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Lavinia Liang's work has appeared in TIME, Fortune, Roads & Kingdoms, The South China Morning Post, and elsewhere.
On a typical weekday, Sun Ning walks to work, arriving at around 7:30 a.m. Sun is a zhuren—a teacher and an administrator akin to a vice-principal—at Nanqijia Village Experimental School, a private K-nine school for the children of migrant workers in a northern district of China's capital city, Beijing. Sun, from rural Henan province about 400 miles to the south of Beijing, has been with the school from its start in 2005.
Nanqijia School is named for the urban village where it is situated. Like many other villages on the outskirts of the city, Nanqijia Village was once an outlying settlement. It was absorbed as Beijing expanded. On the periphery of the city and with unglamorous suburban origins, these urban villages are often home to large populations of migrants. Beijing has plans to rezone parts of some urban villages in order to take the land for a subway expansion, and raze others in an effort to encourage occupants to move elsewhere, lessening the strain on the city's infrastructure. Thus, the future of the village and school is uncertain.
Sun has been with the school from its start in 2005. During the past few decades, China has experienced massive rural-to-urban migration, freeing many from destitute countryside poverty. But this rapid urbanization also left: deserted countryside villages where only the elderly remain, 228 million unhappy migrant workers in cities, 34.3 million migrant children who have accompanied their parents to urban centers, and the splintered families of 68.8 million "left-behind" children, who have stayed in rural areas with relatives or by themselves while their parents work elsewhere.
Over the course of this mass internal migration, China has played catch-up with its household registration system, hukou, which divides citizens between "urban" and "rural" residencies. While the hukou system has been evolving, change has been slow, and in most urban settings it works restrictively. For example, those who do not hold a hukou for their specific city of residence lack full access to public services like healthcare and education.
Children without a Beijing hukou need at least five "proofs" to attend a public primary school, including proof of guardians' employment in Beijing, proof of actual residency in Beijing, household registration permit, tax slips, and others. Many migrant families cannot fulfill these five proofs—which is where for-profit migrant schools like Nanqijia come in. These private schools provide an alternative for struggling families. (The Chinese name for these schools translates to the descriptive, "schools for the children of laborers.")
Migrant schools are of varying quality, and the majority only offer elementary school services; Nanqijia is unusual in that it offers middle-school grade levels, although enrollment in upper grades is low. As migrant children aren't allowed to take the high school entrance examination in cities where they don't hold hukou, most will have to return to their home province to do so, as well as to attend high school there. Because of this, many parents would prefer to have their children prepare at a middle school in that province so that the curriculum will better match the exam they will take there.
Mr. and Mrs. Liu, grandparents of a fourth-grader at Nanqijia, are from Shaanxi in China's northwest. Mrs. Liu said that, in her experience, migrant schools in Beijing offer a wider range of study, but that the schools back in their province offer deeper studies. This difference only compounds how migrant children, some of them born in the cities where their parents migrated to work, often struggle to adapt to the countryside when they have to move back.
While NGOs, both domestic and foreign, have long played a significant role in providing aid for migrant schools, the support NGOs can offer is still limited when it comes to daily needs and functions. The educators are the backbone of these schools, even though many of them are not well-educated themselves. Because of contractual instability and low pay, many migrant schools have difficulty finding and keeping teachers. Sun said their school has no trouble attracting students because it is reputable and has been around for so long. But the school struggles each year to find enough qualified teachers, and the difficulty of living in Beijing without a hukou means that just like many migrants, the teachers may have to leave the city and return to their home provinces.
"Beijing is very unique," said Yingquan Song, an associate professor of education and economics at Peking University, who studies education for rural and migrant children in China. Compared to other fast-growing Chinese cities like Guangzhou or Shanghai, Beijing, as the capital, often has more stringent limitations. "The importance of having a hukou is really stressed here," said Song.
Song pointed out that this isn't new; there have been a number of turning points in policies directly affecting the status of migrants and their children. Migrant schools became non-licensable in 2006 as the city began to prioritize working towards a population cap. Tight population controls have shrunk the city in recent years. Now with approximately 21.5 million people, it aims for a cap of 23 million by 2020, citing the dangers that high density brings, including fire safety issues and high pollution levels. In 2018, Beijing turned its attention to 100 villages on its outskirts, rezoning and razing villages in an effort to encourage their occupants to move elsewhere, to work on fire safety in them, and combat overall population density.
Nanqijia Village is one of the villages scheduled to be disrupted by a planned northern expansion of the Beijing subway system. The hope is that providing easy transit access to the city will encourage migrants to settle outside the capital area but still provide it with cheap labor. To date there has been neither a final decision nor a public timeline for the project, but the school is waiting, in limbo. Land usage in China is separated broadly into "privately"owned farmland and publicly owned land. Nanqijia is currently the former, but if rezoned, then taking apart the school at the heart of the village would only be a matter of when and how fast.
The staff and parents of Nanqijia School have already made their emotional preparations; they estimate that they have a solid two or three years. Liang, a fourth grade English teacher, says that the good thing about it is that they are all frank with each other about the school's eventual shutdown, and discuss the matter openly in staff meetings. They only hope that the shuttering will be as smooth and painless as possible.
In late May, as the school year began to wind to a close, Nanqijia School prepared for their annual Children's Day dance competition. In one of the school's donated lending libraries, Sun took a break from the heat and sipped from his thermos of jasmine tea. In July, the school year will be over, and administrators will do an inventory of their returning teachers and students, all while some of their older students prepare for the big move back to the provinces to attend high school.
"At the end of every school year, I go to the public schools and collect the things they don't want anymore," said Sun. He patted two long gray desks with handy storage cabinets below. "I moved these here myself," he said proudly. "It's amazing how much stuff they don't want that we can still use."
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
Its the end of the world as we know it...
We're all gonna die and apparently its going to look like this!
According to this report, Venus is going to collide with Earth and its going to be ba-bye to everything living on the planet. Pretty scary... except its not going to happen for another 1.5 billion years. I think this is where long range projections get a bit silly.
Anyhow, the reason I bring this up is that my favourite astronomy story of the last year was that this guy discovered this star which is on the verge of exploding. It could be tomorrow, it could be in 10,000 years (short time universe wise) BUT if its in the right orbit a huge blast of gamma rays will race towards us and destroy everything living on Earth (sound familiar). But here's the interesting part: the star is six light years away so we will know for approximately six years that the world is going to end.
So, if we did know the world was going to end in six years (if we make it past 2012), what would happen to society? Would it descend into anarchy, a Mad Max-esque wasteland with everyone racing around in V8 Interceptors and wearing leather? Would it be a crazy Utopian state of drinking, sex and ultimate pleasure until the end? Would it be the (further) rise fundamentalist doomsday cults? Or would it be (as I suspect) everyone would continue on as normal hoping the Government will fix it so there's no need to panic? Trains would run, stocks would trade and we'd see out our remaining days as if nothing was happening.
I don't know about you but I'd probably buy a lot of gin, a West Wing box set (still haven't watched it) and head to the hills...
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When asked about how he plans to attack Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, who shredded Big Blue for more than 300 yards and 3 TDs in the season opener, Fewell said there's not much you could do about "classic Tony."
"I just think he had a really good game against us in the first ball game. He made some plays with his feet, which is classic Tony, and stayed alive. I thought he and Dez (Bryant) hooked up and did a good job, and he brought (Kevin) Ogletree in the game and he did a good job against us. I think that they had a good plan and they executed their plan better than we played."Fewell said this time around, the secondary has made tremendous strides. Corey Webster and Antrel Rolle are getting healthier, as his Kenny Phillips. In his place, Stevie Brown has collected a team-high 3 INTs.
The defensive backs will continue to incorporate more press coverage into their repertoire, which has proven to be a solid method of late.
"They have some freedoms, whether to do it or to not do it. I think they felt more comfortable in doing that, pressing, and sometimes that's good and sometimes that's not so good. We've tried to encourage them to do a little bit more of that. Again, they have some freedoms within the coverage to change it up and mix it up based on what the scheme is."Fewell would be remiss if he did not mention Jason Pierre-Paul, whose recent sack surge as rejuvenated the Giants' pass rush.
Though he conceded the recent statistics JPP has put up is difficult maintain on a weekly basis, he has been dominating all season despite the numbers.
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Arsenal Now Shock Favourites Ahead Of Man Utd To Land Midfield Star.
Portuguese star midfield sensation, William Carvalho, is believed to be a hot target for both Arsenal and Manchester United but reports according to Express now have it that the Gunners are in the lead for the 22-year old's signature.
According to Express, Betting odds from Ladbrokes place Arsenal at 6/4 as against United who are positioned at second place at 4/1, and that would create the impression that the Emirates would be the most likely destination for the Sporting Lisbon midfielder if he were to make a move to England this winter.
This would seem to follow up nicely with the story in the Mail some days ago that a deal for Carvalho could be finalized within the next two weeks, the Gunners willing to pay as much as £25m for him.
Carvalho, though, wouldn't meddle into all of the details of a potential transfer for now, even if he has maintained his admission of desiring a switch to the Premier League soon.
"My dream is to play in England" Carvalho said, per the Express.
"I know some clubs are interested but my agent Jorge is looking after it and I am relaxed."
"Now, my mission is to work in Sporting and they will be in charge of any transfer and my future. That is very important."
Now, Carvalho's agent is the famed Jorge Mendes, same agent who's negotiated deals that have seen United land two superstars last summer in Di Maria and Falcao and on that, it'd appear his ties with Old Trafford could sway the deal in United's favour but perhaps there are talks going on between the two clubs to make the player's preferred destination have an influence in whose bid is eventually received.
And for the bookies to be offering odds which favour Arsenal, it may well be that the Gunners have been on par with United on the financial terms being offered.
Arsene Wenger boasts an impressive assortment of attacking midfielders, with some who had been injured for long working their ways up to full fitness. However, the position of the defensive midfielder has been, in the opinion of most observers and fans, lacking in quality even if have been two dedicated staff for that role in the past two seasons, Arteta and Flamini. Neither one, though, has come across as a true warrior who can stand side-by-side with the likes of Matic, Fernandinho and Morgan Schneiderlin, some of the best in the Premier League, and for a team whose intentions should be set on winning major trophies, make-shift options should not be gloried in.
Having been eliminated from the Champions League at the group stage, there will be little motivation for Carvalho to want to stay on at the Estadio Jose Alvavade, especially as the battle for the Portuguese Championship appears to be an uninterruptible two-horse race between Porto and Benfica. He has not made secret his wish to see his career take a bigger step in a big club and this could be the window to take flight. To Arsenal.Follow oohtobeagooner on Facebook and Twitter for more latest Arsenal transfer news, injury news, team news and rumours.


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A popular starting point for log images is using a Lookup Table, also known as a LUT. One of the many jobs that a LUT can do is to expand the contrast of an image. What else can it do? In this movie, author Patrick Inhofer explains what a Lookup Table is designed to do and describes how they interact with footage.
- We've been talking about raw, and developing raw into a starting point, and frequently a favorite starting point is to a log style image. We've then looked at log images, and we've also looked at different ways of color-correcting log images, and we've been doing this manually. And frankly for a lot of jobs, this is how I do it, I just manually color-correct, as if it was just normal, regular video. But in this discussion is an alternative workflow, and this workflow is all about how do we do this initial contrast expansion, going from a log look into something that looks good to our eyes, into something more of a finished print, and there's a tool out there called the lookup table, or LUT, and a LUT's job is to do just that, among many things, is to expand our contrast.
And before we talk about working with LUTs, I figure we should understand all the different uses of LUTs, what they are, and what they aren't. The main point of a lookup table is to transform an image, to move it from point A to point B. Point A is the input, what the image originally looked like, and point B is the output, what the image finally looks like. And every LUT only does one transform, it does one thing, all the time.
Now you have many different types of LUTs. You can have a calibration lookup table. In a calibration lookup table, what we're doing is measuring the color accuracy of this display, and comparing how it produces its colors, and its brightness values to some sort of standard that's pre-defined, and if it's wrong, we can create a LUT that takes this display, and fits it so that it's perfectly calibrated.
That would be called a calibration LUT. Then there are also data or color space transformation LUTs, these are also called, I tend to call them "technical LUTs". Right, they're designed to do a very specific function, from LOG to Rec 709 could be a color space transformation. More likely might be Rec 709 to DCI-P3 going from HD to digital cinema, that would be a technical LUT, it's either right or it's mostly wrong, it's generally not really up for discussion, that would be a technical LUT.
But we also have creative LUTs, they're not right or wrong, it's just do they look good? Very popular creative LUTs would be something like a film stock emulation LUT, designed to take your nicely color corrected image, and give it more of a film stock look, because they've measured how red, green and blue gets manipulated when recorded to film, and then they take that and mimic that on video. Another popular creative use is for looks.
Very often you can buy look packages of LUTs that manipulate red, green and blue in ways that give you very stylized end results. The important thing is, you might buy a package of LUTs, but each LUT only can do one look at a time. Finally we can work with on-set LUTs, and early in my career I overlooked this when having this discussion, but it's a really popular use of LUTs, and you treat them very differently.
We're going to talk about how you treat an on-set LUT different than any of these other LUTs we've just talked about. And because of all these different types of LUTs and their different uses, there's a lot of confusion around that. Not everyone knows what the differences are between LUTs, how to use them, and we're going to go ahead and clear up that confusion for you. The thing to remember is a lookup table, which is really just a file, is dumb math.
It has no idea if your image is properly exposed, or not, it has no idea if they got the color temperature right, or the ISO right. It has no idea, it doesn't care, it's just looking for its input values so it can transform them into their output values. Now there are two broad classes of LUTs, 1D LUTs and 3D LUTs. As colors, we're generally working with 3D LUTs, why? Because with a 1D LUT, they don't really affect saturation, they really are generally contrast expansions without saturation, and 1D LUTs, red, green and blue are separated out.
If I make a change on the red channel, it's not affecting the other two channels. But on a 3D LUT, they're way more complicated. They can allow you to share very, very different images, transforming them from one input to a very different output, because the change may be in the blue channel, could ripple through and change the red and green channel at the same time, resulting in some very interesting operations. Now when it comes to color correcting with LUTs, it's either very, very useful, or not at all useful.
It really depends, I mean seriously, it depends. It depends on whether or not they work for you, you have to try it and you pick whatever works. You can use a LUT with log or raw-recorded images, because the basic concept is, we're expanding contrast, we're adding saturation, maybe we're creating a look. One of the confusions surrounding LUTs is that camera manufacturers sometimes ship a LUT.
For instance, ARRI, Sony, very common cameras that both ship with lookup tables that they kind of suggest, and that makes it seem like these lookup tables are magical, or they're super-scientific. And they are to a certain extent. They are optimized for how red, green and blue get expanded out throughout the total range from black to white. They might have very slight corrections that the manufacturer put in there, that are specific to their sensor, and the way they record the image.
The thing is, is if you look at ARRI's website, you can download and generate 16 different LUTs. You tell me, which one's right? Which one's wrong? I have no idea, all I know is, on any particular job, one of those might get me way closer to my final look than any of the other ones, and on some jobs none of them seem to work, and I just grade without a LUT. So whether you choose to use a LUT or not, yeah, camera manufacturer LUTs are scientific, that doesn't always make them useful.
When camera LUTs are best used is when the D.P. is shooting for that LUT. That's when I'm always happy to use a camera LUT is if the D.P. was specifically shooting for what that LUT does to an image, and I'll show you how to figure out what a LUT is doing to your image. So remember, there is no one LUT, ever. Don't ever start chasing your tail, looking for the perfect LUT. One of my favorite reasons for using a LUT, consistency.
Remember how I said that a LUT only does one thing, and it does that one thing really well, it takes that input, and it always gives you the exact same output. Well you can use that to improve the consistency of your color grades. If you find that your images are really tough to control, and as you're doing shot matching, it gets really crazy and difficult to control, you may find that using a LUT helps solve some of your problems, because whatever image you feed into it, it's always giving, it's always affecting the output the exact same way, which gives you more consistent looks, more consistent color grades.
LUTs are also very easy to use, they're easy to share, and I got to repeat, they're great for display calibration. The reasons that I often avoid LUTs is because they're dumb, and they don't remove the need for color correction, you cannot just apply a LUT and forget about it, it doesn't work that way. And it often has us chasing our tails. I see people in forums always asking, "Does anyone have a better Sony LUT than what I have?" That doesn't really exist, they're just what LUT works for you right now.
And sometimes in that hunt, it's valuable time that's wasted rather than just grading, or color correcting your images.
Once you're familiar with the differences between log, raw, and flat recordings, explore two different methods for color correcting that footage. First, Patrick shows you how to color correct manually, using the traditional tools in DaVinci Resolve. Then, he explains how to use lookup tables (LUT), and discusses LUT strengths and limitations.
- Differentiating between raw and log recordings
- Differentiating between cameras that record flat vs. log
- Setting project-wide raw and LUT preferences
- Applying LUTs to footage
- Exporting LUTs from Resolve
- Color correcting raw footage
- Color correcting log footage
- Using LUTs with log, raw, and flat footage
- Importing, exporting, and managing LUTs in Resolve


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The Dixie State University 109th Commencement Ceremony will take place on Friday, May 1, in Greater Zion Stadium on the DSU campus. The processional will begin at 8:00 a.m. and the ceremony will start immediately following the processional. There will be one ceremony combined with masters, baccalaureate and associate graduates.
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Recipe by Sultana
If you have a backyard, it is very easy to grow spinach along with other homegrown vegetables. So, that would permit you to make different spinach recipes as Sultana's recipe offers you two spinach cheese recipes. The process of these spinach cheese recipes are very simple and presented for easy understanding of any fresher.
Spinach is one kind of green leafy vegetable which is very common in every corner of the world. We know spinach has a lot of iron. It has also different mineral and vitamins. Its antioxidants benefit the eyes. Very recently researchers discovered spinach can prevent from cancer. In addition to a good taste of spinach recipes, it is also a very healthy vegetable that you can eat in every week.
Spinach cheese recipes Bake
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|Cooking time
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Ingredients for spinach cheese recipes bake
3 medium size eggs, beaten
500 gm spinach, chopped
4 oz cheddar cheese, grated
1 cup of cottage cheese
¼ cup butter softened
2 tsp flour
1 tsp salt
½ tsp pepper
Process for spinach cheese recipes bake
- Boil the spinach for 5 minutes and drain out the water.
- Keep aside. Beat the eggs and keep aside.
- Mix the spinach, cottage cheese, cheddar, butter, eggs, flour, salt, and pepper in a large bowl and mix thoroughly.
- Spoon into a greased baking dish.
- Preheat the oven at 200°C for 10 minutes.
- Bake the spinach at 180°C for 50-60 minutes.
- Spinach cheese bake is ready to serve.
- Serve the spinach with a tortilla.
Spinach cheese recipes curry
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|Cooking time
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|Total time
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Ingredients for spinach cheese recipes curry
500 gm spinach
1/2 cup cottage cheese, crushed
¼ cup yogurt
¼ tsp garlic paste
¼ tsp cumin powder
1 tbsp oil
½ tsp green chili paste
½ tsp salt
Process for spinach cheese recipes curry
- Put spinach and green chili to the blender and blend them.
- Keep the blended spinach aside.
- Heat oil in a non-stick pan. Add the mixture of spinach, crushed cheese, yogurt, cumin powder, garlic paste, and salt to the oil.
- Cook the curry until the water dries up.
- Spinach cheese curry is ready to eat.
- Serve the curry with bread or rice or tortilla.
If you like my spinach cheese recipes please share the recipe with your family and friends. I love to cook and like to share my delicious food recipes with my beloved friends.
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By Bakalcho Barii | July 29, 2013
Over one point five millions South Sudanese died in the long and protracted civil war with their Northern Arab rulers and millions more were displaced and made refugee around the globe before they finally freed themselves as an independent nation in July of 2011, and stood tall among the one hundred and ninety six independent nations of the world.
One might argue that South Sudanese achieved their independence with all round supports rendered to them by Western countries, particularly the United States and Britain. Many would also argue that Britain provided them material, diplomatic and other needed logistics to compensate for their wrong doing by merging the Southern Sudanese, who have little or no connections with their Northern counter parts during their occupation of the Sudan.
On the other hand, many regional and international political observers of the region argue that the United States, provided an all-round support to the Southern Sudanese liberation movements to get un-feted access to the huge oil wealth discovered in the south plus to weaken the Northern Arabs, who for a long time harboured Islamist extremisms (Osama Bin Laden used to have a base in Northern Sudan in the 90s), and to weaken the anti-Israel Palestinians Organizations such as Hamas and other pan-Arab movements, who were supported and trained by the Northern Arab Sudanese.
On the contrary, the three regional powers, namely Egypt, Ethiopia and Eritrea supported both South Sudan Liberation Organization and the central Sudanese state for their own strategic goals. For example, the Egyptians supported their then central Sudanese state for fear of dealing alone or with little support in any future deals with the sources of the Nile river countries of the region. The Ethiopians and the Eritreans, on the other hand, gave tacit support to the South Sudanese movements while maintaining some form of good relationship with the North to weaken and eliminate their opponents both in the South and Northern Sudan.
However, the discovery of oil and the geo-politics of the region alone did not bolstered the South Sudanese liberation movements, but their unity, determinations and sustained guerrilla war under the umbrella organization of the South Sudan Liberation Organization changed the power shift in their favour and gain sympathy and support from the International community.
Here, what is incredibly important for the people of the South of the Ethiopian empire, including the Oromo's is, despite their many tribal differences (more than fifty six tribes exist in current South Sudan), the South Sudanese put these differences aside and fought as one people against their common enemy, the Northern Sudanese Arabs, who viewed them as sub-human.
We could also mention the case of the Eritrean's liberation struggle against Ethiopian colonialism, where the Central Tigre speaking Christians stood together with their northern Muslims, the Kunama, and the Afar speaking groups in the South, all of them together viewed Ethiopian colonialism as their strategic enemy that must be defeated and became an independent nation in 1993 by a popular referendum.
As Oromo's, it is high time to learn from the experiences of the South Sudanese and many nations, and put their minor differences aside for the common good of their nation and confront and defeat the common enemy, the Abyssinian colonialism, which is doing anything to undermine and destroy the Oromo people and its natural resources.
The Southern Sudanese armed struggle was headed by those who served in the then Central Sudanese army, who attempted to change their people's livelihood and acceptance as a citizen within one Sudan but realized that such change or acceptance will never happen within the socio-political, economic and power structure on which the former Sudan was established. The realization of this reality convinced the likes of John Garang and many high and low ranking military officers in the national army to defect and establish a guerrilla army to fight the injustices against their people. Though, at the out-set scattered and uncoordinated due to tribal fault-lines that exists among the many South Sudanese, it did not take them long to come to a conclusion that their common enemy can only be defeated in union than alone.
There were tens of thousands of intelligent Oromo military officers and civil servants in the Ethiopian empire state, who attempted to tackle the state sanctioned injustices against their nation by successive Abyssinian regimes hoping the Ethiopian empire, will democratize and treats its subjects in the South and the Oromo's as citizens. The peaceful demands of these Oromo intellectuals and military officers for the equal treatments of their people within the empire made them traitors and enemy of the state, and as a consequence were sent to the gallows.
The fate of many brave and innocent Oromo's who served the empire with much distinction and dedications were to suffer in the hands of the Abyssinians, who felt threatened by these Oromo's, their only crime being raising the mistreatment and exploitation of their people. Here, we can mention a few such as, the likes of Mamo Mezemer (who many claim the birth father of Oromo struggle), General Tadesse Biru, who until the Abysinians discovered his Oromo blood and imprisoned him and finally killed, Haile Fida and Senai Liki, who were the intellectual power house of their generations, and many more perished in the hands of Abyssinian rulers.
The Oromo struggle for liberation is at critical juncture. The empire is on its last leg and last breadth. As a result, there are many voices from within and external forces whispering to our ears to abandon our God given rights to be free but rather opt to remain within the Ethiopian empire state. These forces even go as far as trying to convince us that remaining within the union is more beneficial to Oromo's than separation. When asked how? These forces can not substantiate how living within the Ethiopian empire state favours the Oromo's. Ethiopian empire is and has been the living hell for Oromo's over the last on hundred years. Abyssinians never cared or care for the rights of the Oromo's and the southern peoples but rather they care how much they can exploit their resources.
My message to my Oromo compatriots and those who advocate union with an empire (internal and external), is this; there is no single empire in the history of nations that was democratized and lived in peace with its subjects. The opposite is true in human history, meaning when the subjects were free, the empire itself was also set free from its own shackles.
Oromo's have to look to their neighbours, which includes the likes of South Sudan, Eritrea and Djibouti as an example. Eritrea and Djibouti with different nationalities have had opted for independence rather than living with the Ethiopian empire.
For example, the population of Djibouti is closer to half a million and that of Eritrea is four million. The Oromo people, on the other hand, coupled with abundant natural resources and with the population size of over 40 million with common history, geography, language, culture, deserve to be free from their Abyssinian colonizers and live in peace with all its neighbours and practice their democratic Gada system to govern themselves.
In conclusion, like the Southern Sudanese inside and in the diasporas who spoke the freedom of their nation with one voice to the International Community, and to their enemies, Oromo's inside Oromia and in the diasporas must speak loudly with one voice more than ever and demand the total independence of Oromia and the freedom of their people. Always remember that famous quotes "Power Never Gives up by its own Will but need to be confronted with determination and defeated".
Finally, Jawar Mohammed, a regional political analyst recently put it in the following way in his recent radio interview, quote "writing or having beautiful political programme will not liberate oneself or a nation but standing together in unity and deeds and speaking with one clear and loud voice to one's enemy will strengthen and transform a nation's struggle for peace, democracy and justices"" in that part of East Africa, where Oromia belongs.
May Waqa Bless those who died for the diginity, respect and freedom the Oromo Nation.


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Auden and Science Fiction
Continuing the tradition of making texts speak to each other, this time what I found particularly exciting was the sixth stanza.
"Though some believe (some even plan
To Do it) that from Urban Man,
By Advertising plus the aid
Of Drugs, an insect might be made."
The reference of this paragraph seems to be pointing towards Brave New World by Aldous Huxley published in 1932. The future as imagined by Auden after Science has taken over and destroyed the charm of Nature is a certain sense of dystopia. Dystopic worlds don't always necessarily imply an incorrect system of governance. It could also imply a flawed perception of lifestyle. Brave New World focuses on a lifeworld where existence seems to be driven by the sole purpose of consumption. Everyone is happy. Natural reproduction has been done away with and children are decanted and raised in Hatcheries and Conditioning Centres. Once the charm of nature is destroyed and the Bestiaries are out, even the natural ways of reproduction can be altered. These children are conditioned from birth to value consumption with such platitudes as "ending is better than mending," i.e., buy a new one instead of fixing the old one. Everyone is encouraged to consume the ubiquitous drug soma. Soma is a hallucinogen that takes users on enjoyable, hangover-free "holidays", and it was developed expressly for this purpose. Soma seems to be reference point for the mention of 'aid of Drugs.'
The reference to 'Advertising' seems to be an allusion to how a society could be manipulated within the constant construct of broadcasting the same message again and again. This conditioning could also be seen as an allusion to sleep-learning. In the novel, it is used for the conditioning of children into the novel's fictional future culture. Sleep-learning was discovered by accident when a Polish-speaking boy named Reuben Rabinovitch was able to recite an entire radio broadcast in English after a radio receiver was left on in his sleep. The boy was unable to comprehend what he had heard via this technique, but it was soon realized that it could be used to effectively make suggestions about morality.
The novel proceeds on to look at how this world would be perceived by a person who has not been brought up and conditioned to believe what this society believes in. Through the viewpoint of this individual, it tries to understand the place for non-conformity in this society. His disillusionment with the entire setup that he is exposed to and the lack of sensitivity to human existence beyond consumption makes him ultimately commit suicide. Auden looks at this Brave New World by exploring the possibility of "how from Urban Man […] an insect might be made."
The seventh stanza is equally exciting.
"No. Who can learn to love his neighbor
From neuters whose one love is labor
To rid his Government of knaves
From commonwealths controlled by slaves?"
This stanza seems to be an allusion to Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell published in 1949. The 'Government of knaves' could be read as referring to the idea of Big Brother – the dark-eyed, mustachioed embodiment of the Party governing Oceania (viz. Josef Stalin), whom few people have seen, if anyone. There is doubt as to whether he exists. In the society that Orwell describes, everyone is under complete surveillance by the authorities, mainly by telescreens. The people are constantly reminded of this by the phrase "Big Brother is watching you", which is the core "truth" of the propaganda system in this state.
The 'commonwealths controlled by slaves' is a reference to the political world geography that Orwell describes in 1984. There are three perpetually warring totalitarian super-states or 'commonwealths' in the Auden sense, that control the world. Emmanuel Goldstein's book, The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism explains that the super-states' ideologies are alike and that the public's ignorance of it is imperative so that they might continue believing in the detestability of the opposing ideologies. The allusion to slavery in the poem is in reference to the ideology. The three super-states are controlled by people who are slaves to their ideologies, which are not really different from each other, but necessitate war to maintain order.
In a world where ignorance is pervasive nobody can learn to love his neighbor and abstain from war. In this Orwellian world where government practices public mind-control, the only love imaginable is labor. Auden uses 'neuters' a Spanish word for castrated male to represent the citizens of this Orwellian world. In the essay "Why I Write" (1946) Orwell explains that the serious works he wrote since the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) were "written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism". Nineteen Eighty-Four is a cautionary tale about revolution betrayed by totalitarian defenders previously proposed in Homage to Catalonia (1938) and Animal Farm (1945), while Coming Up For Air (1939) celebrates the personal and political freedoms lost in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). With reference to Orwell's inspiration, it seems appropriate that Auden uses Spanish to describe Orwellian citizens.
I guess it would be appropriate to end this post with a comparison between the two worlds that Auden alludes to in this poem. Social critic Neil Postman wrote in the foreword of his 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death:
"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny 'failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.' In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us."
Huxley, A. (1932) Brave New World. London: Chatto and Windus.
Orwell, G. (1949) Nineteen Eighty-Four. London: Secker and Warburg.
Orwell, G. (1946) Why I Write? accessed at http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/whywrite.html
Postman, N. (1985) Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. USA: Penguin.
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According to the Farmers' Almanac, Maryland's winter has been unseasonably cold, resulting in more than 35 inches of snow over a 2-month span. Public schools across the state have closed from more than a week due to the weather, leaving your kids at home with nothing to do. Instead of vegging out in front of the television, try something new using IKO Community Management's guide to snow days:
- Bake. Now is the perfect time to indulge in some warm, sweet treats, starting with this cannoli poke cake.
- Take pictures. Bundle up and go outside to snap some winter photos. If you'd rather stay indoors, play dress up and have a fashion show.
- Clean the house. This is the last thing your kids want to do on their day off, but a little pre-spring cleaning never hurt anyone.
- Play board games. Some good, old-fashioned family fun lies within those dusty boxes.
- Build a fort. The perfect fortress comes with adequate lighting, a few dozen blankets and a lot of snacks.
- Put together a puzzle. If cabin fever is driving you crazy, try focusing on putting together a neat puzzle.
- Read a book. There's nothing better than cozying up on the couch with some hot tea and good book.
- Do arts and crafts. All you need is some paper, crayons and a little imagination.
- Write a letter. Craft a letter to a family member you never see or a friend who moved away. Maybe write something to your future self and store it for safekeeping.
- Have a spa day. If you've got a face mask, some bubble bath and a few bottles of nail polish, you're good to go.
- Call (or Skype) an old friend. Step away from texting and social media, and pick up the phone to talk to an old friend about what they've been up to. If you'd rather see them face-to-face, set up a Skype account with your webcam.
- Exercise. You don't need a gym membership or at-home equipment to workout. Grab a mat for a yoga session, or do some quick squats while you make breakfast.
- Plan your summer or spring break vacation. Like we mentioned before, cabin fever consumes you when you have back-to-back snow days. With all of that free time, start planning your family's summer vacation or spring break getaway.
- Catch up on sleep. Though you shouldn't spend the entire day sleeping, these snow days can be good for hitting snooze a few times.
- Scrapbook. If you have boxes upon boxes of old pictures, letters, ticket stubs and other memorabilia, make something beautiful by putting them in a scrapbook.
- Shop online. Though we don't recommend cleaning out your bank account, it's good to treat yourself to something new every now and then. You deserve it.
- Plant a winter garden. If you're daring enough to brave the cold, use our guide to build a winter garden.
- Get organized. Clean out your closet of clothes that you never wear, or donate the kitchen utensils that never get used. Spend time going through unnecessary computer files and shredding unimportant documents from your home office.
- Read the newspaper. People say newspapers are dying, but there are so many cool articles inside of them. Not to mention daily horoscopes, crossword puzzles, Sudoku and comic strips.
- Catch up on your to-do list. How long have you wanted to hang those frames? What about repaint the bathroom, or organize the Christmas decorations? Use the snow day to catch up on the tasks around the house.
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I recently accepted the illustrious mantle of reviews editor for Candour, a magazine for ministers and leaders of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand. The aim is that each edition of Candour will include a medium-length review of some kind, mostly of books but hopefully also of plays, music, dance and film. Consequently, I'm now on the hunt for possible reviewers, i.e., for those who would be willing to do the occasional review, and pick up a 'free' book in the process. If you'd like your name added to the list of reviewers that I can call on from time to time, then please let me know via email, indicating the kind of areas (e.g., missiology, history, fiction, prayer, etc.) that you are most interested in writing about, and any relevant qualifications you may have.
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The religious left tells us that budgets are moral documents. The religious left also assumes that the federal government should take up the cause of helping the poor. One report says the federal government runs 126 different anti-poverty programs1.
The religious left further tells us that across-the-board budget cuts will hurt the poor.
But how do we define the poor, and who gets to define them? Are
government programs always the moral high ground? What happens if our
national debt has reached $16 trillion because of budget deficits (Obama: nearly $5 trillion in four years, a record), while our national income (GDP) is smaller?
Are those big-government budget deficits moral or immoral? Where's the moral high ground in that?
Despite the 126 programs, does anyone notice that we still have poor people? Maybe we need another way.
What does the Bible say about helping the poor?
the outset, I admit that I get nervous about applying specific Biblical
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The revision of the legal terms by decree may turn water into a non-universal right
"The dream of universalization of sanitation in Brazil may be more and more far away, since the proposal of revision of the Legal Sanitation Terms of the Federal Government—that may be edited by provisional measure—may completely dismantle the industry in the country", warns the national president of the Associação Brasileira de Engenharia Sanitária e Ambiental – ABES (Brazilian Association of Sanitation and Environmental Engineering), Roberval Tavares de Souza. "Once more the most harmed people will be the poorer Brazilians, who live with no access to potable water and treated sewage and are subjected to get all kinds of diseases".
Together with other entities of the area, ABES is working with the federal government, states and legislative power to remark how harmful this measure can be. In addition to the government desire of using provisional measure for the revision—to the detriment of draft bill—it will impact directly on the crossed subsidy (that allows municipalities with lower resources have access to the services).
The Article 10-A proposed by the government— that deals with the public call before the program contract—changes the Act 11445 from January 05, 2007. This article increases even more the selection against public interest: when opening public consultation, it encourages public and private operators to compete only by surplus municipalities, letting the poorer cities on their own or on state support. "This way, it makes more difficult to render services in a regional way and—when turning unfeasible the practice of crossed subsidies—it worsens the differences in quality and service coverage, harming the poorest populations. "The results will be catastrophic, since this article looks for local benefits, to the detriment of the public policy already considered in the Act 11445/07", warns the president of ABES.
In November, the entity sent to the current Minister of Cities, Bruno Araújo, a letter suggesting to the Ministry two immediate actions. And defended—in a meeting carried out in Brasilia—the proposals contained in the document CONTRIBUIÇÕES DA ABES A MINUTA APRESENTADA PARA ALTERAÇÃO DA LEI 9.984/00 E LEI 11.445/07 (Contributions from ABES to the draft presented for change in the Act 9984/00 and 11445/07).
End of the crossed subsidy
According to the entity, after the public call there will be interested companies and public bid for the surplus municipalities. Since there is competition, the result will be the optimization of the local program. The whole surplus to be generated in the case of Program Contract tends to be consumed by the bidding process and this way will not subside the loss-making municipalities. Applying this process in the cities that currently are donors, all subsidies between municipalities will be extinguished.
For the loss-making municipalities, warns the entity, "there will be no interested people among the agents. It is even possible that there will be no interest by Program Contract. The municipality will end in the hands of public power. In this case, the financing source will be fiscal".
From the more than 5500 municipalities of Brazil, only 500 have surplus condition in sanitation operations. "What will happen to the 5000 municipalities that currently depend on crossed subsidies? It is like the government would taking from poor people to give to the rich ones, like an upside-down Robin Hood of our times, in a moment that resources for health are being frozen through 20 years. In other words: we will not invest in sanitation to prevent diseases and we will have no resources for treating the patients. We will live in a nineteenth-century Brazil, in full 21st century", highlights Roberval.
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Red Wings 2, Senators 0
DETROIT — It was the same old, same old for Ottawa Senators goaltender Mike Condon and the guys in front of him on a sleepy Saturday afternoon.
The Senators' 51st defeat of the season couldn't be laid at the hands and feet of Condon. He had little chance on Dylan Larkin's goal on a 2-on-1 break early in the second period. He had little hope on Andreas Anthanasiou's rebound goal early in the third period.
That two-goal cushion was more than enough on an afternoon when the Senators didn't do nearly enough to make life difficult for Detroit Red Wings goaltender Jimmy Howard, who stopped 31 shots to post a relatively easy shutout, the 24 of his National Hockey League career, in a 2-0 victory.
Condon certainly has not helped himself this season, entering Saturday's game with only five wins and a .901 save percentage.
But there hasn't been a lot of help in front of him, either, especially since the new year and particularly away from home ice at Canadian Tire Centre.
His only road victory since Jan. 1 was a 7-4 defeat of the Tampa Bay Lightning on March 13.
In his other seven starts in opposition rinks in 2018, the Senators have scored 11 goals total. They have been shut out twice and scored one goal on another four occasions.
"I can't comment on the offence because, if that's the case, all the offensive guys could comment on the goaltending, so that's a slippery slope," Condon said. "Everyone is working their hardest. Everyone is trying to get a couple in there, but I've just got to focus on the blue paint (in the crease) and focus on competing hard and giving the guys a chance. I thought we did that (today). We just came up a bit short."
The Senators couldn't say they weren't given opportunities Saturday. Even with captain Erik Karlsson back in the lineup for his first road game since March 17 because of a family tragedy, the visitors didn't generate nearly enough on the power play. They went 0-for-5 with the man advantage, mustering eight shots on goal in those 10 minutes.
"It was a hard game to generate anything," centre Matt Duchene said. "I didn't think we had many Grade A scoring chances. I thought it was kind of a stalemate kind of game. Our power play has been pretty brutal all year. It's a big reason why we're in this situation. We could have been better for sure, both groups. We had some OK looks, but we've got to get more of those looks. That's an area we've got to be better at next year. With the talent we have in this room, there's no way we should be bottom five in the league."
The Senators flew into Detroit on a high following Thursday's 3-2 overtime victory over the Florida Panthers, which broke a six-game losing streak.
At this point in a difficult season, though, it's about building confidence for next season and about giving additional ice time to younger prospects, including Thomas Chabot, Colin White, Filip Chlapik and Christian Wolanin.
The Red Wings are in a similar situation.
For more than a generation, it was a given that Detroit would make the Stanley Cup playoffs, qualifying each year between 1990 and 2016. However, the Red Wings will be watching the playoffs for a second consecutive year and, hoping, just like the Senators, for a brighter future.
At least the Red Wings came into Saturday's game on a positive note, a two-game winning streak in what had been an ugly March. They were 1-11-1 until they defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins and Buffalo Sabres earlier in the week.
The Senators opened the game well enough, successfully containing Athanasiou and the other speedy Red Wings forwards. They outshot the hosts 10-5 in the scoreless opening period, but generated nothing with their two power-play opportunities.
Larkin opened the scoring at the 4:10 mark of the second period, capitalizing on a Senators mix-up. As Wolanin went deep in the Red Wings zone, Karlsson couldn't get the puck through a maze of players in the middle of the ice. A few seconds later, Anthony Mantha was leading a 2-on-1 rush. As Karlsson scrambled back into the play and with Wolanin caught at the far blue-line, Mantha flipped a pass to the wide-open Larkin, who shot high as Condon sprawled in an attempt to make a desperation save.
Athanasiou, who drove the Senators nuts with his speed in a Jan. 3 meeting, struck again in the third period Saturday.
He was perfectly positioned to cash in on the rebound of a shot by Evgeny Svechnikov. The Senators challenged for goaltender interference — Svechnikov and Chabot had been battling in and around the crease — but the goal held up following video review.
The Senators returned home immediately after the game. They will close out their home schedule Monday against the Winnipeg Jets before ending the season with a three-game road trip.
Perhaps they'll score a goal or two for Condon during that trek.


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853 Georgia Ave, Nanaimo, BC
Listing Overview
- Property Value$359,900
- Property Address853 Georgia Ave, Nanaimo, BC, Canada
- Type2 storey - Main Level Entry
- BasementYes, 1 Bed Suite
- ParkingRV PARKING
- Year Built1992
- Taxes$3,016
- Living Area1,850 sq.ft.
- Lot Size Area0.20 acres
- Bedrooms4
- Bathrooms3 full
University District
853 Georgia Ave, Nanaimo, BC, Canada
Ideal family home with mortgage helper located in convenient University District. Built in 2002, this 4 bedroom / 3 bathroom home hosts many wonderful characteristics throughout its 1850 sq.ft. The main level offers 3 bedrooms and 2 full bathrooms, including the master bedroom with walk-in closet and 3 piece ensuite. Perfect for entertaining guests or family gatherings, the large functional kitchen leads outdoors onto the southern exposed deck and overlooks the large .20 acre lot and fenced yard. The dining room is open to the bright living room and is highlighted by bay windows and modern paint colors. Downstairs has a large 17 x 12 Rec room belonging to the main living, as well as access to the garage. In addition, is the opportunity to have a mortgage helper with the self-contained, bright, 1 bedroom suite. Other features include: shopping, schools, and bus routes within walking distance, RV parking,
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- Phone: 250.591.4601
- Mobile: 250-816-0370
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© 2017 Universal Studios
Based on true events, American Made: Based on a True Lie tells the story of a TWA pilot (Tom Cruise) recruited by the CIA to help counter the emerging communist threat in Central America. Seal's role in this major CIA covert operation led in turn to his involvement with the Medellin drug cartel.
American Made: Based on a True Lie comes out in Singapore on August 31 and is rated M18 – Sexual Scenes and Coarse Language.
Thanks to our friends at United International Pictures Singapore, we have THREE pairs of tickets to a preview screening of the movie on Wednesday, August 23 to give away!
How can I win this?
- "Like" Geek Crusade to qualify.
- "Share" our post on your Facebook profile (set to public) and tag at least one person you want to watch the movie with. (You can find the post HERE) The more friends you tag, the better your chances of winning.
- Watch the trailer above and answer a simple question HERE.
Closing Date: 10am, August 22. Winners will be announced by the end of the day.
Terms & Conditions:
- Winners will be notified via email.
- Multiple entries with the same IC No. or email will not be accepted.
- Prizes are not transferable and non-exchangeable for cash or any other services.
- Geek Crusade reserves the right to amend the terms and conditions without prior notification.


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The New HHS Track
October 19, 2018
You've probably noticed by now, whether you are driving past Hawthorne High School or are in one of the many gym classes throughout the school day, that HHS has a new track. It was just recently completed and is now ready to be used. The track was replaced because the old one was uneven and unsafe for running on. The track used to be black and white: but now it's a light blue and white. The Clarion interviewed Mr. Art Mazzacca, Athletic Director and Assistant Vice Principal, to inquire further about the glorious new track, and here's what he had to say.
Clarion: When did the school decide that we needed a new track?
Mazzacca: Last year we made the determination based off of the condition of the old track. The old track had cracks and holes in it that were not able to be repaired.
Clarion: When did work begin on the track and how long did it take?
Mazzacca: The original work on the track began right after graduation. They had to tear out the old track and resurface it. Once they did that the track had to sit for 30 days. The top coating for the track began in late August and we just completed it the last week of September.
Clarion: I've heard people during gym asking about it. What did we need the new track for?
Mazzacca: The old track was beyond repair. It was worn all the way down to the blacktop. There were also holes in the track near the starting line. The high jump area had issues that we attempted to repair but were not able to.
Clarion: How long was the old track there and how long will this new one last?
Mazzacca: The last resurfacing on the old track was 7 years ago, this new one will last 15-20 years.
Clarion: Is there anything you want to say specifically about the track?
Mazzacca: We spent a lot of time researching and meeting with different vendors to find the best track possible. ATT Sports is one of the leading companies in the country when it comes to track surfaces. They did an outstanding job with the whole project and I could not be happier. I think the blue track stands out and sets us apart from other schools, contrary to belief it did not cost more than a black track. I want to thank the BOE, Mr. Spirito, Ms. Engle, and Mr. Chamberlin for all of their hard work and dedication to our athletes and facilities for taking on this project.


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Butter Almond & Chocolate
All natural vanilla ice cream with butter-roasted almonds combined with chocolate ice cream.
About This Item
The FDA requires the eight major food allergens to be listed on food labels: milk, eggs, fish, crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, and soybeans.
May Contain
Despite our best efforts, this could contain small bits of nut shells since it is made with real nuts.
The frozen desserts and dairy products produced at our Conestoga, PA facility use milk from local cows within 75 miles from our dairy.
Product Handling
To make sure your Turkey Hill frozen desserts are delicious from the first to the last scoop, just follow these tips:
- At the store, make sure the package is firm before you buy it.
- The ideal temperature for ice cream in your home freezer is between -5°F and 0°F.
- Try to use frozen desserts within 3-4 weeks.
- Be sure to close the package securely and return it to your freezer as soon as possible.
- Never microwave your container of ice cream.
|Other flavors you might enjoy
|Belgian Style Chocolate
|Chocolate Peanut Butter
|Butter Pecan
|Vanilla Almond Fudge
|Triple Chocolate Trio'politan™
Servings Per Container 9
Serving Size
2/3 cup (94g)
Amount Per Serving
Calories 220
% Daily Value
Total Fat 13g17%
Saturated Fat 7g35%
Trans Fat 0g
Cholesterol 45mg 15%
Sodium 115mg 5%
Total Carbohydrates 23g 8%
Dietary Fiber <1g3%
Sugars 22g
Added Sugars 16g32%
Protein 5g
Vitamin D 0%
Calcium 151mg10%
Iron 1mg4%
Potassium 154mg4%
*The % Daily Value tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.
Caffeine: 1mg to 5mg
Contains: ALMONDS, MILK
May Contain: DESPITE OUR BEST EFFORTS, THIS COULD CONTAIN SMALL BITS OF NUT SHELLS SINCE IT IS MADE WITH REAL NUTS.
Additional Info: Gluten-Free
Ingredients: CREAM, NONFAT MILK, SUGAR, ROASTED ALMONDS (ALMONDS, CANOLA AND/OR COTTONSEED OIL, SALT, BUTTER), COCOA, SALT, VANILLA, NATURAL FLAVORS.
Explore all the great All Natural Ice Cream flavors from Turkey Hill
- Belgian Style Chocolate
- Blackberry Swirl
- Blueberry
- Butter Almond & Chocolate
- Chocolate Chip
- Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
- Chocolate Chocolate Chip
- Chocolate Peanut Butter
- Chocolate Raspberry Bliss Trio'politan™
- Homemade Vanilla
- Mint Chocolate Chip
- Mint Chocolate Cookie Swirl
- Mocha Swirl
- Praline Pecan
- Raspberry Chocolate Chip
- Salted Caramel
- Vanilla Bean
- Vanilla Bean & Chocolate
- Vanilla Peanut Butter


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Are you coming down to Glanford Park to buy your 12th Man package? We want to hear from you if you are!As seen on The Iron Player, Facebook and Twitter in the last few weeks, we have been interviewing supporters who have made the journey down to Glanford Park to buy their 12th Man package - asking them about their support for the football club and their ambitions moving forward.
We would like to thank all of the supporters who have kindly given up five minutes of their time for this, but we still want more fans to volunteer to speak to the club's media team when making their purchase ahead of the 2015-16 season.
The 12th Man initiative was brought in to bring you as the supporters closer to the football club, not only when the football is ongoing, but also in other aspects of the football club. The media department is no exception and we would like to hear from you!
Click here to view our brochure and prices for the 12th Man.
Does this sound like something you'd be interested in? Email firstname.lastname@example.com to pre-arrange an interview with the media team, call 0871 221 1899 or simply ask for a member of the media department when you come down to purchase your package.
If you've already signed up to be a 12th Man, you've not missed out. We can still interview you - all you need to do is one of the above options to make sure we speak to you.


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Lewis Rayne of Gaming Till Disconnected reviews the 2008 title Shaun White Snowboarding.
Lewis writes: "I love snowboarding games, (let's be perfectly honest who doesn't?) and have been a fan of the genre since I first purchased SSX many years ago. The only problem I had with SSX was its realism, or lack of it to be more precise, and as such I love a chance for grittier experience so when I saw Shaun White Snowboarding in the local bargain bin I had to give it a run."


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Upcoming event(s)
(we hope:-)
Past Events
TEDxNorrköping, Sep. 1, 2014
Enabling Change.
TEDxWomen, Dec. 5, 2013
TEDxNorrköping, Nov. 16, 2013
Learning from t...
TEDxNorrköpingLive, Feb. 27, 2013
The Young. ...
TEDxNorrköpingED, Oct. 16, 2012. Leading Le...
TEDxNorrköping, June 13, 2012
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TEDxNorrköping, Sept. 22, 2011
Photo Collection
TED Talks/Schools
Invented Here
Thursday, December 5th, 2013. 18:30-22:00 At NORRKÖPINGS VISUALISERINGSCENTER
Local LiveTalk in Norrköping: Frealem "Fray" Shibabaw: School Kitchens as Agents for Social Transformation
plus Live Webcast from Session 1: To Be Is to Do TEDWomen2013, San Francisco
ICOT-2020 has been postponed and the plans are:
ICOT-2021 in Melbourne, Australia, June-July 2021
ICOT-2022 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Summer 2022.
Dates and programs to be announced.
Thanks to support from Linköping University and Norrköping City, will we now be able to plan for two to four full TEDxNorrköping events per year, and also for one TEDxNorrköpingSalon event per month (except for summer and christmas months). These Salon events will normally be located to Thursday evenings.More at TEDxNorrkoping.com
Gustav Vasa skola, Stockholm, was among the first in Europe,. Principal Lena Arkéus about their objective and experience. (in Swedish with English subtitles). International experience from Gustav Vasa and 15 other schools in a book (Oct.2015); Swedish translation may come.
Carol Dweck's Mindset - Man blir vad man tänkernow available in Swedish. Today 215 SEK from Bokus.se. The video from her TEDxNorrköping Talk, with subtitles in 36 languages, has gained over 6 million visits on the Internet.


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Barnswallow Quilting Guild is celebrating 30 years!
Stay for the weekend at the Village Viking Bed and Breakfast and enjoy of weekend of beautiful quilts and relax in a friendly environment.
Quilt Show at the
Access Event Centre in Morden, MB
May 4 – 6, 2018
Special Weekend Rate: $130
Friday and Saturday includes Breakfast.
Other Amenties: Art Gallery, Craft Show, beautiful walking paths open to enjoy the wonderful spring air.


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Shahid Kapoor and his lovely wife Mira Rajput graced the Vogue Beauty Award last night. They have truly become one of the most stylish Bollywood couples and were awarded the most beautiful couple award here. The duo were the cynosure of all eyes as they arrived together for the awards night.
Shahid looked dapper in a burgundy suit, while Mira grabbed eyeballs in her stunning black outfit.
A proud Sasha soon took to social network and shared a picture. He wrote, "Vogueing it. With my sunshine.
They do look adorable together.
On the work front, Shahid Kapoor is currently busy shooting for Sanjay Leela Bhansali's 'Padmavati'. The period drama also stars Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh.


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Hello all,
Last week I came across a Beocenter 7002 with S80 speakers and SC77 cabinet. It looks great in the room! However, there seems to be a problem with the tone arm. When pressing the phono button, the tone arm moves towards the record but doesn't lift onto the record. It just gets stuck on the side of the record. When placing the needle on the record by hand the same line of the song just keeps repeating.
Does anybody have any idea what the problem could be? I did not have the courage yet to open the Beocenter up, my experience is limited here.
Many thanks!
Transport screws undone?Tonearm straight?Check the tonearm height adjustment (small screw on the lifter arm).
Thank you for your answer.
The transport screws are turned all the way clockwise. The tone arm itself is straight, however it seems that there Is a lot if play in de black support keeping the tone arm in line with the lifting mechanims (see picture).


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Many medical experts were left dumbfounded by how covertly this HSV-2 virus, the one responsible for causing genital herpes spreads. Until now little is known why this virus cannot be cured. It is only known that this virus can be "latent" for a very long time, but what is the cause of its latency is still vague. It seems that this aspect of the virus itself is not very concerning that the trend among medical experts was to find a medicine that could cure it or at least counter its effects.
Successful Claims
A handful of over-the-counter medicines are already available right now in the market. Each of them claiming and trying to incorporate them-selves with the highest credit that herpes antidote has reached by now. All of them claiming to be the most successful but the question that is frequently raised towards these breakthrough medicines is that, how effective are they in combating herpes virus? And, are they safe?
Well the most likely who can answer these questions are the ones prescribing and assessing the victims directly, the doctors, together with the firsthand accounts of those victims who had already experienced the healing power of such medicines.
The effectiveness of a medicine is directly proportional to the tolerance or resistance of a patient towards that certain medicine prescribed to him by his physician. It also depends on the current bodily situation and the current state or extent of the damage caused by the infection, as in the case of genital herpes that the medicine would prove successful. In other words, the safeness and effectiveness of each of the over-the-counter anti-herpes drugs is very subjective. A treatment regimen intended for those herpes victims having a compromised immune system would be very dangerous or otherwise no effect at all when used to treat those with normal body conditions, and vice versa.
Over-the-counter Safety
As the term implies, over-the-counter drugs could be purchased even without prescription from a doctor per se. It doesn't need any permission also from anybody that's why any herpes victim can readily acquire his/her medicine without any restriction at all. The reason for these kinds of medicines to be unrestricted is that they all passed a minimum safety requirement, the set standard of safety for the majority of people, that's why they were generally safe at all.
When it comes to its effect, over-the-counter drugs for genital herpes depend on how bad the extent of the infection itself. Some infected persons naturally heal faster than others that's why it is relative to say that safety and effectiveness of this kind of drug in relation to herpes depends greatly on the current infection state, the more early the infection is treated, the more effective and safe the medicine is.


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GSK has been in the spotlight this year after being accused of paying almost$500m in bribes to doctors and health officials in China to boost prescribing of its drugs, with the resulting fall-out impacting its third-quarter financial results. Meanwhile, the company paid a massive $3bn settlement in the US in 2012 after pleading guilty to promoting drugs in unapproved uses and making unsupported safety claims for some of its products. Learn more about their new compensation system for reps here. (Source: PMLiVE, 12/17/13).
You are here: Home / Industry News / Can GSK Restore Its Reputation After Allegations Of Bribery?


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The Lydian Tree is a new collaborative work between children's author Kim Hillyard, composer Ben Corrigan and his art installation co-creator Matthew Watt.
The centrepiece of the work is The Lydian Tree, an interactive sculpture of sound and light brought to life with a specially commissioned story written and narrated by Hillyard. Bring your young ones along to experience this immersive world of evolving sound and colours as we explore themes of nature, the seasons and how our natural world might look far into the future.
This event is suitable for children ages 3+.
Duration: approx. 45 minutes


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This blog has been mostly dormant, but a few days ago, I lost my Dad. On these pages, I have talked of my journeys as a dad, and these journeys are so intertwined with my own Dad's path as a father. Some things I hope to learn from, and others I hope to walk a new path. Regardless, he had an enormous impact on who I am. Here are a few pics from when Reuben was born. My parents were visiting, and Dad ended up in the hospital before Reena gave birth. This short time encapsulated so much of what he meant to me. There was his illness that lasted over two decades with its hospital visits, there was his absolute joy in his grand children, and there were the quiet conversations that we managed to have in the moments that he was available.
Dad, I miss you so much.


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Our Vision
The Alabama Head Start Association is the unified voice represnting early education and advocacy for low-income children and families in Alabama.
Our Mission
The Alabama Head Start Association through strong leadsership and advocacy, supports local Head Start programs and their partners in the delivery of quality comprehensive services to children and families and the community.
About Head Start in AL
Spotlight on Alabama Head Start
Annual Fall Conference
The Alabama Head Start Association will hold its Annual Fall Training Conference on September 30-October 2, 2019. You may register at http://ahsaconference.com/.
See pictures of the previous years conference in our gallery.
Success stories
Head Start Celebrates Head Start Awareness Month! Congratulations, Head Start!


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- See everyone, even those close to the camera
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The Ultimate Party Band if you're looking for a great night out!
High energy fun is guaranteed from the moment we walk onto the stage.
We deliver the best party songs from the 70's, 80's, 90's, along with some of today's current hits.
Featuring some of Sydney's best vocalists, we have been established and playing together for over 15 years.
We just love what we do - and you will too!
LEAD VOCALS: Simone Habib
Additional LEAD VOCALS: Paige Georgieff & Dani Jerik
KEYS / VOCALS: Steve Cuningham, LEAD GUITAR: George Alves
BASS: Sven Thorin, DRUMS: Chris Colin-Thome
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Gua Sha Massage Therapy Singapore
What is Gua Sha Massage Therapy?
Gua Sha massage therapy is an ancient Chinese therapy. This form of massage therapy used to relieve fatigue and stress. Gua sha is also applied for medicinal purposes and is a useful illness-indicator.
The therapy also stimulates blood flow within the body. Gua sha is not only a healthy practice it is also mentally relieving and calming.
Gua sha massage differs from the normal forms of therapy. Gua sha massage therapy has been proven to have a longer lasting healing effect on the body than any other therapy. So what exactly does the Gua Sha massage therapy entail?
How Is The Massage Therapy Done?
Gua Sha massage therapy is carried out by skilled experts. These experts make use of simple tools made of jade, bone and sometimes ox-horn. First, the body is lubricated with massage oil or any other lubricant. Next, the therapist rubs and warms the body. Then, the expert applies pressure using systematic strokes along the body meridian. The therapist tailors short deep strokes for deeper muscle pains and aches. While longer lighter strokes are done to cover larger areas.
What Are The Benefits Of Gua Sha Massage?
This helps with the following issues
- Pain and stiffness
- Fever and chill
- Migraine headache
- Neck and back pain
Message Therapy is a perfect therapy for health and physical benefits. The massage has long-term effects on the body and helps with a wide number of issues.
Where Can I Get The Massage Therapy?
Gua Sha massage therapy is available in Singapore at the Kuko Beauty. We offer a wide array of services for our interested customers. Call 6634-8255 for inquiries. Kuko Beauty also covers other services such as hair removal, nail treatment, and facial treatment.. Contact Kuko Beauty today and let our experts help you out.Why wait?


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This Week's Meeting (Dec 4, 2018)
- On Tuesday, December 4, we will meet at 6:00 p.m. at the community center. Jim Peterson (Iowa City A.M. Club) and Jennifer Blair will make a presentation about a water project in Tanzania. Jennifer will talk about her experiences as a Rotary Ambassador.
- Food: if anyone would like to have a meal from Jeff's Market, please place your order with Anna Hanson by 5:00 p.m. on Monday evening. 641-799-1303 or email@example.com.
Last Meeting (Nov 27, 2018)
- During the business part of our meeting, we discussed Cocoa & Carols, Meals on Wheels, the Christmas Box project, Literacy Night at the ELC, t-shirt/polos, and Tom Barr's email about donations to prevent human trafficking. Marian told about a man who recently came to FCU wearing his daughter's coat that he had borrowed because he didn't have one; he was thrilled to receive one of our Operation Warm coats.
- The program last week was a presentation by Dana Nelson about the fundraising project for repair and improvement of facilities at the community center.
Literacy Event
- Literacy Night at the Early Learning Center (ELC) will take place on December 10. Our club will provide a light meal for the event. We plan to serve brats, chips and fruit from 5:30 – 5:50. Marian will bring the food; we need a couple more volunteers to help serve.
Christmas Box Project
- Items needed: beef or chicken broth, fruit cocktail, canned chili beans, chunky soups, flour, sugar, soup crackers, pinto beans, rice, canned tuna, canned salmon, bathroom tissue, toothpaste, cereal (including oatmeal), jello, pudding, cake/cookie/cornbread mixes.
- Wednesday, December 12: assemble boxes (6:00 p.m.) at First Church United (FCU)
- Friday, December 14: carry boxes to cars (5:30-8:00). Bring a two-wheel cart if you have one.
- Saturday, December 15: finish distribution of boxes
If you have any questions, contact Marian Hart: 563-299-4678 (cell), 319-627-3375 (work), or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Outbound Exchange
- Here is the most recent message from Evren Sasmazer:
From: <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Date: Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 3:18 AM
Subject: November Report for Evren Sasmazer
To: <email@example.com>
Hey, it's been a minute. So November is almost over, as weird as that sounds reading it in my head. It's getting pretty cold out here, colder than I expected given how hot the end of summer was. Nothing we don't get in Iowa though. All the bundling up certainly reminds me of home. Sometimes you can smell that same brisk air. It's strangely comforting. The Matsuzakis are still as "genki" as ever, even with the dropping temperatures. Things are starting to slow down as the holidays are setting in, but everyone is still working hard. Most schools from what I understand just finished up their 2nd trimesters, so everyone's been studying, just waiting for the Winter Break. Things are really starting to feel like home. Sometimes I completely forget that I'm in a foreign country and I don't look like anyone else. My Japanese is getting a little better, but it's taking time. At this point, I've pretty much mastered two of the three Japanese writing scripts, and can read and write somewhat decently. My knowledge of Spanish has been on the backburner for so long though that I'm having trouble gauging how much I still know. Like, I was in class once and was trying to put together a sentence in Spanish and my brain just would not make it happen. I might have to stop telling people here I speak Spanish. It's supposed to start snowing here pretty soon, and based on the stories I've heard about last year, it doesn't sound that far off from Iowa winter. On Japanese streets they have these water pipes that run underneath the middle of the road, with sprinklers that come up to wash away the snow and ice. The city has been testing those recently so I get the feeling like we're about to get hit any day now. Everyone's wearing scarves and eating soup curry to stay warm, there's a great coziness to it all. November has been a pretty great transitional month and I'm pretty excited to experience Japanese winter, however bothersome it may turn out to be. There's a good chance I might play a solo acoustic show at a Christmas party and I'll be changing host families right before Christmas, so December will be pretty busy. Things are looking up.
Photo: Not really sure how this best describes the report. Just me at a shop. (sorry)
Polio Eradication Update
- Click on the following link for the most recent Polio Eradication Update from Terry Ziegler:
|Programs & Events
|Nov 17
|8:30 a.m. Kimberly Park Ribbon Cutting Ceremony with WL Parks and Recreation Department.
|Nov 20
|No meeting due to Thanksgiving holiday
|Nov 27
|Noon meeting. Dana Nelson and Jodi Kelly will present about the new and exciting things happening at the WL Community Center. Steve H. will lead meeting.
|Meals on Wheels delivery throughout the month of December (Mon, Wed & Fri)
|Dec 4
|Jennifer Blair (past Rotary Ambassador) and Jim Peterson present about Tanzania water project.
|Dec 9
|2:00 p.m. Cocoa & Carols at WLHS. Each Rotarian provides 2-dozen cookies or contributes $10 for cookies and punch. Pay Jodi Kelly. If you have questions, contact Marian Mart.
|Dec 11
|Brief club meeting followed by Board meeting.
|Dec 12
|6:00 p.m. Pack food into Christmas boxes at First Church United (FCU).
|Dec 14
|5:30 – 8:00 p.m. Assist with carrying Christmas boxes to vehicles at FCU. Bring 2-wheel carts.
|Dec 15
|8:00 – 10:00 a.m. Assist with carrying Christmas boxes to vehicles at FCU. Bring 2-wheel carts.
|Dec 18
|No meeting. Your Own Service On Your Own Time
|Dec 25
|HOLIDAY. No Meeting
|Jan 1
|HOLIDAY. No Meeting
|Jan 8
|Brief club meeting; Board meeting follows
|Jan 15
|Program: Interact or Your Own Service On Your Own Time?
|Jan 22
|SOCIAL at Jodi Kelly's house; co-hosted by Gretchen and Jodi.
|Jan 29
|Noon meeting. Jeni Laughlin, Principal at WL Elementary School, will present about literacy projects. Anna Hanson leading meeting.