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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
The Family Loves Alnoor.
To celebrate my maybe raise, I bought everyone dinner at Alnoor, where the guy gave me the "Wednesday Day Discount". It was $5 off. Yay.
R clings to his daddy. M laughs.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Monday, April 27, 2009
R was nice enough to take us all to work that day.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
More House Hunting
Saturday, April 25, 2009
House Hunting and More.
(Credit to: http://www.menifee247.com/)
BTW: Charging for carpool on the 91 is lame. Screw you.
PS. At Fuji Grill I had the Mini Chicken Bowl and Mini Crunch Roll. At Farmer Boys, I had the Fish and Chips Platter.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Doughnuts and Korean Food
How do you spell doughnut? Donut? Doughnut? Anyways, This was my 1st Randy's Doughnut. It was so delicious I forgot to take a picture of it until after I already ate half. :/ It tasted like a "church doughnut".
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Did You Know?
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Denim Day
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
It's Back.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Villa del Sol d'Oro
The Library.The Bride Room.Stupid shadow ruined a nice shot.
The church.
The Blessed Virgin Mary outside the Church.
The Tasting.
A blurry night shot. (I couldn't hold the camera still. :/)
PS. At the Only Place in Town I had, the Chicken Fish and Chips meal... delicious and not greasy surprisingly. For the tasting we tried lots of stuff everything is like tapas size or an amuse bouche. (Spare ribs, stuffed chicken, a curry pastry, bacon wrapped scallops, pasta, tritip, bread, stuffed mushrooms, and maybe something else. I forget.
BTW: Derrick Rose is awesome.
Friday, April 17, 2009
The Giants
Thursday, April 16, 2009
See ya K.
PS. We had the 3 flavor King's Hawaiian Cake.


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Concentration Camp, esp. the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp Complex (Ravensbrück Women's Concentration Camp, the so-called "men's camp", satellite camp)
early Women's Concentration Camp in Moringen and Lichtenburg
Youth Concentration Camp Uckermark
Women, children and youth in NS
Women and gender research
Racism and the system of terror
History of the memorial sites
History of prisoners' assoications
Post-war history and processes
Right-wing extremism
Memorial pedagogy
Culture of remembrance
Concentration camp memorial sites
ca. 15,000-20,000 collection pieces (CP)
including some belongings from contemporary witnesses
Rough translations of individual foreign language publications relevant to Ravensbrück
NS literature up until 1945 (588 CP)
Open access to ca. 4,100 CP
19 Newspapers/journals (current)
Individual journals (limited)
Consultations regarding the collection
preparation of the collection for specific subject oriented pedagogical project work and events at the location
Research recommendations
1 working space, copier, microfiche
DIN A 4 copies: 35 cents (half price for students and doctoral students)
DIN A 3 copies: 50 cents (half price for students and doctoral students)
Hours of Operation/Contact
Tues.-Fri. 9:00-4:30pm
appointment recommended
Email: bibliothek(at)ravensbrueck.de
Tel.: +49-(0)33093-608-21
Fax.: +49-(0)33093-608-29 (zentral)
Link: Homepage
Regional train: RE 5 from Berlin Central Station to Fürstenberg/Havel train station
and then around a 3 km walk to the Ravensbrück Memorial Site

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Research on ERP Teaching Model Reform for Application-oriented Talents Education
Enterprise Resource Planning is one of the core courses of management. According to the educational characteristics of application-oriented talents training, this paper discussed the issues of ERP teaching for application-oriented talents training at present and proposed a number of ideas and strategies in the aspects of modifying the teaching content, improving the teaching ability and carrying out case teaching.
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- September 7, 1942 - October 6, 2016
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George was born on September 7, 1942 and passed away on Thursday, October 6, 2016.
George was a resident of Napa, California at the time of passing.
He graduated in 1964.
He joined the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis Md In Navy flight training he flew the T-34 T-2 F9F and the F-11 before receiving his wings of gold in October 1965. He retired from the Navy in 1969 and joined United Airlines.
George was married to Patricia.
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Cardiff City Stadium will host rugby's Amlin Challenge Cup final next May, the night before the Heineken Cup final at the Millennium Stadium.
Tournament organisers have broken with tradition by deciding on the venue for the Amlin final six months in advance in order to market a big weekend for rugby fans in the Welsh capital.
"Traditionally, we have waited until much closer to the date before selecting the stadium for the Amlin Challenge Cup final," said European Rugby Cup chief executive Derek McGrath.
"However, the tournament has grown in stature to the extent that we are delighted to announce the final venue almost six months in advance of the match itself. Last season's innovative decision to include three Heineken Cup clubs in the Amlin Challenge Cup knock-out stages provided a major boost to the competition, and by announcing the venue for the 2011 final at this time, participating teams as well as fans of European club rugby now know that all roads lead to Cardiff for the weekend of 20 and 21 May."
The 2011 match – which will kick-off at 7.45pm on Friday May 20 – will be the first Amlin Challenge Cup final staged in Wales and with capacities of 74,500 and 26,828 respectively, the Millennium Stadium and Cardiff City Stadium could accommodate more than 100,000 fans at both games.
Cardiff Blues became the first Welsh team to win a European title last season when they beat Toulon in the Amlin final in front of a record crowd of nearly 50,000 in Marseilles.
The Blues were one of three Heineken Cup teams to qualify for the Amlin Challenge Cup and they defeated Newcastle Falcons, London Wasps and Toulon on the way to a landmark triumph for Welsh rugby.
"The Heineken Cup final has become an important date in the sporting calendar and we believe there is an opportunity to offer fans a tremendous culmination to the European season with a celebration of the best teams in the two ERC tournaments," added McGrath.
Or choose a date:
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View our photo gallery of fixed-blade knives that appeared in the June issue of POLICE Magazine. We covered 10 of these knives in a feature article; this gallery presents all the photos and information about these knives, as well as a bonus knife that didn't appear in print. The full article is "Fixed-Blade Knives for Duty."
Many of the fixed blades built for law enforcement are designed for heavy-duty applications: cutting seat belts and harnesses, hacking through underbrush, breaking windows, prying open doors (not recommended), or they can even be used to puncture liquid containers. These uses will generally destroy any pocket knife you might carry.
This year, the law enforcement section of the show wound through both floors of the Sands Expo Center and into numerous ballrooms in the Venetian Hotel. Exhibitors along the law enforcement aisles were showing everything from machine guns to mannequins, ranging in size from vehicles to lights the size of a stick of Dentyne gum.
All sworn law enforcement officers carry at least one handgun. Smart ones carry more than one, if they're allowed to. That's why so much of the handgun market is focused on providing cops with handguns.
What I've learned over the years is that many officers will typically use way too much oil and solvent when cleaning their duty weapons. I've seen officers use lithium grease, brake cleaner and PB Blaster in their Glocks, but the main issues causing problems were from too much oil, or failure to remove all of the solvents.
Because of the tough economic times most agencies issue only a duty sidearm, and the officer wishing to carry a backup can purchase one from a department-approved list. Let's take a look at some of the characteristics you should look for in a BUG.


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The Local Development Order came into effect on the 13th August 2015 and it will remain in operation for three years from the date of commencement.
The document is designed to simplify the planning process and it is hoped that this will help encourage new businesses to locate in the area and existing businesses to expand their operations. It allows development falling into specific employment use classes to be undertaken without the need for planning permission.
The order also includes a map which identifies the designated areas to which the order will apply.
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The Gaza slaughter: Europe's hand is bloodied too
The Gaza slaughter: Europe's hand is bloodied too
Hundreds of dead and thousands of injured, sacrificed on the altar of Zionist expansionism and fundamentalism. In Europe, the foreign ministers of every EU country talk about an "exaggerated", though "legitimate", reaction on the part of Israel, reversing the true situation with an operation that would make the most cynical illusionist feel proud by making the aggressor, the State of Israel, appear to be the victim.
They continue to pretend that they do not remember that Gaza – one of the most densely-populated regions with around one and a half million inhabitants, about half of whom are children – has been the object of a total embargo for years, an embargo which includes medicines and basic necessities and which is supported by the entire "civilized" western world, imposed by Israel and the West as a result of the Hamas election victory, thanks to the mixed electoral system of majority and proportional representation. Just as they pretend to forget that Hamas was once financed by Israel as a way of countering the PLO.
Despite a 6-month truce, the embargo was not even slightly relaxed and not one of the Western powers even timidly suggested relaxing it. The State of Israel has returned to its strategy of military control over Gaza and the West Bank. All Europe's useless, hypocritical proclamations of a desire for peace systematically forget to mention that for 60 years Israel has been blithely violating countless UN resolutions and continues to occupy the territory militarily, with Israeli colonies spreading throughout Palestinian land day by day, building walls that segregate entire villages and prevent millions of refugees from returning to their land, uprooting olive groves and killing livestock, day after day humiliating anyone who tries to cross the segregation walls in order to go to work, to hospital or to school.
And not only that: they hide the fact that the truce was broken by the Israeli State on 4th November 2008 when its army killed a 22-year-old Hamas militant.
This statement was produced by Anarkismo, a class struggle anarchist group and website, and has been signed by a number of organisations around the world.


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Following a $110 million facelift, Four Seasons Resort Nevis, the only Four Seasons property in the Caribbean, is bringing five-star island vacationing to new heights.
Two top suites now have a carefree, airy look, while the state-of-the-art gym has been updated with a new lifting circuit and Technogym equipment. Gourmand guests can also delight in interactive locavore dining programs, like choosing their own catch of the day at the local fishermen's dock. A championship golf course and a host of nature excursions round out a luxe island experience. Those seeking a more secluded stay can select one of 44 luxury Residential Villa Estates, granting full access to the resort's abundant amenities and services while offering perfect privacy.
Pinney's Beach, Charlestown, Nevis, West Indies
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Greige- the devine hybrid colour, not quite grey, not quite beige.
It is a fabulous colour that you can layer and it never looks matchy matchy. Its rustic, earthy, soft and well very French looking.
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As a colour designer, to describe the elements of Greige its sounds like am talking about a friend – deep sense of comfort, has an ease with others, unpretentious, brings balance, a quiet confidence and a great level of sophistication.
Skona Hem
It works its magic not only into undyed fabrics but also with materials like rattan and wood.
Its a soft industrial look
via google images
Its a beautiful but never boring neutral bedroom
Tracery interiors
The queen of greige is designer Christina Fluegge who's blog is amazing…Greige Design.
A few more lovely images to inspire….
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We are off to spend the last few days of school holidays with the boys at Terrigal Beach!
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The last Classroom of the Month for the season will be one to remember!
Andy from sales, Mel from sales, Darin from Sunny middays, and Sunny himself brought pizza from Boston Pizza and a balloon tower from Balloons Galore to Mrs. Grahns grade 4 class at Ponoka Elementary School!
Mrs. Grahn herself sent in the entry from saying this:
"We have been learning about how it's important to learn from our country's past mistakes. Last month one of our students became a Canadian citizen and I was thinking this pizza party would be a great wat to celebrate one of our own, newly Canadian classmates and honoring this very special time for her family!"
Well we heard you loud and clean, Mrs. Grahn! We hope the pizza party was a warm welcome to your student as they became an official citizen of this great nation! Each student got a goody bag filled with amazing gifts from some of our sponsor friends!
We'll be back with more Classroom of the Month action when the school year comes back. Even Sunny himself needs summer vacation!


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Perhaps I have always known everything important but will need a lifetime to discover what I know. Tarot and Oracles offer me guides and sign posts to help me along my way.
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Flip Side
Could this be repressive situation that the two figures in the Four of Wands ran away from? Or am I to reflect on the the intolerable situation that I ran away from?
The only thing I am really seeing in the comparison of the two cards is lots of yellow. So I am going to wear something yellow today.
That's all I got.
Rider Waite-Smith Tarot
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When I see the Four of Swords, I think of it as giving the mind a rest instead of trying to figure out a solution or answer.ReplyDeleteReplies
Ah what a lovely thought, giving the mind a rest. I am getting a little better at it.Delete
the deck you are using was the first to show figures and actions, prior to that they were basically pip cards, showing 8 coins, 6 swords etc. When Waite designed his deck for a Golden Dawn project, he put a lot of thought into the colors. They all mean something, helping to work out the deep symbology of the card. The Thoth was printed several decades later but was also created for that same exercise.ReplyDelete
I get impatient with many artists of today who create their decks with no symbology at all, it is just ooo I'm going to put four swords in this painting and think they've said it all...
and they've said nothing except to show their shallow understanding of the cards.Replies
I met someone years ago who said he had to study with a tarot master for five years and that in the RWS depictions, everything had a meaning. The person that introduced me to the cards said forget the books and go with intuition. And you are right a lot of decks are shallow imitations.Delete


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You read that right. The open world monster-killing RPG formerly only available on consoles will make its way to PC in January 2016, according to an announcement from Capcom.
It's not just Dragon's Dogma, either. This is Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, which includes the complete original game, plus content from its sequel, including the Bitterblack Isle area, new enemies and quests, and new high-level weapons and armor sets.
The game is like a cross between Shadow of the Colossus and The Witcher. You'll face massive enemies, which at times require some climbing to take down. You also get to travel with three AI companions who help in the fight. PC users will be able to share these AI buddies online, and Capcom says this may be necessary when you need a companion with a certain skill to take down an enemy.
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen will be available on Steam, with high-resolution graphics and increased fidelity. It will include achievements, the ability to use an Xbox controller, as well as support for mouse and keyboard controls. It will cost $29.99.


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We have defined entrepreneurship, explained its specific components, and put the components into a process that is easily understood and easily applicable to various business ideas. Clearly, opportunity recognition and shaping is at the heart of the process—and there is a vast difference between a great idea and a viable opportunity. Eighty-five percent of all successful entrepreneurs spend at least three to five years in their industry learning the language and niches before setting out in that industry to start a business.[4] This is an incredibly powerful principle that is especially compelling in the franchise relationship. If the franchisor can transfer its experience and bundle it with the entrepreneurial talents of franchisees, then the opportunity is leveraged and scaled.
As discussed, the three most important elements of this opportunity recognition process are market demand, market structure and size, and margin analysis. Without substantially understanding these elements as they pertain to your opportunity, determining whether it is a viable one or just a pipe dream would be a wild guess at best. But once these elements are identified, studied, and analyzed, you can proceed to the second major component of the entrepreneurial process: resource marshaling. Remember the mantra of the entrepreneur, especially during startup phase: Minimize and control rather than maximize and own. Even with superior opportunity recognition and sophisticated resource marshaling, people with relevant experience drive the entire entrepreneurial process. Central to the issue of people is the consideration of the characteristics or vital organs of the entrepreneurial team. Are they opportunity-obsessed and able to deal with ambiguity, and do they have clear leadership skills? These are important questions with consequential answers. Ultimately, leadership in the entrepreneurial environment is the process of constantly evaluating and shaping the opportunity—and subsequently balancing the human, financial, and physical resource requirements that are needed for the venture to begin, launch, grow, and succeed.


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Founder and Co-Director 'CAUSE YOU CAN LTD
London's most deprived boroughs
The Project
'CAUSE YOU CAN offers series of after-school workshops for children aged 6 to 12 who may be disadvantaged because they live in a deprived borough. We use performing arts and live performance to build confidence, character and life skills. Each series of workshops culminate in live shows, co-produced by the children and open to members of the local community. We offer vocational training and work opportunities to young people aged 16 to 25.
We support children in developing social, behavioural and communication skills, linked by government-led research into academic performance, SEAL (Social & Emotional Aspects of Learning) and the successful transition from Primary to Secondary school. The rich range of activities that we offer (movement, drama, music, singing, video arts and circus skills) creates a powerful vehicle for learning and growth. Children's development of their own ideas into live performance helps to maximise engagement, ownership and increased confidence.
CYC operates within a value-based and ethical framework. Each session has a theme related to a universal value - such as tolerance, respect or kindness - which is explored through creative practice. Children learn to reflect upon the way they feel, think, speak, act and relate to others in a mindful and positive way.
What does being a London Leader mean to you?
I emigrated from Canada in 2000; I have found London to be a welcoming city with tolerance and progress at the heart of its vibrant culture. Becoming a London Leader is a privilege and an opportunity for me to give something back to the city that I now call home.
What's your past experience?
I have lived in five different countries before settling in London 12 years ago. I became a qualified Lecturer and successful Consultant in healthcare and education by making the best of opportunities that were offered to me since I started volunteering in 2003. Along the years, I have created and developed award-winning community projects and training programmes to support disadvantages and so-called "hard-to-reach" groups.
In 2009, I set up 'CAUSE YOU CAN LTD to sustain the development and well-being of disadvantaged children in London's Primary schools. A challenging up-bringing and my background as a singer-author-composer have led me to appreciate how nurturing creative skills and performing on stage can enable children to acknowledge their own worth, strengths and potential. This conscious shift is what could allow London's next generation to recognise early on the key role that they can play in the advancement of the global community.


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Bistro 300
Baltimore Inner Harbor Dining
Breakfast Buffet--6:30am-10:30am (call for availability)
300 Light Street, 3rd floor atrium
Baltimore, MD 21202
Drop into Hyatt Regency Baltimore Inner Harbor's Bistro 300 for cocktails. Located on the third level, Bistro 300 is the perfect spot in Baltimore to meet friends after work or enjoy local cuisine for atrue taste of the city's best nightlife in a world-class atmosphere in the chic Inner Harbor neighborhood.
Creative regional cuisine inspired by local foods
Seasonal menus and modern comfort fare
Extensive wine and cocktail menu
Daily happy hour specials
Breakfast, lunch and dinner menus
Breakfast buffets on Saturday and Sunday
For to-go orders, call +1 410 605 2839
Chef Crowe was born in Seville Spain where he developed a passion for cooking at a very young age, in large part because of his rich Spanish heritage. Chef Crowe knew at a very young age that he wanted to cook, and with the help of a family friend he began his Hyatt Career at the age of 15. He continued to hone his skills at Johnson and Wales University where he did extensive work with the U.S. Culinary Olympic Team.
Now, Chef Crowe is bringing his extensive knowledge and training to Baltimore, but more importantly he brings his continued passion and love for food! "It is a unique and inspiring challenge to mold Baltimore Cuisine around the core values that I have for myself and our company," says Chef Crowe. "I feel, as does Hyatt that it is very important to do so, and I enjoy the challenge".
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It is better to travel well than to arrive.
– Buddha.
10am – WOD @ CFN:
A. 5 Rounds, goal is to not let go of the bar between excercises:
- 5 Strict Pronated Pull Ups, Behind the neck
- 5 Strict Supinated PU's, CTB
- 10 Strict and straight Leg Raises
Unbroken, 5+5/10, 5/5/10, DNF, DNF
B. 5 * 3 L-hang Skin The Cat, last rep lowers from inverted hang to "slow" front lever, 2 min rest b/t sets.
C. Metcon from CrossFit Nordic, alternate for six rounds of 1 minute max on each:
Score is lowest on each, times eachother.
- Inverted Burpees – 8/7/6/6/6/9 (total: 42 reps).
- Burpee Box Jumps @ 60cm – 12/8/8/8/8/9 (53).
Score: 6*8 = 48
Wanted to do a double today by joining the afternoon class, but it was just not possible with a lot of errands that had to be done. But since Inverted Burpees was something I actually was thinking about doing, why not just rip off their metcon?
First thing first, I wanted to name this post "Who stole my grip?" at first. Already during the first round of the pu-complex my forearms was cramping and I hope it has something to do with my vain attempts to keep up with Marcus yesterday. My now specified goal is to do these 5 rounds unbroken and with only 2 min of rest in between, needles to say, I will have a lot of time discovering if the journey really is better… 😉
Instead, all of a sudden my grip worked fine for the ring work, so I decided to to 5 rounds here instead of 3 as planned.
For the metcon then, I've done inverted once before (like 18 months ago), but this time I threated them as a new excercise and instead of going for speed, I really tried to keep them strict. Went from the floor to squat, to frogstand and then just pressed up into a handstand. Perfect combo of excercises for this time domain. BJ's obviusly spiked my heartrate and was heavy for the legs, while inverteds kept the shoulders working hard, but also let me recover a little.
This works perfect with my new programming plan that states that I have to put two new excercises in every week, (think I can count both these as new). Well, a new version of any excercise will also be approved, I think this will bring my GPP up a lot!
Tomorrow I really am going to the lunch class and I happen to know that there is another great excercise planned in there that I'm looking forward to try.


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I inherently have an issue reviewing blatantly agenda driven movies, and nobody is more obviously agenda driven than Michael Moore. Each one of his movies is even more so than the last. I wasn't necessarily able to escape this feeling during Sicko, Moore's investigation into the American Health Care Industry, but it didn't bother me as much as it did in Fahrenheit 9/11. Unlike most documentaries, even if you don't agree with what he has to say, you still might actually enjoy this movie.
Moore molds this movie in the same style that he always has. Included are his interspersed animations, lampooning of government figures, and his man-on-the-street confrontations. Not to mention his build up of hypocrisies found in opposing arguments. Moore, as always, comes across as the smart-ass elitist who knows that knows more than everyone else. Unfortunately, his now unmistakable narratives seems forced in this outing. They lacked the smug wit that seem to be underlying his other works.
I feel like I've seen this movie before, except just with different topics. All of his movies seem to follow the same formula, just changing out the data, but if it works, why not? It's just that nothing he tells is really shocking anymore. One of the reactions that really made his previous movies.
Interestingly, in Sicko, Moore spent much of the time abroad- comparing the health care systems of Canada, France, and Great Britain to the American system. These segments were certainly interesting, and fairly convincing. Perhaps I just enjoyed these foreigners laughing at Moore's (and suppose the rest of America's) expense.
Of course the movie was filled with personal testimonies from people who have been slighted by insurance companies, forced to forgo important procedures, and choose between medications. More important than these, however, were the interviews with industry insiders, who had spent years developing procedures to deny people care. Some of these segments were very telling.
It would not be a Michael Moore movie unless he engaged in major confrontation. This time he actually took this aspect much further than any time before. After hearing about the health care suspected terrorists were receiving, he chartered several boats to take people to Guantanamo Bay to try to get treated. Without giving away too much of what happened- even the Cuban health care system was portrayed in a glowing light.
Surprisingly (and refreshingly), Moore did not focus on much politically. Only briefly did he talk about insurance lobbyists in the government, and only mentioned 9/11 a few times (when talking about the health problems suffered by clean-up workers). Certainly this movie wasn't flawless, and I think it could have benefited from a little more time spent in organization and writing, but it wasn't bad. Despite the fact that there's nothing unbiased found in this movie, it's still a pretty decent documentary.
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Sky Train Sky Train, a compelling book by Canyon Sam opens to its readers the trauma of Tibet after the Chinese invasion and military takeover in 1959. The book lucidly narrates how Tibet, a once peaceful Buddhist country, is now almost left bereft of its religion and rich culture under a strict communist rule.
Canyon Sam
2012, pp 348
Canyon Sam, a third generation Chinese American took a trip to Tibet in the '80s, when she interviewed hordes of Tibetans for an authentic oral history of Tibet. But the book never saw light for nearly two decades. Before publishing the book in 2009, the author made yet another visit to Tibet, and this time in the controversial Sky Train that runs from Shanghai to Lhasa in Tibet.
The book is a good mixture of people's stories and the author's own experiences in Tibet. Finally, the author retains only four stories for the book, out of the hundreds the author has collected — those that exhaustively cover the times before and after the Chinese takeover of Tibet.
The book begins with Canyon Sam's journey in the Sky Train and her shock at looking at what modernisation by China has wrought on the once serene landscapes of Tibet — "I kept longing for the pure vistas of the Tibetan plateau.
After hours of looking, I gave up trying to get an unobstructed photograph and instead deliberately took pictures of Chinese footprints: transmission towers, endless lines of electric poles, work camps, storage tanks, and all types of fencing. The scenery was always marred."
Then comes the part where the interviewees narrate their shocking stories. The first woman Sam interviews, Mrs Palijorkhymsar, was termed a "criminal" by the Chinese government because she was a landlord. While her husband and son escaped to India, she was left behind to bear the wrath of the new rulers. She, along with thousands of Tibetans, was made to work on massive construction projects that the government had started in order to modernise Tibet.
They had to work 16-hour days with bare minimum food. Those termed 'criminals' had to work extra hours — as if it was even possible! Then in the evenings came the cruel thamzig sessions. Supposedly a system created for self-criticism, this in reality was simply a torture session for the ones termed criminals. Those who previously worked on the fields were mandated to beat up their employers. Mrs Palijorkhymsar wryly narrates how her employees cried having to beat her and how many women succumbed to the injuries inflicted in thamzigs.
Another interviewee's — Mrs Nemeselig — story of torture is not much different from that of Palijorkhymsar's but a bit worse since she was even jailed. Her crime? Her husband took part in anti-China protests and eventually fled the country. Her solitary confinement in jail was in subhuman conditions — a tiny dark room with a few buckets for a toilet, which she was allowed to empty once every three days. After six months of this, she was moved in with other prisoners. But nothing was better there either, she recounts.
They were even forbidden from talking to each even while being in the same cell. If they were caught talking, they would be immersed chest deep in cold water for a day, with no change of clothing allowed later. And she recollects that many died of hypothermia.
One may wonder why the author has only chosen the stories of women. She says the reason was because women suffered the most at the hands of Chinese while their men fled Tibet.
Women could not leave with men because the religious heads, the Lamas and Rinpoches, who every Tibetan agreed needed to be saved first, could not travel with women. But Tibetan women seem to have accepted this ungrudgingly and have gone on with the suffering for close to two decades.
Sky Train is a breezy read despite the grave nature of its topic. The author never dwells on the historical pathos for too long but deftly switches the narrative at all the right moments to a modern-day Tibet. She gives titbits about this tiny land of survivors we would otherwise have never known.
Sky Train, a compelling book by Canyon Sam opens to its readers the trauma of Tibet after the Chinese invasion and military takeover in 1959. The book lucidly narrates how Tibet, a once peaceful Buddhist country, is now almost left bereft of its religion and rich culture under a strict communist rule.
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text: AN234 AK5394A to CS5381 Conversion by Kevin L Tretter 1. Introduction The CS5381 is a complete analog-to-digital converter for digital audio systems. The CS5381 performs sampling, analog-to-digital conversion and anti-alias filtering, generating 24-bit values for both left and right channels. The CS5381 offers some unique advantages over the AK5394A including: - Over 70% REDUCTION in package size (TSSOP) - 50% less power consumption - Fewer external components required (See Section 2) - Overflow detect - Integrated level shifters - Over 80% less group delay (48kHz output sample rate) Table 1 shows a comparison of the key specifications of these two devices. AK5394A CS5381 Conversion (Bits) 24 24 Dynamic Range (A-weighted) dB 123* 120 THD+N dB -110* -110 Analog Core Power Supply (VA) V +5.0 V +5.0 V Digital Core Power Supply (VD) +3.3 V to +5.0 V +3.3 V to +5.0 V Digital Interface Power Supply (VL) N/A +2.5 V to +5.0 V Maximum Power mW 870 348 Maximum Sample Rate kHz 216 200 Package 28-pin SOP 24-pin SOIC/TSSOP * Dynamic Range and THD+N specified with different input buffer topologies Table 1. Comparison of Key Specifications http://www.cirrus.com Copyright Cirrus Logic, Inc. 2003 (All Rights Reserved) JUL '03 AN234REV1 1 AN234 2. Typical Connection Diagrams +5 V to 3.3 V + 1 µF 0.1 µF * +5V + 1 µF 0.1 µF VD VL FILT+ 200 µF + VL 0.1 µF 10 k REFGND + +5V to 2.5V 1 µF 0.1 µF 5.1 Ω VA + 0.1 µF 1 µF 0.1 µF OVFL RST I2S/LJ M/S HPF M0 M1 MDIV VQ Analog Input Buffer (Section 8) AINL+ CS5381 A/D CONVERTER Power Down and Mode Settings AINLAudio Data Processor SDOUT Analog Input Buffer (Section 8) LRCK AINR+ Timing Logic and Clock SCLK MCLK AINR- * Resistor may only GND GND be used if VD is derived from VA. If used, do not drive any other logic from VD. Figure 1. CS5381 Typical Connection Diagram +5V + 10 µF 0.1µF 0.1µF +5V to 3.3V 10µF VD VA VREFL+ C* + + 0.22 µF C* + VREFL- 0.22 µF AINL+ Analog Input Buffer (Section 8) ZCAL RST CAL VCOML AK5394A A/D CONVERTER HPFE SMODE2 SMODE1 DFS0 DFS1 Reset and Calibration Control Mode Control AINLAudio Data Processor SDATA AINR+ Analog Input Buffer (Section 8) LRCK SCLK FSYNC AINRC* + C* + Timing Logic and Clock MCLK VREFR+ 0.22 µF VREFR- 0.22 µF * See Section 9 VCOMR AGND BGND DGND Figure 2. AK5394A Typical Connection Diagram 2 AN234 3. Pin Compatibility Table 1 shows the pins of the AK5394A and the corresponding pins of the CS5381. Please note that the AK5394A has 28 pins, and the CS5381 has 24 pins. AK5394A Pin Number 1, 28 2, 27 3, 26 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Pin Name VREFL+, VREFR+ VREFL-, VREFRVCOML, VCOMR AINL+ AINLZCAL VD DGND CAL RST SMODE2 SMODE1 LRCK SCLK SDATA FSYNC MCLK DFS0 HPFE DFS1 BGND AGND VA AINRAINR+ CS5381 Pin Number 24 23 22 16 17 6 7 1 12 2 3 4 9 5 13 11 14 18 19 20 21 8 10 15 Description Pin Name FILT+ REFGND VQ AINL+ AINLVD GND RST I2S/LJ M/S LRCK SCLK SDOUT MCLK M0 HPF M1 GND VA AINRAINR+ VL MDIV OVFL Positive reference voltage Ground reference Internal quiescent reference voltage Differential Left Channel Input Differential Left Channel Input Zero Calibration Control Digital power Ground reference Calibration Active Signal Reset Digital Interface Format Select Master/Slave Mode Select Left right clock Serial clock Serial data Frame Synchronization Signal Master clock Mode selection High Pass Filter Enable Mode selection Substrate Ground Ground reference Analog power Differential Right Channel Input Differential Right Channel Input Logic Power MCLK divider Overflow Table 2. Pin Compatibility Between AK5394A and CS5381 4. Offset Calibration The CS5381, and AK5394A all have offset calibration capability. However, the calibration process varies slightly between the AK5394A and the CS5381. 4.1 CS5381 The CS5381 implements a high pass filter that can be controlled via the HPF pin (pin 11). The high pass filter continuously subtracts a measure of the DC offset from the output of the decimation filter. If the HPF pin is taken high during normal operation, the current value of the DC offset register is frozen and this DC offset will continue to be subtracted from the conversion result. A system calibration can then be performed by first running the CS5381 with the high pass filter enabled (HPF = LOW) until the filter settles. At this point, disable the high pass filter (HPF = HI), thereby freezing the stored DC offset. 3 AN234 4.2 AK5394A The AK5394A will automatically initiate a calibration sequence following a reset. The CAL pin (pin 9) is an output that indicates when a calibration sequence is in progress. This calibration technique is very similar to that described above for the CS5381. The AK5394A also has a ZCAL pin (pin 6) which allows the calibration input to be obtained from either the analog input pins or the VCOM pins. The high pass filter can be controlled via the HPFE pin (pin 19). In the AK5394A, the high pass filter is either continuously running or completely removed from the signal path. 5. Master/Slave Selection and Digital Interface Format The CS5381 and AK5394A are pin compatible in terms of selecting Master/Slave operation and digitial interface format. The pins match up as noted in Table 2. 6. Speed Mode Selection The AK5394A supports three speed modes, "normal", "double", and "quad" as determined by the DFS0 and DFS1 pins (pins 18 and 20 respectively). These pins are compatible with the M0 and M1 pins (pins 13 and 14) of the CS5381, as shown in Table 2. 7. System Clocking The CS5381 is fully compatible with the clocking requirements of the AK5394A. However, there is a slight difference when operating in Master mode. When operating in "normal" mode, the AK5394A will generate an SCLK that is 128×Fs. The CS5381 generates an SCLK that is 64×Fs. The CS5381 offers an integrated MCLK divider, which can be controlled via the MDIV pin (pin 10). This pin allows multiple external MCLK/LRCK ratios to be supported. In order to maintain complete compatibility between the AK5394A and the CS5381, connect the MDIV pin (pin 10) of the CS5381 to GND. 8. Input Buffer Topology The analog input buffers shown in Figures 9 and 10 of the AK5394A datasheet (dated January, 2002) will also work for the CS5381. In this case, the "Bias" reference (in Figure 9) should be sourced from the VQ pin of the CS5381. However, these input buffers require a large input voltage level at the input to the buffer and attenuate the signal prior to the converter. This much signal swing is not always possible in a real system, and not necessary to achieve the full performance of the CS5381. The following sections contain a description of a single-ended to differential input buffer (comparable to Figure 9 of the AK5394A datasheet) and a fully differential input buffer (comparable to Figure 10 of the AK5394A datasheet). These two buffer topologies are unity gain, and therefore do not rely on a large input voltage at the buffer input. 8.1 Single-Ended to Differential Input Buffer Figure 3 shows a single-ended to differential analog input buffer. This buffer provides the proper biasing, isolation from the switched capacitor currents, low output impedance, and anti-alias filtering. The second op-amp stage is set up in an inverting configuration to produce the negative node of the differential input. In the input buffer shown below, the second stage has unity gain, and the single-ended input level will effectively be doubled when presented differentially to the converter. For example, a 2.8 Vpp single-ended input will provide a full-scale 5.6 Vpp differential input to the CS5381. 4 AN234 634 Ω 470 pF C0G CS5381 91 Ω - 1 µF AIN+ + 634 Ω 634 Ω 100 kΩ VA 2700 pF C0G 470 pF C0G 100 kΩ 3.3 kΩ 91 Ω - AIN- + 3.3 kΩ 0.01 µF 100 µF 1 µF 0.01 µF VQ 634 Ω 470 pF C0G 91 Ω - 1 µF AIN+ + 634 Ω 634 Ω 100 kΩ VA 2700 pF C0G 470 pF C0G 100 kΩ 3.3 kΩ 91 Ω - AIN- + 3.3 kΩ 0.01 µF 100 µF Figure 3. Single-Ended to Differential Input Buffer 8.2 Fully Differential Input Buffer Figure 4 shows a fully differential analog input buffer. This buffer provides the proper biasing, isolation from the switched capacitor currents, low output impedance, and anti-alias filtering. This input buffer is unity gain, so a 5.6 Vpp differential input will provide a full-scale 5.6 Vpp differential input into the CS5381. 634 Ω 470 pF C0G 10 µF 100 kΩ CS5381 91 Ω 634 Ω 10 kΩ 2700 pF C0G 470 pF 10 kΩ 100 kΩ AIN+ + 0.01 µF - C0G 91 Ω AIN- + 10 µF VQ 1 µF 0.01 µF 634 Ω 470 pF 10 µF 100 kΩ C0G 91 Ω AIN+ + 634 Ω 10 kΩ 2700 pF C0G 470 pF 10 kΩ 0.01 µF - C0G 91 Ω AIN- + 100 kΩ 10 µF Figure 4. Fully Differential Input Buffer 5 AN234 9. Capacitor Size on Reference Voltage Pin(s) The CS5381 and the AK5394A both require external capacitance on the internal reference voltage pin(s). On the CS5381, the internal reference voltage is output on FILT+ (pin 24). The AK5394A has four such pins, VREFL+, VREFL-, VREFR-, and VREFR+ (pins 1, 2, 27, and 28 respectively). Each of these pins require a large capacitor for noise decoupling. Please refer to Figure 12 of the AK5394A datasheet (dated January, 2002) for a plot of distortion versus frequency with various capacitor values on these reference pins. For comparison, the same plot has been generated using the CS5381, as can be seen in Figure 5. Please note that the CS5381 requires ONE such capacitor, while the AK5394A requires FOUR such capacitors. CS5381 THD+N vs Frequency -1dBFS Input -60 -70 220 µF 100 µF -80 d B F S -90 10 µF -100 -110 -120 1000 µF -130 10 20 470 µF 50 100 200 500 1k 2k 5k 10k 20k Hz Figure 5. CS5381 THD+N vs. Frequency A comparison between Figure 12 of the AK5394A datasheet and the above plot of the CS5381 reveals that the CS5381 has better low frequency distortion performance for a given capacitor value, and requires only one capacitor as opposed to the four that are required for the AK5394A. 6 AN234 Contacting Cirrus Logic Support For a complete listing of Direct Sales, Distributor, and Sales Representative contacts, visit the Cirrus Logic web site at: http://www.cirrus.com/ IMPORTANT NOTICE Cirrus Logic, Inc. and its subsidiaries ("Cirrus") believe that the information contained in this document is accurate and reliable. However, the information is subject to change without notice and is provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind (express or implied). Customers are advised to obtain the latest version of relevant information to verify, before placing orders, that information being relied on is current and complete. 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ROH/NJPW 'War of the Worlds' PPV results
Here are your results from tonight's Ring of Honor / NJPW "War of the Worlds' PPV out of New York:
Four Corner Survival Match
Kushida vs. Dalton Castle w/ The Boys vs. Bobby Fish vs. Silas Young
Dalton Castle gets the pinfall after hitting the Bang-A-Rang on Bobby Fish.
Frankie Kazarian vs. Hangman Page
Great promos from both men in the pre-match package. This was a grudge match by definition. This one got ugly before the bell even rang. Kazarian attacked Hangman as he finished making his way down the ramp getting in some heavy offense before both men entered allowing Todd Sinclair to begin the match. Probably one of the most disgusting spitting wars in wrestling history took place in the middle of this match that could provide us with some unsavory still shots if one wanted to got that route. In the end, Hangman got a dirty win by grabbing the ropes after Kaz went for a sunset flip in the corner.
Triple Threat (Non Title)
War Machine (IWGP C) vs. Los Ingobernables de Japon (Evil & Sanada) vs. Search & Destroy (Jonathan Greshan & Chris Sabin w/ Alex Shelley
War Machine comes out in some sick masks that I've never seen them wear before. Can't think of a tag team more on fire than these guys right now.
WAR MACHINE!!!!! #ROHWOTW pic.twitter.com/ESr3HChduW
— ROH Wrestling (@ringofhonor) May 13, 2017
Raymond Rowe got the pin on Sabin after they hit a powerslam (Hanson hit a topa suicida on the outside competition assuring the 3 count wouldn't be interrupted) giving War Machine the victory. The move of the match was definitely Rowe hitting a Belly to Belly on both participating members of Search and Destroy.
Impressive display of strength from @RAYMONDxROWE #ROHWOTW pic.twitter.com/ueZxMDVgOv
— ROH Wrestling (@ringofhonor) May 13, 2017
Will Ospreay vs. Jay White
We got a nice little 'This is the Future' package for White and Ospreay before the match. Simply cannot disagree with that statement.
Watch the best episode of 205 Live and times it by 1,000 and you're still nowhere near how great the action was in this match. The commentary team was actually begging fans to make GIFS of this match. In the end, Ospreay got the pinfall after hitting a beautiful OsCutter off the top rope. Punishment Martinez attacked both men after the match to a chorus of boos. Here are a couple of those GIFS.
Nasty Landing, shrugs it off like it's nothing. Ospreay, the "New Ace". #ROHWOTW pic.twitter.com/zr1bUmSKEi
— UnderhookDDT (@UnderhookDDT) May 13, 2017
THAT WAS AWESOME! THAT WAS AWESOME! #ROHWOTW pic.twitter.com/8i2RG2pUaO
— ROH Wrestling (@ringofhonor) May 13, 2017
ROH Six Man World Championship
Bully Ray & The Briscoes (c) vs. Hirooki Goto & Roppongi Vice
Bully Ray made his entrance through the crowd before announcing that this would be DQ match. With assistance from The Briscoes, Bully put Beretta through a table then hit Romero with the Team 3D before getting the pin. Bully Ray and The Briscoes retain after a match that had everything you'd expect. Fans chanted ECW following the match until Bully Ray grabbed the mic and led them into a ROH chant. Solid company man.
ROH World Television Championship
Marty Scurll (c) vs. Matt Sydal
Marty Scurll's ring entrance is by far the best in Ring of Honor today and for my money may just be the best in pro wrestling. Chills every single time.
ROH TV Champion @MartyScurll is ready to cause a spot of bother. #ROHWOTW pic.twitter.com/sxDzl138Wl
— ROH Wrestling (@ringofhonor) May 13, 2017
Scurll forces the tap after applying his trademark Crossface 'Chicken Wing' finisher to retain the ROH TV title.
ROH World Tag Team Championship
The Young Bucks (c) vs. Tetsuya Naito & Bushi
Bushi out first with a sweet Venom mask. Naito next to a huge pop from the crowd. He kicks the IWGP IC title down the aisle as he makes his walk. He continues to treat any and all gold he procures like a red-headed step child. Naito was the IWGP champ last year during the WOTW tour yet he's way more over this year. Love seeing him getting the love he deserves in the US.
Multiple near falls for Naito and Bushi before Matt gets sprayed with Bushi's green mist and super kicks everyone, including Nick and referee Paul Turner, blindly. Bushi eats the pin after the Bucks hit the Meltzer driver for the win.
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Adam Cole
This one is advertised as the 7-time IWGP Heavyweight champion, Tanahashi, facing the only 3-time ROH champion in Cole. With Cole's contract being up as of the end of last month, this could be the final time we see the 27-year-old in a ROH ring. What better way to go out than facing a legend like Tanahashi for your first time. Just in case you were wondering, Tanahashi did in fact air guitar through Cole's 'Something For You' theme song to the end.
ADAM COLE BAY BAY! #ROHWOTW pic.twitter.com/K3Ny71GpwM
— ROH Wrestling (@ringofhonor) May 13, 2017
Masterful air guitar from @AdamColePro #ROHWOTW pic.twitter.com/OQn0XxqZax
— ROH Wrestling (@ringofhonor) May 13, 2017
Tanahashi scores the victory after hitting the High Fly Flow. Awesome performance by both men. Fans chant "Thank You Cole' after Tanahashi gives him the ring. The Bucks tease superkicking Cole but instead they all embrace. The lights go out and Kenny Omega appears on the screen.
Just like all fairytales Adam, there has to be a Hero and there has to be a Villain. Marty Scurll appears with Omega. For a second we believe that Omega may be there live but it turns out that was a pre tape. The lights turn back on and Scurll joins The Bucks in the ring. He pops the umbrella to reveal the Bullet Club logo, waves goodbye to Cole obliterates and The Bucks superkick him to seal the deal. Scurll has joined to Bullet Club and he's wearing the threads to prove it. 'Being The Elite' fans know that Adam poisoned Nick, and now he's paying for it.
'The Villain' joins Bullet Club; Adam Cole excommunicated
Bullet Club needed a true 'Villain' as their leader. That villain is Marty Scurll. Perfectly executed segment all around. The addition of Omega via satellite was a nice touch. See you in NXT, Adam Cole.
ROH World Championship
Christopher Daniels (c) vs. Jay Lethal vs. Cody
Daniels hit the best moonsault ever on Cody to retain his title via pinfall while Cody had Lethal locked into a figure four.
All in all this was another amazing PPV from the folks over at ROH. Beautiful pacing and no low points to speak of. The highlights of the show were definitely Ospreay versus White and Scurll joining Bullet Club after what was likely Adam Cole's final match. Now it's onto the road to 'Best in the World' for Ring of Honor and 'Dominion' for New Japan.
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I have always loved Valentine's Day, even when so many people are cynical about it.
Okay so, sure, it's a holiday that has been created in the lull between Christmas and Easter, during one of the most cold and grey months of the year, just to sell some extra loot to mindless consumers. It's tacky and pointless and you shouldn't have to buy a card for your sweetheart because a holiday deems you must. It can make you feel sad about being single, sad about pining for the wrong person that your heart just won't stop crushing on.
But I can't help but loving Valentine's Day! Firstly, it's because I'm a romantic. I cry whenever something soppy happens in a film, I don't care if it's corny, it gets me every time.
And I love pink. Everything is pink and red for Valentine's Day and it's all so pretty!
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts make cakes that are as pretty as this:
There are heart shaped chocolates and candy in cute pink boxes in the shops.
And beautiful flowers everywhere! (and some of those fugly bargain one wilting red rose in a cellophane tube options)
Because I'm a girl who loves pink and flowers and candy and pretty stuff, I can't not love V-Day. I am more looking forward to the week after V-Day, when all the pink heart shaped treats go on sale. Wooo!


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Jack Barlow has notched up his first win in British karting's premier class.
The Pett-based starlet is now within touching distance of the Super One championship lead after claiming a victory in round three of seven at Larkhall in Scotland.
Barlow took the upper hand from the outset with a superb performance in timed qualifying which yielded his first pole position of the season, albeit by just one one-hundredth of a second.
Engine gremlins prevented Barlow from taking a lights-to-flag victory in his opening heat, but he was still able to finish second quite comfortably.
He made a strong getaway from the start-line in the second encounter and powered into an unassailable lead after his two closest rivals collided with each other.
As Barlow and his fellow competitors waited in the pits prior to the pre-final, the rain stopped and it soon became clear that the track surface was drying quickly, prompting feverish activity among the assembled field.
Barlow's mechanic did an amazing job to change the kart's wet set-up in just four minutes and the driver responded by getting off to a really good start and going on to clinch victory.
Barlow was on pole for an incident-packed second final. He looked set to repeat his earlier triumph as he assumed a sizeable lead when his engine seized.
The cause of the problem remains unclear. Had Barlow won, he would have been leading overall. As it is, he is just 10 points off the top.
See Friday's Observers for the full article.


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Although we still had a day left of our "Lebanese-Only" restricted diet, the kids snuck out to go have some Deek Duke's (a chicken restaurant which was definitely more Western than Eastern) for dinner. We didn't tell Mom and Dad until debriefing about our little disobedience.
This past summer while I was serving in Lebanon, these people lived, served, ate, cried, prayed, laughed, and loved with me.
Before I left, people would ask me what I was most afraid of or nervous about venturing over to the Middle East. They expected answers like "the food" or "safety." My answer: My team not liking me. I shocked a good number of people with this answer.
"But Rebekah, everyone likes you."
"Rebekah Suzanne, how could anyone not like you?"
...were the two most common responses to my reply.
Nevertheless, it was my biggest concern. I was so lucky with CBSP08 to find a family who loves me and accepts me that I knew I wouldn't get so lucky again. Wrong.
My beautiful sisters at Black Mountain for reunion.
When people ask me how Lebanon compares to Clearwater, I cannot begin to compare the two. That is to say, God has given me exactly what I've needed each time around.
Clearwater has been a family that loves me unconditionally when I needed to learn the lesson of unconditional love. The Dream Team is my prayer circle who entered my life at a time when I needed support and community so bad my soul ached. Although I love them as much as I love CBSP08, I talk to them about different things than I do with Clearwater. Dream TEam knows my struggles with my girls, my walk, my family, my life, blah blah blah. I met each family at a different point in my life and therefore have a different connection with each.
The Dream Team has my back when they go to The Throne. I text them constantly with prayer requests, no matter how big or small. They pray for my girls whenever I ask, and it wouldn't surprise me if they did it even when I haven't asked. They know my fears, anxiety, joy, and struggle with graduating and moving on from State. They know my intense love for my Wolfpack.
Erin, Kim, and I at the Jeita Grottos this past summer.
Clearwater is going to get jobs and get married. A few might head overseas (one is all ready there--Hi Travis!) and others might do something else. But some version of The American Dream is ahead for them all. Lebanon is giong to scatter like seeds in the wind. All over the US, the Middle East, South America, beyond--who knows? Although I will cherish the time that I will get to sit and worship with my Wolfpack family and my Clearwater family in Eternity, nothing will compare to the stories that I get to hear from my Lebanon family.
Our last family picture together in the Frankfurt, Germany airport before we began to part ways.


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This blog is about my thoughts on managing emerging execution paths between participants of an enterprise eco-system (both business and IT activities) and ways to build such an architecture that delays any binding or connection as a result of mediation or matching needs and capabilities between any 2 interacting peers as late as possible by externalising the complete set of infrastructure elements that forms the path between the 2 interacting entities to an execution context.
The concepts explored in this domain include among many others:
- Fractal Modeling
- Semantic SOA
- Context-awareness (COP)
- Model-driven architecture
- Modeling tools and technologies
- Emergence
- Resources-Events-Agents ontology
Design methods include:
- Complex Adaptive Leadership
- Cynefin Framework
- Socio-Technical Systems
In short, my passion is about connecting the dots between concepts/components/systems/etc in a problem domain and also the solution domain in a minimalist manner, thinking globally but acting locally. According to Albert Einstein, as simple as possible but not any simpler.


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Contribution of Work and Organizational Psychology to employees' well-being and performance
Speaker: Prof. Jose M. Peiró
University of Valencia
Past President, International Association of Applied Psychology
Time: 9:00—10:30am
Date: April 27(Wed.)
Venue: 心理所北楼一层报告厅
Abstract: In this presentation I will review the main contributions made by Work and Organizational Psychology along the history of the XX century till present and also revise the contributions and limitations of the developments during the last decades of the Model of Happy Productive Worker. Finally, I will briefly introduce the current research project we are carrying on in the Research Institute on Personnel Psychology, Organizational Development and Quality of working life (IDOCAL) at the University of Valencia.
The Universal Declaration of Ethical Principles for Psychologists: It's Relevance in Today's World
Speaker: Prof. Janel Gauthier
Emeritus of Psychology, Laval University
President, International Association of Applied Psychology
Date: April 28(Thu.)
Abstract: In 2008, the International Union of Psychological Science and the International Association of Applied Psychology adopted the Universal Declaration of Ethical Principles for Psychologists as "a common moral framework that guides and inspires psychologists worldwide toward the highest ethical ideals in their professional and scientific work." (UDEPP, 2008). The focus of this presentation will be to provide an overview of the Universal Declaration of Ethical Principles for Psychologists, describe how it is used, and highlight its role and meaning in today's world and its role in preventing violence and promoting peace at home and abroad. It will be argued that ethics provide a much needed moral framework for addressing today's global problems.
Risk and Risk Taking from a Psychology perspective
Speaker: Prof. Christine Roland-Lévy
University of Rheims Champagne-Ardenne
Selected President, International Association of Applied Psychology
Time: 10:30—12:00am
Abstract:The presentation will deal with risk psychology, essentially from the perspective of social psychology. Besides a general introduction around the concept of risk and risk-taking a series of studies will be presented. Based on the Social Representation Theory, risk in general will be presented. The presentation will then develop around risk in the context of the financial and economic crisis. Examples of studies will also present risk-taking, with financial incentives, in gambling. Finally, examples of the effects of risk-taking in sports and at work will be presented.


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Just two months ago Frederick's of Hollywood made plans to shutter one-third of its stores, keeping just 60 locations open. Since then, the company appears to have drastically rethought its "re-engineering" strategy, announcing today that it will close all stores and move to an online-only business model.
The Los Angeles Times reports that the lingerie store has struggled to keep up with rival Victoria's Secret in recent years.
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So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. But you did not learn Christ in this way, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old man, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new man, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth. (Ephesians 4:14-24)
In Ephesians 2 Paul said that Christ had created the Jews and the Gentiles into one new man. Here Paul tells his readers that the new man is created in the likeness of God. But wasn't the first man created in God's image and likeness? Does this passage imply that man lost the imago Dei in the Fall, and that now it's being restored? Or is it possible that the original imago wasn't complete? Genesis 1 focuses exclusively on God's creational activity, implying that man is like God specifically in being able to create. At the end of Genesis 3 God says that man, in acquiring knowledge of good and evil, has become even more godlike. Here in Ephesians 4 Paul links the likeness of God specifically to His righteousness and holiness — yet another aspect of the imago.
Paul tells his readers that they're acting like the Gentiles: ignorant, hard-hearted, impure and greedy. This sort of behavior Paul associates with the old man. Is Paul contradicting himself from two chapters earlier by now saying that the Gentiles are the old man and that the Jews, or perhaps the Christ-following Jews, are the new man? I don't think so. Paul addresses his readers as "Gentiles in the flesh" (2:13) who through Christ have been joined together with the Jews into the one new man (2:15). Now, however, Paul sees evidence of his readers relapsing into their old ways, as if they were still defining themselves according to the old fleshly distinctions between peoples. The old Gentile way of life is characterized by enmity, ignorance, and immorality — in short, it's a life that doesn't manifest God's holiness. Presumably Paul would levy the same criticisms against those "Jews in the flesh" who slipped back into their old Jewish ways.
Apparently it's possible for a follower of Christ to slip back and forth between the old man and the new man. Though Christ has already created the new man, the old man persists, even among those who follow Christ. Paul enjoins his readers to "lay aside" the old man and to "put on" the new man, as if the transition were as easy as changing one's clothes. If Paul was talking here about a distinctly new human nature having been implanted in believers, one would expect him to use different imagery. For example, if the old man is a fleshly, surface-level identity whereas the new man is deeper and truer, then Paul might exhort the backslider to lay aside the old man in order that the new, true man might shine forth. Alternatively, if the old man is deeply ingrained in human nature, then Paul might suggest that his readers put the new man over the top of the old man as a means of disguising or ritually purifying the old. Instead Paul seems to regard the old man and new man as interchangeable. He also assumes that the reader possesses an autonomy independent of the old man and the new man, a constant and continuous self that can take off the one and put on the other.
The old man and the new man are not static entities: the one is "being corrupted," whereas the other is "being renewed" (Eph. 4:22f.). More precisely, Paul encourages the reader to "be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new man." It would seem that, in Pauline psychology, the mind has a spirit that can either be corrupted or be renewed. Here in Ephesians the old man and new man are envisioned as alternative life trajectories or mindsets, and the individual self can at any given time be guided by either the one or the other. A person who sets his life course by the new man must put aside the traditional intercultural enmities (2:15f) and the ignorance and callousness (in Greek it's "analgesia," the numbness to pain) that lead to impurity and greed. Instead the person participates in the ongoing life of God (4:18), a way that leads in the opposite direction, toward peace, knowledge, sensitivity, purity, generosity.
walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God… (Eph 4:17-18)
The old man is aimed toward corruption and death; the new man, toward renewal and life. Paul isn't enjoining his readers to assume a new personality or nature. He's asking them to respond appropriately to the singular twofold event of Christ's death and resurrection, to "walk in a manner of the calling with which you have been called" (Eph. 4:1). It's possible not to respond appropriately, to "put on the old man" even if you're already a participant in the "new man" that Christ created in the cross. Those believers who put on the old man act just like those who never responded to Christ's calling in the first place.
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The unbeliever and the believer who is currently "wearing the old man" — are they the same? In other words, is there anything that distinguishes the Christian from the non-Christian? Is it the initial statement of faith, or is it the walk, that identifies someone who has life in the Spirit? Or is neither of these subjective responses definitive? Is it instead the "Christ event" itself that creates the new man in the flesh and the new life in the spirit? Whether you acknowledge the event or not, whether you live inside the new man or not, is it the event itself that has already changed everything?
I think that for Paul the subjective response is determinative because the "Christ event" is itself the emergence of a new kind of subjectivity, a "subjectivation" that continually renews itself in spirit and in life. Paul's injunction to lay aside the old man and to put on the new presumes the kind of free subjectivity that the resurrected life in Christ makes possible.
The "Christ event" has two parts to it: death and resurrection. The new man is one, but this unity participates in both parts of the event. There's a continual dying of the old man and his concerns for fleshly distinctions, laws and desires; and there's also a continual resurrection of the new man and his freedom to act in faith, hope and love. Is there something distinctive about the individual who participates in this sort of bivalent subjectivity, or does everyone engage in these same ongoing struggles to become a free subject in the world? Sometimes I see it one way, sometimes the other, but I'll be damned if I know which is true.
I have a sense that many, perhaps most, at least occasionally consider living a life concerned less with inconsequential distinctions and more with truth, beauty, justice, love. I also think that, at best, people vacillate repeatedly and perpetually between the two. In this regard I'm not personally persuaded that those who proclaim themselves Christians are qualitatively different from those who do not. But this is idle speculation of one observer of the human condition and not a systematic treatment of Paul's writings.
Awhile back I wrote some posts about contemporary continental philosopher Alain Badiou's little book Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism, which explores issues we've been addressing here. Badiou contends that Paul offers not a universalist expansion of the traditionally exclusivist Jewish faith but rather "the possibility of universalism." Paul doesn't point either to a universally true set of philosophical propositions nor to the universally commendable life that Jesus lived on earth, but rather to the distinctive event of Christ's death and resurrection, an event that was in its very nature subjective, experienced by Christ alone. This intensely private event offers the possibility of universal truth and love not to those who abstract its truth or who testify to its miracle but rather to those who participate subjectively in the event itself. So, paradoxically, it's a universalism that depends on subjective participation.
Drifting again, this time into sociology, it seems that Christianity — or is it Christendom? — has established itself as a kind of universal cult, with its rituals of initiation, its creeds, its liturgies, its moral codes, its communitarian festivals, and other structural apparatuses for distinguishing inside from outside, Christian from non-Christian. It's a sort of synthesis between Jewish excusivism and Greco-Roman inclusivism. While this is the use the church leaders made of Paul, and while Paul himself may have encouraged this sort of thing in the interests of rapid expansion, I'm not sure it's what he really had in mind.
In reading these Pauline texts one by one we discover that, instead of reinforcing the boundaries between micro and macro, Paul insists that the boundaries have been torn down — neither Jew nor Gentile. The old and new creations overlap in the world; now in Ephesians 4 we find that they overlap even in the lives of individuals who have already declared their faith in Christ. For Paul it's less a matter of in versus out and more a matter of how one lives one's life that's at stake.
Maybe even Paul's warning in 2 Corinthians 6 against being unequally yoked with unbelievers isn't about unbelievers being sinful while believers are holy. Maybe it's about the hazards of living inside a dark and dead reality defined by law in which everyone, believer and unbeliever alike, falls under condemnation. Maybe it's not the unbelievers whom Paul is calling satanic, but the satanic "old creation" in which they find themselves inextricably mired. The important thing is to die to that dead reality in order to live inside the resurrection reality. Again and again the dead old life keeps coming back — the return of the repressed and the death drive in Freud's formulation. Paul wants his readers to recognize what's happening. When the old man returns, don't condemn yourself for backsliding, don't conclude that the old reality is the only valid existence possible, don't repress that which you've unsuccessfully tried to repress so many times before. Paul seems to invoke a kind of cognitive-behavioral intervention: in Eph. 4 he asks his readers simply to lay aside the old man and put the new man back on. Maybe that's the best he could do in written correspondence with a bunch of people he probably had never met.


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What Pres. Obama & Holder are really doing to Arizona
H/T: Tomball Tea Party
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We hear you in Maine.
And now we know that the Fed Gov through Eric Holder and the ATF are allowing the Cartels access to weapons purchased in the USA while doing everything in its power to remove handguns and hunting rifles from law abiding US Citizens (our right under the US Constitution). WAY to protect the Country and our Constitution, guys!
Yes Arizona, we in Maine stand with you.
I'm a proud and extremely honored NATURALIZED U.S. citizen. Before I entered the U.S. or was issued a U.S. immigrant visa that would allow me LEGAL entry to the U.S., then to apply to be registered, and to be allowed the huge privilege of a Permanent Resident Card (formerly Alien Registration Card) . . . BEFORE all that happened I was told very pleasantly, helpfully, and politely by U.S. consular personnel . . .
1. That . . . I would ALWAYS HAVE TO have my PERMANENT RESIDENT CARD (legal Alien) WITH ME WHILE IN THE U.S. Failure to do so made me immediately subject to arrest and to deportation. I was told I MUST present this document to any representative of government at any time to prove and justify my status to LEGALLY be in the U.S.
I then asked if this applied when I went to the beach or swimming in a pool I was told there was NO QUALIFYING LANGUAGE in the applicable federal law.
2. That . . . should I ever break a federal or state law while a registered Permanent Resident, I would immediately be subject to arrest and to deportation without recourse or to any right of re-entry . . . EVER . . . not even as a visitor.
We hear you in Ohio and we stand with you!!
Alabama is all for the tea party and eliminating all this bull that politicians can break federal law and do as they please against the constitution.And that includes our commander in chief who apparently is dragging down our beloved nation!


text: By Anne Majumdar17 Aug 2016Australia is doing "pretty well" in the tourism stakes, with a number of major developments boding well for the sector although challenges remain in the form of hefty travel taxes. Speaking to KarryOn on a recent visit to Sydney, World Travel and Tourism Council president David Scowsill identified Australia as the 11th largest travel and tourism economy in the world. He referred to National Visitor Survey statistics for the first quarter of the year which show overnight trips are up by 8% with expenditure up by around 5%. Other "very positive" developments include a recent cabinet reshuffle which saw Steven Ciobo appointed to the tourism portfolio, the first time it has been handed to an inner cabinet minister. "Australia has always been a leader in many aspects of the industry globally," Scowsill continued. He highlighted Australia's early adoption of e-visas as a particular highlight which acts as a example for other countries around the world. "63% of travellers still have to fill out a paper form, form a line, pay money, get a visa stamp which is completely crazy compared with the slick automated system that Australia has had in place for many years," Scowsill said. "From a security point of view, they are also much more secure than the old fashioned system." Advances towards a second airport for Sydney at Badgery's Creek and infrastructure improvements at the existing airport are also encouraging, according to Scowsill. However, he highlighted ongoing taxation on travel as a major concern. The controversial Passenger Movement Charge remains in place with a Backpacker Tax also under consideration. "Freezing PMC is a good thing but it really shouldn't be there in first place," Scowsill argued. "It's a vicious tax that is going primarily into government coffers and not coming back into industry like it should be." The Tourism and Transport Forum (TTF) also described the Backpacker Tax as "simply absurd". Earlier this week, the industry body welcomed the commencement of the working holiday maker visa review, urging the government to abandon the Backpacker Tax. "Over the past couple of years we have seen a marked decline in the number of applicants for working holiday visas as successive governments have ratcheted up the cost of these visas, now they are also going to be slugged this new 32.5% backpacker tax," chief executive Margy Osmond raged. "Something is going to give and it will be an exodus of working holiday makers to other countries rather than Australia." How do you think Aussie tourism is tracking? Other stories you may like OH MAN! Oman Air unveils new Dreamliner First Class & it's quite the treat TERRIBLE tourists stone a caged kangaroo to death Radio host playfully hijacks Flight Centre store to sell Denmark vacations


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There have been a lot of things goin on around our world of chaos lately. I'm gonna try to fill you in as best as I can.
Let's start with my daughter who I am so proud of and thankful for! Many of you may remember that she accepted an internship here in Phoenix with the legislature. We were all so proud of her and it was going to be a great opportunity for her in her quest for a career. She is a journalism major at the U of A and because of the internship she had to put her graduation, which would have been in May, on hold until december. Once she got here, (she had to move away from her boyfriend in Tucson, quit her job in Tucson and was going to be living with her grandpa) and began the internship it wasn't at all what she expected or was told it was going to be. It really had very little to do with writing/journalism and more to do with speaking in front of committees, and senators and representatives. She was assigned to the second busiest committee in the house at this time and would be handling up to 5 or more bills a week to be presented for possible passage by congress. I have never seen her so overwhelmed and overwrought in my life.
My daughter is fairly high strung, and a huge perfectionist. But she is also terrified of public speaking. She found herself physically ill and doing nothing but crying from the time she ended work until the next morning when she had to go back in. She played a facade/role through the day and then got in her car and broke down. My mother's heart was breaking for her. She called me every day, texted me, wanting to quit, wanting to go back to school so she could just graduate in may like she had anticipated doing from the beginning.
I couldn't tell her what to do. She had to make her own decision, and do what was right for her. And I think she did. She left the internship, miraculously got enrolled in the classes she needs to graduate in May, and went back to Tucson. The only peice of the puzzle missing at this point is finding a new job. I have every confidence that she will find that as well. God has been pulling everything together for her so well up to this point. I don't doubt that He will continue to be faithful for her. The whole experience brought she and I closer I think. We talked about a lot of things, her hopes her dreams. Where she really wants to be. It was NOT in the capital! I'm proud of her and her choice!
The next big change is that we are finally taking our kids on a vacation. It is going to be short and sweet, and maybe the last one for some time, but we are going to disneyland.
It was odd how it came about really. My husband said to me one night that our family really needs to start coming first in our life. The business has consumed us for a year now and we have really seen no "perks" for all the hardwork. And our kids have missed out on a lot of time with us, and my husband especially has missed out on a lot of time with them. So, that very night we scheduled and booked our trip to Disney. We are going for a weekend…short…but we will all be together. We are even bringing our grandson and his mom with. It would be awesome if ALL the kids could be there but some are in washington and Ash is in Tucson so we won't all be together, but the ones that are here will be. And that is awesome! I'm very excited.
My hope now is that my medication evens out so that I am feeling enough energy to walk around disney for a whole day. I did stay home today, did some cleaning and relaxing. I am really going through a downward phase right now and it is a bit frustrating. I just have no energy, no umph (is that how you spell that word??) I'm not sure if it is new medication or a combo of things at this point. But I have a couple of weeks to work toward being more energetic. And, if I have to find a bench and rest while at Disney that is what I will do.
This sunday, though…we are all going to see the Lion King. My daughter and her boyfriend bought us all tickets to see the show this sunday, for christmas. My sister and her family, my dad, my family, we are all going together. It will be so much fun!
So, those are the changes in life that we have been dealing with thus far. Change is good, but sometimes it is hard. To think that a few years ago getting around disney would really have been not that big a deal for me, and now i am worried about it…that's a huge change. My daughter is acting and being an adult, making huge decisions on her own, choices that I am proud of her for making. I guess that means i did a pretty good job of raising her! Which was only by the Grace of God!
Life is good all around. I'm going to live it….come what may!