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A Case that Government Ignores Victims
Megumi Yokota was taken away from a seaside town on the Sea of Japan at one evening in 1977 when she was coming back home from a junior high school. She was 13 years old at the time. North Korea agents seems to have encountered her by chance and taken her to a spy ship that secretly sailed across the Sea of Japan to North Korea.
For 20 years, the truth of the incident, namely abduction by North Korean agents, was not revealed to the Yokota family.
It happened to be revealed in 1996 by a Japanese journalist who had interviewed some officials of the South Korean Government for a different issue. The South Korean officials got information about Megumi Yokota from a certain North Korean defector. But it was in 1997 that the parents of Megumi were notified of the fact that their daughter had been kidnapped by North Korean secret agents. They were informed by a secretary of a parliamentary member of the Japanese Communist Party who had some linkage with the journalist but not by the Japanese Government or by lawmakers of a major ruling party, the LDP, that had been in power since 1955.
However, at least in 1980s, the Japanese Government knew that North Korea secretly sent secret agents to Japan to abduct Japanese. But, the Government never made it public, though in the parliament some lawmakers asked related situations of some ministers in question session only to get non-detailed answers. Nonetheless, the Japanese Government must have judged that Megumi Yokota was abducted by North Korea at least in 1980s. Or even CIA must have informed, at least in 1980s, the Japanese Government of such covert activities in Japan by North Korea. But both the Japanese Government and the US Government did not announce it to the general public.
So, the Yokota family did not even dream of such a possibility that Megumi might have been abducted by North Korean secret agents for 20 years. It is because the Japanese Government did not give any clue about the fate of their daughter Megumi to the Yokotas.
This is one of the most weird incidents in Japan since the end of WWII.
Before the end of WWII, the Korean Peninsula was ruled by the Empire of Japan. After WWII, a million or more Koreans stayed in Japan. Some became naturalized Japanese, but others continued to be South or North Koreans with a right of permanent residency in Japan.
They have been discriminated almost openly in the Japanese society till recently. They could not become public officials, and major Japanese businesses would not employ them. So, some of them engaged in the gambling business, mostly pachinko, a pinball gamble. However, the pachinko gamble became so popular in Japan. Accordingly, some Korean residents in Japan got big money. And, Japanese politicians who needed big money for election came to have a strong tie with these Korean business men.
Especially, the LDP, a major conservative party that has been a ruling party since 1955 except a short period of time, has had many politicians who have been supported financially by those rich Korean residents in Japan. Even today, it is thought that there are many lawmakers of both the ruling parties and the opposite parties who are financially supported by rich South and North Koreans living in Japan who are engaged in the gambling business.
So, the background of the strange attitude of the Japanese Government to the abduction of Megumi Yokota is very complicated, since some rich North Korean business men living in Japan had a strong tie with Japanese lawmakers and these North Koreans had of course a strong tie with North Korea.
For example, former Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan who was prime minister when the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident occurred in 2011 is believed to have some linkage with such Koreans living in Japan, though he is not a lawmaker of the LDP.
Today, Prime Minsiter Shinzo Abe, also a lawmaker of the LDP, is strongly supporting the Yokota family as well as other Japanese families whose sons or daughters were abducted by North Korea.
However, there have been no official apology and announcement from the Japanese Government that they knew that North Korea had abducted Megumi Yokota far before 1997 but did not inform the Yokota family of it for 20 years or so.
This is one of the cases that a government ignores victims, though there are many such cases in the world, including North Korea and the US.
(For more information, refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_abductions_of_Japanese_citizens)
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Mat 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Mat 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
Mat 3:9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.


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Lt. Moises M. Soria, AA/Public Information Officer
Chuckawalla Valley State Prison
CDCR officers and administrators, police, fire, ambulance, nurses and doctors pooled resources, donned uniforms and went on a shopping trip with underprivileged children.
Chuckwalla Vallley State Prison and Ironwood State Prison hosted the annual Civil Servants for Santa event in Blythe. The children are identified by the Riverside County Child Services and the Palo Verde Unified School District to be taken on a one-day shopping extravaganza at a local retail store, this time K-Mart in Blythe.
The goal was to raise funds for 100 children in the Palo Verde Valley. Through generous donations by law enforcement agencies and the community, the goal was met. The children were selected based on their unique and distressing situations. Each child selected was sent a letter to their parents or guardians, notifying them their child was selected to participate in the program.
The children arrived at 8 a.m. on Dec. 17 at the Joe Wine Recreation Center on South Main Street in Blythe. While at the Recreation Center, the Civil Servants arrived, ready to take the children shopping.
Santa Claus arrived via a shiny fire engine, which brought countless smiles and excitement among the children.
The children sang Christmas songs and boarded buses that were provided by the Palo Verde Transit Agency. The buses were escorted in a parade by the Civil Servants agency vehicles, which proceeded to K-Mart where each child would be escorted by one of the many Civil Servants to shop for Christmas presents.
Participating agencies and major donors:
- Chuckawalla Valley State Prison
- Ironwood State Prison
- Blythe Police Department/Police Activity League (PAL) – Shelly Penley
- Blythe Fire Department
- California Highway Patrol
- Riverside County Sheriff's Department
- Cal Fire
- Blythe Ambulance
- Reach Air Ambulance
- Desert Air Ambulance
- Palo Verde Hospital
- Riverside County Probation Department
- Arizona Department of Transportation
- K-Mart Stores
- Mallet Trucking
- Dobbs TV and Appliances/Ashley Furniture
- Palo Verde Transit Agency/Desert Roadrunner
- Joe Wine Recreation Center and staff (Jennifer Nugent)
- Inland Builders Supply/Ace Hardware
- Dollar Tree
- Santa Claus
Six years of helping kids
The Civil Servants for Santa program began on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011, when the CVSP/ISP Citizens Advisory Committee made a motion to initiate a program similar to Shop with a Cop. The motion was accepted, and several local agencies indicated they were interested and would participate. The agencies involved voted to name the new program Civil Servants for Santa.


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Guerlain is an eponymous house basing its scents and new releases on tradition and none more so that the latest limited edition release (available exclusively at Harrods from 1st May). Muguet, a reworked perfume that is steeped in floral wondrousness and billows at you, enveloping the wearer in gallons of intense lily and purple tinged, fresh lilac from the first spray has to be tried to be believed. She's so overblown in her enthusiasm, that she almost knocks you off your feet at first meeting.
Muguet is a juxtoposition – a fragrance so complex in its make-up to garner its heritage position and yet, so blindingly simple in its appeal. Muguet, or Lily of the Valley, is steeped in heritage, being one of the most traditionally worn scents of the past two centuries, but it also carries a stigma in that it reeks of old society, of old age, of a more rigid set of rules and culture – the antithesis of today's score of pink pepper and gourmand tinged mass scents. And for that fact alone, it's due a re-surge.
Muguet would work perfectly, worn with some of today's more avante garde designers verging on the couture like Mary Katranzou or Michael van der Ham. To work, Muguet has to be contrasted against an extremely feminine, modernist backdrop – she may be too much at times but she will be remembered.
Perfumer, Thierry Wasser, invites us to discover this good-luck fragrance that combines a feeling of freshness and grace. Lily of the valley notes reign supreme in the composition. Lively and capricious, they set a vibrant and sparkling tone for the entire creation.
The first bursts of scent are fresh green notes, then, lily of the valley takes centre stage, accompanied by lilac – an amorous duo that makes the senses take flight. Then, the richness of delicately gathered rose united with the opulence of jasmine gives the silage all the sensuality and sweetness of romantic emotions, trailing silk, chiffon and gauze.
This year, Muguet comes in the iconic Guerlain "quadrilobe" bottle, a shape designed at the very start of the 20th century. To celebrate the month of May in 2012, it is has been adorned with an exquisite jewellery piece crafted by Gripoix, founded in 1869, the ultimate Parisian couture jewellery House.
The jewellery piece designed for Guerlain was created from glass paste hand-gilded with fine gold by craftsmen. Inspired by a jewellery set created by Gripoix in the Roaring Twenties, it represents a leaf. The chain of the jewellery piece is wrapped around the neck like a necklace. The two ends of the necklace bear the G of Guerlain and Gripoix, as well as a discreet golden plaque with the number of the bottle. A light, fine label bears the name Muguet.
This Limited Edition fragrance is available for purchase on 1st May 2012 exclusively at Harrods priced at £355 for 60ml.


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To me when it comes to Vodka, its all about Red Bull and Vodka. A drink that makes you feel good and keeps you partying all night. But when you're making a Red Bull and Vodka make sure you use cheap vodka, because it's a sin to waste high-end vodka in a mix drink. If you spend the dough on something like Stoli, Ketel One or Grey Goose then be a man and drink it straight up or keep what you mix with it to a minimum, think of James Bond and his martini. I can't stand people who waste good vodka in their cranberry drinks or screwdrivers, when a $5 bottle could easily do the same job.
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Perhaps the only drink that's acceptable for a man to drink that has a vegetable hanging out of it, maybe because he's usually drinking it before noon, the Bloody Mary is a mixture of vodka, tomato juice, Tabasco, and Worcestershire sauce that symbolizes the ultimate hangover cure.


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Michael Moretz, Vice President of Sales, North AmericaCan you give me a bit of your company history? How did you become involved in the Key Replacement category?
Accelerated Service International (ASI) has partnered with agents and their dealer clients for over a quarter of a century. ASI's In-house automotive retail experts and field consultants utilize their years of industry experience to create unique and custom Dealer Service Plan offerings that fill the needs of dealers, agents and consumers. ASI provides programs in the United States, Canada and Europe reaching over 200 general agent partners and 3,000 dealers.
ASI launched its initial key replacement program at the end of 2008. As a business philosophy, ASI interacts directly with its valued agents and dealers, and seeks counsel from underwriters and internal management constantly examining and responding to industry product trends. The feedback was consistent that "Key Replacement" is a new, rapidly-evolving and expanding product idea that the market and consumer are hungry to take advantage of. Once the decision was taken by ASI to pursue this ancillary product offering it became one of ASI's most successful new programs.What makes your product different from others on the market? How do you differentiate it?
It is the ASI philosophy to build products that deliver measurable value and create tangible market impacts. The ASI key replacement benefits and related costs are incomparable in the industry. As an example, the 5-Year Term consumer benefit is $5,000 and includes full roadside assistance. Consistent with the ASI philosophy to offer "wholesale" costing to its agents, the key replacement program allows the business manger to provide consumers with a great benefit package at very reasonable pricing —a Win/Win.
Like any "new" product in the business, they eventually become straight-forward offerings over time. What differentiates any product is the level of service provided when a contract holder ultimately files a claim. The ASI claims team is seasoned, with an average of eight years of claims adjudication for a variety of products offered by ASI. Each new ASI product—including key replacement—is daily managed by the knowing and proven abilities or our experienced staff. Claims are settled quickly and paid via company credit card once approved.
The ASI business model also supports the idea of combining multiple ancillary products into one program, a philosophy that has taken years to perfect. High-volume agents and their larger dealer groups can utilize ASI risk specialist to formulate combo-programs custom to them.What is your primary sales channel? How do you market to that channel?
ASI is an agent-driven company. They are the individuals—usually with retail backgrounds—whom ASI depends upon to spread its message. Quality agents make sure the product is understood and managed properly at the dealer level, insure that claims are handled quickly and as agreed at the consumer level, and continually perform research to improve products and protect dealers from weak product backing at the agency level. The agents representing ASI are invaluable to the growing success of our business model.
The usual avenues are advertising, direct phone calls, e-mail blasts and trade shows. The greatest draw for our agent body, however, is that ASI has been in business through good times and lean—in all cases supporting its dealer and agent commitments. That said, the most common source of growth for ASI is referral. ASI prefers in-person meetings with agents, often inviting them to the offices in Texas or visiting with them and their sub-agents in their regional offices. With the demands and competitive nature of the automotive industry, ASI believe it is better to personally get to know someone who could become a business partner for years, with a relationship that could continue over generations. There is no replacement for a handshake and an eye-to-eye understanding.How has technology impacted Key Replacement in the last year, if at all? Do you see it having an impact in the future? Why or why not?
With the computer age key technology and functionality expand continually. Smart keys that can unlock doors, start cars, open garages, provide security and operate security systems effortlessly are becoming commonplace even in vehicles considered "value" targeted. Claims have changed in both frequency and average claim amount when compared with the traditional key. It is a trend seemingly without end.In your opinion, where is the greatest growth potential for the Key Replacement category?
The ASI key program is still experiencing growth since its inception. There has yet to be a plateau. As mentioned earlier as the technology of the vehicle advances so does the key itself. More and more manufacturers will have to follow suit with their own smart keys. The "luxury" class of vehicles isn't the only class of vehicles manufactured with smart keys now. Consumers are becoming more and more aware of the smart key, designers more cognizant of demand, and engineers more creative with computer applications for functionality. Growth for key replacement coverage will continue to expand to match that market as it morphs to the next levels.


text: A rainy day at school turns a dozen restless children into master storytellers. Students stare out the window at the falling rain in dismay, until the teacher suggests a game. Next thing you know, the students are sitting in a circle, crisscross-applesauce, and Jimmy begins an exciting story that begins with a Tyrannosaurus rex disrupting Saturday morning by crashing through the window. Ava picks up the thread, having the hungry dinosaur gobble up the family's breakfast. And so around the circle it goes, to Susan and Roberto and Rusty and the rest. Jason ends it with a citywide search for the creature on the loose (and there's a rib-tickling surprise on the final page). Schindler's ink, gouache and watercolor illustrations are smile-inducing, extending the simple story visually. As the story continues, spread by spread, the next teller appears in a wavy-outlined inset on the bottom right, while the action described plays out across the spread, with lots of sharp teeth and debris to fill the scene. Listeners might be induced to create their own collective yarns after seeing this one. (Picture book. 4-8)


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Fez developer Phil Fish said, "PCs are for spreadsheets." When he announced Fez would hit PC, fans and haters jumped on the "spreadsheet machine" dig. After Fez's successful XBLA and PC launches, this fan art by Steam user McKack is a good stopping point for the joke. All the jokes, even.
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Sweet pumpkin is also known as Kaddu, Manjal Pooshanikkai, Gummadikayi in different Indian languages. Often considered as a lowly, humble vegetable, pumpkin actually packs a great punch in terms of nutrients. It is a weight watcher's delight.
Sweet pumpkin has less calories and more nutrients. To explain this better, it has four times lesser calories than sweet potato, 50 times lesser Sodium but 3 times more Vitamin C, double the folic acid, and similar Calcium, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Iron content. This means that you can eat more of sweet pumpkin than sweet potato (up to 4 times more) and still benefit from its rich nutrients without the calorie overload. More health for lesser calories, now is that not a winner?
Sweet pumpkin seems to be this gentle, powerful giant among vegetables. It looks elegant despite its rotund form, swathed in deep green or mustard yellow skin revealing a firm sweet golden flesh when cut. Lends a quiet dignified presence to a dish, knows to be at home in sweet or savoury recipes with equal ease. Delicious whether cooked with skin or without. Pumpkin often comes to my rescue when I have to cook in a hurry.
Every family has their favourite pumpkin recipe. This is ours. I hope you have as much fun cooking it and enjoying as we do.
Preparation Time – 20 minutes, Cooking Time – 10-15 minutes, Serves – 4-6.
- Does NOT contain egg, gluten, soya, lactose, yeast, corn, nuts.
- Suitable for gluten, lactose intolerance or nut allergy.
COOKWARE – Knife, Cutting board, Fry pan
- 2 cups chopped sweet yellow pumpkin (with* or without skin)
- 1/2 cup finely diced onion
- 1 cup chopped tomato
- 1 scant tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp turmeric
- 2 tsp jaggery powder
- 1 tsp garam masala powder
- 1 tsp sambhar powder
- 2 tsp cooking oil
- 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
- 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- 2 tbsp coriander leaves for garnish
*Sweet pumpkin takes longer to cook with skin and lesser time without skin.
- Clean, peel and chop all vegetables. Set aside separately.
- Heat oil in a fry pan, add mustard and cumin.
- When they sizzle and crackle, add in onions, fry on high flame for 3-4 minutes until they turn pink-brown.
- Next to go in is the chopped pumpkin. Saute on high heat for a minute, sprinkle water and cover and cook for a further 2 minutes.
- Finally add the tomatoes. Keep tossing over high heat until tomatoes mush up.
- Add salt, turmeric powder, jaggery, garam masala and sambhar powder. Mix everything well. Cover and simmer for 2-3 minutes more.
- Garnish with fresh chopped coriander leaves and serve hot with steamed rice.
Notes -
- Sweet pumpkin cooks very quickly. Cook lesser if you want to retain the shape of the vegetables. Cook longer if you like a mushy texture.
- Keep stirring while on high heat to avoid scorching.
- Add the powders after the vegetables are mostly done. This helps to retain flavours better.


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Weighing the Options
By Kismet, Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Lisa Targal Favors
As you all know by now we are in between boats, having sold our Fathom 40 a few months ago. We are now actively looking at trailerable trawler models and exploring all of our options. I was initially surprised at all of the new things we would now have to consider when choosing our next boat. We are downsizing not only the size of boat but also, the time we dedicate to staying on the boat. Some of the things I needed in the past, to maintain a functioning household, (or should I say "boathold") on our old boat will just not be as important as they might have been had we just traded sideways to a similar size boat and we were still liveaboards. In less than two weeks we head down to Florida for the TrawlerFest, in Fort Lauderdale, and a chance to do what we both love – look at boats. It's been well over a year since we've been to a boat show. We helped our friends at HarborView Yacht Sales at the Annapolis Boat Show in 2009, showing our Fathom 40 and talking to boat buyers. So, we are excited and eager to get started. This time though, we'll be on the other end of the dock, so to speak, boaters who are actively looking for a new boat instead of showing boats.
I know that Jim has stated in his most recent log some of the options available in the trailerable trawler's that he is mulling over, now I'd like to share with you some of my requirements for our new mode of boating. Since the way we will be boating in the future has changed quite a bit, I need to totally change the way I look at the interior and exterior options along with how we will now stock the boat. This will have me looking at storage space with my new, pared down, list of items we'll need to find space for. We've talked about future boating trips being a week or two in one place, a month or two somewhere else, with a lot of quick trips during the summer in our local cruising area of the Great Lakes. This will be so different from our liveaboard experiences of the past five years and quite frankly, a welcoming new adventure to add to our boating life.
As you can see our Fathom 40 had lots of big windows and they actually all opened to provide lots of fresh air and ventilation.
It goes without saying that at the very top of my list would be finding a boat that provides a safe environment and is easy to handle when docking and moving the boat. This is something that I will get a better feel for when we actually get on the boats we are considering. So, aside from those two very major concerns I am thinking, right now, more about the creature comforts available, or not, and whether we really need some of the ones we've enjoyed in the past.
Some of the features we opted for on our last boat were: a washer/dryer, a Trackit set up with DirecTV, generator, air conditioning, house batteries and inverter. All of these items seemed more standard to us since we were talking about the boat being our home, not a vacation or getaway situation so we looked at equipping her as we would a home. We also spent a little bit of time decorating to make her cozy and welcoming, we wanted her to feel like home. Since we are still working while boating we needed to have comfortable spaces to get work done. We loved the pilothouse for this situation because it gave us an extra space to work in and it provided just that little bit of separation sometimes needed when you boat 24/7 with a loved one. Some of these things will just not be as big of an issue as they were with our previous boating lifestyle. We'll have more flexibility with trip plans and our time. Now, we can choose to leave the work at home.
We won't need the washer dryer and the DirecTV set up anymore. I really don't think that we'll even need an oven. A convection microwave will do now and take up less space. Of course we will still pack our small Foreman gas grill since it's a great way to cook while on board. The size of the refrigerator will still be important. This is one item that seems to never be big enough on a boat when you don't always have access to stores and need to stock items to last a week or longer. I wouldn't change the size of this unit; it will still be one of the important appliances. If the installed model is not big enough we'll have to consider other add on options. On the Fathom, we also had an electric "cooler." This is where we kept beverages and overflow produce, especially after we had just stocked up at a store. I think that we may still need this option and there will need to be a spot to install it on the boat. On our Fathom, the unit was stored in the lazarette.
Since I love to cook and we never wanted to sacrifice the way we eat, I had a fully stocked kitchen (tools and appliances) on board the 40-foot trawler. I had many electric appliances to fill in when the oven or stove were too small or could not handle a roast or stir-fry. Now instead of having several of these extra small appliances such as a big electric roasting pan (useful to roast a small turkey or make a big pot of slow cooked soup) maybe I'll only stock a small slow cooker. Instead of having the bigger food processor I may just take a hand held wand/stick type unit with a small processing bowl. I am thinking ahead a little believing that now storage space will be a precious commodity and one of the main items to consider when choosing which items will end up on board when we shove off the trailer to go explore.
One of the activities we'll want to continue enjoying on our new trailerable trawler will be a good game of cards while at dock or on the hook. I think Jim beat me good on this day while we were enjoying a free dock at Six Mile Creek on the St. Johns River.
There are a few other "must have" options that will need to be installed on our future boat. On the very top of my list are big windows, with screens, which open on both port and starboard sides for cross ventilation. The reason I'm traveling by boat is to see and smell the surroundings not sit inside with the air conditioning on. It's not that I don't appreciate the convenience and sometimes the absolute necessity of having air on a boat; I just don't like to use it unless I am absolutely melting. It's one thing to have air installed on board, to have it available when you absolutely need it, but it's another thing entirely to always have to use it, in the hotter climates, because the windows don't open. Heat and air are definitely important, especially in the summertime and in many of the southern regions. We must have both but my preference is not to have to use them and opt for fresh air whenever possible. Another must have on my list would be a well functioning inverter.
Because my whole view on boating has recently changed I have now pared down, in my mind, what the very most important activities will be, the ones I see myself doing in our new trailerable trawler. This will also help me define the items we'll need to take with us to be able to support these recreations. We still have many places we want to explore and I can see us traveling safely and comfortably while spending many sunsets with a glass of wine, and many sunrises with a cup of coffee, sitting on the back deck with Jim as we take in Mother Nature's gifts and experiencing areas unavailable to people unless observed from a boat. I love to anchor out because of this experience. I also see ourselves meeting and socializing with people on our trips so we'll need a big enough back deck so that we can sit outside and talk about boating; where we are, where we've been but, more importantly where we're going to explore next.
If you're a boater, you'll already know how important it is to congregate with friends and family on the back deck of your boat for happy hour. Here we are relaxing with a lot of our dockmates at our homeport in Charlevoix, Michigan.
Sure we'll be sacrificing space and all the previously enjoyed comforts of "home" but we'll be gaining a lot as well. We are looking forward to the new "flexibility" with a trailerable trawler. We have been checking out some of these boats online and I have to say they look very inviting. It's amazing what the boat companies have accomplished with the fit and trim on their smaller boat lines and I can't wait to get aboard to begin weighing our options.


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"run as" local denial-of-service enables administrative account processes to be killed Jun 23 2007 08:44PM
Eitan Caspi (eitancaspi yahoo com) (1 replies)
RE: "run as" local denial-of-service enables administrative account processes to be killed Jun 26 2007 02:30PM
James C. Slora Jr. (james slora phra com)
Eitan Caspi wrote Saturday, June 23, 2007 4:45 PM
> Summary: While a user, at any security membership level, is logged
> in locally, using the "run as" feature, it can kill all of the
> processes running under the user who initiated the "run as"
> feature, even if the
> initiating user has a security membership level higher than the
> user initiating the killing action under "run as". The kill is
> performed using the taskkill.exe application which is built into
> Windows XP.
It's true Microsoft does not display a unified front on such security
issues, and they sometimes have conflicting advice on their site.
But Runas is more useful for escalating privilege than for downgrading
Anything running on your interactive desktop can interact with anything
else running on it, regardless of the security context that started each
app. So privilege-lowering conveniences like Runas or even desktop VMs
are absolutely subject to the possibility of cross-context interaction.
There are security context checks built into many functions, and you did
find one that does not have things as locked down as they should be, but
these locks and checks are vector-specific and do not address the basic
exploit potential directly.
I don't see a lot of exploits of this potential, but it is designed into
Windows and needs to be there for you to be able to interact with the
apps yourself. So running an interactive sandbox on a trusted system
will inherently increase your risks.
See KB327618 for more info.
- Jim
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Girls Clash in Virtual Reality in CIRCLET PRINCESS TV Anime Teaser
Adaptation based on "fighting spirit pretty girl battle RPG" browser game hits Japanese TV in January
A new teaser trailer (below), a new key visual (above), and new cast members have all been revealed for CIRCLET PRINCESS, an upcoming TV anime adaptation based on the "fighting spirit pretty girl battle RPG" browser game by DMM that is set in a world where virtual reality combat games have become a popular high school sport.
The new cast members for CIRCLET PRINCESS include:
Atsumi Tanezaki as Chikage Fujimura.
Natsuki Aikawa as Takane Hibino.
Sachie Hirai as Sarina Sekiguchi.
Yuna Taniguchi as Hiyori Sugiura.
Megumi Tateishi as Kasumi Iida.
Nozomi Chikamura as Akira Tsunemi.
Yuka Maruyama as Arisa Hara.
Aya Fujita as Kristy Yamauchi.
And Harumi Sakurai as Kaoru Yoshimura.
CIRCLET PRINCESS is set in the near future, where augmented reality technology is so pervasive that it has changed the face of society through the "Mixed Reality System", creating a popular new sport called "Circlet Bout". Traditionally played by high school girls, players who are successful in Circlet Bout can garner national media attention. One school, St. Union Academy, was previously known for fielding a powerhouse Circlet Bout team, but the school has recently fallen on hard times. Will Yuka Sasaki, a transfer student from the mountainous Wakayama Prefecture, be able to turn their losing streak around?
CIRCLET PRINCESS is directed by Hideki Tachibana and features animation production by SILVER LINK. The series will broadcast in Japan beginning in January of 2019.
Official CIRLCET PRINCESS TV anime home page and Twitter feed (@cirpri_anime)
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Good morning!
Tuesday means it's time for the Mani Round Up! Here is what I wore on my nails in the past week, along with a quickie review of the polish itself.
Fresh Paint Passion Fruit: this may look familiar since I featured it last week! However, it counts for this week, too, because I extended the mani and freshened it up using decals from bornprettystore. I love similar toned nail "art" with polish as it looks modern and clean. The polish has a great formula, with only two coats needed. I applied the decals randomly using tweezers and topcoated with HK Girl.
Barry M Turquoise: I picked this polish up last week thanks to OPI, LOL. OPI had a sponsored post on Facebook showcasing it's new gel line and the color they featured was Czech Book, a similarly hued bright blue. I didn't own the OPI version but I grabbed Turquoise, by Barry M, instead. This is a creme polish with a great formula - opaque in two coats.
Wet&Wild A Latte Love: while I do have a latte love for this color, I don't have a latte love for the brush! I posted this on Facebook and heard similar responses from y'all, too. The megalast formula is awesome - practically a one coater - but at least a few of you have similarly thin nail beds, like me, so the big, wiiiiiide brush is just too much. Can you hear us, wet&wild?!
Smitten / Dreamland Lacquer Terra Opal: I believe it was the summer of 2015 that this polish debuted - and what a beauty! The lime green is an unexpected color choice for January in the northeast, so you bet I got a lot of compliments on this one. I used a white base underneath to make the color POP and two coats of Terra Opal.
Girly Bits by Pam Eggnogoholic: this is an oldie but goodie! I have had this polish forever and it still applies like a dream. It's a simple mix of an off-white base and subtle golden glitters, but on the nail it is just SO pretty. I used three coats for this mani, although a white base and two would suffice, also.
Girly Bits by Pam Eggnogoholic: I loved this mani so much that I wanted to extend it's life a little. Bornprettystore decals to the rescue! You know I love these decals, but they peel so quickly that this only lasted for a day before I started peeling the edges myself. I have thrown away the rest of the decals I had that looked like this. Safe to say, my love affair with BPS decals is ovah. Womp, womp.
Well, that's it for this week! What was your favorite look? Tell me in the comments!
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Mani Round Up - 1/17/17
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photos are from Growing Whatcom's winter produce list
When my mom took Home Ec in the Great Depression, Lincoln High School couldn't afford much in the way of ingredients for cooking classes. She remembered making shirred eggs, over and over. A little margarine to line the custard cup, an egg, a splash of milk, salt and pepper---bake and done. However she learned to be a cook legendary among our friends, that wasn't it.
Thinking back to my own Home Ec classes in the 1960s, it's probably telling that I cannot recall a single thing we cooked, although I'm pretty sure Jello was involved. I can remember meals going back to early childhood, but that class at Sumner High with Mrs. Boushay, who was very nice, is a culinary blank spot. (Recalling the madras miniskirt suit I made in the sewing unit is another matter. I was not born to match seams in plaid.)
I'm pretty sure that the students taking Lois Rienstra's cooking classes at the high school where I teach will remember what they ate. The other day Bobbi Sue came to my English class bubbling about the dish she and her cooking partner had made that was "pure awesomeness." When I asked her about it, she zipped back down the hall and brought me some, and she was right. Bobbi Sue is not one of your teenage vegan greenie types, nor does she think a whole lot of things in life are awesome, but the recipe that made us both happy featured cauliflower, chard and potatoes, fresh from the Growing Whatcom CSA.
Obviously, things are changing in high school kitchens. Lois has put a portion of her program's buying power into local food this year, which is particularly appropriate at our rural school since many of the students are from farming and farm-working families. Some of her young cooks spend summers and vacations growing the very vegetables that they are learning to cook with imagination and respect. It's good to see those transformations—fieldworkers into chefs, a kid's response to Swiss chard going from "gross!" to "awesomeness!" Lois's catering class takes the local food message back out into the community by including CSA produce in their monthly Lions Club dinners and other commercial jobs.
Growing Washington has recently added a Winter CSA, extending the season another 8 weeks into late December. This is good news for me, because the catering class has agreed to make food from Winter Harvest for our Literature Live night at Village Books, Dec. 8. I hope that any local readers will stop by to say hi, have a snack, and see what good work they do.
I am also excited to start getting my own winter CSA box from Osprey Hill Farm in Acme, starting next weekend.
Both programs have information online:
And here's the recipe for Bobbi Sue's "pure awesomeness," courtesy of Growing Whatcom CSA:
Cauliflower, Chard and Leek Gratin
1 medium head of cauliflower, florets only
1 bunch of chard, cleaned, stem removed and chopped
1 leek, white and light green parts only, washed well and chopped
¼ cup chopped shallot
1 T olive oil
2T butter
2T flour
¼ cup cream
1¾ cup 2 percent milk
1 cup grated Grana Padano cheese (optional)
½ cup grated Parmesan
salt and pepper to taste
Steam the cauliflower until tender crisp, about 10 minutes. Set aside. Heat the olive oil in a large pan, sauté the leek and shallot for a few minutes until just starting to turn golden. Add the chard and sauté until just wilted. Mix with the cauliflower in a roasting pan.
Make the béchamel. Start by melting the butter in a sauce pan. Add the flour and whisk until it begins to turn golden and smells "nutty" and no longer like raw flour. Add the cream and milk slowly, whisking as you go to keep it smooth. Add the nutmeg. Whisk over low heat until it thickens. Add the Grana Padano cheese and whisk until melted and smooth. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Pour the sauce evenly over the cauliflower mixture. Sprinkle with the Parmesan cheese. Bake at 350 F for about 15-20 minutes until the top turns golden and is heated through.


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New Southern Quarter Scheme Approved
Plans for the first phase of the redevelopment of Telford Shopping Centre have been given the green light by Telford & Wrekin Council.
To be known as The Southern Quarter, the project will see five or six restaurants and cafés totalling 26,500 sq ft built on the site of the former FOCUS store, nicknamed the 'Green Shed', which has already been demolished in anticipation. Work on the Southern Quarter could start as early as Spring 2015.
Situated adjacent to the new cinema and popular restaurants at Southwater, the Southern Quarter will further enhance Telford's food & beverage offer and provide a vibrant link between the new ASDA store, Southwater and the shopping centre.
The cafés and restaurants will be housed in a contemporary new building, designed by Benoy, which features an elegant curved façade and a striking 'gateway' tower facing Brown Elm car park. The new building will create a strong sense of arrival to the revitalised town centre. At the same time, a newly paved area with extensive landscaping will provide space for outdoor seating.
The proposals are the first part of the five-year masterplan for the transformation of the 1 million sq ft shopping centre, which was given the green light by Telford & Wrekin Council at the end of 2013. The Southern Quarter plans closely reflect the key development design principles set out in the masterplan.


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Youth Hockey Festival in Sioux Falls Planned for This Fall
For the first time ever, the OneHockey Sioux Falls Shootout will be held October 28-30, 2016.
North America's most entertaining ice hockey tournaments will be held at he Scheels Ice Plex.
Team registration is open now at www.onehockey.com.
There will be eleven different levels of play from Squirt to AA level.
OneHockey is anything but your everyday tournament. There's a festive music atmosphere, mascots circulating, a red-carpet social event and much more.


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Do you really need all those Nectar points? Can a Virgin card really mean cheaper DVDs? How many Air Miles do you need to slash travel costs?
These are key questions for consumers as retailers and credit card companies increasingly turn to "rewards" schemes and cashbacks to boost turnover.
Sainsbury's, spent £40m launching Nectar points in September.
Recently, a major TV advertising campaign offered double points at major retailers including BP, Debenhams and Threshers.
Rivals see Nectar's campaign as a sign that its much-hyped launch has run out of steam. But Sainsbury's Bank claims it has already awarded customers some 616m points - worth more than £3m against subsequent purchases.
Rewards schemes lead consumers painlessly from one purchase to another. And they can cut bills which have to be paid anyway.
Air Miles, launched in 1988, is a market leader in rewards schemes. More than 500,000 new collectors signed up in 2002 alone - and more than 500,000 flights were paid for entirely in Air Miles.
Natwest and Royal Bank of Scotland credit cards are the only major banking groups offering Air Miles. By 'double dipping', with named retailers such as Tesco and Shell, collectors get one Air Mile for every £10 spent on their credit cards - instead of the usual rate of one for every £20.
Reward schemes can cut energy bills, too. At the start of the month, Goldfish, the financial services provider in the Centrica empire, waived its maximum redemption limit of £75 against British Gas electricity and gas bills. The minimum redemption level - unchanged at 500 points - gets £3.33 off the bill.
Plenty of credit cards pay an automatic 0.5pc cashback on spending. MORE TH@N, the direct financial services arm of Royal & Sun Alliance, offers an 0.8pc cashback on all purchases and enables customers applying online to design the type of card which suits their spending profile.
Alliance & Leicester handed back nearly £20m last year in cashbacks to banking customers, depending on how much they spent on their cards. Cashback on the Premier account card is 1pc on sums spent between £4,000 and £20,000 during the year.
These schemes, and plenty more like them, attract consumers with the collecting instinct. But are they worth all the homework required to find the best deals?
Not necessarily. Which? magazine recently surveyed various rewards.
It said: "Overall, points schemes offer poor value. Most give back less than 1pc of what you spend."
The website moneysupermarket.com also publishes a regular survey of rewards schemes.
Stuart Glendenning at moneysupermarket.com said: "Both loyalty cards or cashbacks are best suited to people who pay off the balance in full during the interest-free period. It makes sense to use cards for shopping, petrol purchases, business expenses - and collect cashbacks from Amex or Capital One.
"If you don't pay off the balance to avoid interest, you need to look much more closely at interest charged on outstanding balances. In many cases, interest charged far outweighs any benefits to be gained in cashbacks."


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McLeish brought on the on-loan Argentinian striker with 13 minutes remaining after Joleon Lescott´s ninth goal of the campaign put the Toffees ahead and within six minutes he took a free-kick on the edge of the Everton box and drilled an unstoppable effort past Tim Howard.
Blues are now two points ahead of third from bottom Bolton, and McLeish said: "That goal and point could turn out to be very important. I think I´ll claim an assist for that - a super decision putting him on!"
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I'll be off for good now and I won't be replying to this thread. Have a great day everyone (especially you Shadow)
Quote:Significantly, no US media source reported or commented on these portions of Biden's remarks at Harvard
Quote:The Syrian Ambassador to India claimed that ISIS was an American invention on Wednesday, among other controversial remarks.
The statements were made at a press conference hosted by the Indian Women's Press Corps in New Delhi, the Hindustan Times reports.
"ISIS is an American myth, which gets direct support from Tayyip Erdogan's [the president] Turkey and is funded by Saudi Arabia and Qatar," according to Ambassador Riad Kamel Abbas. "Al Qaeda appeared in Syria after the US invaded Iraq. Before that there was no al Qaeda in Syria. It is clear that al Qaeda was created by the US and it is supporting ISIS."
Abbas also said that several European nations, including France, the UK and Germany, have requested the Assad government to "take care" of Europeans who have gone over to fight with the Islamic State. Those nations view radicalized European Muslims who have received combat experience in Syria as a threat to their national security, the ambassador claimed.
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By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
There are some things teachers can learn, like planning backward.
Planning backward means taking the point of a lesson and then finding ways to work up to it in ways that engage and ignite students' parts in the learning process. In Jim Taylor's McNary High School jazz history class, he's elaborating on the history of the word "jazz," but he tells the students it's actually a story about S-E-X.
He starts with Africa's griots, nomadic, storytelling musicians who operated as both entertainers and the newsmen among African tribes. Taylor knows more than a little about this way of life.
He was a teacher before arriving at McNary High School's choir program as its director, but there was never much doubt about where his career would take him.
"My mom and dad were both teachers, uncles, aunts, almost everyone was a teacher or worked at a school. We call family reunions faculty meetings," Taylor said.
For more of this article and other news from around the Keizer area, pick up a copy of the Feb. 22 issue of Keizertimes, available at stores all around the area. To subscribe for just $25 a year, click on the 'Subscribe Today' link at the top of the page, call 503-390-1051 or visit our office at 142 Chemawa Road North in Keizer.


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Some stitching
Black block mojo has returned. I keep thinking about my nanna who said it would be great to have all three of us exhibit together this year, and this year might be my only chance, so I will keep plugging away. This is block #12.
Below is another RR I am involved in with a very small group of international stitchers. I have put up all the "steps" so you can see how we are doing this one. Below is Emikos (Japan) block.
The first 'step' was done by Helina, and is basic seam treatments. (This is the same RR as Helina's landscape block I posted a while back)
The next 'step' was to further embellish the seams, but only with thread. Beads and buttons etc come later. This is an incredibly challenging way to do a RR, but alot of fun.
I have received several other nominations for the "make my Day" bloggers award. Thank you so much. Everyone who has nominated me are ladies whose blogs I read regularly, and you all make my day, so consider yourselves nominated right back!!
I am also enjoying the fact that the January giveaway is bringing so many lurkers out to comment. Don't be shy gals. I love to know who is reading my blog, what your interests are, where you are from ETC. Hopefully, as the year goes on, more of you will pop your heads out and make yourselves known.
I am away again until Wednesday. I will do the drawer then for the postcard. Check back, It might be your addy I need...


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This past week, my family and I visited my dad's side of the family in Canada where I was born. This post would be too long if I tried to describe our journey in full sentences, so I will content myself with lists.
Sunday was...
a six hour car ride
playing leapfrog on the side of the road
pretzel rods
discovering that my grandmother has a puppy obsession
Monday was...
ferry rides
giving a tour to my aunt's guests
Tuesday was...
my cousin Tia spending the night with us
watching movies and knitting in the closet
Lydia, Tia and I eating a whole bag of chips and salsa while watching Persuasion (in the living room)
going barefoot
Wednesday was...
riding in my aunt's convertible
Anne of Green Gables musical songs
taking a tour of my ancestor's land
visiting a graveyard at 11:00 p.m.
more chips and salsa
marriage proposal videos
more movies in the closet
Christmas in July gifts
Dutch Blitz
finding answers to an old family mystery
ice cream in an old train station
All in all, it was a good trip full of reminiscing, food, golden sunlight, and laughter.


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DroneTracker Improves Both Acoustical and Visual Detection, Providing Industry's Most Comprehensive Detection of All Types of Drones
Dedrone announced today that the world's leading professional system to battle the threat of unmanned domestic drones is getting an upgrade. The DroneTracker detects unmanned aircraft and guards against spying, smuggling, potential terrorist attacks and invasions of personal privacy. The latest version of DroneTracker incorporates new hardware and more than 400 software improvements, including an HD camera, tighter integration with existing security monitoring systems and stronger acoustical detection. DroneTracker is equipped with a unique system of interacting audio and visual sensors. Based on multiple parameters such as noise, shape, and movement patterns, it provides the industry's most reliable detection of all types of drones.
"With more than 4.3 million drones expected to ship in 2015, corporations, stadiums, federal facilities, prisons and individuals are growing increasingly concerned over their own privacy and protection," states Brian Edmonds, President of Dedrone Inc. "Because drones come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and with various flight mechanisms, it is important to be able to take many factors into account in attempting to track their presence. With the latest release of DroneTracker, Dedrone is helping organizations and individuals protect their safety and privacy in a more efficient and effective way."
New Functionality in DroneTracker 1.5 includes:
Support for SNMP & SNMP Traps: New networking features allow better integration with existing security monitoring systems. In addition to custom TCP/IP messages, organizations can now communicate and send alert notifications via SNMP & SNMP Traps. This provides more flexibility for integration of the DroneTracker with existing security systems.
Optional Dedrone Cloud Services Integration: By using Dedrone Cloud Services, the system learns faster and the detection continuously gets better. Furthermore by using the Dedrone Cloud Service it is possible to provide statistical reporting of your drone alerts in the future.
Camera: The DroneTracker is now equipped with an industrial standard HD camera, which is functional in temperatures from -20°C to +70°C.
Housing: DroneTracker 1.5 is equipped with an IP54 classified housing, made of UV- and weather-resistant, splash and dust-proof plastic. With its new, dull-white finish, the DroneTracker perfectly blends into white walls where it is typically attached.
Dedrone also recently announced that it has started mass production of the DroneTracker, to meet increasing demand. "Customers and partners are increasingly aware of the risk that drones create to their organizations, and they are looking for safe, legal, and comprehensive solutions to address the problem of unwanted drones," said Dedrone Managing Director Jörg Lamprecht. "With our new product enhancements, and greatly expanded production capabilities, we are poised to capture the increasing demand for Dedrone's solutions."
About DroneTracker – Multi-Sensor Drone Warning System
The size, speed and varying shape of drones make identification extremely difficult for a single monitoring method. Therefore, DroneTracker utilizes an array of sensors to detect drones in real time. DroneTracker is equipped with a unique system of interacting sensors. Based on multiple parameters such as noise, shape, and movement patterns, it is unlike any other drone warning system able to reliably detect all types of drones. The built-in camera saves images and videos in HD quality, providing crucial evidence of the threat intrusion.
DroneTracker – Detects All Kinds of Drones
DroneTracker is equipped with a unique system of interacting sensors. Based on multiple parameters such as noise, shape, and movement patterns, it is unlike any other drone warning system able to reliably detect all types of drones.
The built-in camera saves images and videos in HD quality, providing crucial evidence of the threat intrusion.
|Device Type
|multi-sensor detection system
|stand-alone or series combined
|2 x Audio / 192 kHz / Ultrasonic
|Video / 720p HD CAM / 60°–120°
|Near Infrared / 720p HD CAM
|Fast-Ethernet (100 Mbit/s)
|via LAN in existing infrastructure
|Power Supply
|active POE+ (802.3at) or passive POE 24 V
|23.2 x 23.2 x 6.46″ (589 x 589 x 164 mm)
|up to 328 ft (100 m)
|4 °F to +120 °F (-20 °C to 50 °C)
|via web interface
|firmware updates, DroneDNA via cloud
|via software, smartphone, email, SMS, network message (TCP/IP), SNMP, Pushover.net
|automatic switching
Software Specification
The intelligent DroneTracker software categorizes every detected drone on the basis of its individual characteristics such as size, shape, movement, and sound. Dedrone stores this signature – known as the Drone DNA – in a cloud-based database that is constantly and actively enlarged. Our clients can also send us videos of drones that the DroneTracker has detected without triggering an alert (so-called false-negative alerts). We evaluate these videos and add the new signatures to the database in the same way. All DroneTrackers worldwide receive regular DNA updates, so all users benefit from a protection network that is constantly growing.
- Video, Audio (inluding ultrasonic), Infrared
- Site map with view of the Tracker
- Live view of all sensor data
Collection and Securing of All Alarm Data
- Time of event, duration, level, comments
- Video, audio, and infrared recording
- Automatic recognition of drones and creation of drone signatures
- Ongoing enlargement with new drone signatures
- Automatic exchange of new drone signatures via cloud-based service
- Configuration of the DroneTracker and sensors
- Positioning and alignment of the DroneTracker via drag & drop
- Notification depending on alarm level via software, email, sms, network message (TCP/IP), SNMP, or Pushover.net
- Network configuration
- Detection profiles (day / night / time-controlled)
About Dedrone
Dedrone provides a professional civilian drone early-warning and detection system. Founded in 2014, the company has raised $2.9 million in VC funding, including an investment by successful security entrepreneur Tom Noonan (Internet Security Systems, JouleX). The company leverages acoustic and video detection technology to detect the drone threats faced by governments and industry. Once detected, it allows prisons and other facilities to react quickly, gathering contraband, locking down jail cells, and looking for pilots close by. The system not only provides real time video of the incident, but records the threat for video evidence. More information at www.dedrone.com


text: A new addition to Das KaiserReich (the perpetual and implacable enemy of Le Grand-Duché de Gourmandie) is part gift and part scrounging. During our recent trip to Historicon, Bob Lehman gifted me with some painted artillery pieces for my ImagiNation project. Among these was the large mortar in the photos below. He painted this in the traditional blue of Das KaiserReich. I came home with this gift with some re-infused enthusiasm for the project and immediately went about pulling out artillerists to add. Within a couple of weeks I received a mystery package from Ken "All the King's Men Toy Soldiers" Cliffe that contained six wonderfully painted artillerists. Ken, who normally reserves his considerable painting talent for 54mm figures, has done a splendid job with these Old Glory figures. These were immediately drafted to man 1. Große FeldArtillerie and its 24lb mortar. I decided to base it more statically than the regular field artillery and cast about for some earthworks etc. I was lucky to find two resin gabion pieces that i had painted a number of years ago and then had promptly forgotten. Adding in a few powder barrels and Voila! Thanks to Bob & Ken for helping create a nice compliment to my ImagiNation forces.


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Colorado Gold Program Fees
Currently the costs are as follows: tryout fee $20, returning players $10, and monthly dues are $75. The only other costs associated with Colorado Gold will be fees associated with participation in basketball tournaments or leagues. The membership fees pays for the addition of the player on the club insurance policy. The monthly dues pay for the coaches, gym time, ongoing insurance, the web site, etc. There will be no refunds. We are a non-profit organization.
For more information contact:
Cell: 720-290-8827


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Drug Rehab:
Statistics have shown that their are approximately 10 marijuana users and 4 people abusing prescription drugs that live in Leamington, Utah.
When you realize that you need aid with a chemical addiction problem you have made the first and hardest step toward recovery, however the next step of seeking that help will be a daunting task if you don't know where to look. This page provides a list of private, public, non-profit, gay, and Christian drug rehabilitation programs and intervention specialists near Leamington, Utah.
Leamington is located in Millard County and contains the following zip codes:
Leamington, Utah Drug Rehabilitation Centers
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Revolutionizing the industry, the Z-Plug zero-turn aerator addresses the slow and labor intensive job of aeration. The first stand on zero-turn aerator of its kind, the Z-Plug is capable of accepting additional attachments such as a slide seeder, snow plow, de-thatch rake, spiker, sprayer system and hydraulic drive spreader.
The Z-Plug can aerate more than 100,000 square feet per hour. It is our answer to the labor intensive process of core aeration. The full floating tine head with down pressure allows the operator to maneuver around obstacles. The hydraulic system lifts the tine head in less than 3 seconds for quick turnarounds.
Click here to view our Machine Comparison Sheet.


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SYDNEY: Australian investment fund QIC Ltd said on Wednesday it has agreed to buy a majority stake in a U.S. shopping centre and other development rights, in a deal valued at about $750 million
Queensland state-owned QIC is acquiring a 51 percent interest in a retail shopping centre in New York state from Forest City Realty Trust, the fund said in a statement, its eleventh U.S. acquisition.
"It further diversifies QIC's existing U.S. retail property portfolio, providing a unique opportunity to take a strategic stake in a quality retail asset within a tightly held institutional asset class, and provides even further geographic exposure to the U.S. East Coast," said Steven Leigh, managing director of QIC Global Real Estate.
QIC did not put a value on the deal, which an industry source said was worth about $750 million.
QIC is one of the largest institutional investment managers in Australia with around A$79 billion ($56 billion) in funds under management. It has around A$13.7 billion invested in Australian and international retail and offices. (Reporting by Sharon Klyne; Editing by Richard Pullin)


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Giving Back
Hands Free
At the end of the day, the only thing that truly matters is how we can make the world a better place. If our whole business were to collapse tomorrow all will not be lost because at least we were able to help a few people along the way. This brings us more joy and happiness than anything else in our business.
Surviveware donates a percentage of profits for every item sold to Hands Free, in hopes of furthering their global movement. This amazing foundation donates 3D printers to schools across the US, teaches the students how to use them, and then has the school use the printer to create 3D printed prosthetic hands for children all around the world!
Hands Free targets schools in low income areas and the goal is to not only help those receiving prosthetic hands, but also teaching kids how to make the hands. By targeting schools and programs in low income neighborhoods, they are giving 3D printer access to kids who would never normally have this opportunity.
Please take a moment to visit Hands Free website to learn more about their amazing work and perhaps get involved yourself.


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Renée Koldewijn has been following Dutch painter Nola Hatterman*, since my biography and lecture about Nola in 2008. Koldewijn went looking for Nola's footsteps in the Nola Hatterman Art Academy in Paramaribo and saw her house in the jungle in central Suriname.
Koldewijn is inspired by Nola's courage, empathy and involvement with the people of Suriname. Koldewijn made several works about Nola's change in identity; her transition from a Dutch woman to a woman who felt black inside. Koldewijn processes paint, fabrics and photographs in her portraits of Nola.
*Nola Hatterman has given Surinam art an enormous boost in the sixties and seventies. Until the age of 53 she lived in the Netherlands and there she acquainted the first Surinam people who had moved there. She felt more at home than with her own people. Aged 53 she left for her beloved Suriname to educate children in art. During the last years of her life, she has devoted to her historic paintings about the slave history and the rebellion of the Maroons against this slavery in Suriname.
Renée Koldewijn | Nola's Change | mixed media | 2017
Text: Ellen de Vries, writer biography Nola. Portrait of a quirky artist. https://www.facebook.com/n.hatterman/


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Wednesday, January 31 | 6 pm
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies presented by Ross King, author and lecturer
Free for members | $5 for non-members
Tickets available at the door and seating is first come, first served. | Book signing will be before the lecture, 5:15-5:45 pm and immediately following the lecture.
Join us for this fascinating lecture inspired by author Ross Kings's book, Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies.
Dr. Ross King is an award-winning art historian who has published books on French, Italian, and Canadian art and history. His works include Brunelleschi's Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling and Leonardo and the Last Supper.
Claude Monet is perhaps the world's most beloved artist. Among all his creations, the paintings of the water lilies in his garden at Giverny are the most famous. Seeing them in museums around the world, viewers are transported by the power of Monet's brush into a peaceful world of harmonious nature. Monet himself intended them to provide "an asylum of peaceful meditation." Yet these beautiful canvases belie the intense frustration Monet experienced at the difficulties of capturing the fugitive effects of light, shade, depth and color. Their calmness and beauty also conceal the terrible personal torments—the loss of loved ones, the horrors of World War I, the infirmities of age—that he suffered in the last dozen years of his life.
Mad Enchantment, King's new book, tells the full story behind the creation of the Water Lilies. The history of these remarkable canvases begins early in 1914, when French newspapers began reporting that Monet, by then 73 and one of the world's wealthiest, most celebrated painters, had retired his brushes. He had lost his beloved wife, Alice, and his eldest son, Jean. His famously acute vision—what Paul Cezanne called "the most prodigious eye in the history of painting"—was threatened by cataracts. And yet, despite ill health, self-doubt, and advancing age, Monet began painting again, this time on a more ambitious scale than ever before.


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This is the eighth round of ABC Wednesday. If you would like to join in please visit this site for the details.
Photography by KML features the fine art and stock images of photographer, K. Libby. KML specializes in Landscape and Nature photos. The stock photos include concepts, food, backgrounds, abstracts, sports, architecture, transportation, and people.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
ABC Wednesday - W is for Weather
This is the eighth round of ABC Wednesday. If you would like to join in please visit this site for the details.
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My hubby always says that being a weather man is the only job where you can always get it wrong, and never get fired!ReplyDelete
Jane x
If you are weird than I am also.:)ReplyDelete
Love the sky filled with clouds framed by the dark trees.
my wife's a weather nut, but not as skilled as you.ReplyDelete
ROG, ABC Wednesday team
Hehe. I am the opposite. I know nothing about the weather. I find it baffling. =P But maybe a little reading will help...ReplyDelete
Anyway, beautiful picture again. =) I like looking at clouds and stuff.
- AnonymousJune 23, 2011 at 10:48 AM
I love the texture of clouds especially right after the storm passes. I should have a few shots up on my blog today or tomorrow showing just this subject. www.vistaphotos.net You're already following so maybe you get a message when I update. I follow you but I don't get updates when you publish new articles from the Network blogs.. I should look into that.ReplyDelete
Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment - it is appreciated! I will do my best to return it with a visit to your blog. Take care, and enjoy!


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Koro (Stars)
Itipon an kanta kan mga bulalakaw
sindang nag-gigira sa diklom na panganoron
mga kantang minaosip sa agi-agi kan muraway
estrelyang kadurog kan mga bulawan.
lakbayin ang kadiliman ng gabi
ng walang hanggang lalim na mangha
iabot ang mga makasalanang kamay
sa mga mapanuksong kinang ng langit .
And sing, sing to the virgin night
the luster of desire
the glimmer of lust
and the trembling echo
of love's sad note.
Koro 1
How do I sing the trembling of stars,
their uncertainty to meet this night?
How do I sing the night's breathing,
the same shallow breath on my own chest?
In the east , the far cry of lovers
begs for night and the gods hear with hesitation,
the cicadas singing, the night's own sacred aria.
I am the Balyan of night.
Hear me Nikta! Goddess of darkest night,
your devotee calls.
Hear me and give understanding.
Koro 2
Night hears every whisper and understands every thought.
She grants the lovers' wish of the soothing blanket of night.
She hears the prayers for wisdom.
(enter man)
I have heard the distant prayer.
I have felt the night's hesitation.
There is an ancient stirring in my heart –
which scares the stars away.
And an unseen longing, like as if the sacred aria
of the stars beckons me to open the dam
of my heart and spill the truth away.
Koro 1 (soft)
I am a sinner! The worst kind of sinner!
Kill me now, Night, with your suffocating ink,
for I am a sinner to lovers.
I am a sinner to love! Great is the gift she has given me,
but great is the betrayal on my heart.
I have loved and been loved by the revelation of love herself.
Oh, how can I describe her?
Sing perhaps about her eyes, and how they remind me
of the clearest crystal.
Sing about how soft her hands are which makes me
want to call her the incarnation of Venus.
Or perhaps a gentle star given by God.
Where did she come from, what sweet-smelling flower
gave birth to her innocence?
What madness brought her to my side
and torture me with her beauty and love?
Koro (vocables)
But I only speak of betrayal.
I will not speak of her beauty or love.
I will sing of a murderous plot.
I will sing of the darkness building and rising
giving form to a substantial shadow.
I will sing the reason for the stars trembling!
I will sing of my vow to be the priest of the Christos!
You have heard the stars' distant prayer.
You have felt the night's hesitation.
I have heard your story, I have felt your sorrow –
like the unanswered call for rain, of a thirst and a parched farm.
Do sing to me the darkness in your heart.
I do not know you woman,
but you understand the weight I bear in my heart
and the absence of weight in my arms.
I feel we share the same bond
of understanding and trust.
Although it pains me to tell my story,
the night's gentle persuasion is sweet.
She was the sun's daughter, her face
radiant and warm.
That was the first thing that struck me.
There is a mystery in her eyes – a hidden
power of the moon's dark passion.
She has the power to make my blood boil with desire
and arouse a deep longing in my chest.
I thought I saw her in my dream,
but I was wide awake, and my vow
was buried in lust or maybe love.
O, the stars know about my vow!
That is why they tremble tonight.
My mother offered me to be a priest
in return for my good heart when I was
a sickly child of four.
Now my heart is still the same reason for my death,
and the stars are still accomplices and
passive witnesses to my betrayal.
What say you sacred woman of night?
I know little of love or Fate's ways myself,
child of the Christos.
I am a woman born of the midnight mist
and the silent murmuring of a thousand stars.
But in my dealings with young lovers
with the sparkle of silver in their eyes,
I learned love's schemes.
Love is an unseen force.
Indeed, mighty is love
that we lose all thought, even time.
Love is a flood that drowns us,
still smiling and with our eyes closed to
a sweet surrender.
Love rearranges stars.
Can love rearrange the stars?
Cancel my mother's vow and let me
love wholly and truly?
The stars will answer our questions.
(she turns to the Koro)
irorip an kabanggihan kan namumuot na daghan.
Dangoga mga bituon an pamibi kan balyan.
Paladan na masimbag nin katotoohan,
an mga maragsik na kahapotan.
Koro/Oracle (vocables)
Balyan (vocables, conversing with the koro)
They speak in riddle not in rhyme.
They speak the truth that sometimes we
get confused.
But they have spoken and sung!
And what is it sacred woman? What is it?
Only a love that's true
Only a love that's true
Only a love that's true –
Can rearrange the stars.
My love is true, woman.
I love her like my love for the Christos.
But I can't choose one from the other.
It's a torture to let me choose.
I want to love her fully, and then serve the Christos
as His priest on His temple in the hills.
But I love her, I really do!
The stars are witnesses to my love.
The moon and the night are accomplices to our
own song.
Our love makes the torches bright!
Koro (vocables)
And so be it.
The stars hear you.
The night has crept in the east
with the same hesitation.
So be it!
Koro 1 and 2 (rearranging while singing)
(And then, a gun shot and a shrill cry!)
The cry of my love!
(exeunt left)
Koro (same vocables as in the oracle)
Balyan (competing with the koro)
The stars tremble in their place.
They speak in riddle not in rhyme.
Only a love that's true,
Only a love that's true,
Only a love that's true,
can rearrange the stars…
Be careful what you wish for,
It might just come true. (whisper)
(enter man, a woman's body on his arms)
The night is young.
The stars are peaceful once more.
Not a stirring in the air.
The mist has kissed our brows goodnight.
The larks are asleep.
Close your eyes now, love.
Sleep with the memory of our last kiss.
Sleep with the memory of our love.
The stars heard our prayers.
And now I go to the caves of the forest,
to seek understanding in their womb.
I will be the old man of the caves of Banahaw,
the old man searching for light
and never looking at the stars
nor listen to their sacred arias.
Koro 1 (sad)
Koro (vocables, exiting, their voices fading)
How do I sing the trembling of stars,
their uncertainty to meet this night?
How do I sing the night's breathing,
the same shallow breath on my own chest?
In the east , the far cry of lovers
begs for night and the gods hear with hesitation,
the cicadas singing, the night's own sacred aria.
I am the Balyan of night.
Hear me Nikta! Goddess of darkest night,
your devotee calls.
Hear me and give understanding.
Spatial music for 20 or more children's/female voices (+ balingbing [bamboo buzzers], suling [bamboo flutes]),
10 mixed voices ( + balingbing, suling, tagutok [scraper], kalutang [pairs of sticks]),
20 mixed voices (+ balingbing, kalutang, suling, tagutok),
gong Ageng, 6 suspended agung (gongs with stopped sounds) (3 players), 6 kempul (Indonesian gongs) (3 players), 2 bonang (rack of small tuned gongs), 2 saron (Indonesian metallophones), 2 gender (Indonesian metallophones), 2 kulintang (gongs in a row),
8 dancers, alto (+ rainstick), bass (+ rainstick),
wind chimes (suspended from a tree)
This was premiered during the Graduation Recital of Ms Feliz Macahis
last February 12, 2009
at the University of the Philippines College of Music Annex Garden
text by: Romulo Vinci Rada Bueza
1st & 2nd Group of Voices: MuPC C COND5 [Chorus Class Under Sir Palaruan]
3rd Group of Voices:
and friends
Gamelan:students from the College of Music
Choreographed by:Chantal Primero
(dancers)UP Dance Company
Balyan (alto):Mary Katherine Trangco-Cabral
Man(bass): Arjay Viray
Conducted by: Eudenice Palaruan