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"The Book of Revelation, An Eschatological Study of the Endtimes", by Chad J. McCoy
So what about the crown of 12 stars she was wearing? Does this make sense? We
know that the 12 stars represents the 12 tribes of Israel. There is nowhere in scripture
other than this passage that talks about 12 stars, so we have no other verses to
reference. But we know from all over the Old Testament that 12 is the number that
represents the 12 tribes of Israel.
Exodus 24:4 : He got up early the next morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain and set up twelve stone pillars representing the twelve tribes of Israel."
Exodus 28:21: "There are to be twelve stones, one for each of the names of the sons of Israel, each engraved like a seal with the name of one of the twelve tribes."
1st Kings 18:31: "Elijah took twelve stones, one for each of the tribes descended from Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD had come, saying, "Your name shall be Israel."
Joshua 4:1-7: "So Joshua called together the twelve men he had appointed from the Israelites, one from each tribe, 5 and said to them, "Go over before the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, 6 to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, 'What do these stones mean?' 7 tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever."
You can study more on this yourself if you're interested, but the number 12 is the number that represents Israel.
This woman in Revelation Chapter 12 is wearing a crown of these 12 stars. Crowns always represent Kings, or rulers. Was Mary one of these? No. But the word "crown" here is translated by the Amplified Bible to mean "crownlike garland or tiara". Who wears tiaras? Kings? Men? No. Miss America wears a tiara. Do kings generally wear garlands? No. So this isn't a king. It's the headgear of a woman. (Note: I would not lead you astray. The Greek word used here for "crown" can also be used to mean an actual kingly crown. The thing is, like so many other words, it can be a literal crown, or just a figurative crown. It can also mean a prize won in the public games [think laurel leaf]. When a word has multiple meanings, you must decipher the true intended meaning from the sentence and flavor of the language. [Just as we can tell the meaning of the word "read" by its tense in the sentence] Not being a student of the Hebrew and Greek languages, I choose to take the word of the translators. They understand the sentence and can better make that determination than I can. Some translators do a better job than others, and the Amplified Bible translators found reason to call this not a crown, but a crownlike garland, or tiara.)
So what would this tiara represent? In the Miss America Pageant, every woman wears� not a crown, but a sash that proclaims the region she represents. This tiara is the same idea. It means that the wearer represents Israel.
With that thought, a little idea pops up. Perhaps, if the tiara means the wearer represents Israel, then the entire woman may be Israel. We'll just keep that little thought tucked away, and if it turns out that the woman is not Mary, then we can go back and see if it could be the nation of Israel, itself. For now, though, we'll continue along the lines of it being Mary.
So we know Mary gave birth to Jesus. It could be said that she was clothed with the strength of God and stood on Jesus Christ. She represents Israel, meaning that this woman is Jewish.
Everything fits. We don't have a strong case here (only 2 verses for sun, only two verses for moon, and a word "crown" that could mean ruler, or it could just mean "garland"), but we do have a case, so far.
We have now tentatively identified the woman as Mary. We know the dragon is Satan because the bible tells us so, and we know the boy is Jesus through strong language in other places of scripture that describe him as being the one who will rule the nations with an iron rod. Let's continue on to Part Two of Chapter 12.
- clothed with the sun - strength of God
- moon under her feet - stands on Faithful Witness
- wearing crown of 12 stars - represents Israel
- pregnant - with Jesus
Gigantic Red Dragon - SATAN
- has 7 heads, with crowns on them
- has 10 horns
- drew 1/3 of stars w/tail and sent them to earth
- stood before woman to devour her child
Part Two:
Woman gives birth to boy who will rule nations w/iron rod
- Jesus
- Boy caught up to God
- Woman escaped to desert for 3 ½ years
Satan cast to earth
Heaven rejoices - Christ's rule has come
Satan knows his time is short
Satan persecutes woman
Woman given eagle's wings and escapes to wilderness
where she is hidden from Satan for 3½ years
Satan sends flood out of his mouth to drown woman
The earth opens up, swallowing the flood
Satan is angry, goes to war with her other children
who keep the words of Jesus
We see that this boy is caught up to God. Was Jesus ever caught up to God? Yes, at his death after the Crucifixion.
Now this is where it starts to get strange. When you read this passage in chapter 12, you are lead to believe that the boy is caught up to God as soon as he is born. But the bible never says when this happens, just that it does. We are led to think it happens when the boy is still a baby, because that is what the bible calls him - a male child.
But let's keep scripture firmly rooted in this quest for knowledge. We could be literal, and say that since the bible says "child", that this boy is caught up to God right at birth, or shortly after birth. We know this boy is Jesus. What scripture do we have that Jesus' spirit was brought before God in heaven at any time before his death on the cross? None. So we can't make the statement that Jesus was caught up to God at birth. We have no bible for it. We do have bible for it after his death on the cross, and that's all we have. So, let's not bend scripture to our own theories. Instead, let's bend the theory until it fits scripture.
So the boy is caught up to God. This is Jesus, and the event occurs after his death on the cross.
It makes sense. The dragon we know to be Satan was waiting in front of the woman Mary, ready to devour her child Jesus. King Herod, possessed by Satan, tried to have Jesus executed at birth. He failed. Satan thought he succeeded later at the cross, but all he did was play into the hand of God, and lost whatever hold he had on death and the grave. He never devoured Jesus.
You see, the dragon tried to devour Jesus, but he missed. Even later at Calvary, when he thought he had succeeded, he missed, for Jesus was caught up to God and His throne. So we see that although the prophecy in chapter 12 reads as if everything happens in certain timelines, it doesn't. This is the nature of prophecy. It can skip thousands of years between sentences, or even in the middle of a verse. Unless the prophecy is explained to us by the bible, it can be very difficult to sleuth out the correct interpretation.
Then it says that the woman escapes from the dragon into the wilderness for 3 ½ years.
The first thing that comes to mind here, is when Joseph took Mary and Jesus and fled to Egypt to avoid King Herod's murderous rampage. Can we prove they were in Egypt for 3 ½ years? No. The bible doesn't say how long they spent in Egypt. For now we'll give Mary the benefit of the doubt and say she was in Egypt for 3 ½ years.
Let's continue. It says that there was war in heaven, and Satan was cast out, down to the earth, and his angels with him.
Heaven then rejoices that the time of Christ's rule has come.
Satan, knowing his time left outside of Hell is short, persecutes the woman.
Ok, more detective work needs to be done. First of all, can we determine when this fall of Satan was?
Was this the original fall of Satan? No. How do we know this? Well, after this war in heaven, the bible says there was no longer any place in Heaven for Satan. That means he is no longer allowed to be there. It means that previous to this war, he was allowed to come and go in heaven! This might seem to be a revolutionary idea to some people, but check out the scriptures.
Job 1:6-12: One day the angels came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them. 7 The LORD said to Satan, "Where have you come from?"
Satan answered the LORD, "From roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it."
8 Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil."
9 "Does Job fear God for nothing?" Satan replied. 10 "Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. 11 But stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face."
12 The LORD said to Satan, "Very well, then, everything he has is in your hands, but on the man himself do not lay a finger."
Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.
This shows that after the original fall of Satan, he was still allowed in and out of heaven.
Lest you think this was a one-time event, we see Satan enters heaven again in Job 2:1-7: On another day the angels came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before him. 2 And the LORD said to Satan, "Where have you come from?"
Satan answered the LORD, "From roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it."
3 Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil. And he still maintains his integrity, though you incited me against him to ruin him without any reason."
4 "Skin for skin!" Satan replied. "A man will give all he has for his own life. 5 But stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face."
6 The LORD said to Satan, "Very well, then, he is in your hands; but you must spare his life."
7 So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and afflicted Job with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.
Zech. 3:1: Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right side to accuse him.
We see here that Satan was in heaven, accusing the high priest Joshua.
Rev. 12:10 shows us that Satan is in heaven all the time, accusing the believers of Christ: "Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: "Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of
our God, and the authority of his Christ.
For the accuser of our brothers,
who accuses them before our God day and night,
has been hurled down."
No, this war is not describing Satan's original fall into sin. This occurs after his fall. So when could it be? Well, we have a clue here, because after his being cast out of heaven for good, all of heaven rejoices and says that it is now time for Christ to rule the nations, and to set up his kingdom on the earth.
So Satan is cast out of heaven sometime here in the endtimes, rather close to the end of all the judgements. We know it's not at the very end of the judgements because Satan has a short time to run around the earth. If he were cast out of heaven after everything was all over, and there was nothing left to be done but to conclude the White Throne Judgement, then Satan would be cast out of heaven and straight into Hell. But he is cast to the earth for a short time. So we know this occurs towards the end of the days of tribulation on the earth.
A very good possibility is that he is cast out of heaven in the middle of the seven-year treaty that the antichrist has made with Israel. We can get into this treaty thing later. But you see, the antichrist makes a seven-year treaty with Israel. After 3 ½ years go by, he breaks the treaty. This is the time when he walks into the temple in Jerusalem and stops the sacrifices, proclaiming himself to be God. Why doesn't he do this earlier? Maybe it's because Satan is still roaming around heaven and earth. When he is cast out of heaven for good, he devotes himself full-time to the cause of destroying as much as he can.
Remember, Satan's original sin was that he wanted to replace God, and become God. Now the Antichrist says he is God. This has to be Satan speaking through him, because it just sounds so much like him. Isaiah 14:12-14: "How you have fallen from heaven,
O morning star, son of the dawn!
You have been cast down to the earth,
you who once laid low the nations!
13 You said in your heart,
"I will ascend to heaven;
I will raise my throne
above the stars of God;
I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,
on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain.
14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.""
2nd Cor. 4:4 calls Satan the God of this World. "In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them."
So if we had a timeline of the seven-year treaty, it would be divided in the middle, into two 3 ½ year parts, with the casting out of Satan from Heaven to the Earth being the dividing line:
3 ½ Years.......I......3 ½ Years
................Casting out
.................Of Satan
(By the way, we could add the 2 Witnesses to the first 3 ½ years of this timeline - we know they are taken to heaven before the end of the judgements of the earth. If they have to fit in one of the 3 ½ years or the other, it would have to be the first one.)
With Satan cast to earth, knowing his time is short, he will persecute the woman. Now wait a minute. At this time on the earth Mary is not here to be persecuted by Satan.
Our whole chain of logic has just collapsed. If the woman is Mary, then the woman has to be Mary throughout the whole thing. We can't keep changing who the woman represents just to fit our theories. We must change our theories until they fit the scripture.
The only other thing that suggested itself to us when we were trying to figure out the identity of the woman, was the nation of Israel itself. So let's start over all the way from the beginning, and see if the woman could possibly be Israel.
Could the nation of Israel be said to have brought forth the Messiah? Yes. Jesus was born of the Jews, of the nation of Israel. So it's reasonable that the Nation of Israel could be the woman, who gave birth to Jesus.
Can we say Israel is clothed with the strength of God? Yes, I suppose we could.
Can we say that the nation of Israel stands on Jesus Christ? No way. Most Jews do not recognize Jesus as being the Messiah. Even the Jews back i


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This race is one of the baddest to go down in California hands down. 24 hours of wide open throttle. Check out my boys from FASTHOUSE about to take it down.
Sundays Have Always Been My Favorite
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Dodge + Burn // exhibition opening
The Union for Contemporary Art is pleased to present a selection of works created by emerging Nebraskan photographers. Featured artists include: Ashley Brandenburger // Laura Burke // Joshua Foo // Hudson Gardner // Giselle Giroux // Carol Iverson // Sara Jennings-Grave // Nicholas O'Bradovich // Briann Olson
Dodge + Burn will opening with a reception for the artists on Friday, May 23rd from 6pm to 9pm. The Union's exhibition space, The Wanda D. Ewing Gallery, is located at 2221 North 24th Street (on the corner of North 24th and Grant Streets), in the historic Jewell Building. Free parking is available in the lot to the south of the building.
This exhibition will run through June 27th, and gallery hours are currently by appointment. To schedule a visit, or for more information, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com. The opening reception and exhibition are open to the public and free to attend.


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Barrios and Borderlands: Cultures of Latinos and Latinas in the United States
Denis Lynn Daly Heyck, Routledge, 1994
This unique anthology highlights the diversity of Latino cultural expressions and points out the distinctive features of the three major Latino populations: Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cuban. It is organized around six central cultural issues: family, religion, community, the arts, immigration and exile, and cultural identity. Each chapter focuses on a particular theme by presenting readings from a variety of genres, including short stories, poems, essays, excerpts from novels, a play, photographs, even a few songs and recipes.
Being Latino in Christ: Finding Wholeness in Your Ethnic Identity
Orlando Crespo, InterVarsity Press, 2003
Life as a Latino in America is complicated. Living between the two worlds of being Latino and American can generate great uncertainty. And the strange mixture of ethnic pride and racial prejudice creates another sort of confusion.�
- Who are you as a Latino?
- Who are you as an American?
- What has Christ to say about your dilemma?
- How can you accept who you are in Christ with joy and confidence?
Orlando Crespo has taken his own journey from Puerto Rico to an immigrant neighborhood in Springfield, Massachusetts, and back again to his Latino roots. In this book he helps you to reflect on your own voyage of self-understanding and on what it means to have a mixed heritage from the days of the original Spanish Conquest to the present. His straightforward approach also takes him to what the Bible says about ethnic identity — about a people who were often oppressed by more powerful cultures. He helps you to see how Jesus' own humanity unfolded in the context of a people who were considered to be inferior. Thus, Crespo finds both realism and hope in the good news of Jesus.
There is more, however, than merely coming to terms with who you are. Crespo also shows how Latinos are called to step out positively in ministry to the world. You can make a positive impact on the world in racial reconciliation, in bicultural ministry and more because of who God has uniquely made you to be.
Boricuas: Influential Puerto Rican Writings – An Anthology *
Roberto Santiago, One World/ Ballantine, 1995
Boricua is a Puerto Rican term of endearment for other Puerto Ricans, and this anthology represents the sentiment well. Edited by a writer for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, it gathers 50 selections of 19th- and 20th-century literature of all sorts: poetry, fiction, essays, screenplays, speeches, and more. Some of the works were originally written in Spanish and some in English, but they are all representative of Puerto Rican life, history, politics, and culture both in Puerto Rico and in the United States.
A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and Carib to the Present
Jan Rogozinski, Plume Books, 2000
The first complete history of the Caribbean islands — updated through the year 2000. This comprehensive volume takes the reader and student through more than five hundred years of Caribbean history, beginning with Columbus's arrival in the Bahamas in 1492. A Brief History of the Caribbean traces the people and events that have marked this constantly shifting region, encompassing everything from economic booms and busts to epidemics, wars, and revolutions, and bringing to life such important figures as Sir Francis Drake, Blackbeard, Toussaint Louverture, Fidel Castro, the Duvaliers, and Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz; Riverhead, 2007
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuko – the curse that has haunted the Oscar's family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic accidents, and, above all, ill-starred love. Oscar, still waiting for his first kiss, is just its most recent victim.
Diaz immerses us in the tumultuous life of Oscar and the history of the family at large, rendering with genuine warmth and dazzling energy, humor, and insight the Dominican-American experience, and, ultimately, the endless human capacity to persevere in the face of heartbreak and loss.
Brown: The Last Discovery of America
Richard Rodriguez, Penguin Books, 2003
In his dazzling new memoir, Richard Rodriguez reflects on the color brown and the meaning of Hispanics to the life of America today. Rodriguez argues that America has been brown since its inception-since the moment the African and the European met within the Indian eye. But more than simply a book about race, Brown is about America in the broadest sense-a look at what our country is, full of surprising observations by a writer who is a marvelous stylist as well as a trenchant observer and thinker.
Changing Race: Latinos, the Census and the History of Ethnicity in the United States
Clara Rodriguez, New York University Press, 2000
Through strikingly original historical analysis, extensive personal interviews and a careful examination of census data, Clara E. Rodriguez shows that Latino identity is surprisingly fluid, situation-dependent, and constantly changing. She illustrates how the way Latinos are defining themselves, and refusing to define themselves, represents a powerful challenge to America's system of racial classification and American racism.
Dictionary of Latino Civil Rights History
F Arturo Rosales, Arte Público Press, 2006
From the Alianza Hispano-Americana, a mutual aid society founded in Tucson, Arizona in 1894, to the Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles in 1943, this first-ever dictionary of important issues in the U.S. Latino struggle for civil rights defines a wide-ranging list of key terms. With over 922 entries on significant events, figures, laws, and other historical items, this ground-breaking reference work covers the fight for equality from the mid-nineteenth century to the present by the various Hispanic groups in the U.S.
Rosales chronicles such landmark events as the development of farm worker unions and immigrant rights groups to the forces behind bilingual-bicultural education, feminist activities, and protests over discrimination, segregation, and police brutality. In this volume, he provides a comprehensive look at the history of the Latino civil rights movement. In addition to covering all of the major events in labor, politics, land reclamation, and education, this pioneering work includes never-before-published biographies of the major players in the history of America's largest minority group.
An array of historical photos and entries outline the activities of all Hispanic populations in the United States, including citizens and immigrants, men and women. A complete subject index, timeline, and bibliographic documentation complement this definitive reference work compiled by the most respected authority on Latino civil rights.
Divided Borders
Juan Flores, Arte Público Press, 1993
A collection of the essays on history, literature and culture by the most celebrated commentator on Puerto Rican and Caribbean culture in the United States.
Down These Mean Streets *
Piri Thomas, Vintage Books, 1997
Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery — a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El Barrio to a lock-up in Sing Sing to the freedom that comes of self-acceptance, faith, and inner confidence, Piri Thomas gives us a book that is as exultant as it is harrowing and whose every page bears the irrepressible rhythm of its author's voice. Thirty years after its first appearance, this classic of manhood, marginalization, survival, and transcendence is available in an anniversary edition with a new Introduction by the author.
Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
Juan Gonzalez, Penguin Books, 2001
Gonzalez, a Puerto Rican journalist, brings passion and research to this recounting of the fascinating history of Latinos in America. He notes the Latinization of the U.S. with rising immigration from Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America to projections that Latinos will constitute the largest minority in the nation by 2010. Gonzalez explores why Spanish and British colonization experiences were so different, particularly the divergence in attitudes on slavery and race. The book is organized to explore what Gonzalez calls "Roots," the historical relationship between Latin America and the U.S., "Branches," the six major Latino groups in the nation, and "Harvest," issues facing Latinos in the U.S. today. He dissects the U.S. exploitation and occupation of Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Panama, Nicaragua, and Cuba and examines the U.S. policy of supporting dictators friendly to U.S. interest that has destabilized Latin America and provoked massive immigration to the U.S. This is an important book for understanding a major American ethnic group.
Hispanics/Latinos in the United States: Ethnicity, Race, and Rights
Jorge J E Gracia, Routledge, 2000
Already the largest minority group in the United States, by the middle of the next century Hispanics/Latinos will outnumber all other minority groups combined. As such an increasingly important presence in American society, their values, views, and rights must be taken into account by the American population at large. But Hispanics/Latinos, far from being homogenous, differ greatly in terms of origin, race, language, religion, political affiliation, customs, physical appearance, economic status, education, and taste, among other things. This diversity raises important questions about their identity and their rights. Is there a single Hispanic/Latino identity, or are there many identities based on such specifics as class and origin? Do Hispanics/Latinos as such have rights, or are their rights based only on their particular origin or situation? Does affirmative action apply to all Hispanics/Latinos, or just to some?
The House on Mango Street *
Sandra Cisneros, Vintage Books, 1991
Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence, The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros's greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, The House on Mango Street tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong — not to her rundown neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. Esperanza's story is that of a young girl coming into her power and inventing for herself what she will become.
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents *
Julia Alvarez, Plume Books, 1992
This sensitive story of four sisters who must adjust to life in America after having to flee from the Dominican Republic is told through a series of episodes beginning in adulthood, when their lives have been shaped by U. S. mores, and moving backwards to their wealthy childhood on the island. Adapting to American life is difficult and causes embarrassment when friends meet their parents, anger as they are bullied and called "spics," and identity confusion following summer trips to the family compound in the Dominican Republic. These interconnected vignettes of family life, resilience, and love are skillfully intertwined and offer young adults a perspective on immigration and families as well as a look at America through Hispanic eyes.
Latinos: A Biography of the People *
Earl Shorris, W. W. Norton & Company, 2012
They are sometimes called the people who died twice, once at the hands of the Spaniards and their brutal process of civilization, then at the hands of Anglos, practicing a subtler exploitation. They are Latinos, the fastest-growing minority in the United States. Earl Shorris' deeply moving narrative-enlivened by biographical sketches of Mexican Americans, Cuban Americans, Puerto Ricans, and many others struggling with the burden of a rich and terrible history-illuminates every aspect of the Latino experience in America, from language to education to social and political organization.
Latino success: insights from America's most powerful Latino business executives
Augusto Failde, Fireside, 1997
…contends that the entrepreneurship of the nation's Hispanic population goes largely unnoticed by the general public, which prefers a derogatory stereotype. To spur Latinos – the largest minority population in the U.S.- to still greater efforts and counteract stereotypes, the authors interviewed 100 successful Latinos. We learn that Jellybean Benitez dropped out of high school in the South Bronx because he wanted an education and knew he'd never get one there. He went to college anyway and became a record producer. Antonio Rodriguez graduated from Princeton because his father, a longshoreman, worked hard to send him there. Ten years later, as vice president of finance for Seagram Europe, he bought his dad a car with his bonus check. As a whole, the inspiring first-person narratives reveal dogged determination, originality, courage and forbearance.
Modern Latin America
Thomas E. Skidmore, Peter H. Smith, Oxford University Press, 2004
Now in its sixth edition, Modern Latin America is a lively interpretive history and the leading text in the field. Thoroughly updated and revised, the book includes a new chapter on the history of Colombia from the wars of independence to the violent conflicts of the present day. It also examines such topics as: * the impact of 9/11 on U.S.-Latin American relations * globalization * drug trafficking * women's roles in society and politics * the fragility and uncertainty of democracy in Latin America The book features socio-cultural sections and boxes in nearly every chapter, covering such diverse areas as the psychology of exile, Santeria in Cuba, baseball in the Dominican Republic, and the popularity of Latin music in the U.S. All political and economic information has been updated. As in earlier editions, the authors use an in-depth case study approach that guides readers through the major countries of Latin America, highlighting central themes including European-New World interaction, racial mixtures, military takeovers, and United States intervention in the area.
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Eduardo H. Galeano, Monthly Review Press, 1998
ISBN: 0853459916 Text: English (translation), Original Language: Spanish
Eduardo Galeano's classic work serves as a testament to the world. His words resonate with all of us who have seen and felt the pillaging of Latin America first hand. The book writen in "90 nights," when Galeano was 31 years old meticulously illustrates how Europe and North America have exploited Latin America in their continued crusade for wealth. Galeano displays how the genocide of the Indigenous Americans and the enslavement of Africans created 'the foundation stone upon which the giant industrial capital of modern times was built'.
Jose Villareal, Anchor, 1970
Villarreal illuminates here the world of "pochos," Americans whose parents come to the United States from Mexico. Set in Depression-era California, the novel focuses on Richard, a young pocho who experiences the intense conflict between loyalty to the traditions of his family's past and attraction to new ideas. Richard's struggle to achieve adulthood as a young man influenced by two worlds reveals both the uniqueness of the Mexican-American experiences and its common ties with the struggles of all Americans — whatever their past.
The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move: Identities on the Island and in the United States
Jorge Duany, University of North Carolina Press, 2002
Puerto Ricans maintain a vibrant identity that bridges two very different places — the island of Puerto Rico and the U.S. mainland. Whether they live on the island, in the States, or divide time between the two, most imagine Puerto Rico as a separate nation and view themselves primarily as Puerto Rican. At the same time, Puerto Ricans have been U.S. citizens since 1917, and Puerto Rico has been a U.S. commonwealth since 1952.
Jorge Duany uses previously untapped primary sources to bring new insights to questions of Puerto Rican identity, nationalism, and migration. Drawing a distinction between political and cultural nationalism, Duany argues that the Puerto Rican "nation" must be understood as a new kind of translocal entity with deep cultural continuities. He documents a strong sharing of culture between island and mainland, with diasporic communities tightly linked to island life by a steady circular migration. Duany explores the Puerto Rican sense of nationhood by looking at cultural representations produced by Puerto Ricans and considering how others — American anthropologists, photographers, and museum curators, for example–have represented the nation. His sources of information include ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, interviews, surveys, censuses, newspaper articles, personal documents, and literary texts.
Strangers Among Us: Latino Lives in a Changing America
Roberto Suro, Vintage Books, 1999
Strangers Among Us is a lucid, informed, and cliché-shattering examination of Latino immigration to the United States — its history, the vast transformations it is fast producing in American society, and the challenges it will present for decades to come. In making vivid an array of people, places, and events that are little known to most Americans, the author — an American journalist who is himself the son of Latino immigrants — makes an often bewildering phenomenon vastly more understandable.
The Tainos : Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus
Irving Rouse, Yale University Press, 1993
Tells the story of the Taino people from their ancestral days in South America through their migration to the northern Caribbean islands where they were the first natives to interact with Columbus, to their rapid and immediate decline under the European gifts of forced labor, malnutrition, disease, and dispersal.
When I Was Puerto Rican *
Esmeralda Santiago, Vintage Books, 1994
"Santiago's autobiographical account cinematically recaptures her past and her island culture. What is particularly appealing about Santiago's story is the insight it offers to readers unaware of the double bind Puerto Rican Americans find themselves in: the identity in conflict. Is [she] black or white? Is she rural or urban? Even more importantly, is she Puerto Rican or is she American? [One] can only be grateful that Esmeralda Santiago has chosen to explore her culture and share what she has found."


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Story Title: Hero At Large
Author Name: Janet Evanovich
Category: Published Book
Story Url: Story Link
Status: Completed
Length: 321 pages
Story Summary: From the back cover:
Dear Reader:
In a previous life, before the time of Plum, I wrote twelve short romance novels. Red-hot screwball comedies, each and every one of them. The romances were originally published between the years 1988 and 1992. All immediately went out of print and could be found only at used bookstores and yard sales.
I'm happy to tell you that those stories have now been re-released by HarperCollins, presented in almost original form. I've done only minor editing to correct some embarrassing bloopers missed the first time around.
Hero at Large was the very first book published. It's about a sexy guy who cooks a potholder in spaghetti sauce and charms a single mom and former world-class ice skater with the promise of a ride on his Zamboni. It's got broken bones, giant turkeys, cantankerous cars, and Aunt Edna.
This was the book that changed my life forever and made me a published author. When Hero finally reached the bookstores, I was almost arrested for loitering in Walden's. I stationed myself in the romance section and wouldn't leave until I saw someone buy my book. It took three days!
Gioia's Rec:
I had expected Hero at Large to be complete fluff. I was wrong. Although it features a zany protagonist with an even zanier Aunt Edna (easily recognizable as an early version of Stephanie Plum's Grandma from Janet Evanovich's most famous series), that's not all there is to this story.
When the protagonist, Chris, encounters a man who appears to be the Real Deal, Mr. Right, and Prince Charming all rolled into one, she immediately slams shut the doors of her heart. As a single mom, she's already fallen for an impossibly unrealistic Happily Ever After, and she's not doing that again. The first half of the book focuses on how Ken manages to get past her defenses and convince her that he's for real.
The second half of the book, though, is where things get really interesting. Ken's not all that he seems. So the question is, can Chris entrust the happiness and safety of both herself and her daughter to someone who hasn't been honest with her? I loved that Evanovich doesn't gloss over this. It's a serious dilemma. Chris would've been a reckless and unlikable character had she just thrown her lot in with Ken, without giving serious thought to the emotional well-being of her daughter. I love the fact that Chris has to come to grips not only with changing her expectations of life, but trusting someone even when they've screwed up.
I've read several of Evanovich's early, pre-Plum books. If they were all as good as this one, I'd be in hog heaven.
My Only Critique: As I mentioned, "Aunt Edna" is an early version of the Grandma in the Stephanie Plum series. Having become accustomed to borrowed characters and plots thanks to L.M. Montgomery's habit of pilfering both throughout her many books, this didn't bother me at all. But it's possible that this might bother others.


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Yes, we are also cleaning commercial properties like gas stations, theatres, condominium complexes or hotels, like this one in Clearwater.
Pressure washing at heights takes a lift and a few people not suffering from acrophobia (the fear of heights). The photo was taken during the job. For working in such heights and to reach the upper floor, we needed to rent a lift. I am experienced with using such a large tool and operated the crane myself while my staff did the pressure washing from the top down.
This job took several days and was performed to an excellent result. The hotel management was very happy with our work and so were we :-)
Did we also clean the windows while we were at it? No, we didn´t and it wasn´t necessary. Though we offer professional window cleaning since Day 1, we don´t do high buildings like this one.
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Kevin Sorbo is an idiot. This isn't a statement of opinion. After all, who can call peaceful black protesters "animals" and not be completely fucking insane? Sorbo, most famous for his role in a terrible 90s TV show in which he played Hercules, unleashed yet another torrent of uninformed, racist garbage on Twitter and found himself wanting for allies.
Only in America are legal citizens labeled 'racists' and 'Nazis,' but illegal aliens are called 'Dreamers,' Sorbo tweeted Sunday.
Only in America are legal citizens labeled "racists" and "Nazis," but illegal aliens are called "Dreamers."
— Kevin Sorbo (@ksorbs) February 12, 2018
Hoo boy, where to begin?
First off, "Dreamers" were brought here as children and have been in the United States their entire lives. Many of them have families — children, who are American citizens.
While Sorbo might feel persecuted that people call him and his ideological allies "Nazis" and "racists" simply because they act like Nazis and racists, he might be interested to know that many legal German citizens were also Nazis and racists. There was even this thing called the Holocaust that was the result of all that Nazism and racism.
Naturally, Jercules got stomped hard by the internet — but the biggest bootprint was left by Chrissy Teigen:
Hope they're not done with the Oscars "In Memoriam" montage yet because dude just got fucking murdered pic.twitter.com/70bP0dRDOo
— Jason Bailey (@jasondashbailey) February 13, 2018
Others, of course, joined in the fun:
Hey why don't you cry some more, you big dopey racist?
— Respectable Lawyer (@RespectableLaw) February 13, 2018
Weren't you that guy in that Z-grade Hercules show?
— TakedownMRAs (@TakedownMRAs) February 13, 2018
christ, who would've suspected a dude famous for playing an iconoclast of primitive individualist morality would end up sounding like a fox news segment in his old age
— Soul James (?) (@Any_Elm_Idly) February 13, 2018
Zeus should have pulled out.
— Eternal Suffering For Trump Voters (@EthanInTX) February 13, 2018
Wow! You are not to worried about working again!
— Shannigans0604 (@ohitsaskinthing) February 12, 2018
This is why Xena got her own show.
— Nasty Way Or The Highway (@SoiledSnowflake) February 13, 2018
Wait. Kevin Sorbo is still alive?
— UtahMormonDemoGuy (@UtMormonDemoGuy) February 13, 2018
Yes, Kevin Sorbo is still alive, Twitter Person, and spewing the same hatred as Donald Trump's Nazi followers.
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How the talent curse derails new leaders
Business leaders and senior talent are in increasingly short supply these days, although anyone wondering why will find no shortage of explanations.
Some say companies don't put enough effort into developing leaders, or human capital in general. Others believe that although efforts are being made, the approach is wrong — the traditional route no longer applies and formal training (vs. on-the-job development) doesn't really work. Yet others attribute leadership shortages to a lack of alignment between talent development and strategic goals, or the presumption that a candidate's confidence equals competence.
Another explanation, though, is simply that it's hard being a leader (or "more work," as President Trump recently put it) and those who are tapped for leadership roles – typically star performers – often struggle greatly when placed on the fast track. In fact, according to a recent article: "The Talent Curse" in this month's Harvard Business Review, the fast track can sometimes lead to nowhere fast. This is due to the uncertainty and insecurity new leaders typically experience, which, when combined with a continuing need to innovate, creates enormous pressure.
What follows, say authors Jennifer and Gianpiero Petriglieri, is greater conformity (as opposed to innovation) and ultimately burnout. This then leads to less engagement, diminished performance, and, for some, exit from the organization.
But this can be avoided, they add, by learning how to identify and deal with signs of trouble and, if needed, doing the following to break the curse: owning your talent, being yourself, and, most of all, valuing the present.
Is that all it takes to be a good leader, though? It depends on who you listen to, and those interested in other thoughts on this will find no shortage of leadership how-tos. Examples include this one from Fast Company, this one from Entrepreneur, and this one from the World Economic Forum, which shares insights from global leaders. For inspiration, check out Forbes' list of 100 best leadership quotes.


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Once you finally come to a crossroads and make the difficult decision that no matter how hard you try and how long you stay that your partner is never going to change, you will start to look for a way out. With determination, inner strength and love for yourself, you will eventually be able to know when and how to end a hurtful relationship with as little heartache as possible.
Keep a clear head and try to think positively about how much better your life will be without the pain this person adds to your daily life. Chances are that you've tried and tried to make this work to no avail, and you have to accept that it is time for you to be happy again.
Listen to that little voice in your head that tells you to pack up and get out of this mess immediately. If you do not move fast, then your partner may possibly be able to convince you once again to stay. Your partner might tell you and even promise you that things will change, but you must not fall for this again as you have in the past. The fact is, if you really feel like this love affair cannot make you happy, then it's time to end it. Try to see it all as a lesson learned, rather than beating yourself up over time lost.
Remove yourself from the relationship and be indifferent to the whole situation. You will know that you are truly ready to move on once you feel nothing either way. When this person no longer controls any part of your emotions, that is really the end to a hurtful relationship and the easiest time to say goodbye.


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14 Aug 2014 Gold Jewellery Demand Drops 30%!
The World Gold Council just released second quarter demand and supply statistics. On the supply side not much happened with total supply increasing by 10% from the second quarter of 2013. What is interesting though is that producers are starting to hedge future production again. They hedged 50 tons in Q2 compared to -15 tons last year. That added 50 tons to mining supply. Mine production only increased by 4%.
On the demand side, jewellery demand dropped nearly 30% from Q2 last year while bar & coin demand dropped 56%. Investors also continued to sell Gold ETFs, although much less than the 400 tons they sold in the second quarter of last year. After Central Banks stabilized fears of a monetary collapse, investors sold ETFs in droves as there is no yield on the ETF.
Central Bank purchases was the only saving grace, up 28%. Central Banks changed from net sellers for decades to net buyers after the 2008 financial crises. Because of low global interest rates the opportunity cost of holding Gold is very low. Some Central Banks prefer to build Gold reserves instead of foreign exchange reserves. Future inflation in the US might decrease the value of the Dollar, making Gold reserves safer.
After a spectacular rise to $1,895 in the aftermath of the financial crises, the Gold price declined steadily and traded in a very narrow range of less than $100 since April. With stability in the financial markets there is very little reason for investors to buy or hold Gold. Jewellery demand seems to suffer from slow economic growth. This does not bode well for the Gold price at all.
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A second series of conversational Italian classes will begin at St. Bede Parish from 9 a.m. to noon Saturdays, beginning April 26.
Professor Nancy Ammirato returns to teach the courses, which are sponsored by the Italian Catholic Federation (ICF).
The focus will be on beginning and intermediate conversational Italian. The cost is $150 per person and includes a workbook.
For information, call (818) 952-1969. Class size is limited to 20 students and classes are open to all ages.
The classes, which are open to the community, will be held in the Pope John XIII Room of the Parish Center at St. Bede the Venerable Roman Catholic Church, 215 Foothill Blvd.


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You check out Della Perrett's Sweetedge on Reverb Nation, Facebook and Myspace
Della has played sax in a number of bands over the years, like Rhythm Collision and Burnt Ice.
Sweetedge record at Empire Studio, home of JRP Music Services and at the legendary Woodworm Studio in Oxfordshire.
For some of the best roots and blues music take a look at The Barking Spider website.
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In this paper I will focus on the concept of atmosphere and the relationship it has to the nursing care of the demented elderly. I plan to draw on my own experience as a nurse in a long term care setting and to utilise the results of a questionnaire issued to my collegues in that same setting. From these sources I will explore how, when, and why the atmosphere is affected and focus on the nursing contribution to a positive atmosphere and the subsequent reduction of agitation in demented elderly persons.


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Wicked Dreams of Fallen Angels is an unusual but evocative name for a sim that arranges trysts between male dominants and agreeable submissives known as Fallen Angels, but it suits the place's friendly style and super-relaxed ambiance. The sim is huge and largely undeveloped, with more than enough room for an enormous dark and moody maze-like castle, filled with dungeons and private rooms set aside for the Masters' visits with the Angels, and available free of charge. The Angels themselves occupy an entirely different part of the huge estate, a kind of enormous underground space with large public areas for mingling and socializing, dancing and flirting, and spontaneous group play.
The focus of this underground space is the Angel's Gallery, walls and walls of portraits, profile pics (and some real-life images) of about 70-80 of the Fallen Angels, women and girls of all types, shapes, and descriptions, all sexually active female submissives who've put themselves on call to serve the needs of the male clients who request them, who may pick and choose from this catalog of talent, bearing in mind that the availability of any given Angel at any given time is not always guaranteed, although club staff will usually find a way to match up a clients with an acceptable Angel.
A good solid double-take is entirely appropriate here.
70-80- girls "…put(ting) themselves on call to serve the needs of the male clients who request them…?"
Yes, the Angel Gallery is a giant open catalog of potential submissive Second Life sex partners. The pictures and portraits are hung in four rows, floor to ceiling, stretched along two hallways (including some actual RL photo's of the actual RL woman, but posted anonymously) which clients may browse at leisure, looking them over, reading their profiles, comparing likes and limits and imagining possibilities, even sending them IM's to check on current availability, or possibly set up a future meeting. It's a very pleasant place to browse.
And the cost of using this service? The cost of a membership in Wicked Dreams of Fallen Angels, the dues, fees, ups & extras?
Zilch, I believe they said. Is that what they said? Zilch as in zero? Zilch as in zip? Nada? Nothing? As in free??
My own first thoughts were: Well this is just too good to be true. These pictures have to be dummies. They're saying I can just look through this gallery and say, "Bring me this one and this one and this one…" And they'll do it? This has got to be some kind of scam…
So a quick reality check was urgently needed, and happily, was quickly provided by the nearly omnipresent and likewise practically omniscient Kara Morrisey, who's apparently used to this kind of incredulous and disbelieving reaction from visitors. Kara, who's not exactly a walking bad-dream herself, and is a refreshing reminder that sexual submission has nothing to do with being weak, or having a poor self-image, or lack of ability, serves as manager, coordinator, Mistress of Ceremonies, scheduler, and all-around Goddess to the Fallen Angels. She also, when all is said and done, is the motivating force and guiding spirit behind WD/FA. She commands great trust and respect, from both Angels and guests.
Kara quickly straightened me out. Yes, she said. All the pictures are of Fallen Angels, real avatars of women who volunteer to serve the sexual fantasies and desires of their clients.
"Some of the images are tame," Kara said. "And some are quite explicit. We don't tell our guests who the images belong to for two reasons. First, we protect the Angel from being hounded for more and more RL photos. Second, it's more fun that way!"
Of course, not all angels are available at all times, or not readily available at least, and there are a few who've inevitably retired or just drifted away. But that's not surprising, . Second Life bring in general a volatile, high-turnover place. Even so, Kara estimates there's about one or two dozen truly active and available Angels at any given time, and she'll be glad to help you find them and bring them to meet you. And if she can't find the one you requested, she'll suggest another Angel she feels would fit your needs. And Kara is nothing if not dedicated. She knows all her Angels and protects their interests and privacy like a mother hawk. No one is forced to do anything they don't want to do, or serve a guest they don't want to serve. Rowdy guests, the crude and the lewd and those who violate the club's sense of quiet decorum are quickly "disinvited."
Kara's caring attitude towards her Angels is one of the major reasons girls sign on and stay. "For subs in Second Life who aren't in long-term relationships," an Angel told me, "Finding a decent Dominant for short-term play can be really hard. But at the club, that's all taken care of for you. Kara's already checked the guys out and she's always got our backs. I think of the club as kind of a dating service for us subs as much as it is for outside Doms. Girls like some variety too, you know."
Kara takes her job as a match-maker quite seriously too, and she's as dedicated to her guest's interest as she is to her Angel's, as we can readily verify. Her persistence in finding us an Angel even extended to IMing us later in the day when a particular Angel we'd expressed interest in suddenly became available. That was performance above and beyond the call of duty in our book.
"So," I asked, still suspiciously looking for a fly in what seemed like this too-perfect ointment. "Then you're really just an escort service?"
No! Kara was vehement. Of course money's involved, but only in the form of donations, as a gentile way of showing appreciation. All donations are voluntary and there aren't any rules or even guidelines, but when you come to appreciate what the club offers and become part of the family, it only makes sense to donate frequently and generously. These voluntary contributions are the only income this vast sim with all its features generates. As we said, and as I kept repeating to myself in a kind of daze, there are no entry fees, no membership charges, no dues, no charge for use of rooms and equipment.
The whole place, in fact, runs on donations and only on donations. Donations are the Angels' (and Kara's. And the sim owners') only compensation for all they do. Now, any user of an escort's services knows very well that a hefty tip is expected along with the escort's basic service fee, so the club's donations-only policy essentially makes an Angel's services and the use of the sim's amenities free.
This was all pretty shocking to me, and I decided on a little sit-down in order to digest this information. Kara was understanding, but had already slipped almost automatically into hostess mode and was more interested in finding me an Angel suitable to my desires than in talking about finances. And the Angels that showed up to chat and flirt with me were certainly worth every penny of the L$200-300 donation I made to their cause. Kara didn't disagree.
Wait, wait, I said, looking for last-minute catches, gimmicks and scams as an Angel led me away on a tour of the Gallery and grounds, the vast sculpture garden and outdoor areas, the castle with its private rooms, chambers, and dungeons, its photo studio and maze-like halls. There must be something, my mind insisted, some downside: requests for credit card "verification"? Financial traps, snares, hooks? Fiendish hidden blackmail cameras, burly thugs lurking behind the drapes with stout clubs in their gnarled hands…?
I didn't find any downsides. I still haven't.
I found Wicked Dreams of Fallen Angels during a random SL Search for interesting-looking sims. The name got me, of course. Literary or poetic names always do. Upon arrival, I overlooked the obviously-places transporter pad that takes most visitors directly down to the Angel Gallery, though, and skipped the castle, and just wandered around on the surface for a while, scoping it out, not certain what this place was.
When I finally found my way inside, it was by means of an outside staircase, which led through a crack in the rocks, and then down a very dark and winding subterranean tunnel. After going down and round long enough to get suspicious, I was about to just TP out of there since, when my path brought me suddenly out into the vast open hangar-like space of the Main Floor. It was actually awe-inspiring to step out into that place, certainly the largest fully-enclosed indoor space I've ever encountered in Second Life.
The experience of stumbling into this huge room left the lingering impression that I'd blundered into some vast underground construction project in which a consortium of wealthy and powerful Second Life movers and shakers was building SL's Next Big Thing. Construction had just begun, though, I reasoned, and was now held up while the Consortium ironed out some last-minute kinks in their no-doubt revolutionary graphics and game-changing software.
And so while construction was delayed, I went on, the bosses must have decided to let the skeleton crew on the site set up a few cheap and harmless entertainments: a dance floor, some poles, a few chairs, a radio. I mean, that seemed like the only reasonable explanation for why there should be a space this big, so obviously designed for some specific purpose: the enormous, featureless Gallery upstairs, two gigantic, monumental ramps (not stairs) of positively Biblical proportions, leading down to a room so huge you could hardly see an avatar at the far end, and in which you wouldn't be surprised to see the appearance of its own clouds and even micro weather systems, as have been observed in the humongous Booster Assembly Building in NASA's Cape Canaveral.
Such a structure, I told myself, is a sure sign of a project that's obviously been planned out in painstaking and meticulous detail. No doubt there are blueprints, artists' renderings, estimates, budgets, schedules, traffic studies, focus groups, projections, financing. There must be fabric swatches, color schemes, interior designers, landscapers! There are departments! Wiring diagrams! PR flacks, a cafeteria, a hospital, a bowling alley and movies for the workers! A security force with a fleet of SUV's painted in modern, non-threatening colors, Mars lights affixed to roof utility bars in the modern fashion.
I was amazed! I was standing at the center of the very definition of Potential! Ground Zero of a coming Big Bang Explosion of Human Genius, Drive, Creativity and Organization! The very non-existent air around me hummed with a palpable ozone-like tang of excitement!!
I was actually going to be Present at the Creation!! Think what I could tell my grandchildren!!!
Well, actually, as it turns out…
There is no grand design, no timetables or artists' sketches. There's no consortium or fabric swatches. None of that stuff.
The sim is run by a few friends who don't especially need to be named, and they run it as a labor of love, as a hobby and a project, because they enjoy it, and because it's fun. Should it ever stop being fun, I suppose they'll just get rid of it. They're not in it for the money. They're not in it for the power, or the publicity. They enjoy what they do, and they want other people to enjoy it too. They're very gracious, funny, and welcoming.
Anther amazing thing about Wicked Dreams of Fallen Angels?
You don't get a rules card when you enter. In fact, I never saw a rules card at all. As Kara says, they expect their guests to behave, to be civil, to tip early and often, and to have fun.
But the Angels, all 60 or 70 of them, where did they come from? Why did they sign up to be Angels?
Apparently, they find it fun too, and they enjoy it. Which is actually the very best reason to do anything. And, as the one Angel told me, the club serves their needs as much as it serves the guests'
And this isn't the few friends' first barbecue. They've had 2 or 3 sims like this, and the friends they make on one, they bring along to the next. Friends bring in other friends. The atmosphere and working conditions are so agreeable and laid back that it's just a nice place to be. People come and hang out, sometimes they have contests or games, often not. They favor blues music, rock, and R&B, and their stream is very good. One friend is lovingly assembling an art gallery to go with his already extant and impressive sculpture garden.
All that being said, it's strange to me that they're not absolutely swamped with visitors, and I confess that rather nags at me. More people should know about this place, I told them. A little advertising and word of mouth, and you guys could really be big.
But they like it as it is. They're really not very interested in being big.
Except for the size, I'd suggest. In that, they couldn't get much bigger.
Some of you reading this should really come visit, just to see it, if nothing else. I can pretty well promise you that you won't see many other places like this. It's just quietly extraordinary.
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The staff and the students of Fort Convent enjoy the unique honour of being associated with an institution, which is celebrating 155 years in the service of Education. The institution was opened in the Fort area on 6th November 1855 in Medows Street by the Sisters belonging to the Congregation of Jesus and Mary. It was the first in the long chain of Jesus and Mary Schools to be set up in Western India. The school got its name "Fort Convent" as it was the first Convent in Fort area.
In 1904, the school was shifted to a two storied building adjoining the 'Holy Name Cathedral' at Wodehouse Road. The two-storied building with its airy and spacious corridors was sought after by many parents. The majestic porch has served as both the entry and departure points. It has witnessed tearful little girls entering the portals, as well as, well groomed teenagers leaving with eyes brimming with tears. It was almost a second home for the students for twelve long years.
The school has witnessed several changes in the last 155 years. Over the years due to expansions, additions and alterations the building has grown in height and stature. It has been instrumental in shaping and moulding thousands of students in the glorious For "One Hundred and Fifty-Five Years" it has been a "Temple of Knowledge" illuminating the paths of all those who came into its fold. Over the years,even the name of the road has changed from Wodehouse Road to Nathalal Parekh Marg.


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It's a real blend of employees putting their mark on the future Fellwood in West Savannah. From highly experienced to people trained by the Construction Apprentice Program, they're counting their lucky stars for a paycheck. "There are a number of employers on this site that have come from sites that have been disbanded or discontinued," says Sylvester Formey. More than 350 strong, most employees here have never worked on a green housing development.
There are high expectations with so many capable employees. "When things turn around and they will given the stimulus activities that have been sponsored by the federal government, state government as well as the city that you'll see a number of those folks go to other opportunities other work opportunities around the state as well as Savannah." Sylvester says they're banking on a win-win for everybody involved. These energy efficient apartments will bring together a unique neighborhood similar to the hands building the foundation. Average medium income, to people who can afford to pay higher rent will live here. "You won't see any variation in the unit look. The unit that you visited could very well be someone that qualifies under a Section 8 Voucher as well," says Formey. Then there's the social part in this plan…making it a beloved community. "We want youngsters to see examples of folks that go to work everyday. Teachers, policemen, firemen, business people living next door to folks that may have a need for support." Formey says people are already applying to live in Fellwood. The Department of Community Affairs is helping finance Fellwood under the Tax Credit Program. The City of Savannah is pitching in – paying for roads and sidewalks. There's some construction money coming from Suntrust Bank. The land was donated by the Housing Authority of Savannah.


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The "Rosa Khutor" ski resort intends to pay more attention to the quality of recreation and customer service in the coming years. During the seasons of 2018-2020 it is planned to actively work through a network of tourist eco-routes and camping sites that existed in the 1960s-1970s and create these. This was told by the Deputy Director General for Development Nikolai Shlentsov.
This season the resort has a new cableway and another eight kilometers of trails. In addition, the resort has leased 1160 hectares of land located mainly on the northern slope of the Aibga Ridge on the recreational territory of the Sochi National Park and the natural game reserve.
The "Rosa Khutor" is going to develop eco-tourism precisely on the newly leased lands.
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08-14-2011Title:Chulin 46 - THE SPINAL CORD OF A BIRD Message:1) THE SPINAL CORD OF A BIRD
(a) (R. Yanai): The spinal cord of a bird extends until below the wings (if the majority is cut, it is Tereifah);
(b) (Reish Lakish): It extends until between the wings.
(c) Ben Pazi was checking a bird. He checked until between the wings, and was called to the Nasi's house; he went.
1. Ula: I don't know if he holds like Reish Lakish, that no more needs to be checked, or if he stopped in the middle out of respect for the Nasi.
(a) (Mishnah): If the liver was removed...
(b) Inference: If anything remains, even less than k'Zayis (an olive's worth), it is Kosher.
(c) Contradiction (Mishnah): If k'Zayis of the liver remains, it is Kosher.
(d) Answer (Rav Yosef): One Mishnah is like R. Chiya, the other is like R. Shimon bar Rebbi.
1. Version #1: R. Chiya would throw out an animal if less than k'Zayis of the liver remained; R. Shimon bar Rebbi would eat it.
2. Version #2: R. Chiya would not eat liver (for he did not consider it such a vital organ); R. Shimon bar Rebbi would eat it (since it is a crucial organ, it is healthy to eat; (end of Version #2)
i. Presumably, R. Shimon holds that if a tiny amount of the liver remained, it could not heal, the animal would be Tereifah).
ii. A way to remember the opinions - rich people (i.e. the son of the Nasi) economize.
(e) (R. Zeira): A k'Zayis of the liver must remain in the area of the gall bladder.
(f) (Rav Ada bar Ahavah): It must remain in the place the liver is suspended from.
(g) (Rav Papa): We are concerned for both opinions, k'Zayis must remain in each place.
(h) Questions (R. Yirmeyah): What if the k'Zayis is not all in one place? What if it is stretched out in a strip?
(i) Question (Rav Ashi): What if it is like a thin sheet?
1. These questions are unresolved.
(j) Question (R. Zerika): If the liver is uprooted in several places, but still clings to the surrounding Chelev, what is the law?
(k) Answer (R. Ami): Since it is intact, k'Zayis remains in both places, it is Kosher.
(a) (Mishnah): A punctured lung...
(b) Version #1 (Rav, Shmuel and Rav Asi): If the outer membrane is punctured, it is Tereifah.
(c) Version #2 (Rav, Shmuel and Rav Asi): If the inner membrane is (also) punctured, it is Tereifah.
(d) If only the outer membrane is punctured, surely the lower one protects (so the animal is not Tereifah), like Rava taught.
1. (Rava): If the outer membrane of the lung was peeled off but the red inner membrane remains, it is Kosher.
(e) Question: If only the inner membrane was punctured, does the outer one protect?
(f) Answer: Rav Acha and Ravina argued - one said that it protects, the other said it does not.
1. The Halachah is, it protects, like Rav Yosef.
2. (Rav Yosef): If when one blows into the lungs it sounds as if air is escaping, he must check it;
3. If he knows where the sound comes from - he puts a feather, piece of straw or some spit there. If there really is a hole, it will move when he blows.
4. If he does not know where the sound comes from, he puts the lungs in a basin of lukewarm water and blows into the lungs.
i. Hot water may not be used - this would constrict the hole.
ii. Cold water should not be used - this could cause the outer membrane to tear.
5. If he sees bubbles, there is a hole, it is Tereifah;
i. If there are no bubbles, the noise was due to a tear in the inner membrane alone, it is Kosher.
(g) (Rava): If the outer membrane of the lung was peeled off but the red inner membrane remains, it is Kosher.
(h) (Rava): If part of the lung turned red, it is Kosher; if it all turned red, it is Tereifah.
(i) Objection (Ravina): You say that if only part turns red it is Kosher, because it can get better;
1. Also if the entire lung turns red, it can get better!
2. (Beraisa): If one wounds a Sheretz (except for the eight Sheratzim listed in the Torah) on Shabbos he is exempt unless blood comes out, even if the blood is recognizable in the skin. (This shows that redness does not indicate a puncture.)
3. Suggestion: Perhaps Rava learns from the eight Sheratzim.
i. (Beraisa): If one wounds one of the eight Sheratzim on Shabbos he is liable if the blood is recognizable in the skin, even if it did not come out.
4. Rejection: If so, even a redness in part of the lungs should be Tereifah!
(j) (Ravina): Rather, whether part or all is red, it is Kosher (Rashi; Tosfos - Tereifah).
(k) (Rava): If a lung partially dried up, it is Tereifah.
(l) Question: How much must it dry up?
(m) Answer (Rav Papa): In order that it can be crushed with a fingernail.
1. Suggestion: This is like R. Yosi ben ha'Meshulam.
i. (Beraisa): A dried ear is a blemish if it would not bleed when punctured;
ii. R. Yosi ben ha'Meshulam says, it is a blemish if it can be crushed with a fingernail.
2. Rejection: No, it is even like Chachamim.
i. The ear is exposed to wind, therefore it will not heal; the lung can heal.
(n) (Rava): If the lung has black or colored crusts - it is Kosher.
(o) (Ameimar): If a punctured blister is found in the lung, we do not compare it to a fresh blister (to determine whether it was there from before the slaughter).
(p) (Rava): If a scab is found between two non-adjacent chambers of the lungs, it does not help to check (even if no puncture is found, the animal is Tereifah);
1. If it is between two adjacent chambers, it will heal, it is Kosher.
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Curious if anyone has any defective issues with their Henson Turtles?
I pre-ordered and received all 4 directly from Entertainment Earth over he last year and a half. They've been great - even replacing my Leonardo who had a paint rub from the factory.
I recently noticed my Raphael has developed moisture on the inside of the package. All 4 were left at my doorstep - completely in the shade, all 4 have been stored in the same place in my apartment - not in any direct, or really any indirect sunlight - and he's the only one that's developed this.
I have an email out to EE customer service to see if they would offer a replacement when the next batch is released in February - but am prepared for them not to offer that as well. No harm in asking. If not, I might reach out directly to NECA.
My assumption is somewhere in the manufacturing/distribution/shipping process - he was left in a very hot place for a long time and some degradation to the plastic/paint occured? Just curious if it happened to others, etc.
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