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A clever display of words can be a powerful tool in the marketing field. But when it comes to designing a store or an office for that matter, there is a lot more that is needed then just wit. The atmosphere and look of a department store is attained essentially through a combination of both artistic design and theatrical settings closely similar to that of a miniature house or a decorative playing area.
Store Design:
In the world of retailing, style matters. That's why many retail stores are opting for more impressive and dominant interior designs and shop fronts to enable them to increase sales. Hiring retail designers will certainly give you the advantage of using your store's space in the correct manner.
By adding more character to the ambiance, a designer can transform your department store into a place which has a cosy and peaceful setting with comfortable couches and chairs, along with creating ample space for the customers to wander through.
Most departmental stores are divided between different sections like fashion, footwear, accessories, toys and the nursery all having their own unique personality that attracts the customers as they enter.
By adding bespoke features and comfortable furniture, the retail designer can create an urban and quirky space which is pleasant and inviting to look at. For most modern department stores, the aim is to create a place which is both interactive and playful to parents and children alike.
But more importantly, the department store should be easy to navigate through, with interlinking spaces, appropriate aisle arrangements and oversized doors that differentiate the men's fashion from the women's and the other departments respectively.
Exhibit Design:
When it comes to exhibitions, it's all about creating visual displays that are fit for a king. But not all of us are gifted in creating such artistic delights which is why the services of a designer should be acquired.
The idea is to create a design which stops the busy shopper (or blogger) in their tracks with a burst of colour, props and drama that help showcase the product. The design used for the exhibition should be striking yet not rigid, sleek yet not tamed and colourful yet not cheap. It is vital for the exhibition's design to be authentic and unique while being like a magnet to the visitors, drawing in curious crowds with a welcoming sense.
Office Design:
By using simple aesthetics, a retail designer can transform an office space giving it a distinct look, leaving the original concrete columns and roof beams intact. While decorating office spaces, the aim should be to create a space that adds certain togetherness while letting the employees create their own space and identity.
Retail designers have the uncanny ability to create and identify visual trends and then apply them through a professional prospective keeping both the commercial and consumer aspects in mind. Their ability of attention to detail and understanding the consumer's need allows them to develop a brands image and make it look more appealing.
Retail design is such a profession where knowledge and experience are not the only requirements. In this profession, artistic talent is something that is vital to move forward in the industry. In addition to this, it is a field where it is crucial to stay up to date with all the new trends arising periodically.
About the Author:
The author is an accomplished entrepreneur who runs a string of business ventures. Writing articles in his spare time is a way for him to communicate the professions that inspire and excite him like that of retail designers, fashion photography, etc.


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Collection Summary
Title | Alden Partridge papers, 1807-1959 |
Span Dates | 1807-1959 |
Bulk Dates | (bulk 1817-1842) |
Creator | Partridge, Alden, 1785-1854 |
Extent | 650 items ; 4 containers ; 1.4 linear feet ; 2 microfilm reels |
Language | Collection material in English |
Location | Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
Summary | U.S. Army officer, engineer, educator, and state legislator from Vermont. Principally letters (1817-1842) received by Partridge from students and their parents relating to educational matters at the United States Military Academy, the American Literary, Scientific, and Military Academy, and other academies with which Partridge was associated from 1808-1850; letters and documents concerning military activities during the War of 1812, a dispute between Sylvanus Thayer and Partridge over the administration of the United States Military Academy and Partridge's court martial; a library journal; student rolls; and letters or copies of letters written by Partridge, including several to James Monroe. |
Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009049 |
LCCN Permalink | LC Online Catalog record for this collection: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm78052597 |

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A 75-year-old Catholic priest charged with molesting a Northeast boy more than a decade ago is in custody with bail set at $1 million.
The former assistant pastor of a Northeast Philadelphia Catholic parish has been arrested and charged with repeatedly molesting an altar boy over a three-year period.
A Holmesburg man who alleges he was molested at a Northeast Catholic parish school, was among nine plaintiffs who on Tuesday filed eight lawsuits against the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, its leadership and seven priests.
Lynn recommended placing Brennan in Resurrection parish, the DA said, even though the archdiocese's own hospital that evaluates and treats priests accused of sexual abuse had warned that Brennan exhibited evidence of pedophila and that he presented future risk.
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Gatton Academy senior develops, releases commercial app
Date: Friday, January 17th, 2014 | Return to Archive |
Gatton Academy senior Ethan Gill of Bowling Green has developed and released his first commercial application for iOS devices.
Gill developed his HueHueHue app out of personal necessity. "I own Philips Hue lights which are supposed to make your life easier," he said.
Hue lights are a wireless lighting system for the home that can be remotely controlled by a smart device to turn on or off and to emit various colors and shades. "However, having to unlock my phone and wait for an app to load ended up being slower than just turning off a light switch," he said.
His HueHueHue app resolves this "simple" issue allowing the user to toggle Hue lights with a simple action on an iPhone or iPad. Once configured, the app can even run when the screen is locked, simplifying the process and saving the user time.
WKU's winter and summer terms provide Gatton Academy students additional time needed to explore and develop their unique passions. During the 2013 summer term, Gill was awarded the Gatton Academy Research Internship allowing him to conduct computer science research under the direction of Dr. James Gary, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Department Head.
Currently, Gill is developing apps and attending national programming competitions during WKU's winter term as part of his Gatton Academy winter term learning project.
"Gatton Academy students undertake a range of activities during winter term. From classes to study abroad to community service to job shadowing, we ensure that every Academy student is active in their learning during the university's three-week intersession," said Derick Strode, Assistant Director of Academic Services at the Gatton Academy. "Ethan's pursuits in programming are an exact model of how students are using winter term to creatively advance their learning, research, and career goals."
Gill's application for compatible iOS devices is available on Cydia at http://moreinfo.thebigboss.org/moreinfo/depiction.php?file=huehuehueDp
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Top 10 Dropouts - Quarterbacks
Running Backs
Wide Receivers
When FFToday asked me to author this piece a year ago, I figured it was a pretty low-risk proposition. I mean, yes, I was going to be sticking my neck out and projecting performance over an entire season (margin of error +/- 100%). But does anyone really go back and check this stuff? Would anyone actually be keeping score?
Thank God for Al Gore and his Internet, I always say! Turns out
I'm pretty good at this prognostication business
. That, or I'm just really lucky and the column you're about to read isn't going to be worth the pixels it's displayed on in six months. Tell you what: I promise to keep it entertaining if you promise to conveniently forget these predictions next summer should they end up being completely off the mark. Deal?
Without further ado, let's examine the Top10 quarterbacks, running backs, and wide receivers from 2011—along with those who dropped out from 2010—and see if we can identify some potential underachievers for the upcoming 2012 season.
Note: All rankings are based on FFToday's default standard scoring.
Top 10 Quarterbacks - 2010
Peyton Manning
Aaron Rodgers
Drew Brees
Philip Rivers
Michael Vick
Tom Brady
Eli Manning
Matt Schaub
Matt Ryan
Josh Freeman
Top 10 Quarterbacks - 2011
Drew Brees
Aaron Rodgers
Tom Brady
Cam Newton
Matthew Stafford
Eli Manning
Philip Rivers
Matt Ryan
Tony Romo
Mark Sanchez
Missed the Cut in 2011 (4 of 10):
P. Manning, M. Vick, M. Schaub, J. Freeman
The extent of
Peyton Manning
's injury hadn't been determined—or at least publicly acknowledged—as of press time last year. The suspense actually continued into the first several weeks of the season, long after barely suspecting owners had gobbled him up in their respective drafts. Best case, you drafted late and he was a mid-round "value" pick with significant upside. Worst case? Well, use your imagination. The bottom line is he went from being the No. 1 fantasy signal caller in 2010 to literally not playing a down in 2011. Ouch.
Speaking of ouch…. Though Manning's forced sabbatical was surely rough on fantasy GMs, most at least had enough time to troll for a competent stand-in. This was not the case for those of you who ignored my warnings (tsk, tsk) and put all your fantasy eggs in
Michael Vick
's basket. It's not that Vick was awful (he ranked 12th overall at the position) or even that he missed an unusual amount of games (just three). However, he wasn't the dual-threat demon he had been in 2010, and I'm guessing Weeks 11 through 13 weren't exactly the most ideal weeks to be without his services.
On the bright side, the Philly Phlash did return for the fantasy playoff stretch run. This is more than can be said for
Matt Schaub
who, following an absurdly efficient performance in Week 9, never returned to action for the rest of the season. Schaub wasn't exactly tearing things up before his hiatus (ask me how I know this) but he was solid enough and playing in a solid enough offense to keep balanced contenders in the mix.
Josh Freeman
, the last of our floundering four, was decidedly nonsolid for most of 2011, though plenty healthy. Despite throwing a whole bunch more passes and adding four rushing scores to his overall ledger (he had none in his breakout 2010 season), the developing field general managed only 16 passing touchdowns and flung a whopping 22 picks, just one fewer than league leader Ryan Fitzpatrick, and the same number erstwhile Tampa punchline Vinny Testaverde tossed in his third season with the Bucs. Like I said…ouch.
The Most Likely Candidates to Fall from the Top Ten This Year:
Cam Newton, CAR
The preceding trio notwithstanding, the Top 10 class of QBs in 2011 was, without question, the single most productive in fantasy history, evidenced by the fact that five of them easily surpassed the 400-point mark, young Mr. Newton included. To put that in perspective, only four QBs have bested that total in the previous 10 years combined! Just in case you needed further proof that the NFL has become primarily a passing league.
So, why am I so sure the wunderkind from Auburn will slump in this, his sophomore, season? Well, I'm not. In fact, I'm not at all convinced, though history suggests three of the Top 10 will fall from the ranks of the elite in 2012. Nevertheless, for the sake of argument, here's why he might.
Newton tallied a whole bunch of those 400+ points with his preternaturally powerful legs. His 14 rushing touchdowns, in fact, were second only to LeSean McCoy's 17 on the season. If you don't think defensive coordinators didn't spend all offseason devising ways to keep the big fella in the pocket, you haven't watched much NFL football. He'll still be insanely dangerous when tucking and running (not to mention barrels of fun to watch), but 14 is a ton. I'd take the under for 2012.
Even if Newton continues to be a terror on the ground, I suspect he'll never be a polished professional passer. I remember watching him struggle in the 2011 BCS chip against my Ducks (GO DUCKS!), and my opinion of him as a thrower hasn't changed: He looks pretty chucking it, yet the results are sometimes anything but. Indeed, his quarterly yardage splits from last year support this observation and tell a pretty troubling tale. Despite averaging 346.5 passing yards per game through his first four starts, Newton's average dropped to 251.75 in his next four, and then to 226.0 and 188.5, respectively, in the successive four-game sets to finish out the year. In other words, he ended the season averaging almost 150 yards per game fewer than he had in the beginning. If that's not a downward trend, I'm not sure what is.
Which Manning would you prefer?
Eli Manning, NYG
First Newton and now the reigning Super Bowl MVP? Shall I have my head examined? Manning's about as solid as they come these days. He's topped the 4000-yard mark three years running. He's won two of the last five Super Bowls. He's handled himself with aplomb in the sport's biggest fishbowl. In short, what's not to like?
For starters, there's his 82.1 career passer rating. That's worse than all of the following quarterbacks, none of whom will be threatening to crack the Top 10 anytime soon:
Jason Campbell
Matt Cassel
David Garrard
(does he still play?), and
Joe Flacco
(yawn). Sure, there are more important things than passer rating when it comes to fantasy calculations, but I'm of the belief a more comprehensive measuring stick for overall production at the position has yet to be found.
Additionally (and this explains the aforementioned passer rating), the younger Manning continues to be, after eight professional seasons, habitually turnover-prone. Even during his eminently successful 2011 campaign, he managed to throw 16 passes to the bad guys. In fact, he's only kept his pick total under 14 once as a full-time, full-year starter. For the sake of comparison,
Aaron Rodgers
Tom Brady
, the respective gold standards at the position, haven't gone over that number in 14 combined seasons as the main men.
Finally, Manning's heading into the 2012 season with a lot of new pieces around him. Gone are Mario Manningham, Jake Ballard, and Brandon Jacobs. MIA for training camp is his No. 1 target, Hakeem Nicks. Is it really so hard to imagine the G-Men suffering a post-Super Bowl hangover and getting off to a sluggish start? Put it this way: if I were forced to draft a Manning this upcoming season, it wouldn't be this one.
Mark Sanchez, NYJ
OK, so I'm not exactly going out on a limb here with guys like
Peyton Manning
Michael Vick
champing at the bit to reclaim Top 10 status. I'm aware. Here's what I absolutely wasn't aware of: Gotham's other quarterback, the much maligned Mark Sanchez, actually ended up being a Top 10 QB in 2011! How in the world did that happen?
For starters, The Sanchise didn't miss a single game. In fact, he's only missed one start in three full seasons as the Jets' field general. Half the battle of attaining Top 10 status (and maybe more than half) is staying upright. Also, for a guy who will never be confused with the aforementioned Vick or the soon-to-be-mentioned
Tim Tebow
(spoiler alert!), Sanchez has turned into a super-sneaky source of rushing touchdowns these past three years. Despite averaging just 100 yards per season (and a pedestrian 3.0 yds per carry), he's already tallied 12 touchdowns on the ground in his brief career, six of them in 2011 alone.
Alas, the wildly popular Tebow now brings his hugely unorthodox talents to the Big Apple, clouding Mr. Sanchez's immediate future. How ironic that the latter, a surprisingly productive scorer on the ground, should be crowded up by one of the game's most prolific running quarterbacks. The former Trojan may have nothing to fear in the long term, but there's no question Tebow Time will impinge upon this particular aspect of his game. Forced to fall back on a 73.2 career passer rating (yuck), the Top 10 is probably going to be a distant memory for Mark Sanchez come 2013.
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The writings of C. G. Jung himself are the best place to read about all his main ideas—but where to start, when Jung's Collected Works run to more than eighteen volumes? Robert H. Hopcke's guide to Jung's voluminous writings shows exactly the best place to begin for getting a handle on each of Jung's key concepts and ideas—from archetypal symbols to analytical psychology to UFOs. Each chapter explains one of Jung's principal concerns, then directs the reader where to read about it in depth in the Collected Works.
Each chapter includes a list of secondary sources to approach for further study—which the author has updated for this edition to include books published in the ten years since the Guided Tour's first appearance.
News & Reviews
"The best single introduction to Jung that I have seen."—Paul Roazen, author of Encountering Freud: the Politics and Histories of Psychoanalysis.


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Top Items:
Jonathan Allen / Politico:
Why they want to go over the cliff — Washington's Democratic and Republican power brokers have sent the message to the nation that going over the fiscal cliff is a worst-case scenario. But they're not acting that way, not at all. — Instead, many of them have calculated that it's better …
ABCNEWS, CNN, Washington Post, The Hill, Firedoglake, Salon, Guardian, AMERICAblog, The Week, Politicker, ABCNEWS, Business Insider, neo-neocon, Connecting.the.Dots, The Caucus, Taylor Marsh and New York Times
Talking Points Memo:
Obama To Congress: Come To A Deal - Or Else — Following a meeting with congressional leaders at the White House on Friday, President Obama appeared before the press to urge all parties to take immediate action to reach a deal before a set of major tax increases and spending cuts kick in on Jan. 1.
PERRspectives and Balloon Juice
New York Times:
Obama to Urge Fiscal Vote in Senate if Two-Party Talks Fail — WASHINGTON — President Obama said Friday evening that progress had been made in make-or-break talks on the fiscal crisis and pronounced himself cautiously "optimistic," as Senate leaders worked furiously toward an agreement …
The Hill, Taegan Goddard's …, Outside the Beltway and Balloon Juice
Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
'Come together' breaks Washington apart — Twitter has been rather amused by Starbucks' plan to solve the fiscal cliff by scrawling "come together" on every peppermint mocha and salted caramel latte sold in the Beltway. — This will not bring people together. (EVA HAMBACH/AFP/Getty Images)
Manu Raju / Politico:
Reid, McConnell will try to cut deal — President Barack Obama called on Senate leaders to hammer out a last-minute deal to prevent taxes from rising on Americans across every income group, warning that he otherwise would push Congress to allow an up-or-down vote on an emergency fiscal package just before the new year's deadline.
The Lonely Conservative, Washington Examiner and Daily Kos
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Optimism for 'fiscal cliff' agreement grows ahead of White House meeting
Optimism for 'fiscal cliff' agreement grows ahead of White House meeting
Politico and Booman Tribune
Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
GOP and Feinstein join to fulfill Obama's demand for renewed warrantless eavesdropping | Glenn Greenwald — The California Democrat's disgusting rhetoric recalls the worst of Dick Cheney while advancing Obama's agenda — To this day, many people identify mid-2008 as the time they realized …
Mother Jones, Wired, JustOneMinute, Hullabaloo, Techdirt, Firedoglake, The Raw Story, The Verge, The Atlantic Online, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Hit & Run
Matt Sledge / The Huffington Post:
FISA Warrantless Wiretapping Program Renewed By Senate
FISA Warrantless Wiretapping Program Renewed By Senate
PostPartisan, The Hill, Electronic Frontier Foundation, msnbc.com and The Daily Caller
Adam Serwer / Mother Jones:
Senate to Intel Agencies: We Don't Need to Know How Often You Spy on Americans
Senate to Intel Agencies: We Don't Need to Know How Often You Spy on Americans
Cato Institute, Techdirt and The Raw Story
Ramsey Cox / The Hill:
Senate approves bill to reauthorize foreign surveillance programs
Senate approves bill to reauthorize foreign surveillance programs
Hit & Run and The Maddow Blog
Paul Krugman:
A Double Shot of Misunderstanding — One of the enduring fantasies of the pundit class - most dramatically demonstrated by the ludicrous Politico piece on What Insiders Know - is that all we need to fix our economic problems is to get the great and the good together and bypass those pesky elected officials.
Politico, Mother Jones, Balloon Juice, Business Insider and The Week, more at Mediagazer »
Rachel Weiner / Post Politics:
John Kerry, Vicki Kennedy, DSCC support Ed Markey for Senate — The Democratic establishment inside and outside Massachusetts is quickly lining up behind Rep. Ed Markey (D) in the likely special election for Sen. John Kerry's seat. — Kerry himself is supporting the longtime House member …
Boston Herald, Associated Press, The Fix, The Maddow Blog, Daily Kos and The National Memo
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Senate Republicans refuse to confirm Kerry until Hillary testifies about Benghazi
Senate Republicans refuse to confirm Kerry until Hillary testifies about Benghazi
Washington Monthly and Pirate's Cove
Louis Charbonneau / Reuters:
National Rifle Association vows to fight arms trade treaty at U.N. — (Reuters) - The leading U.S. pro-gun group, the National Rifle Association, has vowed to fight a draft international treaty to regulate the $70 billion global arms trade and dismissed suggestions that a recent U.S. school shooting bolstered the case for such a pact.
Gregory L. White / Wall Street Journal:
Putin Signs Ban on U.S. Adoptions
Putin Signs Ban on U.S. Adoptions
Associated Press, Politico, LifeNews.com, Power Line and New York Times
Chicago Tribune:
Grim milestone: Austin shooting apparently 500th homicide in Chicago — Gave Bates smiled through tears as she swiped her hand across her phone, flipping through pictures of her cousin playing around and striking goofy poses. — "He was a lot of fun, very good at imitating people," Bates said of Nathaniel T. Jackson, 40.
Weasel Zippers and Shot in the Dark
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Tea Party Leader: Romney Was 'The Worst Candidate In History' — Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips on Thursday disputed that President Obama claimed a mandate in November's election, arguing that his re-election victory came over "the worst candidate in history in Mitt Romney."
Crooks and Liars
Dallas Morning News:
Exclusive: David Dewhurst campaign says aide stole at least $600,000 — Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst (front), receiving an endorsement during his U.S. Senate campaign from former rival Craig James, had hundreds of thousands of dollars stolen from his state political accounts by an aide, his campaign says.
The Fix, Talking Points Memo, Ballot Box, Politico and Post Politics
Harry J Enten / Guardian:
How polarisation in Washington affects a growing feeling of partisanship | Harry J Enten — Legislators may no longer feel they have reason to play to the middle making Washington seem more divided than ever — "Can a divided House stand?" is a question that Nate Silver posed in a blogpost Thursday.
Taegan Goddard's …, theGrio, The Maddow Blog and msnbc.com
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
The logic of House GOP intransigence
The logic of House GOP intransigence
Los Angeles Times, Wake up America, Booman Tribune and CNN
Chelsea Karnash / CBS Philly:
3 Officers Wounded After Suspect Opens Fire At Gloucester Township Police Station — CLEMENTON, NJ (CBS) — Police and rescue crews responded to the Gloucester County Municipal Building on Chews Landing Road this morning after shots were fired inside the Gloucester Township police station.
Runnin' Scared, Gawker, The Raw Story and The Hinterland Gazette
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama Orders Pay Raise for Biden, Members of Congress, Federal Workers — President Barack Obama issued an executive order to end the pay freeze on federal employees, in effect giving some federal workers a raise. One federal worker now to receive a pay increase is Vice President Joe Biden.
Michelle Malkin, The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers, Twitchy and The Lonely Conservative
Garett Sloane / New York Post:
Rage against rules — Instagram revolt — Instagram users outraged over new rules made good on their threat to dump the popular photo-sharing app. — The app, which Facebook acquired for $1 billion earlier this year, may have shed nearly a quarter of its daily active users in the wake of the debacle …
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Jason Volentine / KASW-TV:
Sheriff Arpaio sending armed posse to protect schools — PHOENIX — Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Thursday that he plans to deploy his armed volunteer posse to protect Valley schools from the kind of violence that happened in the Connecticut shooting tragedy.
AMERICAblog, Mediaite and The National Memo
Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
112th Congress Set To Become Most Unproductive Since 1940s … REACT: — FOLLOW: — 112th Congress, Harry Reid , John Boehner, Republican Party, Congress Productivity, Olympia Snowe, Bipartisanship, Congress Unproductive, Fiscal Cliff, Unproductive Congress, Politics News
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
High-Capacity Magazines Bill To Be Introduced By Democrats On First Day Of Congressional Session … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Gun Control, Video, Politics News, Assault Weapons, Assault Weapons Ban, Democrats Gun Control, Gun Control Bills, Gun Control Democrats, Gun Control Laws …
Weekly Standard, Weasel Zippers and Hot Air


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In this four-session small group bible study, Just Walk Across the Room, author and pastor Bill Hybels equips you and your small group with simple, practical ways to share your spiritual journey.
In it, Hybels shares his firm conviction is that the highest value in personal evangelism is being attuned to and cooperative with the promptings of the Holy Spirit. This means playing only the role one is intended to play—walking when the Spirit says to walk, talking when the Spirit says to talk, and falling silent when the Spirit suggests that you've already said enough.
According to Hybels, the goal for every Christian is to reflect Christ's love and follow his example by stepping outside one's circle of comfort and extending a hand of care, compassion, and inclusiveness to people living far from God.
The DVD includes four video sessions that expand on the teaching from Hybels' book of the same name, as well as personal testimonies of lives transformed by the Holy Spirit. Also included are all the sermon and promotional materials needed for churches to successfully launch and sustain a four-week whole church campaign.
When used together, the Just Walk Across the Room Participant Guide and companion DVD provide you with a practical tool that can help grow your faith.
Sessions include:
Session 1 – The Single Greatest Gift
Session 2 – Living in 3D
Session 3 – The Power of Story
Session 4 – Grander Vision Living
Contributor(s) | Bill Hybels |
About the Contributor(s) | Bill Hybels Bill Hybels is the founding and senior pastor of Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Ill., and chairman of the board for the Willow Creek Association. The bestselling author of more than twenty books, including Leadership Axioms, Holy Discontent, Just Walk Across the Room, The Volunteer Revolution, and Courageous Leadership, and classics such as Too Busy Not to Pray and Becoming a Contagious Christian, Hybels is known worldwide as an expert in training Christian leaders to transform individuals and their communities through the local church. He and his wife, Lynne, have two adult children and two grandsons, Henry and Mac. |
Publish Date | Jan 29, 2013 |
Weight (lbs) | 0.5200 |
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Public Knowledge (PK) is a relatively new advocacy group whose agenda is to maintain free and open public access to digital data. According to President and co-founder Gigi B. Sohn, PK seeks to "promote a balanced approach to copyright policy that reflects the "cultural bargain" intended by the framers of the constitution – creators and innovators get incentives to create, which results in a robust public domain of shared knowledge."
The site boasts an excellent design that clearly identifies the range of resources that the organization is providing to the public. These include: press releases, news headlines and news archive, commentary, many topical links to papers, articles, speeches and books, links to related advocacy groups, and historical information on patents.


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(La ilaha ill'Allah)
[Mos Def]
Cash and carry, legendary, Sagitarri, style's vary
And it's very necessary get it clearly
Never scary barely worried bright and early
Bald head straight or curly mundane or other worldly
No chain, nada jewelry that jackers can't snatch
The gingerbread the slave masters can't catch
Blat! Now put your minds on that
Get real or get back quit frontin face facts
The old timers say we're living in the final days
Gun smoke young folks living any kind of way
Gangster holiday greedy snakes and hideaways
Meanwhile soldiers take it straight through their armor plates
Crash hit the market gates marvels of the modern age
Access is instant and treachery is commonplace
I sense the dangers and I'm not afraid
Because when all is said and done there's only ONE
Man up playboy playing the game boy
Pull back spectacular aim boy
Say what you say boy whoever could make noise
And ride range off in the same voice
Conduct an arrangement with definite language
It's pure inspiration for this generation
Speak true free love
Because when all is said and done there's only ONE
And the one can done so cool
Schooling the young like Rev. Run ("whose house?")
Quote Pac and tell 'em keep their heads up
And when the pressure comes down press back and press up
Fret not ghetto world guess what
God is on your side the devil is a lie (alive?)
The Empire holds all the gold and the guns
But when all is said and done there's only...
La ilaha ill'Allah
Wahid means peerless, or unique, which Mos Def is expressing he is in this song.


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Today, social networks in Venezuela show a country at the fringe. Along with testimonies, information, rumors and recommendations, citizen media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Flickr have shared photos that portray a massive participation to elect the next President of the Republic.
According to some comments, some voting centers opened their doors to the first assistants on Saturday at midnight, and they continue welcoming citizens from inside the country and abroad.
Maritza Salazar (@MaritzaSalazar) [es] shared this picture of voters waiting in queue since the night before:
Fernando Rios (@FernandoRiosD) [es] shared a photo of Carlos Urbaneja, a 94-year-old citizen whose identity number is 5 and who went to exercise his right to vote:
Under the hashtag #NoEsUnaColaEsUnCamino [es] (it is not a queue, it is a road) that makes reference to Henrique Capriles' slogan "there's a road"; many Twitter users shared pictures of the voting centers, the long queues, cheering messages, and fingers painted in violet ink which confirms without doubt that someone voted.
Carlos Garcia (@carlosgarciareq) [es] and Mirian de Aristimuño (@MiriamJSdeA) [es] presented their fingers painted in violet under the hashtag #yavote [es] (I already voted):
Also, Martha Evelyn Batres (@Tita_Batres) [es] uploaded images that showed the large number of people that participated in the election:
Furthremore, the blog The Devil's Excrement shared some pictures where we can see the long queues in Caracas and outside Venezuela:


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By Raj Giri | January 10, 2012 | Comments
That's what I like about the business, the unpredictability about it and how they're bringing up new guys, like the Zack Ryder thing we talked about. You never know what you're going to get. There are a lot of injuries on the roster. You never know who's going to come back, like [Chris] Jericho is now coming back and he looks great. You never know what they're going to do and this year especially with the new network they're going to have a lot of new talent coming in. Hopefully that will be an opportunity for me; you never know. They're the boss, basically.
WrestlingINC.com: Thanks for your time. Do you have anything you'd like to say to your fans?
Jesse Neal: I just want to tell them, hey, I got a long road ahead of me and stuff like that. I just can't wait to get started. I'm tired of sitting at home. I've been sitting at home way too much. I can't wait to get back out there and see what I can do. I even looked into Japan and I'd love to go over there for a little bit and see what I can do over there. Who knows where the road will take me in 2012. Hopefully I'll be entertaining you, the fans, and stuff like that. We'll see.
In case you missed it, click here to check out part one of the interview, where Neal talks about his time with TNA, his angle being dropped when Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff came in, the food stamps rumor and more. Also, bookings and appearances for Jesse Neal are now being accepted by contacting Stephanie Melvin via email at [email protected].
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2001 kicked off a new direction for the Mega Man franchise on Game Boy Advance. Taking the roll of an action RPG – and one with a killer battle system and plenty of depth – Mega Man Battle Network wasn't the game diehard Mega fans wanted, but it was awesome nonetheless. Fast-forward eight years and nine games later and the soul of Battle Network remains in the Mega Man Star Force series. Now normally I wouldn't go all personal-like in a review – a game is what it is, and the reviewer shouldn't matter – but given the repetitive nature of the Battle Network/Star Force series it's worth a quick aside. For those of you that love the series to death, or for anyone that hasn't experienced Battle Network before, Mega Man Star Force 3: Black Ace and Red Joker are going to be entertaining offerings that push serious depth in nearly every way possible. For many people out there though – myself included, having dug the original three Battle Network games before stepping away due to repetition – the franchise just isn't moving fast enough, and Star Force's "buy/don't buy" is really a matter of just how much more Battle Network you can take.
The Star Force series picks up where the GBA franchise left off, replacing Lan with another kid (Geo Stellar) donning like-styled clothes, a snooty girl friend, an overweight buddy, and a slew of groupies from around school. Mega Man.exe is replaced with Omega-Xis, an oddly bad-tempered alien, and rather than "jacking" into the net to solve problems the hunter team of Geo and Omega "pulse" in or out of the "wave world." Battle Chips are now cards, the wave world overlays on top of the real world rather than being an alternate highway of net-based paths, and turning into Mega Man can be done at any time by hitting the R button, though the same standard net-battle rules apply when it comes to virus busting. That's just the start of a long list of repetitive "other world" changes that have been made when moving from Network to Star Force, and as far as game-to-game between the DS franchise goes you're getting the same world as the previous two Star Force offerings.
The odd thing is, even though Star Force 3 is nearly identical to the first two games – minus a few changes – and feels just like Battle Network did back in my old busting days (when hunters had to walk up hill both ways just to find a jack-in port; boy, you new-fangled youngsters have it made in the shade with that "wave world" thing – it's still a lot of fun, and extremely deep. Making its debut this time around is a new noise system, which allows players to actually morph the look of Mega Man as battles rage on. It's comes with a similar concept in mind as the Style, Soul Unison, and Cross systems that Capcom has used over the years, but it comes with varying results.
Both versions of Star Force 3 are better and finding certain forms, and that ends up playing into what powers you'll get throughout the game. Both Joker and Ace exclusive forms are pretty similar overall – if you want a huge explanation, you can find it on the amazingly populated fan forums out there – but the amount of grind that can come with busting specifically for more noise means added customization and depth to the game. I've seen a fair share of gamers out there pissed that they can't get the form they want with the version they've got, but I took them as they came and enjoyed the amount of variation in the noise system. It certainly varies things up for online play.
As for the rest of the core game though, it's another issue of "more of the same" for Capcom's RPG series. You've got the same 3D battles when virus busting – which I have to say aren't quite as visually polished or generally appealing than the classic 2D version in Battle Network – more side quests and Elementary School fodder to deal with at the beginning, as well as the same overall pace and style in storytelling. One minor annoyance I had with the original series was that there was an obvious beginning and end point to any actual scripted events – the game's story isn't actually real-time, but rather fades out from gameplay, fades in what is essentially a pre-made story sequence, and then fades back to gameplay again – is still alive and well, though I'm sure I'm in the minority when it comes to complaints based on that. It just feels cheap though, and it's one of dozens of things still found in the Star Force/Battle Network formula that hasn't improved or evolved as the years go on. I was 16 when the franchise started, and now nine years later it feels like I'm running through the same levels, fighting the same enemies, and doing the same quests I was while sneaking GBA time away in Biology class.
For those that are still very much into the series, however, Star Force 3 is going to bring just as many hours -if not more, now that the noise system has added considerable girth to the game - to a well-established, immersive experience. The Wi-Fi is strong (though you'll need to deal with some random disconnections from sore losers ) there are plenty of side quests, 100 different forms within the noise system, a huge array of battle cards, and the continued use of the Brother Band system rewards players for connecting with friends locally or online; a nice touch for a series that is in desperate need of more innovation.
The amount of fun you do or don&#Array;t have with Mega Man Star Force 3 is going to be directly dependant on a number of things. First off, fans of the series are going to eat this one up, as the continued online offering and added depth and customization with the noise system makes for far more user-based strategy throughout. If the continued rehash issue hasn&#Array;t gotten to you yet, it probably won&#Array;t. For others &#Array; myself included &#Array; Star Force 3 is another in a long line of titles that just don&#Array;t seem to evolve at a fast enough rate. I played it back in 2001, left the series in 2003/04, and it&#Array;s now 2009 and I feel like I haven&#Array;t missed a thing. For those that are totally new to the franchise though, combine what you&#Array;re getting here with the optimism and originality found in our original Battle Network GBA review. Not much has changed, and while that means the core audience will be ever-dwindling as people step away from it, it also means there&#Array;s still one hell of an entertaining game to be found. Weighed against its predecessors, Star Force 3 is the best of the trilogy thus far on DS. Whether that matters or not is entirely up to you&#Array;


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Samsung Galaxy S3 Android Jelly Bean 4.1.2 Root Guide
Google has released an Android Jelly Bean 4.1.2 XXEMB5 firmware update and owners of the Samsung Galaxy S3 with an I9300 model number (factory unlocked) can get the update now through Samsung KIES.
Naturally, the first thing you'll want to do after flashing your device is to root it, and this step-by-step guide will explain exactly how to do just that.
One does not simply root an Android.
You'll need to download CF-Auto-Root. The package contains SuperSu v.0.93, ClockworkMod (CWM) recovery v5.5 and CWM Manager v3.60.
You'll also need Odin v.185 to install Jelly Bean.
After downloading and unpacking the archives, ensure that your USB Drivers for Samsung Galaxy S3 are current and BACKUP YOUR DEVICE.
Then make sure the battery is charged to at least 80 percent before proceeding.
Step 1: Turn off the phone and enter Download mode. You do that by pressing and holding the Volume Down, Home and Power buttons together until the construction robot comes up and a triangle appears on the screen. When that happens, press the Power button, and you're in download mode.
Step 2: Run Odin.
Step 3: Connect your phone to the computer via USB. If the connection is successful, one of the ID:COM boxes will turn yellow. This step takes some time, so be patient.
Step 4: In Odin, click on PDA and select the CF-Auto-Root-SGS3-v6.4.tar file.
Step 5: Check off Auto Reboot and F.Reset Time in Odin.
Step 6: Click start. The installation process will take a few minutes to complete. Do nothing until it's done.
When the installation is finished, your phone will automatically restart. You can unplug the USB cable once the Home screen appears.
Congratulations, your Samsung Galaxy S3 I93000 running Android 4.1.2 XXEMB5 Jelly Bean is now rooted. You can verify with the Root Checker tool.


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Here is another beautiful doll item from Nancy's Dolls and Antiques 1950's Ginny Pink Metal Doll Trunk. This auction is for a wonderful vintage Ginny doll trunk from the 1950's. It is the very Hard To Find pink metal case with the white Ginny doll face on the front and the pink paper lining with Ginnys face all over the inside. It is in amazing condition, so hard to find like this. The paint is in very good condition with just a few marks on the top but the rest is so nice.(See pictures) The handle and hinges are all very good as are the metal corner braces. The inside is in very good condition and still has the original pink ribbons to hold your Ginny in place during travel or storage. There is no staining or paper damage. The 2 drawers are included and are also so nice. There is also the metal hanger at the top to hang Ginnys clothes. See all the pictures for views from all angles to show how nice it really is! It is a very special find for any Ginny collection.
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Videogames are a waste of time. Well, not always. Sometimes they can teach you stuff, like honest-to-goodness computer programming skills.
The trick is to make these educational games as interesting and enjoyable as the shoot-em-up variety, and that's not always easy. But researchers at North Carolina State University want to help. Dr. Kristy Boyer and Fernando Rodríguez are studying the way youngsters respond to a 3-D game that teaches programming, hoping to discover the secrets of building games that are not only educational but enjoyable.
Boyer and Rodriguez are building a new programming-happy game they call ENGAGE. It's a bit like a game developed by another group of researchers at the University of California, San Diego, called CodeSpells, but Boyer and Rodriguez take a different tack, as described in a paper presented at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education in Memphis, Tennessee last week.
Instead of teaching a particular programming language like CodeSpells, which teaches Java, ENGAGE aims to teach "big ideas" in computer science, such as how to use abstractions to hide unimportant details and emphasize important ones or how to apply algorithms a wide range of problems.
The game is set in an underwater research facility that has been taken over by a "rogue scientist." Players assume the role of white-hat engineers who must repair the station's network and defeat the rogue scientist. To advance in the game, students must solve a variety of computer science puzzles. The puzzles and tasks include cryptography, data analysis, and converting strings of binary into understandable forms, such as text and images.
The game has two modes: a first person 3-D world not unlike those found in commercial video games, and a visual programming environment not unlike Scratch, a programming environment for kids.
If this sounds fun, you'll have to wait a while to play it. Rodríguez says it's still under development. But the researchers ran a pilot program at a charter middle school in Raleigh, North Carolina with students aged 11 to 14.
For the study, the students played the game in pairs. One player would be the "driver," who used the game controller and was responsible for actually executing commands, and the other person was the "navigator," who provided feedback to the driver. In professional software development, this is called "pair programming."
Why pair programming? "One of the things we focus on is providing students not just with technical literacy but with well-rounded skills," explains Boyer. "One that we emphasize at our university is collaboration." She says that employers often tell her that computer science students frequently lack collaboration skills, so her team decided to focus on introducing collaboration early. She also says that teachers say that students tend to be more engaged while collaborating. Plus, pairing off will help schools with limited resources — half as many computers will be required.
The team video-taped students as they were playing the game, in an effort to track how deeply they were involved. The video was reviewed manually, and researchers noted when the students were disengaged based on whether students were talking about something other than the programming task, looking away from the computer screen, or otherwise clearly attending to something other than the task at hand.
One of the most important findings is the least surprising: The navigator tends to be less engaged than the driver. Drivers spent an average of 16.4 percent of their time disengaged, but navigators were disengaged 42.6 percent of the time. Having students rotate roles frequently is key to keeping the students engaged.
Boyer thinks the overall engagement in the game would actually have been lower if they weren't in pairs, but notes that will be a topic for further study.
One other important finding was the importance of drivers re-engaging the navigators, usually by asking a question, such as "Ok, where are we now?" or even, "what the heck?"
The project ultimately seeks to bring underrepresented groups to computer science, but this pilot program wasn't, by the researchers own admission, very diverse. For example, of the 20 participants, only two were girls — and they weren't even present for the video taped session. Boyer explains that the students in the study were part of an elective course offered by the middle school, which skewed the group towards students who were already interested in computers. They hope to bring the program to more diverse settings in the future.
Stephen Foster, one of the developers of CodeSpells and the co-founder of the education company ThoughtSTEM, is impressed with the research, but isn't entirely sold on the game's approach. "Our one concern is that casting the player in the role of a computer scientist may make the game less appealing to certain demographics. Women and ethnic minorities, for example, have historically been much less attracted to computer science than white males," he says.
Boyer defended the decision, saying they've worked hard to make the game appeal to girls and other underepresented groups. She also notes that in the game, girls get to play the role of female computer scientists. She thinks girls will be able to identify with these characters, and could help to reverse the stereotype that computer science is just for boys.
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Our ceremony will take place in the river with a few of our close friends by our side.
We chose this location because it's what Kadie has had stuck in her pretty little head for years, but also because we met at the Buskin River Inn and Barometer Mountain is there to create a spectacular backdrop for photos.
Unfortunately there is no seating room, and standing room is limited.
Attendees will need to be prepared to wear either Xtra Tuffs or waders of some sort. We will also have the MemoryMakers van there with our entire supply of waders for those of you that don't own them.
From town head towards the airport. Turn left at the lower Buskin River turnoff and head towards the mouth of the river. As you're making the sharp left corner you'll see there is turnout to your right - take it and park where you can. Head towards the old condemned bridge and we'll have someone take you from there. You're here!


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Independent Focus: Black Spring Press & The Revival of Literary Reputations
by Guy Sangster Adams
This year, Robert Hastings, the owner of Black Spring Press, is celebrating his fifth year at the helm of the small independent publishing company. Originally founded in the mid-eighties by Simon Pettifer, the imprint has never had, Hastings says, "anything that you would call a mission statement; I don't think it would want to have one". The catalogue includes writer/songsmiths Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen and is, Hastings says, an "idiosyncratic collection of things that seem to be in the air and carry a resonance". Which carries a note of charming disinflation that risks belying the fact that, under his tenure, Black Spring Press have also been at the forefront of restoring the literary reputations of two writers, Julian Maclaren-Ross and Patrick Hamilton, concurrent with introducing a whole new generation to their work.
With his camel hair coat, silver topped cane, cigarette holder, and mirrored Aviator sunglasses, Maclaren-Ross cut a dandified swath through Bohemian London in the 1940s and 1950s, which he celebrated in his most well known work, Memoirs of the Forties. His diverse body of work also includes novels, short fiction, radio and screen plays, film and literary criticism, and literary parodies. Such was his persona, Graham Greene, Anthony Powell, and Olivia Manning all created fictional characters modelled on him.
A similarly debonair man-about-town, Hamilton was a celebrated novelist and playwright between the 1920s and 1950s. His work primarily focussed on the transient subculture of London's pubs, boarding houses, and back streets. His two most renowned dramas, Rope and Gaslight, were both made into films, the latter by Alfred Hitchcock.
Both Maclaren-Ross and Hamilton died in the early 1960s, and had been largely out of print since their deaths, despite the acclaim of writers such as John Betjeman, who described Maclaren-Ross as "One of our very best writers", and Doris Lessing, who described Hamilton as a "marvellous novelist who's grossly neglected". But equally both have a style that suits the modern reader. Whilst compounding this, Hastings also establishes the differences in their contemporary appeal, explaining that "the freshness that comes off the page from Maclaren-Ross is that he can very quickly in a conversation, or in a description of somebody, create a whole world and you can really see what the world is." With Hamilton, Hastings believes that "his cynicism and world weariness does rather suit our modern world".
In 2003, Hastings read Paul Willetts' biography of Maclaren-Ross, Fear & Loathing in Fitztrovia, which lead him to read more of Maclaren-Ross's work, or rather try to, because at that stage only Penguin's republication of the novel Of Love and Hunger was in print. Motivated to remedy this, he contacted Willetts, and between them they have spent the last five years putting together three collections of Maclaren-Ross's work: Collected Memoirs (2004), Bitten By The Tarantula & Other Writing (2005), and the just published Selected Letters. Because the trilogy contains many writings that were either previously unpublished, or had been published in a disparate array of periodicals, it is, Hastings says, "much more possible to get a survey of Maclaren-Ross now, than it was even when he was alive".
When it was realised that Maclaren-Ross was buried in an unmarked grave in North London, Hastings became involved in a fundraising campaign to give Maclaren-Ross's son, Alex, the wherewithal to have the grave marked; a process that cannot be high on the list of a publisher's traditional authorial duties. Hastings joined forces with the writer and broadcaster Victoria Ironside, Paul Willetts, and the enigmatic Sohemian Society to stage a number of fundraising events. "With a dead author, you expect to be dealing with agents and with the rather cold matter of the business side of it," says Hastings, "you certainly don't think that you'll be pouring whisky onto the ground over his grave." Entirely by chance, the stonemason commissioned to carve the headstone was Tom Waugh, the grandson of Evelyn Waugh, who was a friend of Maclaren-Ross and described his writing as "accomplishment of a rare kind".
Last year Black Spring Press published Patrick Hamilton's The Gorse Trilogy, and have just published the second novel he wrote, Craven House, and Nigel Jones' biography of Patrick Hamilton, Through A Glass Darkly. Hastings admits that Black Spring Press have come to Hamilton much later in the revival process than they did with Maclaren Ross, and most of his best known works were already back in print. But, he explains that he feels "that now is really Hamilton's time, and that goes for anytime really between now and the fifties, and that over the past five years there's been enough of a revival in him that people would want to read the life, and his less well known work."
Hastings has also taken Black Spring Press in a new direction with the publication of two hand-numbered, limited editions of one of the first books that the company published, Nick Cave's novel And the Ass Saw the Angel. The two large format, slip-cased editions have both been designed by Phil Baines, Professor of Typography at Central St Martin's, who also designed Black Spring Press's original 1989 edition of the novel. The black, morocco goatskin bound, Luxury Edition, has a limited edition frontispiece of Julia Margaret Cameron's 1872 photograph Cupid considering, is signed by Nick Cave, and is in a run of 75. The Special Edition, is cloth bound and is a run of 650. Hastings straightforwardly explains his reasons for the special editions as being that "it was Nick Cave's first, and so far only attempt at a novel, and very successful it was too; it was a book that was worth that kind of treatment, I think it's a great novel". He says that Nick Cave's response to the special editions has been "very complimentary" and that they have also "made him think again about the book and I hope reflect with some measure of pride upon it because it's certainly justified."
In revisiting Black Spring Press's own back catalogue in such a celebratory way, it appears that the revival of interest that Hastings has stimulated in this case is not just in the readership but also within the writer himself.
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Right now, all over the city, Occupy Wall Street activists, allies at community based organizations such as the Red Hook Initiative, Yana Community Center (Rockaways), and GOLES (LES), organizations like 350.org and recovers.org, and tireless volunteers are establishing hubs to coordinate volunteers and distribute much needed supplies to the neighborhoods devastated by Hurricane Sandy. This upsurge of people power is called Occupy Sandy, a dedicated relief effort by the 99% for the 99%.
Occupy Sandy's information hub (http://interoccupy.net/occupysandy/) is source for constant updates on volunteer and supply needs, drop off locations, ride share opportunities, sharing food, water, medical and psychological care, clothes, flashlights, clean-up capacity, (and even entertainment), for people without power.
Here are some opportunities to capture relief efforts in action and interview community organizers:
*St. Jacobi Church, 5406 4th Ave, Sunset Park. Work crews sent out around the borough around 10am. Contact: Michael Premo 917-547-1292
*Yana Community Center, Far Rockaways, B113 and Rockaway Blvd. Meals served 10am, 1pm and 5pm. This is a hyper local effort at a newly opened community center.
*GOLES, 169 Ave. B between 10th and 11th. Work crews out between 12-6pm. Contact: Laura Gottesdiener 617-519-5659
(Need to charge your equipment? There are always the Occupy Wall Street bike generators on Avenue C between 9th and 10th Street!) If you are interested in connecting with the hardest hit residents from Red Hook to the Rockaways to Chinatown, let us know and we'll point you in the right direction.
Check the Occupy Wall Street Sandy Relief page for up-to-the-minute volunteer updates.
Check occupywallstreet.net for individual testimonies from the hardest hit areas.
Sandy hit rich and poor alike, flooding Wall Street bank lobbies, mangling mansions in the Rockaways and stranding the elderly in Chinatown projects. But in America's most economically stratified city, marginalized communities are experiencing vastly different access to relief than the top 1%. If you have questions or want to talk to organizers on the ground, please reach out and we'll point you in the right direction.
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first story, very rusty, but I got a hardon writing it.
After my wife left I started spending some time at her sisters house.
Hazel and I had always got on well and I enjoyed the company. I suspected she felt sorry for me and was just being sociable out of kindness. However I felt sorry for myself and accepted her hospitality eagerly.
Just a few weeks short of our 20th anniversary, my wife Cheryl had declared one morning that she was emigrating to France. She seemed to glow with spiteful glee when she explained that our marriage was dead and had been for years. Though disappointed and shocked about her decision, I couldn't disagree with her statement.
We had slowly over the years drifted apart. To the point were we could go days without conversing, Our once ardent sex life had gradually become less passionate then less frequent until it stopped altogether.
Hazel was a single mother and had never been married. She had borne two girls from different partners. She claimed that she had no desire to enter a long and eventually destructive relationship. I used to joke with her that she just needed a real man to satisfy her. Though she took the teasing in good heart she would always reiterate that she saw no future in relationships, as they always ended in tears.
I would ponder those words after Cheryl left wondering if she had always known.
At first after the split I would spend maybe one evening a week at Hazel's house. Enjoying a carry out meal and watching a DVD. Her 2 daughters Emma and Sarah were friendly if a little cold.
Emma the youngest was 11 and spent most the time close by her mother. Her large brown eyes watchful. Sarah was more open but around less often. "She's dating now" Hazel would explain with a shake of her head.
I would think a lot about Sarah dating.
There was little doubt she was a very attractive girl. A little overweight perhaps but blessed with a perfect complexion, a natural tan and a face that was truly beautiful.
I would imagine her with some foolish boy, dressed in her short skirt, her thighs apart, his hands roughly touching and rubbing her body. Not appreciating the beauty he had in front of him.
Often when getting back to my house from Hazel's I would lay on the sofa, my jeans by my ankles stroking my cock slowly, thinking about the awful things I would love to do with her 16 year old body. I would ejaculate large oozes of warm spunk over my belly, thinking of how amazing it would look over Sarah's tanned perfect skin.
Later I would chastise myself for such thoughts, but it became the highlight of my visits if Sarah happened to be in our company.
In those early months I spent a lot of my time when in my house on the sofa, thinking not just of Sarah but her mother.
Although I had always found her attractive I had never had any great desire for her, in fact I had always considered my soon to be x-wife the more sexually alluring.
As Hazel and I started to enjoy each others company more, I visited more frequently. Sometimes 4 times a week. I would always leave at the end of the night and drive or walk the 2 miles home, depending on whether we had shared a bottle of wine or not.
It's true we started flirting a little and she seemed to enjoy it as much as me. I noticed that the clothes she wore, normally plain and loose, were becoming subtly more daring. Our hugs goodbye at the end of the night would last a little longer.
Then it happened, a week before Emma s 12 birthday we kissed for the first time.
I am not sure if Hazel had planned it but she had dressed particularly well that night. The black leggings tight on her fine legs with her black bra viable underneath her white blouse. We enjoyed several bottles of wine and her girls joined us playing video games on the Wii console.
Even as we feel about laughing at Hazel's hopeless attempts at guitar hero, or my dreadful singing I often felt a twinge in my groin as I stole glimpses at Sarah's curvaceous body. Yes Hazel looked very attractive but Sarah was stunning, dressed in her mandatory short skirt and tight t shirt.
I tried very hard to be discreet, but later when Hazel was in the kitchen opening another bottle and her oldest was gyrating in front of the television, singing along to a Brittany Sears number, I felt my cock stiffen noticeably in my jeans. (Some men are proud of their handsome looks or muscular body, I on the other hand have always been proud of my valiant cock. When limp it was fat and hung a good 5 inches, when aroused it didn't reach double figures but wasn't far off it) Due to this I knew that if Hazel returned and happened to glance at my crotch the game would be up and she would no doubt throw me out for being a perv.
To my horror it was Emma, the youngest who caught me. I had forgotten she was standing opposite me as I gazed hypnotised at the older girl dancing. As I tried to adjust my now huge bulge I looked across and saw her staring at me with the same hypnotised trance.
"Oh fuck, no", I though, but before I had a chance to react she skipped across the room then giggling jumped on the sofa landing next to me. One of her out stretched hands slapped against my thigh and it slide up my leg. Her young hand coming to rest on the top of my thick shaft. To my shame my cock stiffened more against this warm embrace.
As our eyes meet she made an O shape with her mouth then giggled again. She removed her hand and sat close to me. Fearful, I un-tucked my shirt and let it cover my bulge just as Hazel returned, telling the girls it was time for bed.
After a few minutes of groans the girls reluctantly agreed to go to bed. To my surprise Sarah gave me a warm if short hug before leaving and young Emma did the same, except her hug was longer and she kissed me quickly on the cheek before running upstairs giggling again.
"Your really growing on her you know", Hazel smiled, a funny look in her eye as she sat next to me. "She's a great girl, Hazel, just like he mother", I replied trying to be charming. Leaning close her lips just inches from mine, she whispered, "a bit young don't you think"? Before I could protest she laughed and kissed me deeply, I responded, our tongues meeting, exploring.
As our wet lips parted I again began my pitiful protests but she interrupted, laughing again,."Oh Greg, you are way to serious some times"
I stopped my protests and started to enjoyed Hazels warmth and passion. We slowly, tentatively at first began exploring each others bodies. I felt my cock begin to come to life as I placed my hand on her thigh and felt her legs part. That welcoming gesture sending blood rushing to my manhood.
To my surprise, I thought of Emma as Hazel unzipped my jeans, As she cooed and wowed at my fat healthy manhood, I though about her youngest daughter.
I can't deny I was turned on by Hazels attention, her desire and delight at my manhood. We kissed as we made our way upstairs to her room.
It took me 5 years to convince my wife to let me fuck her ass, it took Hazel 5 minutes of pussy kissing. I was amazed at her passion, her openness,her demand to "do me in the ass". With delight I lifted her thighs as she lay on her back and slowly pshed my cock into her ass. She coed with pleaure as I started to penetrate her deeper and harder. Even as my heavy balls slapped against her ass cheeks I couldnt help but think of her little girl Emma.
Finally when I was so close to cumming she delighted me more. "Spunk on my cunt " she moaned. Breathing heavily, I slowly slipped my cock out of her. Holding it I slipped it along her fat puusy lips , my cock tip nestling against her thick dark pubic hair. I released my cum, spunking hard and repeatedly, joyful as she moaned with delight at my massive release.
"Oh Greg that was so good baby she cooed", I had to agrre. it was the first time I had had intercourse in 6 moths and I felt very thankful.
We kissed a lot and then slept.
The next morning I woke in an empty bed.
I lay there relaxed. What a night I remembered. Just then Hazel returned and slipped under the covers, kissing me as she cuddled in. Her slightly saggy titties didn't look as hot as I remembered from the night before, but I responded, lightly fingering her clit as we kissed. I felt awkward, rubbing and teasing her cunt as my cock lay limp.
Then it happens.
Hazel on her side , me behind her, 2 fingers in her wet warm vagina. Her daughter Emma walks through the bedroom door. Emma nearly 12 and still a child, stands in her nightie, short and see through. It barely covers her little pussy. I can see her tiny nipples against the translucent nightie.
Emma seems happy but unaware I have 2 fingers in her mom's cunt. She stands at the bottom of the bed. She talks but I don't hear, transfixed by her slender body. I can't help but consider if she has any pubic hair yet.
To my horror my cock wakes up. As Emma and her mum talk my growing erection pushes against Hazels ass. Getting firm as it hardens between her ass cheeks. I slowly pull my fingers out from Hazel, not unaware of her growing wetness. Confused but so aroused I try to act normal, responsible. But it's difficult as my desire inflates and Hazel subtly pushes her ass against my hardness.
I force myself to listen to what's being said and hear Hazel tell her daughter, "sure baby come in and get warm". Emma looks delighted and jumps on the bed, her nightie lifting and to my delight and horror I catch a glimpse of her very bald little pussy. Involuntary I push my cock against her mothers ass. Admitting to myself for the first time that I want to fuck my friends, daughter. I want to feel her incredible tight little cunt grip my cock as I fuck her.
Emma dives under the covers laying on her mothers side and I have to move, rolling on my back as we lay side by side all facing the celling. My hardon is very apparent against the light covers so I raise my knees to lift the covers off my cock.
Like 3 pees in a pod. We sit up n bed. Emma and her mother again exchanging trivial conversation. My fat cock is still solid as I pretend to be interested. As they chat I feel Hazel's hand slid over my thigh, reaching slowly for my penis. I release a small gasp as Hazel gently holds my cock as she talks to her daughter. She slowly starts to jerk my manhood as Emma blabs on about the school play. Hazels grip is near the top of my cock and her thumb slides overs the tip, using my precum to massage the bulging head.
"Why not show Uncle William you dance Emma sweety", Hazel suggests, gripping me more tightly. "Oh mommy can I, can I?, Do you want to see it Uncle William?" Emma beams. "Yeah sure Emma," I reply.
As Emma slips out the bed Hazel whispers to me, "maybe not to young for you after all, you dirty man" but as she tugs my erection I realise she is far more kinky than I could ever hope.
Emma stands at the bottom of the bed, her legs apart and arms lifted up. The bottom of her nightie maybe an inch away from revealing her beautiful little naked pussy. I groan as her mother jerks my cock and Emma starts her dance. It's poor, silly and tacky. But I love it. Her slim tanned skin looks perfect as she stumbles around the room. More than once I catch a glimpse of her nakedness . Me and Hazel lay down further in the bed my fingers return to her hole. "She was never this wet last night" I think as I start to finger her wetness. "That's great", I hear Hazel say. Wondering if she means me pinching her clit or Emma's pointless but sexy dance.
Emma finishes with the splits, her tender thighs apart. Staring at us for approval. I cheer but don't clap as I have 2 fingers in her mother again.
"That was great baby", Hazel says, her voice deep, as she grinds against my touch. "Yes, you looked so hot" I say, forgetting myself, but now beyond caring. Emma blushes and smiles at the same time. A beautiful look on any women but particularly on a sweet young girl. She kneels on the bottom of the bed. Pauses then says,"Mommy are you and uncle Greg doing stuff. Like with Uncle Garry"?
"Yes Emma darling, but this time you can watch", Hazel replies, pulling the covers back. I feel my already solid cock leaks some more precum as I watch Emma stare at my hefty cock. She smiles as if seeing a really good birthday present.
"Does he have a nicer cock than uncle Garry Emma"? Hazel asks now sitting up and slowly jerking my cock in front of her daughter.
"Mommy it's really big, so much bigger than Uncle Garry's. Are you going to make those funny noises again"?
Hazel moves onto her knees, facing her daughter. "Lets she baby" Unable to resist the invitation I kneel behind, holding my cock as I openly stare at the beautiful young Emma. "Do you want to help me make your mommy make those noises Emma"? 3 fingers inside Hazel as Emma scrambles over.
Moaning Hazel, tells her daughter, "it's OK you can take your nightie off".
Emma holds the bottom of her flimsy nightie and reaches up and removes it. I am amazed at her beauty. I stare and admire her body. Small just beginning to bud young titties. Deep pink nipples. Her body slim. My eyes transfixed by her bald pussy. Delicate tight lips pink against her tan. I take her hand, admiring the black nail varnish and place it on my cock. Groaning as she starts to jerk me., Her small hand gripping the base of my cock. "Hell I think she's done this before" I think to myself. "Oh mom it's so hard, " Emma giggles. Hazel looks round at her duaghter. "Thats it sweety just like i showed you before. You best use both hands babby, Uncle Greg is a heathly man". Young Emma lil titties shake subtly as she concentrates on jerking m the was her mother toaught her.
"Now Emma sweety", say Hazel and to my further surprise she directs my 9 inches to her mothers arsehole. Delighted I push my cock into Hazel's ass for the second time. As I grip her hips I stare at young Emma. She watches us I fuck her mothers ass. Moaning I say, "Touch your pussy Emma". Hazel groans with joy at my pevrsness as my massive cock rips her ass, and I stare at her daughter.
Not self concious or shy Emma lutlfully stares at our fucking, her hand between her legs, expertly rubbing her tiny clit.
"She likes the cum" Hazel squirms as I fuck her ass powerfully.
Emma leans close staring at my cock as it renters her mothers arse. "Yes uncle Greg, do it on me". Her fingers now frantically rubbing her little cunt.
Feeling my body tightening, I pull my cock out and direct it against beautiful young girl. A massive load, spunks over young Emma..She gasps as the first load splashes against her little budding nipples. The second and third load soak her belly and little bald cunt. I can't stop cumming and direct my biggest load to her face. She gasps giggling as i soak her.
I continue to jerk out hot cum and let my last few spurts fill Hazel's ass.
"Oh Mommy that was awesome, what a mess", I fall back on the bed spent and itoxicated by both mother and daughter.
Hazel and her daughter lay together kissing. Hazel tasting my heavy cum off her daughters mouth.
As I lay there admiring them, the door opens and Sarah stands there. A bath towel covering her body. "Oh god mom, not again"..
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This didn't get me exited like I hoped :(
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Not bad, space between the paragraphs for readability. Make the girls 8 and 11, and you have a good story.
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University of Vermont
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V. Ernesto Méndez
Associate Professor of Agroecology and Environmental Studies
- Ph.D. in Agroecology and Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz (2004)
- M.S. in Agroforestry, Tropical Agriculture Research & Higher Education Center (CATIE), Costa Rica (1996)
- B.S. in Crop Science, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (1994)
Areas of interest
Agroecology; Food Security and Sovereignty; Rural Livelihoods; Agrifood Systems; Political Ecology; Participatory Action Research (PAR); Environmental Conservation in Agricultural Landscapes
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My research and teaching efforts focus on developing and applying transdisciplinary approaches that analyze interactions between agriculture, livelihoods, and biodiversity conservation in tropical and temperate rural landscapes. Grounded in agroecology, most of my work also utilizes a Participatory Action Research Approach (PAR), in an effort to directly support conservation and rural development.
- Core Instructor, Annual International Agroecology Courses, CAN-UVM
- Fellow, Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, University of Vermont
- Steering Committee Member, Food Systems Initiative, University of Vermont
- Adjunct Professor, MS in Agroecology, International University of Andalucia (UNIA) and PhD in Environment & Society (Agroecology Line), Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO), Spain
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Tropical Fish Keeping - Aquarium fish care and resources
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Looking for Info or Suggested reading material I am looking to getting into starting a salt water live ecosystem, however looking for advice or maybe informative reading material before i get started. I really think just a small live rock system to start helping me find out in the space restrictions i currently have if this is a hobby for me. Right now looking for suggestions on where to get started and maybe ideas for a small tank system. Thanks |
I have been doing some research, and for me with no time restraints and tons of patience I think I am going to build my own tank. I am think 24x24x24 cube will give me about 60G. Also thinking of using acrylic and not glass. The DIY tank guides I have read don't give to much info on the plumbing and filtration sytems so I am wondering how much I'll need to actually cut after I get the 24x24 sheets . The pricing I have seen for half inch cell cast clr acrylic sheets cut to 24x24 and a quantity of 6 was roughly $300 haven't checked a local supplier yet just getting a base atm. Am I on the right track or am I being too ambitious for my first tank ? |
Unless you are rather handy and have some tools at your disposal I might go for a premade tank. $300 can get you a pretty decent aquarium. If you like the challenge of making things and you have some extra time on your hands then maybe its a project you might want to tackle. It can be a little challenging the first time so I usually recommend starting a smaller build and then when you are finished decide if going the expensive bigger route is the right way for you.You can get pretty cheap acylic or glass at local shops,just make sure its of the proper thickness to hold the volume of water you are shooting for. |
I agree. If you wanted to relieve some of the costs you could build your own sump system. I personally would get a premade tank and then build my own sump and stand. There's quite a bit of work in those projects alone so you would be able to enjoy your tank sooner. Most local fish stores and even petsmart :roll: have 1$ per gallon sales around holidays. However I would look into getting a reef ready system unless you wanted to get a HOB (hang on back) overflow pump. Look at my saltwater thread as it has a few questions answered on it that might help you along. One thing I've done is purchased a 20 gallon tank and some acrylic from Home Depot to make a sump setup. Simply measure the inside dimensions and then draw it up on the ole laptop. One thing I've learned in this hobby is plan, plan, plan... |
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Supermarket produce sections bulging with a year-round supply of perfectly round, bright red-orange tomatoes have become all but a national birthright. But in Tomatoland, which is based on his James Beard Award-winning article, The Price of Tomatoes, investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook reveals the huge human and environmental cost of the $5 billion fresh tomato industry. Fields are sprayed with more than one hundred different herbicides and pesticides. Tomatoes are picked hard and green and artificially gassed until their skins acquire a marketable hue. Modern plant breeding has tripled yields, but has also produced fruits with dramatically reduced amounts of calcium, vitamin A, and vitamin C, and tomatoes that have fourteen times more sodium than the tomatoes our parents enjoyed. The relentless drive for low costs has fostered a thriving modern-day slave trade in the United States. How have we come to this point? Estabrook traces the supermarket tomato from its birthplace in the deserts of Peru to the impoverished town of Immokalee, Florida, a.k.a. the tomato capital of the United States. He visits the laboratories of seedsmen trying to develop varieties that can withstand the rigors of agribusiness and still taste like a garden tomato, and then moves on to commercial growers who operate on tens of thousands of acres, and eventually to a hillside field in Pennsylvania, where he meets an obsessed farmer who produces delectable tomatoes for the nation's top restaurants.
Throughout Tomatoland Estabrook presents a who's who cast of characters in the tomato industry: the avuncular octogenarian whose conglomerate grows one out of every eight tomatoes eaten in the United States; the ex-Marine who heads the group that dictates the size, color, and shape of every tomato shipped out of Florida; the U.S. attorney who has doggedly prosecuted human traffickers for the past decade; and the Guatemalan peasant who came north to earn money for his parents' medical bills and found himself enslaved for two years.
Tomatoland reads like a suspenseful whodunit as well epos of today's agribusiness systems and the price we pay as a society when we take taste and thought out of our food purchases.
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"[A] thought-provoking book." (Publishers Weekly)
"Neat Book"
If you're interested in where your food comes from but not in a lot of preachy, unsolicited advice on how you should behave yourself, this is a fantastic read.
I'm pretty well versed on the whole food subject, but I was not aware of how bad the slavery issues in Florida had gotten.
All in all a very good read.
"Do I Really Want to Eat Another Tomatoe Ball?"
Great exposure of how our "industrial" tomato might not want to be part of my food intake.
Sometimes repetitious on some points. Still kept me glued to the speaker to the very end.
"Terrific. Challenging. Eye opening."
I had no idea the complexity of this subject. This book covers abused farm workers, labor struggles, artisanal tomato growers, government regulations and the search for a good tasting tomato with equal detail. It's all fascinating and has me curious about where my food comes from and the impact of how it's harvested. Such a joy to listen to this book.
"Racism Unwelcome!"
The premise of the story was what led me to purchase. However, after three blatantly racist remarks, I had to call it quits. I doubt Mr. Estabrook met many the tomato farmers of Florida who he characterized as middle-aged white men in the "good ole boys club" made up of "rednecks and crackers". I had really hoped for a story of the progression of industrial agriculture and how it impacted the tomato industry. Instead, with just about an hour into the book, the author takes repeated jabs at the farmers and opines that the current large-scale techniques are the result of farmers being white, not the market, demand, oppressive regulations etc.Shame on you Mr. Estabrook!
His racism. I know he's white but I still found it offensive.
I think I would have left it as is. Otherwise it would be disingenuous for the reader to not be able to weigh the material in the milieu of the author's racist, South-loathing agenda.
"lots about workers and not much about the tomatoes"
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Fabulous dimensional ornament from the 1950's. It is not marked but my research shows it is most likely from Japan and not Czechoslovakia. The cross is approximately 4 1/2" high & 3 inches wide and depth is 5/8" long.
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The Who has shown up a lot in the rock and roll news for April 30th. Let's add one more reason: we're playing it on the 5 o'clock block on 1019 KING FM, too!
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- 1977, Led Zeppelin broke a new world attendance record at a concert when they played to 76,229 people at a gig at the Pontiac Silverdome, Pontiac, Michigan. The Who held the previous record at the same venue with 75,962 people.
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Kidney Diseases |
Diovan and Kidney Disease09/01/2009 |
Based on the results of some recent lab tests, my family physician suspects that I might have some kidney problems (perhaps even stage 3 CKD)...Long story short, he has referred me to a nephrologist. That appointment is in one month.
I am hypertensive, however I am not diabetic. My doctor wants me to quit taking my Toporol (25 mg once daily) and HCTZ (25 mg dialy) and begin taking DIOVAN (160 mg daily) in the month before I see the nephrologist.
Is DIOVAN a safe BP medication for someone with suspected CKD - even for one month?
I often use Diovan in treating patients with stage 3 CKD or worse. It is especially useful in patients with proteinuria. However, in some patients it can cause an elevation in the serum potassium, which can be dangerous. It can also cause an elevation in creatinine, but this does not necessarily mean that the kidney function is worse.
When I start a medication like this, in this situation, I would want the baseline potassium to be normal. Then, I would repeat the serum potassium and creatinine measurements in 7 to 10 days after starting or increasing the dose to see if there has been an unacceptable change.
The most important goal is to get the BP to a desirable goal (as determined by your doctor) with medications that do not have side effects. It is less important how you get there.
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