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The OWS
Who Is The
Main Adversary Of The Occupy Protests?
The Adversary Facing The
Occupy Protests
Illegal Police Coordination From The
"Federal" Level Serves A Purpose
NewsFocus Op/Ed, by Tim Watts - 112811
The occupy protests, like their Arab spring counterparts, are a
revolt by the people against an oppressive system. While the genesis of the
American movement is very much in question, no one doubts the sincerity or the
intentions of the brave citizens who are participating in it, however, some have
questioned the message of the movement.
What does the movement want?
If you can't figure this out by now, then you watch too much TV
news. I mean that, quite literally.
The mainstream corporate media has waged a disinformation campaign
against the protests right from the start, trying to portray the group as thugs,
or just indolent sponges that expect more free handouts from the system. That
characterization is patently disingenuous at best, if not outright character
assassination at the worst.
The corporate media benefits from the status quo of a US system
that has undeniably turned fascist, a plutocracy of oligarchic rule, so it is in their best interest to wage a
negative PR campaign against a peaceful movement that is about nothing more than
reforming this corrupt system.
This isn't about freeloaders who want more free handouts from the
system. This is about middle class American citizens who want to stop the take
away from a lifestyle that they worked so hard to accomplish. If anything, they
are the ones out to stop the freeloaders, the Wall Street institutions, bankers,
and corporate welfare recipients who have bilked our country for
$16-TRILLION in
Federal Reserve bailouts.
The occupy movement is about people who are tired of seeing the
rich rewarded for tanking our economy, while the middle and lower class are made
to pay for it through stolen pensions and 401K's. They are angry about losing
their homes, while the richest swoop in like vultures and buy them up for mere
pennies on the dollar. They are angry about a lack of jobs and the benefits that
labor worked so hard to attain for them.
Most in the movement are surprisingly savvy about the root evil
behind the economic collapse of this country,
the corrupt Federal Reserve
system. Some venture so far as to postulate that this economic demise is not an
accident at all, but a meticulously
manufactured collapse of sinister intent.
Suspiciously enough, just like the 1929 collapse, the rich are
getting richer during a horrendous economic climate. The filthy rich doubled
their wealth in just six years after the Bush tax cuts, and now they've made
even more money since the 2008 collapse. The S&P has reported that the top 500
companies have increased their holdings by 60% since 2008! All of this during
one of the worst economic collapses in US history.
How is it that the ultra-rich are insulated from this disaster,
aside from taxpayers bailing them out? The only logical conclusion is that the
game is rigged in their favor, against the rest of us. They're not about to give
up this system easily.
This doesn't sound like an economic accident to many. It's an
economic mugging.
With the Federal reserve pulling the strings in Washington, it's
no surprise that the federal government is cracking down hard on a movement that
is trying to unseat the Fed from its corrupt stranglehold over our government.
For some to not understand where the buck actually stops in this
country is highly naive, if not outright pure ignorance. It stops at the desk of
the Federal Reserve, the true power in this country.
The Real Power In America
As the old saying goes, once power is gained it
is hard to take it away. Unseating the Fed will be an epic
struggle to say the least. To insinuate that Congress or the
White House is directing the DHS crackdown over the protest is
to dismiss the power of the Federal Reserve cartel.
Many presidents have
commented on the greater power that exists in this country since
the formation of the Federal Reserve.
They know that there is a power somewhere, so organized, so
subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive,
that they had better not speak above their breath when they
speak in condemnation of it. -Woodrow Wilson
President Calvin Coolidge once remarked that
despite being the most powerful man in the world,
I am only in the clutch of forces that
are greater than I am.
real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial
element in the large centers has owned the government of the
U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson.
-President Franklin D. Roosevelt [letter dated November 21,
And of all
the people to comment on power and authority, read what Richard
Nixon had to say about this secret, hidden power:
The nation's immediate problem is that while the common man
fights America's wars, the intellectual elite sets its agenda.
Today, whether the West lives or dies is in the hands of its new
power elite: those who set the terms of public debate, who
manipulate the symbols, who decide whether nations or leaders
will be depicted on 100 million television sets as 'good' or
'bad.' This power elite sets the limits of the possible for
Presidents and Congress. It molds the impressions that move the
nation, or that mire it.
-President Richard Nixon, from "The
Real War."
Even Ronald Reagan was said to have remarked in
his second term that he suspected that he was not in control
of the nation, that there was indeed a greater power of
influence that prevailed over the country.
And then there are these
comments from notable US figures...
This [Federal Reserve] act
establishes the most gigantic trust on earth... When the
President signs this act the invisible government by the money
power, proven to exist by the Money Trust investigation, will be
Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr., December 23, 1913, [Congressional
Record dated vol. 51]
I have seen these forces exerted during
the different stages of this bill" and "The money power overawes
the legislative and executive forces of the Nation and of the
States. -Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr.,
December 23, 1913, [Congressional Record dated vol. 51]
The financial system has been turned over
to the Federal Reserve Board. That Board administers the finance
system by authority of a purely profiteering group. The system
is Private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the
greatest possible profits from the use of other people's money.
-Charles A. Lindbergh Sr., 1923
It is well enough that people
of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system,
for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before
tomorrow morning.
The real rulers in Washington
are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes.
Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter
Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating
within our government and political system, another body
representing another form of government, a bureaucratic elite
which believes our Constitution is outmoded.
-Senator William Jenner (February 23, 1954)
Deny the existence of such a
power base if you like, but far greater men seem to have
known better for years now.
The ruling power of the
United States doesn't come from Pennsylvania Avenue, it comes
from the Federal Reserve and Wall Street.
The Federal Reserve Fights Back
A sudden mid-November lashing out by law enforcement at movements
across the country has brought outrage to Americans.
From New York, to St. Louis, Denver, Salt Lake City, Oakland, and Seattle, all
across the nation, there was a very coordinated effort to crackdown on the
movement, and as suspected, it came from the Federal level.
The question is, which level truly directed this?
There are two "federal" entities involved here, the US Federal government and
the Federal Reserve, the latter of which does not belong to the previous.
I dare to venture that if more people truly
understood about this 99 year coup d'etat, the streets would be overflowing
with anger. We would have riots instead of protests.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has helped coordinate the police attacks
on the protesters. This is not a bunch of mayors on a conference call taking
matters into their own hands. Do you really think that 18 mayors all came up
with the same idea, to call up the American Gestapo, Homeland Security?
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan spilled the proverbial beans when she
admitted to the BBC that she had engaged in
an 18 city conference call with other mayors. Journalist Rick Ellis of the
Minneapolis edition of Examiner.com, takes the story a step further with an
admission from an unnamed Justice official who told him the following:
Local police agencies had received tactical and planning advice.
They were advised to seek a legal reason to evict residents of
tent cities, focusing on zoning laws and existing curfew rules.
Agencies were also advised to demonstrate a massive show of
police force, including large numbers in riot gear. In particular, the FBI
reportedly advised on press relations, going so far as to suggest that any
moves to evict protesters be coordinated at a time when the press was least
likely to be present.
Naturally the FBI was reluctant to respond to requests for an
official response. Just as incriminating, at least 14 local police agencies all
declined to respond to questions on the issue as well.
Make no mistake about it folks, this is a concerted effort that
came from the top-down, not the bottom-up, but many miss what the top
truly is. Some believe it is Congress and the President, but as many politicians
have known for years, (see above) there is a darker power at work here, the
central banking cartel that runs this world.
Money is power. It's as simple as that. It's been that way for
Misrepresenting The Movement
The pathetic corporate media shills that pose as news journalists
in the US are doing their best to misrepresent the Occupy movement and the
protestors. Rather than truthfully reporting on the substantive issues this
movement is seeking to call attention to, they willfully neglect their duty and
look in other directions, reporting on the lesser complaints, rather than
exposing the real problem behind the country's ills, the Federal Reserve cabal.
The problem doesn't just stop with the corporate news sleaze, but
also trickles out, to a limited extent, in the reporting of non-mainstream
authors as well. Most shockingly for me, in a recent article from an icon of
integrity and a person whom I truly revere.
One of America's greatest heroines, and someone
truly admired and respected by this writer, is author Naomi Wolf.
She, along with Naomi Klein, are the one-two punch of feminine
intellect and activism in this country. Wolf recently penned an
article in the Guardian UK, "The
Shocking Truth About the Crackdown on Occupy." It is a very
good article which also cites the aforementioned Rick Ellis
piece on the DHS collusion with municipal law enforcement, but
surprisingly Wolf cuts her analysis short, laying the blame for
the federal intervention solely at the feet of Congress and the
White house.
I respectfully and vehemently, disagree with
her myopic assumption and assessment.
While our corrupt politicians and leaders
indeed have financial sins to hide, assaulting the occupy
protestors is not going to hide their misdoings.
Wolf also misses the true villain identified
by this movement. According to her limited blind responses from
her readership, she identifies Wall Street, but glaringly
mentions nothing about the Federal Reserve. This absolutely
floored me because Wolf is quite educated and extremely bright.
It doesn't take a solicited email campaign to figure out what
the problem in America is, the Federal Reserve cartel.
An email solicitation is a very feeble attempt
at genuine research, for it is open to the danger of tampering.
While Wolf did gather some worthwhile responses, her readership
is obviously limited to the financially astute, given the fact
that one of her top email responses was to reinstate Glass-Steagal. As
a former researcher, I can guarantee you that 75% of Americans
have no concept of Glass-Steagal. The number may very well be
higher that that.
Please don't get me wrong in my critique of
Wolf or her article, because this pains me to write a veiled
admonishment of one of my truly favorite activists in this
country. I have published much from Ms. Wolf and will continue
to do so every chance that I get, however, unless you've been
asleep under a rock for the last ten years, it doesn't take a
limited email response to point the finger at the true enemy of
our lost republic. It is my fervent hope that Wolf will address
the Federal Reserve in upcoming articles.
Where Is The Harm?
As Wolf astutely points out, none
of this police brutality was ever extended to the Tea Party
protests. One could argue that they weren't camping out in
public spaces. Fair enough, but Wolf also rightfully points out
those camping out on New York sidewalks in front of NBC studios waiting to
tickets for Saturday Night Live. Certainly no one is assaulting
them. You can also carry this
rightful train of logic out even further. What about those who
camp out for concert tickets and sports events? Why doesn't the
NYPD arrest these public campers? Wolf's point is very well
What becomes clear upon
reflection is that the Occupy protestors are wrongfully being
singled out and targeted for attack. That much is quite clear.
If it wasn't for a tainted
Federal court system, one could assume that these
protestors have a solid legal case for assault and battery and
wrongful arrest, but since the dawn of the new millennium and the
reign of the treasonous Bush-Cheney regime, a heinous
administration whose evil is now furthered by the Obama-Biden CFR
team, getting your day in court is no longer viable, unless
you're a corporation, or extremely wealthy.
For the record, for all of you Constitutional scholars out there,
the OWS protestors are merely exercising their
right to assembly. The Constitution
expressly grants "we the people" the lawful right to
peacefully assemble whenever we damn well feel like it, and to petition our Government of the people, by the
people and for the people for a redress of grievances, as explicitly stated
in the
First Amendment.
To spin an old phrase... "Permits? We don't need
no stinkin' permits!"
Our permit to peacefully assemble is our
Constitution and our inalienable
Bill of Rights. If someone wants to come back and argue that those rights
have been rescinded under the Patriot Act, or other treasonous executive
directives, "we the people" would be within our legal right to
say that any such law made against the people, without our express consent, THAT
is the law which is illegal.
Let it be said, we will honor no laws made in
secret against us, or without our consent.
The People Fight Back
As a matter of fact, another much heralded document
for which our country is founded and based upon is the Declaration of
Independence. Maybe we should pass that one around Congress right now so they
understand who actually has the legal right in this country. Perhaps we should
make this document, along with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, a more
visible element in the Occupy movement?
"We the people" have the explicit right to
overthrow a government of tyranny. We have that right. The
Declaration of Independence so says, in
pretty plain language.
We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure
these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving
their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That
whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these
ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,
and to institute new Government,
laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its
powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect
their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that
Governments long established should not be
changed for light and transient causes;
and accordingly all experience hath shewn,
that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are
sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to
which they are accustomed. But when
a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the
same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute
Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off
such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future
security. —Such has been the
patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the
necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of
Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain
[George III] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations,
all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute
Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted
to a candid world. -United
States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776
It is ironic that we escaped King George, only to be
assaulted by President George.
Know Thine Enemy
This reporter has openly
questioned the impetus for the numerous uprisings around the world, because so
far, not one of these protests has resulted in anything good for the people, not
for Tunisia, Egypt, Wisconsin, not for anyone, except for those who hold the power.
In Egypt, they entered into military rule. It would seem that those who hold the power
have kept the upper hand.
With that said, let me say this. I believe in the Occupy
protests. No matter who started this movement, we can occupy it to achieve
our objectives, but you have to understand who is behind the opposition and what
the end to their means truly is. The first precept in any conflict or battle is
to know your enemy.
The enemy of our republic is the Federal Reserve system. Every
American needs to grasp and understand that fact. If they are uneducated about
the 1910 treason at Jekyll Island, or the 1913 takeover of our
currency system by the Federal Reserve, then they need to bone up on their facts
pretty damn quick, or follow those of us who know better.
Consider these quotes from past American statesman regarding the
Federal Reserve...
We have, in this country, one of the
most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to
the Federal Reserve Board. This evil institution has
impoverished the people of the United States and has practically
bankrupted our government. It has done this through the corrupt
practices of the moneyed vultures who control it.
-Congressman Louis T. McFadden in 1932 (Rep. Pa)
The Federal Reserve banks are one of the
most corrupt institutions the world has ever seen. There is not
a man within the sound of my voice who does not know that this
nation is run by the International bankers.
-Congressman Louis T. McFadden
Some people think the Federal Reserve
Banks are the United States government's institutions. They are
not government institutions. They are private credit monopolies
which prey upon the people of the United States for the benefit
of themselves and their foreign swindlers. -Congressman
Louis T. McFadden, Chairman of the Committee on Banking and
Currency, June 10, 1932
Record 12595-12603]
Words like this from McFadden against the
Federal Reserve so angered the bankers that they murdered him
for speaking out.
President John F. Kennedy also knew of the
evils of the Federal Reserve. He tried to counter their phony
money system by signing executive order 11110 which gave the US
treasury the right to print its own currency backed by silver.
This didn't sit well with the banking cartel, so they had him
assassinated, much the same as they did Lincoln for his issuance
of interest free greenbacks during the Civil War.
Our American history books fail to tell the
true story of political assassination over the Federal Reserve
system. Most would be stunned to know the real truth about
Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Franklin Roosevelt and Kennedy. And
yes, many suspect that FDR did not succumb to polio, but was
indeed poisoned like Congressman McFadden.
All in all, this criminal cartel has done away
with no less than four US Presidents, possibly five if you include FDR. The
dots are easy to connect if you just do your homework and look
at history with an adjusted perspective, with the knowledge of
the Rothschild's long standing and well documented fight to
re-establish a central bank in the United States.
If you're still not sure about the criminal leeches from the
Federal Reserve, consider these words from the American
President who was beguiled into allowing the cartel to take hold
of our nation:
I am a
most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial
nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is
concentrated in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst
ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the
world--no longer a government of free opinion, no longer a government by
conviction and vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress
of small groups of dominant men.
-President Woodrow Wilson
add to all of this, Admiral Chester Ward, a former CFR
member once said in 1975,
"They control or own major newspapers, magazines, radio and
television networks," and "the most powerful companies in the
book publishing business."
Remember the old Winston
Churchill quote about "the victor always writes the history?"
Ward also said,
"The most powerful cliques
in these elitist groups have one objective in common: they want
to bring about the surrender of the sovereignty and national
independence of the United States."
The American
people have been deceived about the true nature of the Federal
Reserve. It is a cartel of corrupt bankers who stole our
national sovereignty for their own personal prosperity.
If you still
don't get the picture, then take the message right from the
horse's mouth, from former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan
Greenspan who arrogantly proclaimed:
first of all, the Federal Reserve is an independent agency, and that means
basically that there is no other agency of government which can overrule actions
that we take. So long as that is in place and there is no evidence that the
administration or the Congress or anybody else is requesting that we do things
other than what we think is the appropriate thing, then, what the relationships
are don't frankly matter.
–Alan Greenspan, Federal Reserve Chairman
The Federal Reserve Agenda
What is the goal of these criminal banksters? Is it money? Not
any more. Once you've fattened yourself at the feeding trough long enough there are other
matters of interest, power. All insecure men seek what they don't
naturally possess.
The Federal Reserve is but a small piece of the larger Rothschild
global empire and their central banking institutions. What they want, and have
been working patiently at for years, is to dissolve national status and bring
the entire planet under a one-world rule, run solely by them. The Rockefeller
family is a principal partner in this assault against mankind. Just like a mafia
crime family, the Rockefellers run the American franchise of the Rothschild
central banks, the Federal Reserve banks.
If you have a hard time with this, then once again consider the
words right from the horse's mouth, this time from David Rockefeller:
We are
grateful to The Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other
great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected
their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been
impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to
the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more
sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The
supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely
preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.
-David Rockefeller, Bilderberg Meeting, Baden-Baden Germany, 1991
We are
on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the
right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World
-David Rockefeller
Some even
believe we (Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal
working against the best interests of the United States,
characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of
conspiring with others around the world to build a more
integrated global political and economic structure—one world, if
you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud
of it. -David Rockefeller,
2002 Memoirs
In 2012 the Federal Reserve will enter its 99th year of
operation, but the Rothschild dynasty has been ruling world finances for well
over 300 years. This is an extremely entrenched and long standing cabal that
won't give up their quadrillion dollar scam easily. A million man march in every
city does not bother them in the least, because they have the keys to the US
government, the Congress, our politicians, the military industrial complex, and
key law enforcement officials. They have access to weapons and advanced
technology that most have no clue of. They have more power than most can
possibly conceive.
Again, they will not back down to an Occupy protest, no matter
how large it gets. Their recourse is simply the extent to which they are willing
to sink to deal with it. They can hire agent provocateurs to create chaos
within the movement, or they can just as easily detonate a nuclear bomb and
blame it on foreign terrorists, or even an American patsy. They have options
that they are not afraid to use because they are unwilling to have their family
reputations ruined with public indictments. Rumor is one thing, but criminal
convictions are another. They will fight to the bitter end to avoid prosecution
for the human atrocities and crimes that they've committed. Be certain of this
Our Hope
The seeming omnipotence of the Federal Reserve cartel does not
mean the Occupy movement can do nothing. To be honest, what these banksters
do fear is that the OWS protestors might awaken other powers within the US that
do have the resources and the power to challenge them. What they do not want
is for the generals and the military to take notice and side with the American
Our only hope is for our military leaders and intelligence
officials to take notice and make a stand on our behalf. We need influential
military and intelligence leaders to come to our aid. Generals such as Wesley
Clark and David Petraeus would be huge advocates for this movement. No matter
what you believe about the CIA and the NSA, there are white hats among these
agencies. There are good people in the FBI. Not everyone is corrupt. These are
the people that this movement needs to stir to action.
The hope is that Law enforcement would also see the light and cross
over the
police line to support their brothers and sisters. We are all Americans. United we
stand and divided we fall. We desperately need their support if we are to
win this battle.
This should be the goal of the OWS movement, to awaken our fellow
Americans into taking action. The Occupy movement needs to educate others as to
the hidden power that truly bankrupted this nation. It was not Wall
Street alone. The direction comes from the Federal Reserve board that controls
the printing presses for our currency. They set the policy and they run the
financial show. The Federal Reserve is not run by our government. To the
contrary, they are the ones who run our government.
We must also maintain the moral high ground, for that is the key
to any insurrection in winning the approval of the public. The powers that be
know this all too well so they will use any methods possible to steal this from
the movement. The Occupy protests must not resort to violence. It is imperative
to not sink to the violence already displayed by those trying to stop the
movement. Their violence makes our case all that much stronger, to end the police
state that is being imposed upon us all.
Once again, money is the true power in this world, but there is
an equal to that, and it is the power of the people. When "we the people"
become educated as to who our true enemy actually is, and we collectively say
that we've finally had enough, only then can we bring about the hope and change
we were promised in 2008.
The Cry of the Occupy (We Want
Our Hope and Change)
The Message of the Occupy Protests is 'End the Federal
Violent Provocation
of OWS Protestors
Ex-Seattle chief: 'Occupy' police use 'failed' tactics
Did Mayors, DHS Coordinate Occupy
Update: 'Occupy' crackdowns
coordinated with federal law enforcement officials
Homeland Security Coordinated
18-City Police Crackdown on Occupy Protest
See also:
Class Warfare
Economic Warfare
An Engineered
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Jung Soo Suk is an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His research interests lie in therapeutic nanomedicine for the treatment of numerous diseases occurring in brain, lung, bladder and eyes. Nanomedicine, due to its nano-scale dimension, provides unique opportunities to overcome challenging physiological barriers that hamper efficient delivery of therapeutics to the target tissues. His research group focuses on developing nanotechnology-based drug and nucleic acid delivery platforms and strategies based on in-depth understanding of biochemical and biophysical properties of those delivery barriers.
Dr. Suk received his B.S. in chemical engineering at Korea University and Ph.D. in biomedical engineering at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He joined the Center for Nanomedicine as a research associate prior to his tenure-track faculty appointment in 2015.
- Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
Departments / Divisions
- Ophthalmology - Nanomedicine
Centers & Institutes
- B.Eng., Korea University (Seoul) (South Korea) (2001)
- M.S.E., Johns Hopkins University (Maryland) (2005)
- Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Maryland) (2011)


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concave spherical lens
Etymology: L, concavare, to make hollow; Gk, sphaira, ball; L, lentil
a lens with curved, depressed surfaces that cause light rays to diverge. It is used for the management of myopia (nearsightedness).
concave spherical lens
A lens formed of prisms with their apices together (thin at the center and thick at the edge), used for correcting myopia.
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Stop competing with everyone. When we do this we lessen the value God created in us. Ask God to show you how amazing He sees you.
Competing is combative. It takes a lot of energy.
When we spend our days competing with others, comparing and constantly trying to measure up, we become smaller.
The value that God has placed inside of each of us is a gift to the world, this generation. If we keep competing with everything and everyone, do you think we'll EVER hit our potential?
Is it possible that the world lacks because we've spent so much time competing? Ask God to show you how amazing He sees you.
He didn't make junk. I don't care how many mistakes you've made, what has happened to you in your past. I have a story that goes on and on through so many layers of darkness, it really doesn't add up, so don't try to compete with me. ☺
When you get a vision of your future and you begin to realize, it doesn't all depend on you? The competing will stop.
Don't even buy into this dysfunctional saying of 'compete with only yourself'. I realize, as a business trainer, competitive athlete and more this is actually good advice. Only try to be a better version of your self. Yes.
But some of you have been competing with yourself for so long you always make sure you lose. Stop that.
It's time. Time to step into your greatness. The value that God placed inside of you when you were knit in your mother's womb is a gift that this generation needs.
Doesn't matter who your Momma is. Doesn't matter what her background is either.
The value God put inside of you is for the world to enjoy. Do all you can to release it. Be relentless in your pursuit. And in your journey, always remember, the direct proportion of your battle = your calling.
With love,
Sandi Krakowski
REST….. it's a SUPER power!
REST- it's a spiritual principle that so many people forget or misunderstand. Being lazy, refusing to work, craving a life with no work is not rest, it's lethargy and will destroy your life, finances & relationships.
Rest is emotional, physical and spiritual. It's when we purposefully lay aside things so we can be renewed, elevated and given strength. The blessing of God is on and in rest. It is not on laziness.
To push ourselves and feel false guilt when we should rest is an evil spirit. To think God will bless us when we sulk in laziness and apathy is equally evil. Rest will set you apart. It dissolves anxiety and all negativity trying to infect your life. Laziness will make you critical, judgmental and fearful.
Hard work refreshes and restores. Provision comes through work and he who does not forsake his land will see a harvest. Rest then solidifies the growth. Laziness will cause our harvest to dry up or become overgrown with weeds. It makes us frantic and hurried when we procrastinate and serve laziness. We become focused and diligent when we work hard and then rest.
Take time to just BE and refuse laziness and anxious haste.
It's a new year! #BEMORE
Your Unique Design
We rescued a little kitten about 3 months ago. Sadly, the vet had found him in a garbage dump. He was only .5 lbs and very sickly. But he had a WILL TO LIVE. When we took my schnauzer Kobe in for a checkup for his diabetes I saw this little guy sitting in a cage and that was the end of it. I had to have him.
I texted my husband and sons and said I was bringing a kitten home! They all replied back to me almost identically, "NOW? Like here? Like now?"
It was fun walking in the door with a 3 week old kitten and telling them he was ours. For good. Everyone fell immediately in love with him. I started going through my checklist quickly of what we'd need to keep him safe. We got one of those 'playpen' type tents for kittens and puppies and put it in the living room. That kept him safe from The Cop, Kobe. My schnauzer has a certain obsession with stuffed animals and ripping out their squeaker. He tries all the time to get Latte's squeaker. But Latte knows how to just run away. Latte is our 5 year old Ragdoll cat. We had to protect our little kitten for awhile from Latte as well. All he had to say was a big HIIISSSSSSS and 'who do you think you are this is my house' when he saw the kitten.
Within a few days, everyone was getting acclimated. Kobe kept stealing the kittens food, Latte kept wanting to sleep in the tent and thought he'd kick the kitten out. We were becoming a happy family!
Today, Latte is still hissing periodically at Chancho. Someone has to be the Alpha. Kobe plays endearingly with our 12 week old kitten. He's figured out that the little guy has CLAWS and can defend himself. Chancho is almost 100% back to total health and we adore him. My sons named our kitten Chancho because they wanted a little pig for a pet but that wasn't going to happen in my house, so apparently their retaliation against my decision was to name our kitten 'little pig' in Spanish. We all laugh because not only is he a little pig but he's a little monkey! He climbs up AND down anything he can at all hours of the day! His instincts are incredible!
Chancho loves to play with a little kitten toy and he'll stalk it… look away like he's disinterested and then POUNCE on top of it like the mighty warrior cat that he's designed to be. I watch him and think to myself, "WHO taught you to act like a cat? How on earth did you learn to do that? How did you learn to look away so your prey doesn't know you are about to pounce? How do you know to climb up and down?!"
Instinct is a powerful thing.
We teach it to the business owners I coach. We'll even have A Real Change Exclusive certified Kolbe coaches at my company in 2014 teaching the path of instinct. Instinct is your hard wiring. It will prevent you from role playing and wasting your life.
Chancho isn't trying to be Kobe. He's not resentful when Kobe does his dog things because he was trying to be like him, but he didn't quite measure up. Kobe isn't trying to be like Latte or Chancho. He lives true to his own instinct. Latte, well he's an $850 cat and need I say more? He would NEVER think of acting like anyone other than who he is designed to be. 🙂
YOU were created with a unique design. To fulfill that design and calling is a gift to the world!
For more #BeMore Messages and for the 2014 release of Sandi's Book #BEMORE: Your Best Life Is Easier Than You Think published by Whitaker House, find Sandi daily on her Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/sandikrakowskibiz
My energy is at full speed early in the morning. So it would be silly of me to write my book, articles, or anything that requires the best of me later in the day. The best use of my time is to go with my natural rhythm.
Why do people try to push against their natural bent?
Maybe it's because we've been pushing and pushing for so long we forgot we had a choice. We fight against an invisible force that we believe is holding us back from doing what our natural 'bent' is because deep inside somewhere we've believed that we don't have a choice.
It's like the invisible police who never come. The loud mouthed critic who never shows up. We fight wars that don't exist and we press ourselves to just… survive.
Use your time wisely. You DO have a a choice and NO ONE has the power to hold you back.
2014 could be the year your dream comes true, be sure each decision made is in alignment with that goal.


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Algebra For College Students
Max A. Sobel
Editura: Pearson
A comprehensive introduction to the fundamental concepts and skills of intermediate algebra necessary for further work in calculus and beyond.
- Limba : Engleza
- Cuprins : 1. The Set of Real Numbers.
2. Fundamental Operations.
3. Introduction to Equations and Inequalities.
4. Fundamental Operations with Rational Expressions.
5. Rational Exponents and Radicals, Complex Numbers, and Quadratic Equations.
6. Graphing Linear Equations and Inequalities: The Function Concept.
7. Quadratic Functions and the Conic Sections, with Applications.
8. Graphing Functions: Roots of Polynomial Functions.
9. Exponential and Logarithmic Functions.
10. Systems of Equations and Inequalities.
11. Sequences and Series.
12. Permutations, Combinations, Probability.
Answers to Odd-Numbered Exercises.
- Data Publicarii : 1991
- Editie : 4
- Format : Paperback
- Numar pagini : 624
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393.99 Lei
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The left over chicken dinner with the garlic cream cheese that I made earlier was indeed not enjoyed by anyone.
At least we had cakes in the tin.
Have a nice eve
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|This is in the UK in the 1930's
|Be good when I'm washing up
|Fast asleep. All is forgiven
|A much better idea
|Gone with the wall and in with new extension
|Top shelf tins and a gift from South Africa
|Tonight's dinner
|Paper to decorate the girls room furniture
|The last of de cluttering the kitchen process
|Tonight's Pudding
|My beloved racks broken by P - how could she!
|Or shall we use this one?
|Three favourite vases
|I leave them going all day
|Meddling in the sink
|Maybe I should use ALL These instead
|The clean art cupboard
|Remaining fridge magnets
|Whisk all this together
|You get this!
|Who thought a bikini was a good idea for a baby?
|Really, what are they?
|This is the lid to the tub, good for jumping on
|The leopard and the zebra


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Economic growth in 2016 slightly above expectations
In accordance with the flash estimate, released by GUS today, GDP in Poland rose by 2.8% in 2016 vs. 3.9% in 2015, which was slightly above the market expectations (2.7%). The slowdown of economic growth last year was mainly due to sharp decline in investments (down by 5.5% vs. a 6.1% increase in 2015). The decline in gross fixed capital formation was mainly caused by significant reduction of public and corporate investments, which was largely attributed to lower absorption of EU funds after the end of the 2007-2013 programming period (see MACROmap of 23/1/2017). Conducive to slower economic growth was also lower contribution of net exports (from 0.6 pp down to 0.1 pp) related to higher imports growth given stable growth of exports. The negative impact of the decline in investments and lower contribution of net exports have not been offset by a sharp increase in the contribution of inventories (from -0.2 pp in 2015 up to 1.0 pp) and acceleration in growth of private consumption from 3.2% up to 3.6% (this factor increased GDP growth by only 0.2 pp), boosted by improvement in the labour market and disbursements under the Family 500+ scheme.
Increase in inventories responsible for half of GDP growth in Q4
Based on GUS data, we estimated that real GDP growth rate stood at 2.6% YoY in Q4 2016 vs. 2.5% in Q3. Full data on GDP structure in Q4 will be released by GUS towards the end of February. In our view, the acceleration in economic growth is mostly due to the increase in the contribution of net exports from 0.4 pp in Q2 to 0.7 pp, caused by further sharp slowdown of imports dynamics. GDP growth in Q4 was also boosted by inventories (positive contribution rose from 1.1 to 1.3 pp). This means that the increase in inventories was responsible for half of the economic growth in Q4. Despite the increase from -7.7% YoY in Q3 to -5.5% in Q4, investment growth rate continued to be significantly negative. However, the contribution of this factor to GDP growth dropped by 0.2 pp due to higher share of investments in GDP between Q3 and Q4. The economic growth in Q4 was also negatively influenced by private consumption (contribution lower by 0.3 pp), whose growth rose slightly from 3.9% YoY in Q3 to 4.0% YoY, with simultaneous decrease of consumption share in GDP between Q3 and Q4.
This is the end of economic slowdown
The flash GDP data published today are in line with our scenario, in which the economic slowdown ended in Q4 2016. We expect that in subsequent quarters of 2017, GDP dynamics will stay within an upward trend reaching a level close to 4.0% YoY in Q4 2017 (see MACROmap of 12/12/2016). GDP growth will be mainly boosted by investments, mostly public ones and those of public-sector-controlled companies, implemented with the use of EU funds. Our scenario is supported by data on disbursement requests within the 2014-2020 programming period, pointing to a sharp increase in the absorption of EU funds in Q4 2016. The strong recovery in investments will contribute to a significant acceleration in imports growth and – consequently – decreased contribution of net exports to growth. This decrease will take place despite significant acceleration in exports caused by the expected by us recovery of global trade.
The data on economic activity in Q4 pose a significant upside risk to our forecast of economic growth in 2017 (3.0%). We will present our latest macroeconomic scenario in the next MACROmap.
Today's better-than-expected data on GDP in 2016 are positive for PLN and negative for the prices of the Polish debt, we believe.


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Strong show earns Shamrocks the Shield
There was a silver lining to their senior hurling league campaign as Ballyhale Shamrocks got the better of a Southern battle to grab the shield spoils.
The county champions have had many battles over the years with Carrickshock and used a white-hot first half performance to beat their old rivals by 2-16 to 1-11 in Thomastown on Saturday.
The Shamrocks roared into a strong position, rattling off 2-5 inside 12 minutes as they threatened to turn the game into a procession. Ronan Corcoran got them off the mark with a fifth minute goal, followed by points from Eoin Reid, James 'Cha' Fitzpatrick and T.J. Reid, before Mark Aylward crashed a low shot to the far side of Pat Farrell's net with 12 minutes on the clock - that burst left a much-changed Carrickshock trailing by eight points (2-5 to 0-3).
With the wind in their sails Ballyhale pressed on. Led by the dangerous Henry Shefflin (0-3) they stretched their advantage to 11 points (2-9 to 0-4) by the 20th minute. Carrickshock were in danger of being overwhelmed, but gained a lifeline when Andrew Power flashed the sliotar home from close range a few minutes later. Both sides managed a point more apiece, leaving Ballyhale ahead by double scores at the interval (2-10 to 1-5).
Carrickshock rang the changes in the second half, bringing on Richie and Jamie Power, but they couldn't reel in the long-time leaders. They piled on the pressure, but with Shefflin (2) and Aylward (2) in fine scoring form for the Shamrocks in that third quarter the 'Shock could never get close enough to mount a comeback.
SCORERS: Ballyhale Shamrocks - Mark Aylward (1-4); Henry Shefflin (0-6, 0-2 frees); Ronan Corcoran (1-1); T.J. Reid (0-2, 0-1 free); Eoin Reid (0-2); James 'Cha' Fitzpatrick (0-1). Carrickshock - Andrew Power (1-2); John Power (Lismatigue), Richie Power (0-3, frees each); Niall Rohan (0-2); Michael Rohan (0-1).


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When: Fri., Dec. 11, 6 p.m. 2015
On the second Friday of each month, art is the life of the party! Enjoy the exhibition Luminous Impressions: The Operatic and Fantasy Prints of Henri Fantin-Latour, live music and French 75 cocktails by the Esquire Tavern on the River Landing. January''s Art Party is in partnership with Dream week- "Dream Party" Advancing the Voice. Visit http://www.dreamweek.org for the full list of Dream Week events. Art Party is a collaboration between the San Antonio Museum of Art and KRTU Jazz 91.7.


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IoT botnet activity represented 78 percent of malware detection events in communication service provider networks in 2018, according to Nokia's Threat Intelligence Report 2019. This is more than double the rate in 2016 when botnets were first seen in significant numbers — IoT botnets accounted for 33 percent that year. And these types of attacks will likely become even worse in 2019.
"We're not over the hump of the problem yet," said Kevin McNamee, director of Nokia's Threat Intelligence Lab and lead author of the report. "We're going to see these IoT botnets get larger and start to do more significant damage. They are branching out and becoming more sophisticated, and the techniques they are using to spread malware are becoming more sophisticated."
The report also found that IoT bots now make up 16 percent of infected devices in cloud service provider networks, up from just 3.5 percent a year ago. IoT devices are typically unprotected by normal security measures such as firewalls and anti-virus software that are commonly available to traditional computing devices. This makes these devices very easy targets.
"If you have an IoT device and it has any vulnerability and it's visible from the Internet, it will be attacked in a number of minutes," he said. "Sixteen percent of infected devices is quite significant when you consider the device populations. There's a lot of mobile phones and Windows laptops and PCs out there. As IoT devices get more common, that 16 percent is only going to grow."
Nokia's annual report is based on data aggregated from monitoring network traffic this year on more than 150 million devices globally where Nokia's NetGuard Endpoint Security product is deployed.
It comes less than a week after a USTelecom-led group published its first International Anti-Botnet Guide. Some member companies and contributors to that report include Intel, Ericsson, Samsung, Oracle, Cisco, IBM, AT&T, CenturyLink, NTT, and Verizon.
Mobile, Fixed Network Attacks Decreased
Interestingly, the Nokia report found fewer attacks on mobile and fixed networks in 2018 compared to previous years. Mobile device malware, for example, peaked in 2016 before steadily declining over the last two years. In 2018 the average percentage of devices infected each month was 0.31 percent. This is averaged from mobile deployments in Europe, North America, Asia Pacific and the Middle East.
One of the reasons behind the decrease is that cybercriminals are now focusing more on IoT devices rather than smartphones.
5G Will Likely Make It Worse
Industry analysts widely expect IoT device adoption to accelerate with 5G. The high bandwidth, large-scale, and low-latency capabilities of 5G facilitate connecting billions of things to the internet, including smart home security monitoring systems, vehicles, drones, and medical devices.
"5G is designed to basically open up the mobile network to all sorts of devices," McNamee said.
But lagging security protection of many current IoT devices and increasing technical sophistication give attackers broader scope for successfully launching IoT device attacks.
"It's not just the devices themselves that are an issue, it's the whole architecture that supports the IoT device," McNamee said. He used a video camera connected to a cell phone via a web service as an example. "That's a big attack surface, and I think we will see people not hacking into the device but hacking into that web service."
Take a video-surveillance company: "if you can hack into their service, then you can potentially hack into all of the cameras under their control," he added. "If you look for major breaches, that's the type of thing you're going to see."
IoT Security Best Practices
However, it's not all doom and gloom. McNamee says service providers and device manufacturers are heading in the right direction in terms of boosting IoT security. And the Nokia report addresses security solutions and best practices.
"First of all, devices have to be securely managed," McNamee said. This involves software, firmware, and patching. "Service providers and enterprises deploying IoT at any scale should make sure they are doing it by a managed mechanism so those devices can be managed, patched, and make sure any security flaw is addressed."
Carriers should monitor their network traffic to ensure devices are behaving normally.
Additionally, IoT devices must have secure communication in terms of authentication, integrity, and confidentiality. If a device is compromised, it needs to be isolated from the rest of the network.
"Carriers in particular and enterprises have to be able to identify any IoT devices in their network that are misbehaving and that have been compromised," McNamee said, adding that automated, rapid response capabilities are best.


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"Lonely Tree, Sally Gap, Co. Wicklow" - One of my favourite images that I have ever taken. This tree is literally the only one in the area for miles. The landscape is very barren and moody.Aoife Hester
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Cimpress' Jeff Freeman Honored for Global Sustainability Leadership
Cimpress brands offer a unique mix of paper-based products, from
invitations and business cards to gift bags and signage. Through the
work of a dedicated team led by Freeman,
"Mr. Freeman's work at
At the center of Freeman's success were three key ingredients: a clearly
articulated vision, funding from Cimpress' leaders, and a detailed
education and communication plan. He spent time with the team and key
members of Cimpress' businesses discussing the rationale behind the
change, educating stakeholders about responsible forestry, and the
impact of Cimpress' choices. Numerous
"Cimpress is committed to reducing deforestation and our paper sourcing practices now reflect that," said Freeman. "It is incredibly rewarding to work for a company that cares about sustainability and invests in the appropriate resources to make a difference. We've made it easy for customers to join us in this mission by providing the same beautiful array of paper choices they have come to expect from Cimpress brands, but now with a promise that it was certified to the most robust standard on the market. We still have more work to do, but we are delighted to have reached this first major sustainability milestone and are humbled to see our efforts recognized."
Freeman is Senior Manager, Global Sustainability at
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we are connected to the whole world but still afraid of strangers. We fight for power and ressources and wage endless wars for prosperity and democracy.
We use technology of the 20th century, which makes live easier and more comfortable. Yet we fail to accept the effects this has on nature and the wellbeeing of the greater good.
Our way of thinking is that of the 19th century, despite revolutionising technological and scientific developments known for over a century now still haven't made it into the minds of the mainstream.
Our current financial system is that of the 18th century or even the middle-age.
Archaic. Monopolistic. Centralised.
Still, to this day, nobody is questioning it.
What if we would finally make the welfare of humans and nature our highest priority?
What if there was no more existential angst and we could all lead our lives according to our true destiny?
What if our lives wheren't dominated by fear, scarcity and selfishness but by love, cooperation and abundance?
What if everybody was able to add to the prosperity of the community?
What if our children where taught to motivate instead of compete and to create and develop their own special skills in order to gain a healthy personality?
Now you can evolve and free yourself from all economic, financial and bureaucratic constraint.
Are you ready for a system upgrade?


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Greeting card – Shape Thrower
"Don't hold back your shuffle and shake."
The Card
- Original illustration hand-drawn then digitally finished
- Printed locally in Sligo, Ireland
- Printed on A6 300gsm card stock
- Supplied with a brown kraft-fleck envelope
- Packaged in a protective cellophane sleeve
- Blank inside for your own message
- No, you don't get the pen.
Shipped via standard post. Irish orders should arrive through your letterbox within 2-4 business days (Please refer to average shipping times for orders outside of the Republic of Ireland). Sent in a hard backed envelope to ensure it reaches you in prime condition.
I spent my formative years as a grommet cutting my teeth (sometimes literally) on the beachies and points of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. An image that has lingered since has been that of the quintessential old fella on what seemed to be some awkward looking tank of a board that they would always be out on, regardless of the conditions.
I recall it being a pretty awesome sight to see them sitting waaaaay out back on some barely perceptible boil that they had lined up using some obscure apartment block TV aerial, a miniscule marker buoy bobbing ten kays up the coast, and individual tree branches on mountains fifty or so kilometres away and somehow, curiously, the torn end of a drifting cloud. One of those once-an-hour bombs would darken the horizon and they would swing and start stroking. The swell would heave upward to blacken the sky overhead and then inward to begin grinding the limpets, even the encrusting algae, off the rocks that were now exposed from the draining effect of the wave. Usually at this point I wouldn't have been paying too much attention, carving animal shapes into the filthy wax on the deck of my board with a fingernail, and with a bowel shuddering dread have to begin thrashing frantically, usually futilely, out wide for safety. A quick glimpse deep, deep inside now would reveal the old fella with a three-million mile away look in his eyes, "late as", leap forward and pounce with a thump on the deck of the plank and plummet in a seemingly unredeemable, vertical drop. At the bottom of the beast they'd lay over a bottom-turn so savage that their body was horizontal, pulling at least 3-4 Gs, the full length of the board buried deep with just the tip of single fin, buckled over at full flex and screeching.
They always seemed to look so hard these crusties. I wondered if I'd ever see one of them tearing down the line all wide-eyed, beard torn open into open-mouthed, toothy maniacal smile, throwing shapes from deep in the tube…


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Hi friends,
Along with other news I'd like to tell you about one of our small, but useful accessories for Z scale - additional weights for US electric locomotives PRR class GG1 (Märklin 88490, 88491 and 88492). This upgrade kit already exists a certain time and I've posted a thread about it on another forum, so I'd just repost it here.
GG1's are interesting and unique models in Märklin Z scale assortment - it's the only model of US electric locomotive in whole Z scale family and largest single-unit electric locomotive ever. Additionally, they have special type of pantographs that aren't used in any other classes of locomotives:
Märklin 88490
Märklin 88491
Märklin 88492
However these locomotives have a known weakness. Despite very big size and a lot of axles (6 powered), they have too low weight which leads to very poor towing capacity and unstable power pickup. Very specific construction of locomotive is also playing bad role - only part of total weight presses on driving wheels, because separately attached metal pilot trucks don't participate in this. Result is predictable: towing capability of GG1 is comparable with small 4-axle locomotives like SBB RE 4/4 IV and significantly lower than one of Märklin's big 6-axle locomotives like BR 151, BR 103 etc. Märklin refused to use advantages of big size of GG1 and made too small and light metal chassis with insufficient weight (see attached pictures). I decided to fix this and developed additional weight inserts for these locomotives.
They made from 5 mm thick stainless steel sheets on industrial CNC laser cutting machine and painted with black paint for better look and electric insulation. For easy installation weight inserts have already applied adhesive tape on the bottom side. Each piece weights 8 grams; one GG1 needs two pieces which gives additional 16 grams. Single GG1 locomotive weights 38 grams, and total weight with two metal inserts rises up to 54 grams.
Practical tests show very nice results: improvement of GG1's pulling power after installing of additional weights is significant. For example, without additional weights GG1 can barely pull one Märklin 86501 track cleaning car (which is equal to approx. 10 4-axle "normal" freight cars). And after installing of weight inserts GG1 easily pulls two Märklin 86501 (equal to approx. 20 4-axle freight cars) without any problems at a full speed.
Please take a look at attached photos. GG1 locomotives are depicted here with VELMO LDS609646 digital decoders installed.
1. Unpainted weight inserts directly from cutting machine:
2. Some stages of production:
3. Painted pieces, top:
4. Painted pieces with double-sided adhesive tape on the bottom side:
5. GG1 locomotive with (upper one) and without (lower one) weight inserts, side view:
6. GG1 locomotive with (upper one) and without (lower one) weight inserts, top view:
7. Pair of weight inserts on high precision scales:
8. GG1 locomotive without additional weights on scales:
9. GG1 locomotive and pair of additional weights on scales:
10. Pulling power without additional weights is insufficient to pull even single Märklin 86501 track cleaning car:
11. After installing of additional weights GG1 can easily pull even two Märklin 86501 track cleaning cars:
12. Ready and packed batch of upgrade kits:
These upgrade kits are already available here:
We can also distribute them locally in Europe.
Zmodell 10490 - Zusatzgewicht für Märklin US GG1 elektroloks (88490, 88491 und 88492)
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In addition to regular branch meetings the Society arranges regular coach trips and hosts occasional events, as well as attending others.
|Events Calendar
|Regularly updated, the events calendar lists our coach trips, our own events and other events at which we are represented.
|Coach Trips
|Information about the coach trips we arrange.
Members of the Society at a
Seminar at the Bromham Social Centre
Members of the Society at the
Who Do You Think You Are? Live!
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This season, Detroit basketball has not been Detroit Basketball. Few believed the Pistons would be a contending force heading into '10-11, but none expected the team to sputter in this thick of turmoil.
At the center is a feud between Rip Hamilton and coach John Kuester. We know bits and pieces of the story — Rip's been glued to the pine since January 10, players are protesting, laughing at Kuester's ejections, etc.
But what caused it all?
Read what Yahoo!'s Adrian Wojnarowski uncovered:
About a week prior to his banishment to the Detroit Pistons' bench in January, Richard Hamilton berated coach John Kuester in a jarring and expletive-filled diatribe on the practice court, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.
As stunned coaches and teammates watched, Hamilton bellowed at Kuester that he had been a failure in his two seasons in Detroit, blown the opportunity the franchise afforded him and was nothing more than a career assistant coach, sources said. Despite Hamilton yelling within inches of him, Kuester didn't respond.
Several of the team's younger players were mortified watching it and privately told agents and associates they wished they had the courage to stand up, confront Hamilton and try to take control back from the disgruntled veteran. Nevertheless, Hamilton influences a powerful lobby in the Pistons' locker room, including veteran leaders Tayshaun Prince and Ben Wallace.
The early January incident was the second time Hamilton had initiated a confrontation with Kuester this season, sources said, and it ultimately spurred the benching that led to such public acrimony.
Up until the point, Rip's played the role of innocent victim. If we're to believe Woj's sources, he may be anything but.


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Flash Fiction Friday: Grab It, The Bucket
by Alex M. Pruteanu
You pair tiramisu with a crayfish starter. Tender steak and homemade sorbet. Excellent ambiance, food, and service. Then go for the papers. For the papers. "Georgette lives in Alabama with her best friend and life partner, eight horses, fifteen chickens, one rabbit, five cats, and two dogs. 'I blog, read blogs, and comment on blogs in spurts. Although I am not always consistent, here is a list of bloggers I think are pretty groovy.'" "The Real Sun Myung Moon: Is Barrack Obama Running a Cult?" More rubbish: "A Dollar a Day; Presidents and Prison" and "Emotions and Money" and "Who Is Ron Paul/How Can We Salvage The Economy?" and "Hermaphrodites for Clinton" and…
This is why I drink Cat Diesel. You think. This is why I drink Cat Diesel. He says.
He says: "To-day is HST Death Day. I still have that bottle of aged alcohol. We can kill it when you get to Silber-Spraings."
I met Kissinger with Reagan when the Gipper was running for Prez in '80. Shook hands with him in a fruit market just outside Cleveland. Kissinger's hand. The Gip was too busy holding up babies and laying off traffic controllers. That came later, but it's how memories work here. They get mashed up into a 12-quart pot. Carter had just cluster-fucked two helicopters on their way to pluck out the hostages from some abandoned kebab joint in Tehran. Operation Eagle Claw. Has landed. Harshly. Both of them. Also of note, the role Canada played in this debacle: Canadian Caper. Kudos to Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor.
And so we sold fruit to Czechoslovaks and Poles (the curtain hadn't fallen in '80 so they were still called Czechoslovaks) and honed our English language skills while some grade B actor from Tinseltown moseyed around fishing for support.
Cent. Five Cent. Ten Cent. Dollah.
Cent. Five Cent. Ten Cent. Dollah.
Only by the time we blurted out "may I help you" (which, incidentally always came out as: MayaaahIhee…), customers had already moved on to the Kelbasa and Flaki wołowe stand. Bloody Poles and their Solidarity. I was eleven when I got hooked to grapefruit. Years later my dentist (a Chinese dwarf with a severe limp) chastised me for eating too much citrus (and ingesting massive amounts of wine). Said it was eroding my teeth. Had little holes in the bones which he drilled without anesthesia and filled with some clear compound/sealer. It was the first time I'd been told too much of a good thing is bad.
He was a tai-chi and feng-shui master.
And drilled without remorse.
Or numbing gels.
Or gas.
After the fruit stand I snagged a job cleaning out old warehouses downtown. Walked through a curtain of fiberglass every day. It's when I started smoking. Twelve years old. The other boys did it so. So. You know. One of them, Terry, drove a shit Chevy Nova (350 with dual exhaust) and kept girlie mags in the boot. That's the trunk. On lunch breaks he'd go into his car and do his business. Always he came out lighting up a stogie. The shit we cleared out of those warehouses was Eliot Ness junk. Bureaus and armoires and machines from that era. Al Capone times. That kind of rubbish. Ness was a pig, though. A drunkard full of braggadocio who read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as a kid.
Amazing how Sherlock Holmes drives all of us to the sauce.
You pair tiramisu with a crayfish starter. Tender steak and homemade sorbet. Only my take on it is: chłodnik litewski, barszcz czerwony, rosół z kurczaka, and for a main you go with polędwiczki wołowe. Excellent ambiance, food, and service. (Bloody Poles and their Solidarność.)
–Hey, where's my crabs ye fookin alien?
–Grab it, the bucket.
Since emigrating to the United States from Romania in 1980 Alex has worked as a day laborer, a film projectionist, a music store clerk, a journalist/news writer, a TV Director, and a freelance writer. Currently he is an editor at NC State University.
Alex has published fiction in Pank Magazine, Camroc Press Review, Specter Literary Magazine, Connotation Press, and others. He is author of the novella "Short Lean Cuts," (Amazon Publishing) available as an e-book at Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and in paperback at Amazon.
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Historical Fiction for Teens
Ashes of Roses
by Mary Jane Auch - -/Fic/Auch
16 year-old Rose experiences hardships after immigrating to New York City from Ireland . Rose is working at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in 1911, on the day a fire kills many of the workers.
* Bread Givers>
by Anzia Yezierska Fic/Yezierska
In New York City during the early 1900's, Sara strives for a life beyond the boundaries placed on many women.
Daniel, Half-Human and the Good Nazi
by David Chotjewitz - -/Fic/Chotjewitz
The story of two friends, Daniel and Armin, from the rise of the Hitler Youth in 1933 through World War II.
Daughter of Venice
by Donna Jo Napoli - -/Fic/Napoli
Living in Venice , Italy during the 16 th century, Donata disguises herself as a boy after she recognizes limited educational opportunities for girls.
Fallen Angels
by Walter Dean Myers - -/Fic/Myers
The first person account of a 17-year old soldier on active duty during the Vietnam War.
* The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair Fic/Sinclair
The experience of workers at a meat packing factory illustrates the larger picture of unsanitary food preparation and dangerous working conditions during Industrialization, eventually leading to government regulations.
New Found Land : Lewis and Clark 's Voyage of Discovery
by Allan Wolf - -/Fic/Wolf
A look at the 1804 Lewis and Clark expedition, from the perspective of the leaders, crew members, and Lewis' dog.
A Northern Light
by Jennifer Donnelly - -/Fic/Donnelly
Maggie wants to be a writer and has aspirations of attending college at a time when many women were not encouraged to do so. In the summer of 1906, Maggie takes a job at an upstate New York hotel and learns the details of a guest's murder.
Private Peaceful
by Michael Morpugo - -/Fic/Morpugo
Thomas Peaceful is underage when he enlists in the British Army during World War I.
* Word of Honor
by Nelson DeMille Fic/DeMille
The investigation and Army court martial of Ben Tyson for his involvement in a massacre of civilians during the Vietnam War.
* Adult books that may be appropriate for older teens


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So you've probably seen mandarin orange splashed across the runways this season, but have you noticed that year after year pink is able to hold its own, and never falls out of style?
Don't get me wrong, we are completely mad for mandarin this Spring 2012, we just happen to have an extra special sweet spot for pinks here at Houston's Weekly Chic:) If you take a good a look around, you'll find that pink can be found this season in the likes of Marc Jacobs, Preen, Michael Kors, Oscar de le Renta, Jimmy Choo, Dana Rebecca, and Isabel Marant.
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After a brief candle-smoke opening, Smart enters woody, rubbery, spicy territory that immediately evokes Annick Ménardo's Bulgari Black, minus the depth and complexity. Craft is essentially the smell of Badedas soap: a refreshing chestnuts-and-pine combo which, unless I'm mistaken, is achieved predominantly by bornyl acetate. And Sharp basically conveys the same sweet/fuzzy, citrus/musky oddness to be found in ELDO's Divin'Enfant.
Of the three, the one that's least like its 'original' is probably Sharp, in the sense that it doesn't feature all the layers to be found in ELDO's creation. It comes across like little more than one-third of its progenitor, stripping away Divin'Enfant's sugary floral aspect to leave the weirdness reminiscent of the synthetically scented erasers collected by thousands of primary school kids in the early 80s. But Craft is perhaps the most enjoyable, because I'm pretty sure it marks the first time that the heavenly aroma of Badedas has been bottled as a wearable perfume. And if you were to buy it, just think how little you'd have to spend on a matching shower gel!
It goes without saying that there are countless perfumes I have never tried. You can't keep up with everything, right? This means that there will inevitably be occasions in the future when a fragrance that's a copy of an earlier release will seem original to me. Indeed, if it hadn't been for @archmemory, one of my Twitter followers, I wouldn't have seen the link between Sharp and ELDO. So I'll leave you with this little conundrum:
i) The Coen Brothers' latest film is a remake of True Grit.
Does this mean I'm being too hard on Gus and Andrea?
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Maternal deaths are those reported on the death certificate to be related to or aggravated by pregnancy or pregnancy management that occur during or within 42 days after the end of the pregnancy. The maternal mortality rate has declined dramatically since 1950 when the rate was 83.3 deaths per 100,000 live births; however, the maternal mortality rate in 2006 (13.3 per 100,000 live births) was 62 percent higher than the rate reported in 1990 (8.2 per 100,000). According to the National Center for Health Statistics, this increase may largely be due to changes in how pregnancy status is recorded on death certificates; beginning in 1999, the cause of death was coded according to International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10). Other methodological changes in reporting and data processing have been responsible for apparent increases in more recent years, including question formatting and revisions to the U.S. Standard Certificate of Death.1
In 2006, there were a total of 569 maternal deaths. This does not include 191 deaths of women that were due to complications during pregnancy or childbirth and that occurred after 42 days postpartum or the deaths of pregnant women due to external causes such as unintentional injury, homicide, or suicide. In 2006, the maternal mortality rate among non-Hispanic Black women (34.8 per 100,000 live births) was more than 3 times the rates among non-Hispanic White and Hispanic women (9.1 and 10.2 per 100,000, respectively).
The risk of maternal death increases with age for women of all races and ethnicities. In 2006, the maternal mortality rate was highest among women aged 35 years and older (29.3 per 100,000 live births), compared to 5.0 per 100,000 live births to women under 20 years of age and 10.2 per 100,000 live births among women aged 20–24 years. There was little variation in maternal mortality rates by age group among women aged 20–34 years.
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|North Shore Lions Club issues check to support Literacy
February 28th, 2014 is Read Across Kauai Day. Members of the Kauai Children's Authors Guild will be hitting the road to promote the importance of literacy by reading to hundreds of children across the Garden Island. The guild members have spent the last few months raising funds for the event and scheduling book readings at various schools across the island. With the help of the following sponsors, guild members will be able to distribute over 400 books to children across Kauai. Thanks goes out to: Plantation Gardens Restaurant, the North Shore Lions Club, the East Kauai Lions Club, Coldwell Banker Makai Properties, J. Lohr Winery, Gerald Nakashima, the KART Foundation, Terry and Helene Kamen, Janice Bond, Mokihana Pest Control and many other individual donors who made this event possible.
The event was modeled after the national event, Read Across America Day, but Kauai is such a special place that guild members designed Read Across Kauai Day to be a little more personal, a little more "Kauai Style". The event provides an opportunity for children to interact with local authors and establish a personal connection with the books being read to them. The authors will also be able to share their experiences about writing and publishing books in order to inspire children to become writers if that is their dream. The authors also hope to reinforce the importance of reading by encouraging creativity through writing and artistic expression.
One of the most important components of the project is the distribution of an information sheet that will be sent home to parents about the importance of reading aloud to their children. Since Read Across Kauai Day is devoted to literacy, guild members wanted to make sure that this significant information be disseminated to the children's parents. Why? Because statistics show that nearly 40% of children struggle with learning how to read and reading aloud is one of the most important things parents can do to prepare their children for long-term learning success.
Authors who are participating in this event include: Susan Dierker, author of Knuckles the Hound of Hanalei who will be reading to over 200 students at Hanalei, Kilauea, and Kanuikapono Elementary Schools, Monika Mira, author of Who Lives in the Sea? Ocean Animals of Hawaii who will be reading at Kalaheo Elementary School and Haloalaunuiakea Early Learning Center, Mark Jeffers, author of Eye of the Lion, the Story of my First Hurricane who will be reading at Kahili Adventist School, Mark Huff, author of The Sheltering Place who will be reading at St. Catherine's School, Carol Peacock author of Benny the Beetle who will read at Island School, and Wendy Lewis author of Sabrina, the Girl with a Hole in her Heart, who will read at Koloa School.


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A Christmas Carol
December 03, 2013
Tuesday at 07:30 pm
We all know the story of Ebenezer Scrooge. But did you know that Dickens' story is credited with helping to popularize all the Christmas traditions we take for granted? Christmas trees, cards, carol singing — even giving employees off for Christmas were not common practices at the time the story was written.
Woven with beautiful renditions of holiday songs such as "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" and "Greensleeves," this sumptuous production will remind us why we never get tired of watching the Dickens' story about the importance of charity and love.
Sponsored by The Richard D. Marting Foundation and Suncoke Haverhill Operations
Tickets for lower tier seating are $45 regular, $42 senior, $38 students, $20 children under 12. Prices lower in upper tier. Discounts for families.
"I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book , to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it."
Their faithful Friend and Servant, C.D., December, 1843


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text: Fans of the Divergent films, which are based on the books by author Veronica Roth, finally get to see the last chapter of the series on the big screen this weekend, or at least half of the last chapter. Like so many series-films have all done since the filmmakers behind Harry Potter split the final book into two movies, this final chapter, Allegiant, will also be split into Parts 1 and 2, with the second installment expected in theaters next year. Allegiant – Part 1 picks up after the conclusion of Insurgent, and finds the protagonist Tris Prior and Four trying to escape over the wall surrounding futuristic Chicago in order to discover what is hidden behind the other side. Insurgent director Robert Schwentke (FlightPlan, Red) returned to direct the new installment, working from a screen adaptation by Noah Oppenheim (The Maze Runner, Jackie), Adam Cooper and Bill Collage (Accepted, Exodus: Gods and Kings). Starring in the series are actors Shailene Woodley (The Descendants, White Bird in a Blizzard), Theo James (The In-between Movie, Underworld: Awakening), Naomi Watts (King Kong, J. Edgar), Octavia Spencer (The Help, Fruitvale Station), Jeff Daniels (Dumb and Dumber, The Martian), and Zoe Kravitz (Dope, Mad Max: Fury Road). Watch the trailer one more time before you see the movie in theaters, and have a safe Saint Patrick's Day weekend!


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—Stephen King
What I'm writing?
Book: The Cable
Starting Point: Page 101
Today's total word count:1045
What I'm reading?
Book: California Demon by Julie Kenner
Starting Point: Chapter Four
2 Chapters Completed:50 pages
Today's Book Note: Wondering why there are so many sentences that end in "was" or "is". Just sayin'
Progress Notes from Kerri:
Yesterday was a bad day for work progress but good day for family. Daughter's birthday a success--word count half way there. No reading. Must catch up today! Cut index finger right hand this a.m. so typing proves to be a challenge. Ugh!
Proud to see all of you hard at work.
I'm reading all the wonderful comments.


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Saturday, 7 July 2012
You know...it's seldom easy. Sure, sometimes we get the easy birth, "butter birth", they call it. Most times it's hard. It's hard because there are layers upon layers of emotional damage to dig through, hard because there are medical professionals fighting your every move, hard because mommas want what they want, hard because in the midst of all that we are as midwives...we are also moms, wives, daughters, and friends. I just transported a mother for a true "emergency c-section". It was really needed. The baby was done with birth and at only 2 ounces shy of 11 pounds I was without a way. The baby was born without complications and was is doing well today, but in many ways I felt like I had let down my client and my friend. After all, the body shouldn't grow a baby too big and besides this momma was no stranger to big babies, her 1st was 10.1 and was delivered posterior and vaginally, so why???? I was so shocked that this guy couldn't make it through and while we dug for answers I just know this Dr. is sitting here shaking his head as to why we keep doing this and why we aren't surrendering everything to the mainstream medical establishment when had we waited another hour this baby may not have been born breathing. And I'm going to be honest here, I think this Dr. is quite awesome!! don't get me wrong, but there's a problem going too far any one direction!! Midwifery is amazing, but thank God we have medicine when a momma or baby is sick. Obstetrics is amazing, but overkill for most "butter births". I'm just tired tonight. I'm wishing all could have been better. I'm wondering what, besides size, got in the way of this little baby. Baby and mom are doing fine, just wish we didn't have to go into hospital!!
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On the one hand, I am glad Tea Obreht sold so many books. She is a talented writer, and I am sure she is bound to be a great one after her skills receive some more polishing. Her prose has an ethereal quality about it, which is fitting for a book that revolves so much around folklore and magic. Its elements are deeply engrossing - whether its the contemporary story of a young doctor from a worn-torn Balkan country facing the horrors of war while seeking answers about her grandfathers' death, or the two myths that talk of a mysterious tiger and his human companion, and a man who has been denied the right to die.
It is all very fascinating, however the book ends up being less than the sum of its parts. Much of it has to do with the structure - Obreht's prose is quite wordy, and as soon as you get engrossed in one of the three prominent plot lines, the chapter finishes and you are forced to plunge into another one. I found this to be a particular problem, as I felt quite distanced from the majority of the book. I also couldn't but mentally compare it to Katherine Neville's The Eight, a book quite unlike The Tiger's Wife, for sure, but one that handled multiple storylines more than skillfully, building one on top of the other for a unity of effect I'm sure even Poe would be thrilled with. Obreht, on the other hand, simply meshes them together which, unfortunately, results in an ending I found very underwhelming and honestly, quite confusing.
Another thing that I feel inclined to speak when it comes to the novel is its treatment of the ex-Yugoslavian countries and the warfare that serves as its background, particularly since I happen to come from these parts. Obreht consciously misnames (or flat out refuses to name) geographical locations, which, coupled with anachronisms and fabrication of myth and folklore, effectively reduces the unfortunate history of Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia to legend, producing a sense of all-pervading vagueness and distrust of history. While I may feel inclined to reason that this particular instance of Orientalization (or Balkanization, if you will) works toward painting a version of history blind of national and ethnic particularities, underscoring the essence of humanity, pain and loss, I can very much see how some, especially those that like to keep their hold on history firm and as unambivalent as possible, will and have found this irritating and even disrespectful.
The Tiger's Wife is a mixed bag for sure. The book is almost saved by its enchanting eloquence and prose, which effectively overshadows what its trying to do and how it comes close to failing at it miserably. I think it is interesting to compare it to the prose of Anne Rice, which, although quite purple at times, never really detracts from the experience, as the author's intents mostly lie in the realm of entertainment. However, even if one gets the sense that Tea Obreht bit off more than she could chew, her debut novel makes for an often-mesmerizing reading experience and has made this blogger excited for the young author's sophomore effort.


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CAG Schedule for 2011January 2011
17 Mahdi Javadi: Efficient Algorithms for Computing with Sparse Polynomials 20 Mark Giesbrecht: Algorithms for Additive and Projective Polynomials 21 Andrew Arnold: Algorithms for Computing Cyclotomic Polynomials
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May 2011
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June 2011
7 Michael Monagan: Computing over algebraic number fields. 21 Michael Monagan: Multivariate polynomial GCD computation. 28 Michael Monagan: Sparse polynomial interpolation.
July 2011
6 ISSAC 2011 paper short presentations: • Roman Pearce: Numeric-Symbolic Exact Rational Linear System Solver by Saudners, Wood, and Youse. • Cory Ahn: Supersparse Black Box Rational Function Interpolation by E. Kaltofen. • Andrew Arnold: FFTs over poor fields by A. Pospelov. • Soo Go: Diversification Improves Interpolation by Giesbrecht and Roche. 13 Michael Monagan: Computational linear algebra and rational reconstruction.
September 2011
28 John Ogilvie: Graph Theory and Organic Chemistry Mike Monagan: Computing Reliability Polynomials
October 2011
4 Jürgen Gerhard: A tutorial on Maple software development 5 Jürgen Gerhard: What's new in Maple?
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23 Cory Ahn: Fast Multiplication over Algebraic Number Fields. Roman Pearce: The "POLY" DAG in Maple 16.


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