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Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Yes! Its about public nuisance. People pissing all around and making the city dirty.
Not only city, sometimes, even villages.
If you see the above pic, you'd recognize the place. Yes! Its the Majestic bus stand compound. You can see a villager, pissing on the wall. (At least drainage would be a bit bearable. A daily commuter sees many such examples a day.
If he just crosses the compound, he would get a toilet to pass his urine. He is lazy enough to walk or may be he couldn't tolerate it anymore. In any case, he shouldn't have done that.
Okay! Forget this, if you'd been to the BMTC bus stand in Majestic (Subhashnagar), you'd find small streams of urine here and there. Previously, say 10 years ago, you could find them only during nights, not now. They piss in open space in daylight! Thanks for the people from Bihar n Orissa (construction workers). Forgot to take a pic there. Will post it soon.
Okay! Forget that! What do you say about this pic?
Sorry to capture this pic late. Just a second before I took this pic, they were seeing mutual faces. What would've been the conversation between them??
Any Guesses??
P1: Hey! Are you free tonight?
P2 : [Enthusiastically] Yeah! Shall we meet at your place??? Ahem?? [Hahaha!! You guessed it right!]
Well, you can make fun of this. But this is a serious issue. Pissing beneath a tree or a grass would get un-noticed which is the norm in the villages but how can one tolerate it in cities? It stinks if just four of them piss in the same spot.
For the location enthusiasts, this pic was taken beside the Renaissance Apartments, Byatarayanapura.
Did you have a look at their attire? one fully dressed tiptop! Doesnt hesitate to piss in the open air.
If you ask me what should one do if he has to attend nature's call urgently? I say, hold it to the maximum extent possible(bearable) and keep searching for a lavatory. If you're right in the city, try Nirmala Shauchalaya, courtesy Infosys. Do not use places like a building compound... For the city's sake.
If it is unbearable, again, try to find a Nirmala Shauchalaya or Sulabh shauchalaya or head towards a hotel or a mall or a theatre(if you're interested in watching a movie) whatever is available. Try holding it to the last possible extent.
Need inspiration in holding? Just think of ladies pissing in public? Do they? How do they control? Think......
There are some situations wherein one doesnt have a rest room during his work. What should he do? Here is one such pic. Check it out. This was captured at the Metro Construction going on the MG Road, Brigade Road junction. He pisses right at the circle. Thanks for the fence. Just imagine that fence is not existing. How funny would that be? This is the state of the Metro construction in Bangalore.
For his kind information, he has a shauchalaya near Mayo Hall. Wont his supervisor permit him for five minutes to perform this task? Or again, is he too lazy to go there? Dont tell me that he doesnt know about the lavatory over there.
There is an empty site just in front of our house and we are fed up of scolding numerous people (day/night) for pissing. Some shit during night which gets un-noticed by us sometimes. When will they learn?
To end this post, I post this last pic which is punishable to the highest extent of all. Just check it out.
This idiot, in red shirt is pissing into the drainage just in front of Nirmala shauchalaya. Is he so poor to pay a buck to attend his nature call?
Do post in your comments and experiences....
10 comments:
- Manoj said...
You can piss anywhere in India. People find a lot of pleasure doing it. In Vijayanagar, there is a common pissing wall(compound of PWD quarters). The residents have sticked posters of Gods and Goddesses here. But people still take a leak rite below it.
- Sandesh said...
There are n number of such walls in each and every locality I suppose. Without much ado, can we think of preventing them from doin so? What say?
- Shrinidhi Hande said...
Long Back I'd suggested that public toilets should be made free and operating expense be recovered from advertisements...
- Sandesh said...
@ Shrinidhi - Yeah! good idea. But what can we do to bring it to the concerned people? Will the money from the companies promoting their products in public toilets be sufficient is another doubt I have...
- falcon said...
well, yes,
i had a very bad experience in India.
I'm from Swiss.. i visited bangalore last year.. the city was yuck! i don't know why people there give so much hype to that city..
i feel madras is more cleaner city when compared on my opinion.
- Sandesh said...
@falcon - Hey! Guess you visited only the dirty parts of Bangalore and Cleaner parts of Madras. Ask any Indian(except a tamilian, of course) and they'll counter your argument. Though I havent been to Madras, I've heard many saying Madras is a filthy city... [No proofs... yet, this is the conclusion made from what i heard]
- falcon said...
Dude.. i've been in Bangalore and in Chennai for 3 weeks each.. Chennai was more comfortable for any person. Yes chennai too had dirty places, but not much.. The main roads were so clean.. and those wide roads...
Bangalore didn't have much wide roads than few.. and the traffic was pathetic..Airport was the only pleasing place..
dude, being ur neighboring city, you should visit madras.
- Sandesh said...
Hey Pal,
I just voted the mind of majority of Indians. I'll consider of visitin Madrassometime later... BTW, when did you visit?
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Shareholders are advised that profit attributable to shareholders of Sibanye (JSE Ticker: SGL, NYSE Ticker: SBGL - https://www.commodity-tv.net/c/search_adv/?v=297063) is expected to be R3,702 million for the year ended 31 December 2016. Profit attributable to shareholders for the year ended 31 December 2015 was R717 million.
Earnings per share (EPS) and headline earnings per share (HEPS) for the year ended 31 December 2016 are expected to be 402 cents and 270 cents respectively. EPS and HEPS for the year ended 31 December 2015 were 79 cents and 74 cents, respectively. This represents an increase of 409% in respect of EPS and an increase of 265% in respect of HEPS.
Normalised earnings for the year ended 31 December 2016 are expected to be R3,657 million, compared with R1,220 million for the year ended 31 December 2015.
The increase in earnings is as a result of higher revenues from the Gold Division during the year and the inclusion of the Aquarius and Rustenburg platinum operations, which were acquired during 2016.
The financial information, on which the trading statement has been based, has not been reviewed or reported on by the Company's auditors.
Sibanye will be releasing its operating and financial results for the six months and year ended 31 December 2016 on SENS tomorrow at 08:00 CAT, Thursday 23 February 2017. A live presentation will be held tomorrow at the JSE at 10:00 CAT and on the Company website: www.sibanyegold.co.za, with conference call and webcast options available.
An international conference call will be held at 15:00 CAT time to cater for our North American investors. Please see below dial-in and webcast details:
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Outreach concerns are a vital part of the ministry of First Christian Church. The church was one of the founding sponsors of Some Other Place, a community-wide mission that provides food, clothing and other help for the needy.
Members also participate in the annual Beaumont Paint-a-Thon in which a needy family's home is painted.
Special quarterly Outreach projects injclude the Disciples Rice Program, Week of Compassion, Blanket Sunday and Reconciliation Emphasis. Through our budget we also support Samaritan Counseling Center, Brite Divinity School, the Disciples Conference Center, Patriot Heights, the Coastal Plains Area, the Church Finance Council, new church development and other special projects. Each year interest from the First Christian Church Foundation is allotted for Outreach Projects.


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At the moment, we have DRA insalled in our own company domain. We'd like
to actually manage a customers domain with it too. I've added the
customer's domain into the managed domains. I've set it to connect to a
specific domain controller on the domain (which is the PDC, the
firewalls dont allow connecting to all of the customers domain
controllers at the moment).
If I looks at the properties of the customer domain, the general tab
DNS Name: Customer.local
Name (Pre-Windows 200): customerlocal
Domain type: Windows Server 2003 domain
Status: ok
Connect to a domain controller: \\PDC
It seems I can create and manage users just fine, reset passwords, add
users to groups. But the memeber of table is empty. Also, if I check the
Incremental Accounts Cache
unspecified error
Time of last successfull sync: (this morning)
Time of last attempt: (half an hour ago)
Possible reason for my troubles could be the DNS and that some of the
customer netword segments are not accessible.
If I use our own domain controller as the DNS, then I could use the Host
file for name resolution for the customer domain? Also, if I set the
customer's PDC as the DNS server, it sometimes returns one of the
customer domain controllers that we cannot reach because of the
firewalls. So I suppose host file will be the way to go?
at the moment I've added the following lines to the host file:
10.x.x.x customer.local dc3.customer.local
10.x.x.x dc4.customer.local
I'm just getting confused here, since it seems to work, and not work at
the same time. Any ideas? I suppose someone must have set this is in a
multiforest enviroment.
And yes, I'm totally new to DRA
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The theme park "Nanja Town" is opening a new event called "Ultra Heroes in Nanja Town", which is a collaboration with a new Ultraman movie "Gekijouban Ultraman Orb Kizuna no Chikara, Okarishimasu!", being on roadshow from March 11th, 2017.
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On January 9, 2014, while the whole world watched Orbital's Cygnus launch to ISS, Lithuanians had their eyes on a small satellite onboard the Antares rocket lifting off from Wallops Island. Lituanica SAT-1 was successfully launched among other cubesats and a cargo craft to space station, giving the country a solid reason to be space proud. Lithuania is the country with no significant space exploration history, thus launching nation's first satellite is really a major milestone in spaceflight for this Baltic state. "The project met huge interest from the society, especially as it was from the very beginning well publicized in the media" Laurynas Mačiulis, chief mission engineer told astrowatch.net.
LituanicaSAT-1 is a cube satellite measuring 10x10x10 cm. The primary mission objective is to provide university students and young engineers knowledge and real hands-on experience in satellite engineering thereby helping to develop infrastructure and know-how in space technology by interdisciplinary interaction between academia and industry in Lithuania. Vilnius University (VU) plays the leading role in the mission. "Students and scientists from VU have been involved in the design and implementation of flight software and mission control software. Also the mission control center is also located in the premises of VU." said Mačiulis. "The final integration of the satellite took place in the VU. VU has also covered the launch costs." he added.
|Laurynas Mačiulis presents LituanicaSAT-1 during lecture at school. Credit: delfi.lt
One of the mission objectives is to take the first Lithuanian pictures from space. "We also started a campaign were everyone can register his own pixel in the first picture that will be taken from space with our satellite" said Mačiulis. LituanicaSAT-1 will also broadcast Lithuanian words from space, the salutation from the president of Lithuania: "Greetings to Lithuanians all around the world!".
"It's wonderful to see that a country like Lithuania, your president is excited, that everybody is excited, and it's wonderful that you could deliver it to your country and your people, without astronomical costs." said Nanoracks CEO, Jeffrey Manber. Nanoracks provided the launch for LituanicaSAT-1. It is a US comercial company which has the capability to put comercial payload on ISS.
The mission is specially dedicated to honor the 80th Anniversary of the flight across the Atlantic by Lithuanian-American pilots Steponas Darius and Stasys Girenas. Therefore the satellite bears the name of the original aircraft used during this historic flight – "Lituanica".
The satellite carries locally manufactured primary and secondary flight computers which control the payload consisting of an onboard VGA photo camera and state of art FM Mode V/U Voice Repeater, designed and built by Lithuanian radio-amateurs. Satellite's external solar panels were specially built and donated by Lithuanian based R&D company "Precizika-MET SC". One of the mission secondary goals is also to test under space environment different microcontroller designs and MEMS sensors that are integrated into on-board computers.
LituanicaSAT-1 does not have any active systems except the antenna deployment mechanism that is engaged 30 minutes after deployment sequence. Both attitude and thermal control sub-systems are implemented passively for simplicity and safety. The total mass of the body including the equipment within it is 1,090 kg.
|Scientists work on the LituanicaSAT-1. Credit: kosmonautai.lt
The satellite will be launched from the International Space Station to space by JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata. According to Mačiulis the exact date of the deployment into orbit is not yet known, but it won't happen earlier than the end of February.
Asked about the future missions, Mačiulis revealed that the team is involved in the design study of a cubesat mission that is planned to take part in the QB50 project. The project is an international network of 50 double and triple CubeSats. QB50 has the scientific objective to study in situ the temporal and spatial variations of a number of key constituents and parameters in the lower thermosphere (90-320 km) with a network of about 40 double CubeSats, separated by a few hundred kilometres and carrying identical sensors.


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My final Mother's Day card is for my daughter to give my mother. Don't know how she feels about gold birds but I was really trying to capture the gold spots on the dress. I have inked the background stamp with gold Smooch which I had to go over once stamped as it was a bit uneven.
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State of Decay
Official State of Decay XBLA Boxart
CryEngine 3
Microsoft Windows, Xbox Live Arcade
Release Date
June 5th, 2013 (XBLA), 2013[1] (PC)
Third-person Shooter, Survival Horror, Simulation
State of Decay, (formally codenamed Class 3) is a third person survival-horror game developed by Undead Labs, published by Microsoft Game Studios, and released on June 5, 2013 for the Xbox360. Combining elements of shooters, role-playing and strategy games, the game challenges players to survive a zombie apocalypse by exploring, scavenging, and fighting the undead. Setting up a defensible home base and keeping it stocked with the necessities of survival, keeping the undead at bay, and forging relationships with other communities of survivors can mean the difference between life and death. Featuring a skill progression system, dynamic resource and character generation, and a massive twelve square kilometer map, State of Decay is a challenge for even the most hardened zombie survivalists.
Unique Survivors
Survivors in State of Decay each have skills and abilities which are initially weak. By using those skills, players can improve every survivor into an effective scavenger and fighter. Skills are improved in ways that make sense; running improves stamina, fighting improves weapon ability and so on. As survivors progress in skill improvement, the opportunity to choose specializations and abilities are unlocked, making them even more effective.
Specialist survivors can be found and recruited, bringing paramedics, machinists, gardeners and more to improve the odds of survival.
Survivors can be killed, and death is permanent. Once a survivor is gone, he or she will not come back. But with a group of survivors, death does not mean the game is over; it means continuing using other survivors to explore the world. The game isn't over until the last survivor falls.
Massive Map
The world of State of Decay is enormous: twelve square kilometers of map area encompassing six square kilometers of playable area. These six kilometers are richly populated by towns, farms, parks, and even a small city. Almost every building on the map can be entered and searched, and every landmark in sight can be visited. Exploration is never sectioned off into a small segment of the map; most of the game's area is available to you from the start. A true open world, the map remains available for exploration and combat throughout the game.
Travel silently on foot or quickly by one of the eight classes of vehicle found around the map. Explore obscure, hidden areas and sprawling towns to find needed supplies and other survivors.
Relentless Enemies
The zombies are on the move, and they want blood. Battle zombies of all descriptions while exploring the area. Every type of zombie can be found in State of Decay, from traditional shufflers to sprinting infected, from crawlers to hard-to-kill freak zombies. All of them are found in the game world, and all of them can be killed...or kill. Take them on with weapons ranging from pipe wrenches and clubs to machetes and tomahawks, and even any of over two dozen firearms. But fight smart: noise attracts zombies, and even the best-equipped survivor cannot survive being outnumbered twenty-to-one.
Scavenge to Survive
There are no stores or roving traders in this apocalypse; to survive, the necessities of life must be scavenged. Food, medicine, ammunition, and fuel must be found and claimed. Along with these resources are a massive list of weapons and items, turning every scavenging run into a unique event. Just like survivors, salvage in buildings is randomly generated, making no two playthroughs identical. And just like in the real world, items do not respawn; once a building has been salvaged, it's empty for good.
Don't think it's just easy takings, though; scavenging makes noise, and noise brings zombies. Do you scavenge slowly and methodically, making little sound but taking more time, or ransack fast and fearlessly? State of Decay gives you the choice.
Fortify to Thrive
Live out the zombie movie dream: fortify a refuge in the zombie apocalypse. Over a half-dozen locations around the game's map can be converted into a customizable home base for survivors. Fortify the building and set up facilities within to keep zombies out, produce food, repair weapons and vehicles, or generate opportunities with neighboring survivors. Build workshops, gardens, watchtowers, medical facilities, and more to help the party survive. Choose wisely, however; zombies can overrun poorly defended bases, so setting up a secure home is not just a matter of preferences.
Set up outposts to extend your defensive perimeter and provide some protection against marauding hordes of zombies, or use them as supply caches in far-flung corners of the map. State of Decay offers opportunities for every play style.
Dynamic World
State of Decay features a two-hour day cycle, with one hour each of day and night. Other survivors in the group also continue about their business, giving rise to random missions for combat support, rescue, distraction, and more. Build up trust with other survivor enclaves to gain opportunities for profit or to encourage new survivors to join the group. Don't dawdle, however; failing to act upon a mission can mean an opportunity missed...or a survivor that doesn't make it back home.
Zombies don't sleep, and neither does State of Decay. Even when you're not in the world, events continue, resources are used, and deals go on.
- 2 Hour Day and Night cycle: 1 hour of daylight and 1 hour of night. [2]
- Skill progression system: For example, a skill like fighting can be improved by fighting with melee weapons (baseball bat, machete, pipe, etc.).
- Play as a community struggling to survive. If your community has more than one person, you will switch to another community member when you die.
- Recruit survivors with unique sets of skills (gardener, mechanic, chef, soldier, etc.).
- Variety of zombies: Slow moving, fast-moving, and special types.
- Randomly generated missions such as rescuing a survivor, scavenging, zombie hunts or infestation clearing.
- Randomly generated items in buildings that can be searched for. Once an item is taken from a location there will never be a re-spawn of additional items.
- A wide selection of ground vehicles to drive.
- The ability to claim certain buildings with a defensible perimeter (fence, wall, etc.) as a home base and creating outposts.
- Home Sites can be upgraded through the use of interior and exterior facilities (Workshops, Garden, Watchtower, Dojo, Kitchen, etc.).
See Also
State of Decay Control Scheme for XBLA
- ↑ Sanya stream notes. Retrieved on January 17, 2015.
- ↑ Undead Jeff on day and night cycle. Retrieved on January 17, 2015.


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ASLC is an annual conference where students from all over Asia get together to learn the importance of being a leader and to become change makers in their communities.
This conference is brought by Youth Ambassadors (YA), a social enterprise established to empower the youth and to make them realized that everyone has the potential to become leaders by having courage, compassion, wisdom and energy.
- Opportunity to interact with people from diverse nationality and cultural backgrounds
- Leadership skills, improve public speaking skills
- Eligibility for youths aged 14 – 22 years old only
- Basic command of English as conference is all in English
- The entry fees vary depending on the accommodation type chosen:
- ASEAN countries
USD 398 : 14-18 bedded hostel dormitory
USD 498 : 2 – 6 sharing boarding school or quad sharing hotel
USD 598 : 2 – 3 sharing hotel
- Non-ASEAN countries
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USD 698 : 2 – 3 sharing hotel
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* Please note that the above fees are excluding flights, travel insurance and visa (if applicable).


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NANOWRIMO Day #2: Chapters 4-5
More updates. Here are a couple chapters of the children's book in the works. I'm cruising along, making some good progress. I wanted you to see in "public" what a working manuscript looks like. At least what mine looks like. These chapters have had minimal edits and polishing.
My process is to write fast and often. Then cycle back every few writing sessions, to edit and clean up, and make sure the story is making sense. I like to keep my editing at a minimum on the backend. More focusing on making the story clear and punchy, not getting bogged down with spelling and grammar mistakes.
The ten hours in the car flew by knowing a pool was in my future. The Death Valley Econo Lodge was not the nicest place I'd ever seen. Chipped paint and outdated signage made a sight for sore eyes. But it had a pool and right now that's the only thing that mattered in the universe. Maybe it would take my mind off what happened in Cowboy Town.
Dad paid the clerk and grabbed the motel keys from the balding worker. We unpacked the car, tossed our bags in the room, and within a few minutes we we're swimming in the pool. Good thing because the temperature was about a million.
I swam under water, popped up like a dolphin, and splashed dad in the face. "How hot is it?" I asked.
Dad gave a sour look and wiped down his glasses. He glanced at his watch filled with digital read outs and other numbers, "According to my watch 120 degrees Ferenheit. Pretty typical for June in the desert."
"No way. How do people live like this? Give me the humidity of Ohio over these scorching temps."
"It's a dry heat," dad said, with a smile.
I swam to the other side of the pool and asked dad to follow. I'd hoped to be out of reach of mom and Rosie. "You spill the beans to mom?"
Dad spit out pool water and peeked back at the girls chatting under an umbrella. "Not, yet. I'm trying to not make a big deal about it."
"Come on. We had twelve hours in the car. Not to mention the nine times Rosie stopped to pee and fill up on candy bars. She's really taken the boyfriend thing hard."
Dad nodded. "I know, I know. Had every opportunity. I chickened out. Tonight I'll do it."
I reached out a pinky, "Pinky swear. If you don't do it. I blow your cover. Deal?" Dad obliged and sealed the deal with matching pinkies.
I climbed out of the pool, sprinted across the pool deck, hoping my feet wouldn't melt from the volcanic temps. A three foot diving board perched on the opposite end of the pool.
I contemplated a front flip versus a backflip and the pros and cons of each. When I chose the front flip I was startled by some loud talking behind me. A group of men were crowding in the parking lot and sipping on sodas.
A work truck with the words Ambassador Corporation was written on the side. It had water hoses on each side and a large storage unit on top. Looked like it hauled liquids of some kind.
I jumped to the board, focused on the flip, and thought nothing of it. Until I did. Ambassador was the name on the folder in my dad's study. The one with Mission: Ambassadors. I wondered if this was connected to the men in the bathroom?
My flip turned into a belly flop. I swam in dad's direction. He was now relaxing on a raft about to drift off to sleep. "Dad, wake up. I have a question."
Dad took off his sunglasses and opened one eye. "This better be important. Can't a guy get a nap once in a while?"
"What do you know about Ambassadors?"
"That's a broad question. You want to talk about the Ambassador of France, Quebec, or Wallion? Or, the name used for diplomats in the United States."
I scratched my head and had no idea what dad just said. "Huh?" I said, turning to the parking lot, "That truck says Ambassador Corporation. Does that mean anything to you?"
Dad flipped off the raft like bailing over the side of a ship. His drink spilled into the water. "What did you say?"
"Ambassador Corporation…"
"I heard you," dad said, climbing out of the pool, and drying off with a towel. He didn't say a word and wandered off inside the motel.
Rosie set her magazine down and lowered her sunglasses. "Where'd dad run off to?"
I shrugged.
Mom followed suit. "Everything okay, Ricky?"
"Yeah, no problem. Dad probably just needed to do his business. He'll be back in a minute."
I jumped back in the pool knowing something important was going on with the Ambassador people. I felt the pressure trying to hold all these secrets inside. My mom didn't know about the work-vacation. Rosie was clueless as always. But I was scared. Scared for my dad and what all this might mean. My stomach did a flip instead.
A minute later I saw a man walking across the parking lot to the Ambassador truck. It was dad. He reached out a hand and embraced a couple men wearing utility worker gear. They smiled and exchanged laughs.
The interaction seemed harmless and not like the danger I imagined dad might be in. Maybe it was a couple of old friends from his days living in California.
I swam to the edge of the pool and put on my sun glasses and Ohio Buckeye hat. I pulled the hat down over my face and jaunted to the corner of the pool deck. Hoping to be as undercover as possible.
A table with an umbrella sat pushed in the corner. It was against the fence and close enough to the men and dad. I lounged in the chair and tried to listen to their conversation. This got me in trouble last time but my curiosity wouldn't let go.
I rocked the chair back and forth with the legs lifting off the ground. The men and dad bantered back and forth. The laughs turned to loud talking. I stopped the chair and wanted to reposition myself in a better place for listening.
The voices grew louder and it no longer sounded like a friendly conversation. One buff looking guy poked a finger in the center of dad's chest. Dad recoiled and put his hands on his head showing frustration.
I bounced to my feet and in the midst of all the excitement what every twelve year old fears the most. No, not public speaking, or a pimple on the edge of your nose.
Exposing the world to your tighty whities.
Somehow my swim trunks caught the metal on the chair and when I got up ripped the shorts clean in half. I stood on the pool deck of the Death Valley Econo Lodge for all the world to see. Ricky Rayburn in his underwear.
The men in the parking stopped their yelling and it turned to laughs at my expense. My sister and mother covered their faces in horror. Rosie pretended to not know me with a handful of other vacationers watching the scene.
I tried to cover my skinny body with the shards of leftover swim trunks, to no avail. My dad rushed to the fence with an unpleasant look on his face. "What are you doing son? Get back to the room and put some clothes on," he said, handing me the motel key through the fence.
Despite the watching eyes, laughter, and ammunition for Rosie to use the rest of our lives. I didn't care. I wanted to know what dad was doing with these men. My curious mind wanted to be part of something. Part of the mission.
"Who are those guys?" I asked, covering my crotch with the torn up swim wear.
"Nothing. Just get your clothes on," dad said.
"Are they bad guys?" I said, my eyes lighting up.
"Stay out of it, Ricky… You're messing things up again."
When dad walked back to the men. The curiosity wore off and I realized what I feared the most. Not being half naked at a public pool in the desert. I feared my chances of joining dad on a mission were fading like the setting sun.
I just couldn't catch a break. My days of adventurer are were bleak with every clumsy move.
I shot awake early the next morning. Like it was Christmas morning. The family were snoring in separate beds in the motel. Dad was breathing like a freight train in my bed, and mom and sister, were in a bed on the other side of the room. The air conditioner drowned out my early rising.
I carefully lifted the covers and scampered into the bathroom to splash water on my face. I stared in the mirror and thought about yesterday at the pool. What was dad talking about to those men? Who are the Ambassadors? Why was he acting so weird?
It was six in the morning and the sun had not risen yet. I wanted to find out more. Maybe the truck was a clue.
I threw on some shorts and tee shirt and carefully opened the motel door. If dad wasn't going to let me be an adventurer I would find my own adventures I thought to myself.
The parking lot was littered with a half dozen cars. No sign of the Ambassador truck. I heard a loud banging noise and some voices yelling out. I followed the sounds to a walkway that veered under an overhang and out of the back of the motel.
The motel was located at the base of a hill which made the walkway steep. I followed the path and sounds. Large metal silos came into view in the distance. Maybe a dozen of them. A clanking sound made me pause. A man yelled out, "Give it some juice…"
A truck was parked at the bottom of the silos and two hoses protruded out like tentacles. They were attached to the towering structure and convulsion and shaking making loud noises. A guy wearing an orange vest tried to hold the hoses steady while another man pushed levers in the truck.
The side of the truck said: Ambassador Corporation.
These workers were still about a hundred yards away and couldn't see me. I pranced from tree to tree, behind boulders, fences, and tried to stay out of their way. I didn't have a track record of keeping quiet and blew my cover most of the time. But I was determined to not mess this up. I needed to find something about these Ambassadors and prove to dad my skills as an adventurer.
Another man yelled, "Hold it." The loud sounds coming from the truck ceased. A second man came to the attention of the hoses and unclamped them from the side of the vehicle. He took out a wrench and tightened the cylinder and gave a thumbs up.
The truck rumbled on and water flowed from the hoses. Each hose danced on the ground like snakes fighting one another. I watched with fascination as the men worked.
A solid wooden fence surrounded the perimeter of the silos. The front of the fence had a chain link gate which was wide open for vehicles and people to go in and out. I got low, ninja low, and scurried along the fence line. A sign on the fence caught my eye.
Ambassadors Corporation. A water company.
The sign matched the truck logo from the pool the day before.
A second truck pulled in behind the smaller one pumping water. A large man got out of the driver side and waved to one of the men at the other truck. He gave a thumbs up and attached a hose to his larger truck.
The second truck had three large containers fixed on the bed. They looked like what my mom used to save leftover meatloaf. Only super sized. I could hear water pouring into the containers. Lots and lots of water.
I slinked along the wooden fence and hid behind a small building. It appeared to be a security guard shack for allowing cars in and out of the yard. I glanced inside the small building and the light was turned off. It seemed safe to keep on making my way into the yard to see what else was going on. It was still dark and not many people mulled around, only the truckers.
Behind the silos were twelve contraptions with Ambassador logos plastered on the side. These machines had metal arms which protruded up and down into the ground. It appeared to be pumping water from the earth and into another container.
Why were these guys pumping water out of the ground? Where were they taking it? We were in the desert and water seemed to be scarce. But that's all I could think of. Nothing out of the ordinary seemed weird with these Ambassador guys. I still wanted to know why dad was shouting at these men. Why would dad be mixed up with this corporation?
The sun began to rise in the horizon. I scurried past the security shack, slid against the wooden fence, and made my way back to the motel. It had been less than an hour, and I'd hoped nobody noticed I was gone.
I cracked the door open of the motel and slid inside. The room was dark and most of the family was snoring and the hum of the AC still buzzed along. Everything was normal except dad. Oh crud. Where did he go? He knows I left and probably went looking for me. I peeked in the bathroom and it was dark. I danced across the quiet room and opened the curtains. Maybe patio? Nope.
I cracked open the door and glanced into the hallway and parking lot. The van was still parked in the spot from the day before. Where did he go?
Panic set it. Maybe he was kidnapped? Did he tell mom about the work vacation? She needed to know.
I rushed into the room and shook mom awake. She shot up screaming. "What is going on?"
"Mom… dad was kidnapped."
She wiped sleep from her eyes, "What, son?"
"Some bad men came and took him. He's not here. I checked in the bathroom and the van is still here."
"Ricky… you need to lay off the comic books. Your mind is full of imagination. Dad is fine. There's probably a logical explanation."
"Yeah… bad men stole him from his baed, tied him up, and are torturing him right now."
I felt a smack in the side of my face. Rosie had chucked a pillow. "Really, Ricky? We're on vacation and I am dealing with relationship problems. And you wake us up before seven. Dad is fine. Go to bed. Not cool, loser."
I brushed off Rosie's comment, "Dad has been kidnaped by the Ambassadors and all you can think about is your boyfriend? You're the loser…"
Rosie rolled her eyes, "Whatever… who are the Ambassadors?"
"Yeah, I'd like to know," mom said.
"I don't know. But yesterday dad was talking to some guys in the parking lot. They had a truck with an Ambassadors logo on the side. I think they stole dad."
Right then the door burst open and dad shot into the room. He held up donuts and a drink carrier of juice, milk, and coffee. "Who likes donuts?" he asked, with a grin, "What's with the faces?" dad asked, staring at me.
"Ricky woke us up. Talking about the Ambassadors. Saying they kidnapped you."
"Is that true son?"
I held my head in shame.
"See, Ricky. A logical explanation. Dad is not kidnapped by some hooligans. He just went to get breakfast," said mom.
I grabbed a glazed donut and plopped on the bed. I mumbled under my breath, Good work Ricky, another failed mission.
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November 6th update. I've written for five days, and have done 13,334/25,000 words. This will be book one of a series. The second book will be around 25,000 words as well. These manuscripts, first drafts, will be done by November 30.
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Sonnet II: Farewell Song
Let me for somewhere I should stroll
Bid thee farewell. You, eternal wonder
That enthralls my soul, will always tolls
Like a muezzin's serene call yonder.
Who can really reckon the lines on the palm?
But I must believe in voices that compel
That at the end of the tunnel, a day will come
When I know: this farewell fares us well.
The ominous hands of Time and Distance
(That once tought us to paint desire)
Shall make us yearn at each other's absence
Yet they'll see how immortal we are.
Our moments together have tuned a song
A sacred one for each of us to sing alone.


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I just finished Sonic Mania's Encore Mode. As someone that really enjoys the base game, the expansion is... disappointing. Even at a paltry $5 it doesn't feel like it adds enough value to be worth the cash. Mighty and Ray are a joy to use, though.
I finally got my Octodad Traveler Wayfarer's Edition. It's impressively sexy! One of the nicer CEs I've nabbed. Was also unbelievably simple to transfer my data from the newest demo. Time to travel!
People sure love talking about Hollow Knight. I gave up around 20 hours. A particular boss battle kicking my ass and me just playing it nonstop has caused me to slow down, on top of playing God of Boy. I do want to finish it though. Still a great game.
I've been playing the new God of War and it's pretty good. Not exactly GOTY worthy stuff but I'm enjoying it enough to want to keep playing through it, which is more than I'd say about most of Sony's stuff. Very happy there's actual weight to
I dunno how to make these damnable newfangled images, so I'm just gonna rattle off my E3 top 5, in order: Smash Bros., Ghost of Tsushima, RE 2, Spider-Man, and Dying Light 2. E3 was disappointing, but not necessarily bad. Battletoads will be GOTY 2019!
I was waiting for Hollow Knight to hit the Switch to play it, and boy, was it worth the wait. It feels like a perfect fit for it, and it's visually captivating and buttery-smooth in a way most games wish they were.
Sony just made their first pre-E3 announcement. Tetris Effect is a new Tetris game from the creator of Lumines with strong Lumines vibes. PSVR compatible and out this fall with a demo in the works.
Alright folks. One US Switch code for Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon. Come and get it. First come, first served. Only claim if you don'f Have your own code coming and intend to actually play it.
God, I love Tesla Vs. Lovecraft. Not much to the game. Twitch action shooting that doesn't change much between levels. More or less just a Lovecraftian Crimsonland with teleporting and mechs. And sometimes, a simple reaction-time tester is all you need.
Huh. I thought you cool cats would've posted about this by now. Guess you're all not cool enough. Bloodstained spin-off game officially unveiled. Trailer doesn't list a price but former community manager Angel-Corlux says it's $9.99. This is pure sex.
I finally saw Avengers: Infinity War. It... sure was a movie. I definitely liked it, but even now it's hard to process all that happened in it. It's definitely a lot better than I expected, though.
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Work begins on fixing D'Aguilar Highway black spot at Kilcoy
Media Release
20 October 2016
Works will start this week on almost $1 million of safety improvements at the intersection of the D'Aguilar Highway and the Esk-Kilcoy and Kilcoy Showgrounds roads.
Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Darren Chester said the works would substantially reduce the risk of crashes at the intersection.
"There have been a number of accidents at these two intersections over recent years, which has underlined the need for funding under the Black Spots Programme," Mr Chester said.
"These works will create dedicated turning lanes on the highway and wider road shoulders at the intersection, making it much safer for all motorists.
"Research tells us that safer drivers, in safer cars, on safer roads will save lives and reduce serious injuries in the future. Every dollar we invest in road upgrades in regional areas is an investment in the lives of locals and visitors alike."
The project is being funded through a $968,000 allocation from the Black Spots Programme, and drivers should expect to see the new intersections in place by early next year.
The Coalition Government has committed $500 million to the Black Spot Programme from 2014–15 to 2018–19, including an additional $200 million over two years from 2015–16 to improve road safety across the nation.


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An early Cape silver Fiddle pattern dessert spoon, by one of the most highly renowned Cape Silversmiths, Johannes Casparus Lotter (I). The spoon has an engraved family crest of a bird (possibly a dove), this is well engraved. The hallmarks are excellent, and include makers mark .JCL struck twice in between 3 floral devices with 7 petals. This particular combination of marks is not illustrated by Welz in his book Cape Silver and Silversmiths, it is a combination of marks 76 (a distinctive .JCL maker mark), only used by Johannes Casparus Lotter (I), and mark 78, where the 7 petal floral device is used by his son Johannes Casparus Lotter (II). These hallmarks are particularly well struck, so much so that damage to the bottom left corner of the makers mark punch .JCL can clearly be seen. This leads us to believe the punch was well worn, and given this is a Fiddle pattern spoon we can assume this spoon was made towards the end of his career. Given the floral device has only been recorded in work by his son Johannes Casparus Lotter (II), it also indicates a period during transition from Father to Son. Johannes Lotter (I) was born in the Cape in 1737, he apprenticed under Johann Hasse, his step-father. He was the first of the Lotter family of silversmiths, with 3 generations and over 10 different Lotter's practicing as silversmiths in the Cape (David Heller, History of Cape Silver, pg 268 for family tree). Heller placed Lotter (I) amongst his list of the best Cape silversmiths.
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Pumpkin Pecan Muffins
Walking up in the morning with the smell of fall flavors is what I love in the morning. These are the most perfect muffins you can make any morning. Add these Sugar Free Praline Pumpkin Pecan Muffins to your breakfast menu and winner anytime and on holiday breakfast menu too.
Pumpking is my all time favorite symbol of everything around halloween and thanksgiving. I will be making and sharing many pumpkin dishes that include the favorite pumpkin spice flavor as well as the other ingredients like cinnamon, ginger, mace, clove, and allspice. Clove is my all time preferred fall flavor, you have to use a small amount sparingly but it brings out and marries the other flavors so well.
These pumpkin pecan muffins has been my favorite to make and eat. It's not hard to put together the batter and lay in a bed of pecans to be baked. After baking you simply flip it over to the pecans and quickly make the glaze by using powdered Lite and Sweet. I love this recipe so much because not only is easy to make, bake and glaze, It also is healthy using pumpkin as the base and no sugar. I use Lite and Sweet a sugar substitute that works the best for cooking and baking.
This sweetener I use Lite and Sweet is natural derived from corn cobs, easy to use because you can replace it in your recipes 1 per 1 instead of sugar and my favorite reason is super low calories, only 3 calories per serving! I can keep going on and on about hoe much I love this sweetener but I rather have you try it for your own cooking and baking at home. Weather you are looking to loose weight, cut your sugar intake or because you can't have sugar in your diet pat all. You should be using Lite and Sweet.
This sweetner is safe and healthy to use for diabetics since its super low on the glycemic index only scoring 3, instead of 100 what you get from sugar. It digests slow and your body is already familiar with this sweetener because we produce in small amounts in our bodies. It doesn't take much to adapt because our bodies are familiar with xylitol and erythritol. Much research has shown the multiple benefits of these sweeteners from dental, oral, health as well as other benefits of low calorie, low glycemic, zero carbs. It's a winner in all categories.
Don't wait until you have to avoid sugar! Start by replacing in your home cooking. Use a natural sweetener instead. You will see the difference in your body as well your over all mood. Sugar gives you the highs and lows as well it gets converted into fats. So when I am making a cupcake or muffin recipe I can feel good about eating it and sharing with my family and friends because its tasty sweet, and also a healthy treat because it's sugar free. Make your next home cooked dessert sugarless using Lite and Sweet you will love it.
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As we put to bed a tumultuous 2009 and gird ourselves for the year ahead, we should give a thought ourselves to polishing and projecting a Lighthouse Identity -- for the brands under our charge as well as our own personal brands. We should strive to be -- and care for -- brands with a clear sense of who they are, and what they stand for. Brands with a true north, that aren't swayed by market forces, that compel others to navigate by them because they are anchored in constancy and consistency.
Adam Morgan lays out the credo of building a lighthouse identity in his seminal book Eating The Big Fish. It's very good; read it.
2010 will usher in a sea of change. To survive and thrive, we need a firm foundation, a bedrock of values for ourselves and our brands that will stand the test of time.
Happy new year, and may your light shine as you strive to 'keep it visible'.


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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The Latest on President Donald Trump's comments about Haiti and African countries (all times local):
4:15 p.m.
President Donald Trump is accusing Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of misrepresenting the discussion on immigration during a recent meeting at the White House. And he says the Illinois senator is threatening prospects for a deal to protect certain immigrants.
Trump tweets Monday: "Senator Dicky Durbin totally misrepresented what was said at the DACA meeting. Deals can't get made when there is no trust! Durbin blew DACA and is hurting our Military."
It's at this meeting last Thursday where Trump is said to have used a vulgarity to describe African countries.
Durbin — the only Democrat in attendance — told reporters that Trump made the comments that were attributed to him.
Trump and fellow Republicans have disputed public accounts of the discussion. Some say Trump did not use the word.
Trump has also said comments attributed to him weren't made.
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President Donald Trump says he's not a racist.
Trump made that declaration in the wake of his recent comments about Haiti and African countries.
Trump has been accused of using a vulgar word to describe African countries during an Oval Office meeting last week with a bipartisan group of senators. People briefed on the conversation say that during the meeting the president also questioned the need to admit more Haitians to the U.S.
The individuals spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to describe the meeting publicly.
Trump addressed the issue briefly Sunday as he arrived for dinner at his Florida golf club.
Asked to respond to people who think he's racist, Trump told reporters: "I am the least racist person you have ever interviewed."


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Recorded 27 July 2017
One of the most profound changes in business communication is the shift in how information is gathered, shared and consumed. Every citizen with an iPhone can now be a war correspondent, a cultural critic, or a judge of right and wrong—and with a virtually infinite audience to tell "their story." Further, these freelance content generators are unconstrained by the checks and balances of proper journalism: Editorial review, fact checking, and a pursuit of balanced reporting, context and ethics.
This all leaves business communicators in a precarious, but nonetheless manageable, position of being prepared for rapid response and engagement with stakeholders to set the record straight when confronted with inaccurate, misleading or truly damaging information. Preparing for these scenarios has been well addressed at forums like this and others.
I would argue that purely being prepared doesn't go far enough in today's communication environment. Yes, business leaders and communicators must certainly be prepared, but this cannot be limited to just response plans and crisis management teams. It is incumbent on businesses today to do a much better job anticipating, forecasting and seeing around corners to predict what the next crisis or disruptive event will be—and to take the steps to make sure it never happens in the first place.
In this webinar, we will discuss:
- Lessons learned from avoidable crisis situations.
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Presenter/Michael Law, is a public affairs campaign strategist, crisis management counselor and seasoned corporate communicator. He has more than 25 years of experience counseling governments, public and private companies, non-profit organizations and trade associations, particularly in times of complex regulatory challenges, organizational change or crisis. Before starting Summit Strategy Group, Law worked at Burson-Marsteller as U.S. president in 2013-2014, and served as U.S. CEO in 2015 and 2016. Prior to joining Burson-Marsteller, he spent nine years with Ogilvy Public Relations' West Coast operations, also holding senior executive roles at Ogilvy in Southeast Asia, China and Washington, D.C. Before joining Ogilvy, Law worked for the United States Department of Justice.
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Job description
Work Type: Staff Full or Part Time, Staff-Full Time, Staff-Part Time
Department: SMPH/SURGERY/OTOLARYNGOLOGY
Location: Madison
Categories: Health Care, Medical, Social Services, Laboratory Technician, Research Specialists, Research, Scientific
Employment Class: Academic Staff-Renewable
Position Vacancy ID: 94174-AS
Working Title: Associate Research Specialist
Official Title: RESEARCH SPECIALIST(T16DN) or ASSOC RESEARCH SPEC(T16FN)
Hiring Department: A539770-MEDICAL SCHOOL/SURGERY/OTOLARYNGOLOGY
Anticipated Begin Date: MAY 21, 2018
Term: This is a renewable appointment.
Advertised Salary:
Minimum $32,000 ANNUAL (12 months)
Depending on Qualifications
Degree and Area of Specialization:
BA or BS required, preferably in Biomedical Engineering, Biology, or related field
Minimum number of years and type of relevant work experience:
-Strong written and verbal communication skills
-Research experience in a laboratory setting or design project work (BME Design)
-Experience leading design or research teams
-Experience with human subject testing
-Strong interest in medicine and research
-Excellent lab management and organizational skills.
-At least 2 years of lab research experience and a strong background in the sciences
-Background in literature research
-Preparation, revision, and submission of manuscripts
-Familiarity with IRB & IACUC Protocols
-Experience with NIH-style grant writing
-Previous published manuscripts
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Position Summary:
The Laryngeal Physiology Lab in the Division of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery is looking to recruit a full-time Research Specialist to assist in research projects in the area of voice analysis. This position will be collecting data on parameters of phonation in normal and disordered human voice.
The School of Medicine and Public Health has a deep and profound commitment to diversity both as an end in itself but, also as a valuable means for eliminating health disparities. As such, we strongly encourage applications from candidates who foster and promote the values of diversity and inclusion.
Additional Information:
An ideal candidate will be a recent graduate from a biology-related major, have scored at least 510 on their MCAT and have a GPA greater than 3.5. An ideal candidate will also have strong problem-solving skills. This is a great opportunity for students to improve their resume and application to medical school.
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Instructions to applicants:
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Additional Link: Full Position Details
NOTE: A Period of Evaluation will be Required
The University of Wisconsin is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.
The Annual Security and Fire Safety Report contains current campus safety and disciplinary policies, crime statistics for the previous 3 calendar years, and on-campus student housing fire safety policies and fire statistics for the previous 3 calendar years. UW-Madison will provide a paper copy upon request; please contact the University of Wisconsin Police Department.
Advertised: Apr 27 2018 Central Daylight Time
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We had the first 4 production MBE9MD-DISP-CS01 displays at the Autosport show, being used for demonstration purposes, YouTube video. These have all been fully tested and MBE are busy writing the first release version of software, they will connect to all current MBE motorsport ECUs, 9A4, 9A8, 9A9 and 9A6. The first large batch has been commissioned we expect the completion of the first 100 units to be ready for the middle of February and will be sold on a first come, first served basis.
It comes fully configured and will automatically connect to the MBE 9A4, 9A8, 9A9 & 9A6 ECUs. It is full touch screen even with race gloves on, the user will be able to reconfigure through the screen the information shown on the display, including warning parameters as well as accessing it with Easimap 6 to change more advanced information.
It has shift lights and will show gear position, oil temperature & pressure, fuel pressure,
engine temperature, rpm, mph, battery voltage plus more functions to be finalised. The display uses a thin film transistor LCD colour screen, the same technology as used on laptops and PC.
for all engines using the current 9A range of MBE ECUs (9A4, 9A8, 9A6 & 9A9), please ensure your 9A# ECU has (9A#be871 or later ECU software installed.
The latest MBE9MD display software and updates are available here, this includes a video showing how to update the MBE9MD.
MBE9MD-DISP-CS01 Pin out information & Mounting details
Video showing MBE9MD start up, pages & some options.
Video showing MBE9MD rev limiter and shift lights
Video showing MBE9MD set up options
Video showing MBE9MD warnings
More information will follow soon.
LM9MD-DISP-01K (shown right)A complete display lead including curly flexible lead, that plugs directly into all our own wiring harness.
Anybody upgrading from the older MBE995 display will only need to add a new curly lead.


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A form of sorcery, or the magical manipulation of nature for self-aggrandizement, or for the benefit or harm of a client. Anthropologists have observed that in societies that lack formal political processes, sorcery accusations are often an indication of other social and economic tensions and conflicts
They have analyzed the killing of accused sorcerers as a form of control through which anti-social people are eliminated and social cohesion is reinforced. Anthropologists distinguish sorcerers, who acquire their powers through study and initiation, from witches, who inherit their powers.
European diabolical witchcraft was a form of sorcery that appealed to pre-Christian symbolism and was associated by Church leaders with heresy. The origins of witchcraft in Europe are found in the pre-Christian, pagan cults such as the Teutonic nature cults, Roman religion, and the speculations of the Gnostics ,the Zoroastrians, and the Manicheans.
Religious persecution of supposed witches commenced early in the 14th century. Trials, convictions, and executions became common throughout Europe and reached a peak during the 16th and 17th centuries. The colonies of North America shared in this fanaticism, particularly in Salem, Mass., where in 1692, 20 persons were executed as witches.
Early students of European diabolical witchcraft viewed it alternately as an invention of elites who used accusations of sorcery as an excuse to persecute people for material gain, or as a survival of pre-Christian folk religion
Historical Witches or witch-like creatures
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this image is a reproduction of an item actualy used in a witchcraft ceremony.
The Blair Witch Project...
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Salem Witch Trials...
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The Inquisition...
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Wicca and Other Beliefs...
no it's not all the same ..
wicca was founded in the late 1930's by Gerald Gardner
it is not the same as witchcraft.
As with all things there is good and bad and the misunderstood.Not all people who follow witchcraft are good,kind and loving but without dark there can be no light .It is up to the idividual to keep themselves in the light.
Wiccans believe in love and goodness it has evolved from traditional witchcraft and was originally based more in true magick but has become more of a spiritual religeon.
There are also different types of wicca and witta .
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See John 1:17.
See ch. 2:7.