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There's a reason that, since 2002, people from all over the world make the trek amidst the punishing heat of the mid-June sun to the otherwise unassuming town of Manchester, TN. To these people, the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival is much more than just a four-day concert. It's a phenomenon.
Bonnaroo combines an eclectic and genre-sweeping lineup of mainstream and indie musical acts with comedians and artists to create a lively and rich celebration of creative culture. Attendees can watch an emerging hip-hop artist in the morning, enjoy some poster art in the afternoon and cap off the day with headliners groups.
Whether you're camping out on the festival grounds, or enjoying the "Roll Like a Rockstar" treatment (complete with private jet and VIP access), Bonnaroovians are united in their celebration of the arts and their desire to experience new facets of music and culture.
Festival-goers are also united in their exhaustive efforts to attempt to combat the seemingly relentless heat. That's why the Ford Destination Escape tent – with its enticement of ice-packed bandanas and sweet, sweet air-conditioning – was such a welcome sight to music lovers making their trek from one venue to the next.
Destination Escape wasn't just about cool temperatures; it was about cool artists as well. Wrapped in original artwork celebrating the urban flair of the 2013 Ford Escape, Destination Escape had its own lineup of musical acts. The air conditioning may have brought them in, but plenty stayed to watch music groups give intimate and unforgettable performances. Oh, and did we mention the free screen-printed shirts?
In many ways, Destination Escape embodied the broader Bonnaroo experience. Visitors, immersed in Escape themed artwork, lounged on bean bag chairs while taking in a lineup of genre-spanning musical talents. Together, it was a small sea of people just relaxing and experiencing new music. That's what brought first-time Bonnaroovians Mckenzie Glass and Rob Jones back on their second day.
"At first, we just came for the shirt," admits Rob. "But everyone is so together here. It's a cool place to hang out."
Being the social environment that Bonnaroo is, Ford also recognized the importance of having social media play a big role in their presence at the festival. That's why Destination Escape was equipped with a social photo booth that allowed visitors to take pictures that could be live-tweeted directly to their personal Twitter accounts.
You didn't have to hang out at Destination Escape to create social souvenirs of your Bonnaroo experience, though. Since every Bonaroovian has an RFID-enabled wristband as their ticket to the festival, they could also connect their wristband to Facebook and create real-time social mementos, courtesy of Ford Escape. Just waving the wristband in front of Ford Escape kiosks located at cool attractions throughout the grounds captured live pictures and posted them to your Facebook account. Some people even got free VIP upgrades, and one lucky festival-goer drove home in an all-new 2013 Ford Escape.
To check out social photo booth pics from Bonnaroo 2012 and to see behind-the-scenes photos of artists at the Destination Escape tent, check out the Ford Escape Facebook page.
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You are planning for the sale of your business sometime next year. In order to attract a higher price, you want to increase your profits as high as possible in the year before the sale. If you have a business in Ontario or British Columbia, you may have one time opprtunity to save money without having to take any risks, just change the timing of when you do your purchasing. Usually if it sounds too good to be true it is, but not in this case. This tax planning strategy is a very rare opportunity to make more money by changing the timing of when you purchase some goods. If you do the same thing as your normally would do but can make more money, is it worth it?
On July 1, Ontario and British Columbia are changing from a retail sales tax RST, sometimes known as PST to HST – a harmonized sales tax. Effective July 1, the HST sales tax in Ontario will be 13%. The concept of GST/HST is businesses do not pay the tax, only the end consumer pays the tax. A business may have to charge the tax, collect if on behalf of the government and remit it. Before remitting the tax to the government, you get to deduct all the GST/HST tax that you paid. As a result, the only amount which you remit to the government is the total tax collected less what you paid out. This type of tax may create a cash flow problem for a company but it does not cost the business anything. The cash flow problem arises when you have to pay the tax to the government before you collect the money from your clients. For further information on GST/HST, please contact your accountant.
PST/RST is being phased out in Ontario and British Columbia. There are many different rules of PST. The general concept was if you consumed an item for your personal/business use, you had to pay the provincial sales tax. This is a very general statement and there are many rules. Please contact your accountant to find out the rules as they pertain to your particular business.
The tax savings comes in when there is a conversion from PST to HST. You may have to pay the PST for goods which your business consumes, such as computers, office supplies, vehicles, warehousing supplies etc., after July 1, the PST is replaced by HST. If your business has a GST number and is entitled to recover all GST paid, then if you hold off on your purchases which include PST and defer the delivery to after July 1, you will be able to save the 8% PST that you would have otherwise paid. If you use $100,000 of supplies per month subject to PST, then if you defer all your June purchases to July, you may be able to save 8% on the purchases. That 8% is pure profit. If you are trying to sell your business, your financial statements would show an additional $8,000 profit this year even if sales did not increase. Will the additional profit increase the value of your business? Contact your business broker or talk to your accountant.
Remember, this is a one time opportunity to improve profits and is only applicable to businesses in Ontario and BC who pay PST for goods used for their own consumption and are also eligible to claim GST input credits on all their purchases. GST/HST and PST have many rules. Please contact your accountant to see how each of these taxes affects your business and if you will qualify for this tax planning stategy.

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The Importance of Stretching
Everyone knows that stretching is important. But that doesn't mean that everyone is following through with it. You've been hearing the same thing over and over for a long time- that you should always stretch when working out, and if you don't you could get a serious injury.
Even though it may not seem like it's a big deal now, it will be in the long run. Not stretching can cause serious long term effects, but it can also cause what are known as trigger points. Trigger points happen when areas that suffer the most of your movement are under constant stress without any relief, causing sore spots. Common areas include your back, knees, neck, and hips. This can lead to problems with these areas, resulting in surgeries or limitations to your life.
Stretching can also increase your energy levels because it gets your circulation going. If you're feeling tired or in a slump during your day, take a few minutes and stretch your body. Be sure to stretch any muscles you've been using that day, be it your legs or your arms or neck. This can increase your productivity in all areas of your life.
When you're working out, it's necessary to make the effort to stretch because your body needs to cool itself down. Stretching out your muscles increases your range of motion, making it easier to gain strength or stamina. If you're trying to tone up, this is a good bet. This also allows you to become more flexible, which can make any kind of workout more beneficial. Stretching also helps relieve the tension in your muscles so that they have time to rest and repair themselves. The better your muscles repair, the better you can increase your results in the gym. It also goes without saying that stretching is the key to beating those next-day sore muscles.
Here's something you probably didn't know: you don't actually have to stretch before your workout. In fact, sometimes it can be worse to stretch before you work out because your body hasn't warmed up yet, and you could cause muscle injury from stretching them when they're still cold. As long as you're doing a proper warm up, your body will be able to handle the workout just fine. But this doesn't mean you can skip the cool down stretches! Cooling down is important because it's your way of letting your body know that the workout is done and it's time to rest. You can't just jump off the treadmill and continue with your day. That's how people develop knee problems and joint pain. Make sure you give your body a break. Don't rush your stretches, either. Make each one last between 20 and 30 seconds.
Stretching isn't just necessary for the end of your workout. You should also be stretching any time you've been in the same position for a long period of time. Stretching at work is especially important because, especially if your job contains a lot of repetition, you are using the same muscles every day. If you sit at a desk all day, you're hunched over all day and that's a lot of time out of your life spent hunched over. This can cause your back to suffer a lot of pain, which can limit you the older you get.
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Cannabis and Cannabis Based Medicine Extracts: Additional Results
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This study reviews results in recent human clinical trials with cannabis based medicine extract (CBME), THC or cannabis. In a study performed at Queen's Square, London, both High THC and THC:CBD fixed ratio sublingual CBME demonstrated significant benefits on mean maximum cystometric capacity, mean daytime frequency of urination, frequency of nocturia, and mean daily episodes of incontinence in 11 multiple sclerosis patients with intractable lower urinary tract symptoms. A Phase II clinical study in Oxford, England with 24 MS and intractable pain patients was performed as a consecutive series of doubleblind, randomized, placebo-controlled single patient cross-over trials with sublingual CBME. Pain scores on visual analogue scales were significantly improved over placebo with both High THC and High CBD CBME. Subjectively, spasm was significantly improved with High THC and THC:CBD fixed ratio extracts. Spasticity was also subjectively improved with the High THC CBME. All three extracts significantly improved objective measures of spasticity, while the High THC and THC:CBD fixed ratio CBME significantly improved objective measures of spasm. In 34 intractable pain patients in Great Yarmouth, England, seven experienced substantial improvement over best available conventional treatment with CBME, 13 moderate, and eight some benefit. Many extended the range of their activities of daily living with acceptable levels of adverse effects. Preliminary results of four Phase III clinical trials of CBME by GW Pharmaceuticals have revealed highly significant benefits in neuropathic pain in MS, pain and sleep disturbance in MS and other neurological diseases, multiple symptoms in MS, and neuropathic pain in brachial plexus injury, respectively. Most patients attained good symptomatic control with minimal side effects. In Germany, a recent Phase II clinical trial has demonstrated significant benefit of oral THC in treatment of the tics of Tourette syndrome.
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Khamsins Trone
Jeg vil spille d&d snart!
Khamsin den Hvite
-Some say he never blinks and that he roams around the woods at night foraging for wolves.
-Some say that his sweat can be used to clean precious metals and - and that his teeth glow in the dark.
-Some say that on really warm days he sheds his skin, like a snake and that he can catch fish with his tongue.
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Now I saw in my dream that the highway up which Christian was to go, was fenced on either side with a wall and that wall is called salvation (Isaiah 26:1). Up this way, therefore, did burdened Christian run, but not without great difficulty because of the load on his back (James 2:10).
He ran thus till he came at a place somewhat ascending; and upon that place stood a cross and a little below in the bottom, a sepulcher. So I saw in my dream that just as Christian came up with the cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders and fell from off his back and began to tumble, and so continued to do till it came to the mouth of the sepulcher where it fell in and I saw it no more.
Then was Christian glad and light-some and said with a merry heart, "He hath given me rest by his sorrow; and life by his death." Then he stood still a while to look and wonder for it was very surprising to him that the sight of the cross should thus ease him of his burden. He looked, therefore, and looked again even till the springs that were in his head sent the waters down his cheeks (Zechariah 12:10).
Now as he stood looking and weeping, behold three shining ones came to him and saluted him with, "Peace be to thee." So the first said to him, "Thy sins be forgiven" (Mark 2:5). The second, stript him of his rags and clothed him with change of raiment (Zechariah 3:4). The third also set a mark in his forehead and gave him a roll with a seal upon it which he bid him look on as he ran, and that he should give it in at the Celestial Gate (Ephesians 1:13-14). So they went their way. Then Christian gave three leaps for joy and went out singing:
Thus far did I come loaden with my sin,
Nor could ought ease the grief that I was in,
Till I came hither: What a place is this!
Must here be the beginning of my bliss?
Must here the burden fall from off my back?
Must here the strings that bound it to me crack?
Blest cross! Blest sepulcher! Blest rather be
The Man that there was put to shame for me.
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Bunyan, John, and Cynthia Wall. The Pilgrim's Progress: An Authoritative Text Contexts Criticism. New York, N.Y. ; London: Norton, 2009. 32-33. Print.


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by Micah Hart
As everyone knows by now, the compressed NBA schedule will force every team to play three games in three nights at least one this season (42 times in total). With only 66 games to stake a claim to a playoff spot or seed, how teams perform during these killer slates could have a large impact on how their seasons turn out.
With that in mind, we're going to keep track of each of the 42 three-plays to see which teams take advantage and which teams fall apart. Up next, the Denver Nuggets, who played three straight from Dec. 31 – Jan 2.
Game 1: Lakers 92, Nuggets 89 – Denver was a blown layup from perhaps becoming the first team to sweep the three-fer, instead Danilo Gallinari's shot missed the mark and the Lakers prevailed in Los Angeles. -2 points
Game 2: Nuggets 99, Lakers 90 – The rare back-to-back between the same two teams, and the Nuggets get their revenge in Denver with a nine-point win. Safe to say at this point the Nuggets are a better team? 3 points
Game 3: Nuggets 91, Bucks 86 – Gallinari atones for his miss at LA, as he dropped 21 and 10 to help the Nuggets pull out a win over the Bucks. 5 points
Ah, what could have been for Denver. Justthisclose to sweeping the thre games, but I am sure they'll take 2-1 with the only loss coming on the road at Staples Center. Not quite as good as Houston, but still a nice showing for Denver with with 6 total points.
Up next: The Sacramento Kings are on deck, with three games in a row Jan. 3-5: at Memphis, at Denver, and home against the Bucks.
Previous three for alls:
— L.A. Lakers (3 points)
— Houston Rockets (7 points)
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NO MORE NeoCons on Trump's National Security Team!
A WashPost article, written by Josh Rogin [September 5, 2016], describes how Robert Gates, Stephen Hadley, Condi Rice and other warmongers were standing by to enter the Trump administration.These are the same criminals that brought us the worst foreign policy in the history of the 21st Century. If that happens, there will be another major revolt within the Republican Party.
According to the article:
"Former GOP secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice,Colin Powell,George Shultz,James Baker and Henry Kissinger, former national security advisor Stephen Hadley are among the influential officials who have kept their powder dry as Trump has made the Republican national discussion…."
Too many of us spent years fighting these cowards, incompetents and murderers and trying to hold them accountable for their 9/11 false flag and stand down.These are the very same people who murdered 3000 innocent American citizens so they could start a war in Iraq which killed thousands of people and cost us over $2Trillion.
If Trump becomes POTUS, he must not allow these neocons to come into power again. It's abominable that we have not arrested or punished these people for the treason they had committed.
- Stephen Hadley, an incompetent national security advisor who brought us the mess in the Middle East
- Condi, female version of Obama,she has compromised herself and this country with her lies, ineptitude and ignoble actions.
- Governor Christie running a new transition team in both national and foreign policy when he was part of 9/11 and he knows nothing about foreign policy.
- Dr. Ben Carson and friends, not the scintillating example of intellect that I would have expected from graduates of the highly respected Johns Hopkins University.
As you know, I like what Trump stands for but I fear that we will be heading down a path similar to the one we traversed over 14 years ago. These dangerous miscreants need to go away permanently.
My commitment to you and this country is that I will continue to fight for our quiet revolution, eviscerating any presence of the past gone awry.
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It can be said that it the thirteenth century, English foreign trade can be put in any of four categories. Trade with Scandinavia, with the Rhineland and the low countries, with France and with countries bordering the Mediterranean.
English society consisted mainly of farmers and fishermen, the result of which meant the majority of exports were of raw materials. At the time, it was considerably quicker to move goods by water than over land. As a result, surplus corn was shipped to France from eastern coastal ports while shortages existed in western England. Gascony was a principal target for English exports of dried and salted fish while salt was shipped across the North Sea to Norway and the Netherlands.
In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the most significant method of transporting goods was along the waterways of Europe. This meat along rivers such as the Danube, Rhine and Rhone. Until this time, trade in southern Germany had been mainly land-borne while northern cities had become rich as a result of sea trade. Gold, Silver and precious stones were shipped along the Danube and Rhine from Constantinople. As a result, southern cities such as Nuremburg and Cologne also became prosperous centres of commerce.
Traders from the north German towns of Lubeck and Danzig began to dominate trade in the Baltic area and took a lot of Scandinavian trade away from London. Scandinavian trade to England began to drift away from London as it was more convenient to use ports further north on the east coast.
Many trading opportunities appeared or disappeared as a result of political upheaval. The collapse of the Latin empire of Constantinople deprived Venice of the monopoly it had enjoyed on trade in the Aegean and Black seas.


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[This book is enhanced by and should be read with reference to a website which contains supplementary materials including annotated and updated bibliography; photographs, audio and video files of oral poets in action.]
This carefully constructed book (HROP) begins with a disclaimer: Foley (F.) opens by explaining that he aims in this volume to make oral poetry accessible particularly to the non-specialist reader, and states without apology that 'if in championing the cause of the non-specialist this book errs on the side of simplicity and availability, then so be it' (xi). This review should also begin with a warning: this book is not primarily a classics book (references to Homeric poetry appear, but they are overshadowed by other examples1) and is written for the non-specialist; this review will attempt to show its interest for a classical audience. The issues this review will address include the accessibility and successful communication of the issues involved in the reading of oral poetry to a non-expert audience, for instance how useful this book might be to a classics undergraduate reading Homer. I shall not address the validity of F.'s theories of oral poetics in detail, except where they affect his presentation of the material in this book, since the theoretical discussions are to be found in his works elsewhere and are fully referenced and cited throughout.2
As part of this strategy to reach the non-specialist reader, F. employs a slightly simplified series of models to introduce the study of oral poetry. The multiplicity of forms of oral poetry are classified into four genres or subclasses of orality: oral performance; voiced texts; voices from the past; written oral poems. Three particular methodological approaches are expounded: performance theory, ethnopoetics, and immanent art. Finally, a set of ten *proverbs* are set out to encapsulate the principles demonstrated throughout HROP (the asterisks are there to indicate that these are invented, not traditional proverbs).3 These three schemata are invoked throughout the work.
The agenda of this book is principally paedagogical, and it opens with a chapter containing four scenarios with disparate examples of oral poets, including the surprising Tibetan 'paper-singer', the modern American 'slam poet', and the ancient Greek bard. This chapter both stresses the plurality of genres and contexts that make up the collective that we call 'Oral Poetry' and, perhaps more importantly, actively confounds the reader's expectations, as any good teacher of anthropology should strive to do.
The second chapter 'What the Oral Poets Say (in Their Own "Words")' reports on conversations with three Yugoslavian oral poets who consistently define a 'word' (rec) in poetry as a larger unit than the modern lexical word. This 'word' (in quotation marks throughout) is what a classicist might call a formulaic unit, or a byte of poetic meaning, ranging from half a line to a whole episode in a story. These 'words', F. stresses, often have meanings larger or different from the simple meaning of their constituent words and need to be understood on a different level to fully appreciate the poetry. This concept will be crucial in the section on immanent art, below, and is central to about half of the ten *proverbs*.
The next eight chapters are titled the first through eighth 'words', in keeping with the usage just described. In the 'First Word: What is Oral Poetry?', F. sets out to define the terms of the title of the book, asking four questions: what is oral poetry? What is an oral poem? What do we mean by how? (The first of these is addressed in this section, the next two in the next, the fourth not until the third 'word'). The question 'what is oral poetry?' is answered by deconstructing or 'opening up' four sets of modern, western assumptions about poetry: (1) the poetic line, including the expectation that poetry will have regular line structure, metre, syllable counts, and other features; (2) the poetic genre, the most important point being that not all oral poetry is epic, that there are a multiplicity of forms, genres, and ethnicities of oral poetry; (3) the 'oral versus written dichotomy', again showing that there is a great deal of complexity and variety in the ways of speaking, composing, and writing poetry in cultures around the world; (4) media dynamics, where F. introduces the four types into which oral poetry can be classified: oral performance, voiced texts, voices from the past, and written oral poems. Each of these is illustrated with a representative example of an oral (or not so oral) poetic form. Once again, this chapter helps to break down the expectations and preconceptions of the reader/student in preparation for exploring oral poetics.
The second word, 'Contexts and Reading', addresses the second and third questions relating to the title of the book. 'What is an oral poem?' turns out to be a different question from the previous 'what is oral poetry?', although the answer yet again is that given the vast plurality of oral poetry, the question 'what is an oral poem?' can only be answered in individual cases with attention to cultural and poetic context. In answer to the third question, 'what is reading?', F. demonstrates that reading is also a complex, culture- and context-specific concept. A key term in this argument which will be revisited throughout the book is sêmata (σήματα), the deadly symbols from Bellerophon's tablet in the Iliad, which is how writing is described in non-literate terms (77).
The next three chapters together begin to answer the final question in the title: 'what do we mean by how?', introducing the three methodological approaches to oral poetry which this book exemplifies. The third word, which demonstrates the use of performance theory, is subtitled 'Being there'. Performance theory is treated elsewhere in F.'s work;4 here he demonstrates the importance of performance in the appreciation of oral poetry, giving examples from Yugoslavian singers. A useful list and explanation of 'keys to performance', including figurative language, special formulas, and appeals to tradition, demonstrates further the importance of understanding the context and genre of any form of oral poetry to appreciate the message of the poem.
The fourth word, 'Verbal Art on its Own Terms', introduces some of the strategies and methods employed by ethnopoetics. Like performance theory, ethnopoetics puts emphasis on cultural, generic, and performance contexts of oral poetry.5 F. gives two examples of the technique of 'scoring', a method of transcribing a poetic performance that records features of the poem other than the simply verbal features recorded in a traditional printed text. A performance of modern American 'slam poetry' is scored to indicate features such as volume, pitch, speed, gestures, and stage directions, bringing a reader much closer to the experience of the original audience. The opening lines of the Old English poem Beowulf are transcribed (translated) so as to 'reinstitute some of the major units and patterns found in the original Old English as a guide to becoming a more fluent audience for the poem' (104). Indicated features include metre, scene types, structure, and so forth; there are cues in the oral poem that flag certain scene types, cues that need to be recognised and translated for a non-native reader or audience. The section describing this strategy would be of particular interest to Homerists, whose texts are likewise 'voices from the past' like Beowulf.
Perhaps the most interesting of the three methodological approaches is the third, immanent art, discussed in the fifth word, 'Traditional Implications'. Immanent art is a more sophisticated version of the Parry-Lord 'oral-formulaic theory', which has had so great an impact on Homer studies in the last century. Rather than simply identifying formulae ('words') as the building blocks of oral poetry, selected and slotted together purely for mnemonic or metrical convenience, immanent art sees these 'words' as linguistic units in the complex language of oral poetry, idiomatic rather than arbitrary bytes.6 The larger language in which any given type of oral poetry is composed needs to be learned in order to read the poetry properly. This chapter is perhaps best summarised by three of F.'s *proverbs*: (1) oral poetry works like language, only more so; (4) the art of oral poetry emerges through rather than in spite of its special language; (5) the best companion for reading oral poetry is an unwritten dictionary. This dictionary would contain and define 'words', not words.
Having introduced these three methodological approaches to oral poetry succinctly, memorably, and effectively, F. goes on in the sixth word to present his list of ten newly invented, *proverbs*, each explained in detail and demonstrated with diverse examples. We have given examples of these proverbs above, and between them they typify most if not all of the important points made in this book: plurality of kinds of oral poetry, the three approaches, the importance of context, performance, and special language. In a university course on oral culture or poetics, these ten *proverbs* would probably make a useful almanac to be rote-learned by students, although I should not be able to spend so much time on them in a general unit on Homer.
The seventh word, 'Reading Some Oral Poems', presents a series of case studies exemplifying F.'s four categories of oral poetry and three methodologies. These expositions are demonstrative examples, F. is at pains to make clear that he does not intend the chapter to be a comprehensive or even representative sampling of oral poetry. Among his examples are a slam poetry gig at a New York café in 2001, some formulaic story-types from the Odyssey, and the Chanson de Roland. This chapter drives home many of the points made previously in the book, but more importantly it whets the reader's/student's appetite for more oral poetry.
From a chapter containing a scattering of diverse and varied examples of oral poetry from many different continents and centuries, F. turns next to a much more detailed analysis of the oral poetry of a single region: the former Yugoslavia. The eighth word, 'An Ecology of South Slavic Oral Poetry', may be of particular interest to Homerists, who are usually introduced to oral poetics via Parry and Lord's work with Yugoslav guslars. In an attempt to be more comprehensive in his study of the poetry of this region (which is not a monolithic genre by any means), F. does not focus only on epic poetry, but surveys the 'lesser' genres of magic healing charms and funerary laments (both female genres), and genealogies (male), before turning to discussion of Serbian (Christian) epic, and finally the Moslem epic that was the focus of Parry and Lord's work. In a final, fascinating digression, F. demonstrates that oral poets do not only compose their epics or charms in their special, formulaic language, but can also speak in this poetic form, using words that do not exist in the traditional epic register within which they usually work. This anecdotal evidence is a further demonstration of F.'s first *proverb*: oral poetry works like language, only more so.
At the end of this book is a short post-script on electronic media. F. points out that before the advent of writing, that is to say for 94% of human history, all language was oral (pre-script). For the past five thousand years or so we have been a 'para-script' species, where oral language and text work side-by-side in many cultures. For the last five years or so, since the advent of the internet, we are starting to become what might be called a 'post-script' culture. This argument is not fully developed here, and to be fair it would take a book at least the size of this one to address it properly. More important though, in my view, is F.'s point that the electronic media of the internet can enable us to create more useful and authentic editions of oral poems. Multimedia and interactive features of the computer can foreground many of the aspects that performance theory and ethnopoetics try to highlight; the use of hyperlinks and split windows on the internet can be used to provide glosses and perhaps even start writing the 'unwritten dictionary' of immanent art. This book, and its sibling website, begin to take advantage of these features already; there is, of course, so much more that can be done.
In summary, I believe HROP will be overwhelmingly successful in its stated aim to introduce the reading and study of oral poetry to the non-specialist. Any Homerist or scholar of classical poetry who is not familiar with F.'s fine work on this topic will find this book extremely valuable; any educator who attempts to introduce the issues and special languages of oral poetry to students at any level will find much essential paedagogical material between its covers.
Finally a brief comment on a very rare erratum in this attractively produced work: on page 170 Circe is twice named in a context that clearly should refer to Calypso. When I consulted the website for this book, there seemed to be a problem downloading the QuickTime version of a video file showing a performance by a slam poet; I reported this problem to the author via the email link on the home page, and it was fixed within a couple of days. The website, being a more dynamic medium, will certainly improve and grow as time passes.
1. Of particular interest to Homerists may be discussions at pp. 8-10, 74-7, 166-71. 2. Cf. esp. The Theory of Oral Composition (1988), The Singer of Tales in Performance (1995), Teaching Oral Traditions (ed. 1998), Homer's Traditional Art (1999). Fuller bibliography of F.'s work appears in HROP (231) and on the annotated website cited above. 3. Four classes of oral poetry: 39 (and 40-53); three methods: third through fifth 'words' and passim; ten *proverbs*: sixth 'word', reviewed and summarised 184-5. 4. E.g. 'Folk literature' (1995) in ed. Greetham, Scholarly Editing: A guide to research, 600-626; cf. Bauman, Verbal Art as Performance (1977), & Story, Performance, and Event (1986). 5. F. discusses ethnopoetics further in The Singer of Tales in Performance (1995); cf. n. 4, above. 6. Cf. Foley, Immanent Art: From structure to meaning in traditional oral epic (1991).


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After reading Ender's Game I thought that I should try a much older sci-fi adventure to see how the writing differs. When I discovered that C.S. Lewis wrote "Out of the Silent Planet" and the fact that the title is a very catchy Iron Maiden song, I set about to listen to that book next.
Lewis was extremely descriptive is his settings. So much that I literally allowed my mind to blur the scene together and not get to hung up on what the scene would exactly look like. I did like, however, the description of how Ransom could not make sense of much of what he saw on the new planet. I compare this to learning my new job. When I became a "pump man" for oil well bottom hole pumps, when I entered the shop for the first time…all the pieces were just bits of metal, that they had purposes and different sizes. It took my brain a moment to understand that and about six months to internalize the same, and just now after about my seventh month I am becoming useful.
I will comment that it was an exhausting mental effort to listen to the whole book as quickly as I did (about 3 days in the work truck and a little at home), but it was a fantastic story and even better from a viewpoint of science in the 1930's and 40's. It felt oldschool and classy as the characters were all gentlemen in their own way.
I fear that much of the philosophy was lost on me, I know that the book makes the alien planet out to be a heaven of blissful people that never think any harm and makes humans out to be monstrous…but there was a lot more that if I had been reading the book instead of listening to the audio, I would have underlined or highlighted.
Some great quotes from the book:
"The love of knowledge is a kind of madness."
― C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet
It is a little maddening to start learning something, get really excited or experience please from the learning and then want to know everything there is to know on the matter and all in the same night!
"And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes."
― C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet
Opposition in all things makes the good enjoyable and the bad fearful…or something like that…
"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered."
― C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet
This makes sense in the book, but I fear that dwelling on one good memory instead of moving forward to make many more worth while memories is a dangerous thing.


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Togolese football star Adebayor angers anti-government protesters with comment
Togolese international Emmanuel Sheyi Adebayor has attracted some fury from anti-government protesters after his brief comment on the political crisis in the country.
The captain of the Togolese national team who plays for Turkish top flight football club İstanbul Başakşehir said in a recent interview that the protesters should first think of contributing to the country.
"If the President leaves, will the people without jobs find one more easily? Not sure. We have Libya as an example with Gaddafi. We saw this country with and without him. Libyans are regretting it! The Togolese diaspora in Paris who talk about marching, fly back to the country if you want to march," he told French media So Foot after some hesitation.
This comment attracted a lot of criticisms from opposition supporters on social media who also said they weren't surprised because he had supported President Faure Gnassingbe in 2015 during the presidential election.


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|Kennedy, Sheila Suess. "Religious Philanthropies and Government Social Programs" in Issues and Tensions in Religious Philanthropy, Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, Thomas Davis, editor. (2011).
|Analysis of religious organizations and government contracting
|Kennedy, Sheila Suess, and David Schultz. 2010. "American Public Service: Constitutional and Ethical Foundations." Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
|This college textbook explores the constitutional and ethical foundations of American public administration and public policy.
|Kennedy, Sheila Suess. 2007. God and Country: America in Red and Blue. Baylor University Press.
|The role of religion in some policy debates is obvious: attitudes about capital punishment, abortion, gay rights and similar social issues are clearly influenced by religion. This book examines the far less obvious ways in which religious worldviews operate to produce policy preferences in such ostensibly secular areas as the environment, the economy (particularly welfare programs), foreign policy and criminal justice.
|Kennedy, Sheila Suess. 2009. Distrust, American Style: Diversity and the Crisis of American Confidence. Prometheus Books.
|An examination of Putnam's assertion that rising levels of distrust are a result of growing diversity. This book offers an alternate thesis, drawing upon the scholarship examining interpersonal and institutional trust.


text: #smartvideos are a great way to highlight the benefits of products or services that would generally be left to long blocks of text based content that few people will take the time to read. Internal Medicine of West Virginia did that by explaining the benefits of their patient portal. On average, viewers watch 53.9% of this video which, statistically speaking, is significant considering the length of the video.


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Series Review: Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse (9/10)
Posted by du5k Labels: Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse, Series Review
Instant Summary: A Japanese-American pilot of giant alien-killing mechs transferred to a Alaskan Military base, and goes under the command of another Japanese elite pilot.
The image was shattered with the first two episodes. Total Eclipse is a bloody, gruesome title with tons of violence, blood and actual character deaths. So yeah, it's way darker than the name and promotion suggests. But at the same time it's what made the show fantastic. The level of violence is on par with some of the top mecha titles, and they actually made the battles and actions look really pretty, although the aliens can look awkward sometimes. There's a lot of emphasis on serious combat and realistic strategy, so yeah, you're not going to expect a fun-and-games Bootylicious Space Pirates. Which was shit.
To be honest, the early episodes kinda sucked, because we know little to nothing about the most important characters (like Inia and Cryska) and everyone is a complete dick to each other. The good thing is that the characters and story soon flowed to what Muv-Luv is really all about: harem, fanservice, blushing heroines, uncontrollable teenage romance (although none of them are really teenagers anymore). The amount of character development is a little surprising because no one really cares about it anymore these days. Together with the kickass action, it all makes a fabulous combination.
And there's surprisingly little focus on the fanservice. Well, they're not totally pandering it anyway. But they did make almost all the girls extremely HUGE and clad them in the skin-tight suit half the time. I suppose you'll call it subtle.
With a bit of research, it seems that the universe and story of Muv-Luv Alternative is as big as their bre- I mean, pretty fucking huge as well. I can't wait to see their next installment of Muv-Luv Alternative, even if they're heading for another side of the story.
Plot/Concept: Huge, expansive and a fabulous combination.
Story Style: An old-school harem development that actually worked out really well.
Audio/Visual: Fantastic VA work and action scenes. Animation can get a little wonky at times, but forgivable.
Value: 9
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[Hook: J. Cole]
Me and my bitch, took a little trip
Down to the garden, took a little dip (oh noo)
Apple juice falling from her lips took a little sip (boom)
Little sip
Took a little sip, took a little sip
T-T-Took a little, took a little, took a little sip (uh)
Uh huh
[Verse 1: J. Cole]
Ey yo, I walked through the valley of the shadow of death
When niggas hold tec's like they mad at the ref
That's why I keep a cross on my chest, either that or a vest
Do you believe that Eve had Adam in check? And if so
You gotta expect that to sip juice from the forbidden fruit and get loose
Cole is the king, most definite
My little black book thicker than the old testament
Niggas pay for head but the pussy so separate
Same bitch giving brains to the minister
The same reason they call Mr. Cee "the finisher"
Forbidden fruit, watch for the Adam's apple
Slick with words don't hate me, son
What you eat don't make me shit and who you fuck don't make me come
Put a price on my head won't make me run, try to kill me but it can't be done
Cause my words gon' live forever
You put two and two together Cole here forever
[Hook: Kendrick Lamar]
Me and my bitch, took a little trip
Down to the garden, took a little dip (oh noo)
Apple juice falling from her lips took a little sip (boom)
[Bridge x2: Kendrick Lamar & J. Cole]
Bitches come and go (You know that)
Money come and go (You know that)
Love come and go (Don't shit last)
[Verse 2: J. Cole]
Take a seat baby girl you've been all in my mind
I know I ain't called gotta pardon my grind
Just copped a maroon 5, no Adam Levine
Came a man by myself, only father was time
I know she relate baby daddy ain't shit
So she raised that nigga kids but she swallowing mine
And that's why you all in my mind
All in my line like calling number nine
Cause a nigga poppin' like Harlem in the nine-
Seven, way before Mase was a reverend
I was a young niggas making A's at 11
At 12, tryna get that taste of the heaven, or hell... Only time will tell
Fuck her while her mama home "baby, don't yell"
How many record do a nigga gotta sell just to get the cover of the double X L
A fader, fuck a magazine hater
When I say that I'm the greatest I ain't talking about later
I'mma drop the album the same day as Kanye
Just to show the boys the man now like Wanye
And I don't mean no disrespect, I praise legends
But this what next the boy sick, can't diss him
Life's a bitch and the pussy's wet
My clip is loaded and this the kiss of... Death. Blah.
[Hook & Bridge]
[Outro: J. Cole]
Don't shit last, and you know that
Went to hell, got hot didn't melt
The only man above me is God himself
All these other niggas is below me
Word to Phife, Q-Tip, Ali, and Jarobi
What up Queens
Cole is the King (and you know that)
Started with A Dollar and a Dream (and you know that)
Never give a bird bitch a ring (you should know that)
Bitch! Bitch!
That should be my new ad lib
I got a new one. I finally got a cool ad lib.
Be at all the shows everybody be like, bitch!
Lil Cole
Yo, yo, yo pull over right here, right here, here you go
Yeah pull over right here, to the right, pull over, pull over, pull over, pull over
Ight, look look, park right here, I'm ma be out it'll be like 30 minutes tops
It'll be like 30 minutes, I'll be right back out, ight
Bitches come and go, bitches come and
Yo, yo what up, what's poppin', I'm back, I'm back
Yo you got that piece ready for me, that Jesus piece?
Nah the gold, the rose gold joint... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah let me see that, oh shit what is that some, what's, what the fuck is that platinum
Is that? What's that chain right there, is that-ss-ss white gold, that's platinum
Is that plat, well niggas doing platinum again, niggas doing, niggas ain't even platinum yet right, oh shit bout to make
Yo I'm trying to bring that shit back, kill these niggas
Let me see that one too, the what, the watch, the platinum watch


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Sharper dynamics and new look impress
The BMW 4 Series is a stylish coupe with the new 2017 model having an upgraded cabin and new features in the interior. The car also has sharper dynamic handling and the new look will impress.
As usual there is a great choice of engines - three diesel and three petrol - for the BMW 4 Series in the coupe, Gran Coupe and convertible guises. These range from a 2.0 litre petrol engine producing 184 bhp which will reach 60 mph in just over seven seconds and deliver a top speed of 147 mph. There's also the choice of a very good 2.0 litre diesel engine - which is the most popular choice for the coupe - delivering fuel economy of around 63 mpg. All of the engines are mated to either a six-speed manual box or the firm's excellent eight-speed Steptronic transmission so drivers can enjoy the full scope of the car's potential.
It's up against some stiff competition but the BMW 4 Series has always had the edge when it comes to performance and handling and the new models retain this element of fun and thrills while behind the wheel.
When it was first launched in 2013, the 4 Series delivered an impressive package and with more than 400,000 models being delivered around world, it has been a success story. The revamped version delivers a fresh styling, new interior features and an upgraded cabin.
However, the 4 Series had a great reputation for delivering ride comfort and the improved suspension has boosted handling and comfort levels. The interior has also been upgraded and there's a high-quality feel to it. The driving experience is a great example of BMW's sharp sporting performance. The handling is agile and the engines deliver great fun; the new stiffer suspension and improved steering setup delivers less body roll and a more neutral response when driving at speed.
The car comes with lots of equipment as standard including real-time traffic information, LED lights, sports steering wheel and an impressive infotainment system that's easy to use. The 4 Series has a digital cockpit so drivers have a choice of various digital displays for their instrument cluster.
Essentially, the BMW 4 Series is a sound choice as a coupe, Gran Coupe or convertible and for those drivers looking for performance, excellent handing and high comfort levels, the car delivers on every level with the premium badge to underpin its appeal.
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We are thankful for all our customers who have supported us over the years and have allowed us to exponentially grow each year to the point we have outgrown our current location. This much larger facility will allow us to better serve and support our customers by cutting down on our "lead-time" to schedule your install without our current 2-month wait time in the summer and also be able to ship kits and parts out more efficiently and quickly to get our installers and customer the parts they need right away.
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COSATU Limpopo Provincial Gender Desk respond to the ANC Women's League
COSATU Limpopo Provincial Gender Desk noted with utter dismay the vitriolic attack on COSATU Limpopo by ANCWL Limpopo.
The federation in Limpopo convened a Provincial Rally to popularize the resolutions of COSATU Central Committee. The federation resolved amongst others to support the Deputy President of the ANC to succeed the incumbent President in the 54th National Conference. This resolution is principle informed by the long standing tradition and convention of the ANC, since 1952 when Chief Albert Luthuli succeeded Dr JS Moroka as the President of ANC.
COSATU invited all alliance partners, mass democratic movements including the ANCWL Limpopo. The people of Limpopo have spoken on Sunday. They are unequivocally clear on who should succeed the incumbent President of the ANC, come the December 2017 conference. People attended the provincial rally enmasse as organizations and individually out of their own volition. Clearly the ANCWL could not stomach the fact that women came in their large numbers to demonstrate that they are tired of being made to behave like lobotomized zombies that are incapable of thinking for themselves and have outsourced their thinking capacities to a cabal of a captured leadership.
Working class women are violated killed and raped everyday in our province and we have never seen the ANC Women's League releasing media statements in their support and defense.
COSATU Limpopo Gender Desk adamantly believes that COSATU Limpopo cannot be sidetracked by innuendos and ill-informed media statements that are hell-bent on intimidating genuine revolutionaries, who are supporting the principle not personalities. Leaders in any democratic movement lead at the behest of the organization.
Our understanding as the Gender Desk of the Federation is that Democratic Centralism is a product of consultation at all levels of the democratic organisation. It is very much easy for members of the federation to support the resolution on ANC leadership succession because they were directly consulted on same. It is not about dictating to members of the federation hence the overwhelming support. We are therefore calling on like minded, sober and un-captured working class women to rise and defend our liberation movement from this apoplectic little faction.
Threats and intimidations are not part of the vocabulary of the revolutionary movement.
Issued by COSATU Limpopo Gender Desk
For more information, kindly contact the Provincial Gender Chairperson, Cde Thando Ndaba- Makitla on 082 808 3167


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Here is card number 2 in the challenge I have set myself. I have CASed it from this card.
Inks: Festive Berries Distress Ink
Cardstock: White, SU Real Red
Stamps: ODBD Christmas Tree Collage, JustRite Merry & Bright
Spellbinders: Fleur De Lis Squares, Classic Squares Large
Embossing folder: M-bossabilities Music (Side B)
Other: Dimensionals, Double sided tape, White Opal Liuid Pearls
I stamped the image with Festive Berries Ink, then cut it out using the largest Classic Squares die. I then layered this onto a Mat that I had cut using the largest of the Fleur De Lis Squares die.
After stamping the sentiment, I cut and embossed it using the smallest of the Classic Squares dies. I then layered this onto a mat I had cut using the smallest of the Fleur De Lis Squares dies.
I trimmed a piece of cardstock, and embossed it using the B side of the Music embossing folder, and then layed the image and sentiment on this embossed mat. I covered the card base with Real Red cardstock, and layered the embossed mat on top. I finishsed the card off by adding Liquid Pearls onto the ornaments.
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The police helicopter and dog teams were called to help find a man who went missing in Doncaster.
The National Police Air Service helicopter was sent to Bentley at 8.45am on Sunday after police received a call expressing concern over the man. The service tweeted: "Located by SYP dog unit and taken to place of safety."


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But it wasn't as a super-user, so only my home directory is lost, however I need to recover the files.
After the command was executed, I ran no more commands and instantly shut down the machine to prevent any data from being overwritten. I am currently running the machine through a live-disk.
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I always wonder how other people study. Do they scroll through Facebook with a textbook open near by like I do? Do they blast a 'study motivation' Spotify playlist in the background? Or do people actually disconnect themselves from the online world for a while. Is it even possible to study without checking your social media every 10 minutes?
These questions form the basis of my chosen topic for my digital narrative research project.
"How do students engage with personal mobile devices when studying?"
To provide me with a greater understanding of what a digital narrative is, I did some background reading. According to Chase (2016), a digital narrative combines photos, videos, sounds, music, animation, text and a narrative voice to create a story. A digital narrative does not necessarily need to include all of these things, although telling a story using multimedia is the core idea (Robin 2016).
In terms of my project proposal, I intend on engaging in ethnographic research to obtain my data. I aim to look into the study habits of students at university and the interaction they have with their mobile devices. I intend on collecting qualitative data that provides me with an insight into their social media habits, attention spans, tendency to check their phone whilst studying, and the duration of the study period.
I will be selecting a small pool of participants from my BCM240 class to take part in my research project. I aim of focusing my study on 10 students in total. I will be tracking the study habits of these students over a two week period and gathering qualitative data via interviews, surveys and observations.
As the project is a digital narrative I will be creating a video that focuses on selected participants in their studying environment and how they interact with mobile devices and social media apps. The aim of the video is to capture students acting as they normally would when studying to determine how frequently attention is diverted and how often mobile devices are used. I will be including this video on my final project blog as well as other data I collect from the surveys, interviews and observations.
Engaging in this project will allow me to gain an understanding of how media practices and audience experiences are spatial in nature. It will provide me with an insight into a topic that is of great interest to me and generate a storytelling project that looks at media audience practice from the perspective of other students.
I intend on posting regular updates on how my project is progressing as well as commenting on any issues I may encounter and any changes I intend on making along the way. I still aim to provide the results of my findings even if my research project does not go to plan. Overall it will be a learning experience for me and provide me with a greater understanding of media practices and the experiences of the audience participating.
Until next time,
Chase, D 2016, Digital Composition, Storytelling & Multimodal Literacy: What Is Digital Composition & Digital Literacy?, Stony Brook University Libraries, viewed 13 September 2016, <http://guides.library.stonybrook.edu/digital-storytelling>.
Robin, B 2016, About Digital Storytelling, University of Houston, viewed 13 September 2016, <http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/page.cfm?id=27>.


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My name Jorge Clara. I am the owner of JC Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning. We are a family owned business.
I have a wonderful wife who supports my every move and two beautiful little girls that motivate me to accomplish the impossible. I am striving to achieve the "American Dream". They are the reason why I work so hard to keep all my customers excited about getting their carpets cleaned. My family depends on me just like I depend on you.
I have been in the carpet cleaning business since 1993. I worked for a reputable carpet cleaning company for 6 years then decided to start my own cleaning business. It has been a struggle but I've learned that nothing in life comes easy. Overall I cannot complain, I have worked hard to get to were I am, and I am seeing positive results.
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April Review at EJD
Each month we enjoy sharing what is new and changing at Elizabeth Joan Designs. Here is what we have been up to in the month of April:
-Erin and I were finally able to spend some time together this month. You can read all about it here.
-If you are a fellow blogger, we invite to join us in our weekly linkup. Your Designs This Time goes live on Mondays at 8:00am EST. We love to see everyone's new creations.
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"It's given by bloggers to new bloggers as a way to recognize their hard work and also provide a platform to discover new blogs. The word "liebster" is German and means kind, dear, lovely, pleasant, valued, endearing, and welcome."
The rules are:
1. Thank your Liebster Award presenter…
2. Answer the 11 questions presented to you.
3. Nominate 11 up and coming bloggers for the Liebster Award
4. Provide 11 questions for your nominees to answer and notify them of the nomination.
We are excited to be nominated for this award! We are really honored that so many bloggers thought of us. Thank you Texas Decor, DIY Passion, Little House Of Four, Stripes and Polka Dots, and The Queen And Her Court for nominating and supporting us.
Since we were nominated by five different bloggers we decided to answer two questions from each.This will bring our total to ten, rather than fifty five. We know, we are rule breakers. Real rebels.)
1. When did you first discover the world of blogging?
Emily – I have admired many different blogs for awhile, but it wasn't until 2012 when I started my first blog. (It flopped!)
Erin – 2005. I started a family blog.
2. Who inspired you the most to start a blog?
Emily – My sister, Erin.
Erin – My daughter.
3. Where did you get the name for your blog?
It is a combo of our middle names Erin Elizabeth and Emily Joan.
4. What gets your creative juices flowing?
Emily – Trash! Garbage! Recyclables! But not the disgusting kind.
Erin – The desire for decor in my house and lack of money to spend frivolously.
5. Are you an early bird or night owl?
Emily – Early Bird!
Erin – Night Owl!
6. What is the craziest thing you have done?
Emily – Have two kids. (It is also one of the greatest things I have ever done.)
Erin – I don't do crazy.
7. If you could have a dinner party with you and five other guests (dead or alive) who would they be and why?
Emily – I would have myself at age 4, myself at age 20, my current self, future self at age 43, myself the day that I die and Kermit the frog. I just feel like I could really learn a lot from myself and Kermit. (It's not easy being green.)
Erin – I would never have a dinner with only five people. I like big parties!
8. Is white chocolate really chocolate?
Emily – Nope!
Erin – Only on Thursdays!
9. What is your biggest fear?
Emily – Dieing while my kids are still little and snakes.
Erin – Zombie Apocalypse.
10. If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would it be and why?
Emily – I would go to Italy, mainly for the food!
Erin – England. It is our heritage and I would like to take my kids there.
And our nominees are:
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Sum Of Their Stories
The 11 questions for our nominees
1. What is the weirdest thing you have done in/for a blog post?
2. How did you come up with the name of your blog?
3. Do you consider yourself a garbage picker?
4. What was your first job ever?
5. What did you do before blogging?
6. How many hours a week do you spend work on your blog?
7. What is your favorite food?
8. What is your favorite color combo?
9. Do you have any hidden talents we should know about? if yes what are they?
10. What is your favorite season?
11. What is your preferred vacation spot and why?
-To see more of Elizabeth Joan Designs, follow us on Facebook, Pinterest, Bloglovin', Erin's Instagram and Emily's Instagram.
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Lisa at Texas Decor
Y'all are so cute! I loved reading your answers and getting to know you a little better. :)
Thanks Lisa for the nomination!
Sarah @ Little Red Brick House
Thanks, you guys! You're always so sweet and lovely and I am always so inspired by your work. How cool getting to know you a little better! I will get my answers up soon!


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About Me and CyberRock.net
Hello, my name is Derek Altamirano. I'm 47 years old and have been using computers since the 5th grade. I am married to a wonderful wife, and have a 23 year old son Tyler. I've found that having kids is one of the greatest joys in life. I've been working on computers for what seems like an eternity. I have written programs in Basic, Assembly Language, Visual Basic, Delphi, and C#, C/C++, and Java. Although I am now a software engineer by trade, I have written many programs over the years starting when I was a teenager and I still enjoy doing so.
I also enjoy playing games against people in multiplayer games such as Battlefield 4, Halo 4, Team Fortress 2, and Unreal Tournament 3. (In the old days it was Halo 3, Halo Reach, Battlefield 2, Doom 2, Duke Nukem 3D, Quake, Quake II, Quake 3, Unreal Tournament, Return to Castle Wolfenstein & Red Alert) ;-) I usually use the tag "HoMeRS}i{MpSoN" while online playing games. I also have an Xbox One and a Xbox360; my gamer tag is HoMeRSiMpSN. Most weeks at some point you can find me online playing Battlefield 4 on my XBOne, or Halo 4 on my XB360. I tend to play more on the console these days than on my PC.
My site, "CyberRock.net" comes from my nickname from high school (which my oldest friends and brothers still use). People on the basketball team started calling me "Derock", and it was eventually shortened to just "Rock". So using "CyberRock" as my site's domain name seem logical.
I currently live in Peoria, AZ. I also spent a couple of years in Carlsbad, CA, 7 years previously in Phoenix, AZ, and 14 years in Spokane, WA after growing up in Central California.
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How can Government Employee join NGO?
First Opinion
First Opinion
Yes, Central Government employee can be a simple member of an NGO provided that NGO in not indulged in political or any activities which is detrimental to sovereignty of the India. As per Deptt. Of Pers.& Trg. O.M. No. 11013/5/88-Estt. (A) dated 11.07.1988
1. Instances have been brought to the notice of this Department where Government servants seek prior permission for becoming members of socio-religious bodies, the objectives of which are claimed to be aimed at social reforms and religious awakening etc.
2. According to Rule 15 of the Central Civil Services (Conduct) Rules, 1964, no previous sanction of the Government is required for a Central Government servant to undertake honorary work of a social or charitable nature but he should discontinue taking part in such activities, if so directed by the Government. Prior permission is essential only if the Government servant seeks to hold an elective office. As regards participation in purely religious activities, the freedom to profess and practice any religion is guaranteed under the Constitution of India itself. Since, however, the Constitution of India is based on the principle of secular state, the Government servants, while they are free to profess and practice any religion in their private lives, should so conduct themselves in public as to leave no room for any impression to arise that they do not subscribe to the secular philosophy of the State.
3. Some of the organizations and movements claiming to aim at social and religious reforms, may have some attributes of sectarian or communal nature. It will, therefore, be desirable on the part of the Government servants to be very cautious in associating themselves with any organization or movement the activities of which are liable to be construed as sectarian or communal in nature. It is not possible to give an exhaustive list of such activities or of the organizations and movements whose aims and objectives may be objectionable. The responsibility for the consequences of the decision to join any organization and participating in its activities will rest with the employee himself. It is, therefore, the duty of the Government employee who wishes to join any organization or association to satisfy himself that its activities and objectives are not of such a nature as are likely to attract action under any of the provisions of the Conduct Rules. In the circumstances, any plea of ignorance or mis-conception as to the Government's attitude regarding participation in the activities of such organizations would not be tenable. Reference: Deptt. Of Pers. & Trg. O.M. No. 11013/5/88-Estt. (A) dated 11.07.1988
Second opinion
Yes, any government employee can join NGOs executive body.
1. I beg to differ from 'ADMIRAL' but there is no such permission required to join a NGO, whether it is at executive level or just ordinary membership of that NGO. The position of Govt. employees are not different from other employees. They enjoy the same fundamental rights and liberties. The restriction on Govt. employees to join NGO would violate the fundamental right of 'equality' and 'freedom of association'. The position of armed forces employees however is different for the sake of public policy and national security. They may need permission to be the member of executive body of NGO depending on the internal rules and regulation of that particular department.
Third opinion
Yes, any government employee can join NGOs executive body.
1. Check your conduct rules o the department o the relevant government. that may help you to clearly know . today every department comes with their own rules unlike standard procedures ollowed in the past, or mail me your departmental rules i will try to decipher and help you regards.


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Five posts into this fall's Oktoberfest series, it's about time that I get to a beer brewed by a Wisconsin Brewery that has a strong tradition of brewing German style lagers. The Oktoberfest release from Capital Brewery is an award winning brew (three medals), and was personally one of my first Oktoberfest releases from a Wisconsin Brewery oh so many years ago.
Founded on March 14, 1984 by Ed Janus, Capital Brewery was opened in the former Mazomanie Egg Factory. On the way to converting the building into a brewery, brew kettles from Hoxter Brewery in Germany were installed in 1985. After renovating the building for almost two years, Capital Brewery released its first two beers, Capital Pilsner and Capital Dark in the spring of 1986. The two beers have gone on to win a combined 25 medals. The brewery continued to grow and in 1997 became the first craft brewery to can, releasing cans of Wisconsin Amber. At the 1998 World Beer Championships, Capital was named the #1 Brewery in the U.S. and 7th in in the world by the Beverage Tasting Institute. In 2013 Capital was named the Grand National Champion at the US Open Beer Championship, winning six medals. The most recent news is that Capital Oktoberfest won the gold medal at the 2014 Great American Beer Festival in the German-style Märzen category.
In 2012, brewmaster Kirby Nelson who had been with Capital for most of its existence left to formulate plans for his own brewery, handing off the reigns to Brian Destree. Kirby's departure turned out to be great for the Wisconsin craft beer scene however because it not only led to Capital branching out into new styles, it also led to the founding of the Wisconsin Brewing Company.
The brewery now produces over 30,000 barrels of beer annually and brews 19 different beers listed on their website, although the excellent Ghost Ship White IPA is noticeably absent from their website so the number could be higher. With history of producing excellent German-style lagers, it should come as no surprise that Capital Brewery stays true to the strict Reinheitsgebot guidelines for a majority of their beers, which require that only Malts, Hops, and Water be used in the brewing of beer. Yeast, which is noticeably absent from the original rules was unknown at the time.
After a bit of background on the brewery, let's move on to the review. At Beeradvocate, Capital Oktoberfest currently has a score of 82. Over at ratebeer, it has a score of 83 overall, with a 98 for style.
They Say:
OKTOBERFEST - The mother of all seasonal beers has a firey amber hue with rich malty overtones that dominate the flavor.
Available: August-November
MALTS: Brewers, Munich, Caramel & Aromatic
HOPS: Liberty
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Capital Oktoberfest pours a crystal clear light coppery amber with a thick, creamy off-white head with a slight rocky breakup. The head holds excellent retention and leaves a moderate amount of lacing behind in the glass. A complex sweet breadiness leads off the aroma, with toasted malts on the backend and the slightest amount of buttery diacetyl lingering throughout. If it weren't for slight buttery notes of diacetyl that intertwined with the bready and toasted malt aromas, this would hit the mark for an Oktoberfest perfectly.
Lightly toasted biscuit malts come to the forefront in the flavor with an underlying malty sweetness that serves to accentuate the toasted malts. Toasted malts linger on the back end, although not for long necessitating a return to the glass. Capital Oktoberfest is very smooth with moderately full malts, and a prominent, but moderately low hop bitterness. This is most definitely a beer defined by the malts, as any good festbier should be. Coming in as a medium bodied and moderately carbonated beer, this is extremely quaffable and satisfying on a cool fall evening.
Capital Oktoberfest is a pretty remarkable beer, one that I would be tempted to call the best I have had yet in this series were it not for the hint of buttery diacetyl in the aroma. Diacetyl, a byproduct of fermentation can get cleaned up by the yeast at the end of the fermentation. The formation of diacetyl in beer fermentation is a pretty interesting topic, but not being a chemist myself, I will just link you to a great article by Chris White of White Labs. While diacetyl, always an off aroma/flavor, may blend in better with a bareleywine or English ale, it seems a bit out of place here. Fortunately the aroma somewhat blended in with the biscuity malts to come across more as buttered toast rather than completely overwhelming the malts as can be the case in an unfortunate batch of homebrew. The problem however, is that I am unsure whether this bottle is a stand out, or whether it was a batch issue. I do know however that I have not noticed a buttery aroma in this beer on previous occasions.
Capital Oktoberfest is a pretty remarkable beer, even given the slight off-aroma that I experienced, and it is a beer that I can whole heartedly recommend to anyone looking for a good festbier!
That's all for today, but there are still a couple more Oktoberfests in this fall's Oktoberfest series, so check back soon!
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The General Intelligence Department foiled a massive terrorist scheme after it conducted an intensive and accurate follow-up operation and a preemptive effort, planned by a Daesh-backed cell during Nov. 2017.
The said cell arranged to carry out a trove of terrorist operations synchronously aimed to tamper with national security and ignite havoc and intimation among citizens.
The early intelligence follow-up endeavors led to the apprehension of 17 plotters involved in this heinous operation and seized rifles and other materials prepared to be used in the hideous plan.
No details are given, but it shows that even Jordan has bigger problems than to worry about the Palestinian issue – except to make sure that it is solved somehow for the kingdom's own stability.
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In 1995 the Super Famicom received a role playing game based upon the largely popular Japanese fantasy novels known as Record of Lodoss War. Like the rest of the games in the series prior to the Dreamcast adaptation, this 16-bit adventure remained a Japanese exclusive - at least until a fan translation group decided to make amends.
Dynamic Designs recently announced on their website that they had finally finished translating the Super Nintendo title into English. This downloadable ROM patch for Record of Lodoss War finally translates all of the in-game dialogue and menus into something we can all enjoy, finally making one of Japan's memorable series more accessible.
The game itself follows the tried and tested traditional top down exploration of pixelated environments, but the battle system instead provides a interesting blend of several styles. Gamers familiar with Final Fantasy Tactics and Tactics Ogre will feel right at home with the isometric battles, however, the more compact battlefields lean closer to the more traditional quick fire fights.
Record of Lodoss Wars (Super Famicom) Gameplay
As usual, to enjoy this fan translation patch you will need to have an original Record of Lodoss War Super Famicom ROM file to which you can apply this patch to. Full instructions on how to patch this ROM can be found within the download, or you can refer to this handy ROM patching guide on YouTube.
Link: Download Record of Lodoss Wars (SNES) Fan Translation ROM Patch
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CSSE Department Welcomes Megan Taylor
The CSSE Department in the School of Education welcomes new Assistant Professor for Mathematics Education Megan Taylor this semester. She comes to Sonoma State having just completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at Harvard Graduate School of Education for the TESLA Project (Transforming the Engagement of Students Learning Algebra). Immediately prior to the postdoc, her doctoral work at Stanford focused on the way mathematics teachers use and adapt textbooks in the classroom.
We asked Megan tell us a little about herself and her journey to becoming a mathematics educator:
*Math was never easy for me. If you had told me, as I was struggling through freshman Algebra (and hating every minute), that I would become a mathematics teacher, I would have laughed hysterically (and probably cried a little, too). But I AM a math teacher today in spite of and because of the teachers I had along the way. Teachers who ignored my needs, who frustrated me, who saw me as a lost cause. Teachers who inspired me to challenge myself, try my best, and never give up. Teachers who helped me realize I wanted to BE a teacher.
Today I work with mathematics teachers and study mathematics teaching so more people can help more students be successful in mathematics. In my dissertation research I studied how four teachers worked to use their textbooks more effectively, and observed fascinating changes in how they adapted and created curriculum materials over time. In my postdoc the past two years I developed curricula and a professional development experience for over 400 teachers, as part of a project designed to understand motivation in middle-school mathematics. One of the most recent findings emerging from the data is that the "best" lessons were not necessarily those from teachers implementing our materials the way we expected them to.
I couldn't be more excited to join the SSU team and get to know the Seawolf culture!"


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Today I have the lovely Kathleen Pickering stopping by to essentially pop her guest post cherry. Hehe. I think she does pretty well. What do you guys think??
I have a confession to make: I am a guest blog virgin.
Who needs Fifty Shades of Grey when I have one fabulous Redhead breaking me into guest blogging especially on this very hot and steamy site!
Thank you, Crystal, for inviting me here today. I am thrilled to be here—a little breathless, but willing, to say the least!
Today, I'd like to introduce my debut Harlequin SuperRomance, WHERE IT BEGAN. This book is the first of four Super Romances I'm slotted to write through 2014. They're all different, with hunky, touchable heroes and heroines much like each of us: ready, willing and able to go after what we want even if we don't know it's the hunky, touchable hero challenging our plans as well as our libidos.
I had a blast doing the on-site research for WHERE IT BEGAN. I spent two weeks in the Abacos (Bahamas) cruising those turquoise waters with a hunky touchable hero of my own all the while thinking, "What If" about my characters, Maria Santiago and Daniel Murphy del-Rio while we dove on the reefs, did none-of-your-business in the the oceanfront cottage, or sailed with as few clothes as possible on the sprawling sail boat from island to island.
Maria came to life as the successful, reclusive artist suffering from amnesia from a boating accident that killed her twin and her mother, completely unaware that the yacht captain of her father's sailboat is not only her lover, but her fiance who has been waiting out a torturous year hoping Maria's memory would return. Instead, she ignores him at best, thinking he is a gold-digging employee shadowing her ailing father instead of leading a life of his own.
What she does not know is that Daniel is a world-famous sailor and son of her father's best friend. Daniel halted his career and followed doctor's orders not to confuse Maria with facts she can not remember. Including her engagement to Daniel. Meanwhile, Daniel suffers with a secret of his own. The death of Maria's twin and her mother happened on his watch, while he was at the helm of a speed boat in the Abacos. Daniel believes that if Maria finally learns the truth, she will hate him and ultimately destroy any chance they have of recovering their love.
The story begins with Maria demanding her father put his useless boat captain to work by sailing her back to where it all began. Her doctor believes that revisiting the site of the accident may jolt her memory. Daniel reluctantly agrees to take her, despite his plans to leave for Australia to enter a sailing regatta. He agrees for two reasons: One, he cannot refuse anything Maria asks of him. And, two, only a madman would refuse the opportunity to have three weeks alone with the sultry Latina who not only stole his heart, but rocks his body like no woman he has ever known. Maria would not be suffering amnesia and nightmares if it wasn't for the mistake he made. It's his destiny to be ground zero when Maria recovers her memory and can only pray she has mercy on his heart and soul.
The best fun about my books is that I put people I know in them. I always go on-site for research because 'being there' brings my characters to life. I follow the philosophy that real life creates great romance and haven't failed to find it in my surrounding world. So, my friends, beware. If I meet you, you may end up in one of my stories.
Do you have any questions I can answer about the romance industry? Writing? Or how stories come to life? I'm happy to share all I know. So, ask away.
Please visit my website, my Facebook page, or Tweet me! Thanks for stopping by and read on! I look forward to chatting with you.
Going back to go forward . . .
Daniel Del Rio never could say no to Maria Santiago. So although their relationship is over, when she asks him to sail her to the Bahamas, he reluctantly agrees. She's convinced that revisiting the scene of her accident will restore her memory. If it does, then maybe he can finaly let go and move on with his life.
But moving on seems impossible when being in such close quarters reminds him of what they once had. Could their proximity be having the same effect on her? As he falls for Maria, Daniel realizes he has to confess his role in the accident...even if that confession could cost him a second chance with her.
Kathleen Pickering is an award winning author of romance and women's fiction. She is a member of Romance Writers of America and Mystery Writers of America and attends conferences for her favorite activity of author networking. Kathleen contributes her time assisting author colleagues with their conferences and holds workshops on the craft, muse and business of writing.
Kathleen has two grown sons and loves to travel for fun and on-site research for her novels. She lives in south Florida, swims with dolphins and dances to any music that moves her. Her motto: Live, let live and write about it!
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