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Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson and More Perform at Inauguration Balls
(WASHINGTON) -- Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson and several other artists capped off Inauguration Day for President Obama Monday night with performances at the two official balls at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.
At the Commander-in-Chief's Ball, Keys revised the lyrics to her hit "Girl on Fire" to honor the president.
She sang, "He's the president and he's on fire...Obama's on fire. Obama's on fire."
Hudson performed the Al Green classic "Let's Stay Together" as the president and first lady Michelle Obama danced.
Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill danced to Jamie Foxx's rendition of Ray Charles' "I Can't Stop Loving You."
At the Inaugural Ball, staunch Obama supporter Stevie Wonder entertained the crowd with his hits "Sir Duke" and "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours." Fun. performed "Some Nights" and "We Are Young."
This was the scheduled lineup for the two official balls:
Commander-in-Chief's Ball
Alicia Keys
Brad Paisley
Jamie Foxx
Jennifer Hudson
Marc Anthony
Inaugural Ball (Halls A, B & C)
Alicia Keys
Brad Paisley
Glee cast
John Legend
Stevie Wonder
Inaugural Ball (Halls D & E)
Alicia Keys
Far East Movement
Glee cast
Katy Perry
Smokey Robinson
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Corvettes were designed to go around curves. Sure, they go fast in a straight line, too, but there are lots of cars—lots of American cars—that do that as well. It's the handling that separates the Vette. Unfortunately for those of us who are enamored of the early cars, neither ever-increasing performance standards nor aging components have been particularly kind to our rides. Having already upgraded the brakes on "Scarlett, our 1972 Chevy Corvette Coupe project car, it was time to go through the suspension, starting with the front. Since the suspension of the Corvette was virtually unchanged from '63 until almost the end of the third generation, all of these modifications apply equally to midyears as well as sharks.
Before we get into the nuts and bolts of things, though, one of the biggest changes you can make in the handling is by changing the wheels and tires, and that's what we did first. Unlike the C2, which has seriously limited room under its bodywork for wide tires, the shark has plenty. Measuring carefully to get the maximum amount of rubber under the car with the minimum amount of interference, I settled on a set of Summit Racing Legend wheels in a 17x9-inch size for the both the front and the rear. They're visually similar to the classic gray-center, five-spoke wheels that appeared on many of the early race Corvettes, making them an excellent aesthetic fit for our '72. And thanks to the addition of a couple inches of wheel diameter—while keeping the outside diameter of the tire about the same—they allowed us to significantly reduce the amount of tire sidewall employed.
Much of what you deal with anytime there's rubber in the suspension is deflection: When things get "loaded," or have force put on them, rubber tends to give. When it's the sidewall of the tire, that deflection changes the radius at which the car negotiates curves. Suppose you're going into a hard right turn: The tire wants to stick the pavement, while the cornering forces on the wheel push against that, to the left. Since the tire is flexible, it doesn't track straight in the direction the car is going, but tends to "walk" toward the outside of the turn, meaning the car travels in a wider radius than you want it to. Reducing the amount of sidewall makes the car track straighter, since there's less sidewall to flex, and it also offers a much more positive feel. The downside, however, is that it makes the car's handling less forgiving, since you have less warning before the tire loses traction and begins to slide.
Obviously, we picked a wider wheel (the factory rims were 15x8 inches) in order to use wider tires, since more rubber on the road means more traction. For Scarlett, we selected BFGoodrich G-Force Sports, again supplied by Summit Racing, in a 275/40-17 size. When you consider that the stock tire was only around 215mm wide, you get the idea of how much larger a contact patch these BFGs create—something like an extra 2.5 inches of tread width. Wide front tires give great bite when you first turn into a corner, but also have a tendency to track changes in the roadway, so you have to pay close attention to keep the car from wandering.
Since unsprung weight is also a key factor in handling, I weighed the factory wheel and tire (I had 245/15s on the factory Rallys) and one of the new ones. Despite being much larger, the new wheel/tire only added about a half-pound to each corner. Not desirable, but an acceptable tradeoff, especially considering that we dropped about 5 pounds of unsprung weight per wheel when we swapped the factory cast-iron brake calipers for aluminum Wilwoods a few issues back.
We added the extra inch of width into the backspacing of the wheel, increasing it from 4 to 5 inches. While no modifications were required to fit the wheel to the front of the car, we did find that when turned all the way in, the tires would rub on the front sway bar and frame. We also had to use stick-on wheel weights located well inside the wheel, instead of clamp-ons at the lip where the wheel meets the tire. There was just barely enough clearance to prevent the steering-rod ends from hitting the wheel itself, but they would have taken clamp-ons right off.
With the wheels in place, before I could tear down the front suspension to start stiffening things up, I had to take some measurements. Adding that much rubber in the front of the car increases the amount of strain on the rest of the suspension components. This includes the shock towers, where the upper suspension pivot is mounted. Under hard cornering, these can flex and, ultimately, break. To ameliorate this problem, we ordered a front "spreader bar" from Van Steel. These consist of a pair of brackets that slip over the bolts holding the upper control arms in place on either side, and are then held in place by the factory nuts. The kit also comes with an adjustable round bar with a Heim joint on either end. Each of the Heim joints is bolted to one of the two brackets, tying them together. Since one of the joints is reverse-threaded into the bar, the bar either gets longer or shorter when it's turned.
There are two bars available: one for cars with electric fans, which needs only to be bolted in place and adjusted, and one for mechanical fans. Since there are so many different pulley and bracket variations, the mechanical-fan version comes with the brackets in three pieces, and will need to be welded together. Predictably, mine has a mechanical fan, so I followed the instructions that came with the kit and slipped the brackets into place on the A-arm bolts, mocking up the L-shaped bracket parts until I found an arrangement that would clear the front fan. With everything measured and scribed in place, I dropped the bar off at North Georgia Machine to be welded and got ready to tear down the front end.
The accompanying photos cover the job in detail. The entire breakdown, including time to get the car up on jack stands, took me about three hours, but it bears mention that I had the advantage of having done it before. If you haven't, I suggest using the Van Steel instructional video. It greatly simplifies the process compared to, say, the Haynes manual, which still leaves me mystified about what to actually do. (It does, however, contain the critical torque values for reassembly.)
Unfortunately, you're only half done. You've still got the rear to go…
Check out the rest of the series in Part 2 and Part 3 of the Sure-Footed Shark!

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Lake Dillon snowpack 141 percent above normal
Snowpack in the Lake Dillon drainage is 141 percent above normal for this time of year and already is 112 percent above the average annual peak levels, according to a news release issued last week by Denver Water.
The news comes as a good sign as normal annual peak dates are still several weeks away, the release stated.
However, in an effort to maintain safe flows in the Blue River during the spring runoff, Denver Water officials plan to increase the reservoir's outflows this week. Outflows have been running at about 300 cubic feet per second for the last several days, the release stated.
Denver Water plans to incrementally increase outflows to 400 cfs, with a 50 cfs increase scheduled for Monday, March 17 and another 50 cfs increase scheduled for Tuesday, March 18, the release stated.
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Even without a candidate on the ballot, Onslow County voters may have 149 million reasons to go to the polls in May.
Even without a candidate on the ballot, Onslow County voters may have 149 million reasons to go to the polls in May.
The Onslow County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Wednesday to begin the process of holding a special election May 14 with a referendum asking voters whether they want a bond totaling $149,235,718 to fund improvements to schools and construction of an elementary and middle school.
If the referendum passes, county property taxes will jump 6.65 cents � from 58 cents to 64.65 cents per $100 of valuation � an increase of 11 percent. The increase would take effect July 1.
�This is tough for us. We promised we wouldn�t raise taxes,� County Chairman Paul Buchanan said. �That�s why we wanted a referendum. We want the taxpayers to vote on this.�
The county owes $77 million of a total $90 million for two school bonds issued in 2006 and 2008. Paying for the new $149 million bond � if approved � will take until sometime after 2033, according to county officials.
School Board Chairwoman Pam Thomas said the improvements have to be made. She said the bond was the right thing to do and she counted on public support.
�We have to find a way,� she said in response to a question about what the school board would do if the referendum fails.
The school board should already be looking at alternatives, board member Mary Ann Sharpe said.
�We need new schools, but we need a lot of things,� she said. �We ought to have a fair tax for everyone � two or three cents more, maybe.�
Onslow County is the second fastest growing county in the state and the school district is the 13th largest local education agency in the state. Onslow County had 27 public schools in 1992; 33 in 2001; 37 in 2010; and added space to 24 schools from 2006 to 2009. The school system has experienced student enrollment growth averaging more than 300 students per year over the last four years. More than 190 mobile classrooms have been added to schools across the district, all according to information from the school board.
The plan includes $120 million for additional classrooms through new construction and replacement of Richlands Elementary School and Dixon Middle School; $5.9 million for enhancement of safety and security systems at all sites and $23 million for scheduled maintenance such as roof repair. If funded, the plan would meet the district�s needs through 2017-18 when enrollment is projected to reach 27,152, according to information from the school board.
�We are playing keep up. This is not enough to get ahead,� School Superintendent Kathy Spencer said Wednesday in scripted remarks made during a 35-minute PowerPoint presentation to county commissioners during a joint meeting of the commissioners and the school board at the Onslow County Government Complex on Richlands Highway.
The commissioners voted to present the bond to the Local Government Commission for approval. If the LGC approves, the commissioners will hold a public hearing, tentatively set for Feb. 20.
The school board has agreed to pay for the special election. A cost hasn�t been tallied yet, County Elections Director Rose Whitehurst said.
�This is all preliminary,� County Vice Chairwoman Barbara Ikner said. �There will be no chance of a tax increase until the public has spoken.�
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Fun approach to serious message
Environment Waikato is taking a fun approach to a serious water safety message this summer.
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Environment Waikato is taking a fun approach to a serious water safety message this summer.
Environment Waikato has used its investment fund to pay a rates refund to the Electricity Corporation of New Zealand (ECNZ).
Environment Waikato is now into stage three of a study designed to reduce risks to people and property if a tsunami strikes the Waikato region.
Environment Waikato has completed flood protection works around the Herekiekie Street, Bridge Lodge and Tongariro Lodge areas flanking the Tongariro River in Turangi.
An Environment Court Judge has fined Wallace Corporation Limited $80,000 for objectionable odour from its Waitoa rendering plant – the highest fine for a single charge ever recorded under the Resource Management Act.
Environment Waikato and Thames-Coromandel District Council are currently undertaking possum control work in a number of residential communities along the Thames Coast. These areas include Thames Township, Waiotahi and Kauaeranga Valley.
Six trustees have just been appointed to the Lake Taupo Protection Trust. The Trust is charged with enhancing the long-term health of Lake Taupo, primarily by reducing nitrogen pollution.


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1. the edible fruit of the rosaceous tree, Malus sylvestris ; in dried powdered form it is used as an antidiarrheal.
2. something that resembles this fruit.
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Apples may be useful in reducing the risk of cancer, controlling DM, favourably altering GI transit times in both constipation and diarrhea, and for cardiovascular disease, as pectin decreases cholesterol
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ingestion of large amounts can cause lactic acidosis, or manganese deficiency resulting in congenital chondrodystrophy.
Patient discussion about apple
Q. what about drinking vinger apple to keep fit?
A. 90% of the alternative medicine people use are not tested clinically. it doesn't mean they don't work, just that that no one tested them to see if they are truly useful and what is the active ingredient in them. in a site i found they gave a big list of what can apple vinegar can help you for. from acne to cholesterol, diabetes and Menstrual problems. too much if you ask me. if there were 3-5 things on the list it was reasonable. but almost 20? so you might as well take it cause it wouldn't hurt you. but i'm not sure about the usefulness. try it and let me know :)More discussions about apple


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LinuxKernel > SELinux
Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is a project to implement mandatory access control under Linux. This project was initially developed by the National Security Agency (NSA), as a reference implementation.
For more information please check out the SELinux project's homepage or wikipedia.
Debian SELinux support
The Debian packaged Linux kernels have SELinux support compiled in, but disabled by default. To enable it, see the Setup Notes.
Setup - How to setup your Debian system to use SELinux
Issues - Issues currently affecting SELinux support
Notes - Scratch space with some notes about SELinux use and setup
Non-Linux Platforms
Please note that SELinux is a Linux-specific feature and Debian packages shouldn't assume it is present (unless they're Linux-specific packages for some reason). Note for developers: Remember to check whether this is a Linux platform by using dpkg-architecture variables in debian/rules, and conditionalise the libselinux Build-Dependency using [] tags. Something like [linux-any] should be fine.
Mailing lists
There are mailing lists about SELinux support in Debian for both user support and development hosted on alioth. Use the SELinux lists overview to subscribe to the lists or browse the archives.
The upstream SELinux Reference Policy maintenance is coordinated on the Reference Policy mailing list.
External Debian SELinux links
External SELinux links
Security-Enhanced Linux - Documentation - Red Hat -- this is probably the best documentation on SELinux available and almost all of it also applies to Debian.
SELinux Project Wiki -- "the official Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) project page"


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I was wondering if it is possible to tell the difference between backups created manually and backups created through a maintenance plan.
There does not seem to be any way to discriminate them in the msdb backup related tables apart from the account that the Sql Agent runs under is placed in the user_name column in the msdb..backupset table
I would like to verify that backups done through a maintenance plan exist on disk but don't really care about any manually created ones. Part of the plan compresses and copies the archives to another server. These will be compared to make sure everything is ok with the plan.


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OSWEGO, NY – Since 2008, only two different drivers have won Novelis Supermodified track championships at Oswego Speedway.
On Saturday, as a part of Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Night presented by Bosco & Geers Food Market and Oswego County Federal Credit Union, Joe Gosek and Otto Sitterly will continue their back and forth battle for 'Steel Palace' supremacy.
Sitterly has claimed five Speedway championships since 2006 with only Greg Furlong and Joe Gosek standing in his way in 2007 and 2011.
With three feature victories during the 2013 Speedway campaign, Sitterly appeared to be in the driver's seat for a sixth track title.
However, a broken rear end part sent Sitterly into the outside wall last Saturday, resulting in a 21st place finish.
Sitterly's misfortune turned into Gosek's gain, as the No. 00 finished second behind Shaun Gosselin to surge into the point lead over Sitterly by a slim seven markers.
Just as in Gosek's 2011 championship season, the two-time Speedway champion has yet to win a main event in 2013 but is the only driver to finish in the top ten in every Supermodified main event this season.
Gosek and Sitterly, who have combined for 33 Supermodified wins at the Speedway since 2006, are left now with just two championship events remaining to settle the score.
Behind the front running championship duo is a host of other Supermodified shoes looking to gain valuable point positions.
Dave Gruel, who has one feature win and four top five finishes, currently rides third in the No. 50 machine. Gruel has had his share of misfortune in 2013 but has managed to make the most of it, rebounding each week with consistent top ten finishes.
Gosselin bounced back to fourth in the standings one week ago after blowing an engine in the No. 26 during warm-ups for the Mr. Supermodified event on August 3. Gosselin had run as high as third in the standings, and with last week's first career victory he now finds himself only three points shy of Gruel for a top three position.
After riding outside the top ten in points for most of the early portion of the season, Pat Lavery stands fifth in the championship battle in No. 22. After battling to the bitter end for the track title one year ago, Lavery has fallen a touch short in 2013, but is likely still smiling after collecting his first Supermodified victory in June of this year.
Feature winner Dave Danzer is sixth in the Supermodified point standings ahead of Michael Barnes, Michael Muldoon, Dan Connors Jr., and Brandon Bellinger.
The battle for the 2013 Supermodified Rookie of the Year title will likely go right down to the wire as Tony Steiner leads Clayton Brewer III by just 32-points.
While Gosek and Sitterly are once again leading the way in the Supermodified division, at first glance the SBS series looked as though it would once again be a battle between Russ Brown and Mike Bond.
For the majority of the season Brown has led the way with Bond looking to play catch-up. However, a string of bad luck for Bond has dropped him to third in the standings behind Jason Simmons.
Like Gosek, Brown has yet to win a main event in 2013 but has secured a total of eight top five finishes, which is three more than any other driver. With a 53-point lead on Simmons with only two events remaining, Brown is looking to keep his nose clean on his quest for Speedway championship number five.
After nabbing his first career Oswego Speedway win in May of this season, Simmons has put together quite the year in the No. 98. Nine top ten finishes has propelled the Team Tapout shoe to a runner-up position in the standings, as he looks for some help in trying to chase down Brown for the championship crown.
Despite ending his heat race on his head last weekend, Bond was able to continue on in the main event and cross the line with a 13th place finish which has kept him in consideration for the championship. A year that started once again with championship aspirations has come onto hard times for the No. 74, but Bond knows no quit and will attempt whatever it takes to try and claw back into contention for championship number four.
JJ Andrews and Kreig Heroth are tied for fourth in the championship hunt, only three points behind Bond.
Andrews has one main event win this season, while defending champ Heroth joins Brown with the most top ten finishes of the year at ten.
Andrew Schartner, Rob Pullen, Dalton Doyle, Jack Patrick, and Jon Tesoriero complete the top ten in the championship order.
Saturday night's racing will see pit gates open at 2 p.m. with hot laps beginning and grandstands opening at 4 p.m.
The night's first green flag will wave at 6:30 p.m.
For more information on Oswego Speedway visit online at www.oswegospeedway.com, follow on Twitter @OswegoSpeedway, or like on Facebook at www.facebook.com/OswegoSpeedway.


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Life Groups are the places where we live out discipleship to Jesus with each other. We share a meal, build friendships and grow in community and love with each other with intentionality and self-sacrifice.
Life Groups are open to all! If you are interested in joining the Carlson-Havens Life Group, please email us to get connected.


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Next stop, Tito's Tacos. When we first got married, I didn't really understand the joys of tacos from this hole in the wall, but with Larry tutoring me, I've really come to appreciate it. As you can tell, Larry was pretty excited.It's been several years since either of us had seen the Walk Of Fame so we headed to Hollywood next. Here are Larry and Creed at Grauman's Chinese Theater. We had to look for some of our favorite stars. I found Doris Day.Larry found Johnny DeppAnd Creed found Jimmy Stewart (he appreciates the classics). Here he is trying to explain to Larry the many merits of Jimmy Stewart.And here's Larry trying to teach Creed some of Fred Astaire's moves.And last, but certainly not least, we drove down to Irvine just in time to catch a book signing with one of my favorite author/illustrators, MO WILLEMS!!!!!!! I think I'll blog about that on the childlitbookclub blog soon, but here's a picture of Creed in awe of Mo (as he should be!)
So several exciting things have happened around here. The most important are: 1) We got a new camera. We been saving up and I finally bought a new camera while I was in Utah, but I still haven't really learned how to use it so we used both cameras this week. I bet you can tell which pictures we took with the old camera.
2) We decided to celebrate Larry's birthday with a trip to Southern California. We decided not to spend much on birthdays this year so we could buy our camera, but we found $10.00 tickets to Burbank on Skybus and that fit the budget. Yes, I'm totally serious; we flew from Ohio to Southern California for $10.00 each!!!!!
We flew out Monday morning and spent most of Monday around LA. We started off by visiting the house Larry lived in until her was 12.
Then we made it home in time to greet Grandma from work and pick up some Carls Jr. Pretty perfect day one, huh? More vacation details to come . . .


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|Learn Basic Alteration Sewing
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In this lesson, Learners will learn a basic technique how to re-measure or change the apparel size learner want. And, also Learners will be taught to re-adjust the area need to alter the garments example to re-measure back the length to proper shorten, replace the damaged zipper, reduce the size, etc.
If Learners have their own 2 or 3 garments need to alter, please bring along. However, for some garment might complicated, the trainer will teach the lesson according to Learners' skills level with not to waste time and effort.
Please take note:
1) Candidates are advised to read the Terms and Conditions before register.
2) Please be cooperate and follow the instruction given by our trainer to accomplish in learning to avoid the disruptive issues and time-consuming problems
In this lesson, Learners will learn a basic technique how to re-measure or change the apparel size learner want. And, also Learners will be taught to re-adjust the area need to alter the garments example to re-measure back the length to proper shorten, replace the damaged zipper, reduce the size, etc.
If Learners have their own 2 or 3 garments need to alter, please bring along. However, for some garment might complicated, the trainer will teach the lesson according to Learners' skills level with not to waste time and effort.
Please take note:
1) Candidates are advised to read the Terms and Conditions before register.
2) Please be cooperate and follow the instruction given by our trainer to accomplish in learning to avoid the disruptive issues and time-consuming problems
Registration Procedure
You need to sign as the free member first.
Once it accepted, you log in your account with your email and password.
Then you go to programme (sewing courses) https://www.astitch-works.com/programmes-main.php?u= and select the course you wish to learn.
Click registration as shown below then enter your mobile number and click declaration and select payment
Once you attached your payment evidence, please inform us by WhatsApp at 91857267 for approve.
If it approved by us, you need to key the code given thru your email before you can start book your schedule online.
There are a few methods of Payment you can choose to pay the courses fees via Astitchworks Bank:
1) We will inform our bank account or Pay Now upon your true details given is not fraud.
To transfer to a particular payee, you will need to have him/her in your list of recipients. Click here to learn how to add a funds transfer recipient.
You can perform:
1) Log in to iBanking with your User ID and PIN.
2) Select Transfer and click Add New DBS or POSB Recipient.
3) Log in with your 6-Digit iB Secure PIN.
4) Indicate the Recipient name and Account number.
5) Indicate your Initials.
6) Click Next.
7) Verify the Details of the Transaction and follow the 2-Factor Authentication Instructions.
8) Click Submit.
Now, you can start doing the payment transfer to other POSB/DBS account holders
1) Select Transfer and click Other DBS or POSB Account.
2) Log in with your 6-Digit IB Secure PIN.
3) Choose the Recipient you wish to transfer your money to.
4) Select the Account you wish to transfer from.
5) Select the Currency and indicate the Amount you wish to transfer.
6) Click Next.
7) Snapshot the copy of the payment transaction and log in our site to select the courses you want to register
8) Submit the evidence of transaction for verification.
9) Once its approved, you will get your notification shortly. If we did not reply on the same day, please inform us immediate.
Please double check and confirm your schedule with our Admin in advance before the class start.
b) HOW TO MAKE PAYMENT USING PAYNOW
Watch this Demo Video.
Use a mobile number to make payment securely and almost instantly after you have set up the PayNow service.
Step 1:
Registered yourself as Member is FREE at Astitchworks online.
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Log in to your bank's existing internet banking
Or mobile banking app (Download Appstore/Google play)
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At the PayNow transfer screen, enter Astitchworks number (we will inform our Pay Now number upon your true details given is not fraud) and the amount to be transferred (Courses fee you want to pay)
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Verify that the recipient's name (as registered on PayNow) is correct before confirming the transfer.
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Snapshot the copy of payment transaction and log in our site to select the courses you want to register
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Submit the evidence of transaction for verification.
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Once it's approved, you will get your notification shortly. If we did not reply on the same day, please inform us immediately.
Please double check and confirm your schedule with our Admin in advance before the class start.
Please notify your bank of the change in mobile number. Your previous number will be de-linked from your bank account. You can then link your new mobile number to your bank account.
Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
1. Which are the PayNow participating banks in Singapore?
2. Are there any fees associated with using PayNow?
There are no fees associated with using PayNow, as of July 2017.
3. How can I ensure that the person I am transferring funds to is the correct person?
Prior to performing a PayNow transfer, you should check whether the PayNow Proxy you are sending funds to belongs to your intended payee.
4. During the PayNow transfer process, once you enter the PayNow Proxy that you wish to pay, a lookup will be performed and the PayNow Nickname associated with the Proxy will be displayed.
You should check whether the displayed Nickname belongs to the person to whom you are transferring funds.
1.1 Registration can make online at www.astitch-works.com or come personally at 20, Joo Chiat Road #02-08 Singapore 427357; with a full payment requested before the start of the class.
1.2 Strictly no allow participants to register using other participants' name as a conflict of interest or for other purposes that against Singapore law.
1.3 Participants are to fill the true information in the application form. NRIC/FIN/Others card required for photocopy for our records.
1.4 Participants shall not share your Account with or assign or transfer it or any right under it to a third party. Participants shall not sub-contract or delegate any duty or obligation in respect of your Account, except as provided in Section 1.7.
1.5 Astitchworks is not responsible for any failure or delay in the transmission of any email or the transmission of any information or documentation via our site, howsoever arising.
1.6 Regardless of any reasons, if the participant subsequently cancels or postpones or discontinues the confirmed registration, it will be charged 10% for the penalty (including administration and certificate fees). No refund can be claimed upon the full payment has been made.
1.7 Astitchworks reserves the right to disclose participants' information for publicity and/or statistical studies unless such rights are revoked in writing by the participants.
1.8 Our Main Duty line +65 91857267 operations on Tuesday to Saturday, 11 am to 5 pm. This number is used as WhatsApp's almost all times during our office peak hours. Closed on every Monday, Sunday and Public Holiday.
1.9 Training classes and preview sessions are flexible schedule base on the first book first serve and required to book through online within 3 days in advance.
2.1 Payment can be made online by Pay Now through your mobile via Astitchworks number or bank transfers after your registration is successful. We will inform our bank account or Pay Now upon your true details given is not fraud.
2.2 All payments include cash or crossed cheques (to Astitchworks Concepts with full name and course title) to pay one week in advance before class resume.
2.3 Only Astitchworks vouchers/discounts coupons can claim upon valid date and must be informed Astitchworks in advance before the payment process. Delayed claims will be disqualified.
2.4 Participants will receive advance an acknowledgment transaction as a reference for any subsequent communication with Astitchworks during the payment process.
2.5 In the case of bank transfer, the proof of slip payments is required during the payment process by the participants for Astitchworks' approval.
2.6 If the relevant bank does not clear any payment, participants will get an unsuccessful message from the relevant bank's website.
2.7 Invoices will only be emailed to participants once the payment processed successful and approval by the relevant bank via Astitchworks accepted. Participants will be qualified as Astitchworks students.
2.8 Upon payment successfully, Individual students can book their schedule through our existing slot available. Group and Workshop learning students do not need to book as set by Astitchworks.
3.1 Astitchworks Concepts followed school system and punctuality is required. Late coming or unable to attend the class must be informed immediately/at least 1 hour before the class begins.
3.2 Astitchworks Concepts reserve the right to remove or reject any reasons if unaccepted accordingly to school standard practices and procedures. All courses and availability of fees are subject to change.
3.3 All students must follow the syllabus and be subject to the notes given. Any Astitchworks course or syllabus is subject to change based on class requirements or student learning speed with permission approval.
3.4 Students must complete their assignments and sewing projects on the date scheduled before allowing to learn the next project. Allows venturing the designs as many students want without obligation, but; it must base on their courses subject they registered and priority must complete each project first.
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Islamophobia or homophobia?
Homophobic violence is on the increase in Tower Hamlets. Why are people afraid to discuss it?
To the gang who attacked me in Shoreditch; to the man outside my local pub who yelled 'queer' when I walked past with my ex-boyfriend; to the man who followed me home from the tube station, called me 'battyman' and threatened to kick my face in; to the religious fundamentalists who preach that gay people are less than human and should be killed. I would just like to say: sorry.
Sorry for walking down the wrong street, at the wrong time. Sorry for refusing to hide my love in public. Sorry for not conforming to your narrow view of masculinity. Sorry for thinking that we live in a society where your religious beliefs are not law.
Now, can we please have a proper conversation about homophobic violence? Because, quite frankly, I'm sick of it. Sick of hearing that friends have been intimidated. Sick of being told that parts of London are a 'gay-free zone'. Sick of the right-wing columnists who fan the flames of homophobia. Sick of the left-wing apologists who make excuses on the basis of culture or religion.
In the last few years there have been more and more reports of homophobic incidents in Tower Hamlets, often involving attacks on gay men by gangs of young Bangladeshis. In one case, a gay man was stabbed seven times and is now paralysed. When his Bangladeshi attacker was jailed, a gang stormed the George and Dragon pub, a popular haunt for the gay community.
A few weeks ago, for the second time, stickers appeared close to the George and Dragon and other gay venues in the area, quoting passages from the Koran and declaring the borough a 'Gay-Free Zone'. The stickers bore no clue as to who might be behind them, but some people questioned the authenticity of the flyers, claiming they were the work of an extremist right-wing group and were designed to incite Islamophobia. What we do know is that people passing through Whitechapel High Street are often handed leaflets containing homophobic sentiments. The real question is why so few people seem willing to talk about it.
When the problem in east London first began making headlines, a Guardian columnist argued that 'It is time for gay people to begin engaging with the Bangladeshi community in Tower Hamlets and not simply to see them as the colourful backdrop to their multicultural existence.' Yes, you read that right. Gay people brought this on themselves. Similar sentiments were expressed last week on Facebook. One gay man warned that 'we will reap what we sow', as if the problem was created by gay people and not, say, by Islamist extremists.
Officially, the East London Mosque is opposed to homophobia. In a recent press release, Dilowar Khan, the mosque's director, said: 'We stand together with our fellow citizens against all forms of hatred, including homophobia.' Yet the mosque has a history of hosting talks by homophobic preachers. The East London mosque told TO: 'In the past there may have been lapses where a third party organiser who hired our facilities allowed their guest speakers to make comments that were not in line with the mosque's own view. We have condemned such views that propagate hatred and intolerance. We now vet any speakers wishing to speak publicly at our venue.'
Despite fears of an increase in Islamophobia, there have been no reports anywhere of angry gays storming mosques or attacking Muslims. Instead, next month, there will be an East End Gay Pride event in the King Edward VII Memorial Park. In the meantime, it would be nice if we could all agree that the only people responsible for homophobic attacks are the perpetrators themselves, irrespective of their colour or religious beliefs. Sorry if that offends anyone.


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The news that day was filled with stories about Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). Say what? A CME is also known as a "solar flare", and I know that's not really being more descriptive, but basically, the sun that provides the gravitational framework that keeps our
It happens all of the time with varying degress of effect, and if we didn't have any electronics, there would be nothing to worry about, but our dependence on electricity and the likelihood that a very large CME could do damage to our individual electrical gadgets (at best) or to the grid as a whole (at worst) is pretty high.
In fact, in 1859 a pretty big solar flare hit the Earth, disrupting telegraph service and creating such a magnificent Aurorae that in some places it was as bright as day time. The experience has been dubbed The Carrington Event, after the scientist who first identified the phenomenon.
The significance of that event to our time lies in the fact that we are much more heavily dependent on electricity, and such an event could wreak havoc, if it takes out the grid. In the days prior to the March 2012 CME event, there was some babble in certain online circles about "what could" happen. The gist of the conversations was that there are x-number of substations across the US, each of which have a transformer. Without the transformer, electricity can not be distributed. For every x-number of transformers, there's one replacement, and it takes x-amount of time to manufacture a new one.
So, basically, if a very large CME destroyed *every* transformer, there would be places in our country that would be without electricity for several years awaiting the necessary equipment to fix their part of the grid. The question is, who would be first in line, and further, what would those at the bottom of the list do in response to not being first?
Most people probably didn't even know it was happening - that it happened. There were no worries and no preparations. Ignorance was running blissfully through the masses, and since nothing happened, no harm done.
Even if something had happened, though, what could we have done to prepare? I think saving the electronics would probably have been an exercise in futility. Best case, I could have enclosed our computers in a Faraday cage (there's a really cool one at the Museum of Science in Boston, Massachusetts, and a favorite stop for Deus Ex Machina, who is an electrical engineer and has a love of all things sparkly - except Vampires). The problem is that I don't have a faraday cage at my disposal, although I could get one, I suppose. It's just that if all electronics are wiped out (from the grid to unprotected bike generators), what good would having my computer do me after the six-hours of battery life is exhausted?
What worries me, though, is not that there was so little news about the event, which means there was very little or no preparations on an individual level, but that there was a flurry of worried anticipation and half-hearted attemts at getting ready followed by a sigh of relief that nothing happened and a return to life as usual.
And I guess that's what bothers me about our collective mindset in general. It's like bees.
In a bee colony the entire focus is on saving the Queen. Without the Queen, life in the colony ceases to exist. A regular bee's lifespan is pretty short, and in order for the colony to thrive, there needs to be a Queen that is laying fertile eggs. The difference between a fertile egg and a non-fertile egg is gender, with the latter producing the male drones.
Drone bees are pretty cool. They don't have stingers, and while some drones are necessary for the health of the hive, too many will kill the colony.
The fertilized eggs are female. They are responsible for doing the work of the hive that keeps everyone else alive. Specifically, they venture out, collect the pollen, and turn it into the honey on which they all survive.
Honey, for the bees, is survival, and so, in response to a threat to their hive, they will start to eat the honey. One of the common practices among beekeepers who wish to work with the hive is to use smoke. It is often taught that the smoke calms the bees so that they don't sting. It's actually an opposite effect with the same results. The smoke sends the bees into a frenzy. Believing that there is a fire and that the hive is in danger of being destroyed, they begin to eat the honey, and they don't attack the invader (beekeeper), because they're too busy trying to save the hive.
We, humans, tend to be a lot more like bees than most of us would believe ourselves to be. In response to a looming disaster, we rush to make preparations, but mostly, during our day-to-day lives, we just go about our business ... the business of making money ... er, honey.
In a conversation on the night of the CME in March, when I was asked about it, I said that it could knock out the entire grid ... or it could do nothing. Either way, on the day of the event, there's really nothing left for us to do, but wait and see. For the average Joe, the event was a non-event. Where I live, we didn't even get to enjoy the Northern Lights because of the cloud cover.
My concern is that we've become too complacent. It's like we're living in the Boy Who Cried Wolf story, and every time something like this is about to occur, someone cries Wolf!, and everyone scrambles to "get ready", and then, nothing happens, and next time there's a cry of Wolf! fewer people will be slower to react.
Maybe nothing will ever happen, but maybe something is happening somewhere all of the time.
I don't go to the grocery store when a big storm is predicted. Aside from the fact that I don't like the frantic energy from the crowd of shoppers who feel the need to prepare for "this" storm, but little need to prepare, in general, there's very little that I need to get. Deus Ex Machina and I are usually stocked up on the essentials, because I hate running out of stuff (a fact which amuses Deus Ex Machina every week at the grocery store when I put, yet another, carton of oats in the cart ;). So, we usually have, at least, a few weeks of back-up, and for those things that we don't have, we have some sort of substitute.
In short, we're usually prepared to weather any storm without fear.
My concern with this most recent emergency is that, instead of just changing how they live so that things like this won't be an emergency, most people are still living as if there will never be an emergency, and then, when there is news that there might be an emergency, they rush to eat all of the honey.
And what we've created is a reactionary way of life. In short, most of us think we're planning for the future, because we have a 401K or an IRA. We have money in the bank for when we retire. And in the meantime, we're working a 9 to 5 job (with which very few of us are truly satisfied) to pay the bills, and when there's an emergency, it completely disrupts our lives.
Instead of really living and enjoying life, we're always waiting for that "right time" to do one thing or another. Like Scarlet O'Hara, we live in a fog believing that there will always be tomorrow to worry about that, and so when tomorrow comes, and we've lost our job or the stock market tanks and we lose half our life-savings or the price of gasoline creeps up to $4/gallon while we aren't paying attention and we can't afford to fill up our 10 mpg F100 truck (and pay our mortgage) or a crop loss in some town out West most of us has never heard of causes the price of flour to triple, it is an emergency, and we are, invariably ill-prepared to handle it.
What's so disappointing is that, if we were paying even just the slightest bit of attention to that obscure article on page three by the junior journalist who will probably lose his job if too many people actually read (and believe) the truth he's revealed, none of these emergency events would be emergencies, because we would have known they were coming for months.
I got the coolest note from my mother the other day. She likes buying books for me, and I like getting them. Sometimes, though, she buys me a book I already have - as happened recently. So, I offered to send the book back to her so that she could have a copy, but she said she already had a copy, too. In fact, she told me that she'd opened up her copy not too many days previously and got lost in its pages for a few hours.
The book? Back to Basics.
It's one of the best 'how-to' self-sufficiency books we own, and it covers just about every skill a homesteader might need from food (raising and perservation) to reusing rags to make a rug. There's even a chapter on making a mountain dulcimer. The instructions are simple and easy to follow.
Peak oil. Climate change. Resource scarcity. And now, catastrophic sun activity. There's a lot to worry about, for sure, and we won't be able to prepare for every eventuality. In fact, we may find that when at our most prepared, we are ill-prepared. But knowing that we can find what we need, that we can provide for ourselves even in these worstcase scenarios really does make it easier to laugh about a CME, and it takes the fear out of contemplating losing ....
Deus Ex Machina and I have two copies of Back to Basics. We're planning to keep one, and we've decided that we'd like to offer the other here.
If you're interested in receiving our well-loved copy of Back to Basics, please leave a comment detailing a lost skill you have been working to learn ... and also, why you think it's important for you to know.
Deus Ex Machina and I are working on foraging food ... but not just for today's dinner, but also for adding to our winter stores. This past weekend, in fact, we went out and gathered stinging nettles, dandelion greens and flowers, and Japanese Knotweed. The first two were dehydrated for use in future soups. The flower heads were cleaned and are in the fridge. They'll become fritters. The Japanese knotweed was blanched and is in the freezer. We feel learning to identify and use wild foods is important, because we have such a small lot and while we can grow a lot, we'll also need to supplement our diet. We feel wild foods are our best option.
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Make your own Hula Girl Ring Toss
What better game for a hula party than hula girl ring toss? Call those rings hula hoops and you have twice the amount of hula fun!
This is how I made it:
1 storage container
3 dolls from the dollar store clothing removed shoes kept on
decorative tape (I had green on hand)
sequins ribbon
hot glue gun/glue
raffia or 'wrapphia' ribbon
embroidery floss of thin elastic roping
flower stickers
3 jar lids
1 50lb bag of play sand
plastic rings (We had them from a ring toss game already)
I used green tape to make a "bikini bottom" on each doll. Next, I hot glued the sequins ribbon to make a "bikini top".
The harder and more time consuming part of this project was making the hula skirts. I used wrapphia ribbon which can be found at craft supply stores. Starting with a 7-8 inch piece I knotted on smaller pieces one after the other the to make the skirt. You really only need about 4-5 inches of skirting. Trim the bottom of the skirt to appropriate length and then tie on doll.
To make the lei, I stuck flower stickers on a piece of elastic roping. Hot glue helped to keep it in exactly the right place on the doll.
To help anchor the dolls in the sand I hot glued their feet to a jar lid.
To assemble: place sand in storage container, arrange dolls, top with more sand and start tossing those rings!


text: WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The State Department has released its environmental assessment of TransCanada's TRP, +0.60% TRP, +0.41% Keystone XL oil pipeline project, that would allow oil taken from Canadian tar sands to be sent via pipe to Gulf Coast refineries. There wasn't much criticism of the environment impact in the report: the report said that it was "very unlikely" any releases from the pipeline would affect groundwater quality, except in the shallow groundwater and water wells in Nebraska. It didn't expect much climate impact and also found only 1 of 13 federally protected species would be potentially adversely affected by the project. The government found that in Canada, the project would not likely result in "significant adverse" environmental effects. The State Department will give 45 days for people to comment, and the White House from there can approve or reject it.


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I'm an enthusiastic environment artist looking to start a career in Finland. Very experienced in Blender and UE4, my main focus is the lightning and ambience, which in my opinion, can make or break a game. Also I'm quite proficient at putting materials together. My first contact with a game engine was when I started making maps for Counter Strike Source back in 2005. This passion of mine to create environments dates back to early UDK days, been making prototypes and small projects ever since, always looking towards a professional career.
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Farrakhan should be thankful that the handful of black folk who showed up did. Independent Conservative has a fascinating --and undoctored-- before and after picture of 1995 and 2005.
Sensible black people know that Farrakhan by and large is nothing more than hot air, capitalizing and whipping up fear in the black community. After the 1995 "march" nothing substantial came of the grand promises and lofty idealisms Farrakhan spouted. Apparently, he thought black folk dumb enough to fall for that dog and pony show again. He is a worthy contemporary to the chief race hustlers Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and company.
Bishop Jakes and other black Christian Leaders are on Farrakhan's hit list, not because they didnt attend the march, but because they are secure enough in their own leadership abilities, therefore have no need of some self anointed "black leader". Although Farrakhan continually harps on about black unity, he cannot produce his own fruit for unity. In other words, division follows him everywhere. Secondly, unity at the expense of my faith is not unity at all. A Christian should never come under the control of a separatist Muslim fanatic who brazenly compares himself to Jesus Christ. That alone is more than enough reason for any authentic Christian to reject Farrakhan's "leadership".


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From 1977 through 1978, John served as a personal assistant to Steny H. Hoyer, then President of the Maryland Senate and also served as aide de camp to Acting Governor Blair Lee, III of Maryland. At the conclusion of the 1978 gubernatorial campaign in Maryland, John briefly served the Maryland General Assembly as a consultant before joining the Air Line Pilots Association in Washington, D.C. as Assistant to the Director for Legislative Affairs.
From 1981 through 1986, John served Congressman Hoyer as his Legislative Director and Associate Staff to the House Committee on Appropriations of the U.S. House of Representatives. In that role, John had a variety of political and governmental responsibilities working closely with Members of Congress from both parties and the Leadership of the House.
In 1987, John joined the Washington, D.C. law firm of Patton Boggs, LLP as the youngest partner in the firm's history and he served as the Managing Partner of the Baltimore Office and Director of their firm's branch offices in Denver, Dallas, Greensboro, Raleigh, Seattle and Baltimore. In addition, John sat on the Management and Executive Committees of the firm and represented a number of major corporate, sports, and non-profit clients.
Maryland Governor Parris Glendening nominated John to be Chairman of the Maryland Stadium Authority in January of 1995 and the Maryland Senate confirmed him. As Chairman of the eight-member authority, John oversaw Oriole Park at Camden Yards, home to the Baltimore Orioles, PSINet Stadium adjacent to Oriole Park, home to the NFL Ravens, the Baltimore Convention Center, construction of the Ocean City Convention Center expansion, and the establishment of the Montgomery County Conference Center. He was successful in luring a National Football League team- the NFL Ravens- to Baltimore and has been honored by several professional business and civic groups as a result. Chairmanship of the Authority is a high profile, voluntary position with responsibility for approximately 100 employees and close to $1 billion in assets. John served in this capacity through 1998.
In June 1998, John joined Legg Mason Wood Walker, Inc. as the Managing Director of its Sports, Media and Entertainment Group. Mr. Moag led the nation's only investment banking group focused solely on infrastructure financing, mergers and acquisitions, private placement of equity, and the public markets in the sports, media, and entertainment industry. The highly successful practice was involved in transactions totaling in the billions of dollars.
In 2001, John left Legg Mason to start his own company: Moag & Company, L.L.C. Moag & Company's services include mergers and acquisitions, private placement of equity and debt, IPO consultation, financial advisory and venue financing. As Chairman and CEO, Mr. Moag and his team have handled a number of high profile transactions involving sports teams, sports entertainment media, sports facilities and sports-related companies.
John has been a member of the Washington College Board of Visitors and Governors since 1989. He has served as Vice Chair of the Board and Chair of the Legal Affairs Committee. He was named an emeritus member of the Board in 2008. He serves as a member of the Board of Visitors of the University of Maryland at Baltimore. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Union Memorial Hospital Foundation, Inc. John also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Chesapeake Region 2012 Olympic Coalition.
With some frequency, John lectures on the sports industry and has published on a number of occasions. He has served with the United States delegations to Nicaragua and El Salvador to monitor democratic initiatives, to Vietnam to consider the trade embargo, and to Germany to monitor an election in Bavaria.
John is married to the former Margaret McManus and has two children: Lauren McManus Moag and Alexandra Swanson Moag.
Campus Involvement
"In all my years as a member of the Board of Visitors and Governors, never have I felt more proud of my alma mater, or more optimistic about its future. Under the leadership of President Mitchell Reiss, Washington College is embracing every opportunity to enhance the undergraduate experience while repositioning itself among the nation's top liberal arts colleges."


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Raising public awareness of behavioral and mental health issues and working to reduce stigma.
National Depression Screening Day
October 11, 2018
Held annually during Mental Illness Awareness Week in October, National Depression Screening Day (NDSD) is comprised of awareness events that include an optional screening component.
National Depression Screening Day began as an effort to reach individuals across the nation with important mental health education and connect them with support services. Screening for Mental Health (SMH) pioneered National Depression Screening Day as the first, voluntary, mental health screening initiative in 1990.
Twenty-five years later, NDSD has expanded to thousands of colleges, community-based organizations, and military installations providing the program to the public each year.
Take an anonymous screening at http://helpyourselfhelpothers.org/
If you are hosting an in-person screening event in your community that you would like listed on our national locator, submit a form HERE.
National Eating Disorder Awareness Week
February 24-March 2, 2019
Held annually during National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, our National Eating Disorder Screening Program educates and screens individuals for eating disorders and connects those who may be at-risk with local treatment resources.
National Alcohol Screening Day
April 11, 2019
National Alcohol Screening Day (NASD) is an outreach, education, and screening initiative that raises awareness about harmful and dependent drinking behaviors and connects individuals who are at risk with treatment options. NASD is held annually on Thursday of the first full week of April. Thousands of colleges, community-based organizations, and military installations provide the program to the public each year.
Take an anonymous screening at http://howdoyouscore.org/
MassMen.org is part of a statewide initiative aimed at reducing the suicide rate among working aged men in Massachusetts. The comprehensive website provides men and their loved ones with vital mental health information, anonymous screenings for common mental health disorders and suicide, and state and local resources developed by regional suicide prevention coalitions.
Stop A Suicide
Screening for Mental Health developed StopaSuicide.org as an educational suicide resource for those encountering suicidal thoughts and feelings, loved ones who may be witnessing these signs and symptoms (which can often go unrecognized), and professionals looking for clinical information on suicide and mental illness. Interested in raising awareness about suicide prevention? Visit our promotional toolkit.
Stay Strong Boston
Developed in response to the April 15, 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings, the Stay Strong Boston Initiative provided individuals across the Commonwealth and the United States with access to free, online mental health assessments for PTSD, depression, and other mood and anxiety disorders. Those taking screenings were connected with the Samaritans and the SAMHSA Disaster Distress helplines for further support.
Screening for Mental Health collaborated with Massachusetts 2-1-1 (Mass211), the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and Link2Health Solutions to develop this initiative. Support from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health allowed for the development of www.StayStrongBoston.org.
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I am honored to receive this Award from All Things Boys – Thank you again! I am a bit overwhelmed as blogging started out after surviving a life threatening motor vehicle accident while riding as a passenger.
How Blogging Has Helped Me
Blogging helped me fill my time, stay connected to the people in our most fragile world
Blogging has given me a sense of purpose
with the extremely long isolated days and nights (pain) turned into
weeks than months and finally years
Almost three years of physical therapy rehabilitation learning how to walk and adapt to chronic nagging pain caused by the broken ribs that did not heal correctly along with three long surgically installed screws in my pelvis. I suffer from horrific back pain, rib pain, neuropathy in my feet, ankles and deep aching pain in my right hip where the screws were surgically drilled into my pelvis. Pain is something I write about to help others and share why training equine in a natural way without pain and resistance is the very best way.
Please remember to trust Jesus Christ each and every day and make him your Lord & Savior as he is truly the light of our most fragile world.
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By Henry Makow Ph.D - 8/16/2008
Modern "culture" is a product of the Luciferian conspiracy against Christian Civilization.
Relentlessly negative and increasingly obscene, modern "culture" attacks the sources of dignity, decency and hope that define us as human beings rather than animals.
For example last week the media in London was hyping a play about "sexual love" between a married man and a goat.
In an interview, the playwright Edward Albee said "The Goat" challenged this "societal taboo" and hoped that members of the audience would "re-examine their values and attitudes toward bestiality."
"Funny, moving and tragic," raved Channel 4 News, a respected and "serious" program in the UK.
Bestiality has occurred and the play is primarily concerned with the protagonist's confession and inability to deal with the fact that he "feels guilty for not feeling guilty". "We are all animals," he rationalizes. The play deals with the confrontation between the protagonist, his wife and their gay son.
A reader, Jonathan Stonehouse wrote: "It staggers me to think that there are many who now associate freedom with the normalization of everything formerly regarded as morally repugnant, when the truth is we're building a world in which the majority will be slaves to every whim and fancy, not to mention dark and abhorrent desire, the human imagination can conceive. That's a form of 'freedom' I can well do without."
True culture is based on refining our animal instincts in terms of spiritual ideals (like truth, justice, goodness and beauty.) Modern anti-culture is based on demoralizing and destroying society by disparaging these ideals.
Anti-culture portrays man in purely naturalistic and material terms. Every sexual impulse and bodily function must be recognized and indulged. This is considered "courageous" while any demur is considered repressive, prudish or fascist.
In one of the final episodes of "Sex and the City", the audience had to endure Carrie getting a bikini wax. Thankfully we were spared a full frontal view. This is not prudishness. Human dignity requires privacy. Female allure requires modesty and mystery. We have souls, not only bodies.
The exaltation of man's animal nature, at the expense of his spiritual qualities, is a direct consequence of the deification of man. Our anti-culture assumes that man is a finished product and doesn't need to be transformed by God's Love.
A symptom of making man God is that we mystify and worship human beings. We worship a cult of great minds, a cult of great beauty, a cult of great wealth and power.
Modern "culture" reflects the final unfolding of a diabolical conspiracy that rejects the Designer's instructions.
By eating the forbidden fruit, Lucifer promised: "Your eyes will be open and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." (Genesis 3:5) This means that man will redefine what is good and evil to suit his self interest.
God is Good. When man makes himself God, good becomes whatever the most powerful man or group wants. Good becomes evil and evil becomes good. This is happening today.
There were a lot of groups who wanted to be God but some conservatives believe our anti culture can be traced to the Jewish view of their "chosen-ness."
Originally Jews had a conception of God as a Universal Moral Force. (This is the Judaism I identify with.) Apparently in 79 BC there was a Civil War and the Pharisees were victorious. They proclaimed the supremacy of the Babylonian Talmud over the Torah (the first five books of the Old Testament.)
The Talmud teaches that the Jews are chosen by God to lead mankind. In practice this makes them God and gives them the right to redefine reality. It has made them Luciferians. In the words of Harold Rosenthal, "Most Jews do not like to admit it, but our god is Lucifer...and we are his chosen people. Lucifer is very much alive." http://www.savethemales.ca/000334.html
According to the author "Rabi": "Christianity is essentially preoccupied with the individual salvation of man. Judaism only contemplates the salvation of the House of Israel, which alone can permit the salvation of seventy nations of the universe." (Anatomie du Judasime Francaise, pp.203-204)
Thus the Pharisees rejected Christ because he taught that God is Love and all men are equal in the sight of God. http://www.savethemales.ca/000322.html "
The advent of Christ was a national catastrophe for the Jewish people, especially for the leaders," Leon de Poncins writes. "Until then they alone had been the Sons of the Covenant; they had been its sole high priests and beneficiaries.... "
He continues: "The irreducible antagonism with which Judaism has opposed Christianity for 2000 years is the key and mainspring of modern subversion...[The Jew] championed reason against the mythical world of the spirit ...he was the doctor of unbelief; all those who were mentally in revolt came to him either secretly or in broad daylight..." ("Judaism and the Vatican", pp.111-113.)
I suspect that the Messianism of the Pharisee Jews may be an instrument of international bankers, a way to consolidate their power. These bankers and their allies are creating a New World Order that cares little for democratic principles. They will be the Gods.
Nathan Rothschild (1777 -1836) said: "I care not what puppet is placed on the throne of England to rule the Empire. The man who controls Britain's money supply controls the British Empire and I control the British money supply."
In addition to Jewish Messianism, Freemasonry has been the bankers' tool. It was instrumental in the destruction of the Christian monarchies in Germany, Austria and Russia and the decline of the Catholic Church. http://www.savethemales.ca/000338.html
This is also the view revealed in "The Red Symphony." http://www.savethemales.ca/000280.html
In his "Encyclical Humanum Genus" (1884) Pope Leo XIII wrote that the ultimate aim of Freemasonry is "to uproot completely the whole religious and moral order of the world, which has been brought into existence by Christianity...This will mean that the foundation and the laws of the new structure of society will be drawn from pure naturalism."
Again Pope Leo XIII said: "Freemasonry is the permanent personification of the Revolution; it constitutes a sort of society in reverse whose aim is to exercise an occult overlordship upon society as we know it, and whose sole raison d'etre consists of waging war against God and his Church." (De Poncins, "Freemasonry and the Vatican," p. 45)
In "Freemasonry and the Vatican," Leon de Poncins uses Jewish sources to argue that Freemasonry is closely related to Judaism. For example, Rabbi Elle Benamozegh wrote: "Masonic theology corresponds well enough to that of the Kabbala.,,,("Israel et L'Humanite", p.73)
De Poncins cites an article that appeared in 1861 in a Parisian Jewish Review "La Verite Israelites": "But the spirit of Freemasonry is that of Judaism in its most fundamental beliefs; its ideas are Judaic, its language is Judaic, its very organization, almost, is Judaic... "
De Poncins writes that the goal of both Freemasonry and Judaism is the unification of the world under Jewish law. (Freemasonry and the Vatican, p. 76)
Judeo Masonic culture hasn't been all-bad. It has allowed us to accept our sexual desires without guilt and given us the freedom to find God again on our own terms. However these benefits are temporary enticements. The ultimate aim is to divorce us from God and enslave us to our sexual and material lusts, i.e. to arrest our development.
Mankind is being subverted by its political and cultural leaders, beholden to international bankers and their allies, who often are practising Luciferians. They use Judaism (incl. Zionism) and Freemasonry as instruments of organization and control. Obviously the majority of Jews and Freemasons are unaware or do not believe this.
Modern culture makes a God of man. Man defines everything including goodness and truth. The result is that we are in a spiritual prison cut off from God and oppressed by relentless reminders of our own stunted development.
I'm afraid spiritual and psychological enslavement is but a prelude to a political and economic one. Since 9-11, we are sheep grazing in sight of an abattoir.
From April 18, 2004, revised August 16, 2008
Henry Makow Ph.D. is the author of "Cruel Hoax: Feminism and the New World Order." (www.cruelhoax.ca) His articles can be found at his web site www.henrymakow.com He enjoys receiving your comments, some of which he posts on his site using first names only. firstname.lastname@example.com


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Rezero is the name of a unique Ballbot, able to balance and drive on a single sphere. Especially designed for high acceleration, it moves in a very organic and elegant way. Rezero is the first Ballbot prototype which is able to show the full capacities of a Ballbot.
The development of Rezero was inspired by other Ballbot projects like CMU Ballbot and BallIP.
A Ballbot moves on a single ball, not on wheels. This is both astonishing and creates a new means of mobility for robots. A Ballbot can move spontaneously in any direction and does so in a manner as smooth and elegant as a figure skater on ice. Whether used as a guide, a toy, a service robot or a daily aid, a Ballbot can prove its potential in a narrow, varying and crowded environment.
Rezero is the first Ballbot which does not only focus on stability, the calm balancing, but also aims at high agility, the fast movement. Primarily, Rezero is meant to entertain and impress. It is supposed to create emotions. It will be able to interact with a small group of people, react on attractions and in doing so create a hands-on experience with the Ballbot technology. The Ballbot will be an ambassador of its own movement skills. Its dynamic hull even allows Rezero to show and create emotions. Imagine Rezero breathing, being curious or frightened. And even waking up or going to sleep by revealing or retracting its sphere.
Along with the choice of technically high-class and performance optimized parts, we concentrate mainly on the drive and the power transmission on the ball. Here, we also want to create as much propulsion as possible with as little weight as possible. Three driven omni-wheels, wheels which rotate freely in the direction of the axial, allow us to completely control the sphere with almost no undesired friction. High-tech sensors and a robust system control form the heart of Rezero's electronic system. Completed by distance and sonic sensors in combination with many other components it forms the experience of Rezero.
Rezero presents itself in elegant white and lively blue. The design communicates the ballbot's agility and gives Rezero abstract character. The casing is able to vary in height in order to bend its fins and give insight in the illuminated core of Rezero. This, interpreted as breathing, heartbeat or posture, provides Rezero an innovative way to express itself. Synchronized with its movements, this dynamic appearance astonishingly underlines Rezero's unique potential in motion. To park Rezero, its casing can be lowered over the ball, thus it is able even to stand stable.
An optimistic view in the future exposes inspiring perspectives for Ballbots. Equipped with an interchangeable hull, Rezero would be probably the most agile advertising message ever. And a few modular upgrades could turn such a Robot into a Photobot or Runbot and provide the fundament for broad and meaningful usage. Boundaries are set just by your imagination.
Within their Bachelor courses, Mechanical Engineering students at ETH are able to focus on a project work. In a team ideas are developed and fixed, with the goal to create a new product or prototype within one year. The approach to their own problem is freely chosen by the team members, supported by academic and industrial experts. Starting with an idea, the students are responsible for all necessary steps for the prototype, including
concepts, calculations, design, manufacturing and assembly. However, also soft-skills, not only within the team, have to be taken into account. Suppliers and Manufacturers have to be convinced and in discussions with experts information and knowledge needs to be gained and finally integrated into the project.
Further Focus Projects this year are Hyraii, Alcedo, AMZ and Hermes.


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We're absolutely blown away by the work of Sarah Yakawonis, a Maine-based artist who uses a technique known as quilling to create intricate anatomical models like the ones you see here. The meticulously positioned strips of coiled paper look so much like the folds of a brain, or the sinewy striations of human muscle, I actually felt a bit queasy looking through examples of her work during lunch.
We've featured a few examples of Yakawonis' work below, but you'll find tons more (including a variety of non-anatomical pieces) on etsy, Society6, and All Things Paper . [Via COLOSSAL]


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Shinobi: 3D is Poppin' My Ninja!
Every once in a while a console exclusive comes along that makes me want to drop a hot wad of cash on the console in question. This year it may be Shinobi for Nintendo 3DS, a nifty little ninja side-scrolling action title that really impressed me when I got to katana-swinging and kunai-tossing. It's just as I remember Shinobi; fast, stylish, versatile, and difficult as fuck! The first stage was your typical Shinobi fare, classic ninja treading through the burning pagoda and fighting off scores of other ninja. You only have around 10 or so kunai, so you have to be conservative with your throws. Either that, or blow them all on the double-jumping, screen-clearing spread-kunai shot, a staple from the days of Shinobi III, one of my favorite games ever.
After clearing that first stage, I was treated to a section on horseback, where you have to avoid incoming obstacles as well as fend off ninja assailants. There's no sugar coating it, I died a lot during this segment. Maybe it was a weird mixture of the three-quarter behind view coupled with my lack of 3D viewing experience. Or maybe it was because I suck. The point is, no matter how many times I died, I wanted to keep going at it, and pass the damned challenge. When you continually die and persevere as opposed to slamming the control down in frustration, you most likely have a decent game on your hands.
The mix of nostalgia, slick brush-stroke inspired art, and the healthy challenge has me thinking that Shinobi will end up being a bit better than decent. Now I must ask, does anyone have a 3DS they'd like to let me borrow?


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Keith Laws list came out today, some surprises.
|1. Adam Morgan, LHP (92)
|2. Jesse Biddle, LHP (95)
|3. Roman Quinn, SS
|4. Maikel Franco, 3B
|5. Tommy Joseph, C
|6. Ethan Martin, RHP
|7. Jonathan Pettibone, RHP
|8. Cody Asche, 3B
|9. Kenny Giles, RHP
|10. Larry Greene, 1B
2013 Impact: Darin Ruf (bench bat), Kenny Giles (could move very quick as power arm, likes the slider)
Sleeper: Quinn (may stick at short and jump up boards), Franco (believes in second half improvements), Watson (just missed Top 10)
Overall: There is a really lack of upside missing in the upper minors, especially on position player side (doesn't see any regulars before 2015 unless Asche makes strides). Enough talented guys in low minors that the system could real jump.


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|Oracle Workflow Administrator's Guide
Release 2.6.3
Part Number B10283-02
Access protection is a feature that prevents workflow seed data created by a 'seed data provider' from being modified by a 'seed data consumer'. Here, a 'seed data provider' is any organization that creates 'seed data' for other organizations ('seed data consumers') to use in defining and customizing a workflow process. In Oracle Workflow, seed data refers to either of the following:
For example, the Oracle Workflow development team is a provider of seed data called the Standard item type. The Standard item type contains standard activities that can be dropped into any custom workflow process. The development team at your organization's headquarters may create a custom workflow process definition that references activities from the Standard item type. This makes the headquarters team a consumer of the Standard item type seed data.
Now suppose the headquarters team wants to deploy the custom workflow definition that it created to teams at other regional offices. The headquarters team, as seed data providers, may want to do the following:
The headquarters team can satisfy both requirement using the access protection feature in Oracle Workflow. Access protection lets seed data providers protect certain data as 'read-only', while allowing other data to be customized. Also during a seed data upgrade, access protection lets the seed data provider overwrite any existing protected seed data with new versions of that seed data, while preserving any customizations made to customizable seed data.
Oracle Workflow assigns a protection and customization level to every workflow object definition stored in the database and requires every user of Oracle Workflow to operate at a certain access level. The combination of protection, customization, and access levels makes up the access protection feature and determines whether a user can modify a given workflow object. The level, in all three cases, is a numeric value ranging from 0 to 1000 that indicates the relationship between different organizations as providers and consumers of seed data.
The following range of levels are presumed by Oracle Workflow:
|Oracle Workflow
|Oracle Application Object Library
|Oracle Applications development
|Customer organization. You can determine how you want this range to be interpreted. For example, 100 can represent headquarters, while 101 can represent a regional office, and so on.
Protection Level
Customization Level
Combining Protection and Customization Levels to Control Access
Setting Up a Default Access Level
Access Protection for Business Event System Data