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Originally posted by babybunnies
It would partially convince me if Romney could get more than a couple of hundred people at his rallies.
The fact that Paul is getting thousands and Romnney is at best getting a few hundred who are mostly there because he's visiting their factory etc shows me everything I need to know about the two.
Originally posted by ugie1028
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It took me 45 minutes to push through both doc (total)... I just posted that and you're just debunking it with no sources links... just opinion... just spouting off... did you even read it?
research it instead of.... again... being intellectually dishonest.
If we assume that precinct size has no material correlation with partial count results, as shown historically, we can bring nifty maths to bear. A math trick (called hypergeometric distribution law applied to exhaustive counting)allows calculating the probability of a candidate's reaching his known final result from any point in the chart, given how badly he is lagging or ahead.
So what else is there? By the sounds of it, the only way Paul supporters will accept that the GOP primaries were fair would be if Ron Paul won, this is what I see. Can any Paul supporter explain to me here what would convince you that Romney won fair and square? Any??
Originally posted by Dustytoad
reply to post by Southern Guardian
I asked a question...
If you don't tell me you support Romney,
then I still havn't met a Romney supporter.
Well...? Come on now I'm excited. You can be my first.edit on 5/9/2012 by Dustytoad because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Darkinin
So what if Romney wins primaries, Paul wins caucuses. If Romney was really the man that people support, why aren't people supporting him at the caucuses? Let's see how the delegate selection actually goes in all the states that Romney "swept" last night, before we come to any conclusions. It wouldn't surprise me if Paul dominates every single convention the same way he has been doing to others for these past couple of weeks.
The State Chairman shall allocate Delegate positions between the Candidates accurately reflecting the division of votes in the statewide primary. Each person nominated as a Delegate at either the District or State Convention must have publicly declared as a representative of a Candidate on the Presidential Preference Primary ballot prior to the election of Delegates to the National Convention. [North Carolina Republican Party Plan of Organization. ARTICLE VII. F.] [North Carolina General Statutes, specifically Section 163-213.8]
Tuesday 8 May 2012: 28 of West Virginia's 31 delegates to the Republican National Convention are elected in the West Virginia Presidential Primary. Each delegate candidate is individually listed on the ballot along with their presidential preference. The candidates receiving the most votes in each contest is elected.
9 district delegates (3 delegates are elected in each of the state's 3 Congressional Districts).
19 at-large delegates (10 at-large plus 9 bonus) are elected statewide.
In addition, 3 party leaders, the National Committeeman, the National Committeewoman, and the chairman of the West Virginia's Republican Party, will attend the convention as unpledged delegates by virtue of their position.
Tuesday 8 May 2012: 27 of Indiana's 46 delegates to the Republican National Convention are allocated to presidential contenders in today's Indiana Presidential Primary.
27 district delegates are to be allocated to presidential contenders based on the primary results in each of the 9 congressional districts: each congressional district is assigned 3 National Convention delegates and the presidential contender receiving the greatest number of votes in that district will receive all 3 of that district's National Convention delegates. [Rule 9-29]
In addition, each county directly elects delegates to the State Convention. [Rule 9-3, IC 3-10-1-4]
I am an Romney supporter. Let me be the first. I am for anyone against Obama.
I find it illogical that those who claim to be Ron Paul Libertarians who are supposedly strict Constitutionalists are willing to vote for the man who is destroying the Constitution if their first choice doesn't win.


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It's official, we are obsessed with Norman Mclaren and proud of it! This film was created by scratching directly onto the film strip, so that when played through a projector, it would look like animation.
We are screening this short film before Invictus on the 3rd of March to coincide with the show Norman, which is at macrobert from 3rd-5th of March. This is a show that fuses dance with projected animations in what I am describing as visual sorcery! (This is not an official term but I think it sounds magical).
If you like this animation leave us a comment! It would be great to know what you think!

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Ravi Desai, Silicon Valley executive
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When Alan Greenspan publicly ruminated over irrational exuberance, I wondered what he meant. I assumed that life was peachy enough to make his worries irrational; in fact, that day I had an exceptionally long conversation with a potential hire who wanted his salary tripled. I refused, on the grounds of insufficient exuberance. He still took the job, at something like a 20 percent raise.
He may have known something I didn't realize until today. Although housing prices in Silicon Valley are exceedingly silly ("2BR, 2ba, fenced yard" $700K or better), they've been diminishing over the past few weeks. This is a leading indicator of something, although I am not sure what. My instinct is that it indicates the basic characteristics of a bubble economy. On the other hand, I realize I am the beneficiary of whatever bubble economy might exist. This makes me willing to read a newspaper named after a city I have no desire to live in.
Of course, I mean the New York Times. It provides an absolutely delicious morning read. For 20 minutes between 6 and 7, I get all the news of Africa--a central obsession--I need, as well as every other piece of information I could care about. Whatever I don't learn from the Times, I get from NPR on the car radio. Sometimes I get what I know I don't need: "Snake Mating Weekend in Upper Michigan," enhanced by hissing sounds, narrated by some local-affiliate reporter angling for a Crossfire gig, for example.
This morning, though, I read the Times and derive a sense of worried optimism. For the most part it is driven by the punchy tone of the stories rather than their actual content. I actually start believing we will have a peaceful solution with Iraq. I start accepting that the biggest issue facing American medicine is the ethical problems associated with doctors e-mailing their patients.
Worried optimism is also my reaction to housing ads in Silicon Valley, and drives my desire not to buy at these prices. Although we can't read the ads in the Times, we read them in community newspapers. We have talked about buying a house for months now. Every time we have the discussion we decide that spending the amount of money it would take to buy something in Palo Alto is a terrible use of cash. We also can't skip over the fact we want to live in Palo Alto, since it's pretty and has great restaurants and we already live there. I talk to a friend in the afternoon and we chat about offers he has made for houses elsewhere in Silicon Valley. His wife is irked that they have been unable to close on a deal despite having offered 10 percent over the asking price on every house their kids grinned at.
The rest of the day consists of several short phone calls between many long meetings. The phone calls are much more productive than the meetings. During the first few calls, I arrange three follow-ups, speak at length to the chairman of another company, and manage to munch on a snack while I listen on the phone to an old friend. He works in the Internet industry and decides Comdex went fabulously. The basis for this seems to be that he was offered several jobs on the floor of the show. One of his conversations apparently amounted to, "Hello, I really care about the Web." "Do you wanna work for us?"
Fond as I am of my friend, I decide there is some arcane tie between housing prices in Silicon Valley and the ready availability of technology job offers. This reminds me of the '80s. The reason a handful of people bought exceedingly silly products in that decade (Apple's Lisa, for example) was that they had way too much money, and no real way to use it. You couldn't even get Cuban cigars then. Some of the trends they established at the time crashed and burned; today, I don't know a single Lisa owner, current or former.
Karaoke, on the other hand, has survived through the years. I decide Desai-san doesn't sound that bad.


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Rick's Embarrassing Adventures Ch. 01bytrenchantone©
Chapter One -- Rick Takes A Chance
"That's it?" she asked. "You want me to embarrass you?"
I attempted to read her voice for judgments or incredulity, but neither was there. It was more matter-of-fact, as if she were asking for clarity, to make sure she understood.
"Yes," I answered. This was the tricky part. Rachel was a good friend, what the young people today would call a friend with benefits. She and I had been dating for a couple of years. Neither of us wanted to get married again. We were both in our Fifties and in reasonable shape for our ages. I'm no hunk at 53, but I'm not ugly either. I find Rachel attractive at 55, though I know she has a few (not many) more pounds than she did 30 years ago. She's in good shape. And we've both been sexually adventurous in our lives, both before and after we met.
Rachel broke the silence that followed my 'yes' answer. "What do you mean by being embarrassed?"
I shifted in my chair. We were sitting in her breakfast nook. It was late at night and we'd just finished a nice lovemaking session and were taking a break with a glass of wine and some leftover pizza.
"I'm a little embarrassed just to say it, but that's not exactly what I mean. For as long as I can remember, I've wanted to be compelled by someone else to do things that would embarrass me."
"Like what?" she asked. She leaned forward and took a slice of pepperoni and some attached cheese from the leavings on the platter. She looked interested.
"Like having to undress wherever I am or having to wear a stuffed bra under my shirt so that it's obvious I'm a guy wearing a bra in public or having to allow someone to have sex with me whenever or wherever they want or to have sex with someone they loaned me out to or having to hold my urine until I'm bursting then having to pee myself publicly."
I stopped. I tried to make my statements matter of fact, but I could feel myself blushing, and I had to look away in embarrassment. Mostly, I needed to hear some feedback from Rachel. Had I turned her off the idea or, perhaps turned her on? I could feel that I was quite erect myself, but she couldn't see it.
She chewed her pepperoni and cheese, swallowed, and took a sip of wine. "Stand up," she said. I stood. Given that I was wearing a loose robe that wasn't tied, as was Rachel, as soon as I stood my erection was apparent. "Well," she said with a slight smile, "you're certainly turned on by the idea," with a nod to my cock.
"Sit back down, Rick. I have some more questions." I sat.
"How do I compel you to do something that you don't want to do. I mean lots of people have fantasies and daydreams. That doesn't mean that at the drop of a hat they'll indulge themselves. If, for example, I told you to pee yourself in public, what would compel you to do as I said? I'm not strong enough to make you. Besides, others might intervene if they thought I was manhandling you."
I didn't have to take time to answer this one. "I had that question myself for a long time, which is why it stayed a fantasy. But recently I read a story series on the Internet about a woman who did a contract with a guy to use her like a slut. She wanted it, and he was interested. But he asked the same question you did. Her solution was to give him blackmail material to use on her if she chickened out. We could work out something similar to ensure that I followed through on this."
"Rick, honey, I don't want to blackmail you. I don't want to ruin you in the community. That would be cruel."
"Rachel, I don't want to be ruined, as you put it. I want to do this. I have a whole list of things back at my place that I want to do but that I've been kind of chicken to do. For years I've just put them aside as some things I would try if I got the chance but either they never came up or I passed on the opportunities when they offered. I chickened out. But they won't go away, and I want to do them. I need to be responsible to someone else, accountable to them. I'm sure that if I gave you some compromising photos of me, or you took some yourself, and you had to threat of releasing them to my email address list if I didn't follow through, just the threat would be enough to make me do what I was told to do."
Rachel sat back in her chair, obviously thinking. After a long minute, she said, "Be a dear and get me some wine," holding up her glass. I took it to the fridge. "Take that robe off for me, Rick. I like to look." I set the glass down and shrugged off the robe. Yes, I was still hard. Then I took the bottle out of the fridge, filled her glass and brought both glass and bottle back to the table.
I gave her the glass and started to refill my own when she put a hand out and grabbed my cock. "Just set the bottle down, Rick and stand facing me with your hands behind your back and your legs spread." I was surprised, but I did as she said. I stood there looking at her while she looked me up and down slowly as if seeing me for the first time, or at least in a new light. I began to find her gaze and my position, standing naked and open to her with my cock bobbing ever so slightly embarrassing. I was glad she had me hold my hands behind my back, because I was having this urge to cover my erection.
Her gaze apparently took all this in. "You're embarrassed, aren't you?"
I felt my face flush. "Yes, ma'am."
She smiled. "Ma'am? I like that, but then you have always been a polite boy." I found myself feeling more and more embarrassed, and I felt my cock getting harder and harder.
She continued to sip her wine and look at me. At one point, I looked away; the staring was making me more uncomfortable. "No, no, my pet. Look at me. Look at me and think about all of the humiliating and embarrassing things I could do to you."
God but this was embarrassing. She wasn't doing anything provocative, just sitting there, examining me and sipping her wine, like she was at an art show appreciatively regarding a sculpture. I felt mesmerized by her gaze, and I realized that she could make my wildest fantasies come true. I also realized that she might possibly have me do things I hadn't thought of doing or had shied away from in my own imaginings.
After some time of this, Rachel seemed to make up her mind about it all. "Come with me," she said, putting down her wine glass. She rose, and without a backward glance to see if I was following, walked through the living room and into her study. I followed keeping my hands clasped behind my back.
Once in her study, she opened a desk drawer and rummaged in her purse, pulling out her cell phone/camera. "I'm going to take some pictures of you to use as blackmail material. If you agree, then I'll play your game, and we'll see how far you'll go with it."
I stood still in the open door. "I agree, ma'am."
She looked at me for a few more seconds, as if giving me a chance to back out. When I didn't, she calmly pointed the camera and shot off a flash picture, which she then examined. "That's a keeper," she said. "Now, take a hand and stroke yourself lightly while I take another picture." Soon the flash went off again.
Satisfied with this second picture, she had me stop while she sat down at her computer and powered it up. Shortly, I saw her downloading her pictures from the camera and looking at them critically on the screen. "Good," she said as she closed up the picture folder, "those will do for a start."
She turned back to me with camera still in hand. "I'm creating a blackmail file on you that I will use if I have to. Now, masturbate for me and catch all of your cum when you orgasm. I don't want anything on my carpet. I just had it cleaned."
Wow. That was my first thought. She was going to do this. I suddenly felt a little queasy even as I reached for my cock to do as she wished. This had gotten very real very quickly.
She stopped me as I started to stroke. "Wait, you haven't thanked me. You must always thank me for whatever task I give you."
"Thank you, ma'am," I said numbly.
"Good. And you must always address me as 'Ma'am.' I find I like that."
"Yes, ma'am. Thank you, ma'am."
"Now get started," she said holding her camera up to catch the action.
I began to stroke myself with my right hand while keeping my left ready to catch my cum when I came. It took a few minutes because I had so much to process. She was actually going to do it, and I knew Rachel well enough to know that she would keep her end of the bargain, at least far enough to make me give up the whole thing. But what if she didn't? What if she would actually post these pictures? That made me hard again--I had flagged a bit as the realization that she was going to do it flashed through my mind--and I began imagining her parading me naked through her neighborhood or sucking the cock of some stranger she picked up for the purpose or wetting myself in the food court of a mall.
And then I came, and I my eyes flew open to catch the spurts. Even though we had just finished a satisfying sex session maybe an hour ago, I came harder than I have in years, decades maybe. I had to be quick to catch potential drippings, but I managed to keep everything off the carpet even as I staggered from the force of the orgasm.
When I looked at her again, both my hands rather cum covered, she had a devilish smile on her face. "I'm videoing all of this, and I think it looks great. Now, eat your cum. All of it. Lick it up slowly and swallow it. Every drop." I gulped. That was terribly humiliating! I'd never thought to actually do that before.
She saw my hesitation. "I'm waiting."
"I, uh, thank you, ma'am," I finally stammered out. I could feel my face redden as I brought my hands up to my mouth and began to lick my salty ejaculate. (I had a vasectomy about 20 years ago when I realized I didn't want to father any children, so I can't call it sperm.) Over my hands, I could see her holding her camera catching every movement, every lick, every swallow. I realized this was NOT something I wanted my friends or family to see. Ever. I was into it now. I would have to do whatever she wanted for as long as she wanted. And it was my own doing. She would only be doing what I had asked her to do.
When I finished, Rachel shut off her cell phone camera and put it on her desk. Then she got up and came over to me, put her arms around me, and said, "That was a good boy. I'm proud of you." Then she kissed me. When she pulled back, she was licking her lips. "You do taste good," she said with a smile. "Now lets go get you some wine."
We went back into the kitchen. I sat down while she filled my glass. I didn't bother with the robe. Somehow I knew that my days of being clothed in her presence were now at her discretion, not mine.
"So," she asked after sitting down and taking a sip, "how did that feel? Was it what you expected and wanted?"
"Yes and no. I mean it was great, and I hadn't expected you to move so quickly or decisively. Not that I'm complaining. In the sense that it was both exciting and humiliating, I loved it. But you moving so quickly caught me off guard."
"Well, I wanted to see if you would be responsive and how you'd react to something both real and safe." She leaned forward and took my free hand. I find I'm excited by this turn in our relationship. You've shown me a lot of trust just telling me this. I want you to trust me. And I find I liked what I saw, what I felt."
She leaned back in her chair, letting go of my hand. "Now, let's talk practicalities."
"Yes. Right now it's all kind of nebulous and open-ended. How long do you want to do this? Forever? For a couple of days? And what, specifically, do you think you want to do? What we just did; was that an idea you had? And what other ideas do you have?" I took a sip and thought, but not for long. The stories I had read gave me some clues as to how to proceed. "How about if we draw up a contract for, say, a month? During that time, I'm completely in your power. You may do with me what you want."
"Okay," Rachel answered, "I can do a month. But I still don't know what all you want. You've given this a lot more thought than I have. Frankly, when I think of embarrassing a man, I'm usually thinking of how not to, since most men hate to be embarrassed, especially in front of women."
Specifics, I thought. I closed my eyes and started talking. "Well, I mentioned the peeing in public thing and the stuffed bra. Then there's having oral or anal sex with someone when commanded to do so." I opened my eyes. "So that would have to be someone you trusted. I would have no say in the matter."
"Are you bi, Rick?"
I thought about it. "Not really. I've never had, or tried to have, a romantic relationship with another man. I have sucked a couple of cocks, and I found it excitingly humiliating, but guys don't turn me on like women do. I guess it's the situation that turns me on."
Rachel frowned. "This is beside the point, Rick, but do you feel like you're humiliating a woman when she sucks your cock?"
I choked on my wine. "No! I mean I never thought in terms of humiliating someone else this way. Only being humiliated."
Rachel nodded approvingly. "I'm glad to hear it. Obviously, I haven't always known what was going on in your mind when we've had sex, but I found it disconcerting to think that you might have thought you were humiliating me when I serviced you orally. Speaking of which, do you feel humiliated when you eat me out?"
I wasn't shocked at the question this time. It seemed a natural follow-on to the previous one. "No. I enjoy pleasing you, that way or any way. It would be humiliating if I were called over here when you had another person present--man or woman--and I was told to strip and service them. It would be even worse if I knew the person."
"So," Rachel asked, "anything else specific you can think of?"
I shook my head. "Not that I can think of right now, though I'm sure there are other ways to embarrass me that I'm just not thinking of."
"You mean like making a masturbation video, including licking up your spunk?" She asked with a wicked smile. I wondered how quickly I would come to dread that smile.
I nodded. "Yes, ma'am." I felt myself flushing at the recent memory.
Rachel stood. "Okay, here's what we're going to do. I have a bra I want to try on you. We're going to have to go shopping for clothes." She stopped. "Unless you have some already?"
I flushed. "Yes, I have a couple of mail order that I bought some time ago, but I never had the courage to fill them. Under a t-shirt and a dress shirt and coat, no one could tell what I was wearing."
"We'll have to fix that. Anyway, I'm gonna put this bra on you and we're gonna come down here, you in your bra, and you're gonna eat me on the couch. You've had your seconds, but I have not, and I find I'm hungry, I am.
"Then, when I'm satisfied, you will dress and go to your home. Don't worry, your bra will be visible if anyone stops you to talk." There was that devilish grin again. "Tomorrow, when you come back, you'll be wearing one of your own bras under a sleeveless tee, tight shorts--I think that pair of bicycle shorts will do; they show your assets off nicely--and a pair of running shoes. Nothing else. Bring my bra and your other one back with you along with everything else you have that we might play with.
"For my part, I want to do two things overnight. One, I want to read the stories that set you off on this journey. So give me the links I need. Second, I'm going to draw up a contract for you to review and sign. If you think of anything that should be added to such a contract, send me an email. If I like it, I'll put it in. But I want to have it printed out when you get here, which will be at noon sharp. We'll review it, sign it, and start the fun and games."
Then we went off and followed her plan for the evening.
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This is a Harry Styles fanfic. NOT FAMOUS. If you're not ready to read some detailed sex scenes then may i say this is not the story for you to read. Also please excuse any misspelling errors <3. Thank you for reading <3
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One fine example of how an individual artist can make a difference in this world is captured on the new Putumayo world music collection Latin Reggae. The 11 tracks here showcase a diverse spread of the music from places like Spain, Chile, Puerto Rico, and Argentina, with each band blending its own cultural rhythms and styles into the sensuous enveloping vapors of reggae music. Of course, reggae was a genre little known outside Jamaica until Bob Marley emerged, and Bob would surely smile to hear Radio Malanga's mix of Cuban, African, and Spanish elements to create the tasty "Charito Va," or Go Lem System's jazz-funk take on the aptly (or is it ironically?) titled "Pura Sangra." In Spain, reggae is a key element of mestizo music, and groups like Amparanoia and Macaco show their respect by not merely co-opting it, but using it to create something new. As world music continues to mutate and blend, so do the musicians who fi nd inspiration and creativity in the music of other countries.
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Everyone blows Bondy's classes off as easy, but if you really paid attention to what he was trying to get across, I promise you years later all his history lessons make sense :D. I loved this class!
One of my most fun classes! Very enjoyable teacher! ^_^
Awesome and totally cool guy! I learned the most important life skills in this class.
He is pretty cool.... easy if you take an interest in his subject. If you listen you will learn.
Mr. Bondy is a great teacher... no... Excellent ++. He make Ancient CIvs fun.
Mr. Bondy's great! And you learn more in Ancient Civ. than you think you do -- ancient Greece info is applicable in so many different areas, and comes in so handy!
Bondy is the BOMB! He is my hero. A great guy however a slightly vague teaching style, but still way cool.
Very vague, but very easy. Lots of movies and busy work. Its like a spare that you get 90% in.
We love him....but he always falls asleep in class!!!! lay off the boring video's once in awhile tho!!!!
MR Bondy encompasses all things joyous in this world. Go Terry Fox
Mr. Bondy rocks the house, yo. Best teacher there. In OAC (which no longer exists) he has open boook tests. whats better than that?
Want to watch SNL and various movies about presidents (ie air force one) - take this class
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- v. Present participle of license.
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Sanders perused the Apple iTune Store's, noted the absence of the term "licensing" in the End User License Agreement EULA, and tentatively pronounced ReDigi on "fairly solid legal ground."
Congress didn't define the term licensing, she notes, so the state defined the term in its broadest way.
Probably about 80\% of the revenue was from card sales and the other 20\% was from what we describe as licensing programs.
In addition, licensing is currently labrynthine and confusing.
Server licensing is also unchanged – Microsoft will charge $699 for a Lync standard server license and $3,999 for an enterprise server license, just as they did with Office Communications Server 2007.
With Lync, Microsoft lowers price of Office Communications Server
There are several professions where licensing is designed as a specific gatekeeper to control the supply of "professionals".
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Further Left You Are the Less You Know About Economics:
Marvel utilizes its character franchises in licensing, entertainment (via Marvel Studios and Marvel Animation) and publishing (via Marvel Comics).
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Restricted medical licensing is all about controlling the supply of physicians, it isn't even remotely about the quality.
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The whole system of professional licensing is a way to limit competition.
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Merging Measurements and Modeling in Soil Physics (2016)
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Language: English
Level of course: PhD course (but we reserve a few seat for MSc students)
Semester/quarter: Q3 2016 (19 - 25 September 2016)
Hours per week: 1 week with long and intensive days
Capacity limits: 21 participants
Objectives of the course:
This course will present accepted and emerging concepts of key processes of water flow in unsaturated porous media. These concepts will be presented together with standard and novel methods to make the measurements necessary to describe these processes. The focus of the course is the need for a unified treatment of measurement and modelling in quantitative soil physics. Specifically, we will discuss how advancements in our understanding of soil physics should guide the design of measurement and monitoring efforts. Similarly, we will discuss how the interpretation of measurements made with emerging indirect methods should be made in the context of the soil physical model of interest.
Name of lecturers:
Professors Ty Ferré and Markus Tuller, University of Arizona, Professor Per Moldrup, Aalborg University, and Professors Lis Wollesen de Jonge and Bo Vangsø Iversen, Aarhus University
Course homepage:
Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University
19 - 25 September 2016
Department of Agroecology, AU Foulum, Research Centre Foulum, 8830 Tjele
Deadline for pre-registration is Thursday, 25 August 2016 (but we close at 21 students)
Pre-registration: auws.au.dk/PRE_Merging


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Janet arrived this morning, all smiles from her delightful flight over the Atlantic. Well, maybe not. But she was smiling about something. Could it be seeing me? I greeted her with a cold bottle of Evian, a rose, and a couple of croissants. I think she appreciated all three. I drove her back to the hotel, where she unpacked and freshened up. Then, in true whirl wind weekend fashion, we headed for Munich city center to take in as many sights as we could.
We started with a visit to St. Peter's church, near the Marianplatz. Then we walked over to the Marianplatz, which is in the heart of Munich, and the location of the Rathaus (city hall). The Rathaus has a glockenspeil that plays 3 times a day, but we managed to miss all 3.
We visited the Frauenkirche (Cathedral of our Blessed Lady), the largest church in Munich. It is a major landmark, and its bell towers are recognized in almost every commercial picture of Munich.
From the Frauenkirche, we walked to the Hofbrauhaus. Originally a brewery, it is now a famous beerhall/restaurant/beergarden. We enjoyed a 0.5l of beer and a big soft pretzel there as an afternoon snack.
After that we walked to the Englisher Garten, a large city park in the middle of Munich. It is larger than Central Park in New York. It's very pretty, and has a rapid stream running through it, where we saw something I'd never heard of before: river surfing. There is a point where the water enters the park from under a bridge and creates a standing wave that some young men were actually surfing on. There are plenty of wide open green spaces in the park, one with a horse track where we saw riders actually running their horses.
From the English Garden, we went to the Odeonsplatz, a large beautiful square bordered by the Theatinerkirche. The Theatinerkirche is unique with its bright yellow exterior.
Prominent in the Odeonsplatz is a large arched structure called the Feldherrnhalle. On the other side of the Odeonsplatz is the Hofgarten, another beautiful landscaped garden that we visited next. It contains a central domed structure where an excellent guitarist happened to be playing. We sat on the grass and listened for a while.
From the Hofgarten, we headed back to the center of town, and had dinner in an outdoor cafe in the middle of the Marianplatz. Janet enjoyed a tomato and mozzarella pizza, while I sampled some bavarian sausage and sauerkraut. We washed it down with some weinschorle, which I found out later is white wine mixed with soda water.
By the time we finished with dinner, it was after 9pm, so we headed back to the hotel. We stopped in the hotel lobby bar for a couple of drinks and some Apfelstrudel with ice cream. It seemed like a perfect finish to a long and busy day.
Tomorrow? Maybe Neuschwanstein.


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"It is essential that plastic surgeons be aware of the popular, 'natural' products that have potentially dangerous bleeding effects. We conducted this review to help surgeons educate, screen and counsel their patients on herbal foods, supplements, teas, and other homeopathic remedies that can compromise patient safety," said lead author Subhas C. Gupta, MD, CM, PhD, FRCSC, FACS, Chairman of the Department of Plastic Surgery at Loma Linda University School of Medicine. "Questions surgeons may want to ask their patients include whether the patient is taking any vitamins, herbs or supplements; what vegetables or plant products the patient has been eating in the past month; what types of teas the patient has been drinking recently; and whether the patient has ever taken any herbs or supplements in the past."
The review focuses on 19 herbs, three herbal formulas, two herbal teas, and several other supplements that can preoperatively and postoperatively cause intrinsic bleeding, potentially resulting in serious side effects such as development of hematoma. Some of the most popular herbs and supplements with potentially dangerous bleeding effects include Chinese peony, garlic, ginger, ginko, ginseng, Oil of wintergreen (methyl salicylate), and Saw palmetto (Serenoa repens, Salbalserrulata). The authors strongly recommend that physicians carefully screen patients for supplement use and advise complete cessation of supplements two to three weeks before surgery, as well as postponement of supplement use after surgery.
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It was a year of big fights, big gates and exciting new champions. All in all, a very good year.
It was a year of big fights, big gates and exciting new champions. All in all, a very good year.
It seemed like every month there was one or more big fights to watch, topped of course by the Mayweather-De La Hoya extravaganza, which set box office records for sales (2.15 million buys) and PPV revenue ($120 million).
That was the richest, but not necessarily the best. There was Pavlik-Taylor, Calzaghe-Kessler (which drew 50,150 fans in Cardiff, Wales), Mayweather-Hatton, Barrera-(Juan Manuel) Marquez, Pacquiao-Barrera, (Rafael) Marquez-Vazquez I and II, Cotto-Judah, Cotto-Mosley, Williams-Margarito, Hopkins-Wright and Pavlik-Miranda.
The new champions, and there were a lot of them, included middleweight Kelly Pavlik, welterweights Paul Williams and Kermit Cintron, light heavyweight Chad Dawson, cruiserweight David Haye, and junior welterweight Paulie "Magic Man" Malignaggi.
There was the return of a surgically repaired Vernon Forrest with a shiny new belt, and Joe Calzaghe and Juan Diaz collecting more.
(The less said about the heavyweight division, the better. Hopefully, someone — Wladimir Klitschko? — will emerge in 2008 to gain universal acclaim as the rightful ruler.)
With the end of the year comes our annual trophy-less, meaningless awards. The envelopes, please.
Israel Vazquez-Rafael Marquez II. Any one of a half-dozen would have sufficed here, but for sheer not-stop action and ferocity, we'll go with these two little gamecocks, who actually fought two classic wars.
Marquez won the first when Vazquez quit on his stool after the seventh round because of a breathing problem due to a busted beak, but Vazquez regained the WBC super bantamweight belt five months later with a sixth-round TKO. For Marquez, who claimed the fight was stopped prematurely, it was his first loss in seven years.
We await the rubber match, which has not yet been signed.
Marco Antonio Barrera-Manny Pacquiao. It wasn't that bad a fight. We just expected an all-out war, and got a boxing match.
Alfonso Gomez over Arturo Gatti. We knew Gatti, the ultimate warrior, was near the end of the line, but we didn't expect a train wreck. The light-hitting Gomez, a semi-finalist in the first Contender TV series, appeared to be the perfect foil for a farewell party, but he dominated, notching a seventh-round TKO.
Vernon Forrest. After a two-year absence from the ring due to shoulder and elbow problems, the former welterweight champion won the WBC junior middleweight belt with a unanimous decision over Carlos Baldomir.
He followed that up with an 11th-round TKO of former IBF welterweight champion Michele Piccirillo in his first title defense at Foxwoods.
Kelly Pavlik over Jermaine Taylor. After being down and one punch away from being knocked out himself in the second round, Pavlik stormed back to score a devastating seventh-round KO to win both the WBC and WBO belts.
Pavlik. The 6-2 middleweight had three fights in 2007, all knockouts. He flattened Jose Luis Zertuche in one, and stopped both the feared Edison Miranda and Taylor in seven.
Floyd Mayweather against Ricky Hatton. It was a perfectly timed left hook to Hatton's jaw as the latter was charging in on Mayweather in the corner. Hatton pitched forward, bounced off the padding on the ring post and went down on his back.
He managed to get up, but the fight was stopped seconds later when he went down again.
Edwin Valero of Venezuela. Talk about a puncher. The WBA junior lightweight champion is 23-0 with 23 KOs, 19 in the first round. But he's still banned from fighting in the U.S. because of an irregularity in a 2004 brain scan.
Jorge Arce. The colorful super flyweight from Mexico rode a horse to ringside, wearing a cowboy hat and sucking on a lollypop for his fight against Julio Roque Ler at the Honda Arena in Anaheim.
He won the fight, too.
Middleweight Andy Lee. From Ireland and now fighting out of Detroit, he recently passed his toughest test with a sixth-round TKO of Jason McKay (18-2) to reach 14-0 with 11 knockouts.
"Andy Lee will beat Kelly Pavlik to become middleweight champion of the world," predicted his manager and trainer Emanuel Steward, after the fight. "(John) Duddy may not want to fight Pavlik just yet, but Andy Lee will fight any middleweight in the world today."
Duddy is other undefeated middleweight prospect from Ireland. Fight fans are already salivating at their inevitable clash.
Miguel Cotto. Not only is he a top five pound-for-pound fighter, he's one of the busiest champions of the modern era. The former junior welterweight champion won the WBA welterweight crown last December by disposing of Carlos Quintana in five rounds and defended that crown three times in 2007.
After disposing of German challenger Oktay Urkal in March, he took on two of the best in the welterweight division in Zab Judah and Shane Mosley, stopping Judah in the 11th round in June and winning a unanimous decision over Mosley in November.
If you're wondering why a Cotto-Mayweather fight hasn't happened yet, ask Mayweather. Cotto is ready and willing.
Happy New Year.
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Cystic Fibrosis — The Victims are Heroes
CF is Cystic Fibrosis. Most of us know nothing about it even though we are familiar with the term. CF is a devastating disease causing constant discomfort and requiring intense and frequent treatment.
A CF patient must start every day with an extended and sometimes agonizing period of therapy. Often that therapy has to be repeated several times during the day. I've known several CF patients and to me they are special because of the heroic efforts they must put forward every day just to be able to approach normal functioning. Most diseases are difficult to manage but CF patients need to get physical in order to function. They are amazing people.
CF is one of those diseases in which a Lung Transplant is sometimes necessary and quite helpful but the procedure does not cure the disease. We'll discuss that option more later.
I don't have CF but I do have Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) so I can at least relate to the part of CF that causes difficult breathing. The Clinical description of CF sounds bad enough but until you've experienced what it's like to struggle for air it Is difficult if not impossible to understand. One CF patient said, "It feels like you're breathing through a small straw all the time."
Difficult breathing alone is a terrible affliction but CF is much more than difficult breathing, it affects almost the entire body. This definition from Medicine Net seems to sum up the disease in graphic, therefore understandable terms (http://www.medicinenet.com/cystic_fibrosis/article.htm).
"Cystic fibrosis mostly affects the lungs, pancreas, liver, intestines, sinuses, and sex organs. Mucus is a substance made by the lining of some body tissues. Normally, mucus is a slippery, watery substance. It keeps the linings of certain organs moist and prevents them from drying out or getting infected. However, if you have cystic fibrosis, your mucus becomes thick and sticky.
The mucus builds up in your lungs and blocks your airways—the tubes that carry air in and out of your lungs. The buildup of mucus makes it easy for bacteria to grow. This leads to repeated, serious lung infections. Over time, these infections can severely damage your lungs.
The thick, sticky mucus also can block tubes, or ducts, in your pancreas. As a result, the digestive enzymes that your pancreas makes can't reach your small intestine.
These enzymes help break down the food that you eat. Without them, your intestines can't fully absorb fats and proteins. This can cause vitamin deficiency and malnutrition because nutrients leave your body unused. It also can cause bulky stools, intestinal gas, a swollen belly from severe constipation, and pain or discomfort.
Cystic fibrosis also causes your sweat to become very salty. As a result, your body loses large amounts of salt when you sweat. This can upset the balance of minerals in your blood and cause a number of health problems. Examples include dehydration (a condition in which your body doesn't have enough fluids), increased heart rate, tiredness, weakness, decreased blood pressure, heat stroke, and, rarely, death." The Clinical description of CF sounds bad enough but until you've experienced what it's like to struggle for air it Is difficult if not impossible to understand.
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (www.cff.org/home/) Says this about the disease.
"Cystic fibrosis is an inherited chronic disease that affects the lungs and digestive system of about 30,000 children and adults in the United States (70,000 worldwide. An additional ten million more—or about one in every 31 Americans—are carriers of the defective CF gene, but do not have the disease. CF is most common in Caucasians, but it can affect all races".
In the 1950s, few children with cystic fibrosis lived to attend elementary school. Today, advances in research and medical treatments have further enhanced and extended life for children and adults with CF. Many people with the disease can now expect to live into their 30s, 40s and beyond."
The sad fact of life for the approximately 30,000 Americans who suffer from cystic fibrosis (CF) is that they must get their chests pounded at least twice a day.
Chest pounding, also known as chest percussion, loosens the thick mucus that forms in the lungs of CF patients, allowing them to cough or sneeze up mucus and consequently breathe more easily. Chest pounding is a primary therapy for treating the disease.
To achieve chest percussion, CF patients today have two main choices: they can have a respiratory therapist perform the chest-pounding or they can purchase a CF "vest." The vest, once the patient puts it on, uses air waves to shake the whole upper body, helping to loosen mucus in the lungs.
In this video a young woman not only demonstrates the vest but has some fun with it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEBM7ediRic&feature=related
Symptoms of Cystic Fibrosis
From the Mayo Clinic
Respiratory signs and symptoms
The thick and sticky mucus associated with cystic fibrosis clogs the tubes that carry air in and out of your lungs. This can cause:
- A persistent cough that produces thick spit (sputum) and mucus
- Wheezing
- Breathlessness
- A decreased ability to exercise
- Repeated lung infections
- Inflamed nasal passages or a stuffy nose
Digestive signs and symptoms
The thick mucus can also block tubes that carry digestive enzymes from your pancreas to your small intestine. Without these digestive enzymes, your intestines can't fully absorb the nutrients in the food you eat. The result is often:
- Foul-smelling, greasy stools
- Poor weight gain and growth
- Intestinal blockage, particularly in newborns (meconium ileus)
- Severe constipation
Frequent straining while passing stool can cause part of the rectum — the end of the large intestine — to protrude outside the anus (rectal prolapse). When this occurs in children, it may be a sign of cystic fibrosis. Parents should consult a physician knowledgeable about cystic fibrosis. Rectal prolapse in children may require surgery.
Currently, there is no cure for cystic fibrosis. However, specialized medical care, aggressive drug treatments and therapies, along with proper CF nutrition, can lengthen and improve the quality of life for those with CF.
Each day most people with CF:
- Take pancreatic enzyme supplement capsules with every meal and most snacks (even babies who are breastfeeding may need to take enzymes).
- Take multi-vitamins.
- Do some form of airway clearance at least once and sometimes up to four or more times a day.
- Take aerosolized medicines—liquid medicines that are made into a mist or aerosol and then inhaled through a nebulizer.
Because CF is a complex disease that affects so many parts of the body, proper care requires specialized knowledge. The best place to receive that care is at one of the more than 110 nationwide CF Foundation-accredited care centers
Lung transplants
While lung transplants are an option for CF patients, the procedure will not cure the disease, because the defective gene that causes it is in all of the cells in the body, not just in the lungs. At this time, scientists are not able to "fix" genes permanently but they are working on it. . While a transplant does give a person with CF a new set of lungs, the rest of the cells in the body still have CF and may already be damaged by the disease. Further, organ rejection is always possible and drugs that help prevent organ rejection can cause other health problems.
Cost and available help
As is the case with most chronic diseases treating CF can become very expensive but there are programs that exist to help patients with these challenges. Many people with CF use Cystic Fibrosis Services, Inc., a specialty pharmacy that is a subsidiary of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. It provides access to CF drugs, offers patient assistance programs and works to help resolve complex insurance issues. CF Services is a participating provider with more than 5,000 insurance plans and nearly 40 state and federally funded programs. Visit www.cfservicespharmacy.com or call (800) 541-4959.
In 2008, the CF Foundation launched the Cystic Fibrosis Patient Assistance Program (CFPAF) as a nonprofit subsidiary. The CFPAF helps people with CF (who qualify) who need FDA-approved medication or paired drug-delivery devices for the nebulized treatment of CF-related pulmonary disease, or an FDA-approved medication for the treatment of pancreatic insufficiency related to CF. Case managers at the CFPAF help people with CF with ways to reduce out-of-pocket costs for CF drugs. All funds distributed by the CFPAF are provided by grants from drug manufacturers. Visit http://www.cfpaf.org or call (888) 315-4154.
CF drug companies often offer a range of patient assistance programs — from giving out samples of new CF products, to providing free nutritional supplements, to accepting voucher payments for CF drugs. Find out more information in the Foundation's archived Web cast entitled, " Patient Advocacy: Issues and Answers for CF."
Suggested resources
- www.cff.org/home/
- http://www.medicinenet.com/cystic_fibrosis/article.htm
- http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/cystic-fibrosis/DS00287
- http://www.hopkinscf.org/
- http://my.clevelandclinic.org/disorders/cystic_fibrosis/hic_cystic_fibrosis.aspx
- http://tinyurl.com/9swbmsn (CF Living)
- http://www.healingwell.com/cysticfibrosis/
Cystic Fibrosis is a terrible disease and while progress is being made in treating it, lifespans for its victims are still relatively short. If you'd like to help fund research or offer assistance in other ways contact the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation http://www.cff.org/GetInvolved/ManyWaysToGive/MakeADonation/
Bob Aronson of Bob's Newheart is a 2007 heart transplant recipient, the founder of Facebook's nearly 2,500 member Organ Transplant Initiative and the author of most of these donation/transplantation blogs.
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"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
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Toronto Star Article by Joe Fiorito - Oriole Peanut Community Garden
A Garden Full of Tasty Victories
Aug 15, 2007
By: Joe Fiorito
"This is mine," said Salah Chaya. He was pointing at a patch of tomatoes in the community garden on the grounds of the Advent Lutheran Church, in the north end of town, on the edge of the Oriole Peanut.
Salah is not a professional gardener, although you'd never know it by looking at his crop.
He said, "I am a PhD engineer. I worked in a steam power plant in Lebanon. I came here seven years ago on the 28th September. I came to see a peaceful country. I have kids." As if there were another reason.
His tomatoes hung heavy on the vine. Did he have a garden back in Lebanon? He pursed his lips and shrugged into a memory. "I had 1,000 metres square, for vegetables and fruit." His patch here is 3 metres square, tops, in a garden shared by many others.
He parted the spiky leaves of one of his plants and picked a cherry tomato. It was a jewel in his hand. "Here, eat." I ate. The jewel exploded in my mouth. He sensed what had happened and picked me a handful, and he did not stop picking until I asked him to, and you will forgive me if I was not very quick to stop him; that is how good his tomatoes were, and if you were to warm them to bursting in some olive oil and use them, with fresh basil and salt, to dress a bowl of pasta, you would think you were in paradise; that is also how good they were.
Salah then pointed to some low bushes with thick, clean, deep green leaves. "This is molokya, a Lebanese herb; we boil, and put with meat or chicken, and after that we put rice. It is found in the Middle East." I tried one of the leaves, unboiled. It was pleasantly bitter. I tried another with one of the cherry tomatoes, and the whole of the taste was greater than the sum of the parts.
Salah had other varieties of tomato, bigger, fatter, just as red.
"These are without any chemical or genetic moderation." He picked another handful.
I feigned reluctance. He urged. "Here, take, it's good for the blood."
In that case ...
The Oriole Peanut community garden is now two years old. There have been several changes since I was here last year. The church has given more of its grounds to agriculture. If there were 50 gardeners then, there are at least 100 families involved now.
Marian Smith is the co-ordinator of the garden. She is one of those people who, when it comes to getting things done, is irresistible. She somehow managed to get a free garden makeover; there are new raised beds here, and handsome trees there, and a kind of circular garden for herbs. The work had just been completed. The beds will be planted soon. Marian said, "If you take into account the extended families, this garden helps feed somewhere around 700, maybe 900, people."
Salah said, "Here we have Lebanese white zucchini. This makes the garden international."
Better still, there were several international women and children who were busy weeding and watering.
And there was a time when you would have called this a victory garden. It is altogether another kind of victory.
Suppertime was almost upon us, and the men were beginning to arrive from work. Marian called everyone to come inside and clean up and have something to eat; pot luck.
She said, "We're having a meeting about the garden. I've learned not to call this a garden meeting. I call it a garden party. If everyone gets something to eat, attendance is usually good."
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A few evenings ago PalKid surprised me with the fact that MrsPal was born very close to the time Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed (I wasn't surprised by the fact, but by her knowledge of it). I asked her if she knew who MLK was, and she said, "Not really." I started to sketch it out in terms a first grader might understand, telling her the story of Rosa Parks, a woman I was fortunate enough to have met. As I explained to her that Ms Parks would not give up her seat to a white passenger and was arrested, PalKid said, "That doesn't make sense!" I explained it in a few more ways but she couldn't understand such insanity.
A free society remains free only if its populace is educated. When education is tied to wealth, democracy becomes plutocracy. Segregation doesn't make sense if you favor freedom over servitude. That public schools, the base of our democracy, must rely on charities for essential supplies just doesn't make sense if you favor democracy over plutocracy. But until we can fix the our schools, we must help them, and that's what Donors Choose does so effectively. It allows teachers to identify pressing needs and donors to pick projects that they agree are worthy.
The yearly Donors Choose challenge is drawing to a close. Hewlett-Packard is going to match donations, so every dollar you give makes a difference. Our current 29 donors have reached nearly 900 kids. While the total amount we raise is important, participation is as well. I'd love to see that 29 grow to 50, even through 1-5 dollar donations. There are several worthy projects in impoverished Michigan schools. Please help.


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Can you touch the moon?
Reach out and caress the mountain tops?
Breathe in fire and hit like stone.
Feel the atoms in your bone.
Can you see your future soon?
Do you know the perfect time to harvest your crops?
Shift the wind when you're alone.
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It's becoming more and more common for individuals to live in several different homes during their lifetimes. And though great memories are made and kept over the years, one aspect of this transition that is often forgotten is the stress and effort of physically moving personal possessions from place to place. Here are a handful of tips to remind you why hiring a professional removal service is the best plan of action:
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Gamescom: Konami games previewed
Andy Ruffell / 7 years ago
Another day and more game details are flooding out this time from Konami with a plethora of cross platform titles 17 of which are playable at their booth, heading their line-up is PES 2012, Metal Gear Solid and Silent Hill.
PES 2012 is due for release on October 14th for PS3, Xbox360 and Windows PC with previews on the stand showing off the active AI and team mate control elements.
Silent Hill: Downpour could also be seen in 3D on PS3 and is coming to the shelves in November on PS3, Xbox360 also worth a mention here are the Silent Hill: HD Collection for PS3 and Silent Hill: Book Of Memories the first ever multiplayer for the franchise for PS Vita both of which are coming early 2012 .
Neverdead for PS3 and Xbox360 is coming this winter with an original track produced for the soundtrack by thrash metal legends Megadeath also titled "Never Dead" which will feature on their next album the game NeverDead begins with the world under threat from a demonic plague. Centuries have passed since the world succumbed to an unforeseen shadow of evil cast by the Demon King. Then, a man called Bryce Boltzman and his beloved wife dared stand up to him, but while his wife was killed, Bryce was cursed with eternal life. Now, as these demons rise once again in the present day and are wreaking unrelenting mayhem, Bryce Boltzman must once again make a stand.
The METAL GEAR SOLID series celebrates 25 years next year, METAL GEAR SOLID: SNAKE EATER 3D will be on the Nintendo 3DS, while the eagerly-awaited METAL GEAR SOLID: HD COLLECTION will be on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 as will METAL GEAR SOLID: PEACE WALKER. Both games will be released in the winter, with the HD COLLECTION also including new HD remastered versions of METAL GEAR SOLID 2: SONS OF LIBERTY and METAL GEAR SOLID 3: SNAKE EATER.
Also there are a number of Xbox Live Arcade releases such as the first XBLA Kinect game Leedmees, 2D fighter Skullgirls, Burgertime World Tour, Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour and hitting PS3 downloads are Zombie Apocalypse: Never Die Alone and Castlevania: Harmony of Despair.


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Small groups are a place where the church gets more personal. Where people can be known and know others, and authentic relationships develop and grow. These are safe places where people can ask hard questions about life and God. Small groups are intended to be a place where people can let down their walls and share real struggles as fallible people living life in a broken world.
Our entire church, from adults to youth and children, meet together in various forms of small groups each week. There are many any types of small groups: traditional home groups, formal Bible studies, men's/women's discipleship groups, specialized groups – marriage, recovery, affinity, etc.
The believers in the early church lived life together in a radical way – embracing the truth of God's word and applying it to their lives. As a result of their willingness to surrender to God and live life together in unity, people began to take notice. The response was nothing short of miraculous. People saw something in the lives (words and actions) of these believers that they themselves were literally dying to have – they saw Jesus.
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Computer programs now play many board games as well or better than the most expert humans. Human players, however, learn, plan, allocate resources, and integrate multiple streams of knowledge. This paper highlights recent achievements in game playing, describes some cognitively- oriented work, and poses three related challenge problems for the AI community.
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Looks I like this week involve:
Coats worn cape-like over the shoulders.
Embellished jackets.
Pops of animal-print and/or signal orange.
Puffy or maxi skirts set with a simple fine-knit sweater.
Slouchy shorts.
Pointed boots.
Matching fashion friends. Still obsessed.
Skinny blue jeans scrunched into ankle boots.
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This quarter in grad school is also my busy quarter. I have 3 classes, but a lot of reading. A lot of reading that involves philosophers. See this link for my thoughts on them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1MgCV6uGuc
On top of my reading I have 3, 12-15 page papers to complete by the first week in March. I haven't taken my sewing machine out of it's carrying case yet! I won't be doing much sewing in the next few weeks, but I'm hoping that'll change during my Spring semester.


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Jeffery Wert
The LCWRT welcomed back acclaimed Civil War historian and author Jeffrey Wert for our May meeting. His excellent presentation: He Stood Out on the Great War Canvas: Jeb Stuart, focused on Jeb Stuart's leadership skills, relationships with subordinates, his friendship with Stonewall Jackson, and the controversies with his generalship. Of course, there was an emphasis on his famous "ride" during the Gettysburg Campaign. This was a fitting wrap up to our 2010-2011 season.
A graduate of Penn State University, with a Master of Arts in History, Jeffery has retired from teaching, and has concentrated on writing several excellent Civil War books: Mosby's Rangers, 1990; General James Longstreet: The Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier, 1993; Custer: The Controversial Life of George Armstrong Custer; A Brotherhood Of Valor: The Common Soldiers of the Stonewall Brigade, C.S.A., and the Iron Brigade, U.S.A., 1999; The Sword of Lincoln, 2005, A Biography of J.E. B. Stuart, 2008, and just published, A Glorious Army: Robert E. Lee's Triump 1862-1863, 2011. Each of his books has been either a main or alternate selection of the History Book Club and Book-of-the-Month Club. Gettysburg: Day Three,2001, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award.
He has also written more than one hundred articles, essays, and columns for various magazines, including Civil War Times Illustrated, American History Illustrated, America's Civil War, Blue & Gray Magazine, Virginia Cavalcade, and Pennsylvania History. He has also appeared on numerous television programs such as C-Span 2, Pennsylvania Cable Network, the History Channel, and A & E. Jeffrey is also an honorary member of the Civil War Trust.
Follow the Civil War Sesquicentennial On-line
If you have access to the Internet, you can follow the events each day of what happened 150 years ago in both the New York Times and the Washington Post. Both of the papers are offering great articles on the Civil War and these are absolutely free. The New York Times web site is Nytimes.com and just click on Opinion then Opinionator and Disunion and you will find a listing of the articles. The Washington Post address is washingtonpost.com and then go to house-divided.
April 2011 Quiz Answers:
1. In response to the Confederate demand to surrender Fort Sumter, U.S. Major Robert Anderson said he would evacuate the fort at noon on April 15th as long as he did not receive further orders, supplies and/or reinforcements. Why was this unacceptable to the Confederate government?
They wanted immediate evacuation because they knew supplies and maybe reinforcements and more importantly orders were on the way.
2. What was the difference between Fort Sumter and Confederate Charleston in terms of troops and guns?
Fort Sumter: 48 guns, 85 officers and men plus 43 workmen employed by the fort. Confederate Charleston: more than 70 guns and over 4,000 officers and men.
3. Even as the bombardment of Fort Sumter was taking place, the Union navy secured an ultimately more important prize. What was it?
The forces sent to relieve Fort Pickens on Santa Rosa Island in Pensacola Bay, Florida landed successfully.
4. Confederate President Jefferson Davis termed U.S.President Abraham Lincoln's proclamation of April 15, 1861 a declaration of war. What three steps did Lincoln take in his proclamation?
1) Declared that an insurrection existed. 2) Called for 75,000 militia. 3) Convened Congress in special session on July 4th
5. What was the Baltimore Riot?
Federal troops coming to Washington by rail had to detrain in Baltimore and march between stations to the Washington one. On April 19, 1861, the Sixth Massachusetts was marching through Baltimore when they were surrounded by a pro-Confederate crowd. Words were exchanged, stones were thrown, and finally shots were fired by both sides. At least four soldiers and twelve civilians were killed, with numerous soldiers and civilians being wounded. This is also known as the Pratt Street Riot.
May 2011 Quiz:
1. What was the Department of the Ohio and who was placed in charge?
2. Which two states had both Union and Confederate governments?
3. Who was Colonel Elmer Ellsworth?
4. Who was James Jackson?
5. When three runaway slaves sought freedom at Fort Monroe near Hampton, Virginia in May 1861, General Benjamin Butler's classification of them as "contraband of war" and his refusal to return them resulted in what Federal policy?
(The Quiz is prepared by Harriette Weatherbee)


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On this 12th anniversary of 9-11, I am feeling traumatized by the media's insistence to replay footage. Turning on the radio or the TV and seeing footage as if the planes are just not striking the building is very hard to digest. I wish they would at least lower the original dialogue and talk over it so it doesn't feel like real time.
I will never forget, but If this causes me to re-live it, what about the people who experienced this in person?
In other news, here's a completely unrelated video clip that brought me joy today.
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
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The use of time study, method study and GPS tracking in improving operational harvest planning in terms of system productivity and costs Odhiambo, Benedict O. (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study aims to quantify the benefits of implementing an operational harvesting plan in forest harvesting operations. This is to be achieved by comparing productivity and costs from unplanned and ...


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