector partner. Provide sufficient detail to allow reviewers to evaluate whether the level of private-sector commitment, cash and/or in-kind, is appropriate. Refer to the Guidelines for Organizations Participating in Research Partnership Programs for a discussion on private sector contribution levels.
Salaries and benefits
Salary for full-time faculty is not an eligible expense and should not be included in project costs. College faculty release costs are eligible as described in the College and Community Innovation Program Tri-Agency Financial Administration Guide. Salary for part-time college faculty is eligible. It should be included under "d) other" and explained in the budget justification.
Equipment or facility
Give a breakdown of the items requested. Provide details on models, manufacturers, prices and applicable taxes. Justify the need for each item requested. Quotations may be required. The Quotations page allows you to describe the quotations to be sent with the proposal.
Fees to be paid for the use of equipment or a facility should be described (e.g., hours and rate).
Materials and supplies
Provide details and explain major items.
Explain briefly how each activity relates to the proposed research. Explain how the proposed travel is important to realizing the project's commercialization objectives.
Note: International travel expenses are allowed for university students presenting their research results at conferences. For all other participants, international travel expenses are allowed for travel and subsistence costs (meals and accommodation) up to a maximum of $5,000 per year for the college and university combined when prior approval has been obtained.
Provide details of training workshops and other knowledge and dissemination activities.
Technology transfer activities
List the expenditure for field trials, building prototypes, scale-up costs, demonstration projects, workshops and other miscellaneous expenses.
Overhead and administration
Provide details and explain major items with regards to overhead and administration costs attributable to the specific project to be undertaken.
In general, the college and university are expected to provide for, or contribute to, the indirect or overhead costs such as basic utilities, the costs associated with managing and operating facilities, the purchase and repair of office equipment, administration fees, insurance for equipment and research vehicles, and basic communication devices such as telephones and fax machines. Since the funding received through the CCI Program is not eligible to the Research Support Fund (formally called the Indirect Costs Program), colleges and universities may request funds for overhead and administration costs attributable to this project (but not for general overhead and administration costs of the college or university as a whole). The maximum allowable percentage for overhead and administrative costs will not exceed 20 percent of the total grant amount for both colleges and universities.
Provide two recent quotations for items or systems costing more than $25,000 before taxes. Provide justification if two quotations are not available.
Note: For upload purposes, all the quotations must be saved into a single PDF document.
Any relationship and/or overlap, conceptual or financial, with work supported by NSERC or other funding sources must be explained.
Use additional pages to provide the following information:
The onus is on the applicant to provide sufficient information to enable the reviewers to evaluate the relationship between this application and other sources of support, to evaluate the incremental value of additional support from the program, and to recommend the appropriate funding level.
The consequence of not providing adequate information to assess the relationship to other research support is that the reviewers may recommend reduced or no funding.
Use this page to report the contributions committed by the supporting organization(s) to the research project. Before completing this section, read the program description and the College and Community Innovation Program Financial Administration Guide for information about the eligibility of expenditures and the regulations governing the use of grant funds. Also review the Guidelines on Eligibility and Value of In-Kind Contributions.
Provide the information for each supporting organization.
List the resources the supporting organization will provide to support the proposed activities including:
Use the Contributions from Supporting Organizations - Attachment page to provide an explanation of the cash and eligible in-kind contributions; and indicate to which academic institution these contributions will be directed, particularly any cash contribution, if applicable.
Form 183A and letter of support (and attachments, as required)
A completed Form 183A, letter of support and any other required documents must be attached for each organization participating in an applied research project. Either the applicant or the supporting organization must complete all applicable pages of the form and provide the required documents.
To allow a supporting organization the ability to link a Form 183A to your application, use the Access Manager page of Form 103. For details on how to use this function, refer to the Access Manager instructions.
For applicants who are filling out Form 183A on behalf of the participating organization use the Link Manager page of Form 183A to link to your application. For details on how to use this function, refer to the Link Manager instructions.
Provide a detailed explanation of the in-kind contributions to the direct costs of research. This information will be used to assess the level and nature of the partner involvement, the importance of their contribution to the success of the project and an appropriate cost-sharing ratio. This section must state how the company partner's contributions will be allocated and to which academic institution they will be directed, particularly any cash contribution, if applicable.
Cash contributions are those made to accounts for which the applicant has signing authority. Other contributions are considered in-kind.
Describe the anticipated plans to protect and dispose of intellectual property (IP) arising in the project.
Any agreements made regarding the ownership of the IP resulting from the NSERC-funded research must take into account the objective of creating partnerships. This implies a sharing of eventual benefits between the partners commensurate with their respective contributions.
Given the purpose of the projects and the fact that they are company-driven, the college and university must have the right to use the new knowledge or technology in future teaching and research; and faculty and students must have the right to describe the project on their curricula vitae.
An Impact Assessment Form (Appendix A) must be completed and uploaded to the Environmental impact page, as required.
Suggest the names of five people competent to assess the technical aspects of the proposal. This list should include experts from the college and/or the broader research community and at least one expert from the private-sector. As appropriate include people from the natural and social sciences, engineering, humanities and/or health who are competent to assess the research. These suggestions should also take into consideration equity, diversity and inclusion, for example the list should include some women.
Give the name, complete mailing address, telephone and facsimile numbers, e-mail address, and the area(s) of expertise of potential reviewers.
Reviewers should be able to review the proposal in the language in which it is written.
You may also request in a cover letter that some individuals or companies not be involved in the review of your application. Your request will be taken into account by NSERC.
Conflict of interest
Suggested reviewers should not be in a conflict of interest. Refer to the Conflict of Interest and Confidentiality Policy of the Federal Research Funding Organizations for more information. In addition, external reviewers must sign the Conflict of Interest and Confidentiality Agreement for Review Committee Members, External Reviewers, and Observers before they access the application material.
The cover letter is optional and should only be used if you wish to provide NSERC with additional information that will not be shared with external reviewers, such as a request that an individual or group of individuals not be involved in the review of your proposal. NSERC will take such a request into consideration. The cover letter must contain your name, the type of CCI grant which you are applying for and the title of your application.
Note: This letter may be accessible to these individuals under the Privacy Act.
NSERC does not require original signatures on applications or other documents submitted electronically through its On-line System. The electronic submission of applications through this system represents approval and replaces the traditional "physical" or "wet" signatures. Refer to the Frequently Asked Questions in the Program Guide for Professors for more details.
For applicants
Before you, as an applicant, can submit your application to NSERC or link your Personal Data Form to an application, you must read and agree to the Terms and Conditions of Applying that appear in a pop-up window during the submission process. It is your responsibility to retain a copy of the agreed Terms and Conditions for your records.
Each participant submitting a Form 103CV as part of the application must sign and fill out the Terms and Conditions of Applying Form included in the Form 103CV.
The signatures of the institutional authorities certify that:
The signatures of authorized officers of other supporting organizations certify that the organization:
If you are both the applicant or participant and a principal of a collaborating organization, another senior official must sign on behalf of the organization.
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Drains or communication with the beings of light – Part 3/4
«How to recognize the purity of a pipe ?»
How to detect if the received message is a pure channel? How do I know if it comes from beings of light? Have you ever had the feeling that you just received is tinged with the influence of the transmitter? Are t he in items received details or signs that you are not unknown? Do you own the feeling of having heard a particular message? Have you ever felt uncomfortable with respect to a message that was given to you by a channel? How can we develop our sense of discernment? The means of communication used by the beings of light and ascended masters are sometimes misunderstood the "channel" itself. The transmission of these messages come from a process of complex, sometimes involving use of energy in the "channel", which is called an "out of complete or partial body" with a special pack that is carried out in general during sleep, and this for many years. This allows him to anesthetize all expression called "invasive" of his ego which could distort the messages it receives. Others work differently: they transmit "what they mean" or "what is handed to them."
During communication, some receive messages telepathically, and others are called in so-called spiritual "adombrés scene 'It happens in particular cases, the hand movements of the channel can be influenced and and he finds himself practicing automatic writing. All these means of transmission of messages may be more or less subject to "the spirit of the moment the channel" to his mood of the day or to his intellectual abilities or even his egotistical needs. In the latter case, the "mediums" are accused of expression instead beings of light and are easily confronted with unfair judgments and bitter. It's not because people expect too "human channels" as it takes to be swayed. Yield to the demands of this type only serve the real "channels" that have heart to faithfully transmit the messages. The need for new or extraordinary sensational lose sight that "the simplest lessons are sometimes the most profitable." It is for these reasons that it is difficult and unwise to judge a pipe. You should know that each pipe to its purpose. Which for us has no sense, will significantly for another person. It will even be very useful for certain souls evolving with a different view from ours. Therefore, we understand why there is so different spiritual groups in lessons. Some lessons learned are not all identical from the point of this planet they are received. There are variants of evolution in some groups of souls, hence the need to diversify the types of pipes. A group of souls who plays a channel "distorted" some lessons did not provided éloigé his journey towards truth. It's just that he should be. We will soon discuss the different groups of souls and their mission.
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