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Posted by Chic Aeon in events, iheartslFeed, new releases on Thursday, December 26, 2013
Now I knew I would love Gothmas by Gaslight but it took me until Christmas eve before my expectations were realized. Dark buildings against the snow covered hills. Constant, very realistic falling snow; it is indeed lovely.
Two very pretty releases can be found at this venue.
The lassitude & ennui Batty necklace is a "cute & gothy little necklace, with a bat wing pendant on a ribbon and a large bow at the side. Ribbon and pearl are texture-change, and there are 6 coordinated textures. Comes in silver, gold or black metal".
The Bliensen + MaiTai Drusilla Earrings come in three colors of globes with a choice of either red or black bows. Don't let the delicate nature fool you, those are skeleton hands holding the globes *wink*.
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I have two laptops, and I find it useful to use both of them at the same time; such as, when opening two different programs and documents on each. But its always such a pain to have to use different mouse for controlling each. Well, turns out, that doesn't needs to be the case. This nice free software, InputDirector, will make it possible to use the same mouse, and even keyboard and even the clipboard for both of your computer, and as seamlessly as extended display.


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The 17th of February marks the start of Oslo's by:Larm 2011, Scandinavia's premier music industry convention and showcase festival.
The program is packed with exciting names from Norway and the Nordic countries. It contains nearly 50 handpicked Norwegian demo artists, over 30 exciting Scandinavian artists, about 20 folk-/jazz- and roots artists as well as 50 established Norwegian artists who bet on making it big abroad.
The full live programme can be found here.
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The nominees for the 2011 Statoil Scholarship have also been announced.
Harrys Gym, Ulver, Ost & Kjex, Kvelertak, Montee, 120 Days, Jenny Hval, Lukestar and I Was A King are all contenders for the NOK 1m grant.
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Jeremy Hobson: Now to Washington, where lawmakers are debating a $642 billion defense spending bill. And one thing that will not be in it is the $45 million Technology Innovation Program.
Our Washington bureau chief John Dimsdale reports that'll put some emerging technologies on hold.
John Dimsdale: The Technology Innovation Program, or TIP, gave cash to researchers who were developing promising, but still unproven, technologies. One recipient was testing electronic light pulses that could find cracks in concrete or stone.
Vint Cerf was one of TIP's advisors.
Vint Cerf: Bridges, buildings, highways and things like that, which as we know over time disintegrate just because of use.
Cerf knows government money can be necessary to bring new technologies to market. He helped start the Internet, which got 20 years of federal support before it was a commercial success.
Cerf: I regret to see this program go away. I think we should have more programs like that.
But saving TIP's $45 million every year won't solve trillion-dollar deficits, says the Concord Coalition's Robert Bixby.
Robert Bixby: While this may give the appearance of tough budget medicine and making hard choices, it really is not getting at the heart of the problem.
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Our garden's first mint shoots of the season...
"And the Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
Rose from the dreams of its wintry rest."
--- The Sensitive Plant, Percy Bysshe Shelley
The weather here in
The weather here in
Yesterday, I stepped out to inspect the small kitchen garden plot we have running the length of one side of our home. I was so excited by what I saw that I ran to fetch my camera. The first tender shoots of our mint patch had appeared!
Mint is my favourite of all the herbs and not without good reason. It is a universal ingredient in Greek food and can be added to practically any dish as ingredient or ornament. Mint is for me an inspiration and not merely a plant, and hopefully, I will pass a measure of my enthusiasm for this herb on to you, my reader.
In Greek Mythology, there is a species of nymph who are known as Naiads and their existence is bound to flowing freshwaters; every spring, fountain and
Minthe (Μίνθη) was a Naiad, and it is from her name that most European languages derive their names for the sweetest smelling of all the herbs. However, according to one ancient Roman scholar, the Greeks switched names for "minthe" just before the first Century of our era, preferring to call it 'edyosmon' (ηδυόσμον), ostensibly because of its sweet-smelling fragrance."Dyosmo" remains as the name for this herb in Modern Greek.
According to the myth, Minthe (who was as beautiful as only a nymph could be) attracted the amorous attention of Hades, god of the Underworld, during one of his scandalous forays above ground. But, before Hades could consummate his seduction of Minthe, his jealous wife Persephone caught up with the philanderer and turned his latest paramour into the familiar herb. Since he could not undo Persephone's spell and restore Minthe, Hades bestowed the gift of a wonderful fragrance to the former Naiad as a consolation for her troubles. This tale is likely a clue as to why a wild species of mint 'calaminthe' (καλαμίνθη) was one of the ingredients that went into the kykeon - the sacred draught of the Eleusinian Mysteries, which were initiation ceremonies held annually as part of the cult worship of Demeter and her daughter, Persephone.
When they were not swigging mint as part of some mystical potion, the ancient Greeks also used it to flavour their wine and foods. Furthermore, we are told that during the time of Themistocles (c. 524–459 BC), men at Athens were fond of wearing sprigs of mint behind their ear as some kind of fashion statement when they congregated for Assembly. Yet, there were also proscriptions against mint consumption, one of the most notable being Hippocrates' warning that mint was not to be consumed by epileptics.
Today, mint is to be found everywhere in
Now, I think it is time I made some fresh mint tea with some of the leaves I harvested from the garden, sweetened with a teaspoon of Greek thyme honey.
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Two blocks from the White House Tuesday, where a Ferguson protest was raging on, Bob Dylan sat between the columns at the DAR Constitution Hall and asked one more time "How many years can some people exist, before they're allowed to be free?"
It got a bit of a rise from the crowd, this sorrowful notion that more than a half century after he first wrote it, he had to ask again. So did the line "How many deaths will it take till he knows that too many people have died?"
Echoing in a place that itself banned Marian Anderson from singing in the hall in 1939 because she was black.
But Dylan, at 73, has long since stopped being a kind of political oracle, a singer of social action that helped shape music, a generation and the world.
On an unusual tour that has him playing the exact same setlist night after night for the past month, he seems to be favoring more the balladry in his own catalog and that of others — the Frank Sinatra "Stay with Me" closes the show, foreshadowing his album of standards out next year.
It's not because, as he claims in the opener, "I used to care, but things have changed," from a song that has since been sold to Chrysler. He may be at a point where he is simply appreciating the beauty of song and joys in a melody.
Also: the fun of being a performer.
After years of appearing coiled in tension on stage, for decades behind a guitar, here he was in a kind of white zoot suit and hat — like Jim Carrey used in "The Mask" holding the mike stand, unencumbered by instrument, tilting it as he crooned, stepping lively around the stage when he wasn't.
More than half of the show he stood at the microphone, with no instrument but the occasional harmonica wail; the rest of the time was at a grand piano, where his chords and countermelodies had more prominence than they might have on past tours, sometimes guiding the band (he also played "Blowin' in the Wind" on piano, an instrument not usually associated with the song except by Stevie Wonder).
Dylan's voice may seem on perma-frog, judging from the grit on his last album, "Tempest," which dominated the set list with six out of the 19 songs. But he's also able to adjust his growl, so that some of his singing was surprisingly sharp and clear.
The music mix in the hall Neoclassical hall was superb, his sometimes hard to distinguish voice clear above the longtime quintet that so well serves his music, with Charlie Sexton on guitar.
I wish maybe there was more of a sense of place in Dylan's performance, though.
And not just the usual political commentary of "Even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked" from "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" or the whole of "Tweedlee and Tweedledum."
I mean the specificity of this place, retold on the recent "Narrow Way" — "Ever since the British burned the White House down, there's a bleeding wound in the heart of town." The DAR hall is located in the block between the White House and the Octagon house, where Madison lived for six months 200 years ago as the city rebuilt from the War of 1812.
"Narrow Way" was one of just four songs from "Tempest" that isn't being played on the current tour, which if nothing else acquits well the latest studio output — the rock of "Early Roman Kings" and the wistful groove of "Pay in Blood" all pretty much in the same arrangement as they were on the 2012 recording. It wasn't entirely true, though, as the chassis of its opening "Duquesne Whistle" has been completely retooled as a shuffle.
Dylan is the only performer who came to fame from the 60s (or 70s or 80s) who doesn't rely at all on the early tunes. He's always refused nostalgia as a common response to his material; even when he was playing a lot of it, he treated the songs like living, ever evolving things, sometimes having little to do with how it was originally recorded.
He did that again on the handful of pre-1997 material he included, especially a "Tangled Up in Blue" whose verses seemed chopped in half; its "Blood on the Tracks" counterpart, "Simple Twist of Fate" came a little more intact, but with its own new internal engine. The only other old song in the set? A rearranged "She Belongs to Me" as the show's second song.
Otherwise, all were tunes he had recorded with this same band; along with "Beyond Here Lies Nothin' and "Forgetful Heart" from 2009's "Together Through Life"; "Workingman's Blues #2" and "Spirit on the Water" from the 2006 "Modern Times"; and only a stinging "Love Sick" from his
2001 1997 breakthrough "Time Out of Mind."
The one real head-scratcher in the tour (other than the Sinatra, I suppose) is "Waiting for You," a rousing waltz that only appeared on the 2002 soundtrack for
"The Sisterhood of Traveling Pants," "Devine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood," something that may not be in the collection of some of the most ardent Dylan fans.
If the band looked like a country dance band from the 1920s, the staging looked like Hollywood in that era, with big golden klieg lights above them and some footlights in front — all dimmer than some of the stair lights in the hall, making it impossible to see through all the shadows.
Dylan remains an enigmatic figure and flinty musical traveler who continues to reward repeated visits after all of this time no matter where he is.


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Things you should consider while buying a new computer
If you are planning to buy a new computer, there are several things that you should keep in mind. You do a detailed research study about computers and the latest trends. If you are buying a new computer, you will definitely want it to be the latest and the best in class with the latest and the up to date configurations. Now choosing the best configuration for your computer is not a very difficult task, but it should be done wisely. Don't rely blindly on any one while buying a computer as in that case you may end up not getting true value for money.
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You obviously want your home and its belonging to be safe and sound at all times. However, unfortunately with crime rate shooting up, just locking the doors and windows of one's house is not enough to ensure safety. And this is exactly where the home security equipment comes into the picture. There is a plethora of home security equipment available these days and the biggest advantage that these offer is they monitor your home round the clock. The equipment is easy to use and you can install them without seeking any professional assistance as well. Here are some very popular home security equipments.
One of the most popular security devices these days is the nanny camera. A nanny camera is essentially a hidden video camera that can be hidden inside any object in the house. As surveillance is the key objective of the camera it is a broad camera. Broad cameras are miniature cameras in which the lens is mounted on the circuit board. They are operated by battery and electric wiring. Its popularity stems from the fact that it can be hidden away very easily. There are some nanny cameras that are styled like teddy bears and are operated by batteries. If you want to choose a nanny camera to ensure the safety and security of your home make sure that you choose a nanny camera that suits the surrounding.
No discussion on home security equipment can ever be complete with the home video security camera. These cameras are extremely popular and offer maximum possible security to your homes. Installing a wireless home video security camera at the entryway of your home is possibly one best ways to monitor your home and check trespassers. It is very easy to install these cameras and you can do it yourself with a few handy tools.
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Your laptop is certainly one of your most functional possessions. It's not wrong to dub the laptop as your personal tech diary where you have all your office and personal data stored safely. However, your laptop demands some simple maintenance tips which you must follow to ensure the needed long life for the device. The article here is all about how you should care for your laptop.
Keep liquids & food away from laptop
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13 individuals have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Eugene, Oregon, on a variety of mortgage and loan fraud charges arising out of the collapse of Desert Sun Development (DSD), a company previously headquartered in Bend, Oregon. Tyler Fitsimons, 31, Prineville; Shannon Egeland, 35, La Grande; Jeremy Kendall, 33, Redmond; John Partin, 65, Bend; Robert Brink, 58, Junction City; Garret Towne, 29, Culver, Shaun Little, 41, Bend; Del Barber, Jr., 44, Bend, Jeffrey Sprague, 46, Bend, Barbara Hotchkiss, 40, Redmond, Kevin Palotay, 46, Bend, Teresa Ausbrooks, 47, Bend, Michael Wilson, 58, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina.
From 2004 through 2008, DSD built commercial buildings and residential housing throughout Central Oregon. According to the indictments, DSD principals and other defendants caused financial institutions to lose more than $19 million. In total, five separate indictments were returned. Arraignments of all defendants are scheduled for December 16, 2009, before the Honorable Magistrate Judge Thomas Coffin in Eugene.
The first indictment charges three DSD principals (Tyler Fitsimons, 31, Prineville; Shannon Egeland, 35, La Grande; and Jeremy Kendall, 33, Redmond); and a Bend businessman (John Partin, 65) with conspiracy, bank fraud, making false loan applications to banks, and money laundering, focusing on commercial construction projects. In total, it is alleged that various lending institutions loaned in excess of $25 million to DSD for its commercial construction projects, and suffered a loss of more than $9 million. The indictment alleges that the defendants sought construction financing for five commercial buildings in Bend and Redmond, Oregon which were never built. As part of the scheme, the defendants are alleged to have made representations that construction was underway, when it was not. John Partin, owner of Advance Steel in Bend, is alleged to have issued false invoices for steel building kits for the non-existent buildings. The indictment also seeks forfeiture of a Ferrari, two Viper automobiles, and other assets related to the fraud and money laundering allegations.
In a separate indictment, Robert Brink, 58, Junction City, is charged with making false statements to Umpqua Bank regarding DSD's construction loans. Brink was a construction loan officer at Umpqua Bank. The indictment alleges that on five separate occasions he filed inspection reports with Umpqua Bank certifying that construction was underway on DSD projects, when in fact it was not.
A third indictment charges conspiracy, bank fraud, and false statements to banks in connection with DSD's residential real estate investment program. The defendants in that indictment include Fitsimons, Egeland, Kendall, a fourth DSD employee (Garret Towne, 29, Culver, Oregon), as well as two mortgage brokers (Shaun Little, 41, Bend; and Del Barber, Jr., 44, Bend), a bank loan officer (Jeffrey Sprague, 46, Bend), a loan processor (Barbara Hotchkiss, 40, Redmond), and a building materials supplier (Kevin Palotay, 46, Bend).
The indictment alleges that defendants schemed to provide false statements to financial institutions to finance the purchase or construction of residential properties. The allegations include that defendants inflated applicant's income and temporarily parked DSD funds in the applicant's accounts to obtain false proof that the borrowers had independent funds available to them. The two mortgage brokers, loan officer and loan processor are alleged to have assisted in preparing and approving false loan applications, causing them to be sent to financial institutions. Finally, Palotay is alleged to have provided a false invoice to create the false appearance that DSD had purchased construction materials.
In a separate indictment, Teresa Ausbrooks, 47, Bend, is charged with bank fraud. She is alleged to have made false statements relating to her income and debts in an application to finance DSD's construction of a house for her.
In the final indictment, Michael Wilson, 58, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, is charged with bank fraud. Wilson is alleged to have been DSD's residential construction superintendent. The indictment alleges that DSD president Tyler Fitzsimons agreed to sell Wilson a $500,000 home built by DSD. The indictment alleges that, to qualify for the loan to purchase this property, Wilson made false statements about his income and assets.
"The economic hit that a community like Bend takes in a case like this one is very real," said Arthur Balizan, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in Oregon. "When a development company collapses under the pressure of fraud-as is alleged in this case-we are left with millions of dollars in losses, empty lots and abandoned buildings. Everyone loses."
"The impact from the types of crimes alleged in these indictments cannot be overstated," said Kenneth J. Hines, the IRS Special Agent in Charge of the Pacific Northwest. "Similar conduct surely played a role in shaking the confidence in our financial system last year. Identifying and exposing those who enrich themselves through criminal means is a duty we wholeheartedly accept as federal law enforcement officers."
"These indictments represent a significant step in the government's efforts to detect and prosecute mortgage fraud," said Acting U.S. Attorney Kent S. Robinson. "The conduct alleged in these indictments is typical of what has caused so much havoc in the mortgage and financial sectors. We will continue to seek charges whenever developers, businessmen, bankers, or loan officers are alleged to have made false statements to financial institutions." Robinson thanked the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, and the State of Oregon, Division of Finance and Corporate Securities, for their combined investigative efforts.
An indictment is only an allegation of a crime, and all defendants should be presumed innocent until proven guilty.
This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Bradford.


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In Ohio, life insurance has been one of the traditional cornerstones of financial planning.
You are irreplaceable. So what happens to your spouse or children when you are no longer able to provide for them financially because of your premature death? What happens to your business when you are no longer there to properly run it? Although you cannot be replaced, Freeman Groves Insurance can show you how to transfer that financial burden to make sure your loved ones will be taken care of during the toughest time of their lives.


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On the brutal streets of Hellip, a village in the vast empire of the cruel King Ibis, you either become good at running from the king's Blackcoats or you die. This is the lesson that twelve-year-old Tucker Scrap, abandoned as an infant among the orphans of Hellip, learned early. Along with her friends Ash and Kally, Tucker spends her time keeping one step ahead of the unjust laws, stealing what she needs to survive, and pondering her own unknown origins—and those of the enchanted bracelet with which she was found.
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The introduction to a fantasy world rich with ancient magic, enigmatic gypsies, palace labyrinths, and deep woods haunted by strange and forbidding creatures, Emory Sharplin's debut novel tells the story of Tucker Scrap: a bold, memorable heroine at the center of a centuries-old mystery, stepping into her destiny at last.
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Be on the look out for the following stolen photo poster from the Hilo Palace Theater:
Some bastard walked into the lobby of the Palace during the show yesterday and stole the 20″ by 30″ photo poster I made of Mary Magdalene. Please let me know if you happen to see it. I'd like it back if only for the principle. ADDENDUM – If recovered, the plan will be to sign it, frame it and donate it to the Palace Theater for fund raising….
Daniel Nathaniel
Filed under: Announcements, Big Island, Community, Guest Commentator, Hawaii, Hilo, Legal, Missing, Movies and Film Tagged: | Mary Magdalene, Photo Poster


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"Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation."
Tomorrow, I embark on a great adventure. Tomorrow, I will board a plane to head across the 'other' ocean. Yes, I am going West this time, and I am not stopping at just California.
I have some jitters. I thought I had quelled them last night in some video chats last night. Then, Christmas Eve hit me. With every rush imaginable, we had one of my grandparents over to share an afternoon meal and presents with. With no football, we watched Up.
I am thankful for my family. I am thankful for both ends of the crazy good and the crazy bad that we sometimes have to go through (you know, the holiday season?). Watching Up with them presented perhaps one of the hardest times that I have had to get up from the couch, especially knowing that Japan is looming on one of the days when my entire family is together year after year. So, tomorrow, when they drop me off at the airport (me, with my Santa hat and international-flight track pants; them, probably still in their pajamas), I guess I want us all to understand why we go adventure early in life; why we try to plan adventure in advance; why we should seek adventure daily forever. And that message I saw abundantly clear in Up. We travel, we adventure so we can move on to the next, sometimes not even realizing that there have been other adventures along the way.
I am finding each adventure sheds light on the previous and especially on the people who you wish could adventure with you. In each of my (now numerous) trips, I go to see places and find myself surprised at who comes to mind when I ask myself, "Who would be losing themselves in this moment?" Each adventure brings another person into my life a little more.
So, I am not running away… this time. I am running toward some more such moments.
I need to shout out to one person who continues to inspire me to travel and who cheered me on tonight. I need to shout out (in advance) to my tour-host. I need to thank my family for bringing me to a point in my life where I can jump when I want.
Things left to do:
- rig up the iPod with some decent travel tunes
- pack the carry-on(s?)
- make sure I have a toothbrush
- consider packing toilet paper if I have room


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This app allows investors of "We Share Solar", a crowd-funding platform for collective solar power in the Netherlands, to constantly monitor the performance of their solar panels. An indicator makes it easy for users to check how much energy they are generating. A real-time connection with the shared solar panels shows the perform-ance at any particular moment, as well as daily, monthly, annual and total performance. These figures are then compared to the expected return, providing a transparent overview of how the investment is performing.
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|African elephant Watoto watches Asian elephant Chai at play. Photo by Ryan Hawk/WPZ.
As our dear friends and supporters of the zoo, I wanted to share with you the latest news from the Elephant Task Force. This group of community leaders was recently charged with providing an objective evaluation of the health and social well-being of Woodland Park Zoo's elephants, and an assessment of the zoo's elephant breeding program.
|Read the full report.
The Expert Review Panel reaffirmed that Woodland Park Zoo's elephants Watoto, Chai and Bamboo are in good medical health and the behavioral and social well-being of all three elephants is good. The panel's report also provided an independent evaluation of the zoo's elephant breeding program and options for future success.
Like you, your zoo is passionate about providing excellent care and is always focused on how to improve the elephant experience. The report also outlines ways to further enhance the zoo's elephant exhibit and program, which the zoo's elephant team and I welcome. The Expert Panel's input is invaluable and we will review and consider it in detail.
The Woodland Park Zoo Board of Directors and leadership greatly respect and appreciate the rigorous review of our elephant program by the Elephant Task Force and look forward to receiving the final and full report in September, 2013. We will share that report with you once it is available.
Thanks so much for your support. Woodland Park Zoo is a world-class zoo because of community members like you. You are truly helping to provide the very best in animal care here at the zoo and helping to save animals in the wild through your support.


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NLA Newspaper Beta
A personal favourite of mine is the National Library of Australia's newspaper beta. This site "allows access to historic Australian newspapers digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program."
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See it in action here:


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About Mike Breen
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KZN Christmas Market Festival
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Times: 9:00 - 20:00 (Tuesday to Friday), 9:00 - 13:00 (Saturday)
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Trump's Beliefs I Oppose
I am opposed to repealing "Obamacare" and starting all over.
I am opposed to terminating President Obama's executive order relating to immigration.
I am opposed to deporting 11 million immigrants illegally living in the United States.
I am opposed to ending birthright citizenship.
I am opposed to building a wall on the southern border to block out Mexican immigrants.
I am opposed to making Mexico pay for the wall on the southern border.
I am opposed to suspending the admission of Syrian refugees.
I am opposed to temporarily banning most foreign Muslims from entering the United States.
I am opposed to ordering a review of every single (Obama) regulation issued the last eight years.
I am opposed to terminating every unconstitutional executive order signed by President Obama.
I am opposed to stop trying to tackle global warming.
I am opposed to severing Chinese-American trade with a 45% tariff on all Chinese imports.
I am opposed to prosecuting Hillary Clinton for the email debacle.
I am opposed to defunding Planned Parenthood.
I am opposed to overturning Roe v. Wade and penalizing women who have abortions.
I am opposed to letting the states decide the minimum wage.
I am opposed to slashing taxes for the wealthy, adding $10 trillion in tax revenue to the national debt.
I am opposed to stopping spending on space exploration.
I am opposed to getting rid of gun free zones and putting more guns in the classroom.
I am opposed to allowing Russia to deal with the Islamic State in Syria.
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I am opposed to revoking the nuclear agreement with Iran.
I am opposed to allowing Japan to have nuclear weapons.
I am opposed to making Ford Motor Company pay a tax of 35% for every car coming from Mexico.
I am opposed to withdrawing from NATO.
I am opposed to legalizing waterboarding as a form of torture while violating international law.
I am opposed to having a President who ignores political correctness and uses threats and insults.
I am opposed to having a President who shows a blatant disregard for women.
I am opposed to having a Commander-in-Chief who claims he knows more than his generals.
I want you to know that although Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in the nation, being Hillary supporters made us a minority in our state and in our county. Supporting Clinton for President in Scioto Country was very difficult in the face of great numbers who opposed our views. It is impossible to count the number of times on social media I, personally, was the target of name calling and denigrating remarks for my support of Hillary. It was very disparaging to see these personal insults – not attacks on platforms but attacks on my character. My wife endured the same condemnation. We are healing our wounds.
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Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, urged Arab countries today to follow his example and send home all Palestinians to expose what he said was Israel's plan to create a Palestinian state in name only.
Speaking at a makeshift camp in the desert near the border with Egypt, Mr. Qaddafi told a crowd of thousands that his expulsion of thousands of Palestinians was the greatest service to the aims of establishing a Palestinian homeland.
"The Zionist plan is to create a Palestine without Palestinians," he said, adding that "other Arab countries are taking part in this Zionist plan by allowing the Palestinians to stay in their land."
But in the West Bank, both supporters and opponents of the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasir Arafat, in a rare show of unity, heaped scorn on Mr. Qaddafi at a news conference today for what they called the "transfer" of Palestinians from Libya.
In recent weeks, Libyan authorities have expelled thousands of Palestinians, dismissing many from their jobs and confiscating their houses. Egypt will only let through the few Palestinians who have permission to enter Jordan or areas under Palestinian self-rule, where Israel has control over immigration. The rest remain here at the camp.
Before the expulsions started, more than 30,000 Palestinians lived in Libya.
Mr. Qaddafi has become critical of the Palestinians since Mr. Arafat signed an interim peace accord with Israel in 1993.
He was even more criticism of Mr. Arafat's accord signed recently with Israel on handing over authority in the West Bank to the Palestinian Authority.Continue reading the main story
"Overnight, they told us that Israel was no longer the enemy we knew," he said. "They said the Palestinian cause was over and because Libya believes them, it has asked the Palestinians to return to their home."Continue reading the main story


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If you are still not sure what's going to happen to the media this year, check out this predictions series by the Nieman Lab. My personal favourites are:
Platforms are about creating a solid starting point that can be a springboard for extension and further innovation. They factor out some of the messy details and make it easy for innovators to add a creative twist and build on top. While a story is a one-off, a platform for stories can produce a hundred or even a thousand different experiences.
In 2015, we'll see an expansion of platform thinking beyond content, to include the whole range of journalistic activities, from news gathering to sensemaking and dissemination.
Communication is changing: we need to start rethinking how we deliver stories:
In 2015, smart media will explode the way they think about delivering news and put everything on the table. What does news look like now, and what can it be? What are our assumptions about visual culture/end users/lifecycles of content/measuring impact that stop us from moving forward? What stories are we creating that are so compelling they can be watched on a loop? How do we wed stories and experiences to place, space, and time? Why are we so damn serious all the time? Is there space to report on the messy betweens or the small pockets of joy in darkness?
2015 will see a tipping point in favor of subscription-based journalism online.
News organizations get serious about research:
There are recent glimmers of hope, both inside news organizations and in their external relationships with universities and other relevant parties. The R&D unit at The New York Times is a promising example of the kind of innovative work that can emerge when a news organization is not focused only on tomorrow's deadline but also on the medium-term horizon.
Visualization goes mainstream:
…there's increased interest in visual design skills and data analysis.
The fall and rise of the news bundle:
The idea of the bundle isn't broken — it never really went away. Rather, the packaging of the news is morphing into multiple forms as the established ways of stuffing the news into the one-size-fits-all newspaper didn't work so well in a networked society.The news is being packaged in four broad ways: by apps, devices, social signals, and algorithms.The notifications from news apps that make it onto that lock screen are in prime position to capture attention. The lock screen is the new bundle.
I predict 2015 will be the year that someone invents a great asset management solution to manage print and digital content that will give us these much-needed efficiencies — enabling us to be more competitive.We need to divorce the content from the display and destination. Just create the content and store it centrally.
The lauded pageview is being eclipsed by measurements of engagement and influence.The debut of the Apple Watch this year will compel us to think more about how to produce engaging content for even smaller screens, for audiences on the go, for glance functionality.
To succeed in this future, media organizations must become fluent in an increasingly visual idiom.There are startups built on gifs and emojis. There are few jobs buzzier than those which include the words "visual" and "storyteller."
This is the year you have to start caring about digital security.When newsrooms hesitate to embrace technology, we face greater risks than a drop in pageviews: We jeopardize sources and compromise the integrity of our information.
There is a big reward in engagement in giving people a smaller number of stories, served up at the right time of day and in the right format.The future of news will inevitably involve making hard decisions about serving people not just what we think they should know, but what they might like to know — even if they don't know it.
2015 will be the first year where native advertising programs will be in place at nearly every serious news organization.
What's most interesting to me about native — aside from the fact that it can't be automated and scaled via networks like banners — is that it plays to the very heart of serious news organizations' strengths. Quite simply, native advertising is advertising for people who read things.
2015 looks to be the year when we start grappling with the power and role of these complex algorithms — sometimes discussed as machine learning or artificial intelligence — and when a thousand more startups (and big companies, since they have a data advantage in fueling these types of algorithms) start trying to "deploy" them not just in apps and sites, but in our devices and objects as chips and sensors become more prevalent.


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AB and CD are two parallel chords of a circle. CA and DB meet, when produced, at X. AD and BC intersect at Y
There are three parts to this question, two of which are already solved and i will post results:
a)YA= YB
b)XA= XB
How must i prove that XY will pass through center?
And just generally, how is this achieved without using co-ordinate geometry, i.e. proving a certain line passes through centre.


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Reward Summit is headquartered in Charlotte, NC, and builds mobile and web-based solutions to help consumers take full advantage of the value of financial products. Its products are innovative, easy to use, secure, and always respect the privacy of the customer. Here's a little more about our team:
John came up with the idea for Reward Summit while experiencing personal frustration with not being able to figure out which card to use. John has a history of leading fast growth technology companies, focusing on product development, sales, and finance. John was the COO of Amentra, an IT consulting shop that was acquired by Red Hat. After that, John helped launch and lead Nexgrid, a disruptive smart grid company.
Chris is a financial services technology veteran who is passionate about making payments easier for consumers. He spent the first 15 years of his career at some of the largest banks in the United States focused on developing and deploying the technology that powers payment solutions. He's anxiously waiting for the day when cash is obsolete and his smartphone checks out for him when he's at the store.
Scott Lien is a seasoned technology and business leader who combines a deep understanding of technology with a strong focus on building great products that customers love. He has held leadership positions at Bank of America, Best Buy, ePredix, Target, and Intuit. Scott is a founding Partner of Innovations Accelerated, an early stage angel investment fund focused on helping accelerate the growth of breakthrough innovations. Scott is an investor, board member and advisor for Reward Summit.
Anthony has a long history in building user-friendly products across a wide range of industries. A Six Sigma Black Belt and a self-described "marketing junkie," Anthony's business background started in arguably the toughest market in the world: SAT prep. Specializing in user experience and conversion analytics, Anthony's focus is on attracting and keeping as many users as possible through the use of clear, honest marketing and simple, fun product design. Anthony currently lives in Los Angeles, where he splits his time between being a workaholic and falling off his surfboard.
Kelly is a social media guru, avid food blogger, and one of the first power users of Reward Summit. You can check out her handiwork on Foodie Fresh and on our Twitter feed.


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Bayern Munch legend Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has revealed that the German giants are chasing Arsenal target Marco Reus for a possible January swoop.
Rummenigge made over 300 appearances for Bayern and scored 162 goals in his time at the club. The former forward is now the chief executive officer, as well as acting chairman for the European Club Association.
And the legend has admitted that while Arsenal have been pursuing Reus, Bayern are also looking at the possibility of making a move for the 22 year old.
"He is one of the most interesting talents. In the long term he could have a high quality," he said.
"The only criterion is quality. It's not just about money but also to get appropriate guidance to your career. When you have an offer from a big club, you have to study it."
Reus was a big target for Arsenal last summer, though with a £15 million price tag, Arsene Wenger was reluctant to agree to a deal.
The Germany international's future has been mulled over all across the country, with some club presidents arguing that if he leaves Borussia Monchengladbach for a bigger club he will not receive as much game time.
Borussia manager Lucien Favre admitted during the last transfer window that Arsenal had made an enquiry for Reus, but the club were unwilling to sell one of their top future talents.
And with the January transfer window rolling around, interest in Reus is only increasing, and the star may well choose to stay in Germany to play closer to his compatriots.
Arsenal can offer the hitman Champions League football, but so can Bayern, and both sides have a healthy transfer budget for January, allowing for a possible transfer tussle.
Reus began his career at lower league German side Rot Weiss Ahlen, before making the move to Borussia in 2009. He has starred for the club since his move, and as recently as last weekend he scored a hattrick against Werder Bremen. The triple achievement took his goal tally for the season to 10 goals in 13 matches, and numerous clubs around Europe are watching his form very closely.
Jens Lehmann was believed to have tipped off Arsenal over Reus' form, after the Gunners legend saw him in action in the Bundesliga. And with January just under six weeks away, Wenger will be paying attention to see whether he becomes more available.


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End Toxic Testing
To explain what's wrong with Toxic Testing
we have to start at the beginning…
So what is NCLB (No Child Left Behind)?
NCLB was an act of Congress put in place in 2001 that reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act or ESEA. This included Title I, the government's flagship aid program for disadvantaged students. NCLB supports standards-based education reform that was based on the premise that setting high standards and establishing measurable goals can improve individual outcomes in education.
The Act requires states receiving Title 1 funds to develop assessments in basic skills. To receive funding, states must give these assessments to all students at select grade levels. The Act falls short of establishing a national achievement standard, creating disparity in implementation from state-to-state. NCLB went a step further than ESEA, expanding the federal role in public education through annual testing, funding changes, teaching qualifications, annual academic progress, and even report cards.
The Act also introduced the idea of "school choice", making it easier for parents to send their children to charter schools.
It all sounds good in theory, so what happened?
We have found that most laws related to education at the state and federal level are well intended but have consequences outside of the design of the law. This is mostly because policymakers continuously fail to bring the right people to the table when forming these policies and standards.
Gifted students have become increasing "left behind" because the NCLB act pressures schools to guarantee that the majority of its students will meet the minimum skill levels presented in the standard. Essentially we are pushing our schools to do just enough but not achieve. The law does not require programs for gifted or talented students and offers very little funding for such efforts which is a huge mistake. We are ignoring one set of students in favor of another instead of helping all students achieve and reach their potential.
The goals set by NCLB are for the most part, unrealistic. This is because the standard assumes that all children learn the same, have similar supports at home, have similar interests and aptitudes, etc. Essentially, NCLB fails to individualize learning, which has a large impact on students and teachers trying to find the right mix of individualized learning and rigorous structure in their learning environments.
The push for standardized tests is another dimension to the issues with NCLB. There have already been dozens of examples from state-to-state where schools have manipulated test results to gain incentives. Moreover, the preparation required for the tests takes critical instruction time away from classrooms. The stress on students having to take these tests is palpable and is resulting in continuously declining scores. Standardized tests also affect English as a second language (ESL) and minority students due to cultural bias which affects how students from various backgrounds interpret the terms used in test questions.
Children with disabilities are significantly affected by NCLB because the variables involved in their learning outcomes are not at all taken into consideration as the law is written today. Additionally, standardized tests for this group of learners is not at all tailored to their needs, making the results mostly useless in determining educational efficacy.
The Franklin Foundation for Innovation formally supports the opt-out movement nationwide because we feel standardized tests, in their current form, fail to assess students adequately and are therefore detrimental to our public education infrastructure.
Standardized testing is the wrong way to measure pretty much everything.
NCLB and ESEA before it, make the mistake of relying on standardized test scores to determine the efficacy of education in schools. All a standardized test can assess is how well a student can remember the facts and figures they were taught weeks before the test. More important dimensions of learning, like comprehension and application of material, are not tested in today's standardized tests. Another issue is the way standardized tests score – 4 choices, only 1 right answer and no ability to adapt for depth. Some companies have tried to fix this issue, but their tests are just as inefficient, scoring children's abilities against a median and saying whether or not a child's performance is at, above, or below proficiency.
Standardized tests are also used to measure teacher quality and effectiveness which is a mistake. Teachers should be evaluated; students should be assessed. Standardized tests are the wrong marker for measuring educational effectiveness, and given their exorbitant costs, are part of a flawed system.
A new system is needed.
A system where we assess our children as individuals, with the goal of helping parents and educators build actionable plans for improving educational outcomes is the right approach. A return of the standards-based peer-led evaluation system for our educators is the fairest and most productive way to evaluate teacher performance as it relates to instructional proficiency. With all of the factors that can affect a child's learning, blaming teachers for student test scores makes little sense.
What makes this a social problem?
NCLB, ESEA and any re-writes using the same antiquated models and philosophy will result in the continued decline of our public schools. National education policy needs to be written from scratch taking modern philosophies from actual practitioners and parent into account. Each state should re-evaluate its education policy to ensure all children receive an education that is tailored for their success. Our education system should position education as the great equalizer capable of enabling children to overcome their circumstances. A system where children are left behind, is a system where generations are left out of their fair share of opportunity.
Assessments need to change to a model made more adaptive and less focused on right vs. wrong, more focused on the way the student came to the answer, and the use of that data to improve each individual child's learning outcomes.
Evaluations for teachers need to take the delivery of curriculum and classroom engagement into effect. The current system not only incorrectly penalizes good teachers for learning factors out of their control, but places a stigma on becoming a public school teacher in the first place. Fewer college students interested in becoming teachers will mean a more condensed workforce where wealthier schools will get the first access to talent, leaving poorer districts in a rut they will find it impossible to get out of, further extending the already massive achievement gap, especially in areas where minorities account for the larger portion of the learning population.
So Here's what we're going to do about it:
1Build a coalition of educators and parents in every state to create new conversations with policymakers around education policy. These state councils will help develop the dialogue and data necessary to help change narratives at the state level. Combined with our grassroots affiliates, we will change the way leaders think, which should change the way they legislate.
2Continue to encourage parents to opt-out. We believe the opt-out movement is critical to putting an end to standardized testing once and for all. Parents have the right to take control over their children's educations, and opting-out of toxic testing is the right first step in taking back our public schools.


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Ask any woman about her least favorite body part, and most of us will point to our middles. Bellies can become especially anxiety-provoking when excess fat spills over the top of our jeans. Yes, the dreaded "muffin top."
Any woman can get a muffin top. But women are more likely to gain excess belly weight – especially deep inside the belly – as they go through peri-menopause and into menopause, when their menstrual cycle ends. That's because as estrogen levels drop, body fat is redistributed from the hips, thighs, and buttocks (where it used to be stored as a fuel reserve for breastfeeding) to the abdomen.
Developing a pooch of subcutaneous (below the skin) fat – what I call the "menopot" – is perfectly normal. But if you gain more than 1 to 2.5Kg's, it's likely to go deeper into the abdomen, creating too much visceral fat. You need some fat in your belly, but when it becomes excessive, we call it "toxic fat." That's because excessive amounts of visceral fat increase inflammation in the body and ultimately contribute to several conditions, including heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. That's the downside.
The upside is that you can do something about it. The first thing you need to do is to whip a tape measure around your waist, across your belly button. Your goal is to be well below 88cm. If you're 88cm or greater, you have too much internal belly fat.
Next, take a look at how you eat. Remember the "big three" diet rules: Pay attention to the quality and quantity of your foods, as well as the frequency of your meals and snacks. In other words, choose whole foods (veggies, fruits, whole grains) and high-quality fats, carbs, and proteins. Eat smaller meals, more often – being especially sure to eat a healthy snack after 3 p.m., when fatigue and frustration drive many women to reach for junk food.
Get moving – to truly trim your waist, you need to use both diet and exercise.
Stop the process
To stop the declining of estrogens and counteract the menopausal symptoms, boost your estrogen levels the natural way with the Manna Menopause Support caplets.
A drop in estrogen levels is the root cause of menopausal symptoms that is why you need to increase the levels in a natural way.


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A recent marketing campaign for Camel cigarettes appears to have attracted the interest of teen girls, a study shows.
The ads for Camel No. 9 cigarettes — which ran in magazines such as Vogue, Cosmopolitan and Glamour — were a hit with girls ages 12 to 16, says a study of 1,036 adolescents published online Monday in Pediatrics.
Promotional giveaways for the new brand, which was launched in 2007, included berry-flavored lip balm, cell phone jewelry, purses and wristbands, the study says.
David Howard, a spokesman for R.J. Reynolds, which makes Camel, says the ads were aimed at adults, noting that 85 percent of the magazines' readers are over 18. Tobacco companies agreed not to target kids as part of the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement with state attorneys general. He notes that teen smoking rates have continued to decline since the ads were introduced.
But the ads were clearly noticed by teenagers, says study co-author Cheryl Healton, president of the anti-smoking group the American Legacy Foundation, which interviewed teens about their awareness of cigarette brands.
In 2008, within a year of the ads' debut, 22 percent of girls listed Camel as their favorite cigarette ad. That's twice the number who listed Camel as their favorite in four earlier interviews taken for the study. That suggests that it was the new campaign — not older Camel products — that captured girls' attention, Healton says.
Being able to remember a tobacco ad shows that kids are taking an interest in cigarettes, says co-author John Pierce of the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California-San Diego. Non-smoking teens who can name a favorite ad are 50 percent more likely to begin smoking than other kids, the study says.
There was no major change in boys' preferences. Overall, nearly half of girls could name a favorite cigarette ad, suggesting that ads are still reaching children, despite the marketing ban, Pierce says.
Howard says R.J. Reynolds pulled print ads for its cigarettes in 2008.
Ads don't need to include cartoon characters to appeal to young people, says the American Cancer Society's Tom Glynn. In fact, ads that depict smoking as fashionable and grown-up actually make it more attractive to teens, he says. About 80 percent of smokers take up the habit before age 18.


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Thursday, October 8, 2009
Functional Programming
Your brain is rolling along on that cold steel track of life. You process item after item, then list after list as if you were the building the chassis for a million robotic arms. Do this, then that, then this. Wake up, shower, go to work, go to lunch, come home, go to bed, rinse and repeat. Suddenly div/0, your brain stops and you forget every pattern that was pitted into your mind. The very wiring of the mind is a melted cacophony of cold snow and bloodied bird feathers. You know not who you are or what you are or why you are. Objects become functions and anonymous functions become parameters. Logic is modeled in actors passing messages. Actors mean nothing beyond what messages they pass. Cars on the highway become mail to mailboxes. Action and nonaction and not being. Colors become transformations yet to be decoded. You are what you do and nothing more. That is the primordial essence of the functional being.
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