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MANILA-- When it comes to beautiful names of churches and parishes, name it and the 15-year-old Diocese of Novaliches, divided between Quezon City and Caloocan City, most probably has it.
The Novaliches Diocese, which was established on Dec. 7, 2002 and canonically erected by Pope John Paul II on Jan. 16, 2003 from its ecclesiastical province, the Archdiocese of Manila, has territorial jurisdiction over the northern portions of the cities of Quezon and Caloocan.
According to the Diocese website, it has a jurisdiction area of 138 square kilometers, a dozen vicariates with 68 parishes and churches at present -- all emanating from the 160-year-old Parish and Shrine of Our Lady of Mercy located at the old town of Novaliches which was divided in 1948 between Quezon City and Caloocan, then still a municipality of Rizal province.
The seat of the diocese, which is dedicated to Jesus, the Good Shepherd, is located at Regalado Avenue Extension, Fairview, Novaliches, Quezon City. The current head of the diocese is Bishop Antonio Tobias. Its present vicar general is Rev. Fr. Antonio E. Labiao Jr.
Tobias has been serving as the bishop of Novaliches since his appointment on Nov. 25, 2003, succeeding now Novaliches Bishop Emeritus Teodoro C. Bacani.
The territorial jurisdiction of the Diocese of Novaliches covers big portions of two premier cities which have their own dioceses -- Quezon City and Caloocan City. It includes Districts 2, 5 and 6 of Quezon City and 23 barangays in North Caloocan City.
The dozen vicariates of the diocese are the:
Christ the King, Our Lady of Lourdes, Sto. Nino, Holy Cross, Ascension of Our Lord, Good Shepherd, Holy Spirit, Our Lady of Mercy, San Bartolome, San Isidro Labrador, St. Peter, and Ina ng Lupang Pangako.
The churches and parishes carrying beautiful names in these vicariates are:
Christ the King Parish (BF Homes, Novaliches, Caloocan City); Mother of the Redeemer Parish (Deparo, Caloocan); Our Lady of Fatima Parish (Urduja Village, Caloocan); Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage Parish (Sampaguita, Camarin, Caloocan); Sacred Heard Parish (Caybiga, Caloocan); Sta. Krus Parish (Bagumbong, Caloocan); Sto. Nino Parish (Congressional Village, Bagumbong, Caloocan).
Epiphany of Our Lord Parish (Kiko, Camarin, Caloocan); Mary, Mother of the Church Parish (Zabarte Road, Camarin, Caloocan); Our Lady of Lourdes Parish (Area B, Camarin, Caloocan); Ang Muling Pagkabuhay ng Ating Panginoon (Phase 10, Bagong Silang, Caloocan); Ina ng Laging Saklolo Parish (Bagong Silang, Caloocan); Our Lady of the Holy Rosary (Langit 1, Tala, Caloocan); San Jose, Amang Mapagkalinga (Phase 5, Bagong Silang, Caloocan); St. Joseph the Worker Parish (Barracks, Tala, Caloocan); Sto. Nino Parish (Phase 1, Bagong Silang, Caloocan); San Roque Parish (Phase 9, Bagong Silang, Caloocan);
Holy Cross Parish (Amparo Village, Novaliches, Caloocan); Holy Spirit Parish (Pangarap Village, Caloocan); Ascension of Our Lord Parish (Greater Lagro, Novaliches, Quezon City); Visitation of Our Lady Parish (Sacred Heart Village, Pasong Putik, Novaliches, Quezon City); Divine Savior Parish (North Fairview, Quezon City); Good Shepherd Cathedral Shrine (Fairview Park, Quezon City); Holy Trinity Parish (Don Jose Heights, Barangay Commonwealth, Quezon City); Mabuting Pastol Parish (Rotary Drive, Commonwealth, Quezon City); Kristong Hari Parish (Commonwealth, Quezon City); Corpus Christi Parish (Palmera Homes Phase 1, Barangay Sta. Monica, Novaliches, Quezon City);
Hearts of Jesus and Mary Parish (Veterans Village, Barangay Holy Spirit, Quezon City); Holy Spirit Parish (BF Homes, Holy Spirit, Novaliches); Jesus of Nazareth Parish (Villa Beatriz, Old Balara, Quezon City); San Jose, Ang Tagapagtanggol Parish (Dona Juana Homes, Holy Spirit, Quezon City); Immaculate Conception Parish (Barangay San Agustin, Novaliches, Quezon City); Ina ng Buhay Parish (Jordan Heights, Damong Maliit, Nagkaisang Nayon, Novaliches); Jesus, Lord of Divine Mercy Parish (Hobart Village, Kaligayahan, Novaliches); Mary the Queen Parish (Neopolitan, Novaliches); Parish and Shrine of Our Lady of Mercy (Quirino Highway, Novaliches Bayan); San Isidro Labrador Parish (Villa Nova-Amparo Capri, Novaliches); St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe Parish (Greenfields I, Kaligayahan, Novaliches):
Banal na Sakramento Parish (Talipapa, Novaliches, Quezon City); Christ, King of the Universe Parish (Kingspoint Subd., Barangay Bagbag, Novaliches); Holy Family Parish (Gulod, Novaliches); Parokya ng Pagkabuhay (Pagkabuhay Road, Bagbag); San Bartolome Parish (Quirino Highway, San Bartolome, Novaliches); The Our Father Parish (Barangay Sauyo, Novaliches); Jesus, Lord of the Divine Mercy Parish (Barangay Pasong Tamo); Our Lady of Consolation Parish (Mira-nila Homes, Tandang Sora, Quezon City); Our Lady of the Annunciation Parish and Shrine of the Incarnation (St. Dominic 3 Subd., Tandang Sora, Quezon City); San Isidro Labrador Parish (Philand Drive, Tandang Sora, Quezon City); San Lorenzo Ruiz Parish (Barangay Culiat, Quezon City); Santuario de San Vicente de Paul Parish (Barangay Tandang Sora, Quezon City);
Parroquia de la Nuestra Senora de la Paz y Buen Viaje (Capitol Hills, Old Balara, Quezon City); Presentation of Our Lord Parish (Filinvest I, Batasan Hills, Quezon City); San Antonio de Padua Parish (Batasan-San Mateo Road, Quezon City); St. Michael, The Archangel Parish (Capitol Site Homes, Old Balara, Quezon City); St. Peter Parish: Shrine of Leaders (Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon City);
Christ the King Parish (Filinvest II, Batasan Hills, Quezon City); Ina ng Lupang Pangako Parish (Payatas B, Quezon City); Mother of Divine Providence Parish (Payatas A, Quezon City); and Sagrada Familia Parish (Sitio Veterans, Bagong Silangan, Quezon City).
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Editors seldom earn much notice outside the world of publishing. Edward Garnett fostered the careers of Joseph Conrad and D.H. Lawrence, but, I suspect, far more people remember his wife, Constance Garnett, the first great translator of Chekhov, Dostoevsky and many other Russian writers. In this country, only one editor ever appears as a "Jeopardy!" answer: Maxwell Perkins, who worked with Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe.
Yet Richard Seaver is, arguably, just as important to our time as Garnett and Perkins to theirs. While a young man in Paris, preparing a Sorbonne thesis on James Joyce, he happened upon — and was bowled over by — the fiction of a middle-aged and virtually unknown Irishman. With dogged persistence, Seaver urged the work of Samuel Beckett on his friends, with some of whom he edited a small English-language magazine called Merlin. In due course, Seaver and his colleagues printed Beckett's short stories in the magazine, translated some of his French fiction into English and published the early novel "Watt." When "Waiting for Godot" opened to a mostly empty house, Seaver was among the few there for that historic first night. He recalls the famous review — which Seaver finds "damning," although it seems a brilliant precis to me: "This is a play where nothing happens. Twice."
A half-dozen years later, having returned to the United States with his French bride, the violinist Jeannette Medina, "Dick" Seaver joined Grove Press. In tandem with its owner, Barney Rosset, Seaver continued to champion Beckett but also helped establish Grove as the lightning-rod publisher of the 1960s. From the beginning, Rosset and Seaver set themselves against censorship of any kind. Despite suits and First Amendment trials that dragged on for years, Grove brought out Lawrence's unbowdlerized version of "Lady Chatterley's Lover," Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer," Jean Genet's "Our Lady of the Flowers," William Burroughs's "Naked Lunch," John Rechy's "City of Night," Hubert Selby Jr.'s "Last Exit to Brooklyn" and Pauline Reage's "The Story of O," as well as a great deal of controversial nonfiction, including "The Autobiography of Malcolm X," Frantz Fanon's "The Wretched of the Earth" and Eric Berne's best-selling "Games People Play." Grove also published the now legendary countercultural magazine the Evergreen Review and established a lock on printing avant-garde plays — not only Beckett's but also those of Eugene Ionesco, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard and many others. A related film division made available the screenplays for movies such as Alain Robbe-Grillet's "Last Year at Marienbad," produced Beckett's "Film" (starring Buster Keaton) and imported from Sweden the soft-core classic "I am Curious (Yellow)."
In "The Tender Hour of Twilight," Seaver looks back on these two heady periods of his life. In the first half, he re-creates the excitement of living in Paris as a young man, growing fluent in French, traveling around Europe and falling in love with several free-spirited young women. "Thirty cents a day would get you a hotel room — not with bath, mind you . . . The room had a bed, a basin, a table, and a chair. Around the corner were the public baths, where for a few francs you could take a scalding-hot shower. Payment by the quarter hour. . . . If your budget was really tight, you could take a douche double, two for the price of one, the sex of your co-showerer up to you, no questions asked by the management."
In those days, 25 cents would buy you a liter of red wine from a cask — if you brought along your own bottle. Over that gros rouge and cheap pasta dinners, the Merlin crowd would gather to discuss their magazine and how they might finance another issue. The regulars included founder Alexander Trocchi, who became a heroin addict and wrote "Cain's Book" (published by Grove); poet Christopher Logue, now remembered for his modernized versions of several sections of "The Iliad"; Patrick Bowles, co-translator with the author of Beckett's "Murphy"; and the elegant Austryn Wainhouse, who rendered the major works of the Marquis de Sade into English. As Wordsworth wrote of his own time in Paris, "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive / But to be young was very heaven."
In these pages, Seaver describes meeting the disturbingly walleyed and intimidating Jean-Paul Sartre, being charmed by Orson Welles and becoming friends with the painter Ellsworth Kelly (whom his then-girlfriend tried to seduce, even after Seaver pointed out that Kelly was gay). But none of these eminences prepares Seaver for Brendan Behan, the former Borstal boy and a legendary drinker even by Irish standards. Shortly after Behan storms into Seaver's life, the playwright asks — at 4 in the morning — if there might be "anything to eat handy?" While devouring Camembert cheese and sausages, he solemnly intones, between mouthfuls, that "food . . . is the great enabler." Seaver is impressed by the phrase but asks his unwelcome and temporary roommate what it means. "To get on with the drinking," Behan slurs back. "Without food you pass out much too quickly."
And then there's Maurice Girodias, the notorious force behind the Olympia Press, which somehow published Beckett, Miller and Vladimir Nabokov ("Lolita"), partly through the profits from its notorious Traveller's Companion line, a series of pornographic green-covered paperbacks (to which the Merlin group, desperate for cash, contributed more than a few titles). Once back in New York as a second in command at Grove, Seaver worked frequently on projects with the flamboyant and litigious Girodias. It was Seaver, under the pseudonym Sabine d'Estree, who produced the exquisite English translation of Olympia Press's "Histoire d'O" — "The Story of O."
Like so many stories of the 1960s, "The Tender Hour of Twilight" culminates in the 1968 Democratic presidential convention in Chicago. Esquire magazine decided to send a trio of controversial literary figures to cover the convention: Burroughs, Terry Southern (co-author of "Candy") and Jean Genet. Seaver and his wife went along to help translate for Genet. Esquire, in its turn, sent an unflappable young editor to be their major-domo and chaperone: None other than John Berendt, later the author of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil." In this section, Seaver reproduces sections of his diary, setting down his impressions of Allen Ginsberg chanting "om" in Lincoln Park, the pincer movement of the Chicago police, and the eventual charge upon and beating of the protesters. Back in 1968 there wasn't as much competition for what newscaster Eric Sevareid then called "the most disgraceful spectacle in the history of American politics."
Richard Seaver died before he could edit these memories into a finished book. But his wife, Jeannette, has done a superb job, even if the narrative ends somewhat abruptly with Seaver's departure from Grove. (He and Jeannette went on to start their own publishing house, Arcade, and continued to bring out important new writers.) No matter. If you're at all interested in modern literature, Paris, the 1960s or the "golden age of publishing," you won't want to miss "The Tender Hour of Twilight."
Dirda reviews each Thursday in Style and conducts a book discussion for The Washington Post at wapo.st/reading-room. His latest book, "On Conan Doyle," was recently published.
The Tender Hour of Twilight
Paris in the '50s, New York in the '60s
A Memoir of Publishing's Golden Age
By Richard Seaver
Farrar Straus Giroux. 457 pp. $35

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In class today I referenced research I had seen indicating that exercise was good for the brain. A student of mine wanted me to cite the source of the research. Good for him; he's been paying attention to our argumentative writing unit that encourages evidence to support a claim. Unfortunately, I didn't remember on which site I had seen it.
So, after class, I searched the internet to find the evidence to make certain I was correct – and good news – there are numerous studies ("Active education: Growing Evidence on Physical Activity and Academic Performance" at Active Living Research and "How Physical Exercise Makes Your Brain Work Better" at The Guardian – the first two Google results) that support the idea that exercise is beneficial for the brain, including impressive ones with brain scans and statistics and everything!
So, now that I'm certain the research on my side, I will share what we did today. Simple: I asked the students to dance a little bit before our class meeting. The students have been somewhat reluctant to participate and I wanted to get them motivated to participate and take some risks so they could feel more comfortable. I had hoped that the music and physical activity would improve the quality of the discussions in our meeting as well.
The students did not dance at first but some eventually did. I thought teenagers just got up and danced immediately whenever music played, but it was like pulling teeth. They had some good ideas about how to improve participating. (Don't try extra credit – it didn't work.) They said they would like to do a song together with directions (The Electric Slide or The Macarena, for example.) Some suggested a Simon Says-type of game where a volunteer does a dance and everyone else does the same thing. I thought the idea was to have a partner and mirror their dance moves, which they did not mean, but I still think my idea was pretty good.
Also, they requested better music (sorry, I didn't know Bruno Mars' Uptown Funk was "old."), so we sent a paper around to sign up with their favorite songs and artists. They wanted to choice of when and how often to dance as well, so they voted on it.
Both classes wanted to keep the dancing. They said they were still not completely comfortable with the other students yet – we only really did two team-building activities – so I would like to increase social activities to help them feel safe and supported. Hopefully, once they know each other a little better, they will fully participate and reap the benefits that exercise has on academic achievement. I am interested in seeing how much a little dancing will improve the climate of the class and if it really will impact the class grades.
So, one caveat – I was trying to get students motivated to dance by dancing. Myself. Alone. In front of the students. In the middle of the circle. And when I turned around, I noticed a row of students filming my lame dance moves. I asked them not to publish it, but alas, it was already too late. I felt betrayed because I was trying to create a climate of trust and who is going to risk anything if they are going to end up looking stupid in front of the class AND to the entire worldwide internet.
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Basically when my contract is up with Lunarpages - this page will be gone. It is simply too time-consuming with all I have on my plate to update two pages - this one and the Facebook. Most people have already figured out that when I do post, it is on Facebook.
In the meantime - keep asking questions - Minutes are not posted in the two period as required by the USOC Hearing Panel Ruling. What minutes are posted are completely devoid of information. The May meeting talks about having the constituent election in September and the Nominating Committee was to come up with a report - it is 2 days until September - which is ridiculous in the first place. Additionally having all actual USAT constituent members but the athlete expire and renew means that members get to "vote" every four years and then only a small portion of those members. Independent governance has failed. Period. Since taking over has there been any communication with the members from this Independent dominated board? Anyone seen a strategic plan? It has been over a year since USAT members were afforded a glimpse of financials?


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In the first of this four part blog series we covered step one of designing a life of world impact, "Align Your Passion and Gifts with Your Career Path." If you read that first post, then I'm hoping you've done plenty of thinking (or re-thinking) about the path you are now on. I also hope that you are considering specific changes that will allow you to pursue the goal of living your truth.
Once you've gotten comfortable with the path that you are taking to fulfill your new goal, you are ready to go to the next step!
Step 2 – Make Yourself Investment Number One
You are the very best asset that you can invest in. You have the highest performance value with the greatest ROI (return on investment) potential in your portfolio.
There is no other investment out there that will produce the dollar-for-dollar ROI that you can achieve when you invest in your own personal brand, growth, and capabilities. Why do I make such a bold statement? A great quote from the late Jim Rohn will clarify the situation: "If you work hard on your job, you'll make a good living. If you work hard on yourself you'll make a fortune!"Read More


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I thought 'The Last House on the Left' was a pretty good movie. All in all it had a decent plot and pretty good acting. I haven't seen the original and have been told that I should see it. I wonder how much different it is going to be, and which one I think will be better?
It was definitely rated 'R' for a reason. It was very graphic and violent. If you get queze from blood and guts at all I would strongly recommend not seeing this movie. To give a feel for how violent it is I will describe a little part of the opening scene.
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In the opening scene, they show a cop getting strangled to death while the guy is holding a picture of the cops kids infront of his face and saying, "see this, you will never see them again."


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Cameron University students, alumni, staff and faculty members were honored by Phi Kappa Phi during the university chapter's annual induction ceremony and awards presentation. Membership is by invitation only to the top 10 percent of seniors and graduate students and the top 7.5 percent of juniors. Faculty, professional staff and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction also qualify. Inductees are expected to attain superior scholarship in all academic disciplines, promote intellectual life and the academic prestige of the university and promote the elements of character that would stimulate others to pursue excellence.
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Be safe this summer: The uses of emergency hormonal contraception
Are you going abroad this summer?
It's that time of year again to go abroad and enjoy the sun, relax and to just take a bit of time out from your usual daily routine. Of course when we're on holiday we just want to break free from all constraints…and contraception can be easily forgotten. This can lead to a stressful morning after the night before! And no matter how careful you are, its no-ones fault if a condom breaks.
To make sure you are safe whilst abroad this summer, why not slip some emergency contraception into your suitcase, to give you that peace of mind.
About Emergency hormonal contraception
Emergency hormonal contraception is also called 'EHC' and the 'morning-after pill'. If you have had unprotected sex, taking emergency hormonal contraception within a few days can help prevent pregnancy.
Emergency hormonal contraception can be used if you have had sex without using contraception, or if you have had sex but there was a mistake with your usual contraception (for example, a split condom or if you forgot to take your usual contraceptive pills).
What Emergency pills are available?
There are two kinds of emergency contraceptive pill:
Levonelle contains levonorgestrel, a synthetic version of the natural hormone progesterone. In a woman's body, progesterone plays a role in ovulation and preparing the uterus for accepting a fertilised egg.
It's not known exactly how Levonelle works, but it's thought to work primarily by preventing or delaying ovulation. You can take Levonelle more than once in a menstrual cycle. It does not interfere with your regular method of contraception.
ellaOne contains ulipristal acetate, which means it stops progesterone working normally. It prevents pregnancy mainly by preventing or delaying ovulation. ellaOne may prevent other types of hormonal contraception from working for a week after use, and it's not recommended for use more than once in a menstrual cycle.
Facts about Emergency Contraception
Both types of emergency contraception are effective at preventing pregnancy if they are used soon after unprotected sex. Less than 1% of women who use the IUD get pregnant, whereas pregnancies after the emergency contraceptive pill are not as rare. It's thought that ellaOne is more effective than Levonelle.
- The sooner you take Levonelle or ellaOne, the more effective it will be.
- Levonelle or ellaOne can make you feel sick, dizzy or tired, or give you a headache, tender breasts or abdominal pain.
- Levonelle or ellaOne can make your period earlier or later than usual.
- If you're sick (vomit) within two hours of taking Levonelle, or three hours of taking ellaOne, seek medical advice as you will need to take another dose or have an IUD fitted.
- There are no serious side effects of using emergency contraception.
- Emergency contraception does not cause an abortion.
Note that the morning after pill is only effective when taken within 72 hours of having unprotected sex, and it doesn't protect you against STIs. And don't forget to use a condom until the end of your cycle.
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W1A (London Volleyball League)LVA seeks divisional administratorPlanning for the new season is well under way and next season's administrator for this division will be decided at a Competitions Committee meeting on 10th September.
Willesden Divas beat Lionhearts Cats (Women's D1/D2 play-offs - London Volleyball League) 20:25 25:21 29:27 27:25Divas spring from nowhereAn enthralling match and a very long one: so long that it outlasted the five set men's match on the adjacent court. Not until the final two rallies did it look as though Willesden were likely winners but those two rallies, as much as the entire match, proved them worthy of the higher division.


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Paint the Town Red Main Stage
Hosted by Port Credit's own Tom Barlow
1:00 – Mississauga Pops Orchestra
2:00 – City of Mississauga Dance Program
2:30 – Farley Flex & UNFMLR present
3:30 – Melle Rose
4:15 – Singing Contestants with John Santos
5:15 – Canadian Girl Power with Krista Blondin
6:30 – Tom Barlow and Guests
7:45 – Wheat Kings
9:00 – Spoons
Formed in 1980, Gordon Deppe and Sandy Horne soon made Spoons a different kind of household word. They would help define the sound of pop and new wave in the 80s with hits including Nova Heart, Romantic Traffic, Old Emotions and Tell No Lies. Their album Arias & Symphonies would go on to be named one of the 20 Most Influential Albums of The 80s by The Chart Magazine and their song Nova Heart was recently included in Bob Mersereau's book The Top 100 Canadian Singles. Not bad for a bunch of kids from Burlington, Ontario.
The Retro 80s movement shows no signs of slowing down. Not one bit. The band is currently recording new material, working on more remixes of their classic hits and will be touring Canada this summer. And as far as Sandy and Gord and a lot of fans are concerned, that is a very good thing indeed.


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HERE. I have a vintage wooden stamp that I actually use as decortive art in my home. So the stamps make lovely artistic pieces when not in use.
1.You must be a follower of this blog. Let me know in the comment section how you follow the blog, email, Bloglovin, Feedly, etc.
2.And of course, just leave a comment and let me know that you would like to be in the running.
I will draw 4 names on Saturday, August 15, 2015, so be sure to stop back by and see if you won!
Good Luck!!! Maybe my good fortune will rub off on you :)


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Scotland/China news
UK Ambassador to China speaks in Edinburgh
by Website Editor, 17 October 2014
China's reform process is "starting to match the rhetoric", Sir Sebastian Webb KCMG, the UK's Ambassador to China, told an audience in Edinburgh this week. Sir Sebastian also said he was "pretty optimistic for China's growth and reform prospects", and believes that "the next two decades should be a golden period" for the UK-China relationship.
Sir Sebastian was speaking at an event on 15 October hosted by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Confucius Institute for Scotland in the University of Edinburgh. This was the first of the Institute's 2014-2015 series of business lectures.
Sir Sebastian giving his talk - photograph courtesy of The Royal Society of Edinburgh
On recent Chinese political developments, Sir Sebastian noted that the new country's new President, Xi Jinping, had taken a "bolder approach" to reform that is "quite inspiring", especially on a greater role for the market economy. He also said that in his experience of four years working with Chinese policymakers, he found them to be "open and pragmatic", and keen to learn lessons from around the world. He said they recognised the particular value of talking to the UK because it was the first country to industrialise, and has created stable institutions and regulatory systems.
The Ambassador's high expectations for even greater economic ties between the UK and China was based, he explained, on the fact that the current new phase of Chinese economic development plays to the UK's strengths in, for example, financial services, the service sector in general, education, creative industries and professional services. This is in contrast, he noted, to the first phase of manufacturing industrialisation and infrastructure, which tended to benefit other exporters such as Germany. He identified sectors such as health care, energy, environment, and urban development as having "untapped potential".
Sir Sebastian also quoted a number of interesting statistics about the UK-China relationship, to demonstrate that the two countries' economies are becoming more complementary :
- UK exports to China have doubled in the last five years, at a time when exports from other European countries have fallen
- there has been more Chinese investment in the UK in the last two years than in the previous 30 years
- some 490,000 Chinese tourists visited the UK in 2013, a rise of 20% on the previous year
Sir Sebastian talking to audience members after his presentation - photograph courtesy of
The Royal Society of Edinburgh
However, the Ambassador also noted some risks and challenges that might hinder China's development in the next few years. These include the country's rising debt-to-GDP ratio ; security concerns in the South and East China Seas, many arising from unresolved differences between China and neighbours going back to the middle of the 20th century ; and the difficulties China faces in becoming more fully integrated into the global economic and political systems.
Sir Sebastian's talk was followed by a lively Q&A session touching on a wide range of issues including UK support for Chinese legal reform, the UK visa system and climate change, before he joined audience members for more informal discussions at a networking reception.
A pdf summary of Sir Sebastian's lecture is now available via RSE here. The full text, as prepared for delivery, is also available from the FCO website.
Sir Sebastian took office in January 2010, and is due to hand over to his successor, Barbara Woodward, in early 2015. While this has been his first Ambassadorial appointment, he has held a succession of other senior appointments with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, some with a strong China focus. He learnt Mandarin in the early 1990s, before serving in the Joint Liaison Group in the run-up to the handover of Hong Kong. His other China-related work has included a posting in Washington following US foreign policy in Asia, and latterly he was the FCO's Asia-Pacific Director.


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I'm absolutely certain that the following is a sign that the apocalypse is upon us. Major League Baseball has begun to tell the uniform suppliers of Little League Baseball to stop using MLB team names, or it will bring civil action against them in court.
When it comes to making money in the short term, MLB is no dummy. A little league can still use MLB names if, and only if, the little league purchases its uniforms from Majestic Athletic, one of four official brand shops of MLB.
If MLB thought that the little leagues around the country would simply succumb to its threats, well, in the immortal words of Judas Priest, they had "Another Thing Coming." Apparently, MLB began putting Little League Baseball under its thumb in Illinois.
Tinley Park, Bloomingdale and Chicago Ridge Little Leagues have stopped using major league names entirely, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Tinley Park uses town names now, and Bloomingdale uses plain old colors. Chicago Ridge has adopted college names to stay out of MLB's way.
I think MLB is cutting off its nose to spite its face. As a giant business, MLB possesses a vast amount of goodwill with the names of its teams. Now that the league is putting its foot down to stop Little League teams from using these same names, MLB is mortgaging its future earnings potential to get the most dollars today.
When its fan base shrinks in years to come, MLB won't have to look any further than this bonehead decision.
If it wasn't for my Little League experience, I'm fairly certain that the Cleveland Indians would be on my "Couldn't Care Less" list.
That would put them on par with the Marlins, Mariners, Royals, Orioles, etc. It's because of Little League that I care.
Back in the day when I played in Kingman Little League, I was on the Indians for three seasons.
My first year, I played a lot of third base, and on game day when I put my uniform on hours before having to leave my house, I would instantly turn into Buddy Bell. I wore an Indians uniform back then, therefore, I was an Indian.
I never would have cared that Len Barker's perfect game for the Indians in 1981 was disrespected by Sports Illustrated had it not been for Little League. "Super" Joe Charboneau would have been nothing but a flash in the pan in my baseball history book had I not played for the Indians. Cliff Lee of the current-day Indians is one of my favorite pitchers, who I have been following since I first saw him pitch on television. There's a part of me that liked him because he's an Indian.
Though I may have still owned a Cleveland Indians cap because MLB caps are fun for me, it wouldn't be a must-have had I not played for the Indians back in those baseball-informative days of Little League. Because I was an Indian back then, I own an Indians cap today.
That's the big picture that MLB is missing in its pursuit for the almighty dollar today. The kids playing Little League today are the wallets of tomorrow. If MLB succeeds in forcing Little Leagues around the country to pay more for its uniforms or not use MLB names, the days of local sponsors being team names for Little League will reappear.
That doesn't sound like a bad idea, as it would give Little League Baseball more of a local flavor, but MLB is clearly missing the boat. When I played in the minors division, I played for a plumbing company in Bayonne, N.J., before I moved to Kingman. In Kingman, when I played in what is called today the juniors division, I played for Hualapai Fire Department and the Lion's Club. I don't own a plumbing, an HFD or a Lion's Club cap. But I do own an Indians cap.
Maybe I'm missing the boat. Perhaps my owning an Indians cap is a sign that the apocalypse is upon us.


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For Anderson, childhood Bible jump-starts journey to priesthood
An accidental glance at a Bible atop a stack of cardboard moving boxes was the turning point in Jake Anderson's spiritual life.
Now a transitional deacon, he was on a much different path in 2008, fresh out of college and ready to start a career in business management consulting in the Twin Cities.
He was moving into a new apartment in St. Paul the day before his employment was to start.
"I was unpacking all my boxes; I was by myself," said Deacon Anderson, who spent a good chunk of his childhood near Baldwin, Wisconsin, and graduated from Franciscan University in Steubenville in May 2008. "All my stuff was laying everywhere. I was taking a little breather from moving, and I saw on my stack of books, my Bible. I had never actually picked up this Bible and read it personally up until that point. I got it for my first Communion."
A thought flashed through his mind. He remembered hearing people talk about opening up a Bible and randomly putting their finger down on a verse, then reading the verse to see if God had a message in it for them.
Anderson decided it was worth a try, so he pulled it open and let his finger do the walking. It landed on Luke 9:23, in which Jesus instructs those who would be his followers to deny themselves, take up their cross and follow him.
"In that moment, it was as if Jesus had entered the room and was speaking those words to me off the page," said Deacon Anderson, 29. "It was as if he was sitting there and saying, 'Jake, if you want to be a Christian, if you want to be my disciple, I'm all or nothing.' It was a simultaneous challenge, but with such a love that I was weeping when I read it. . . . In that moment, I realized that God was real."
He decided to break open his Bible daily, and he credits the Word of God for eventually directing him toward the priesthood. He enjoyed his job and career, but wasn't satisfied.
He eventually left his field and enrolled in the St. Paul Seminary to begin a path that will lead to his ordination to the priesthood on May 30, along with six other men.
As he imagines what it will be like being a priest, he reflects on one joyful priest he met shortly after that fateful moving day when he was 22.
"I started going to Mass at St. Olaf in downtown Minneapolis, the 7 a.m. Mass," said Deacon Anderson, who grew up Catholic but considered himself lukewarm to the faith throughout his teens and early 20s. "That's where I met this priest who was a very big influence on me, Father Martin Fleming. I was always so struck with how he was . . . full of joy, loved Jesus and had a sense of humor.
"He had a big smile on his face and loved to preach the Gospel. That really was a great start to my day."
Like others who pursue the priesthood, Deacon Anderson is drawn to the Eucharist and looks forward to being able to celebrate Mass and pray the prayer of consecration. He also enjoys spending time in the outdoors and hopes he will be able to continue a pastime that began when he spent time as a child hunting and fishing with his father, Mark.
He has gone way beyond those boyhood experiences and now bow hunts, even making his own bows.
However, he no longer is able to hunt with his father. Mark died from a fall down the basement stairs in September 2007. Jake was a senior in college at the time, and came home immediately after getting the news.
"Everything changes after something like that," said Deacon Anderson, the fourth of 10 children. "I really shifted priorities in life and started thinking about things differently."
That opened the door to receiving God's Word a year later, when he decided to open his boyhood Bible. It also created the opportunity for the Holy Spirit to come alive in his life. And, that is what led him to the priesthood.
"The Holy Spirit has been such an influence on my life of dispelling fear, of pouring love and encouragement in my heart," he said. "You come alive where you once were stale."
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Scholarship Opportunity/
Applications are invited for a Kodaly Scholarship in Music
Deadline for Application: October 18, 2013
Value of the scholarship: Up to $10,000
The scholarship is a grant to assist a music student to study at the Kodaly Pedagogical Institute in Kecskemet, Hungary. The actual value of the scholarship depends on the Program (e.g., one-year regular program, summer workshop, conference, etc.) in which the student chooses to participate.
The scholarship is offered by the CSARDAS BAL COMMITTEE of the Canadian Hungarian Cultural Society, Edmonton, Alberta with the support of the Alberta Kodaly Association
APPLICANTS must
- be residents of Alberta,
- have completed some or all post secondary training towards B.Mus. and/or B.Ed., - have adequate musical competence,
- intend to return to Alberta for the benefit of the community.
For more information and to obtain application forms,
please contact the Csardas Bal (i.e., Czardas Ball) Committee,
Dr. Zoltan Berkes
Phone: e-mail:
Concordia University College of Alberta
7128 Ada Boulevard,
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2017-2018 School Year Calendar/in Uncategorized /by lmackey
Our new website is live….but still in progress!/in Updates /by lmackey
Dear families,
Thank you for visiting our new website! We are so incredibly pleased with the site as it progresses and are hard at work daily completing it for the fall. During this time the teacher websites are not yet completed and we are still moving elements around and updating information.
In the fall, this will be the GO TO place for all information. However, if you cannot find the information in August, please do not hesitate to contact our friendly office staff members. They can help you find what you are looking for and if they cannot, they will find someone who can help!
Continue to enjoy your restful summer and we look forward to seeing you all at the end of the month!
SPS Technology Team
Mother & Sons Baseball Game/in Uncategorized /by Swampscott Public Schools
Would you like a safe, fun environment to bond with your family? Please join us for an evening of Mother & Sons baseball on Saturday June 10th at 5:00 pm at the North Shore navigators Fraser Field in Lynn.
Price: $40 per couple, $20 for each additional boy aged 6 and up
The Price includes: a Pre-game tailgate party keepsake photo, themed goody bag, on field activities, pizza and beverages!
Limited tickets available! Please purchase tickets at www.fortheloveofswampscott.org
Library Card Information/in Superintendent News /by Swampscott Public Schools
It's important for you to have your library card so you can check out your materials at the library. Don't miss out!
So, how about this? Take a picture of your card on your phone or download either the CardStar or KeyRing app, and put your card on there.
The next time you come to the Swampscott Public Library, show Janina and she'll enter your name for a drawing to win a gift certificate to Popo's. She might also give you a little gift just for participating…
Deadline for drawing will be July 5th, 2017
Big Blue Bargains Volunteer Information/in Uncategorized /by Swampscott Public Schools
Big Blue Bargains is an all-volunteer, school run thrift store. We are open every Wednesday from 9:00-11:00 and Saturday from 9:00-1:00, with each school volunteering for a week. The school rotation schedule works out to just six hours every six weeks! The income received goes directly back to your school.
Since opening in 2012, we have donated $60,000 to the schools!
What's in it for you if you volunteer?
- Less need to fundraise at your school or write a personal check
- Minimal time commitment
- Ample time to plan ahead to volunteer
- Fifty percent off the day you volunteer (at least 2 hrs)
- Minimal tagging of items due to new pricing system
- Helping the Swampscott community with recycle and reuse efforts
- Opportunity to connect with new people
Every school has a sign up coordinator who works on getting two volunteers for each day. We realize that committing to four hours on Saturday may be difficult. Therefore, we welcome flexibility with scheduling such as two volunteers working 9:00-11:00 and two working 11:00-1:00. We also welcome teachers, administrators, relatives, and students 15 years and older to volunteer for your school.
Go to our website, bigbluebargains.org, and click on the page "Link to Volunteer Sign Ups". Here you will find the school coordinator information and the link to sign up to volunteer.
If you have any questions, please email us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
2015 Coordinators: Clarke: Allison Duffy, Hadley: Val Sweeney, Stanley: Julie Phaneuf, SMS: Jen Townsend, SHS: Susan Gambal
Last Day of School/in Superintendent News /by Swampscott Public Schools
This year, Swampscott's last day of school will be held on Friday, June 23rd, 2017. The last two days of school will be a noon dismissal for students and school year staff. We would like to thank everyone for an amazing year and we look forward to seeing you in the fall!
Schedule a Fingerprinting Appointment/in Superintendent News /by Swampscott Public Schools
To schedule a fingerprinting appointment online please follow the directions below or call 1-866-349-8130 to schedule appointment over the phone:
1. Go to the website: www.ma.ibtfingerprint.com and click "Schedule a New Appointment"
2. Under Agency/Sector please select "Pre-K-12th Grade Education"
3. If you hold a DESE License please select "Licensed Educator"
All others should select "All Other School Personnel"
4. Swampscott Public Schools Provider ID Code is 02910000. You may provide up to 10 district Provider ID Codes to eliminate the need to pay the fee multiple times. This should be done at the time you schedule your fingerprint appointment. Results will remain confidential and be filed in the Superintendent's Office. You will only be contacted if results were found unsuitable.
Other Surrounding Provider ID Codes:
Danvers: 00710000
To find other districts please go to:http://profiles.doe.mass.edu/
For more information please visit:
The Act: http://www.malegislature.gov/Laws/SessionLaws/Acts/2012/Chapter459
FAQs: http://www.mass.gov/edu/birth-grade-12/early-education-and-care/background-records-check-resources/frequently-asked-questions-regarding-background-checks.html
SAFIS Info: http://www.mass.gov/eopss/docs/chsb/procedure-for-correcting-a-state-or-national- criminal-record.pdf
For general questions about the new law and its requirements, please call the Executive Office of Education at (617) 979-8340
Please email email@example.com to report inaccessible content or if you have questions or concerns about accessing information on this website.
Complaint procedures and filing formal grievances under Section 504 can be found on our website accessibility page.
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WoW Meizu, Pro 5 is just a crazy phone! Really good job, AMOLED + Exynos from S6 + metal + DualSIM + 64 ROM/4GB RAM version... madness! Pro 5 is so good, true beast!
My friend use MX5 and i heard many good things about FlymeOS (SmartTouch is amazing feature)... I want Pro 5 in my pocket!
sidsousa, 11 Nov 2015is there a notification light/led???Yes but only one colour capable (white)
Hi all, here are two pieces of information that may prove useful.
The supported LTE bands by our review unit include LTE band 1(2100), 3(1800), 7(2600), 38(2600), 39(1900), 40(2300), 41(2500).
There is full support for Google Play Services.
- GSMArena Team
Anonymous, 10 Nov 2015It's andorid, so things can be changedThat's true...
My main gripe is the lack of an app drawer, and I guess lack of availability in the west. Other than that its a great phone, have to wonder if Samsung would even let Meizu use the chipset closer to their own flagship release, because it really harm Samsung's sales.
Akinaro, 11 Nov 2015Best example of how bad sony is at making software For Their Own cameras on xperias... Besi... moreperhaps Sony trying to sell their digital cameras & DSLR & handy_action_cams for photography enthusiasts instead of telling them to use their phones, except of course the new Xperia Z5 series, which proved to be a great camera_in_a_smartphone.
AnonD-46583, 10 Nov 2015In the review: "3861 ppi" haha! P.S. I own it since two weeks ago and beside Flyme 4.5 OS w... moreHow is the battery life ?..... i really gotta know
Lead2XL, 11 Nov 2015Great specs but a rather modest battery, a deal breaker for me. I would never buy a Meizu phon... more95 hours endurance rating is crazy, and is anything but modest. Very few phones have anything remotely close to that.
Physical home button is good, it means more screen estate, but suit yourself.
Anonymous, 11 Nov 2015The 6P has really poor quality glass and metal. Bends like no tomorrow and the rear glass near... moreI don't care the bend issue becuase if i still consider the bend issue i'd rather buy nokia white and black phone. What i consider are the performace, battery life, and software.
AnonD-46583, 10 Nov 2015In the review: "3861 ppi" haha! P.S. I own it since two weeks ago and beside Flyme 4.5 OS w... moreis there a notification light/led???
Great specs but a rather modest battery, a deal breaker for me. I would never buy a Meizu phone anyway, for the same reason I wouldn't buy one from Samsung - hate physical home buttons.
Nooi , 11 Nov 2015Its maximum brightness has 321 cd/m2. And I always find GSMarena test is very accurate.Modern phones have very good light absorbing filters, especially Meizu. You don't need a pure brightness now just to deal with sunlight. It's like camera megapixels and processor frequency. Brightness is irrelevant nowadays. You'll be more than fine with 200-250. I use just 20-25% of brightness on street on my SGS6, yet I don't like dim displays, so I don't use auto brightness on SGS6, as it makes it very dim in poor lighting.
AnonD-376219, 11 Nov 2015OMG! look at the battery life! The is probably the best smartphone ever made! and all that for... morethink about it. if the samsung galaxy s6 (which uses the same processor) did away with trying to be thin and went with a decent sized battery, it would have blown the xperia z3's battery life away..wait, we dont need that, we already have this! kudos to meizu!
OMG! look at the battery life! The is probably the best smartphone ever made! and all that for only $480!
zeeBomb, 11 Nov 2015The deca core Helio X20 is promising though. I really would like how things will fare out in b... moreIt is but they should have gone with just an oct-core and put 4 A72s on there. It'd be an absolute beast! I think they're going for that with the X30 now though so it goes 2-4-4 instead of 4-4-2 which logically sounds great for low power usage. Going to be an exciting year for SoCs though! X20 and 30 vs 8 series Exynos vs SD 820 vs A9 and later the A10 vs K950 and its possibly successor!
Steel12, 11 Nov 2015Help me please. Meizu Pro 5 or Nexus 6P?The 6P has really poor quality glass and metal. Bends like no tomorrow and the rear glass near the camera is rather easy to crack.
holy cow 420 seconds (7 minutes) of open camera shutter time? not even the LG G4 can do that! with a jury-rigged ND filter stuck to the lens i can make fantastic long exposure shots with this.
The review still needs more in-depth points for the camera.
The article currently failed to mention that it is Hybrid AF as well (Phase Detection + Laser AutoFocus)
We need to know how it would fare against Samsung which uses the same technology and CPU/GPU
Best example of how bad sony is at making software For Their Own cameras on xperias...
Beside that amazing phone for that price
When I look objectively, the batterylife isn't that great.
GSMArena tests batterylife @ 50% brightness. Mz Pro 5 has a dismal brightness at 50%, just 102 cd/m2. Other phones have in range of 150-200 cd/m2. This itself makes the batterylife test biased for Mz Pro 5.
What I feel is that batterylife will be good, not something steller. I normally like the display to be at around 200 cd/m2 in normal usage. At that brightness, batterylife will go down by another 30-40% compared to this numbers.


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Listening Lab Cincinnati
Community Partner FAQ
We're currently seeking community partners to host listening workshops and would love to work with your organization to "Create a Community of Listeners." All that is required is a reserved, (mostly) quiet space for 15-20 people that has some kind of sound system.
What do you mean by a "mostly quiet" space?
Many of the exercises in the listening workshops involve listening closely to music. Part of listening is filtering out noise and distractions, so ambient noise - from the street, an adjacent room, an air conditioner - is fine, as is an occasional distraction. But space that has significant distractions – another conversation or event going on, for example – can be frustrating for participants. Ask yourself if you'd be satisfied watching a movie, taking a test, or taking a nap in the room, and you should have a pretty good idea of whether or not it's an appropriate space.
What kind of sound system do you need?
All we mean by "sound system" is a pair of speakers that can connect to a phone's headphone jack. Depending on the size of the room and group, a strong pair of computer speakers can do the job. If you've got a great space and absolutely no access to speakers, we may be able to bring a pair with us. People listen to music carefully in these sessions, so it's worth checking out your speakers for any hisses or crackles. Listen to a few minutes of music on them – quiet is best, because extraneous sounds will be more obvious – and just see if there's any noise that bothers you.
What else do you need in the space?
Not much. Of course, there should be chairs for attendees, and some other things that are nice to have, but not necessary, are: writing surfaces for participants, a chalkboard/whiteboard/ easel pad, water/coffee/snacks. But a comfortable, quiet room with chairs and a pair of speakers is enough to get started.
Who's going to come?
This is a brand new program in the Cincinnati area, and we're relying, in part, on our community partners to help draw an audience. So it's worth thinking about if this kind of program is a good fit for the people you serve and how you could best get the word out to them. We'll promote all workshops on our website, fliers, post-cards, etc., and we'll ask people to register for workshops so we have an idea of how many to expect. If you have any music-lovers in your organization who might be interested in volunteering, we could certainly use help putting fliers throughout the city, so please send them our way.
How much does it cost?
There's no cost to participants or to community partners, although if you have funds in your budget you would like to contribute, we would gratefully accept. Listening Lab Cincinnati is a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a 501c3 organization, so donations are considered charitable. We also have various levels of sponsorship if you'd like additional recognition for your organization.
Unfortunately, we don't have the budget to pay for workshop space, although we respect the fact that some organizations rely on space rental fees as revenue. All community partners will be recognized on our website and printed materials, and we hope that the program can provide value and enrichment to the people you serve in exchange for the use of your space.
What's the timeline?
We're trying to hold workshops within 1-2 weeks of the final concert date, Sept. 29, but we could go a little outside of that timeframe if needed. Other than that, we'll work with your availability on a specific date and time.


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Denver, as most of you may know, is a great place. It's not only me, but place and its beauty speaks for itself. The perfect surroundings, eye-catching fields and awe-inspiring skyscrapers, set the city apart of all others. The city holds the status of being the administrative center of the US state of Colorado. With over 31 hundred of sunshine each year, the city features a relatively mild climate. The mild climate of the city coupled with the awe-inspiring views around the locality are what makes the place perfect for anyone to stay for ages.
For seniors who are looking around for the Assisted Living in Denver CO or any other city, it is highly recommended that they choose any of the hundreds assisted living facilities in Denver as the city is quite peaceful and boasts healthy environment. Let us overview some of the best assisted living facilities in Denver.
1. Sunrise (at Cherry Creek)
Sunrise ALF is one of the top-reputed name in the area with its perfect features and services. The place is well-known for the services in senior-care that they offer. The seniors can choose out of the various housing plans and flooring plans available. Thought the sunrise is a vast network, the cherry creek is one of the most peaceful neighborhood with awesome tree lines. The availability of staff round the clock is yet another great feature. You don't have to remember your medication timings or your doctor appointments or to worry about the housekeeping. The staff will do it for you. What you really do at Sunrise is to enjoy your retirement life at it's fullest.
2. Serenity House ALF (Carter Circle)
The serenity house is yet another famous name around Denver. With experience of more than 30 years in senior care, the Serenity house holds its status of being one of the best assisted living facilities in Denver. The beautiful views right outside the window never let you get bored. For seniors to maximize their social lives, the serenity house provides recreational activities, social programs and common rooms.
3. The Stacys Helping Hand, Inc
The Stacys Helping hand is a well-known organization in Denver which you can consult to seek the best assisted living facilities in Denver for your senior. They never give you the wrong suggestions as they hold a vast experience in the area.


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LoTRO Store Sale, 20% Off 1 Year VIP, as Well as Shared Storage, Inventory Slots and More!
The current LoTRO store sale offers 20% off a number of great account and character upgrades; including 1 year VIP, Shared Storage, Inventory Slots, Vault Upgrades, Currency Cap, and Shared Wardrobe. The sale is on now and ends on the 23rd of this month.


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Our Hearts cry for one of our own. Patty1, our secondlife sister left for Iraq on February 18th. She was struck down in the field yesterday by an IED and has suffered burns to the face, a punctured lung and other wounds. She is a dear friend. We talked often and I am heartbroken for her. I send my love to her and hope she recovers fully. I do not remember being this sad. She came to nearly all my shows, we talked often. I remember the day she got her notice of her second tour of duty in Iraq. Do we need more deaths and injuries to feed the God of War?
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Wide-format shops are regularly faced with the dilemma of producing short label runs for important clients. Using a Flexo/Litho/Offset/Indigo for this purpose results in a financial loss. Memjet has created an exhaustive cost comparison for this scenario. If a client orders a run of 10,000 labels, a Flexo press can run them at a total cost of 622.91€. An L801 can run those same labels for a total cost of 439.05€, without the cost of plates.
Savings: €183.86 for 10,000 labels x 8 runs per month = $1,470.86€/month x 12 months = $17,650.32€/year
Payback: Less than 36 months
Note: ROI does not include the added profit from additional sub-10,000 runs. The L801 can be used with Wasatch SoftRIP colour profiles to run proofs that look like they were made on other types of label printing equipment. This will allow you to turn them around in record time, without investing in plates. An excellent way to cost-effectively beat your competition and retain clients.


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Did Balenciaga completely rip off a trashy tourist shop?
The designer is being sued for copyright infringement
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FASHION Balenciaga
While copycat fashion is nothing new on the runway, perhaps ripping off a tacky tourist shop is a high-fashion first. The designer label Balenciaga is officially being sued for copyright infringement for the line of hot pink New York City clothes and accessories.
The souvenir retailer, City Merchandise Inc., is alleging that Balenciaga's designs are "virtually indistinguishable" to the ones that can be found at nearly every tourist shop in Times Square. While the plaintiff's bags are priced between $5.99 and $19.99, Balenciaga's work runs for roughly $2,000 more—fashion disaster.
A New York souvenir company sued Balenciaga for copyright infrigement in the Southern District of New York. City Merchandise claimed that Balenciaga's "Multicoloured New York Bazar Shopper" tote is a copy of their souvenir bag.#fashionlaw pic.twitter.com/N6xiUF5Mez— FashionLawInstitute (@FashionLaw_Inst) July 30, 2018
Edward Toptani, the lead attorney for City Merchandise, told Nylon that his client has tried to work with the brand, but is left with no other option but to sue. "Balenciaga's outside counsel contacted me in response to a demand letter that was sent to the company. At the time, I was advised that my client's claims would be reviewed and a response would be forthcoming. Thereafter, two weeks passed with no further communication from their attorney. As such, it appeared that Balenciaga was needlessly delaying and my client instructed me to commence the lawsuit," Toptani said.
Balenciaga has yet to offer an official statement regarding the lawsuit.
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I supposed to post this pictures long time ago but time does not permit. Therefore, today I took some pictures using my Sonyericsson W8501 walkman phone. I have 2 antenna installed at my home balcony at 13th Floor. The highest one is the Diamond X50A Dual Band Antenna mounted using 1" x 11' GI pipe and secured to the balcony rail. A 6' L bar is mounted to the wall with 2 anchor bolt and using the trunk lid mobile antenna mount, it hold the Diamond CPL22 Dual Band Mobile Antenna. RG213 is used for the X50A and fed the ICOM208H mobile rig. The RG8 from the CPL22A goes as spare (previously used for the Echolink). I sometimes hook it to my ICOM T90A handy.
The Diamond X50A
The 1'' x 11' Mast for Diamond X50A. Note the 2 giant U bolt used to clamp the two pipes together. The RG213 is used here.
The Diamond CPL22A
The GI pipe and the L bar.


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(News Focus) N.K. likely to face more isolation if involvement in assassination confirmed
By Koh Byung-joon
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Yonhap) -- The assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's half brother could deepen the reclusive country's isolation from the rest of the world if its regime is found to have been involved in his death, experts here said Wednesday.
Kim Jong-nam, the 46-year-old eldest son of late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, was reportedly killed on Monday at a Malaysian airport after he was attacked by presumed-to-be North Korean women, who are still at large, a government source said.
His body is currently undergoing an autopsy to determine the exact cause of death, but media reports have said that he was attacked by a poisonous chemical spray or a needle and died while being taken to a hospital.
Though it has yet to be confirmed that the North ordered the death, experts say that circumstances are pointing to its involvement supposedly aimed at strengthen its leader's grip on power by removing a potential rival.
If confirmed, they said, the action could further cut off Pyongyang from the international community by shedding light on the regime's brutality that even reaches the leader's siblings.
"Kim Jong-un may have removed a thorn in his side by assassinating Kim Jong-nam, but it seems that he would not be able to avoid more isolation down the road," said Cheong Seong-chang, a senior researcher at the Sejong Institute.
"Such international isolation could lead to more complaints from ranking officials all the down to ordinary citizens, possibly serving to increase instability in the Kim Jong-un regime," he added.
In particular, given that Kim Jong-nam was said to have close ties with China and protected by Beijing, his death and the North Korean regime's possible involvement could strain Pyongyang's relations with its one and only powerful ally.
Such a development is not something the North wants at a time when it has already been facing mounting pressure from the international community following its repeated missile and nuclear provocations.
In 2016, North Korea conducted two underground nuke tests and fired off 24 ballistic missiles and long range rockets drawing strong condemnation.
This prompted the United Nations Security Council to adopt its toughest-ever resolutions mostly zeroing in on squeezing money flow to its regime as part of efforts to wean it off its weapons program.
Despite such pressure, its leader said in his New Year's address that the country has entered the final stage of its preparations to test-fire an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), ignoring the international call to stop such provocations.
Experts see the Kim's assassination, if confirmed, as a "terror" act that could bolster the move in the U.S. to relist the North as a state sponsor of terrorism. In January, a U.S. house lawmaker introduced a bill calling for North Korea to be placed back on the terrorism list.
Chang Yong-seok, a researcher at Seoul National University's Institute for Peace and Unification Studies, pointed out that Kim Jong-nam's death should be approached not as an act of terrorism but rather through a human rights perspective.
"If the North is found to have been behind his death, it would draw renewed attention to its human rights aspect rather than terrorism because Pyongyang ordered the killing of its own citizen in a third country," Chang said. "In that case, the North could be cornered without a way out on the human rights issue."
This would add more pressure on the North which has been criticized for violating human rights of its citizens and ramping up its "reign of terror" and "cult of personality."
Since taking office in late 2011, North Korea's leader Kim has ordered the execution of more than 100 military, party and government officials, according to Seoul's intelligence agency.
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Flip Flops, Sprains, Puncture Wounds, Cuts, Contusions, Sun Burns, Blisters, and Tetanus
The other day I was mowing and stepped off the mower right onto a nail. It was old, rusty and dirty just the kind of thing to put me at risk for tetanus. Aside from the actual injury, the dirt on the nail that put me at further risk for tetanus if the dirt has the tetanus bacteria (Clostridium Tetani) in it.
Tdap shot: is an adolescent and adult booster shot for tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis. The childhood shot is called: DTaP.
Tetanus is an infection of the nervous system that is potentially deadly. The bacteria that causes tetanus lives in the soil and can remain inactive in the soil for may years.
There is effective treatment but it is best to prevent getting it in the first place with immunization.
Most people are inoculated for tetanus as infants and followed up during childhood on a standard schedule. That is great and should be done. Few people have difficulties with the immunization. Tetanus requires a booster every 10 years as adults to maintain protection.
In addition, if you do have tetanus symptoms such as rigid muscles and painful spasms often starting in the jaw and neck, you will be given an injection of immune globulin and a tetanus shot. Do not ignore these symptoms.
It's always best to keep current on your immunizations.
The nail I stepped on certainly qualified as a significant risk for tetanus. Luckily for me, I was wearing thick soled shoes and with orthotics at the time. It went through the shoe and orthotic but I felt it and stopped before it punctured my skin.
I did not need a booster – woo!
Had I been wearing a lesser shoe, or worse flip flops, it may have turned out differently.
A puncture wound requires flushing and probing to verify that there is no foreign material that has been dragged into the body. It can do a lot more than exposure to tetanus. A puncture wound can cause a deep tissue infection, inclusion cyst, retained foreign body, and damage to nerves, vessels or tendons. All of which hurt and can side-line physical activities or even require surgery.
Never wear flip flops or any shoe that does not grip the heel well when mowing. These type shoes leave you more likely to be off balance and more at risk for injury. Pulling a lawn mower backward and falling is a big deal and happens far too often. It can be extremely damaging as you can imagine, when a lawn mower blade hits a foot. The foot loses, resulting in tissue loss.
Until next time, remember, it shouldn't hurt to walk!


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Welcome dear readers, to yet another Saturday Tag, where the fun never stops!
Today I will complete this fun tag:
Today I am doing this fun tag!
Let me know your answers :)
1. Name a book you would like to see under your Christmas tree.
Or any book by Alice Hoffman
2. A book you'll be reading during the Christmas Season
Alexandria Reborn! I read the first one and liked it, so I cannot wait to get into this one as well!
3. Favourite Christmas Movie.
4. Do you like snow?
I do, but not when I need to drive
5. Name a character you you would like to spend your Christmas day with.
6. To give or to receive?
To give :)
7. What fictional place would you like to spend Christmas at?
8. Fondest Christmas memory?
Just my entire family sitting by the TV watching Home Alone, and having the best time talking.
9. Can you say Christmas tree ten times FAST in a row (pronouncing it correctly!)
I couldn't do it :D It ended up sounding something like Kissee :D


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Khan G. F., & Wood J., Information Technology Management Domain: Emerging Themes and Keywords Analysis, Scientometrics, Volume 105, Issue 2 (2015), p. 959-972
Jacob, W., & Khan, G F., (2015), International trade negotiation analysis: network and semantic knowledge infrastructure, Scientometrics, online first.
Khan G. F., 2015, Models for social media-based government, Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2015. Download author's version
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Leydesdorff L., Khan G. F., and Bornmann L., the Generation of Large Networks from Web-of-Science Data, El Profesional de la Información (SCI) (in press).
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What if all Decisions Were Moral Decisions?
Rousseau, the man himself
When taking a look at Jean-Jacques Rousseau's deontological moral arguments, I came across an issue with his theories. He almost turns what should be a mundane every-day-life question, decision, or action into one of morality.
This got me thinking.
What if all decisions really were moral decisions?
What should I have for dinner?
Regular considerations:
- What do I already have in the freezer?
- How much money do I have in my wallet?
- What can I afford to take out of the bank?
- How much time do I have to eat?
- Do I have any guests over for dinner?
Moral considerations:
- Is the packaging on this pre-prepared lasagna eco-friendly?
- Is the meat in this pre-prepared lasagna free range?
- Am I a terrible human being for shredding a cow and eating it for dinner?
- Should I spend the money donating to charity rather than buying a steak?
- Should I buy this steak from a local store rather than a chain store?
- Should I be supporting local restaurants instead of cooking my own meals?
- Should I be hunting and gathering my own food so I don't feed into capitalism?
- I should become a vegetarian because morality.
Consider this before you make an omelette!
Should I go to the cinema?
Regular considerations:
- Do I have any work/chores?
- Do I have enough money to visit the cinema?
- Is there something else more fun and engaging I could be doing?
Moral considerations:
- Should I be visiting my granny in hospital instead?
- Should I be spending my time more productively, such as charity work?
- Will I be putting people out of a job if I don't go?
- Should I illegally download the film instead or would that be bad?
- Should I invite friends and let them share in the enjoyment?
- What if I meet a cute boy there, let one thing lead to another and end up facing the highly debated philosophical issue of abortion?
- What if I accidentally step on a snail along the way?
Speaking of the cinema:
Okay in all seriousness, this is a genuine issue.
In the majority of cases we've no need to think about the morality behind what we do. Whether we go to the gym, whether we go on a diet, whether we buy a new video game, it's all up to us.
But there are times, and they usually occur daily, when we should think of the impact our choices will make on those around us before we actually make that choice.
Sometimes we forget the importance of morality, and even if it is just an abstract concept created by mankind it was created for a reason.
So think about that tomorrow.
Make your day a moral day.
Influence the world for the better, even in the smallest of ways.
Sorry, I have too many decisions to make in a day to turn them all into moral issues. I would never get anything accomplished if I did that. But, what you propose is interesting and with youth and energy I think you could probably do this. When I shop I try to be aware of the environment and how animals are fed and brought to slaughter. I buy as fresh as I can and freeze meats for later use. It is a shame that the better, fresher, and organic foods are more expensive than the rest.
This was interesting Amy, it showed how easy it is to make a decision by the right or wrong choice. I do research and easily drop items/choices from a list (due to qualities, ingredients, prices, etc.) to make it shorter and easier to decide. There are some people who go through a whole list of choices and still come to an indecision. I gave this a thumbs up and shared it.
There is a distinction between descriptive and normative statements that seems ineradicable from language. Of course, language itself is prescriptive. Within modalities, deontic is not the only type. Here is an attempt to show this: think of the formula "if +p then p" where "+" is the modal. We want this for a modal called alethic: "if p has to be true, than p is true." But we don't want it for deontic modals: "if p is morally obligatory, then p is true." Unfortunately, this is not the case.
This shows that alethic modals are different in their logical behavior from deontic modals.
Your posting is interesting - it poses a challenge.
What is Rousseau's point exactly?
Is he a deontologist? Kant was influenced by him - so he said. The relevant part of Rousseau's theory here is his theory of the general will, I think.
It is great to initiate a discussion about this. Although he is famous around the world, Rousseau's thought is not appreciated in the US. To the Founding Fathers, the influence of his work on the Robespierrian sections of the French Revolution was too radical to swallow.
Did you know that, although well to the left, Rousseau would be introduced into "American" debates by ideologues we take to be reactionary -- Southern separatists, but, also, earlier, the Anti-Federalists.
Well said! You really got me thinking! I believe humans are certainly creatures of habit and we easily fall into the trap of auto-piloting our day to day decisions. We don't realize our seemingly innocuous routines could be affecting so much more than our daily lives. Thanks for the food for thought!
I love your final message. No man is an island...true words...everything we do has an impact, and woe is the man, or woman, who does not understand that. Wonderful article my new friend.