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Mind readers....not!
People can't read our minds. If you don't reach out no one will reach back. If you don't speak you will never be understood nor known in any significant way. Fear is a vicious jail-keeper. Better to try and fail and try again, than stay locked up in a self made dungeon. To play it safe has its own misery; perhaps worse than to take a chance and get burned. We always choose, even if we don't spend time thinking about it. Our unconscious fears and thoughts manifest themselves in our anxieties and emotions. To pray with humility can be the start towards healing and courage--Br.MD
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Randall Sullivan Medjugorje testimony
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It has been my observation that nothing I have done in my life came easy or "naturally" to me.
Even in school I began to notice certain things such as tests, for example; I could study and memorize then when the time for the test came I oft times made the mistake of thinking I could pass the test because it seemed relatively easy. Stupid me, thinking that I was getting the answers right only to get the test back and discover I flunked it big time; it wasn't just once or twice but every single time.
The lesson I gleaned was that for me, all this nonsense about esteem and confidence was useless; unless I was second and third guessing my action, worrying about missing a step or basically sweating every step then I was doing something wrong.
So I learned as time went by to second guess myself with everything, whatever I did I had to try, I had to always double-check to make sure I wasn't doing something wrong or missing a step because if, at any time, it seemed to go easy and smoothly then I was definitely messing up big time.
It is not that I want to mess up nor am I anticipating something going wrong but the lesson has always been that if something seems easy then I am doing something wrong.
No action or skill ever really "flowed" for me, nothing came easy, readily or "naturally" so after a point I began to wonder what was worth doing if everything is a constant struggle. Even writing this is a struggle as I have to constantly delete and re-write things just to avoid mortally offending people or something.
Yes, I realize all skills take time and effort to develop and sometimes there are snags; I am not that ignorant or naive to think otherwise but there comes a time when it would be nice to have something come relatively easily, where something flows and seems "natural" thus making it more attractive and appealing to pursue.
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Hello everyone, I was just stopping by to say that I have been revamping my story, taking out parts I didn't like (such as the human bashing, that's been done to death at this point in Sci-Fi stories) as well as focusing more on a select group of characters rather than a bunch at once. I will be posting chapters here soon, so stay tuned!
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Since humans like to visit the woods to relax and recreate do bigfoot go to the city? If they did would they put on a human suit? After all humans put on monkey suits and act like primates for laughs and giggles.
Can you imagine a bigfoot at the outdoor bigfoot comedy club doing their routine in a human suit. They would open with "you know Gurtok I don't really believe in humans. All you have for proof is some fuzzy pictures and foot casts, humans don't seem to have toes, how weird is that?" (Club erupts with sasqutch hoots hollars and screams).
Don't you think Beezlebub should get into the tractor buisness? He is allready the lord of flies, flies are attracted to manuere, which in turn is used as fertalizer. Hmmm if he did that then he would have to wear coveralls and rename himself Bezzlebubba lord of tractor demons. (Gag first seen in a newspaper comic, non sequiter I think??)
Anyway these are some things to think about.
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As I lay on my couch, waiting for my paycheck to be deposited, I am left to wonder: how did my life get this way? A life where every simple task becomes a very expensive and elongated problem. A life where almost no one is willing to offer their assistance in matters where it is required. It seems like everyone I know has had some form of help from their families and/or friends. Be it, teaching them how to drive or helping them get their first job, whereas I have never received any such help from anyone. The most I got was some dishes and towels and a 'good luck' or two. But it's okay. I made it just fine for about a year until the bedbugs attacked. Now I am back to square one. My future hangs in limbo and I have no idea which way it will go. My bet is the wrong way but that's just me being pessimistic which should come as no surprise to those of you who have read any of my previous blogs.
Anyway, regardless of where I will be living next month, today I am purchasing a new cell phone because the one I have is a piece of absolute garbage. First of all, it doesn't even belong to me, it's built to be durable but the screen is cracked, since they focused on hardware when building it, the software is crap, Android 4.1 so it can't run Pokémon Go (which I've been waiting for and longing to play since I heard it was being developed), and the contract expires in a couple days with the option to upgrade but I am choosing not to because I don't like contract phones, they are way too overpriced. So I am buying a cheap-ish phone from Amazon as soon as the money hits my bank account. I am hoping and wishing that the phone arrives before Sunday (or even ships at all since the last time I tried this, the phone never shipped).
I've been a Pokémon fan since I was about 6 years old and I used to pray to God to make Pokémon real and well, this augmented reality smartphone game is probably the closest I'm ever going to get to that prayer being answered. At least until the virtual reality version. So to have it surprisingly released when I was not prepared was not cool. And now I've had to listen to almost all of my coworkers talk about it, I've had to read about it virtually everywhere on the internet and it seems I'm the only person in the country who really wants to play it but can't. Thousands of people who thought Pokémon was childish and stupid a month ago are playing it and loving every minute of it, even if they don't know what a Chansey is. Well I know all 151 Pokémon in the game and all 570+ of the rest of them. To say I'm a bit jealous is an understatement.
So, I am disregarding bills and even food to buy a phone that is up to par with my standards and I don't give a flying Rattata's ass what anyone thinks about it.
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I just joined Unexplained-Mysteries and am feeling pretty good. The reason why I came to this forum is that I just wanted to discuss certain issues that are hindering my usual life aspects. These issues primarily pertain to peculiar subjects like paranormal and psychics. Since 2010 I have been experiencing telepathic attacks that continue till date. I was at the beginning of my career and was all ready to run the marathon of my life. At first I was mentally distracted by loud real time voices that eventually tried cutting me off my surroundings and made me talk and murmur to myself. I live in a city that locates country's biggest mental hospital which I also frequently visited due to one of my relatives. So, I knew a few things about mental problems and a lot about Schizophrenia. My sleep patterns were disrupted, I woke up in the middle of the nights as if someone shook my body to wake me up, slowly I also realized that I have stopped dreaming and someone kept talking to me like trying to instruct me.
I never discussed this with my family or friends as everybody was and is so busy in their own life and above all I simply hated to be called a MENTAL. For the same when I visited my psychologist I simply complained him about my disrupted sleep patterns only. He prescribed me pills which he told were not the sleeping pills upon my concerns but they actually did put me to deadly sleeps. I hate those pills and try taking them only once in a month. But whether I liked it or not those pills did good bringing me back to normal. By normal here I mean that I was able to think and work normally again but the telepathic attacks never actually stopped. I also tried continuing the pills for a week but it did not worked..
I often became speechless and used to ignore talking to people. However, since the childhood and teen days of my life I have been a guy who loved and lived with comics and movies and believe me this habit of mine did helped me a lot. The best thing I did during telepathic attacks is that I never responded to it, mentally. I knew it very well that once I get engaged with it I would literally develop a habit of mentally talking to the attacker. I don't know how I realized this but I really did exactly that. Currently I frequently hear telepathic comments that depict me as dirty, foolish and useless. But after spending 6 years under such attacks I have learned to ignore it.
But ignorance alone never really ended this as I could feel myself being touched, pinched and pierced. My individuality got totally ruined and despite me feeling miserable at times I somehow manage to follow my daily schedules.
As for relief and treatment information I switched to the internet. I must admit it here that for 5 odd years I really wasted my time searching info relating to white and black magic. The only useful info I tracked was that such attacks are linked with voodoo doll magic where the doll is baptized in the name of victim. It was only this year in 2016 that I somehow changed my search keywords and landed on subjects like telepathy and psychic attacks. This way I came to know about a stone called Black Tourmaline which is said to absorb negative energies. I quickly ordered it online and am currently testing it. So far it had successfully helped in removing my headaches and I can now actually sleep peacefully. I tend keeping these stones in my right or left hand as I lie down on my bed and as I fall asleep I drop them beside my pillow. But what I still worry about is that black tourmaline does not completely stop it. I still feel it and feel really bad about it. Also, I never see proper dreams.
At first I tried running away from home, asked myself what, why and how of this could happen to me. Believe me I also once said to myself that I am the one selected for destruction. But I hold a few habits that somehow make me step out of the misery. I am a hardcore bodybuilder; I do a lot of exercise and without supplements. I am also a hardcore gamer who likes playing all new age and classic titles. I am also crazy about movies and prefer watching at least one flick daily. So what eventually I started to believe is that I am one of GOD's soldier and if that was not so why would such an evil thing may happen to me or I may have been doing the same evil to other people.
Currently I am continuing my search for finding a complete solution for shielding myself from such attacks. I do not intend living and ending my life with the same problem. Black Tourmaline stones provide relief but never actually stops it. Also, this stone would work miracles for normal people who wish bringing peace to their life and enhance their focus and performance. I have spend a lot of time on the internet but just like the ocean I know that I have searched or viewed only a small fraction of it. I have provided my story so that anyone else experiencing the same may get a positive reference and if someone reading this knows how to stop or end telepathy or psychic attacks may please revert to this post.
Wishing everybody cheers and good luck.
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The airline I work for is helping to transport Police Officers to Dallas to attend services for their fallen brethren. This morning we flew a number of NYPD officers in. As we taxied to the gate and I did my usual announcements, I added a few words: "I want to give a shout-out to the officers that are here to attend services today." There was a round of applause, and I said, "May God bless you and protect you, and may God bless America." Several people thanked me as they left the plane.
We still live in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, though we need to return to the fountain from which freedom and courage flow.
God bless America.
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Not my day it seems. Some nasty piece of work guy (keeping it g/pg on here) walks over to dads land cruiser (flat bed truck) and starts going off at me telling me to move it because it's blocking his drive way and he was trying to get in he was in already. I was saying look I don't drive so can't move it, he's in that house and named.... ask for him. The guy I'm going to get the council out, you fatty he starts trying to take photos of the land cruiser. At this point I'm MAD at getting verbally attacked he could have worded things better but didn't, I get out and in the process slip on the wet ground bang my head on a tree. This piece of work starts laughing and saying that I'm mentally unstable and he wasn't swearing at me. I block (by standing in front of number plates) his view and he's there Go fall again you've got something seriously mentally wrong with you. Me yeah I fing do it's Depression mate. He walks to front of land cruiser, I block and say GET THE F AWAY FROM MY DADS LAND CRUSIER, IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM HE'S IN THAT HOUSE THERE. Guys there WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO HUH WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO. Me shaking at this point barely holding tears in more then you know buddy. He barges to the door demanding the land cruiser gets moved (I was trying to ring dad at same time) and says to dad GET YOUR DAUGHTER IN CHECK SHE'S NOT STABLE! Are you kidding me WHO talks to a female (a little 5ft nothing young and he looked double my age and fair height difference on me) like that. Poor home owner knows the guy is a nasty piece of work and is there, I'm so sorry would you like a glass of water are you ok over and over. I have a headache, feel like I'm going to throw up, shaking, couple bruises and still crying after all this. He did not try calm he went for the verbal attack. I tried polite and had to get him to repeat when he asked who's car (it's not a car so I was confused and Cooper was barking) it was. Going for the mentally unstable line on anyone is low, I am mentally stable more then some it seems.
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This world is dark. It's cold. Empty. I am alone. There is no one else left. They have all gone away… to another place… another world. They have abandoned me. I walk in this lonely place with no destination because there is nothing to walk towards. But, I continue on my futile journey, anyway. There is nothing else to do. I am naked and afraid. I have no possessions, no food or water. Yet, still I live. It is a desolate and miserable existence, but it is still life. I cling to it like moss to a tree, because it is all I have. This life and this barren land is all I know. If I had a life before this, I can't remember it. I am nameless. I am no one. And yet, I am everyone, because there is nobody else. There aren't even any animals or plants. In this world, there is only the rusty ground, and me. Sometimes, I look up at the sky. It is always crimson. There is a sun, a bright orange circle piercing through the scarlet clouds. The sun never sets and it never moves. It's as if this place is frozen in time.
I continue to walk, my bare feet kicking up the red dust with each step. I don't know why I walk. All I know is that I have to. If I don't move, I will lose what's left of my existence. I know I will never reach my chimerical destination but still, I walk. Some part of me hopes that I'm wrong; that there is something else in this world. So, I keep walking.
I wasn't always alone. There were others with me not long ago. A man, a woman, a boy and a girl. They were like me. We were all wandering this place alone. I found the man first. We didn't talk much, because there was nothing much to talk about. We talked about the ground, the sky, and the emptiness and then we were silent. Then we found the woman and the boy. The woman claimed the boy was her son. The boy claimed the woman was his mother. Neither knew for sure because none of us knew anything, except that we were here. Then we found the girl. She was lying on her side, curled up in the fetal position, sleeping near a rock. She looked afraid and cold, so we woke her up and she agreed to join us.
So, there we were. The only five people in the world: A young man with thick hair, a thick beard and a thick head; a cautious and terrified woman; a silent yet playful boy; an innocent and timid girl; and me. We walked and talked, and then we slept. Sleeping was the only way to escape; for a short time the red was replaced with black. We did not dream, but still we slept. Then, everyone disappeared, and I was alone.
It must have happened while we were sleeping because all I remember is waking up and being alone. I don't know what could have happened to the others. They could have been taken to another world, another universe, or simply transported a few miles away. I suppose, another reason I walk, is for them. It has been quite a while, I think, since we were separated, but I still have hope that one day we will meet again. I will continue to walk this barren wasteland, I will continue my journey, and I will kick up tons and tons of rust-colored dust until I find something…or someone. I will not stop because I can't. There is nothing else to do.
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In Search of Truth
The Preface for I Met a Ghost at Gettysburg: A Journalist's Journey into the Paranormal
By Don Allison
In the end, my career choice was a clear one.
As a college student I thought about working in marketing, or perhaps obtaining a law degree. But I decided to pursue journalism, and for me it really was a no-brainer.
At my core I'm a very curious person. I want to figure out how things work, and why things are the way they are. I love to discover things for myself. When I have to rely on accounts from others I want to gather input from a number of people, so I can sort out, analyze and compare what they say.
What better way to pursue that passion than as a journalist?
Through the years I've covered murder investigations and trials, political hijinks, civil and criminal court cases and public controversies. I've interviewed far more people than I can even begin to remember, on topics ranging from the trivial to the monumental.
In doing so I've honed an intuition about people and things I'm observing or interviewing. It's almost a sixth sense, really, of perceiving red flags that indicate when people are lying or skirting the issue, or when something just doesn't feel right.
Sometimes people with something to hide go on the attack, or try to avoid truly answering a question. For example, when asked "Are you guilty?" they may reply "I don't think so," instead of a clear "No." At other times they simply appear uncomfortable, won't look you in the eye or just give off a negative vibe. In some cases the facts just don't seem to add up.
Whatever the situation may be, I try to ferret out the best information I can to illuminate the truth. Sometimes that involves telling both sides of a story – or three or four sides if necessary – and by presenting the best evidence possible I can let the readers decide for themselves.
I can't say I've never been wrong or drawn faulty conclusions – actually, who among us can ever say that. But I try to be accountable, and when I am wrong I want to acknowledge it and learn from mistakes so I can do a better job in the future.
For 34 years and counting I've worked at The Bryan Times, a daily newspaper in northwest Ohio. I was born in Bryan, and spent the majority of my formative years in nearby Stryker. Other than a few years residing in Toledo, where I completed my studies at the University of Toledo, I have lived in Williams County, Ohio.
People here know me. People knew my grandparents, aunts and uncles, and they know my parents, siblings, wife, kids, and cousins. I have worked all my life to build a reputation here. I want to be known as an honest, reliable, friendly person, someone who contributes to the community and helps to make it a better place.
As a journalist, every time one of my stories appears in print my performance is judged by my readers. In effect, my reputation is at risk every day if I don't do my job properly. Since I have been at work more than three decades – actually four decades if you count my early work in sports with the former Stryker Advance – I must be competent. If not I would have been thrown out on my ear long ago. In fact, from my earliest days at The Bryan Times I was charged with editing the work of others, in addition to my own reporting. In 1996 I was named editor of the paper, a role I filled for many years in multiple stints, and now I am senior editor, semi-retired to devote more time to my Civil War and other historical pursuits.
The point I'm trying to make is that when I put my name on a piece of writing, I stand behind it.
I thought long and hard before deciding to tackle this project, an exploration of the paranormal. I know many people are skeptical when it comes to this subject. I understand, because I was a stalwart skeptic and still approach each paranormal experience as skeptic.
The paranormal is not a subject I went looking for. It definitely came looking for me. After I have had experience after experience that I could not explain away by the laws of nature as we generally know them, I eventually felt compelled to learn more. The more I researched the topic, the more I realized my paranormal experiences were much more numerous and of a much broader nature than I had believed. And writing being at the core of my nature, I now feel led to share what I have learned.
Once I decided to proceed with this book, I realized I could hold nothing back. I am treating the paranormal as I would any other topic. I am sharing my own experiences and what I have learned from research. I am passing on what other people have told me about the subject and in some cases their own perceptions of what I have experienced.
I realize there are those who may laugh, or roll their eyes, or wonder if I have taken leave of my best judgment. But I appreciate the fact that such treatment has befallen many who have gone before me, people who put forward such outlandish ideas as that of a round earth, not a flat one; of man flying through the air or into space; a belief in rocks falling from the heavens; an impossible flow of energy we now know as electricity; and the sheer lunacy of waves traveling through the air transporting sounds and visual images to be retrieved by far-away machines.
It takes people with such vision to expand our knowledge, and our societal comfort zone. Without the willingness to explore the unknown, our society cannot advance.
So I will take this risk. I will do the best I can to present the evidence I've found and let my readers come to their own conclusions.
In fact, I stake my reputation on it.
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So I wandered around aimlessly for a while, thinking things over. What Zara said could be some of the answers I was looking for, but Dirth didn't seem to think much of him. I didn't want to get caught up in something that was phony, just a lot of gibberish. Zara was okay, but was he telling the truth or just jabbering about his imagination?
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Sometimes I wonder why I still come to this place.
I've considered leaving lately a few times. I mean honestly some of the people just seem borderline insane. How little they value human life. How much they care about religion. How much they value their guns. How they cry about freedom when they don't value it. Too many people just looking for a reason to start a civil war.
Sure there are the occasional sane voice and nice person, but too often they get drowned out in the sea of madness.
So perhaps I should go.
But then, isn't that lettiing those kinds of people win? I don't know anymore.
When the shooting happened I became angry and tired and since then, I've just become more tired, more angry at the pro-gun people. At their excsues, at the lack of concern for life, their talk of freedom, their barely concealled bloodlust/ The lies and their desire for a conflict that would tear their country apart. I'm just so tired, tired of them, tired of their idiocy.
Not to mention being tired of the whole breit thing and how all the leavers are jumping for joy despite the vote not being decisive, not meaning anything and the leaders of itopenly lying and having no plan (and the chaos after it). (And evenn then a pro-gunner wants us to gain arms, go ****ing ffigure.)
I'm just so tired of them. All of them.
In just over two weeks I head away anyway for a few days, so maybe I should do a break until after then.
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Like it or not public perceptions matter.
The smartest person in the room acting lackadaisical and looking disheveled might lead others to assume their possessing the same traits is acceptable.
If they don't operate at peak performance they could lose a job over not being profitable.
If everyone can't do it no one can.
Frown frown frown.
The hardest working member of the team constantly relishing the last one night stand or heavy bender might be a prompt to the next that over indulgence is alright.
Eventually, they could end up not being fit for duty.
Like it or not examples set can have a far reaching impact.
We never know what all occurrences we could have been mistakenly partially responsible for.
The day came when I decided the world didn't revolve around me.
Yes, it was very disheartening.
I'm extremely important to me.
But, I had to think about what life would be like in a world full of me's.
What if it was run by me's, and all the people I ran into on a daily basis were identical to me?
I wouldn't have liked that at all.
At that point I decided to embark on becoming the best me I can be.
I like to do my part.
I want to be a worthwhile contributing member of society.
I can't remember exactly how it was phrased, but I once heard someone make a statement to the effect of, be the change you'd like to see in the world; because you never know who might be watching.
After I was able to push my pride to the side I decided I full heartedly agree.
I don't want to influence anybody to make decisions which will dramatically alter their lives in a negative way.
So, today my fun matters a little less to myself, and I'm okay with that.
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As he stood there in his brown cords, red-suede-shoes and matching tan coloured duffle coat his demeanour was excitement. The doc casually adjusted his brill creamed side parting as he waited for the doors to slide open. Far beyond the glittery doors he could hear Emmas voice describing the next house mate.
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I see these old blog entries riddled with depression and anger,And i don't even recognize that guy!
I've grown firm and hardened to the worlds attempts at kicking me while i'm down and hoping that i won't get up,Now i can see through the thunderstorms and can appreciate them.The cleansing they provide,the darkness ever so temporary until pierced by the sun rays of mushrooms and psychedelic awakening.
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Still surrounded by the pin-point lights, Cloney asks, "What are these strange lights, Zerak?
"I don't know. They're all around us, but they don't seem to be doing any harm. They're like tiny stars."
"They are the portents of the Values," Zarkor says, still in his trance. "They will guide us safely to the Depository. Within their enclosure we are hidden from the guards."
Our three heroes glide on. As they approached ever closer to the mysterious glow ahead, Cloney exclaims, "Look! Even this close it's still just a wispy blaze of light! Where's the Depository?"
"I don't know, Cloney," Zerak replies. "I don't understand."
Zarkor, withdrawing somewhat from his trance, says, "You two must wait here. You will be safe within the lights. I must go on alone."
Zerak turns to Zarkor in surprise. "Alone? Why, Zarkor? I thought we were in this together."
"Because this is the will of the Values," Zarkor replies. "Only I am in telepathic contact with them, only I can be guided by them to accomplish the task at hand, to free the Values forever. Do not worry, I will return safely. Trust in the wisdom of the Values."
Zerak and Cloney are silent as Zarkor in his Safety Cube drifts slowly away toward the glowing brightness beyond. When Zarkor is finally out of sight in the great nothingness, Zerak turns to Cloney.
"We'll have to trust in the Values and in Zarkor, Cloney," he says. "There's nothing else we can do. It's up to Zarkor now."
"I don't like this," Cloney says, peering into the darkness after Zarkor. "Zarkor all by himself is a danger to himself, and probably to us as well. I'm afraid he'll get himself in mischief and we'll have to rescue him!"
Suddenly Zarkor's Safety Cube can be seen returning to Zerak and Cloney. "He's coming back!" Cloney exclaims. "He probably got scared and needs our help after all."
When Zarkor has reached his two friends, he turns his Safety Cube to face Zerak and Cloney.
"I thought you were going to free the Values," Zerak says. "What happened?"
Now completely out of his trance, Zarkor is angry. "This is impossible! They're still arguing! First they want me to come to them alone, then they change their minds and tell me to wait until they've made a unanimous decision! I'm tired of all this drifting about listening to all their stupid clatter! These Values still can't decide on any reasonable plan of escape. It's useless."
"I though they knew what they were doing all along," says Zerak.
"They're still debating among themselves," Zarkor says in frustration. "It's confusing, telepathically listening to their pointless discussions. They can't make up their minds about anything! I'm going to confront these so-called Supervisors myself," he says finally. "My superior intellect will be more than a match for their puny minds. After all, they're all just accountants and stuff, right? Supervisors, indeed! From what the Values tell me, their all incompetent fools. They say it's always been a mess in that Depository. One of them is always escaping then being recaptured. These so-called Supervisors keep loosing track of who's there and who's missing. That's why thru need that Sentinel and all those stupid guards!
"The Values are smart enough to escape sometimes," Cloney offers timidly.
"Yeah, but they don't know where to go when they do! They just wander about aimlessly until some guard spots them and then they're brought back. Stupid. That's why I'm going to take matters into my own."
"But what about the Vulgarians?" Cloney asks fearfully.
"I'll deal with them, too," Zarkor states definitely. "I've met Vulgarians before once, or who they said they were. This Vulgarian guy was all fierce talking at first, but I soon put him in his place. In the end he was apologizing to me for the mess they made of this Universe!"
Zerak and Cloney stared at Zarkor in wonder. "You met a Vulgarian?" Zerak asked, bewildered.
"Sure!" Zarkor says proudly, and even in his Safety Cube they could see him puff himself up. "It's when I bought that classic ship from Cousin Billy's Pawn Shop, remember? I met this guy, Mr. Brain in a diner, and we went to this Vulgarian Outpost and I gave that stupid Vulgarian a good talking too."
"You never mentioned that to me," Zerak says.
Zarkor looks a little pale. "Well, for some reason you didn't want me to fly that ship. You said it was junk, that Cousin Billy cheated me. Well, it wasn't and he didn't. It was a classic space ship, real old world craftsmanship. I still have it, in fact, tucked away on the planet. Needs a little maintenance now, I'll admit, but it's spaceworthy. It's a classic!"
Zerak turned and looks at Cloney, then back to Zarkor. "Maybe we should wait until the Values finally make up their minds," he says cautiously. "We don't really know enough about all this to make any real decisions, do you think?"
"Nonsense," Zarkor snarls. "You two wait here, I'll straighten all this out. My infallible intuition tells me all I have to do is use my superior intelligence on these inferior species, these so-called Supervisors. And if any Vulgarian interferes, I'll deal with him, too."
With that, Zarkor quickly glides ay from Zerak and Cloney, not looking back.
"Do you think we should follow him?" Cloney asks. "I just know he's going to get himself into trouble, and probably us with him."
Zerak turns once again at the distant glow. "Perhaps," he muses. "But there's more to Zarkor than you know, you being so young and all. I have some confidence he'll succeed better than we may think."
Cloney looks at Zerak doubtfully. "Maybe, but I know Zarkor, too. I'm the one who had to save him on our Adventure on the Next Continent, remember? I just hope his Dumb Luck Implant is up and running. I have a feeling he'll need it."
Zarkor, all alone now, continues his glide toward the glowing mist ahead. After a while he spots a solid structure within the brilliant filaments of light. "That must be where the stupid Supervisors are," he says to himself. Altering his course, he heads for a large silver globe to the side of the bright filaments.
Zarkor drifts around the globe until he spots what he considers an entranceway. Gliding up to it, he telekinetically knocks on the metal door. After a moment, a voice from inside yells out, "Who's there?!"
"It's me, Zarkor," Zarkor answers. "Let me in!"
"Who?" The interior voice asks.
"Zarkor!" Zarkor shouts impatiently. "Let me in or I'll blow the door open!"
There is confused shuffling heard from inside. "What do you want?" The voice says, then it adds, "Go away!"
"You better let me in, whoever you are!" Zarkor shouts at the door. "You're in big trouble! I'm on a mission from the Galactic Council, and if you don't want to be arrested right away you better open up!"
There is momentary silence from inside. Then Zarkor hears some confused conversations. "Well?" He shouts.
More confused exchanges from the interior. Finally a voice yells out, "The Supreme Council has no authority over us!"
"Oh no? If you don't want Council battle ships to arrive, open this stupid door!" Is Zarkor's response.
There is a squeaking sound as the outer door of the silver globe slowly begins to open. "That's better," Zarkor says as he drifts inside the airlock. The outer door closes and air hisses into the chamber. The inner door then swings wide and Zarkor is confronted by three Humanoid Supervisors.
Looking at the three, Zarkor mutters, "I should have known, Humans."
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I want to find a new job. I'm tired of where I am and to be honest, I don't think this firm will be around much beyond the end of this year.
My problem: I've done virtually nothing for the last 10 years and have lost all confidence in what I am capable of doing. I work for 2 architects. One of them very rarely lets me type emails or letters for him; the other I always type emails/letters for him because he has virtually no knowledge of computers and is happily ignorant. The problem is that he doesn't send many letters or emails. I answer the phone, three lines, but it doesn't really ring all that much. We have the odd visitor, but not as often as other architect firms probably have. I make sure all supplies are stocked and when we have the occasional lunch n learn, I organize the meal ordering.
That has been the extent of my work life for the last 10 years. I have always been willing to learn new things, new programs, but these two guys never wanted me to learn anything new.
I look at job descriptions and hesitate to apply because I am scared I will be overwhelmed and fail under pressure. I don't know what to do.
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I do apologize for this overdue update. I'm here to talk more about my little family. The pack as you know, The Scattered Ruins, has grown a bit more. Up to 11 members now and still a few more to come. Many plans for us all have been set for this summer. Our main event being the meet up at my place. We are going to be cooking out, sleeping out in the yard under all the stars, hanging at the park, and going to a wolf park about an hour form my place. The pack had had some major news, a lot I am not going to be going into, of new members and stuff outside of it all. Welcoming new members is always a hard time as some may not get along with others. As the alpha I'm constantly making sure everyone is ok and safe.
Besides the pack I have my own events planned. I have two graduations and three open houses to go to. After my sister finishes summer school we are heading to Kentucky until a few days before a Slipknot concert. We are returning for a few days over the summer to camp out and get in to see Slipknot. We are buying pit tickets for the event, with about four or five of us going to the event. Besides these major events nothing to special is happening.
Well iv given you an update on what's going on. I'll try to do more updates and statues over the summer since I won't be as busy as I normally am. Major events and updates will always been spoken about within this blog here.
So for now this is Lunar Wolf signing out. Have fun my mates and make it a great summer.
~Lunar Wolf~
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These are the Aspie stereotypes I dislike the most, and why they don't apply to me.
-Aspies are nothing but fleshy computers (I can think creatively, a computer cannot)
-Aspies stink at social communication and etiquette (I have decent social communication skills, but etiquette? Ya not so much…)
-Aspies are apathic and do not care for the emotions of others (I am VERY empathic)
-Aspies are "anal retentive" and only care about useless factoids (I care about more things than factoids)
-Aspies speak in a monotone devoid of even the slightest emotion (My voice is quite emotional)
-Aspies don't swear (I admit this is true for me)
-Aspies talk with an air of superiority (I never speak to anyone like this)
-Aspies are doomed to stay single unless a girl takes pity on them (I cant really say much about this one, I've never had a GF)
-Aspies are only male (I have known female Aspies)
-Aspies are little more than children and need constant care and supervision (I spend a good part of my life alone, and I can take care of myself)
-Aspies are only into "Autistic things" (What, pray tell, is an "Autistic thing"?)
-Aspies have embarrassing "episodes" (I have meltdowns from time to time, but I wouldn't call them episodes)
-Aspies are just faking it for attention (I despise it when people say I'm "just faking it")
-Aspies are your typical nerds/geeks (Aspies can be anything, we are not nerds or geeks in the traditional sense)
-Aspies aren't emotional (I am quite emotive.)
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If there were a regular square root I would multiply the top by its adjacent and divide, but I've tried that with this problem and it doesn't work. Not sure what else to do have been stuck on it.
$$ \lim _{n\to \infty } \sqrt [3]{n^2} \left( \sqrt [3]{n+1}- \sqrt [3]{n} \right) .$$

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What's the best method for storing steaks in the freezer? How should I wrap them? Should they be stored individually?
Yes, store them individually.
First, wrap them tightly in plastic wrap, preferably one that says it's specifically for freezer use. Then wrap this tightly in aluminum foil. They'll keep for months without freezer burn this way.
Vacuum-sealed in plastic bags works really well. You can put multiple in each bag as long as the vacuum sealer can get all the air out.
Keep in mind that a frost free (refrigerator) freezer is not a good place to store anything, and in particular, meat.
In general, I keep food that I intend to use soon upstairs in the fridge freezer for convenience, but If I'm storing it for a week or more, It goes down in the basement deep freeze.
A frost free freezer keeps warming up to melt the ice, giving very inconsistent temperatures. and can even lead to partial thawing of the surfaces of meat.
Wrap well in plastic (individually) and then put in a freezer bag. We can get 6 months easy. Possibly more but I haven't tried.
I wrap steaks individually in freezer paper, then put them into ziploc freezer bags. The freezer paper is really nice because it doesn't stick to the meat.


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I have a non-singular square 0-1 matrix and I want to bound the sum of absolute values of its inverse as a function of n (or the vector 1-norm). Asymptotic results are also useful.
Does anyone know any result that can help me?
Thank you, ifog
I have a non-singular square 0-1 matrix and I want to bound the sum of absolute values of its inverse as a function of n (or the vector 1-norm). Asymptotic results are also useful.
Does anyone know any result that can help me?
Thank you, ifog
The entries can grow at least exponentially. Let $T_n$ be the $n \times n$ matrix with ones on the main diagonal and first and third upper off-diagonals, and zeros elsewhere. Then $T_n$ is upper triangular of determinant $1$, but its inverse has top row $1, -1, 1, -2, 3, -4, 6, -9, 13, -19, 28, -41, \ldots$ whose absolute values satisfy the recurrence $t_m = t_{m-1}+t_{m-3}$ so the $n$-th one is asymptotically proportional to $C^n$ for some constant $C>1$ (namely $1.46557\ldots$, the real root of $C^3 = C^2 + 1$).
Since $T_n$ is sparse, the entries of $T_n^{-1}$ can grow no faster than exponentially, as is seen by expressing them as $(n-1) \times (n-1)$ determinants (Cramer's rule) and applying Hadamard's inequality. Thus for sparse matrices $C^n$ is best possible but for the size of $C$. For a general $n \times n$ matrix with 0-1 entries and nonzero determinant, the same method gives an upper bound of $n^{(n-1)/2}$. I do not know whether the entries can actually grow faster than exponentially, i.e. faster than $C^n$ for any fixed $C$, but would not be too surprised if that's possible.
gp code for $n=12$:
for T12 and
for its inverse.
If one is interested in the typical answer (when the matrix is a random 0-1 matrix) rather than the worst-case answer, then the inverse behaves a lot better than exponential. Indeed, in view of the results of Rudelson and Vershynin, it is likely that the j^th smallest singular value of the matrix has typical size $j/\sqrt{n}$. (Technically, the Rudelson-Vershynin result doesn't directly apply because the matrix is not normalised to have mean zero, but it is likely that the conclusions of that paper also apply to the off-centered case, after removing the exceptional outlier singular value of size about n/2.) Since the Frobenius norm of the inverse is the sum of negative second powers of the singular values, this Frobenius norm should then be about $O(n^{1/2})$, which implies by Cauchy-Schwarz that the $\ell^1$ norm of the inverse should be about $O(n^{3/2})$ typically. (Roughly speaking, this suggests that individual entries have size $O(n^{-1/2})$, a finding which is consistent with Cramer's rule and the limiting law for the determinant of a random 0-1 matrix (which has value about $\sqrt{(n-1)!}$ on the average, see e.g. this paper of myself and Van Vu).
An answer is given in:
N. Alon and V. H. Vu, Anti-Hadamard matrices, coin weighing, threshold gates and indecomposable hypergraphs, J. Combinatorial Theory, Ser. A 79 (1997), 133-160.
Indeed C above is essentially sqrt n
An observation: As long as we stick to upper triangular matrices, as in Noam's answer, we can't get growth faster than $2^n$. More precisely, let $a_{ij}$ be an upper triangular $01$ matrix with $1$'s on the diagonal and let $b_{ij}$ be the inverse matrix. Then I claim that $|b_{i(i+k)}| \leq 2^{k-1}$ for all $k>0$.
Proof: Induction on $k$. The case $k=1$ is easy because $b_{i(i+1)} = - a_{i(i+1)}$. In general, $$\sum_{r=0}^k b_{i(i+r)} a_{(i+r)(i+k)} =0$$ so $$|b_{i(i+k)}| = \left| \sum_{r=0}^{k-1} b_{i(i+r)} a_{(i+r)(i+k)} \right| \leq \sum_{r=0}^{k-1} |b_{i(i+r)}|.$$ By induction, the last is bounded by $1+1+2+4+\cdots+2^{k-2} = 2^{k-1}$, and we are done.
Summary The answer below mentions a conjectured lower bound on the Frobenius norm of the inverse of a (0-1)-matrix. I have removed the now irrelevant simple observations that were based on matrices with real entries in $[0,1]$. Exponential upper bounds are discussed in Noam's and David's answers. The average case is described by Terry.
As far as I know, proving the following lower bound $$\|A^{-1}\|_F \ge \frac{2n}{n+1},$$ is still an open problem. Further, the conjecture states that this lower bound is achieved iff and only if $A$ is an S-matrix (which is a (0-1)-matrix). See Problem 7 in this handout for more details.


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The Windows operating system features built-in infrastructure services (Service Control Manager and Task Scheduler) that help manage background processes. Windows takes advantage of the built-in services to provide system management, device management, and
system maintenance functionality.
Significant improvements have been made to this infrastructure for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Developers can use these improvements to develop Windows services that are efficient and that contribute to the overall system performance and security.
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We have recently created "Service Trigger Editor", a free GUI utility for adding/editing/viewing Service Triggers:
For those who want to explore Trigger-Start services, it is a good alternative to using the SC.exe command (or writing your own code).
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Seattle Parks and Recreation Jesús Aguirre, Superintendent
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Warren G. Magnuson Park
Your organization is welcome to hold a meeting or special event in Warren G. Magnuson Park's Sand Point Historic District.
Warren G. Magnuson Park has a variety of special event venues that will fit your needs. Historic Building 30 is home to both the newly renovated Hangar and the Officers Club.
The Hangar is a former aircraft hangar that offers approximately 20,000 square feet of open space. This unique venue space is a blank slate waiting to be transformed into your creative vision. It hosts weddings, special events, book and art sales, roller derbies, and remote control car and airplane events. Capacity is 1300, theater style. Weather permitting, large garage doors can open at both the north and south ends of the building to expand the capacity.
The Officers Club at Magnuson Park was previously the military Officers Club and was refurbished in 2013. This intimate and historic space offers a main hall with a gas fireplace, a fabulous art-deco style bar and a caterer�s kitchen with a refrigerator, icemaker and warming ovens. The space holds up to 142 depending on room layout. It is housed among 35 artist studios.
Once an actual �brig� military jail, Building 406 is an informal space similar to a community center. It has several rooms available for informal events, meetings and classes. The Brig is a great place for birthday parties, art classes, meetings and other activities. Rooms range in size from 25-140 person capacity depending on layout.
Many groups combine both indoor and outdoor spaces for special events. Magnuson Park has over 350 acres that include 12 sports fields, a dog off-leash park, swim beach, boat launch, wetlands and miles of pathways.
View the documents below for more information. Call 206-233-7892 to inquire about availability.
A Park Use Permit may be required to reserve the park space in which you are interested.
There are three large picnic shelters available for reservations.
To find out more, view the picnics page.
Find out about upcoming events in Warren G. Magnuson Park
View the Events Calendar.
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Southern Wines & Spirits of Pennsylvania literally has hundreds of wines available for:
• Wine dinners • Tastings for your consumer• Wine promotions • Wait staff trainings and seminars
ABSOLUT Vodka and Flavors Black VelvetCanadian ClubChivas Regal Scotch Cruzan Rums DeKuyper Cordials El Mayor Tequila Glenlivet Scotch Jagermeister Liquor Jameson Irish Whiskey Jim Beam Bourbon Jim Beam Black Bourbon Kahlua Coffee Liqueurs Knob CreekMakers MarkMichael Collins Irish Whiskey Malibu Rums
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Southern Wine & Spirits of Pacific Northwest Corporate Social Responsibility
John Klein, Executive Vice President, General Manager of Southern Wine & Spirits of Pacific Northwest (Southern)—encompassing Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho and Montana—is extremely proud of the large number of Southern team members across all seven states who have offered their volunteer time and donations to a wide range of national, state and local charitable groups. In 2013 and continuing through 2014, Southern has offered support to more than two-dozen different community-based, non-profit organizations across the region.
Columbia Winery Charity Run & Walk—Supporting Seattle Children's Hospital
For eight years, Matt Haskins, Senior Vice President, Wine for the Pacific Northwest has participated in the Columbia Winery Charity Run & Walk, which benefits the Children's Hospital in Seattle. In 2013, Southern was one of the single largest independent donor groups of the Charity Run to support families struggling with medical bills. In 2014, Southern employees raised more than $14,000 for the run. The need for uncompensated care grows each year and is expected to exceed more than $100 million this year. Of the 100,000 patients treated at Children's each year, 65% need financial assistance.
The Columbia Winery Charity Run & Walk is hosted by The Run for Children's Guild. For more information, please visit: http://www.runforchildrens.org
Detlef Schrempf Foundation
In June 2014, Southern donated a selection of wines and spirits from its supplier partners to the 21st Annual Detlef Schrempf Celebrity Gala and Auction. The Detlef Schrempf Foundation serves as a fundraising entity for Northwest children's charities, enabling organizations to expand their own fundraising efforts. The foundation's vision is to assist these organizations in their quest to provide children a better chance at succeeding in life.
Guests of the event included more than 500 local business leaders, celebrities, athletes and philanthropists. Proceeds raised from The Ripple of Giving Gala fund The Healing Center and Inspire Youth Project.
For more information, please visit: http://detlef.com/
Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery
In 2014, Southern donated to the Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery in Spokane, Washington. The mission of the Crisis Nursery is to provide immediate refuge for children and support to strengthen families. This mission evolved from the tragic story of Vanessa Kay Behan, a Spokane girl who died from child abuse injuries at the age of two. Following her death, a group of local business people established the Crisis Nursery so that parents would have a safe place to bring their children in the face of crises."
The Crisis Nursery provides 24-hour child care for infants and children under the age of seven, parent education, crisis counseling for parents, and referrals to other community agencies. For more information, please visit: http://www.vanessabehan.org/
Covenant House Alaska 2014 Fire and Ice Ball
In January2014, Southern donated wines and spirits from participating supplier partners to the Fire and Ice Ball, with all proceeds going to the Covenant House Alaska. Covenant House Alaska has served thousands of homeless, at-risk, and trafficked youth in Alaska. Their sole purpose is to help youth in crisis 24-hours a day. Through three main programs—emergency shelter, street outreach and transitional living programs—Covenant House Alaska meets the basic needs of youth in crisis, while also providing them with the support to become healthy, self-sufficient, contributing members of our community.
This year's Fire & Ice Ball was a huge success. $500,000 was raised to benefit Covenant House Alaska. In just one night, guests provided funds to keep their doors open 24 hours a day for over 100 days. Thanks to this fun night of fundraising, hundreds of young men and women will have a safe, warm, loving roof over their heads.
For more information, please visit: http://ak.covenanthouse.org/fire-and-ice-ball
Anchorage Robert Burns Appreciation Society:
In 2014, the Anchorage Robert Burns Appreciation Society held its 22nd anniversary of the Anchorage Robert Burns Supper in honor of Scotland's greatest poet, Robert Burns. The charity event proceeds are earmarked for local charitable groups such as local Armed Services YMCA, Food Bank Alaska, and Breast Cancer Focus Alaska, among others. Southern supported the event though an in-kind donation of wine and spirits.
For more information, please visit: http://www.tarbas.org/index.php
Oregon Food Bank's Annual Food Drive
Thanks to the active participation of Southern team members, the annual food drive collected several hundred pounds of non-perishable goods which was donated to the Oregon Food Bank in Portland. The Oregon Food Bank distributes emergency food to hunger-relief agencies throughout Oregon and Clark County, Washington. In addition, Oregon Food Bank's metro and statewide services teams provide technical assistance and training to hunger-relief agencies and matches local donations to help agencies build capacity to better serve the community.
For more information, please visit: www.oregonfoodbank.org
One Warm Coat
One Warm Coat is a national non-profit organization that assists in the donation of coats. One Warm Coat helps individuals, groups, companies and organizations across the country collect coats and deliver them to local agencies to distribute to people in need.
Southern's Oregon team partnered with local retail customers to collect and donate several hundred coats for One Warm Coat of Oregon. For more information, please visit: www.onewarmcoat.org
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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The woman convicted of killing her ex-husband and his fiance has asked to postpone sentencing.
Dana Chandler filed a hand-written motion Wednesday asking the August 20th date be postponed. The date would have been her 30th wedding anniversary to Mike Sisco.
Jurors convicted Chandler of the July 2002 shooting deaths of Sisco and Karen Harkness in Harkness' Topeka home.
The state is seeking a "Hard 50" sentence.
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Recent and archived news articles by Dan Frosch of The New York Times.
Refusals Cut Options After C-Sections
Despite guidelines declaring vaginal births after previous cesareans to be safe, many hospitals do not perform them for fear of complications.
April 15, 2014, Tuesday
MORE ON: Hospitals , Pregnancy and Childbirth , Wyoming
New Mexico Is Reaping a Bounty in Pecans as Other States Struggle
Thanks to sophisticated irrigation systems and an arid climate that helps ward off crop disease, New Mexico farmers are enjoying a bumper crop and high prices.
March 28, 2014, Friday
MORE ON: Drought , Pecans , Las Cruces (NM) , Irrigation , New Mexico , Agriculture and Farming , Southwestern States (US)
A Livelihood in Nuclear Waste, Under Threat
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the nation's only permanent underground repository for nuclear weapons waste, revived Carlsbad, N.M. But it has been closed since a leak.
March 21, 2014, Friday
Amid Toxic Waste, a Navajo Village Could Lose Its Land
A tiny community in the Navajo reservation in New Mexico is bearing the brunt of the environmental damage caused by decades of uranium mining, and may have to leave.
February 20, 2014, Thursday
MORE ON: New Mexico , Uranium , Nuclear Wastes , Mines and Mining , Navajo Indians
Small Towns in Southwest Fear Loss of Cherished Train Line
The Southwest Chief route, a lifeline to rural communities, is in danger if Amtrak cannot persuade three of the states it runs through to help fund track repairs and maintenance.
February 18, 2014, Tuesday
MORE ON: New Mexico , Lamy (NM) , Southwestern States (US) , Amtrak , Rural Areas , Kansas , Railroads , Colorado
A Severe Winter Breaks Budgets as Well as Pipes
Local and state authorities are facing new financial pressures this exceptionally stormy winter, with officials reporting increased spending on overtime, contractors and supplies.
February 16, 2014, Sunday
Government Said to Undervalue Coal Leases
The federal coal leasing program run by the Bureau of Land Management does not have a consistent means of ensuring that fair prices are paid for the leases, a new report says.
February 5, 2014, Wednesday
Indian Groups Question Public Child-Welfare Practices
Several prominent Native American groups on Monday called for the Justice Department to investigate the treatment of Indian children in public child-welfare systems and private adoptions.
February 4, 2014, Tuesday
MORE ON: Foster Care , Adoptions , Native Americans , Justice Department
Judge Rejects Execution Delay Over Use of Compounded Drug
Lawyers for an inmate in Missouri said the drug to be used was likely to be substandard because it was produced in a compounding pharmacy not subject to federal drug safety regulations.
January 28, 2014, Tuesday
A Harder Outlook for Today's Cowboy
As new technology and changing demographics overtake an old calling, the herd of cattle — and ranchers — is declining in the United States.
January 26, 2014, Sunday
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Published: Tuesday, February 19, 2013, 2:08 p.m.
Report: Sounders trade for MF Shalrie Joseph
Earlier this month, MLS veteran Shalrie Joseph was a surprise visitor at Sounders FC preseason training, and at the time the former All-Star midfielder was hopeful that he could land in Seattle for the 2013 season.
Joseph was still property of Chivas USA at the time, but the L.A.-based club had made it clear that he wasn't part of their future. After Joseph trained with Seattle for two days, however, Sounders FC coach said it was unlikely that his team would acquire Joseph, but now the deal is reportedly done. The team hasn't announced anything yet, though that is likely to happen this afternoon, but according to Soccerbyives.net, Seattle has traded a 2014 second-round pick for the seven-time MLS All-Star.
As Ives Galarcep speculates in his report, it is likely that Chivas is picking up a good portion of Joseph's salary for 2013, because Joseph's current contract has him paid as a designated player (he made $554,333.33 last season) and it is pretty unlikely Seattle would be willing to use its final DP slot on Joseph, especially when Schmid told reporters the following after Joseph trained with the team for a couple of days:
"I'm sure we're going to sit down and talk to them. But there are a lot of hurdles to jump over and hoops to go through in order to make that happen. ... I'm sure there's a number of other teams that probably have an interest in him; but it's all going to come down a little bit to what Chivas wants to do, what Shalrie wants to do as well. But at the end of the day, it's something that it would be great if it happens, expectations are that it's probably not going to happen."
Schmid also told reporters that Joseph didn't appear to be in very good shape: "It's very evident that he hasn't trained in a while. It's evident that he's very much behind physically, as well. He still needs to make improvements in that regard. You can see little sparks of what Shalrie has brought over the years -- that's why he was a Best XI player -- but he's still a ways away from that form."
Then again, maybe Schmid was just trying to drive the price down a little bit for a player he really wanted.
Golf clap for Sigi Schmid pulling the old school garage sale haggle. "This is a piece of junk, but I'll give you a buck for it" #PokerFace
— Ives Galarcep (@SoccerByIves) February 19, 2013
UPDATE: Sounders FC has now announced the trade, and as it turns out Joseph will be a designated player, and contrary to the report, Seattle is getting draft picks rather than giving them up, apparently for being willing to take on Joseph's contract.
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On a previous visit to Germany, I'm sure I've heard (although I may well be very wrong) native Germans using an abbreviation of
The abbreviation I think I heard was
Schuldi or something similar sounding to this.
Am I correct?
Do Germans have an abbreviation for the word
Entschuldigung that's in the common vernacular?
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Ideally the tool should be
- easy to use
- able to work with images taken without a tripod (i.e. allow to align the images)
- free
First and foremost, the best "tool" for creating HDR images is having a proper understanding of what HDR is, and why you might need to use it. Most people are familiar with the classic "HDR Look", while at the same time not fully understanding why the classic HDR look is not necessarily how an HDR image should look.
HDR, or high dynamic range, is a means of increasing the usable, functional range of contrast and color depth in a photo. Realistically, this provides greater flexibility when working with such an image, but there should not be any fundamental differences in how the resulting image looks.
My preferred tool for working with HDR images is Photoshop. Adobe Photoshop, for several versions now, has offered a
Another popular tool is Photomatix. This tool is explicitly designed to generate HDR images, and it has a fairly rich feature set. Photomatix is well known for creating images with that "classic HDR look", and if that is what your looking for, this is definitely the tool you want. There are some drawbacks to Photomatix, however. It sometimes has problems with generating noise, rather than eliminating it, when merging multiple shots. The end result is grainy images that have larger grains than your normal digital noise, but on par with film grain. Another quirk of Photomatix is that sometimes it caps off highlights lower than it should, limiting the available dynamic range you have to work with for bright highlights.
Hugin will meet needs 2 and 3. Not sure about #1, but try it out and see if it's close enough.
Try Luminance HDR. It's free (open source).
This flickr group can also show you some examples of HDR being used.
If you are not afraid of using the command line interface, then I can recommend align_image_stack and enfuse. I like the default settings. The output is not the cartoon like image. Details appear on the bright and dark areas.
The simple commands I use
It generates prefix0001.tif prefix0002.tif prefix0003.tif. The next step is enfuse
Photomatix and Photoshop are the big ones, Hugin is the free option but nobody mentioned oloneo - www.oloneo.com . I personally like Oloneo next to my Photoshop CS4 - the advantage I see in Oloneo over Photomatix are significantly simpler controls.
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Then, the Cabinet reviewed a number of reports on foreign developments, focusing particularly on efforts to contain the crisis in Syria. The ministers expressed support for the demands issued at the Friends of Syria Conference held in Paris last week. They called upon the U.N. Security Council to issue a prompt order, according to Chapter VII of the U.N. Charter, mandating that Syria comply with the plan of U.N.-Arab League Envoy Kofi Annan. They also noted the need for a political transitional process in Syria, as well the enforcement of U.N. sanctions against the Assad regime.
Turning to other regional issues, the Cabinet denounced Israel's continued oppression of the Palestinian people by violating their rights, sending them to prisons, and confiscating their properties to expand settlements. It demanded that effective measures be taken to deter Israel from continuing its expansionist, aggressive policies, which go against global legitimacy and will and have led to the collapse of peace negotiations.
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I am thinking about a proof of the following:
Suppose a map $f: A \to B$ has a retraction. Then for any set $T$ and for any pair of maps $x_1 : T \to A$, $x_2 : T \to A$ from any set $T$ to $A$ $$ \textrm{if } f \circ x_1 = f \circ x_2 \textrm{ then } x_1 = x_2. $$ The proof uses the diagram from the picture and I am wondering in what way the diagram shows anything? I understand the algebraic manipulations, but where does it follows from the diagram alone?


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Yes, I would LOVE Stedman Bailey in the third!!
Surprised Keenan Allen is still on the board. Would love to see him keep dropping
Keenan Allen would be interesting...but gives off a Limas Sweed vibe, IMO.
Hope we get a decent DB or two before this thing is over. Good ILB would be nice, too--I'm thinking they may take the kid from Penn State late in the draft.
Safety is a HUGE NEED in the fourth. Phillip Thomas, please!
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Excuse me for being totally uninformed, but it usually seems like creative types of people i.e. graphics designers prefer Macs over PCs for accomplishing their tasks. I was wondering, why is this? Is it because the software is designed specifically for Macs only?
There's also the aesthetic side to it. I am and have always been a PC user. However, I still have to admit that OS X and Mac hardware have always been better designed from an aesthetic standpoint than Windows/PC.
Designers naturally gravitate towards beautiful designs. And since we all draw inspiration from our environment and absorb influences from the designs we come across, being surrounded by beautiful typography and stylish interfaces all the time can also make you a better designer.
The Mac culture and Apple brand are also very attractive to creative types (musicians, artists, writers, etc.) because of the way Apple has marketed themselves (e.g. the Think Different. campaign). Not all of this is marketing of course. Macs have deliberately catered to designers and artists, producing high-end DCC workstations and developing strategic partnerships in the multimedia production industries to make sure that leading tools were designed specifically for Macs.
In addition to preinstalled (high quality) creative software, Macs have also historically come standard with a better spread of fonts than PCs. It also didn't hurt that Macs came with high quality S-PVA or S-IPS displays instead of the common TN displays that most PCs come with (this is starting to change as Apple tries to cater more to the general public).
When you see Guitar Center selling Pro Tools + Macbook Pro bundles and your university media center is equipped entirely with Apple workstations and 30" Apple Cinema displays, what are you liable to buy as a musician/graphic designer/animator/etc. when you decide to buy a workstation?
Between the aesthetics, their strategic positioning in digital media industries, their brand appeal, their momentum, and their ease of use, it's no wonder that most designers choose to just drop a couple of grand on a Mac instead of building their own PC for 20-30% less.
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I think it's dangerous to make this generalization, but it seems to ring true to a lot of people. I think there are a lot of nuances and history behind this but it all sort of boils down to the obvious. Graphic designers appreciate good design.
Macintosh computers are designed from the ground up to be elegant, easy to use, and an integrated experience. Compared to other computers, they tend to just "get out of your way" and require less technical fiddling. This appeals to creative types who just want to use the computer as a tool.
Historically, Macintosh computers have been at the core of many design industries, practically inventing Desktop Publishing, so a lot of this is also simply design "culture" and industry inertia.
Be aware that this is all generalization, and it's dangerous to pass judgement on any specific person's preferences. There are plenty of graphic designers who use other tools and are just as creative, just as there are plenty of hacks pounding away on Macs.
I do not think that nowadays it is particularly true any more about Mac better than PC for graphic design. You do not have to have a Mac to be a Graphic Designer. PC & MAC have same potential in software and hardware. I love and hate both, and use both for various things.
In past where 2 factors to make you choose the mac:
Nowadays for me there are just 2 factors that it will make you choose a Mac
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I still think that for web design it is better to use PC (because otherwise you cannot test the bad font rendering, or IE unless you install an emulator on Mac) and if you can buy a Mac as well because it is good to see the difference between OS.
PC are cheaper and software is cheaper too. But you might find more incompatibility between parts in hardware that with Mac. Mac instead wants you to buy every single accessories from them, and it cost you twice as much.
Virus are on both OS, just on PC are much more than on Mac.
I love on Mac the "finder", I hate that you cannot cut and paste, but only drag to cut something.
Windows is easier to put your hand on the OS system and hack it, Mac has a more close and restrictive software.
I personally prefer to have a PC Tower (where I can open and change the hardware easily, and mess up with software), and a Mac laptop (that normally you do not open and it has a better durability in battery and lighter than PC version).
Probably a Mac user would have a better opinion, but from the 'outside' its seems like Macs more consistently deliver high quality experience. The hardware is damn attractive and the OS (from limited experience) is more consistent at giving you information you need and hiding information you don't (though Windows 7 was a huge improvement Microsoft). Hardware and software feel integrated in a way that is extremely rare in the Windows world.
These things especially give Macs a style that is almost drug-like for art types.
As far as practically performing better; there are too many variables that it is bound to be extremely subjective. You can definitely get the raw computing components more cheaply on the Windows side of the fence. But that doesn't tell the full story in how they are put together, how they work with the software, and how the entire package enables your work flow.
What is beyond dispute is that you can produce good design from a Windows machine or from a Mac, and not feel at a significant disadvantage either way.
The Macintosh project creator Jef Raskin had great experience in interface design and usability. IMHO, usability and productivity are the main reasons to use Mac. You just create, without having to think about how to make your creative environment work. Its easy to make up-and-running.
Mac has better support, and better initial funtionallity. You do pay more for this, but if you are willing to pay for all the extras, you can get a PC close to the standard of a Mac but the argument that PC is so much cheaper and can do as well... that's a bad joke. To get close you have to purchase a lot of extras. A base PC will not compare to a base Mac in function. Now I'm the first to admit, you pay for that functionality, more than I feel is proper, but actual comparison (yes I use both platforms as a professional graphic designer) the PC cannot function nearly as well. My 'high end' windows XP chokes routinely, whereas my older G-4 hums right along. The newer G-5 blows the PC out of the water every time. I can't wait to get them to upgrade to the newer mac system. Save your pennies and buy a PC, I have yet to find a seasoned Graphic Design or Video professional worth his salt that doesn't prefer a Mac. Everytime I hear someone claim to be a 'professional' graphic designer who swears by PC, I ask about their work history... 'professional' always ends up seeming a little optemistic description for what I hear.
If you don't know your way around computers, mac might be easier to get into. PC offers more customisation at much lower price. Generally I think Apple reaps the benefits of superstition in this area of comparison. Ofcourse, if you just had put your money into getting brand new Mac, you do want to believe that it's better. In no way I can imagine Mac handling my graphical errands better than my PC. I have used them at school few years ago, but I highly doubt that anything has changed.
From Mac users I often hear them only praise how little work they have to put up with while installing stuff like drivers. And how little they have compatibility issues. For me, it doesn't change a thing, because I know my way around my windows. I like not having to pay Microsoft a dime when I get hardware upgrades, but I guess you could install OS X on a regular PC as well(?not true?).
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JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. – The home standing Carson-Newman Eagles used hot shooting to outpace the Anderson men's basketball team, as the Trojans opened a two-game road swing with an 87-79 setback in South Atlantic Conference action Wednesday night at Holt Fieldhouse.
Anderson (18-7, 13-6 SAC) slipped to third in the conference standings and had its' two-game win streak halted. Carson-Newman (17-6, 14-5 SAC) claimed sole possession of second place in the league standings with its sixth straight victory and managed a split of the regular-season series, while improving to 13-1 at home on the season.
With three games remaining on the league's regular-season slate, the SAC tournament field has been set, as Brevard, Mars Hill, Tusculum and Catawba have been eliminated from the postseason tournament, while the remaining eight teams are battling for seeding in the event.
"I am very proud that we did not quit," said Anderson head coach Jason Taylor. "I am also very proud of the group of guys that went in in the second half – that was a huge positive. We'll get better."
The Trojans were out-rebounded, 36-33, on the night, marking the first time in 11 contests that Anderson lost the battle of the boards. Carson-Newman shot 56.4 percent on the night – the highest accuracy for a Trojan opponent this season – and out-scored AU 42-18 in the paint.
Guards Chandler Hash and Myson Jones shared team-high scoring honors, as each netted 22 points on the night. With his effort, Hash moved into third place on AU's scoring list and now has 1,354 career points. Jones' scoring output matched his career high, while the junior also dished out four assists. Senior guard CJ Gleaton added 10 points and a team-best seven rebounds, while senior forward Kyle Sledge handed out a career-high six assists.
Carson-Newman forward Antoine Davis, the reigning South Atlantic Conference Player of the Year, led all scorers with 29 points, while guard Ishmael Sanders added 22. Sophomore forward Carson Brooks posted a double-double with 10 points and 13 boards, with freshman forward Sawyer Williams tallying 10 points.
Jones led the Trojans early, sandwiching a pair of 3-pointers around a jumper from Williams to give Anderson an early 6-2 advantage and his two free throws at the 16:48 mark, followed by a short jumper from junior center Chris Ross boosted the lead to 12-7 – marking the Trojans' largest lead of the contest.
But the Eagles rattled off six straight points and took their first lead of the contest, at 13-12, on an inside basket off the glass from Williams. The Carson-Newman lead was brief, however as Gleaton answered on the other end with his first 3-pointer of the night from the left wing to regain the lead for the Trojans, at 15-13, with 14:05 on the clock.
But the Eagles countered with a 17-5 run over the next 6:46 to jump out to a double-digit, 30-20, advantage, with Davis leading the way for Carson-Newman. AU's Nick Jackson and Hash combined for five unanswered points for the Trojans to trim the deficit to just five, but the Eagles responded with a 9-2 run to take their largest lead of the opening 20 minutes, at 39-27.
Anderson closed the half with a 13-3 outburst behind Jones' three 3-pointers to trim the deficit to just 42-40 at intermission.
But it was as close as the Trojans would get, as the Eagles opened the second stanza on a 12-3 surge to claim a 54-43 lead with less than 16 minutes remaining in the game. Carson-Newman went on to build a 70-49 cushion at the 8:50 mark, but the Trojans steadily chipped away at the deficit and battled back within 83-77 with 21 ticks on the clock. The Trojans sent Carson-Newman to the line six times in the final moments, with the Eagles sinking four to hold on for the win.
Anderson wraps up its two-game road swing at Coker on Saturday at historic Timberlake-Lawton Gymnasium. The Cobras will be looking for a sweep of the season series after edging the Trojans, 83-81, earlier this season at the Abney Center. Tip-off is set for 4 p.m.


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CAC students also are required to attend a seminar each week that focuses on the substantive topics of child welfare, SSI, public benefits, kinship care, and special education. It also covers lawyering skills, professional responsibility, the various and diverse roles that lawyers must assume, how the roles might differ if one's client is a child, and the benefits of and issues involved in an interdisciplinary, problem-solving approach to child and family advocacy.
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The ladies in attendance at Crossroads Bible Church Saturday, May 4 were transported into "Candy Land" for the annual Mother's Day Event hosted by members of the church. The entire facility was decorated in the Candy Land theme and each table provided sweets for guests. In addition, several games were played along with a guest speaker who geared the talk to women of faith.
It took a small army of members of Crossroads to create and design the set. The idea was created last fall and individuals began working on the background and room decorations, which ranged from candy style decorations hung from the ceiling to wooden cutouts of ice cream cones, lollipops and candy canes. Guests were greeted by a balloon wall filled with more than 1,200 colorful balloons.
Melody Nelson served as the emcee for the event. A special fashion show was held to portray characters in the Candy Land board game with all fashions provided by Maurices of Harrisburg. As an added bonus, each guest was presented with a 20 percent off coupon along with a gift from Crossroads Bible Church.
Also included on the program was a humorous take on mothers and the things they say and do while guiding their children through life. Amanda Allen sang the words to the theme of The Lone Ranger for an entertaining portion of the program which was a hit to all in attendance.
The guest speaker for the day was Ruth Conard, who is based in Minneapolis and is the mother of Nelson. Conard and her husband, Bill, have served in various capacities around the world as missionaries and speakers. She has provided support and guidance in more than 25 countries and worked for several years in Peru, raising three children during that time frame. Conard is also an ordained minister and an accomplished writer and had several of her books available during the program, including "Designer Women Made by God," "Moments of Awe" and one of her works from the "Aware Series."
The message that Conard brought focused on four "P's", praise, presence, pardon and perseverance. Her uplifting testimony told those in attendance to "live your life, forget your age," and to praise God every day for one's blessings.
The "Candy Land" theme followed former events for Mother's Day, which included "What's in a Woman's Purse" and "Tea Party" over the past three years. Laura Bergeron of Norris City and Promise Bradley of Galatia provided the art work on many of the decorations and props for the day dedicated to God and mothers at Crossroads Bible Church.
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I love playing Pocket Empires on my Android phone and I'm trying to conquer some neighboring counties.
I usually send my speed bumps (1 Paladin, 1 Hussar, 1 Militia) and then all my ranged units. But I'm wondering what would be the best strategy for conquering counties.
- Should I add other units like Trolls or Demons to soak more rounds of damage?
- How many siege weapons do I need and are the Battering rams of any use?
- How many Lizards or Black Widows should I send to do the bulk damage without loosing too many?
Any suggestions for a solid strategy are welcome!