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Religions need books because they don't have gods.
For the sake of this thread assume alien civilizations exist, and that they're at least as advanced as the most technologically advanced country on the planet.By "problems" I mean stuff like debt, revolutions, murder, religious nuts, two political parties trying to screw each other at the expense of the country, corruption, dictators, et cetera.


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AHDC is heading off to Toronto this summer to perform at the Toronto Fringe Festival. We will be taking Chameleon, the experience of global citizens there and can't wait to share it with the multicultural Toronto audience.
Young Dancers in Repertory has graciously opened up their space to us for a informal Benefit performance & send off party.
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When you have a few pounds to lose, you have to know what food to eat and what to avoid. Doing so will ensure that you have a successful weight loss journey. But what do you do when you are totally confused about what to eat and what to leave? Do you panic, do you eat everything with no regard to right or wrong? Well, no matter what you did, I'm here to help you to eat right. That's why I have compiled this list of the top 10 things to eat when you want to lose weight - to ensure that you have a very successful weight loss journey!
1. Lean protein
Stick to lean proteins like chicken, lean red meat like fillet and lean mince and fish. They are high in lean protein and low in fat. The protein helps to build muscles which in turns build fat and increases the metabolism that you even burn calories in your sleep.
2. Whole grain carbs
Make sure that you only include whole grain carbs (pasta, bread and couscous) and brown rice and baby potatoes into your diet to make up your carbs content. They will keep you fuller for longer.
3. Fruit
Snack on fruit between meals - they are low calorie and the high fiber content will ensure that you stay full between meals.
4. Vegetables
See that half of your meal plate consists of either salad or vegetables. It will cut down on calories while filling you up.
5. Beans and other pulses
Beans and other pulses like lentils and bean sprouts are a great way to bulk up a meal while also saving on calories and money.
6. Nuts
Have a handful of nuts each day - they are full of the good fats. One of the best nuts are almonds, they help to speed up weight loss.
7. Chilies
Chilies will help you to eat less of the food that you added the chilies to. And as it is a fat burning food, you will also be burning more fat. Start with the milder chillies if you are a bit afraid of the heat of the chili.
8. Fat free dairy products
Stick to fat free dairy products, you will save a lot of fat. And the calcium in the dairy is also a natural weight loss aid.
9. Oats
Start your day with a bowl of oats and you will be full until lunch time. You can also add some cinnamon and/or a handful of raisins to your oats to make it a bit more exciting.
10.Healhty fats
Healthy fats (unsaturated) are part of a normal diet and it ensures that you keep fuller for longer. Good healthy fat choices includes avos, olives, fatty fish and nuts.
Exercise will also help you to lose weight. Do some cardio like running, walking, swimming or bike riding and also some weight training. When it comes to weights, you have 2 options using a free weight pair or saving time and using adjustable weight dumbbells instead. When you are doing your weight trianing at home, I recommend the adjustable weights. But when you use a health club or a gym,the free weights might be better.
Making the top ten food that will make you lose weight part of your daily meals will help you to lose weight and you will be feeling and looking much lighter. Stock up on those foods and try to limit the times that you eat the other non-diet friendly foods. And when you want to increase your weight loss tempo, just include some exercise.


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The Rod of Seven Parts
Long ago, in the Age Before Ages, a war raged.
By some accounts, this was an esoteric war, one which shaped our world both physically and mystically. Vast armies, composed of sorcerous and spiritual beings rather than mortals, and embodying cosmic concepts like Law or Chaos, rather than mere nations, clashed across entire planes of existence.
Other tales paint a different picture—one of a bloody, but mortal conflict, where a wicked ruler fought to rein in those who opposed them or stood in their way. Boots thundered over earth and rivers ran red, but every step was on our soil, and every drop, every splatter, was ours.
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By Pam Martens: November 16, 2012
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) wants to teach the public financial literacy. It says "Our Financial Literacy Center serves as a credible resource for basic financial education to help people better understand and manage their personal finances." Is the NYSE a credible source?
Right off the bat, I'm not feeling confident when I read: "Only the highest quality companies can choose to list their securities on our exchanges. And once they do, NYSE Euronext plays a unique role in providing deep and liquid markets for the trading of those securities, benefiting all investors, large and small."
Throughout the years, the NYSE has had to delist numerous companies that have turned out to be frauds or grossly mismanaged. They were not "the highest quality" companies by a long shot. Millions of Americans have lost their life savings believing that if a company trades on the NYSE, it was a safe bet.
In January 2002, the NYSE suspended trading in Enron with the announcement that "The exchange has determined that the company securities are no longer suitable for trading on the NYSE." On the same day, accounting firm Arthur Andersen said it had fired the lead auditor who worked for Enron and placed three other partners on leave, based on a preliminary investigation into the destruction of documents related to the energy giant's collapse.
On September 8, 2008, the NYSE announced a temporary trading halt in the trading of the common and preferred stock of Fannie Mae (former ticker symbol FNM) and Freddie Mac (former ticket symbol FRE) so that investors could digest the news that the companies had been placed in conservatorship by the U.S. government. The companies had a total of 24 separate preferred securities or bonds trading on the NYSE. On June 16, 2010, with their shares trading for less than a dollar, the stocks were delisted from the NYSE.
On September 17, 2008, the NYSE announced that the common stock of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. (former ticker symbol LEH) along with its 13 preferred securities that also traded on the NYSE would be suspended for trading, based on the company's announced bankruptcy filing on September 15. The NYSE said the company was no longer suitable for listing.
Citigroup, which has one of those rare and highly prized one-letter ticker symbols (C) on the NYSE, was insolvent in 2008 and required multiple government bailouts. Rather than delist the politically connected firm, the NYSE allowed Citigroup to continue trading on the exchange and last year do a 1 for 10 reverse stock split, a maneuver that misleads new investors from seeing the true condition of a company. Citigroup's stock closed yesterday on the NYSE at $35.21. Without that reverse split dodge, the shares would more accurately reflect its troubled past, trading at $3.52.
The above are just a tiny sampling of the ignoble history of companies that have been allowed to list on the NYSE. The exchange regularly delists companies that didn't pan out, file for bankruptcy, or when the shares fall below $1.
As part of its financial literacy program, the NYSE is also featuring a "financial term of the week." This week that term is "market capitalization." Here's how the NYSE defines the phrase: "Market value of a company at a given point in time. Market capitalization is calculated by multiplying the number of shares by the share price."
The operative phrase in that definition are the words "at a given point in time." Let's take the case of the Wall Street investment bank Bear Stearns, which also traded on the NYSE. At the close of trading on March 14, 2008, the NYSE's marketplace had put a $30 a share price on the common stock of Bear Stearns. After JPMorgan examined its books over the weekend, it decided the shares were worth $2 and offered that amount to buy the whole company. The offer was eventually raised to $10, one-third of the value the so-called fair and efficient market had placed on the stock.
Since the Enron debacle, the SEC has continually issued new rules calling for the NYSE to enforce more stringent corporate governance on the companies it lists for trading. The rules cover things like independent directors, executive compensation, audit committees and the like. But the most stringent of those rules were in place prior to the 2008 collapse of numerous NYSE listed companies.
Until the NYSE can get its own house in order, it should leave financial literacy to those with a more impartial view.


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The site where Jesus is to believed to have been buried has undergone a major renovation - the first time in more than 200 years since the shrine was built. The Times of Israel's Joe Dyke reports that the newly restored site has now been reopened in Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre:
Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem, in his address to the ceremony, called the restoration "not only a gift to our Holy Land but to the whole world."
"For the first time in over two centuries, this sacred edicule has been restored," he said, referring to the shrine built in 1810 surrounding the tomb.
The shrine is a key part of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City.
The church is located in Israeli-occupied east Jerusalem, which the Palestinians see as the capital of their future state, and the shrine was briefly closed by Israeli authorities in 2015 over security fears.
Centuries of candle smoke and visiting pilgrims had left the shrine discolored and almost black.
Parts of it were also coming loose, with warnings that it was structurally unsound and posed a risk to the millions of pilgrims who visit the site every year.
Following a $3.7 million renovation led by the church's three main Christian denominations, the tomb has been painstakingly restored to its former glory — including a warm reddish-yellow coloring.
"Before this the monument was black," chief renovator Antonia Moropoulou told AFP.
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Tackling Opportunities in Moments of Distress
The first thought that comes to mind during difficult times is that entities must tighten up, become leaner and more efficient, while drastically cutting costs and expenses. This is very important, but is it enough? Future success truly hinges on clarity of vision, crisp articulation of strategies for the pursuit of that vision, flawless execution of the plans derived from those strategies, and very importantly, passion and engagement to make the unthinkable doable. Nurturing entrepreneurship by providing freedom within a framework, such as described above, can also create a fountain of ideas and a sense of ownership that can make the best rise above their peers.
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5. Freddie Ljungberg: Arsenal v Chelsea - 2002
A tough choice between Ray Parlour and Freddie Ljungberg in the same game for Arsenal, but the Swede's super late striker gets the nod from GMF.
Carlo Cudicini tipped Parlour's 70th minute opener into the top corner, but Ljungberg's strike ten minutes later cemented the win in perfect fashion, bursting past two defenders before curling the ball into the top corner.
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Sweden's CARNIVORE Changes Name To ERUPTED
Sweden's CARNIVORE has changed its name to ERUPTED.
Commented vocalist Daniel Ocic Sundberg: "[We have decided to change the name of the band] out of respect for the late [TYPE O NEGATIVE mainman] Pete Steele's CARNIVORE.
"Back when we picked the band name, we actually had not heard of the earlier CARNIVORE, and once we did, we guessed that a local band using the name really couldn't be such a big deal, we didn't expect the promo to get us signed or that we would get a chance to actually record a full-length. But, as things have worked out far beyond our imagination, we want you to wave goodbye to Växjö's CARNIVORE and give ERUPTED a brutal fucking welcome!! Same shit, new name."
ERUPTED will enter the studio in December to record its full-length debut for a 2012 release via Abyss Records.
A limited-edition version of the band's previously released "Faces Of Death" EP will be made available early next year.
Sweden's CARNIVORE was formed in 2010 when a former project of three of the members, called BEYOND HELL, underwent major lineup changes and decided to make a new start. The band played several local shows during 2010 and in 2011 recorded a three-song EP called "Faces Of Death".
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Daniel Ocic Sundberg – Vocals
Tobias Pettersson – Guitar
Jonas Davidsson – Guitar
Cedrik Petersson – Bass
Marcus Nieminen – Drums
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So I've been nominated for an award for my Stellar Diaries blog. The Liebster award is created to help those with under 200 followers get more attention. Basically, it is to improve your traffic numbers for your blog. I have been nominated by the lovely Laura from elleblogsbeauty and now it is up to me to nominate more of you. Here are the rules;
- Choose 11 people with less than 200 followers and link them in your post
- Each person must post 11 things about themselves
- Go to their page and tell them that you've nominated them
- No tag backs
- Answer the questions that the nominator set for you plus create 11 questions for your nominees


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The term 'techorating' was invented to describe the blending of today's increasingly stylish technology with the home environment, and is beginning to get attention as seen in the video report linked and excerpted below:
A growing decorating trend called techorating is generating a lot of buzz. The term is the blending of modern technology with the art of decorating to create a functional, yet stylish environment.
Technology and design expert Janna Robinson was with us on 9NEWS 8 a.m.
"The beauty of techorating is that anyone can incorporate cool, up-to-date electronics into their interior if they have the right technology," said Robinson. "It's important to say 'goodbye clutter' and 'hello technology' while remaining true to your own style."
Read the rest of the summary and see the video at the link: 'Techorating' a way to mix tech, decor, style


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Air conditioning doesn't stay cold in 1989 Cadillac
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Has Colin Trevorrow Already Been Chosen to Direct 'Episode VII'? Or Could Brad Bird Still Have a Shot?
While I was feeling fairly confidant about the rumor Matthew Vaughn left X-Men: Days of Future Past for Star Wars Episode VII, in light of today's news he might instead be working on Mark Millar's The Secret Service, I'm not so sure. Add to that this latest report from Celebuzz claiming Colin Trevorrow has already had preliminary meetings with George Lucas and Kathleen Kennedy and I think Vaughn is out.
So who is Colin Trevorrow? Besides being the most likely candidate to direct Episode VII, Trevorrow has only one feature film under his belt, the sci-fi indie Safety Not Guaranteed. I haven't seen the film but Brendon Connelly of Bleeding Cool speaks well of it saying,
…it's got a good number of light laughs and some lovely little bits of character business. It's certainly a good picture and I think it will develop a fair cult following as the years roll on.
All right, so he has a promising indie sci-fi flick on his resume, that sounds good but definitely unexpected for the guy about to be given the reins to the biggest film franchise in motion picture history. Then again, as Bleeding Cool also points out, who were Irving Kershner and Richard Marquand before Empire and Jedi. And I don't find it surprising at all Lucas would look to an indie director as that's how he would likely identify himself.
And though Trevorrow may be at the top of Lucas' list as potential Episode VII directors, another guy is at the top of everyone else's: Brad Bird. Here's a hilarious campaign commercial for Bird to get the directing gig from The Unlearning Channel,
Hey George, they've got some good points here, give Bird a consideration, maybe? Or should I be speaking to Ms. Kennedy as it'll likely be her, the new head of Lucasfilm, who will make the call.
Sources: Blastr, Geek Tyrant
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Updated on January 31, 2013
A lesson Vancouver arts scene could learn from Seattle: "co-operation"
Vancouver's arts community could learn lessons in co-operation from its Seattle counterparts, says Seattle's David Brewster, whose head-to-head comparison of arts in the two towns found its way to The Tyee.
Brewster made the comment in a follow-up interview this morning on CBC's Early Edition.
Where Seattle has a single orchestra for opera and symphony, Vancouver has two. Seattle theatre companies share sets and facilities, but Vancouver's Playhouse Theatre, the centre of such activity in Vancouver, collapsed amid debts and recriminations last year.
This willingness to circle the wagons and shoot inward in the Vancouver arts community is an issue several arts leaders have raised with me during the past two years. Where Toronto — and apparently Seattle — nurture an arts culture of mutual aid, I'm told, Vancouver organizations compete in everything, not just the box office.
Then there's the tendency here to blame others for an organization's problems when a better course would be to look in the mirror. This was much in evidence at council yesterday, when W2 supporters denounced the City of Vancouver for "evicting" them from Woodwards. None mentioned W2's inability to pay rent, although the organization moved into the city-created amenity space after a complex competition in which W2 pledged to do just that.
(The amenity space will remain for other cultural purposes, by the way, even if W2 has to move on.)
There are as many differences as there are similarities between Seattle and Vancouver. Seattle has bigger corporate donors than Vancouver, a larger metropolitan region, a longer history, etc., etc.
With Vancouver on the brink of a debate about the future of the Vancouver Art Gallery, we have a chance to see if we can emulate Seattle's co-operative approach, a valuable quality that requires good will , not cash.


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Introduction to Fairfield, California
Fairfield is the seat of Solano County. The city is located in the northern part of the state. It is about 40 miles northeast of San Francisco where it straddles Interstate 80.
Travis Air Force Base has been located here since 1942. An Anheuser-Busch brewery is located here as well. The brewery offers tours from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM from Tuesday through Saturday all year round. Tours are also provided on Monday during the summer from June through August.
Fairfield History
The history of Fairfield stretches back five to six thousand years. That is the age of artifacts of native people which have been excavated here. The first European contact came in 1810 when the Spanish army was ordered to attack the Suisin Indians. In 1835 the Mexican General Vallejo was so magnanimous in victory over the Indian Chief Sem Yeto that the chief later became his ally in conflicts against other tribes. In 1837 the Indian Chief Solano received a land grant from Mexico named Suisun Rancho. This grant eventually came into the hands of a clipper ship captain from Connecticut named Robert H. Waterman. He not only parceled out the town in 1856 but also, in a commercially shrewd move, arranged to have the county seat moved here in 1858 from Benicia. As an inducement he granted sixteen acres of land for the construction of county buildings. In 1903 Fairfield was incorporated as a city.
Fairfield Arts, Culture and Entertainment
This is a community which strives to enhance quality of life, especially that of young people. Organizations which are credited with this substantially volunteer effort are The Fairfield Youth Commission, the Community Services Department, partnerships with the private sector and The Community Services Foundation. Their accomplishments include:
- The Place To Be Aft Rotary Skate Park.
- Dances for teenagers.
- The Assist-A-Grad Scholarships.
- Recreational scholarships for low-income youth.
Culture is not ignored in the community's commitment to quality of life. The Fairfield Center for Creative Arts houses, sponsors or hosts the following:
- The Performing Arts Series, featuring mainly musical soloists and groups, some internationally known, and many famous in the world of pop culture.
- A series of events for children.
- The Fairfield Center Gallery.
- A Father/Daughter Dance.
- The Veterans Day Parade.
Fairfield is the home of two prime public golf courses, Paradise Valley and Rancho Solano. Other outdoor recreational locations include:
- Two "pocket parks", which are small, quiet and green spaces suitable for peaceful outings with children.
- At least 20 neighborhood parks within walking distance of most homes, which contain playground equipment, benches, picnic amenities and some sports courts.
- Four community parks containing areas for baseball, basketball, soccer, swimming, tennis, horseshoes, roller sports, picnic facilities and restrooms
- Four open spaces (two are open to the public) for hiking and wildlife viewing, comprising hundreds of acres.


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Plunder is a deduction card game in which everyone is a pirate captain with a buried treasure. Players attempt to steal the hidden treasures of the other captains by figuring out the three landmarks that mark where each treasure is hidden. The first player to a treasure takes the largest share, while those who reach it second or third receive less. Keeping your treasure from being stolen is also worth victory points in the end. Find and steal the most treasures first to win in the end!
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Star of Hope International, America is governed by a volunteer board of directors, of whom the majority are independent. Directors serve a three-year term and strive to make decisions that are in the best interest of the children served around the world.
Don Williams (Board Chairman)
Prof. Don Williams is a retired university professor of biology who has been a career-long educator both at the public secondary school level and in higher education. After graduation from Montrose High School, Montrose, CO in 1966, he attended Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina, KS for his undergraduate degree in biology and education. During his 40+ years in teaching, he successfully earned his masters degree from Western State College, Gunnison, CO in 1978 and his Doctor of Education (Ed. D.) from Ball State University, Muncie, IN in 1998. He taught sciences, drivers' training, and coached at the secondary level at Hanston, KS for three years and Lyons, KS for 15 years from 1970-1988. His higher education experience included both Sterling College, Sterling, KS for 15 years and Park University, Parkville, MO for nine years until he retired in the summer of 2012. He still continues to teach and develop online biology classes for Park University on a part-time, adjunct basis.
Don and his wife, Jan, attend Grace Community Church in Great Bend Kansas and helps in the AWANA program and serve in other capacities there.
Jon Prescott (Board Treasurer)
Spiritual Bio
Accepted the Lord when he was 7 years old and he grew up in a Christian family of 4 boys. His spiritual journey has included: Middle School Sunday School teacher, Trustee, Trustee Chairman, Youth Sponsor, Mission's fundraising, Fundraising Chairman for a new Sanctuary, NAB Triennial Conference Planning Team, Small Group Bible Study Leader.
Business Bio
Jon Prescott is a graduate of Fort Hays State University in Western Kansas with Bachelor of Science degrees in Marketing and Finance. For the past thirty-three years, Jon has held executive positions for service, wholesale, software and retail corporations. Jon's longest professional journey (27 years) was with CPI Qualified Plan Consultants, Inc. (CPI) as Chief Marketing Officer and later President. Currently he is President of his own Consulting firm (Retirement Security & Wealth Consulting) which focuses on retirement plan services, plan design and Marketing.
RodicaMalos, MS, ANP, DNP
Rodica joined the Board after many years of involvement in the work especially through Star of Hope Romania. Rodica resides in Gresham, OR. As a Doctor of Nursing Practice and with many licenses in addition (PhD Degree Program with clinical orientation) Rodica is a welcome addition to our Board.
Rodica is also owner, operator of two adult foster homes and residential care facilities. In the past Rodica was very involved with "Daily Bread for Orphans in Romania" from 1993- 2000and "ICMP" Bucharest, Romania.
Rodica speaks fluent in Romanian and is most interested in the evangelical movement happing in Romania and wants to be a conduit for that work to more faster and wider.
Kenneth W Borror
Kenneth W Borror, 86, was born and raised in Rossville, Il. After two years in the USNR, attended University of Illinois and graduated with a BSEE degree in 1950. He worked for IBM in various positions for about 38 years. After retirement, he spent time in Haiti and Sweden doing volunteer work for Star of Hope and is currently living in Colorado Springs, CO. Ken is married. He and his wife, Violet, have 4 children and 5 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Erik Lennart Eriksson
Lennart Eriksson is the Founder, CEO & President of Star of Hope International, the umbrella group that all the Star of Hope organizations, worldwide, cooperate within.
Lennart is the visionary and the leader of Tentmission the evangelical arm of Star of Hope. Born in 1956, father of five children. Living in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. He's a member of a local Baptist Church. He's also an appreciated inspirational speaker and motivator.
Kevin Huff
Kevin Huff is an accomplished, seasoned Telecom veteran who left the industry to start a leadership and sales effectiveness company. In 2008, he started Training To Go with one idea in mind: to change the game of corporate training. Training To Go broke the chains of traditional training inside and outside the classroom. With Kevin's customer-focused approach, Training To Go doubled in size in the first year. At the end of a second explosive-growth year, Kevin sold Training To Go to Sales Artists, becoming the CEO (or as he prefers, the Chief Experience Officer) of the new combined entity. www.salesartists.com
Kevin brings a wealth of sales, marketing, and training experience to Sales Artists. He has held key leadership positions in Marketing and Sales for several Fortune 500 companies, has trained over 15,000 salespeople, has taught both "Training & Development" and "Sales Effectiveness" courses at Harrison College, and speaks internationally on the subjects of Sales, Business, and Training.
Kevin also serves as Vice-chairman for Cornerstone Pastor's Network and has a heart for pastors serving in smaller (<500) churches across the globe.
Ulrika Kallin
Ulrika is the CEO of Star of Hope Sweden, Hoppets Stjarna. She has led many new processes in the Star of Hope family after taking the helm. Mainly all her work has lead to greater efficiency both in the funding and project countries. Ulrika is the mother of 3 boys and daughter of Star of Hopes founder. A singer in her spare time she loves to sing worship songs wherever she can.
Kay Metsger
Ms Kay Metsger, RN BSN, of Fairview, Oregon is a driving force for the board members both in networking and in the Word; she helps guide the organization in the Pacific Northwest to help Star of Hope in the pursuit of its mission.
Ms Metsger, a graduate of the University of Oregon School of Nursing, brings her extensive education and work experience in the heath field to the board. Over the past few years she has traveled to Romania where she participated in multiple Star of Hope conferences to benefit women caring for children with disabilities.
She has been involved with Agape Women's ministry, New Beginnings church ministry as well as My Father's House Ministries. Her passion to impact the spiritual and physical needs of the most vulnerable peoples is evident in the energy she brings to the board.
Mark J Presson (CEO)
Mark Presson, 1960, born Wurzburg, Germany, raised in Panama and the US. Mark has lived in Europe and Asia for the last 26 years and now is stationed in Kansas. Mark has 5 years higher education and has been with the Star of Hope family for 25 years. Mark has worked in the organization with different responsibilities, including COO, disaster & recovery management, relief and equipment staging and shipping, digital advocacy, grant writing, web based fundraising tools and fundraising, management change and more. Mark is a Christian man married to Maria Presson and they have 2 sons.


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Oscar de la Renta
The Oscar de la Renta 2018 Spring-Summer jewellery collection is all about pompoms and delicate blooms. This season, Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia are going back to the roots of design according to the brand's founder with Spring-inspired earrings. Beads and colourful synthetic materials blend to produce flowery, original pieces.
Oscar de la Renta launched his eponymous label in 1965. The Dominican designer had only just left Elizabeth Arden where he had worked for two years and had some top of the range experience from working at Balenciaga and Lanvin.
In 1977, the fashion house launched Oscar, its first perfume, but didn't move into accessories until 2001. Five years later, in 2006, Oscar de la Renta presented its first wedding collection. This was followed by a children's clothing line in 2012.
In 2014, the fashion house changed artistic director for the first time since its inception. Peter Copping was hired a few months before the death of Oscar de la Renta. In 2016, Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia took over the reins.
Few designers can claim to have taken over the fashion house in which they started their careers. This was the case for Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia as the design duo's first job out of college was at Oscar de la Renta. He had studied architecture in Notre-Dame and she had a B.F.A. from Pratt. They were both hired to work at Oscar de la Renta in the early 2000s, climbing the ladder to end up as Senior Designer and Design Director in less than a decade.
In 2015, the duo left Oscar de la Renta to found their own label, Monse. A year later, after working for Carolina Herrera, the pair came home to Oscar de la Renta where they replaced Peter Copping.
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I often hear talk, amongst Christians, of the desire to "be countercultural", articulating an attempt to live differently in a world that is, in the West at least, marked by individualism, independence and financial aspiration.
And yet, the more I think about it, the more clearly I see: how little difference there is – in terms of every-day, nitty-gritty living – between those of faith and those of none.
For many middle-class Christians have embraced a middle-class faith.
A faith that allows for upward mobility, financial security and "confort zone living".
A faith that, it would seem, talks about "going the extra mile" – yet rarely leads to worn out shoes.
A faith that ticks the "giving box" through impersonal direct debits, and avoids the command to "give away an extra coat".
A faith exhibiting a reluctance to give-til-it-hurts.
A faith that has failed to truly cross the boundaries of wealth, class and background – so the rich get richer, the poor stay poor and we inhabit two separate worlds.
I write this not to judge, but as a confession. An admission that I, a fully signed-up Christian, am comfortable in my comfort zone. I make choices that benefit me (and those I love) and I get caught up – day by day, week by week – in an aspirational, "upwards" mindset – bigger salary, bigger house, bigger cupboards. More. More. More.
Recently, though, my hubster and I made a different choice. You could, I guess, call it a "downward decision". We had to move house – and so we left our lovely home with a big garden and moved into our friend's spare room. We stepped off the up escalator and started exploring a different path. We are students of an alternative trail.
I know that some of our friends find it weird. After all – who would choose shared space instead of privacy? Which married couple would move in with others, except in an emergency? In a country obsessed with land ownership, why would anyone aspire to "shared space" over "my space"?
Then, this morning, I read these words:
"The rampant individualism of Western society is a relatively new thing, and its emptiness is increasingly evident … We are wealthy and lonely…"
We are lonely. We live in a world that is more "connected" than ever before. Facebook, Twitter, email, texting, BBM. Instant access to others. And – if the phone doesn't buzz or beep – instant loneliness.
We are wealthy. And the more money we have, the more we isolate ourselves from others.
We are strangers. We bump into others, for we share the same public space, yet we rarely know each other's names.
We are upwardly mobile, educated, financially secure and full of aspiration. We are middle-class Christians.
And we are missing out.
Missing out on the wonder of hearing the life-stories of those with journeys very different to ours, and the indescribable joy of the friendships that can emerge. Missing out on the laughter, and tears, of living-entwined-lives, and not solely with "people like us". Missing out on the reward and challenge inherent in a risky "no" to cultural norms and a "yes" to downward mobility.
A guy called Shane Claiborne said, "we live in community and among the suffering because it is what we are made for".
I love that. For it is truly counter-cultural. And it doesn't sound very middle-class to me.


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This week, I had an idea for something different: fake graphs about real things. Basically, there are some concepts in game development that seem like they are easily described in graphs. They're not always possible to quantify, but the trends are pretty easy to qualify. Like describing volume as a function of distance from a speaker, or speed as a function of time spent accelerating, we can describe certain things in our industry in relation to other values.
So, before I accidentally type another paragraph, let's start "graphing!"
|Fig. 1: Amount of time spent actually working on game over length of project.
|Fig 1a: Everything else you'll be doing.
|Fig 1b: It ain't over 'til it's over.
|Fig 2: Anxiety as a function of build release schedule.
|Fig 2a: Ohgodohgodohgodohgod!
|Fig 3: Game sales over time.
|Fig 3a: WTB rent-free treehouse with free electricity and internet...
|Fig 3b: Or this might just be a NASA pulsar graph
You could also try adjusting the price of your game:
|Fig 4: Sales as a function of price.
How does this look in terms of actual money? Probably something like this:
|Fig 4a: Number may not actually be magic.
Let's talk about another topic. Phil Fish has recently made the news (again), and you might be wondering what you'd do in his shoes. Being criticized can be unpleasant, but not all criticism is created equal:
|Fig 5: Amount of attention paid to criticism vs. how much I respect the critic.
|Fig 5a: Attention paid as a function of bias.
Speaking of usefulness:
|Fig 6: Likelihood of reading feedback as a function of its length.
|Fig 6a: Wanting and doing are different things, though.
And while we're on the topic of weaknesses, here's a big one for me:
|Fig 7: Desire to postpone decision as a function of its importance.
|Fig 7a: "Just a little more research..."
There are more, of course, but this is already quite a bit. Let me know if you found this format to be helpful, entertaining, or even erroneous. And enjoy the break from my walls o' text while you can!


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An extremely simple and effective, though controversial tool, to help maintain standards at the high school level, in several developed countries like the United Kingdom and the United States, is the school league table (or its equivalent). It is a simple form of information liberalization, which puts data about academic standards of schools directly into the hands of parents, to help them make more informed decisions about which school to admit their wards. This feedback loop also compels schools to motivate their teachers to improve teaching and assessment standards.
July 26, 2015
Unreliable Assessment of Student Marks in Indian Education System
While an official aggregation or tabulation is generally unavailable for Indian schools, here is the tabulation for over 16000 schools in India affiliated to the CBSE, CISCE and the Rajasthan State Board. Among other things, an analysis of this data points to an extremely unreliable assessment system, with little repeat-ability or reliability, and a blatant misreporting and inflation of scores.


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SAM ALLARDYCE was astonished to see his Hammers thump their fellow Premier League new boys after a first half that never looked like producing a goal.
Mark Noble and Kevin Nolan had the home side two up early in the second period and even though Adam Lallana halved the deficit, Noble's penalty and a superb strike by substitute Modibo Maiga sealed an emphatic victory.
Allardyce said: "It was a surprise we won 4-1 when you look at what we did in the first half. To come out and put it right is great. Scoring four goals against any Premier side is no mean feat."
Southampton have now conceded 24 goals in just eight league matches.


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Here's a test video I made the other day. I picked up some new video editing software, and wanted to see how things look after the YouTube upload. Seems okay. I'll use widescreen next time. Text is a bit sharp.
Also made some music for the video. I call it "Alien Worlds." I've been experimenting with FL Studio for years, and while I'm not the best at mixing, I thought I'd put a new tune in each video. For this one, I was going for that old, mono VHS sound, a little bit.
I plan to upload more next month. Whether they'll be slideshows, or if I decide to do voiceovers, I'm not sure yet. It's just something to do


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Woozon is an online marketplace dedicated to India's flourishing woodworking industry. Started in 2015 in Bangalore, the site prides itself on connecting otherwise disparate craftsman who would otherwise not have access to online marketing. It also showcases related products, tools, hardware, materials, machines and more providing everything the average craftsman could need or want.
Woodzon prides itself in being a community the woodworking craftsman can trust which is why buyers and sellers are comfortable listing and buying designs, solutions, updates, technologies, services and one-of-a-kind products across the categories of woodworking production, interior finishes, carpentry and more. They currently offer more than one million products of nearly every type and price point imaginable. Additional features include project consultation, financial support, recommendations, reviews and more.


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Dear Organizers / Moderators,
I propose to make a small change in our current process of info sharing in CTC to optimize readership / audience engagement. Instead of the current process of sending an email to CTC group, (sometimes) putting up a separate FB post and thirdly (myself) posting a copy of your mail onto the CTC blog I would like to link all three seamless together as below:
1. First post your write-up, article, … onto the CTC blog (ask me to create an account for you). Our blog is our main archive containing 9 years / 1200+ articles through which new members find, get to know and join us.
2. The blog post will have an option to share to FB – include a small preview in your share. Social media allows us to reach out to a wide public audience, not restricted to CTC. Anyone new to CTC can easily click on the FB post to be redirected to the CTC blog where he/she can find out all other activities in CTC and join us if interested.
3. Thirdly, copy paste the blog post into an email, include a link to the FB post and send to our Google Group. Emails reach out to our 30 thousand member base (and does not dependent on FB timeline). Nothing more convenient then reading an article in your lazy inbox. Members interested to share with their friends, talk to the author, leave their opinion, discuss the topic among other people can simply click on the FB link to get engaged.
Linking all three above (blog, FB, mail) gives us better reach / engagement among CTC member + public audience.


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Previously on Ichabod Touches People And Things, Abbie's deceased mentor left her a picturesque cabin property, the horned demon Moloch used to model for the Hannibal series book covers back in the day, and Ichabod thinks John Milton's poetry qualifies as ancient theological texts.
The opening of "John Doe" sneaks up on you with the soft, eerie music as the camera follows a little girl with the most amazing maiden hair I've ever seen on television. She's frolicking in the woods, gathering mushrooms, or flowers, or the teeth of her enemies. The palest little boy in all of Sleepy Hollow watches from a distance, until her laughter lures him out to play. It's all very Never-Never Land until an fearsome Horseman in a horned helmet appears from the blue mist, theme music swelling and sword at ready.
The art designer on this series must have really loved Highlander. The little boy runs like Hell and stumbles out onto the highway in the same disoriented manner as Ichabod weeks prior. If this keeps happening, Abbie may have to tap the police budget for a webcam to monitor the first known time travel interstate.
Evening commences at the dead sheriff's cabin in the woods, where the intrepid lieutenant and her Revolutionary Ken doll move his meager box of possessions into his new home. Ichabod likes the modern conveniences and Abbie thinks her pet will be happier in his native environment. When she calls on her slinky voice to say "This is an ideal setting for you. Rustic… by the lake…" it sounds like proposition, but Crane is too distracted playing with the shower loofah from his bag of domestic goodies to notice. Oceans may rise and monsters may roam, but Walgreens understands that you need bubblebath even more during the apocalypse.
This episode is more philosophical than its predecessors, starting from the Adam & Eve style opening and demonstrated when Abbie discusses faith with Ichabod. Nearly every conversation in "John Doe" circles back to faith in some form, and I like the constant artistic choice to have Ichabod mess around with modern objects while Abbie re-evaluates her spiritual commitment. In a sense, they both confront the perils of the unknown from their opposite ends.
His current foe: the hard plastic casing that contains that which you desire most in the world. Ichabod snarls, "What is this impenetrable barrier around this instrument?!" Retail customers have been asking that question since 2002.
Officer Ex-Fiance (Luke Morales as played by Nicholas Gonzalez) is guarding the emergency scene when Abbie and Ichabod arrive to follow up on a mysterious lost boy. Officer Ex asks Abbie if she gets tired of babysitting Mr. Tall, Wispy & Upright, but she's having none of it and slams his detective skills. Obviously, if Luke can't deduce that Abbie's strange foreign friend is actually a Revolutionary spy cast through time to fight the forces of Biblical darkness, then that's Luke's own fault.
The mystery boy from the forest was picked up by paramedics after he collapsed from an unknown illness, and his outdated clothes leads Ichabod to believe that the child might be out of his timeline as well.
At police HQ, Abbie, Crane, and Captain Irving discuss the pint-sized "John Doe." When Ichabod claims that the boy is speaking Middle English, Irving wins the prize for driest sarcasm of the entire episode: "Naturally." Luckily, Ichabod Crane's hidden superpower is not merely detecting when people are making fun of him, but having the self-control not to be a dick about it.
Luke approaches Irving to politely ask WTF Ichabod is doing as a "consultant" for their office, and Irving responds with the same tactic that worked to get Luke off his back last time: bring up the fact that Abbie dumped his ass. Irving follows it up with loaded stares and warnings to mind his own work, delivered with scenery-chewing calm by Orlando Jones. Looks like we're past the point of pretending the police captain doesn't know more about what's going on than everyone else still alive.
The CDC sails into town and quarantines the boy for the ominous black veins under his skin, arranging for Ichabod to speak to him through a camera. They have a long conversation in Elvish about the location of the One Ring, and Ichabod expresses his distaste for plastic. No doubt he'll change his tune the next time he gets a toothache and experiences the miracle of modern dentistry equipment.
The boy, Thomas, hails from the lost colony of Roanoke. Crane gives Abbie a brief history lesson of the North Carolina villagers who vanished in 1590, and once again challenges her to have faith in the mysteries that surround them.
With more people falling ill, Sleepy Hollow goes into lockdown, while Abbie and Ichabod head into the woods to find the boy's trail. Abbie's been teasing Crane the whole day about his culture shock, and he gets a little sensitive.
Abbie: "So who was more sarcastic, Jefferson or Adams?"
Ichabod: "Is this more sarcasm?"
Abbie: "No, I'm serious."
Ichabod: "I'll tell you this: Jefferson had an obsession with puns, and Adams kept a notebook of unsavory limericks."
Abbie: "Seriously?"
Ichabod: "Welcome to Roanoke."
Luke and fellow his officer, Jones, gossip about Crane's dubious history and decide it's all down to Irving's omniscient behavior. Just in case you missed it the last two episodes, they really want the audience to know that Irving has a larger agenda. Because he has something to prove, Luke investigates Crane's cover story of being a liaison from Oxford, but to Luke's surprise, the university employee on the phone confirms that they have a professor by that name.
Thanks to Crane's mad tracking skills, earned from fox-hunting on his father's estate, he and Abbie discover the footprints of Thomas and the malevolent flower girl. Ichabod admits he had a "regal upbringing" with a nobleman for a father, which means his choice to fight with the American Colonies was probably a more loaded decision than the series is ever really going to delve into.
The CDC representative marvels that Thomas has dissimilar blood chemistry to modern Americans, and I take a moment to enjoy the fact that here we have a conversation between two black actors and a Latino actor, all of whom I'm confident will make it to the end of the episode.
Our heroes find a mystery swamp island and use a trick ford to cross the waterway, Ichabod acting the gentlemen once again. Across the water they discover Thomas's home: the entire lost population of Roanoke. All of them disappeared after being cursed by the Horseman of Pestilence, a.k.a. Conquest. A spirit led them to safety, but they can only hold back the symptoms of the disease as long as they remain in the village. By escaping Roanoke 2.0, Thomas may have unleashed an apocalyptic plague and lured the Horseman of Pestilence to Sleepy Hollow.
When Abbie and Crane return to town, intent on retrieving the boy, the disease has spread and Ichabod is infected. Abbie fruitlessly tries to prevent his quarantine, and when they eventually sedate him, Ichabod has another dream vision about his wife, Katrina. She explains the rules of her captivity in Purgatory, but she's afraid to explain why Moloch has her imprisoned. Katrina is busy enough just watching the dead souls float by and screaming "Fight for your life! Fight for the both of us!" every time Crane has a fever dream.
To cap the episode's theme of embracing faith, Abbie does what all cynics do when your supernatural BFF is dying from a ghost disease: she slouches into the pews of the hospital chapel and asks for a sign. "If this is a trial, I'm gonna need a little evidence." She doesn't even say please, she is that unaccustomed to praying. Nevertheless, the Powers That Be still like Abby enough to remind her of the well she saw at Roanoke 2.0. If the water has healing properties, she'll need to get the boy back to the village.
Abby pleads her theory to Captain Irving, who helps her steal an ambulance with Crane and Thomas unconscious in the back. The ease with which Irving agrees to this goes strangely unnoticed by Abby, considering she's only known her new boss for a month, tops. She brings them to the woods, with Thomas near the point of death and Ichabod weakening every step. In the background, the specter of the Horseman Conquest rides through the mist. Abbie makes Crane chuckle with a joke about the trees all looking the same, then provides him a booster shot from her medical bag. He jerks back to awareness, perky as can be.
Ichabod: "What was that?"
Abbie: "Adrenaline."
Ichabod: "I like it."
As the spirit of pestilence is close on their heels, Crane finally jumps into the village well with Thomas in his arms, breaking the curse. Roanoke 2.0 vanishes from sight, leaving Abbie and Ichabod standing in the ruins of an old encampment. The boy and his townspeople were ghosts, dead the whole time. Fortunately, Crane's black veins are gone, his clothes are clean, and his hair is soft and whispy again.
In less important news, everyone in Sleepy Hollow recovered instantly.
Ichabod compliments Abbie on trusting in the mystical forces to save them, and she responds with her own admission: for a moment, she'd wondered if he would stay with the village. "Believe me," she says, "You belong in Sleepy Hollow. In the here and now."
For a moment Crane is speechless, then he wraps up the episode with a confident summary of adventures to come: "We have much work to do. We will require more than faith if, and when, the Horseman of Death returns."


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I have no idea why the Small One remembers going to this place, deep in the bosky dells of Marion County, in the lesser foothills of the Cascades. But she did, and her mom didn't want to drag herself down the long road southeast from Portland, so Sunday was a Daddy and Daughter Day Out, on the road to Silver Falls State Park.
So after a lazy morning the Girl and I started our adventure making sushi for lunch.
Yes. Sushi. The Small One is quite the sushi-chef.
She wields her makisu 巻き簾, the bamboo rolling-mat with the precision and flair of the true itamae-san as she crafts her tempura shrimp-rolls (her favorite).
Perhaps it's her small fingers, or, just perhaps, it's her love of the sweet savor and delicate crunchiness of the tobiko that leads her to sprinkle it liberally inside her makizushi.
And it IS a long ride; down through Portland and onto the freeway. South through the surprisingly heavy Sunday traffic choke-points of the Terwilliger Curves, Tigard, Wilsonville, and the Boone Bridge, before finally escaping to the relatively speedy stretch south of the Willamette River where the broad flatlands stretch away, green with summer and dark with a cloudy morning's rain.
The Girl keeps up a stream of chatter because...well, because she's a little chatterer. She enjoys her own silliness, exclaims little-girl affection for random farm animals that would intimidate her if encountered up close. She scoffs at her older brother's idleness in front of a video screen and hopes for an adventure in the woods ahead.
Off the freeway at the greedy sprawl of Woodburn, then east, then south along the faded strip of Highway 99 until we reach the left turn for Silverton. From there it is truly into the undeveloped lands of the east edge of the Willamette Valley.
The valley itself is, to my eyes, an unappealing square flatness of farm field and copse. Southeast of Woodburn, however, the land rises into pleasant undulation towards the cloud-wrapped mountains beyond.
The road itself loses its drab linearity and winds, dips, and climbs in an entertaining fashion, made all the more pleasing by not being blocked by sluggish tractors or gear-grinding heavy trucks. The Girl and I sail through the woods and fields and are passing through the faux-Teutonic hamlet of Mount Angel in short minutes.
Small One is perplexed, then amused, by my insistence that the wooded hilltop east of the town is occupied by actual monks, and laughs at the fakey-German gimcracks as we pass through.
But her laugh is on me when we stop at the IGA grocery outside Silverton to pick her up a bottle of water. It turns out that today is the culmination of "Homer Davenport Days" in the little town and she gleefully predicts a "Tulip Festival", crowing with delight at the prospect of a Furious Daddy.
("Tulip Festival", by the way, is family shorthand for "some unforeseen event that creates incandescent rage in the parent", after the time my father the Master Chief was driving my family to our annual vacation in upper western Michigan and got stuck in the middle of some sort of Holland, Michigan celebration.Sadly for The Girl, the Tulip Festival (or Homer Day, or whatever...) was confined to a side street and we sailed through Silverton practically without a check and up into the close-set woodlands and rising hills above us.
Of course, in those pre-Internet days he, and we, had no idea that this was a thing until the traffic on the little road through town - this being the late Sixties the idea of a highway or bypass up the east side of Lake Michigan was an arrant fantasy - slowed, and then slowed, and then stopped and sat.
So we sat. And sat. In a dark green station wagon. In the August heat. For several hours. While my father, normally a man of moderate temper and inexpressive mien, grew more furious by the moment.
By the time the traffic began to move and we crept through the festive town my father would have cheerfully nuked Holland, Michigan, and all its inhabitants into a glowing slag and danced gleefully upon the ruin.
Ever since then the prospect of seeing the top of the paternal parent's head fly off in rage has been the sincere wish of both children, and Missy was practically chortling in hope.)
Reaching the north end parking lot we find that we're not the only people who decided to visit that day; the lot is full, and we have to look around for an alternative. That turns out to be a gravel side road with a broad shoulder where we leave little Stinky the Honda and walk back to find our path for the day.
That turns out to be, first, "Little North Falls", a pretty box-canyon headed by a pinnate rush of cold, clear water. We admire the pools in the slickrock at the base and the size of the trees felled and boulders moved by the winter floods.
The Girl finds water striders dimpling the glassy surface and makes little wavelets to make them skitter away. I stop to take pictures of the passage of the winter's kolks; the sudden holes in the basalt filled with grindstones where dark gray-green crayfish scuttle into the shadow when we loom over them.
A young couple has, in "defiance of municipal regulations", brought their small white terrier with them to the falls. The little creature is, in violation of normal terrier mores, hesitant about rushing around sniffing and detecting, perhaps because of the water-slick rock.
My own little creature is, as is her wont, entranced. While she found having an actual dog somewhat of a nuisance as a pet she enjoys other people's dogs and is coo-ish and enticing towards this one which, however, is only mildly curious in return about the small cozening human. Perhaps this has something to do with the Small One's lack of food.
"It was a LOT bigger last time!" she declares.
Indeed, the plume is much diminished from the earlier spring when we last visited. The crowds are somewhat larger, however, and I force myself not to make an irked sound as we pass the self-impressed boobs using some sort of scribing tool to etch their little piece of eternity into the rock ceiling.
Missy wants to lob a rock into the fall, so we carefully pick out a spot where we can see all the way to the plunge pool and she lets fly; the palm-sized projectile flies about a quarter of the way out to the cascade before arcing down into the swordfern and vinemaple.
Still; Missy is well pleased with herself, and skips on down the trail to where it meets Silver Creek some quarter-mile or so further on.
There she entertains herself mightily plonking rocks in the water, launching clover petals, and using the swagger stick I picked up to riffle the cold waters not long removed from the snowfields of the High Cascades.
We share this little slackwater with a Filipino family, whose youngest son is rampaging through the water soaking his clothing and generally ignoring the requests, imprecations, and demands of his female relatives with squalling defiance. I foresee a difficult adolescence for Young Master, whose expectation of similar indulgence from the larger world is likely to go as unfulfilled as the Silver Creek channel is today.
The Girl is ready to continue on, but I know the capability of those short legs better than their owner does, so I turn us backward, heading the short way towards the north parking lot. We circle back under North Falls, casting another stone along the way and pausing to ooh and ah at the tree casts, the cylindrical voids in the overlying basalt ceiling formed by millions-year-old trees that were buried in the flowing lava.
These piers are empty, hollow columns rising into the darkness overhead unlike the tree-cast I once told you about. But they, too, to me seem fraught, empty yet full of the vanished forest and the uncountable years.
The Small One is only mildly impressed.
She is more excited retelling another, more recent Family Legend, this one the story of Daddy and Mommy and Pre-Mommy and the Boring Little Brown Bird* ("Mommy was mad because she wanted Thanksgiving Dinner more than the Boring Bird!")
She pockets the two smooth stones she picked up along the creek, momentos of her adventurous day.
The drive home is unremarkable outside the appalling tie-up the begins south of the Aurora exit and continues grinding along in fits and starts painfully slowly almost to North Wilsonville before, suddenly and inexplicably, dissipating.
The Small One is weary from her hike (and a brief hop to our Powell's bookstore for some new stories to read...) and remains in the back seat reading about kitten Chi's newest shenanigans rather than take the few steps into the store we stop to get her brother's much-needed XBOX accessories.
But she is again chatty and excited when we get back home, informing her mother (and her brother, if he cared enough to listen) all the excitement we shared in the Oregon Wild. She bounces off into her back room with her new book in hand.
And returns a quarter hour later, flops down backwards on the parental bed, and announces with a sigh and a voice heavy with the pain of bottomless ennui:
"I'm bored."
*(The official version of the story of "Mommy, Daddy, Pre-Mommy and the Boring Little Brown Bird" ("Oregon's First Louisiana Waterthrush") is told in the first article in above-linked issue of Oregon Birds, the publication of the Oregon Birding Association (then the Oregon Field Ornithologists).
For some reason I find it richly amusing that the citation for the initial sighting of Oregon's first (and, so far as I know, only) record of this species is shared by my current wife, my ex-wife, and me. My children, for some inexplicable reason, do not find this nearly as entertaining)


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Friday, 24 September 2010 07:05 AM
Senate Democratic leaders decided Thursday to delay a vote on preserving soon-to-expire middle class tax cuts until after congressional elections in November.
President Barack Obama has made the tax cuts a priority. But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid decided to delay any vote after a meeting with other Senate Democrats failed to produce a consensus on how to proceed.
"Democrats believe we must permanently extend tax cuts for the middle-class before they expire at the end of the year, and we will," Reid spokesman Jim Manley said. "Unfortunately, to this point we have received no cooperation from Republicans to do so."
Enacted in 2001 and 2003 under President George W. Bush, they were the most sweeping tax cuts in a generation. If Congress takes no action, taxpayers at every income level face significant tax increases next year.
Republicans want to extend all the tax cuts. Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress want to extend them for individuals making less than $200,000 and married couples making less than $250,000.
"We will come back in November and stay in session as long as it takes to get this done," Manley said.
A last-minute, or lame duck, session of the House and Senate is set to begin Nov. 15 with a few new faces and perhaps a far different political outlook after an election in which Republicans are expected to make significant gains, even possibly enough to gain control of the House or Senate, or both. Democrats still will hold the majority through the end of the year, however. Some House and Senate Democratic officials believe the timing would make it easier to extend the Bush-era tax cuts set to expire in January.
But who gets a break on their tax bill — everyone, or just what Obama calls the middle class — still would likely be the subject of heated debate.
The Senate's No. 2 Democrat, Dick Durbin of Illinois, described an election-driven stalemate unlikely to lift in the next five weeks, when many lawmakers up for re-election would prefer to be home campaigning. All 435 seats in the House and 37 in the Senate are on the line.
"We are so tightly wound up in this campaign that it's impossible to see a bipartisan answer to the challenge we face," Durbin, the Democrats' vote-counting whip, said. "That's the reality before the election."
Pre-election, some Democrats are wary of supporting Obama's plan to let taxes rise for the wealthiest Americans, fearing they would be accused of supporting a tax hike. Other Democrats believe they have a winning message of fiscal responsibility while making the rich pay more after years of relative prosperity.
"I'm doing all I can to get the middle income tax cut passed as quickly as possible," said Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.
GOP lawmakers say it's a familiar debate: Democrats favor tax increases while Republicans oppose them.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said Democrats are putting nearly every working American at risk for a significant tax increase next year.
"They are in charge and they haven't done anything about it," said Cornyn, who is chairman of the committee in charge of electing Senate Republicans. "That would not be a position I would want to be in."
Delaying action on the tax cuts could cause problems for the Internal Revenue Service and employers trying to withhold the correct amount of taxes from workers' paychecks, starting in January. The Treasury Department, which oversees the IRS, usually makes withholding tables available in mid-November for the following year, so employers and payroll firms have time to prepare.
"If Congress has not acted to extend the middle class tax cuts by that time, Treasury will then make an appropriate determination about how to proceed," Treasury spokeswoman Sandra Salstrom said.
Democrats say Republicans are holding middle class tax cuts hostage while they fight to extend tax cuts for the wealthy, an argument that would be stronger if Democrats actually scheduled a vote on the proposals. Senate GOP leaders have vowed to oppose legislation that would extend only middle-class tax relief. Democrats would need at least one Republican vote to overcome a filibuster.
"The president would sign a bill tomorrow that would extend the tax cuts for the middle class to avoid saddling them with a crippling tax hike," said White House spokeswoman Amy Brundage. "Unfortunately, Republicans in Congress have made it clear they would rather stall and obstruct instead of giving working families the assistance they need."
House Democrats said they were waiting for the Senate to act. Some said they have been frustrated by passing bills that languish in the Senate.
"The Senate could always surprise us, but not on the tax extenders. That will be done in the lame duck," said Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla.
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The reliability and toughness of A&D Australasia 's HVG-Water Proof Platform Scales were tested by the recent floods in Queensland. The natural disaster provided incredible challenges to all those affected, by creating conditions of extreme adversity.
Many businesses have returned to find much of their equipment completely inoperable due to being submerged under metres of water.
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He had picked up the item from a customer in Rocklea who had experienced severe flooding of their premises. The location was submerged under 4 metres of water for approximately 4 days.
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"I disconnected the battery and power adaptor connection and connect it to a 9V supply.
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"I even re connected the load cell and it even weighs correctly. WHAT A SCALE!"
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Ramadan Food Fiesta at Lakemba's Haldon Street
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Hundreds visit Lakemba's Haldon Street for delicious treats during the holy month of Ramadan. The Western Sydney suburb is also home to large Muslim-Australian population who migrated from Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon amongst others. If you love adventurous street food, then this could well be a haven for non-vegetarians to try delicacies like


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Results Day 2017
Humphry Davy School Summer 2017 GCSE Results
'Best Performing Year Group Ever?'
Humphry Davy School students, parents, staff and governors are celebrating the superb GCSE achievements of the 2017 cohort.
Music and Art join Triple Science subjects and Further Maths from 2016 as the highest performing subject areas with over 90% of students achieving grades A*-C. These are closely followed by results in Sport, Textiles, Resistant Materials and Catering.
With all the changes nationally - new GCSEs in English, English Literature and Maths and the introduction of the new 1-9 grading system - it is impossible to make direct comparisons across 'whole school' performance measures.
However, the quality of student outcomes just keeps getting better and better at Humphry Davy School. Over 60% of students achieved at least one grade A*/A and 2017 students have broken previous records in a number of comparable subject areas.
In fact, over half of all subjects increased the percentage of students achieving A*-C grades when compared to 2016, which was acknowledged as the 'Best Ever' set of results in the history of the school!
These increases have been achieved even though there are a higher proportion of students starting from lower Key Stage 2 starting points in the 2017 cohort. Combined with the high percentage of students in English and Maths achieving their target grades, does this make the 2017 cohort the highest performing year group ever? We can never be sure, but we congratulate all our Year 11 students for attaining some outstanding results in the 2017 GCSEs. You can all be very proud of your achievements!
I am sure the students would like to join the governing body and myself in thanking all the staff for their hard work and support. But it is the dedication and hard work of the students themselves that has earned them their achievements. As a community we are proud of them; hard work has reaped rewards once again.
Individual Student Successes
There were as ever a number of superb individual performances with students achieving the top grades across a range of subjects that we would like to recognize and celebrate. These include students who have achieved the elusive new top 'Grade 9' in the subjects of English and Maths which only the top two percent in the country will attain. However, to maintain the element of surprise when opening their results envelope we will only publish the names and outcomes on this website after all the results have been picked up.
Parents and carers have every right to be proud of their children and my thanks as Headteacher go to you all for your support over the years.
We would like to wish all our students 'Good luck!' and continued success as they move on to the next stage of their education and careers and hope they keep in touch with their on-going, amazing achievements.
Bill Marshall
Headteacher – Humphry Davy School
"Congratulations to all our Year 11 students on their GCSE results. They have done themselves, and the school, proud and we wish them every success in the future. Thanks to all members of staff , and families, for their commitment and support, especially through changing times."
Katherine Uren
Chair of Governors


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December 20, 2007
ROFIN-SINAR Agrees to Acquire Nufern, a Leading Supplier in Fibers and Fiber Laser Technology
PLYMOUTH, Mich. and HAMBURG, Germany
ROFIN-SINAR Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: RSTI - News), one of the world's leading developers and manufacturers of high-performance laser beam sources and laser- based solutions, today announced that it had signed a definitive agreement for the acquisition of Nufern as a wholly-owned subsidiary of RSTI, in a cash transaction. The transaction is expected to be closed in the first quarter of 2008. Further terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2000, Nufern (www.nufern.com) is the world's largest independent manufacturer of specialty fibers and fiber laser modules serving a wide range of industries. The company's product lines comprise standard fibers and custom fiber solutions, including amplifiers, fiber laser modules for use in material processing and in the telecommunications, military and defense industries. In June 2007, Nufern launched its first industrial CW fiber laser with an output power of 200 Watts. Based in East Granby, Connecticut, Nufern has approximately 70 employees and markets its products globally to a large OEM-customer base through its own sales network, distributors and the internet.
Nufern will continue to operate as a stand-alone company and will provide its products to its existing customers including other laser manufacturers.
"This is a very important acquisition for Rofin-Sinar, not only because we are adding new products to our portfolio but also because we are further strengthening our technology base and enhancing the vertical integration needed to economically manufacture fiber lasers," said Gunther Braun, CEO and President of RSTI. "We are confident that the talents and skills of Nufern will contribute to the future success of our Group."
"The entire Nufern team approaches this milestone transaction with excitement and energy. Nufern is proud to team with Rofin, a market leading industrial laser manufacturer, with a strong worldwide presence. This transaction facilitates the maturing of our technologies and will propel and support Nufern in becoming a significant leader in the global fiber laser market," commented Martin Seifert, President of Nufern.
With operational headquarters in Plymouth, Michigan, and Hamburg, Germany, ROFIN-SINAR Technologies Inc. designs, develops, engineers and manufactures laser sources and laser-based system solutions for a wide range of applications. With production facilities in the US, Germany, UK, Sweden, Finland, Singapore and Japan, ROFIN-SINAR is one of the world's leading designers and manufacturers of industrial lasers and currently has more than 28,000 laser units installed worldwide and serves more than 3,000 customers. ROFIN-SINAR's shares trade on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol RSTI and are listed in Germany in the "Prime Standard Segment" of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under ISIN US7750431022. Additional information is available on ROFIN-SINAR's home page: http://www.rofin.com.