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Flex 15" Laptop
Flex 15" Laptop
Stylish 2-in-1 entertainment powerhouse
Sleek Portability Meets Precise Design
Starting at just 4.4 lbs / 2 kg, the Flex 15 2-in-1 laptop is designed to go wherever life takes you. While its precision-cut beveled edges offer a clean, modern look, the enhanced touchpad provides smoother comfort and improved control. Finished in sleek aluminum, the Flex 15 is available in Onyx Black.
Enjoy More Flexibility
More than just a traditional laptop, the Flex 15 transitions with your schedule. Thanks to a durable 360-degree hinge, you can easily flip it into tablet mode to browse the web, or stream a TV show in tent mode. With this much flexibility, you'll always find your perfect viewing angle.
Unleash your Creative Side with Lenovo Active Pen
Featuring pin-point accuracy and palm-rejection technology, the optional Lenovo Active Pen emulates a natural pen-on-paper writing experience. Paired with new Windows Ink features—found directly on your taskbar—it gives you new ways to turn your thoughts into action. Write notes that sync up with Cortana to flow across your other devices, or get creative with a hand-drawn birthday card.
Stay Ahead of the Curve with Intel® Core™ i7 Processing
The Flex 15 packs a punch with up to 8th generation Intel® Core® i7 processing and hybrid storage_up to 512 GB PCIe SSD plus 1 TB SATA HDD . Enjoy lightning-fast boot-ups and transfer times, and with 16 GB memory, you'll be able to use more apps and larger files without slowing down.
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Never feel anchored to an outlet, with all-day battery life that will help you stay focused on the things that matter. Plus, the Flex 15 has an always-on USB 3.0** port, which means you'll be able to charge your other favorite devices even when your laptop is powered off.
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Sign into your Flex 15 three times faster with a fingerprint reader, making passwords an inconvenience of the past. You'll also be able to make secure payments with PayPal and breeze through logins for sites like DropBox via Windows Hello—with just one touch of your finger.
Built for Entertainment
With up to 15.6" FHD IPS touchscreen narrow-bezel display, you can watch movies and browse the web in vivid detail. Whether you're lounging on the couch or watching with friends, we've narrowed two sides of the screen to maximize your viewing experience.
Ultra Crisp, Clear Audio
With Harman® speakers and Dolby® Audio Premium, you can immerse yourself in your favorite album or appreciate crystal clear conference calls. Featuring an advanced volume maximizer and sound leveller, the Flex 15 delivers louder, cleaner, and more consistent sound that's free from digital distortion.Show MoreLess
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Tech Specs
Tech Specs
Processor?The processor runs the operating system and all applications. The faster the processor, the faster your programs run, but battery life can be affected.
- 8th Generation Intel® Core™ i3-8130U Processor (2.20GHz, up to 3.40GHz with Turbo Boost, 4MB Cache)
- 8th Generation Intel® Core™ i5-8250U Processor (1.60GHz, up to 3.40GHz with Turbo Boost, 6MB Cache)
Operating System Windows 10 Home Display?The display is the screen. Higher resolutions displays allow you to fit more content on the screen at once. IPS displays offer better colour and wider viewing angles. 15.6" FHD (1920 x 1080) IPS Anti-Glare Multi-touch Graphics Integrated Intel® UHD Graphics 620 Camera 720p HD Memory?Memory, aka RAM, is used to store data temporarily as you are actively working on your laptop. It is not where your data is permanently stored. More memory can help your system run faster, especially if you have a lot of programs open at the same time. 8 GB DDR4 2133 MHz Storage?Storage is where data, like documents and applications, resides permanently on your computer. Not to be confused with memory, which is only active when the computer is in use. Larger files like media files will need larger storage.
- 128 GB PCIe SSD
Battery Up to 10.5 hours Active Pen None Audio
- Harman speaker
- Dolby Audio™ Premium
Security Fingerprint Reader with Windows Hello Ports
- 2 x USB 3.0** (1 x charger)
- USB Type-C
- Card reader
- Audio jack
WiFi?WiFi or Wireless comes down to B, G, N or AC. The basics are B and G, G being faster than B with more range. AC is the fastest, but N has the furthest range and more frequency options. 802.11 AC (2 x 2) + Bluetooth® 4.1 Dimensions 14.3" x 9.8" x 0.8" / 365 x 250 x 20.8 (mm) Weight Starting at 4.4 lbs (2 kg) Color Onyx Black
Specifications may vary depending upon region.
** The actual transfer speed of the USB 3.0 will vary and, depending on many factors, such as the processing capability of host and peripheral devices, file attributes and other factors related to system configuration and your operating environments, will be slower than a speed of [5 Gbit/s].Show MoreLess
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If you want to consume media and stay productive on an affordable 2-in-1, the Flex 5 (15-inch) is a strong option. - LAPTOP


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2 lbs (approx. 8 c) powdered sugar
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text: So, I am definitely planning on attending GenCon this year -- pass is acquired, now all is left is to firm up my airline and hotel reservations. I'd like to get together with some P&PG folks this time around and meet some of the faces behind the names. I'm thinking we could get together for dinner at one of the nearby restaurants and just chat it up a bit. If you're going to GenCon this year, chime in and let me know if you'd be intersted.


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You don't need to write a blog… yet.
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Something you are just so passionate about that you cannot ever think to hold it back from the world. Something you could see yourself writing about regularly for the foreseeable future. Do a Google search for the topic you want to write about. Start browsing the other blogs that exist on the subject. You'll likely find a handful of popular blogs, some near the middle, and tons of blogs with less than 100 visitors each month. By the end of 2011, NM Incite tracked over 180 million blogs around the world, a 400% increase from 2006.
Over 20 million people are now writing blogs using blogging sites like Blogger, Tumblr, WordPress, and Medium, as well as social networks like Facebook, Google+, or LinkedIn.
Of the blogs that you review on your chosen subject(s), can you do better? Is there something that people are generally missing when they blog about your subject? Can you present the information in a new and intriguing way? Well, maybe a blog is for you. If your primary motivation is monetary, remember this: Only 14% of bloggers earn a salary for their blogging, with an average "salary" of just over $24,000 per year. Half of bloggers that are paid per post will earn less than $25 on average, will make less than $1000 per year with their writing.
Does the world need more bloggers? In my humble opinion, no.
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The world needs more participants and more people adding to the existing conversations, growing their knowledge and improving the discussions across the internet. So share your thoughts on someone else's blog. Or, join a Meetup Group, LinkedIn Group or Google+ Community, interact, curate, discuss – and then even go the events that those groups spawn and meet in person, in real life. Gain some real life experience, then impart that to others when you are ready.
Not convinced yet?
Here are four more reasons why you shouldn't blog.
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Answer the following. your paper is due on Wednesday July 15 in class (final version).
Do you think the international community should have the reasonability to intervene in order to end humanitarian suffering? Answer this question using a case study.
Your answer should cover the following:
Summarize the conflict you chose to discuss and the role played by the international community in this conflict (Darfur, Libya, Syria, Bosnia, Somalia,…etc).
Apply the concepts discussed in class such as human rights, humanitarian intervention, responsibility to protect,….etc. Also use theories such as liberalism and realism to guide your analysis.


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Connor Dean O'Keefe was found dead on the floor of the room in the Sunset Beach Resort at Patong Beach, Phuket, by his mother.
Thai police investigating the incident say the child was still wet from a swim in the hotel pool when he unplugged the game console charger and was electrocuted. The safety device did not cut in with enough time to save him.
After an initial examination they said the death was a tragic accident and the hotel was not to blame. The combination of water and electricity led to an electric shock which proved fatal, according to local reports.
Connor's mother, Kathleen Curry, 45, of Walworth, south-east London, described how she had found her "beautiful boy" lying dead on the floor on December 30. He had been eating lunch and was relaxing on a sunbed before re-entering the apartment.
"Connor had just eaten but was still hungry so we ordered some more food," she said. "When it arrived I was near the swimming pool but he was nowhere to be seen. So I went into our apartment to look for him but he was lying dead on the floor. He was aware of the dangers of electricity and was not stupid - he would not mess around with plugs ... all of his family are devastated."
Ms Curry, who bought the charger from a store on arrival in Thailand, warned other parents about handling electrical goods on foreign trips.
"My son was only unplugging his Game Boy - he does it all the time at home. There should be some kind of warning about the different electrical currents you get abroad because this wouldn't have happened in England."
She added that although Connor had been playing in the swimming pool she did not believe he was wet when he touched the charger.
The electrical system in Thailand is considered dangerous by western standards. Five years ago a Danish boy was killed at a Thai hotel when he came into contact with an exposed wire by a lamp illuminating the swimming pool.
Ms Curry and her partner, David Skinner, 49, flew back to Britain with his body on Wednesday night. A British consular official said: "The paperwork was done very quickly so they could take him home for a proper funeral." The Southwark coroner has been informed and an inquest is expected to open soon.
Thai police investigator Lieutenant Colonel Sopol Borirak said: "No blame has been attached. It was an accident."
Wiraporn Ungathakorn, the acting hotel manager, said: "The boy had been swimming. We believe he had [plugged] in his Game Boy or pulled at the Game Boy charger while still wet.
"The water must have gone straight into the plug. The safety cut could not save him. He was found by his parents in the room and we sent him to hospital by ambulance.
"Doctors could not save him. The hotel has paid his medical fees. This was just a tragic accident."


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This article was originally published at tech.blinemedical.com
Recently we had a discussion on clustering techniques at one of our weekly tech talks and the k-means clustering algorithm came up. K-means is considered one of the simplest unsupervised machine learning techniques and I thought it would be cool to try my hand at an F# implementation of it.
In short, k-means is a way to put data into groups based on distance between nearest neighbors. Technically it works with any dimension but for this post I'll stick with 1-d data to make things easy.
K-means background
Imagine you have some 1-dimensional data like
1, 2, 5, 14, 17, 19, 20
And you want to group this into two groups. Pretty easily you can see that 1, 2, and 5 go into one group, and 14, 17, 19, 20 should go in another group. But why? For this small data set we intuitively figured out that 1, 2, and 5 are close together, but at the same time far away from 14, 17, 19, and 20, which are also close together. Really what we did was we calculated the centroid of each group and assigned the values to the centroid. A centroid is a fancy way of saying center point of a group. It's calculated by taking the average of a group.
For example, if we have the group
1, 2, 5
What is its centroid? The answer is
(1 + 2 + 5) / 3 = 2.666
So with k-means you end up with k centroids and a bunch of data grouped to that centroid. It's grouped to that centroid because that data is closest to that centroid vs any other centroid. To calculate the centroids and grouping k-means uses an iterative process:
- Pick k random points. So if you are doing a k=2 clustering, just pick 2 random points from your data set. These are going to be our initial centroids. It doesn't matter if it's right, or even if the points are the same. The algorithm is going to fine tune things for us. Technically this is called the Forgy Method of initialization. There are a bunch of other ways to initialize your centroids, but Forgy seems to be pretty common.
- For every point, calculate its distance from the centroid. So lets say we picked points 1 and 2 as our centroids. The distances then look like this:
- Now what we do is assign each data point to its nearest centroid. So, obviously, point 1 is closest to the initial arbitrary point 1 centroid. And you can see that basically everything else is closer to the arbitrary point 2 centroid. So we're left with a grouping like this now:
data around centroid 1: 1 data around centroid 2: 2, 5, 14, 17, 19, 20
- Now, the next step is to calculate new centroids based on these groups. For this example, we can take the average of all the points together to find the new center. So the new centroids become 1 and 12.83. Now we go back to step 2 using the new centroids. If you keep track of the current centroid and the previous centroid, then you can stop the k-means calculation when centroids don't change between iterations. At this point everything has converged and you've got your k clusters
Unfortunately k-means doesn't always converge, so you can add a convergence delta (i.e. if the centroid between the current and previous iterations hasn't really changed much, so it's within some acceptable range) or an iteration limit (only try to cluster 100 times) so you can set bounds on the clustering.
The first thing to do for my implementation is to define a structure representing a single data point. I created a
DataPoint class that takes a float list which represents the data points dimensions. So, a 1-dimesional data point would have a float list of one element. A 2-d data point has one of two points (x and y), etc. To give credit where credit is due, I took the dimensional array representation from another F# implementation.
type DataPoint(input:float list) = member this.Data = input member this.Dimensions = List.length input override x.Equals(yobj) = match yobj with | :? DataPoint as y -> (x.Data = y.Data) | _ -> false static member Distance (d1:DataPoint) (d2:DataPoint) = if List.length d1.Data <> List.length d2.Data then 0.0 else let sums = List.fold2(fun acc d1Item d2Item -> acc + (d2Item - d1Item)**2.0 ) 0.0 d1.Data d2.Data sqrt(sums)
It has its data, the dimensions, an equality overload (so I can compare data points by their data and not by reference), as well as a static helper method to calculate the euclidean distance between two n-dimensional points. Here I'm using the
fold2 method which can fold two lists simultaneously.
Alias data types
For fun, I wanted to use F#'s data aliasing feature, so I created some helper types to make dealing with tuples and other data pairing easier. I've defined the following
type Centroid = DataPoint type Cluster = Centroid * DataPoint List type Distance = float type DistanceAroundCentroid = DataPoint * Centroid * Distance type Clusters = Cluster List type ClustersAndOldCentroids = Clusters * Centroid list
The only unfortunate thing is you need to explicitly mention aliased types for the type inference to work properly. The reason is because F# will prefer native types to typed aliases (why choose
Distance over float unless you are told to), but it would've been nice if it had some way to prefer local type aliases in a module.
Centroid assignment
This next major step is to take the current raw data list and what the current centroids are and cluster them. A cluster is a centroid and its associated data points. To make things clearer, I created a helper function
distFromCentroid which takes a point, a centroid, and returns a tuple of point * centroid * distance.
let private distFromCentroid pt centroid : DistanceAroundCentroid = (pt, centroid, (DataPoint.Distance centroid pt))
The bulk of the k-means work is in
assignCentroids. First, for every data point, we calculate its distance from the current centroid. Then we select the centroid which is closest to our data points and create a list of point * centroid tuples. Once we have a list of point * centroid tuples, we want to group this list by the second value in the tuple: the centroid. Here, I'm leveraging the pipe operator to do the grouping and mapping. First, we group the lists by the centroid. This gives us a list of
centroid * (datapoint * centroid) items. But this isn't quite right yet. We want to end up with a list of
centroid * dataPoint list so I passed this temporary list through some other minor filtering and formatting.
(* Takes the input list and the current group of centroids. Calculates the distance of each point from each centroid then assigns the data point to the centroid that is closest. *) let private assignCentroids (rawDataList:DataPoint list) (currentCentroids:Clusters) = let dataPointsWithCentroid = rawDataList |> List.map(fun pt -> let currentPointByEachCentroid = List.map(fun (centroid, _) -> distFromCentroid pt centroid) currentCentroids let (_, nearestCentroid, _) = List.minBy(fun (_, _, distance) -> distance) currentPointByEachCentroid (pt, nearestCentroid) ) (* |> Group all the data points by their centroid |> Select centroid * dataPointList |> For each previous centroid, calculate a new centroid based on the aggregated list *) List.toSeq dataPointsWithCentroid |> Seq.groupBy (fun (_, centr) -> centr) |> Seq.map(fun (centr, dataPointsWithCentroid) -> let dataPointList = Seq.toList (Seq.map(fun (pt, _) -> pt) dataPointsWithCentroid) (centr, dataPointList) ) |> Seq.map(fun (cent, dataPointList) -> let newCent = calculateCentroidForPts dataPointList (newCent, dataPointList) ) |> Seq.toList
Calculating new centroids
Since we've grouped data points by centroid, we now need to calculate what the new centroid for that list is. This is where I employ a disclaimer. For my implementation of n-dimensional centroids I averaged each dimension together to get a new value. I'm not totally sure this is actually valid for arbitrary geometrical shapes (given by n-dimensions), but if it's not at least this is the only method that needs to be updated.
First I create an empty n-dimension array of all zeros, initialized by the dimensions of the first point in the list (all the dimensions should be the same so it doesn't matter which point we choose). This is the seed for list for the next fold. I'm not actually going to fold the value into a single element; I'm going to fold all indexes of the data point list together into a new array by adding each dimension together.
For example, if I have two points of two dimensions [1, 2] and [3, 4] I add 1 and 3 together to make the first dimension, then 2 and 4 together to make the second dimension. This gives me an intermediate vector of [4,6]. Then I can average each dimension by the number of data points used, so in our example we used two data points, so the new centroid would be [2, 3]. Since a centroid is the same as a data point (even though one that doesn't exist in our original raw set), we can return the new centroid as a data point. Having everything treated as data points makes the calculations easier.
(* take each float list representing an n-dimesional space for every data point and average each dimension together. I.e. element 1 for each point gets averaged together and element 2 gets averaged together. This new float list is the new nDimesional centroid *) let private calculateCentroidForPts (dataPointList:DataPoint List) = let firstElem = List.head dataPointList let nDimesionalEmptyList = List.init firstElem.Dimensions (fun i-> 0.0) let addedDimensions = List.fold(fun acc (dataPoint:DataPoint) -> addListElements acc dataPoint.Data (+)) nDimesionalEmptyList dataPointList // scale the nDimensional sums by the size let newCentroid = List.map(fun pt -> pt/((float)(List.length dataPointList))) addedDimensions new DataPoint(newCentroid)
Here is the function to aggregate list elements together
(* goes through two lists and adds each element together i.e. index 1 with index 1, index 2 with index2 and returns a new list of the items aggregated *) let private addListElements list1 list2 operator = let rec addListElements' list1 list2 accumulator operator = if List.length list1 = 0 then accumulator else let head1 = List.head list1 let head2 = List.head list2 addListElements' (List.tail list1) (List.tail list2) ((operator head1 head2)::accumulator) operator addListElements' list1 list2 [] operator
I'm using a hidden accumulator so that the function will be tail recursive.
Cluster runner
The above code only does one single cluster iteration though . What we need is a clustering runner that does the clustering iterations. This runner will be responsible for determining when to stop the clustering. There are four functions here:
getOldCentroidsare helper methods to pull data out of the tuples (fst and snd are built in functions)
clusteris a basic method that will cluster as many times as necessary until the centroids stop changing
clusterWithIterationLimitis the bulk method that takes in the raw data, the clustering amount (k), the max number of clustering iterations, and a convergence delta to avoid infinite loops
For each iteration create a new set of clusters, then test to see if if the centroids are the same. If they are, we've converged and we can end. If not, see if the clusters are "close enough" (the convergence delta). The final base case is if we've clustered the max iterations then return.
(* Start with the input source and the clustering amount but also take in a max iteration limit as well as a converge delta. continue to cluster until the centroids stop changing or the iteration limit is reached OR the converge delta is achieved Returns a new "Clusters" type representing the centroid and all the data points associated with it *) let private getClusters (cluster:ClustersAndOldCentroids) = fst cluster let private getOldCentroids (cluster:ClustersAndOldCentroids) = snd cluster let clusterWithIterationLimit data k limit delta = let initialClusters:Clusters = initialCentroids (List.toArray data) k |> Seq.toList |> List.map (fun i -> (i,[])) let rec cluster' (clustersWithOldCentroids:ClustersAndOldCentroids) count = if count = 0 then getClusters clustersWithOldCentroids else let newClusters = assignCentroids data (getClusters clustersWithOldCentroids) let previousCentroids = getOldCentroids clustersWithOldCentroids let newCentroids = extractCentroidsFromClusters newClusters // clusters didnt change if listsEqual newCentroids previousCentroids then newClusters else if centroidsDeltaMinimzed previousCentroids newCentroids delta then newClusters else cluster' (newClusters, newCentroids) (count - 1) cluster' (initialClusters, extractCentroidsFromClusters initialClusters) limit (* Start with the input source and the clustering amount. continue to cluster until the centroids stop changing Returns a new "Clusters" type representing the centroid and all the data points associated with it *) let cluster data k = clusterWithIterationLimit data k Int32.MaxValue 0.0
Using the sample data from the beginning of this post, let's run it through my k-means clusterer:
module KDataTest open System open KMeans let kClusterValue = 2 let sampleData : KMeans.DataPoint list = [new DataPoint([1.0]); new DataPoint([2.0]); new DataPoint([5.0]); new DataPoint([14.0]); new DataPoint([17.0]); new DataPoint([19.0]); new DataPoint([20.0])] KMeans.cluster sampleData kClusterValue |> Seq.iter(KMeans.displayClusterInfo) Console.ReadKey() |> ignore
And the output is
Centroid [2.66666666666667], with data points: [1], [2], [5] Centroid [17.5], with data points: [14], [17], [19], [20]
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SADTU North West condemns acts of alleged racism at Schweizer-Reneke Laerskool
11 January 2019
SADTU North West is highly disturbed and perplexed by allegations of racism in Schweizer Reneke Laerskool as depicted on the pictures that went viral on social media. It is our firm view that schools through its educations ethos have the role to instil values of respect, dignity, equality and tolerance for our learners.
The Union cannot be silent when there is a gross violation of rights of learners to receive equal treatment and education. Acts or practice of racism have no place in our society and cannot be tolerated 24 years into our democracy.
We welcome and applaud the manner in which the Department of Education and Sport Development has moved swiftly on the matter to put the educator on precautionary suspension and setting up a team that will further investigate these allegations.
We are calling on the Department of Education and Sport Development in the Province to extensively investigate these allegations and leave no stone unturned. We further demand that the investigation should be extended to other parts of the Province so that, once and for all, we root out any form of racism/discrimination wherever it raises its ugly head.
Issued by George Themba, SADTU, North West, 11 January 2019


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I was born December 12, 1948 beside the wide open seas on the West Coast of Finland, where I grew up and spent my youth surrounded by art and music.
My earliest childhood memories are of walking happily alone on the beach and in the forest enjoying the light and shadows.
My Lego bricks consisted of stones, pine cones and buckets of water
"The sky was my roof, the sand my floors and the sea an endless door".
During my time in Helsinki 1971- 1978 I was taught by several artists including Göran Augustsson, who was then a teacher at the Academy. Even so my great mentor was my father Marjos Maximiliam, who through his art created in me the desire to paint.
My work with autistic people has helped me try to bring out peoples' inner experiences through painting. I also work as an art teacher at the Sofia education-centre in Spain.
Over the years, I have had exhibitions in Sweden, Finland, Venezuela and in Spain.
"The sky is my roof, the sand my floors and the sea an endless door".
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Matthew 13:24-30 New King James Version (NKJV)
The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares
24 Another parable He put forth to them, saying: "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; 25 but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. 26 But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared. 27 So the servants of the owner came and said to him, 'Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?' 28 He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' The servants said to him, 'Do you want us then to go and gather them up?' 29 But he said, 'No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, "First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn." ' "
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Matthew 13:36-43 New King James Version (NKJV)
The Parable of the Tares Explained
36 Then Jesus sent the multitude away and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field."
37 He answered and said to them: "He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. 38 The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one. 39 The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels. 40 Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age. 41 The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, 42 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!
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Special Announcement
We are pleased to celebrate the opening of the Duchossois Family Institute at UChicago Medicine, exploring the human immune system, bacteria in the body, and genetics to reduce disease and keep people healthy.
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Community grants support organizations whose mission reflects the values, attitudes, interests and goals of the Board and family, working to meet the needs of the communities where we live and work. Below is a select list of foundation grants made in 2017.
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Rescued Blind Dog Is Emotionally Reunited With Old Friend (VIDEO)
Some friendships extend beyond time and distance. Old friends can pick right up where they left off with their friendship, as evidenced by the profound bond between a man and his dog.
Stevie Wonder is a pit bull suffering from a degenerative eye disease who, sadly, was nearly killed in a brutal attack by another dog. Stevie's old friend, Sheriff Deputy Trevor, visits his old pit bull pal at Sugar Hill's home. Needless to say, manly tears were shed. The clip, from the Animal Planet series Pit Bulls and Parolees, is among the most emotional we've posted this week, and with good reason. This was clearly a special bond for both Stevie and Sheriff Deputy Trevor. Witness their adorable reunion by watching the video below:
If you liked this video, watch this man and his long lost dog reunite after two long years apart!


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State Health Care Spending Reports Released
The State Health Care Spending Project, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts and the MacArthur Foundation, has recently published two reports.
The first report is entitled: State Health Care Spending on Medicaid: A 50-state study of trends and drivers of cost. This report is the first in a series of 50-state studies examining seven key areas of state health care spending- Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program, substance abuse treatment, mental health services, and active and retired state government employee health insurance.
Second report is entitled: Tracking Key Health Indicators. To provide context to each state's spending on health care services, Pew examined 20 health indicators that show wide variation between states' residents. Given the complexity of achieving and maintaining good health, direct correlations cannot and should not be made between the health status of the population of a state and the level of its health care spending. High-value health care is as much about how dollars are spent as it is about how many dollars are spent.
The State Health Care Spending Project is an initiative to help policymakers better understand how much money states spend on health care, how and why that amount has changed over time, and which policies are containing costs while maintaining or improving health outcomes. For more information, click here.


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ORGANIC COMPOST for sale
Once again this year, Ben and I will be making our organic compost available to the city of Toronto gardeners!! I had lots of great reviews last year from folks, so we decided to share again! Each bag is $5 and will cover approximately 10 sq. feet 2 inches thick. I begin delivering to Toronto: April 23rd (Dufferin Grove), April 25th (Green Barns), April 30th (Dufferin Grove) & May 2nd (Green Barns). More dates may become available in May as delivery is needed. I ask that you email me at email@example.com with name, phone number and number of bags ordered and date and market you wish to pick up at. You will be put on my compost list! Do not wait too long, as we shut down compost orders once we get busy on farm with other various tasks. I've also decided to create this blog to assist you Torontonian's with some answers to your numerous questions I've received via email thus far. I hope this helps out.....
1. "Do you sell bulk quantities at a discount?" a. no, sorry.
2. "Is this plant based or animal based compost? Is it organic?" a. All animal based and completely organic! Here's the story: We grow all our own certified organic hay, oats and grain crops. Our horse eats only our own food source! Her manure, her small contribution, is piled along with our neighbours cow manure behind our barn. Our neighbour is certified organic dairy. He buys the straw from our grain crops, uses our straw for 'bedding' for his cows and our payment is 'used bedding', a.k.a. manure! The pile is concentrated and is turned twice annually. Micro organisms do their job by breaking down or decomposing the pile until we are left with odorless black gold, rich with nutrients! We run it through a dirt shredder so it contains no lumps and is easily spreadable.
3. "How much do I use for two big planters? Is this compost suitable for vegetables?" a. As much as I would like to magically know the dimensions of everyone's planters, I do not. I can tell you that this compost is perfect for all vegetable crops along with flowerbeds or lawns too! Don't overload is one word of advice! It is nitrogen rich, so if you dump tons on a vegetable garden for example you will have lush, lush growth, but little yield!! This website will help: COMPOSTING Council of Canada located at http://www.compost.org/compost.html. Scroll down to 'How can I use compost' and you will be happy to see discussions about topdressing, flowerbeds, tree planting, vegetable gardens, mulch and lawn establishment. If you have any additional questions not covered here, please don't hesitate to email and I will do my best to get back to you!


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Rocket BlueZone Terminal Emulation
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Simplify mainframe access to critical data & applications anywhere; anytime
Rocket BlueZone Web simplifies the mainframe by making it easy for your users to access host-based applications and data anytime, anywhere and on any device. It's an easy first step in expediting your digital transformation and application modernization objectives. You can even combine the capabilities in BlueZone Web with the power of the Zowe open-source development framework using the BlueZone Web plug-in for Zowe.
Help your employees deliver a better customer experience
Rocket BlueZone Web delivers secure, browser-based emulation to any device, including desktops, laptops, tablets, or other mobile devices–whatever you need to best serve your customers. Freeing your users from fixed terminals in a back room or office allows them to be more productive and deliver better, more immediate customer support. Your proven mainframe applications run exactly as they have since they were written–the only difference is they're now accessible from any browser, in any location where there's an internet connection. With BlueZone Web, your in-store sales force remains focused on the customer, answering requests on-the-spot for item availability, ship dates, and price quotes. Warehouse employees are similarly empowered to understand what stock is coming in, perform on-demand pick reports, and file incident reports or other tickets at any time.
Deliver secure terminal emulation with zero-footprint
With Rocket BlueZone Web, you can give users access to host-based applications and data—anywhere, any time, and at reasonable cost.
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Rocket BlueZone Web replaces code-heavy green screen emulators with a secure, modern architecture. The terminal experience is delivered through a browser, eliminating the need for any locally-installed software and giving users access to host-based applications and data from their preferred laptop, tablet, or other mobile device. With simplified, automated deployment of updates and troubleshooting, IT teams are able to significantly reduce their support overhead and reallocate precious resources to more strategic projects. The web-based functionality also makes it possible to replace expensive PCs with lower-cost options; a consideration for even greater savings.
Licensing that works for your business
Rocket BlueZone Web features simple, all-inclusive licensing options that significantly lower your total cost of ownership, including concurrent or per-seat licensing, and reduced maintenance fees in comparison to first-generation emulators. In addition, all upgrades are automatically included in your annual maintenance subscription. Many customers see their terminal emulation costs go down in the first year, with further reductions taking place year-over-year with lower annual maintenance costs. With BlueZone Web's single emulator, you get support for multiple terminal protocols as well as secure FTP connectivity. Each user can connect to the host systems he or she needs, without having to purchase a separate product for each platform.


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"Mosul" - Trailer
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Described by some military commanders as the deadliest urban combat since World War II, the battle to drive ISIS out of Mosul was brutal and grueling. FRONTLINE takes you inside the fight -- going on the ground with four young soldiers on a team of Iraqi Special Forces who helped lead the effort. "Mosul" premieres October 18 on PBS and online.
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Kinder Torah - Parshat Va'era
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children at the Shabbos Table
Parshat Va'era
The King's Heart
"Menachem, did you hear the news?"
"Good or bad?"
"Famine, disease, plague, death, blight, and terrible destruction."
"Oy vey, Efraim. That sounds awful. When and where did all of this happen?"
"Three thousand years ago in Mitzraim."
"Efraim, you have a good sense of humor. I always appreciate your jokes. For a minute, you really had me worried. Now that you brought up the subject, I would like to share with you something that I learned today about the plagues in Mitzraim."
"Try to imagine the plague of tsefardeah (frogs). They were everywhere, in the homes, in the ovens, even in people's stomachs. The noise from their croaking was deafening. Paroh, the King of Mitzraim, in all of his splendor, is sitting on his throne in his royal garments, surrounded by his officers. He opens his mouth to speak, but you cannot hear his voice. It is drowned out by the croaking of the frogs in his stomach. Can you imagine anything more disgraceful than that?"
"It was very humiliating."
"Paroh calls to Moshe and Aharon and asks them to pray to Hashem to remove the frogs from him and from Mitzraim. Then he will send out the nation to worship Hashem."
"Moshe and Aharon did their part, but Paroh did not keep his half of the deal."
"Because Hashem hardened Paroh's heart. Over and over again, after each plague, Hashem hardened Paroh's heart."
"And the entire nation of Mitzraim was destroyed."
"Exactly. Shlomo HaMelech, wrote in Mishle (21:1) "The heart of the King is in Hashem's hand". The king cannot just think about himself. His decisions affect all of the people. Hashem controls his heart to make the choices that are right for the entire nation. Therefore, Hashem hardened Paroh's heart."
"But Paroh's decisions allowed Mitzraim to be destroyed."
"Our sages give several reasons for that. One thing is for sure. It was the will of Hashem based on the deeds of the Mitzrim."
"Menachem, is this still true today?"
"How comforting."
"In what way, Efraim?"
"These are times when the Jewish people are in great danger. It appears that our fate is in the hands of a few world leaders. Now we know that their hearts are in Hashem's hands. They are really being controlled by Him."
"Right, Efraim, but He still wants something from us."
"What, Menachem?"
"The true service to Him that has saved the Jewish people from disaster time and time again. Tefillah (prayer), tshuva (correcting our mistakes), strengthening our Torah learning, strengthening our mitzvah performance, and giving more tsedaka (charity). This is what our Torah leaders are calling for."
Let's do our part to help our people. Let's do things the right way and try to avoid something terrible. When you daven, open your heart to Hashem and ask for His mercy. Try to do a new mitzvah today, one that you haven't done before. Put a little more effort into your learning, and a little more of your allowance into the tsedaka box. Who knows? Your mitzvah may be the one to tip the scales, and soften the king's heart.
Who Runs the World?
The Steipeler writes (in Chayey Olam) that the eser makkos showed that Hashem is in control of everything in the world. The makko of dam (blood) showed that Hashem rules over the water. Tsefardea (frogs) showed His rule over the creatures of the water. Kinnim (lice) demonstrated Hashem's rule over the ground. At His will, the dirt turned to lice. The plague of orov (wild animals) demonstrated His control over the land animals. Dever (cattle disease) illustrated Hashem's hashgacha (guidance) of the lives of animals. Only the animals of the Mitzrim were afflicted, not those of the Jews. Shechin (boils) showed that the health of a person is in the hands of Hashem. Only the Mitzrim became ill with boils, and not the Jews. The makko of borod (hail with fire inside) showed that Hashem controls the rain, and can change the weather and convert it to hail. He also controls "natural laws" as we see that the fire and ice made peace and coexisted in the borod to do the will of Hashem. Arbeh (locusts) illustrated Hashem's sovereignty over flying creatures and wind. A strong east wind brought the arbeh, and a strong west wind swept them away. The makko of choshech (darkness) exemplified Hashem's rule over the light. Lastly, makkos bechoros (death of the first born) showed that life and death are in the hands of Hashem.
Paroh needed eser makkos to recognize Hashem's rule over the world. We can try to see Hashem's control without suffering makkos. When we plant a seed in the ground, we see how Hashem takes care of it by watering it with rain and giving it plenty of sunshine. Before long, He makes a beautiful tree grow. Hashem makes that tree sprout an apple, which we then eat to give us strength to do mitzvos. And He makes that apple taste so good. He gives us good health so we can learn Torah. Boruch Hashem, we see that He is controlling everything.
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On Wednesday, the Italian Trade commission hosted a special luncheon for Pitti Uomo and Pitti W -- renowned trade shows that take place in Florence in June -- that highlighted some of the new additions to this year's lineup, as well as feted Pitti's special guest designers, Rodarte and Band of Outsiders. Rodarte will be showing a collection that Laura Mulleavy (one half of the designing duo) described as "very special" -- the first, in fact, unique collection that the label has created outside of their regular lines -- while Scott Sternberg will be presenting a whopping three collections: Menwear for Spring 2012, and resort for Boy and Girl, the label's diffusion lines. (As he put it: "Dude, it's pretty intense.")
This year marks the 80th edition of Pitti Uomo (the men's trade show), and the eight year of Pitti W (the women's). To celebrate the occasion, the organizers have added a few new elements: The first is "Guest Nation," in which Pitti honors a specific country -- this year is Brazil -- and invites their up-and-coming talent to come and show in Florence. Second, the show is seriously upping its online ante with the launch of e-Pitti, which will host information on all of the various shows, and will be populated post-show with "a catalogue of 10,000 products," according to a release. The online element apparently will also include some 40 bloggers, who'll be flown to Pitti to celebrate with Luisa Via Roma and Sarah Jessica Parker.
One of the most interesting aspects of this year's guest designer selection is that both labels are actually from the west coast, a fact Pitti reps were quick to point out as intentional when the names were first announced back in March. So what, exactly, is so magic about the West Coast right now?
Scott Sternberg was quick to point out that Rodarte and Band of Outsiders are, to be fair, labels that "play in the New York field." But he nonetheless understood what had captured Pitti's interest about both his work and the Mulleavy's:
"There's a free approach to how we look at shows to how we look at press to how we look at everything we do. I don't have magazines breathing down my back to go to parties every day, and I don't have party pic people taking my picture, so nobody knows who the hell I am. There's a freedom to what we're doing, and I think it's reflected in the product, and it's reflected in the brand. I think that's what their responding to. We're not referring to fashion. I'm not around fashion people. My references aren't fashion references. They're movies, they're things in my life."
At the same time, Sternberg also expressed a certain amount of satisfaction in taking part in something like Pitti Uomo, which has such credibility in the industry, especially in Europe. He noted that the majority of the emails he received as congratulations after his guest designer stint had been announced weren't from the fashion set: "It came from, like, the guy making my sweaters."
Laura Mulleavy also focused on the convergence of influences one finds out west that are very unique Los Angeles and the surrounding area. "The art landscape is right on top of the music world or the film world or all the science or research that they do. It attracts people, like younger minds, because the living isn't as expensive, and people are really using the landscape and the history of the city ... And I think that feeds into fashion in a strange way."
All that said, don't expect Rodarte or Band of Outsiders to start showing their collections in Los Angeles instead of New York. "It's not the space for fashion that way," Mulleavy told us. "It's different. I live and work and create there, but Los Angeles isn't ... it's not trying to replace New York. The city of New York lives and breathes fashion in a very large community, in a large way ... We feel at home showing in New York, at least."


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In contrast to a rockslide, which stays in contact with the surface throughout its movement, a rockfall is a mass of rocks that breaks loose from the bedrock and falls through the air to the slope below. Most of the travel is a free fall, but it may include bouncing as well. Rockfalls typically break away from the bedrock along steeply inclined joints. Undercutting of slopes by rivers, wind, or human activities also hastens rockfalls. Toppling is a particular type of rockfall that involves the rotation of the rock mass away from the exposure around a fixed fulcrum. Whatever the mechanism, repeated rockfalls or rockslides produce a pile of rock rubble at the foot of a cliff or slope. This rubble is called talus. Earthquakes in mountainous regions produce numerous rockfalls.
A mass of solid rock that slides quickly down an inclined discontinuity. The most common discontinuities are bedding and fractures. In sedimentary rocks, bedding is usually the primary discontinuity. With bedding, a rigid layer such as limestone or sandstone typically breaks free and slides down an underlying, softer layer such as shale. In crystalline rocks (igneous and metamorphic), the most common discontinuities are joints and faults. The rock masses may break loose along steeply inclined joints through frost-wedging processes, but they slide along shallower joints and faults. Rockslides may be generated by a number of processes, but they are especially common during earthquakes. The surface waves shake loose otherwise stable rock masses, and they slide into the valleys below with disastrous results.


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After debuting sunglasses on his Spring/Summer 2010 runway, CFDA award winner Jason Wu topped his latest collection for Resort 2011 off with a five-style line of eyewear created with Modo.
The eyewear really reflects the designer's latest savvy merchandising maneuver -- he's already demonstrated he's got good sell-through potential in the dresses category, so expanding into accessories (and even cameras) makes sense from a profitibility standpoint. In keeping with his aesthetic, the new eyeglasses have a strong, retro flavor to them, and are apparently inspired by literary characters like Jo from Little Women or Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird.
The glasses range from $255-285 and will be available at Ilori, located at 138 Spring Street in Soho.


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The Great Meritocracy of C++, aka the Lounge, was a place renowned for its open mindedness and intolerance for assholes. Unfortunately, as its fame grew larger and larger, it started attracting all kinds of trolls, idiots and C programmers. As such, it is now necessary to keep track of those douchelords, so that we can issue an appropriate ass-kicking (now with actual kicking!) whenever they forget to take their medication.
Basically, shitty contributors we'd rather not see ever again. Lounge regulars are encouraged to check out the list if repeated offender's presence is suspected.
|Crime against Lounginity
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|Asks for help about simple tasks that can be solved by looking at the docs, repeatedly rejects actual solutions, claims anyone trying to help them is stupid and has no idea what they're talking about. Also an incompetent idiot spewing crap about how he knows better because he EARNS SO MUCH MONEY (despite openly admitting that he's not even a programmer; what a hack).
|Beware: makes twenty times your salary. Just ignore, really.
|Comes in to ask about an alternative to base64, then starts acting like we all owe him something. Called a few regulars "bitch" and started yelling before being finally flagged to death. Is likely to come back.
|Will not shut up about he managed to obtain the answer he was looking for from the "crazy folks of the C++ lounge". Will also not stop bragging about how his question was clear and simple just because someone managed to somehow guess the right answer, even though everyone is complaining about not actually understanding the question. Will also not "bow to ridicule", whatever that means.
|Textbook case of a help vampire. Kept pestering everyone for help.
Plonk at will.
|Link dumping, and then arguing for an hour that THIS IS NOT DUMPING, THIS IS SHARING. Clearly doesn't give a fuck about established community. Also DELICATE FLOWER FEELINGS OFFENDED MUST FLAG. I can't put into words how annoying they are.
Can't take a fucking hint, so just
|Aaron Kyle Killeen
|Unfunny troll and/or gimmick, bigot with terrible opinions about everything, extremely annoying.
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DEHRADUN: The Nainital High Court on Wednesday will hear Uttarakhand Chief Minister's Harish Rawat's plea against the incumbent President's rule in the state today.
The High Court will hear the case today and tomorrow as well.
Today the court will possibly give a verdict in regard with the Governor rule imposed in the state, whereas the plea against budget ordinance will be heard tomorrow.
The Congress Party on Friday had filed a petition before the Uttarakhand High Court challenging the Centre's appropriation ordinance for the state.
A two-judge of the Nainital bench of the High Court had on Wednesday stayed the floor test for the Harish Rawat Government in the Uttarakhand assembly, which was scheduled for March 31, and decided to take up the matter on April 6.
The crisis in the hill state erupted on March 18 when nine Congress MLAs rebelled against the Rawat government, resulting in a flip-flop in the passage of the Appropriation Bill.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) met Governor K.K. Paul on the same day and staked claim to form a government.
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Embracing her curls, Nia Pettitt is a key figure in the natural hair movement. With Zimbabwean roots, Nia grew up in North London and started off penning blog posts on her online platform: FroGirlGinny. Now she jets all over the world bringing natural hair advocates together in a series of encouraging events and meet ups. We caught up with her to find out more.
JW: Tell us more about the natural hair movement.
NIA PETTITT: I had to grow to love myself, I had acne and low self-esteem because my mum had relaxed my hair from three to 11. Then I had to embrace my curls. No one else had curls around me. So I built this community around me online and when I was 16, I made a blog and I invested my time into writing because I love to write. It just grew. I created a movement called happy Fro-day, where we all celebrate our natural hair. I travel round the world bringing women together, hosting brunches, parties, where people can be around women that look like them, have fun and feel loved.
JW: What does it feel like when you're hosting a brunch?
NP: It's a room full of love and light. All these vibrant flowers, I always call them flowers because how big and versatile their hair can be. It's definitely fulfilling to be able to say that at 20 I've been able to do all of these things, but it just inspires me to do more. Just bring more women together that don't know about the community yet.
JW: What's the ultimate goal with this?
NP: I think for a three-year-old girl or a even a three-year-old boy to not look in the mirror and say, 'Mum I don't like my curls', but instead to say 'I love how my hair spirals', and to not feel like they have to straighten it. As most women who are natural, have had to go through the journey of straightening and using relaxers. I want to ban relaxers.
JW: What workout of discipline do you absolutely love and what do you hate?
NP: I love dancing, because I'm obsessed with music. 90s music. I love being taken back to a genre I wasn't in. I'm always doing squats, especially when I'm cleaning; I love it when it's fun and you don't feel like you're working out. I hate weights. Things where I have to pull ugly facial expressions.
JW: Do you consider yourself sporty or an athlete?
NP: I consider myself healthy – I don't invest enough time into sports as much as a should, I have definitely made it important to invest into my diet recently. I'm healthy – not sporty, but I'm working on it.
JW: Why do you workout, what does it do for your life?
NP: I workout because my body is my temple, so I have to look after it. Sometimes I workout when I'm stressed because I know that I'm doing good to my body. And I want to look cute in a dress with my bum looking nice!
JW: If you could be a professional athlete what would you want to do and why?
NP: I would be a swimmer because I love the water. But, I wouldn't like to have my hair wet all the time. I would love a swim protector so that my hair can stay big when I'm under the water.
JW: What do you like to do to relax and take a break?
NTL: I love to listen to music; spending time with my friends. As I'm always travelling, when I'm with them, I'm reminded of my journey and how far I've come. So it's really nice.
JW: What is your ultimate goal in life?
NP: My ultimate goal in life is to have a big house, with loads of plants and fro babies. And to achieve my huge to-do list of travelling around the world, hosting events in different parts of the world and connecting with women.
JW: What is your ultimate goal in fitness?
NP: My ultimate goal in fitness would be to be 100% confident in a bikini, to see abs in a picture.
JW: What are the most common questions women ask you?
NP: What products I use on my hair is definitely the number one thing my followers ask and they think its products, but it's about the love you invest in your hair and it's not just the products.
JW: Speaking of hair, what do you do with your hair when you're going for a run versus what you do when you're socialising?
NP: When I'm working out I tie my hair in a pineapple and just let it sit away from my face. I'm learning to let go of my hair, I was so dependant on it to feel confident, now I've finally let go and I'm learning to love it. My hair was my camouflage for the longest time because I had acne so I used it to hide, but now I'm all about embracing my face and wearing it up more and doing loads of different hair styles.
JW: What about dance?
NP: Because I am half Zimbabwean, I have grown up seeing my mum at parties dancing, which I used to be so embarrassed about. But I love rumba and it's a style of dancing from Zimbabwe its basically when you use you hips and your bum. You're just free with the music. You feel it, you're free. My regime of fitness at home is squats and ab crunches.


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George Washington Masonic Aprons. Brother George Washington's Masonic Apron on display at the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia On October 26, 1816, the legatees of the Washington estate presented a Masonic apron to the Washington Benevolent Society of Pennsylvania.
A short note, currently framed with the apron, was presented, reading: To the Washington Benevolent Society. Brother Washington's Masonic Apron - Masonic Library and Museum. The affection each man held for the other is legendary.
So, too, is the legacy of Masonic history developed through that affection. For many years Masons and non-Masons believed that the white silk apron known as the Lafayette Apron, had been embroidered by Madame Lafayette and presented to Bro. George Washington by Bro. Lafayette in August of 1784. This cannot be documented as fact. Freemasonry. Freemasonry is a fraternal organisation that traces its origins to the local fraternities of stonemasons, which from the end of the fourteenth century regulated the qualifications of masons and their interaction with authorities and clients.
The degrees of freemasonry, its gradal system, retain the three grades of medieval craft guilds, those of Apprentice, journeyman or fellow (now called Fellowcraft), and Master Mason. These are the degrees offered by craft, or blue lodge Freemasonry. There are additional degrees, which vary with locality and jurisdiction, and are now administered by different bodies than the craft degrees. The basic, local organisational unit of Freemasonry is the lodge. The lodges are usually supervised and governed at the regional level (usually coterminous with either a state, province, or national border) by a Grand Lodge or Grand Orient. Masonic Lodge Palazzo Roffia, Lodge in Italy set out for French (Moderns) ritual. Www.masonicdictionary.com. The 47th Problem of Euclid. A Symbol of Geometry; of exact science.
Passed over with but a few words of ritual, it is Masonically most interesting. It appears on the frontispiece of Anderson's Constitutions, published in 1723; Street states it is the earliest example of a printed symbol of Freemasonry. It was apparently known to ancient mathematicians long before Pythagoras (Masonically credited as its discoverer) or Euclid, who made the properties of a right angled triangle his forty-seventh problem. It is the root of all mathematics used to determine an unknown from two knowns.
FREEMASON SYMBOLS - The Meanings of Freemasonry's Masonic Symbols. Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret - Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike. MORALS and DOGMA by: Albert Pike Index Previous p. 839 XXXII.
Mckaig. Freemasonry: The Great Cross and the End of Time. I had originally posted this last January (2009).
Now that the 2012 theories are picking up steam, and even Hollywood is interested, I thought I should bring back this post that seemed to interest alot of people. So I'm giving this as a theory (once again) of what the elite think of 2012, and its potential! This is a video/ discussion that garnered a lot of "highly recommendeds. " Don't wait for people to watch it first and then give it a try. It has already been proven to be a source of much thought provoking and questions! This video and thread is to anyone who is even remotely interested in 2012 theories and I strongly recommend it.
The beginning (part 1) is a little dry and Weidner's voice isn't the most pleasant to listen to for an hour but it's what he has to say that is important! The video covers the zodiacal clock, the Mayan calendar, solar flares, past civilizations, and even gives an explanation for Nibiru. Have fun. Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Part 4: Part 5: Part 6: Also!! Nüwa and Fuxi in Chinese Mythology: Compass & Square - NothingWavering.org - LDS & Mormon Blog Portal. An ancient painting of Nüwa and Fuxi unearthed in Xinjiang, holding the tools of creation - compass and square.
Hugh Nibley gave a lecture in 1975 on "Sacred Vestments" which was later transcribed and included in the collected works volume Temple and Cosmos (pgs. 91-132). The entire paper is fascinating, and highly recommended reading. One of the things he wrote about were certain Chinese artifacts which had been found depicting two mythological gods, Nüwa and Fuxi, and the tools they hold: Most challenging are the veils from Taoist-Buddhist tombs at Astana, in Central Asia, originally Nestorian (Christian) country, discovered by Sir Aurel Stein in 1925… We see the king and queen embracing at their wedding, the king holding the square on high, the queen a compass. University of Bradford : Web of Hiram. This website began when Dr Robert Lomas of the University's School of Management, decided to create an electronic database of the Masonic material held in many of the University's Special Collections as part of his on-going research into the cultural origin of scientific ideas.
As other material has been donated to this work it has been added to the archive. None of the rituals and statutes recorded in the data are currently in use. It is in effect a scrap heap of discarded ritual and belief. But just as an archaeologist can search through ancient midden heaps and in doing so discover a lot of information about the people who dumped the rubbish, so this archive gives valuable insight into the cultural contributions of Freemasonry.


text: The 90s was a long decade, and the style of the era far exceeded a grunge moment. Put aside your plaids and florals, and take note from ladies more inspired by Calvin Klein's minimalism and Versace's high contrast sex appeal. As a matter of fact, 90s super Naomi Campbell recently donned Atelier Versace, complete with sheer cutouts\u2014a mainstay of the 90s. Ali Larter (in Donna Karan) also embraced some sheer, while Rosie Huntington Whitely, another model in Versace, has that streamlined sparsity down. Meanwhile, Georgia May Jagger (in Alexander Wang) and Lily Donaldon are bringing the short leather pencil skirt back with aplomb.


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From Plum to Prune
Aus Prunes are sweet plums of the D'Agen variety dried to roughly one third of their original moisture content. Most Aus Prunes are dried on the farms where they are grown.
Getting ready for the next season
You could say the year begins in autumn for Aus Prunes, because that's when the harvest is complete and the trees begin to lose their leaves and get ready for the next growing season. It's a surprise to most people to learn that the trees actually develop their flower buds at this time. Those buds will lay dormant over the winter season and burst into flower at the start of spring.
Winter in the orchard
In winter, the trees are dormant and that's when growers prune their trees and do many of the jobs that are needed to maintain a healthy orchard. Sometimes the local wildlife likes to visit and feed on the ground cover.
The trees come to life
The first signs of new growth come in early spring, with fragrant, white blossoms appearing on the trees. At this stage, some growers introduce extra bees into their orchards to help with the vital pollination process.
After only a week or so, the flowers drop away and the leaf buds burst into life. Soon the fruit will start to form.
It's great to see the plums forming in late spring and ripening up in the summer. At this time, growers are especially vigilant about watering, monitoring for unwanted pests and checking the sugar levels of their fruit.
It's time to harvest
The harvest usually starts in mid February and it takes just a few days for growers to collect all the plums from their trees. These days, that's done with a mechanical shaker which grabs trees by their trunks and shakes them vigorously. All the fruit falls onto a soft tarpaulin in a matter of just minutes.
From there, the plums are placed in large bins and then after thorough washing, they are placed on large trays which are fed into a dehydrator.
Now the newly dried prunes go to our Australian local packers where they are inspected, graded and finally processed and packed as our favourite Aus Prunes brands.


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the end result of the test is an average transfer rate of 5.44gbps over a distance of approximately 7,000 km (4,349 miles). the group sent a total of 1.1 terabytes of information in less than 30 minutes, which clocks at 38,420.54 petabit-meters per second. this new record is almost twice as fast as the last record (2.38gbps), which was set in february of this year.
for more info, check out the new scientist article and the cern press release. you may also want to check out the internet2 history of land speed records.
joshua's opinion
it is exciting to see records like this broken so quickly. with the commercialization of the internet and the subsequent take-over by the masses, it has been easy for the foundations of this grand network to get lost in the shuffle. when universities and scientists take center stage again and make a point of showing off their mettle, it is encouraging. it shows that the backbone of the 'net is still firm.
the nature of this new record is also encouraging. such a dramatic increase in speed in less than one year makes me wonder just how long it will take to see this new technology in our lives.
i sometimes get impatient with the process, i guess. it is discouraging to me sometimes to know that a decent percentage of internet users are using what is now considered "antiquated" technology to surf the 'net and perform other computer-related duties. i sometimes wonder when broadband will finally save the world from the depressing speeds of dial-up, or when 2 gigahertz computers will become commonplace in homes.
and then i remember that we only harnessed electricity for use in our homes a mere 125 years ago. what's a few more years in relation to the length of history?
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|i want one! (9:24am est mon oct 20 2003)
i want a connection that fast in my home, wonder how much it would cost… – by falstaff
|downloading (9:29am est mon oct 20 2003)
i could download every song ever written in 30 minutes or less or every movie i like in about the same amount of time? this has to have the copyright pundits squirming.
i can see the downloads on kazaa lite.
all application software after 2001
– by geekzilla
|good stuff (9:37am est mon oct 20 2003)
at the very least we'd be able to download all those critical windoze updates *almost* as fast as they were being churned out… :)
*cough* – by freqstyler
|any (10:21am est mon oct 20 2003)
system is only as fast as the slowest link in the system. – by darwin
|storage speed (10:30am est mon oct 20 2003)
what happens when the download speed exceeds the speed of writing data on the storage media? and even if you overcome this slight problem, you will need enormous storage for handling all downloads. further, you will need very efficient search engines and indexing systems to manage your downloads. i do not criticize progress, but i would love to see more and more download servers to increase their request handling capabilities. i have a 1.5 mbps line at home, but the fastest download speeds i ever got (after hours, late at night)from a fast server like bollygrounds.com were not more than 600 kbps. we need to overcome these bottlenecks first. – by cache
|riaa (10:55am est mon oct 20 2003)
better not start file sharing on kazza or they might get sued lol – by bm
|dial up is cool (10:58am est mon oct 20 2003)
i love my aol and my dial up. i would never go to broadband. aol and dial up is so fast and cool. i can do a lot of stuff on aol that broadbanders cant like….. – by jerk
|but …. (11:40am est mon oct 20 2003)
how many porn sites could you download simultaenously …. – by pornguy
|hey pornguy (11:45am est mon oct 20 2003)
how many porn can you look simultaneously ? but maybe you're not made like the others ??? – by hahah
|the question is….. (12:13pm est mon oct 20 2003)
when will this technology be available to the buisiness sector??? as a network consultant i see all kinds of scenarios. the limitations of a t1 and even a t3 are stifiling to some of our larger customers that replicate large sql databases over dedicated t lines. the only problem is, once the bell companies get there hands on the technology and set prices on these data pipes the end user will pay dearly (usually by sigining over there soul) to have a decent speed line installed….i would hate to see how much a 5.44 gbs dedicated line would cost!!! – by techwarrior
|hmm (12:37pm est mon oct 20 2003)
re techwarrior.. bell will always gouge the people. here is a trick use point to point dsl over ldds circuits. (alarm loops) about 400.00 bucks an end (eqp cost) but the line is less than 30.00 a month. dedicated dsl line 200.00 month. and ldds circuit are two pair point to point no swiching..it works very well..
– by p.s.r
|you forgot to mention that.. (12:49pm est mon oct 20 2003)
they did this experiment with a linux box. – by brown_thumbs
|geekzilla (1:19pm est mon oct 20 2003)
i'm not sure how many individual songs exist… but your statement about downloading every movie ever made in 30 minutes is rediculous. assuming you're downloading divx encoded movies (averaging 700 megs a piece) you could download 1571 movies in a 30 minute period (1.1^6/700). that's assuming we're going with an upload of 1.1 tb/�-hour. i'm thinking there's plenty more movies out there then that. if that's not the case then i'm gonna start telling people i almost have mankinds complete video collection.
i figure you were just joking around when you made those claims…. but i'mma geek so too bad. p – by johny-d
|will my browser be faster? (1:45pm est mon oct 20 2003)
wow, my browser wont have time to rest with this connection! – by browser boy
|1.1 terrabytes? (1:55pm est mon oct 20 2003)
sounds like something we're all guilty of downloading ) – by lol
|system backup and restore (2:02pm est mon oct 20 2003)
networks this fast would make a full system backup and, if necessary, restore from off site a more reasonable option.
but the other side is faster spreading viri.
streaming full screen video for the masses. – by rcaman
|moore's law? (2:06pm est mon oct 20 2003)
i hope this article does not start another moore's law ignoramus fest. – by not moore
|just imagine… (2:55pm est mon oct 20 2003)
playing rise of nations and halo with no lag whatsoever… what a dream come true… – by hardcoregamer
|bfd (4:31pm est mon oct 20 2003)
so what! it would be more useful (to me) to find a way to deliver 30 kbps to every user of the net.
joshua is right — there is little point to this kind of speed when your last mile runs a 26.4k dialup. – by estragon
|johny-d (5:07pm est mon oct 20 2003)
read the post. i said every movie i like. not every movie. – by geekzilla
|music (5:10pm est mon oct 20 2003)
as far as music goes i should have said every song a room of 10 radio dj's can possibly think of. – by geekzilla
|well (5:39pm est mon oct 20 2003)
as to the business side of things, it's actually currently illegal to have such a connection. i'm not sure exactly why but i've heard it can get you in a whole lot of trouble. i spose currently it's because no such connections exist commercially so any that did would have to be running on a pirated network. come to think of it, you could probably download the entire internet in a matter of days hmmm… imagine the porn :op. but more then that what's interesting is the developments on the home front (for me that's australia) some of our isp's have banded together and are working on a broad band 200 times faster then that currently available. an exciting development when you consider with 64 bit processors we could be playing games with 2000 people plus, real war experiences across the globe. – by chance
|cache is right (6:42pm est mon oct 20 2003)
the maximum download speed is often quite a bit higher than the real speed you'll get. i have a 'high speed' connection at 600 kbps, but have never actually broken through the 400 kbps mark. most often i am stuck at 100 or 200. so much for high speed. – by slow world
|illegal (12:00am est tue oct 21 2003)
imagine what a good hacker could do with speeds like that.. thats why it's illegal. ping! your fried – by gilligan
|mmmm (1:28am est tue oct 21 2003)
*drools* – by need_one_of_these
|when net speed > hdd speed… (1:51am est tue oct 21 2003)
you will no longer need a hard drive. all data could reside on a server with no degrade in performance.
– by archerb
|re: when net speed > hdd speed (3:38am est tue oct 21 2003)
it beats my hdd by far… not to mention my ram as well. – by frobozz
|the best bandwidth is a truck (4:00am est wed oct 22 2003)
a artic lorry filled with data storage
still beats it. (millions og gigabytes in a few hours) – by old tek stiil rules
|trucks (8:59pm est thu oct 23 2003)
can get hijacked, break down.
cost gas.
have to drive them, can't just go to sleep while your file is downloading.
times my vary, as data may be across the world.
i think non-truck solutions are better. – by repairboy


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Many beginner and even advanced painters are often overwhelmed by the wide selection of paint brushes available on the market. Because of the plethora of choices, artists often get stuck in ruts where they only work with one or two brushes most of the time, when this can greatly hinder their creative ability. Learning the purpose of each brush and how to use it properly can open up doors to more innovative works of art.
Almost every painter is familiar with traditional sable brushes. However, here are a few lesser known brushes that are fantastic to work with:
- Squirrel hair brushes- super absorbent brushes that hold a great deal of paint; creates a clean smooth stroke with its soft-end bristles
- Ox hair brushes- strong, durable brushes with a thicker tip than sable brushes; can be used to add different textures to paintings
- Goat hair brushes- extremely soft bristled brushes that are used in blending
- Camel brushes- unlike goat hair, ox hair and squirrel hair brushes, camel brushes are NOT made from the animal the brush is named for; made out of the scrap hair leftover after creating other hair brushes, camel brushes are a mixture of hair types, which is why these lesser known brushes are good practice brushes, because they are usually the most cost-effective hair brushes on the market
Just like there are different types of brushes that affect the way a painting looks, the shapes of the brushes also have a big impact on the overall look of a piece. Typical shapes for paint brushes include blenders, brights, filberts, and riggers. Blenders are fan-like, rounded brushes used to smooth and blend paints. Brights are short, flat brushes ideal for thick paint and wide paint coverage. Filberts are flat brushes with a curved end. These brushes can be used to blend and hide brush strokes. Riggers are long, rounded brushes with bristles that come to a pointed tip. Riggers are used most commonly in watercolor painting and oil painting.
Paint brushes are an investment, and you want to get the most for your money you possibly can. If you care for it properly, a good brush will serve you for many years. Always be sure to clean your brushes properly, dry them properly and condition them as needed.
Now that you know a little bit more about your brushes, whip out your easels and start painting!
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David Moyes has reportedly told his players they will have to train today to help Juan Mata settle in at the club.
The Independent has reported that Manchester United boss David Moyes has cancelled a day off for his players in order to help imminent new signing Juan Mata settle in.
The Spanish midfielder is expected to complete a £37 million move from Chelsea today and the paper has suggested Moyes will ask his first team stars to attend an extra training session as part of a settling in process.
"The Spaniard remained in London on Thursday night, though United's players have been told they will have to sacrifice their day off today and train at Carrington to help Mata integrate," reads part of the Independent story.
Mata is a necessary signing for United who will be looking to save their season over the second half of the campaign as the Premier League champions fight to finish in the top four.
Mata has already provided United fans with a boost as anticipation rolls on over whether Moyes will make any further big signings before the close of the transfer window next week.
It's a good idea by Moyes and one which shouldn't upset or alienate any members in his first team squad.
An extra training session will allow everyone to remain sharp and it's likely to be a heavy and intense session, more an occasion that allows Mata settle in with the people he's going to be working with and around every day.
He was pictured yesterday with packed bags ahead of a reported medical and Moyes is obviously very keen to make the transition from London to Manchester as easy as possible for his imminent new playmaker.
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