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Communication Apparatus Can Go Anywhere!
The Communications Act, 2003 introduced a regulatory framework for the communications sector. It also established the regulatory Office of Communications ('OFCOM'). Annexed to it was a code ('the Code') enabling communication operators ('Operators') to install and maintain apparatus on public land and to apply to the courts for an order to install and maintain equipment on private land if the Operator was unable to reach agreement with the private landowner. Over the years, the Code became outdated and insufficient for the needs of Operators. Hence, in order to improve communication coverage, capability and capacity, as demanded by the Operators, communities and the general public as a whole, the Code had to be updated.
A new Code has now, through the Digital Economy Act, 2017, been introduced and the powers given to Operators, substantially increased. It came into operation on 28 December 2017 and applies to any agreement between Operators and landowners entered into after that date. To accompany the new Code, OFCOM produced a Code of Practice, a set of proposed standard terms to be used in the agreements and, finally, a number of templates for notices, some of which are compulsory under the legislation.
The powers included in any agreement are now extensive. In addition to entering any land, public or private, to install equipment, maintain, alter and repair it, the Operators may connect to the landowner's power supply, obstruct access to the land and lop back trees and vegetation interfering with apparatus. They may also assign or share their equipment with other Operators and conduct street works. The Code relates, too, to the termination of agreements (landowners can only terminate for specified reasons including the Operator's non-payment of the agreement fee, or for the purposes of redevelopment), the terms to be included (including the consideration paid) and makes provision for dispute resolution. Powers are enforced by the courts.
Longer notice periods before an agreement can be terminated, the assignment provisions and the basis of the consideration to be paid by Operators (which has substantially decreased the payments made), have already given rise to negative comment by landowners and their representatives. It will be interesting to see whether these mutterings lead to disputes. Watch this space.


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Ⅰ.Phonetics(5 points)
Directions:In each of the following groups of words,there are four underlined
letters or letter combinations marked A,B,C and D.Compare the underlined parts
and identify the one that is different from the others in pronunciation.Mark your
answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
1.A.rural B.ugly C.product D.uncle
2.A.flower B.how C.shower D.slow
3.A.cough B.ghost C.enough D.1aughter
4.A.disturb B.absorb C.climb D.rob
5.A.heat B.feather C.deadline D.measure
Ⅱ.Vocabulary and Structure(15 points)
Directions:There are l5 incomplete sentences in this section.For each sentence there
are four choices marked A,B,C and D.Choose one answer that best cornpletes the
sentence and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
6.These are the pictures of the hotel we held our annual meetings.
A.that B.when C.which D.where
7.1 wonder if there is university in your hometown.
A.a B.an C./ D.the
8.Only in my thirties a purpose in life.
A.I found B.found I C.I did find D.did I find
9. his telephone number,she didn't know how to get in touch with him.
A.Forgetting B.To forget
C.To have forgotten D.Having forgotten
1 0.My aunt's business has been doing poorly,but she's hoping that her will change.
A.duty B.fame C.1uck D.emotion
1 1.Who should be responsible the accident?
A.with B.for C.of D.at
1 2.It is that text messaging while driving is dangerous.
A.necessary B.sufficient C.obvious D.significant
1 3.My secretary usually opens my post it's marked"private".
A.unless B.if C.as D.for
14.Several novels by Mo Yan into English so far.
A.are translated B.have been translated
C.were translated D.had been translated
1 5.The pianist didn't until the last minute before the concert.
A.turn off B.turn on C.turn out D.turn up
1 6.The old man,together with his neighbors, the performancc when it began to rain.
A.was enjoying B.were enjoying C.has enjoyed D.have enjoyed
1 7.My teacher recommended that l as careful as possible when I took an exam.
A.am B.were C.be D.will be
1 8.Let's go to the airport a little earlier we can choose better seats.
A.by that B.so that C.for that D.now that
1 9.Jason made sharp comments on Mary's idea,but he didn't mean——her.
A.hurt B.hurting C.to hurt D.to be hurt
20.——I'm sorry about the misunderstanding.
一Y0u apologize,it wasn't your fault.
A.couldn't B.mustn't C.wouldn't D.needn't
Ⅲ.Cloze(30 points)
Directions:For each blank in the following passage,there are four choices marked
A,B,C and D.Choose the one that is most suitable and mark your answer by
blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
Where do cars get their energy from?For most cars,the answer is petr01.21_some cars
use electricity.These cars have 22 motors that get their power from large batteries.In
23 ,there are even cars that have 24 an electric motor and a petrol motor.These types
of cars are 25 hybrid(混合)cars.
Most people tend to think of electric cars as a new 26 ,but they have been around for
a long time.In the 27 19th and early 20th centuries electric cars were common because the
technology for petrol engines was not very advanced.But 28 the petrol engine became
easier to make and more powerful,this type of engines became the most 29 .Interest in
electric cars was high in the l970s and l980s because 30 became very expensive.
Recently,electric cars have again become well-liked because people want cars that
pollute 31 .
Electric cars are better than petrol cars 32 several ways.The biggest benefit is
reduced pollution.In areas 33 there is a high percentage of electric cars,pollution is not
that serious.The second benefit of electric cars is a 34 in the dependence on foreign oil.
Several countries don't want t0 35 0n oil from other countries.Since electric cars can run
on electricity from coal or nuclear power stations,there is less need to import oil.
21.A.0r B.And C.Nor D.But
22.A.same B.special C.common D.traditional
23.A.time B.addition C.detail D.summary
24.A.either B.neither C.both D.all
25.A.called B.known C.regarded D.described
26.A.instrument B.intention C.influence D.invention
27.A.recent B.1ate C.beginning D.1ast
28.A.before B.until C.after D.unless
29.A.difficult B.dangerous C.comfortable D.popular
30.A.cars B.oil C.power D.motors
3 1.A.1ess B.few C.more D.much
32.A.at B.on C.in D.by
33.A.what B.which C.where D.when
34.A.reduction B.rise C.need D.start
35.A.rely B.keep C.hold D.put
IV.Reading Comprehension(60 points)
Directions:There are five reading passages in this part.Each passage is followed by
four questions.For each question there are four suggested answers marked A,B,C and
D.Choose the best answer and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
Passage One
I talk to strangers for a living and love the challenge of getting their stories published in
newspapers.I've been married for years,but until six months a90,I could be a typical absent—minded husband.Often l was just nodding when l was supposed t0.When my wife asked,
"Did you even hear what I just said?"1 would defensively say,"0f course I did!"
In January,I began to lose my voice.Doctors told me I needed surgery,or my throat
would be permanently damaged.Total silence would be required for the first few weeks of my
Two hours after the surgery,my eyes filled with tears as my two-year-old son looked
puzzled because l wouldn't answer his questions.1 wanted to talk but couldn't.Luckily,I'd
recorded myself reading some of his favorite books.That would come in handy the next couple
of weeks.
When I got home,I noticed a"side effect":as my wife talked to me to keep up my
spirits,1 wasn't just hearing her;1 was listening to her.Over the next few weeks,I didn't want
to miss a word she said,I began to hear sweetness in her voice.It had never left.I'd just
stopped noticin9.I found myself understanding her better on topics I'd previously dismissed as
"things I just don't get as a guy".I also realized my son wasn't just talking nonstop but that he
often had thoughtful things to say.Even while walking my dog in the woods near our home,I
began hearing pleasant patterns in birdsongs.Before my surgery,I'd have spent those walks on
my phone.
After several weeks,1 was fully recovered.Conversation in our house is better now,not
because I'm talking more.I'm just listening better and becoming less and less surprised that I
like what I hear.
36.According to the passage,the author is most likely a .
A.driver B.teacher C.doctor D.journalist
37.What does the wife mean by askin9"Did you even hear what I just said?"in Paragraph l ?
A.Yon should listen to me.
B.You didn't want to talk with me.
C.You should tell me what I said just now.
D.You didn't have to nod while you were listenin9.
38.,What is true of the author after the surgery?
A.He was required to keep silent for the first few months
B.He was worried about his recovery after the surgery.
C.He was unable to communicate with his son.
D.He was unwilling to talk to his wife.
39.What did the author realize after the surgery?
A.His wife was a talkative woman. B.His house was full of pleasant talks.
C.His son didn't like talkin9.D.His dog liked pleasant birdsongs.
Passage Two
Coconut(椰子)is an unusual food for many reasons.It is one of the largest edible seeds
produced by any plant.Its unusual contents also make it unique in the seed world—it consists
of both"meat''and"water"inside.The coconut meat is the white substance with which we are
all familiar,as it is used extensively for cooking a.nd flavorings;the coconut water is a white and
sweet liquid.
Portuguese(葡萄牙的)explorers gave the nut its name in the l 5 th century.referring to it
as COC0,meanin9"ghost"in their language.The outside appearance of coconuts reminded
them of a ghost's face,and the tree has had that name ever since.
The coconut has varied uses.It is used to make various cooking oils for fast.food
restaurants around the world to make diet materials.The coconut fluid is a favorite drink in hot
climates,providing a cool and refreshing beverage right off the tree.This water is also used by
manufacturers of various sports drinks.Even the shell itself has many uses,including animal
food and fertilizer.
Yet the coconut is also useful in many ways that have nothing to do with food.Coconut oil
is used for cosmetics(化妆品),medicines,and so on.Dried coconut shells are used in many
countries as a tool for shining wood floors.The shells are also used for shirt buttons,and are
commonly found on Hawaiian clothin9.They are even used for musical instruments and bird
And all these are only some of the uses found for the coconut fruit.The coconut tree,
which produces the nut,also produces many useful things.It's no wonder that the coconut tree has been taken as"the tree of life".
40.What does the underlined word"edible'in Paragraph l mean?
A.Visible. B.Collectible. C.Available D.Eatable.
4 1.The coconut got its name because of .
A.its hard shell B.its white color
C.its ghostlike appearance D.its round shape
42.What is the passage mainly about?
A.The history of coconut. B.Uses of coconut.
C.The discovery of coconut.D.Types of coconut seeds.
43.What can be learned from the passage?
A.Coconut trees are useful plants. B.Coconut oil is rare and expensive.
C.Coconut trunks are houses for birds.D.Coconut fluid can become fertilizer.
Passage Three
Most students choose"Homestay"accommodation when they study abroad:others select
Homestay even if they are not on a study visit.Statistics show that it's a form of accommodation gaining in popularity all the time.
But what is Homestay?And what makes it so popular?
Homestay means living with a family,or"host family"as we say.There are three ways of
doing it:
·choose to learn English in a language school near to your Homestay location:
·have your English classes in the house with a member of the family who is a qualified
·select not to have classes at all when you visit——a popular choice if you want to do the
tourist thing for example.
Even in their busy summer period the organizations that arrange the Homestays will always
try to place you with the most suitable host family to match your requirements.Placement(安
置)organizations think about location,interests,language level,eating requirements,allergies
(过敏)and other requests you may have.
Though prices vary according to your needs,good quality Homestay accommodation can be
relatively economical--and although you may be charged an extra amount of money if you want your Homestay in or near the city centre.Even if you stay further out,you can expect your
journey into the centre not to exceed 30 minutes·

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Should You Use DynamoDB? (Part 2)
Should You Use DynamoDB? (Part 2)
DynamoDB has a rich feature set, predictable low latency, and almost no operational load. The key to using it efficiently is to understand its data model and to check if you can fit your data into it.
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Last time, we got a general overview of DynamoDB. This time, let's look at some advanced features.
Advanced Features
All the features described so far are core DynamoDB features. But DynamoDB also has some additional, more advanced features that you can use to build complex applications. In this section, I'll provide a short list of what these features are and what you can use them for.
Optimistic Locking
A common problem in a distributed systems is when different actors are stepping on each other toes while performing operations in parallel. A common example is when two different processes are trying to update the same item in a database. In this case, a second update can override data written by the first update.
To solve this problem, DynamoDB allows specifying a condition for performing an update. If a condition is satisfied, new data is written; otherwise, DynamoDB will return an error.
A common way to use this feature, which is implemented in
DynamoDBMapper, is to maintain a version field with an item and increment it on every update. If a version was not changed, a process can write new data. Otherwise, it will have to re-read data and try to perform the operation again.
This technique is also called optimistic locking and is similar to the compare-and-swap operation that is used to implement lock-free data structures.
While DynamoDB does not have built-in support for transactions, AWS has implemented a Java library that implements transactions on top of existing DynamoDB features. A detailed design is described here, but in a nutshell, when you perform an operation with the DynamoDB transaction library, it stores a list of performed operations into a separate table and on commit, it applies stored operations.
Since the library is open-source, there is nothing that prevents developers from implementing a similar solution for other languages, but it seems that currently, DynamoDB transaction support is only implemented for Java.
Time to Live
Not all data that you store in DynamoDB should be stored forever. Older data can be moved to a cheaper data storage, like S3, or simply removed. To automatically delete old data, DynamoDB implements the time-to-live feature which allows specifying an attribute that stores a timestamp when an item should be removed. DynamoDB tracks expired items and removes them at no extra cost.
DynamoDB Streams
Another powerful DynamoDB feature is DynamoDB streams. If it is enabled it allows reading an immutable, ordered stream of updates to a DynamoDB table. An item is written to a stream after an update is performed and allow to react to changes to DynamoDB. This is a crucial feature if you need to implement one of the following use-cases:
- Cross-region replication: You may want to store a copy of your data in a separate region to keep it close to your users or to have a back-up of your data. To implement it, you can read a DynamoDB stream and replay update operations in a second database.
- Aggregated table: The DynamoDB model might not suit some of the queries you need to perform. For example, if you need to group by data, DynamoDB does not support it out-of-the-box. To implement this feature, you may read DynamoDB update stream and maintain an aggregated table that fits DynamoDB model and allows efficient queries.
- Keep data in sync: In many cases, you need to maintain a copy of your data in a different datastore such as cache or CloudSearch. DynamoDB Streams is an immense help for that since a record in DynamoDB Stream appears only if data was stored in DynamoDB.
DynamoDB Streams implementation is very similar to that of another AWS service, called Kinesis. They both have similar APIs, and to read data from any of the systems, you can use Kinesis Client Library (KCL) that provides a high-level interface for reading data from a Kinesis or DynamoDB stream. Keep in mind that DynamoDB Streams API and Kinesis API are slightly different, so you need to use an adapter to use KCL with DynamoDB.
DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)
As with every other database, it can be beneficial to use cache if you use DynamoDB. Unfortunately, it may be tricky to maintain cache consistency. If you use a caching solution like ElastiCache, it may be a good idea to utilize DynamoDB stream to maintain a copy of your data in a cache, but recently DynamoDB has introduced a new feature called DynamoDB accelerator.
DAX is write-through caching layer for DynamoDB. It has exactly the same API as DynamoDB, and if you've enabled it, you are supposed to read and write to DynamoDB through it. DAX keeps track of what data was written to DynamoDB and only stores it if a write was acknowledged by DynamoDB.
One of the key benefits of using DAX is that it has a sub-millisecond latency which may be especially important if you have strict SLAs.
DynamoDB is a great database. It has a rich feature set, predictable low latency, and almost no operational load. The key to using it efficiently is to understand its data model and to check if you can fit your data in DynamoDB. Remember: To achieve the stellar performance you need to use queries as much as possible and try to avoid scans operations.
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Our First Lady,
Pauline M. Moore
Pauline Moore was born in Winterville (Pitt County), North Carolina. She is the seventh of ten children born to the late Simon C and Pauline Dixon Mills. She received her education in the public schools of North Carolina and North Carolina Central University, Durham, N.C. She was employed by the Pitt County Board of Education and the Burroughs Wellcome Pharmaceutical Company before moving to Philadelphia in 1974.
She now serves as Administrative Assistant to her husband at the Tenth Memorial Baptist Church. Mrs. Moore has served as editor of the Newsette, the official organ of the Baptist Ministers' Wives and Widows Union of Philadelphia and Vicinity as well as the recording Secretary, Financial Secretary and Treasurer. She is a past President of the Ministers' Wives Auxiliary, Pennsylvania Baptist State Convention.
She served on the board of The Women's Christian Alliance, Cornerstone Christian Academy and the Board of Ministries, Philadelphia Baptist Association to the American Baptist Churches. Presently, she serves on the Board of North City Congress, as the Worship Committee chair for the Pennsylvania Association of Ministers' Wives and Ministers' Widow Interdenominational and as immediate past President of the Baptist Ministers' Wives and Ministers' Widows Union of Philadelphia and Vicinity. In June 2015, she was given the opportunity to speak at the International Association of Ministers' Widows in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
In 1980, she was inducted into the Chapel of Four Chaplains Legion of Honor. She was selected to appear in the:
- 1987 Edition of Who's Who in Professional and Executive Women
- 1991 Edition of The World's Who's Who of Women
- 1991 Fourth Edition of Two Thousand Notable American Women
- 2007 Edition of Metropolitan Who's Who
She is a member of numerous professional, religious and civic organizations. She is married to the Rev. Dr. William Bernard Moore, Pastor of the Tenth Baptist Church, Philadelphia. They are parents of two ordained ministers: Rev. Tamieka Nicole Gerow (Rev. Keon), Rev. Justin Bernard Moore and grandmom to Kennedy Noelle Gerow and Keon Nicholas Xavier Gerow.


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Here's a Saturday morning update for our song, "Blame It On Love". It hit #5 in the Canadian iTunes Rock chart overnight. Thanks to everyone for supporting THE SILVERS. Many thanks to WOA Records for helping us get into the… Read More ›
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Saturday Morning Update for iTunes US Reggae Chart and YouTube News
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THE SILVERS Break Into The Top 10 On iTunes US In The Reggae Genre! FANTASTIC!
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Try these amazing recipes for DIY detox waters that promote health, diet and weight loss. Cleanse your skin, body and brain with these homemade teas and waters to lose weight and restore energy. Remove toxins and cleanse with these easy to make ideas for healthy drinks. Refreshing and good for you, these detox drinks are low in sugar, but taste great!
1. Chia Detox Water
Chia seeds are a superfood that everyone needs to have in the pantry. Did you know you could add them to water and drink it?
Chia seeds are gluten free and a good source of calcium and fiber. They are also supposed to help curb your appetite.
1 – 12oz glass of water
1 Tablespoon Chia seeds
Juice from 1 lime
1/4 teaspoon agave nectar
Fill a glass jar with a lid with drinking water
Add chia seeds to water. Place lid on the jar and shake well. Let set for 10 minutes
Add juice from 1 lime and 1/4 teaspoon agave nectar. Shake again and drink
2. Apple Cinnamon Detox Water
Detox water recipes with apple are beneficial to you for a number of reasons. Apples contain pectin and pectin will bond to the heavy metals in your system which lets them be flushed from your body more easily which in turn helps your liver. Apples also contain antioxidants and flavonoids like Vitamins C and B Complex. To make this detox water even healthier,add cinnamon to it. Cinnamon is super healthy and helps balance your blood sugar.
2 organic apples
2 cinnamon sticks (food grade)
Cut the apples into large chunks. Be sure you leave the skin on.
Fill a Mason jar with chunks of apple, add 1 cinnamon stick and fill with water.
Let sit overnight in the refrigerator.
Serve over ice if you want or drink as is.
3. Detox Spa Cucumber Water
There is nothing more refreshing than a cool glass of Cucumber Lemon Water. This classic detox water recipe will help your body detox and flushes you out, and it tastes great, too.
1/2 lemon thinly sliced
1/4 cucumber thinly sliced- save 2 slices to place on your eyes
Combine all ingredients in an airtight container and leave to steep overnight in the fridge.
Do not allow to sit for longer than 48 hours.
4. Lemon Ginger Detox Drink
Ginger is a powerful detox ingredient that helps to kick start your metabolism. Sipping a ginger infused beverage will have your metabolism on the rise throughout the day, allowing you to flush fat even as you take in your daily meals, and will burn extra calories as you workout. Lemons are a natural detoxifier. And with their diuretic effect, your body will more easily shed unwanted toxins.
Simply add the juice of a half of a lemon to a glass of water, and then grate your ginger into the glass. It's an easy prep way to detox and flush the fat away, and it's a great way to hydrate while enjoying some vibrant, natural flavor!
1 12-ounce glass water, at room temperature
Juice of 1/2 lemon
1/2-inch knob of ginger root
Add the lemon juice to the glass of water. Finely grate the ginger by using a zester, add to the glass of water. This drink is a perfect way to start your day!
5. Raspberry And Mint Scented Water
This recipe includes raspberries which are packed with vitamin C, and help boost your immune system at the same time.
The mint gives it a fresh flavor and helps you detox too.
Note: You can use raspberries instead of strawberries. The fruits infuse better and delicate shade of pink takes place.
2 litres cold spring water, or filtered tap water
2 Tablespoons raspberries, fresh or frozen
2 tablespoons fresh mint leaves
1 lime
To get more flavour and juice out of your lime, microwave for 30 seconds. When cool, slice
Place raspberries, mint, lime and water in a large jug. Stir and serve!


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What are scams?
Scams are misleading or fraudulent offers designed to con you out of money. They may be received by post, email, telephone, text or face to face.
Scams seem so believable because they:
- look professional
- appear official
- seem personal to you
- pretend you are the only winner
- use stolen identities
- How to recognise a scam
- are received out of the blue
- promise something for nothing
- tell you respond immediately
- ask you for money upfront
- Before you respond to an offer
Don't be pressurised into sending off money immediately to someone you don't even know.
How likely is it that I've specially been chosen? Millions of people have probably received the same offer.
Think again
Always read the offer carefully. Speak to family or friends or seek advice.
- Report a scam
Phone the Citizens Advice Consumer Service on 0808 223 1133
Or report the scam online:


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With the end of the spring season comes the final stalks of ruby-hued rhubarb—a vegetable I absolutely adore for its distinct tartness, its ability to marry well with a host of other ingredients, and its status as a truly seasonal food (you'd have a quite difficult time attempting to track down a bundle of the red beauties during the summer, fall, and winter months, even in supermarkets that import produce from all over the place). Rhubarb originated around 2700 BCE, when medicinally minded Chinese fold prized the plant for its purgative qualities. Marco Polo earns the glory of having popularized rhubarb in Europe in the 17th century, while an anonymous gardener in Maine first planted the veggie in America about a century later. While the stalks of rhubarb boast generous amounts of vitamin C and calcium, the leaves contain a high concentration of oxalates, which can cause a quite unfortunate bodily reaction analogous to heavy metal poisoning. The moral of the story? Don't toss rhubarb leaves into your morning green smoothie.
Far from blending up rhubarb with a frozen banana and soy milk for breakfast, I instead opted to craft what turned out as my most successful baked good recipe to date. The notion of baking up a deliciously moist coffee cake has festered in my psyche for quite some time now, and I finally decided to transform the poor entrapped idea into a delectable reality, rendered even more mouthwatering by the addition of a caramelized rhubarb compote and a bubbly, golden, maca-infused topping. For this recipe, I drew inspiration from both Laura's Vanilla Stewed Rhubarb and The Urban Vegan's Rhubarb-Maca Coffee Cake. Implementing a variation on Laura's recipe as an integral layer in a de-glutenized, de-sugarified, and de-palm-oiled (all Earth Balance butters contain the wholly unethical ingredient) version of The Urban Vegan's original cake. The fusion of these two recipes resulted in an impeccably moist cake base topped with a mahogany-hued, sweetly tart mess of rhubarb mingling with a sticky, truly caramel-like mixture—a nourishing yet decadent-tasting muffin perfect to swoon over at any time of day (I've already had one as part of my breakfast, lunch, and dinner today). Basically, if you haven't already picked up on the take-away message of this banter, I'd wholeheartedly encourage you to venture into the nearest kitchen (I don't even care if it's your own) and whip up a batch of these muffins immediately. Hey, who knew rhubarb could inspire such gastronomic enlightenment?
Rhubarb-Cardamom Coffee Cake Muffins with Gooey Caramel Topping—Can be Soy Free, Nut Free, Low Sodium, Low Fat
Makes 8 muffins.
Ingredients for the Rhubarb Compote:
4 stalks of rhubarb, diced
Juice of 1 lime
1/4 cup coconut nectar or maple syrup
1/4 tsp cardamom
1 tsp vanilla extract
Ingredients for the Cake:
1/3 cup GF oat flour (make your own by pulsing GF oats in a spice grinder)
1/3 cup buckwheat flour
1/3 cup arrowroot powder
1 tbsp flaxseed meal
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/8 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp cardamom
1/4 tsp maca powder
6 tbsp date paste (about 5 medjool dates pureed with 1/2 cup water)
1 tbsp coconut nectar or maple syrup
2 tbsp coconut oil, melted
1/4 cup plant-based milk
Ingredients for the Gooey Caramel Topping:
2 tbsp GF oat flour
1 tbsp GF oats
2 tbsp coconut nectar or maple syrup
1 tbsp coconut oil, melted
1/2 tbsp maca powder
1/4 tsp cardamom
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Lightly oil eight tins of a muffin pan.
In a small saucepan, combine all of the rhubarb compote ingredients and bring to a boil. Lower the heat and simmer for 7-10 minutes, or until the rhubarb has broken down and almost all of the liquid has evaporated. Remove from the heat and set aside.
For the cake, in a medium-sized bowl combine the oat flour through maca powder. In a separate smaller bowl, whisk together the date paste through milk. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix until well-combined. Set aside.
In a small bowl, combine all of the ingredients for the gooey caramel topping. Set aside.
Fill each of the muffin tins about halfway with the cake batter. Spoon a dollop of the rhubarb compote on top, then finish off the muffins with a sprinkling of the gooey caramel topping. Bake the muffins for 20 minutes and allow to cool in the pan for at least 5 minutes before
stuffing into your face all at once enjoying.
Recipe submitted to Healthy Vegan Fridays and Wellness Weekend.
Until next time, Ali.


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After what seemed a rather obscure set of Nobel prize winners, the award for literature comes close to home in being granted to Alice Munro. James Wood, in The New Yorker, callls her "Our Chekhov" and says it is "deliriously incredible" that she should win the award after so many years.
Not so long she announced her retirement. Famous for her sets of short stories that read as organic wholes, Munro has developed a devoted following over the years. Not so long ago, she handpicked a selection of 17 stories for Everyman's Library entitled Carried Away. Several collections have come out since, including Dear Life, which apparently was meant as her last words.
The rumor mill was rife, with many expecting either she or Philip Roth, who also recently announced his retirement, to nab the award this year. Munro is a bit of a surprise because she seemed to disdain politics, which the Nobel committee generally gravitates toward. This year, the Nobel committee gave the award for art's sake, calling her "the master of contemporary short fiction."


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Today made me judge my sanity. With the intention of arriving at Krokstrand at around 3pm to watch HMS St.Albans sail past (she is a British frigate captained by a friend of mine and on a visit to Oslo) I thought I would drive the scenic route there. This took me through Oppland, most of Akershus and a good chunk of Østfold with nothing of any interest bird wise to show for it. The only thing of any ornithological interest that resulted from my travels was that I could confirm there has been a mass exodus of the wintering Hawk Owls.
I arrived at Krokstrand at 1505 in just the nick of time as the boat (or is it a ship?) was offshore at, in seawatching terms, 12o'clock. A few minutes later and I would have missed her which would really have rounded off a miserable day. In the end though I was able to watch it steaming north into the mist and being dwarfed by the Colour Line Danish Ferry coming out of the mist towards it.
|is this a near miss in nautical terms?
Some birding salvation came in the form of the Frogn schoolyard Hawk Owl surprisingly still present although perched on a very distant spruce.
Then getting home and picking up my youngest I thought that the birding day had been really saved when I had a close flock of Waxwings (sidensvans) feeding on rotten apples but the camera refused to shoot when they were low and close in the apple tree but worked fine when they took refuge high up with the sun behind them. Not my day...


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WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. -- More than 100 students with special needs who are about to take the leap into life after high school, are getting some extra support in Lycoming County.
If you're looking for 32-year-old Amber Logan in the room filled with people at Pennsylvania College of Technology, you'll find her on stage.
Logan was asked to speak about life after high school to over 100 10th through 12th graders with special needs.
Some of these students have diverse abilities like Logan.
"Transition after school kind of fell apart for me. I dealt with these agencies and they did nothing for me and I sat at home all the time and I was depressed," Logan said.
Employees at Penn College and BLaST IU 17 want students with special needs and their families to be prepared for life after high school. It's why they invited them to the first transition conference.
"The transition to college is huge for any freshman and when it's a freshman with a disability, it's just magnified," said Kay Dunkleberger, Penn College of Technology.
Students listened to speakers and panels, including one where a group of young people shared their experiences on how they overcame obstacles after high school.
Logan is now happily working three jobs.
"She saw that I was good with the people and my head went up and confidence."
Many of the students tell Newswatch 16 they are already thinking about future careers and high education.
"I might get a job and work at the hospital," said Byron Keith Diemer.
A senior at Williamsport Area High School, Jeremiah Vollman loves to grow vegetables in his garden. He hopes he can find a job and go to school to learn more about it.
"I'm just looking forward to growing all the vegetables," he said. "If I want to pursue more education, I can go here, obviously, and do their program."
Because they want to continue to help young people as they take that next step, organizers tell us they would like to hold it again next year at Penn College.


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Scicos is a graphical dynamical system modeler and simulator. Users can create block diagrams to model and simulate the dynamics of hybrid dynamical systems (both continuous and discrete time) and compile these models into executable code. Applications include signal processing, systems control, queuing systems, and the study of physical and biological systems.
Scilab includes a toolbox called Xcos which is based on Scicos.[1]
Scicos is developed in and distributed with the scientific software package ScicosLab.[2] Scicos 4.4.1 has been released in April 2011.
The book Modeling and Simulation in Scilab/Scicos with Scicoslab 4.4 by Campbell, Chancelier and Nikoukhah, provides an overview of the software.
- Graphically model, compile, and simulate dynamical systems
- Combine continuous and discrete-time behaviors in the same model
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- Program new blocks in C, Fortran, or Scilab Language
- Run simulations in batch mode from ScicosLab environment
- Generate C code from Scicos model using a Code Generator
- Run simulations in real time with real devices using Scicos-HIL
- Generate hard real-time control executables with Scicos-RTAI
- Simulate digital communications systems with Scicos-ModNum
- Use implicit blocks developed in the Modelica language.
- OpenModelica
- JModelica.org
- Modelica - a modeling and simulation language.
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The first day of salmon season on Monterey Bay has become an historic free-for-all for all comers. Plenty of newly lowered levels of consciousness are attained hourly. Personal styles change but the faddish constantly remain. Cheap trinkets are festooned commonly as adornments for heads, noses, necks, afts, and sterns. There are large and small boats trolling with tangled pick-up lines, bobbing dinghies, kayaks, rafts, tubes, and tubs. There is so-called recreational sport fishing from turbo-charged scows that resemble the S.S. Minnow and the Titanic, stylishly equipped with sonar, caviar, shade, Dramanine dispensers, mimosas, galley slaves, gaffers, laser sights, harpoons, cup holders, and two ply paper.
Not surprisingly, few fish fall for the obvious glitter from all of the brand new gear. The best balls of bait reside too deep for superficial gleanings to penetrate. Any random mass of recreating humans invariably includes a vocal majority of addled nitwits and nut cases freed from dens, asylums, and shells. Paths cross willy-nilly. Contradictions abound. I never miss it.
My proprietary plan to start out the season by catching a fat fish to filet was simple: Start the engines. Open wide. Don't look back. Look up. Move hips. Rotate. Stretch out. Follow the birds. Out more. More hips. Search the ripples on the surface. Search the depth below. Recognize patterns. Breathe deeply. Out farther. Don't waver. Visualize figure-eights, the basic building blocks of the multiverse. Tell no one your secrets. Repeat.
"Where you headed?"
"Out there."
So, to be clear, I did not start out looking per se on the first day of salmon season to renew my missed connection with the humpback whale who appears to be light taupe, unless he more accurately represents a discreet shade of dark ecru on the eternal color wheel. I did not intend to end up anywhere near his neighborhood. That is a matter of fact, no conjecture. By the terms of my plea bargaining agreement, I'd have to score way higher than an above average idiot to risk that.
An hour after launching, I was maintaining a somewhat steady speed and distance from the same old peninsula at the end of Western Civilization as it disappeared intermittently into the fog. The tip of the peninsula was curved like a ceremonial sword sprouting mildly peachy bumps of fuzz that appeared to be smoking a pipe. It was the same plan I used the year before. Past performance represents a mere single plotted point, not a pattern. This time, it might work.
I began to tag along, uninvited, behind a squadron of loons to the edge of a deep canyon due west of Moss Landing. Unless those loons were coots obscured by the haze. I was trolling slowly with a delectable frozen anchovy on the end of a barbed hook when a newly born grey whale calf popped up beside me. He was not much bigger than my boat, a darling little rascal diving in and out of the water in that charming way of insouciant youth showing off. He was one of the lucky newborns venturing beyond the protected Sea of Cortez lagoon of his birth on his first family trip north. Alaska gets pretty sweet and tingly in the Summer. Bait swims like cream at the top. The young ladies better watch out for that one rising up.
The little whale showed good sense, though, when he dove fast and disappeared to a safe depth as a pair of overly hormonal speed boats zipped by at a rollicking unsafe speed. They appeared to be evenly matched, Yo, Bro, and Yo, Ho. One was painted pink, the other blue. How cute, and droll. The frothy animals on deck were whooping it up like caged chimpanzees.
The vaunted he-man sized human brain, which is three times the size of a chimpanzee's, not coincidentally another of the other most highly proficient back-patting mammals, is eighty percent unused. You do the math because I can't. Oh, that's right, you're still heavily invested in the economics of denial. What happens when you try to move your hips? Oh, that's right, you can't.
What I tried to do was clutch and grab and hold on. It worked as it usually does. Sort of.
My boat was left alone to thrash in the gaseous, artificial wake. I returned to vestigial roots and rocked like a hopeless white boy searching for any rhythm to throttle as I bobbed. I may or may not have become more or less disoriented at that critical juncture. The harsh light seemed to be propelled like a bomb through a sieve. It was probably close to about then when I began to notice I was springing a leak from the inside out. Holes that leak are rarely a good sign. When I finished puking my guts out over the side, I took a closer look. Sort of.
How many homilies can you count that begin from a starting point of ignorance and presumably improve? There is much winning that is said to be extracted from a great loss. That's a classic not to be overlooked for potential gain that goes back to the grand yesteryear of Horatio Alger and Bing Crosby. It's a big fucking deal, it is furthermore said, in addition, ad hominem, by many, all over the globe. Unless that was Bob Crosby and the ineffable Bobcats. So, I looked for the source of my leak. I looked where I had looked before. I looked where I had yet to venture. I looked even where in advance, I thought, nah. My test results tend to vary all over the so-called lot, which tends to lead, often, to prevarication.
But, who cares when the chips are in play on the table? Who can afford to make the same mistake in so many multiples of twice? Look where that got me. When no apparent reason to be sinking jumped out and grabbed me I would have if possible settled for another big slice of denial. Keep on keeping on. As if.
But, then I was caught unaware again while my head and guard was down. No conclusions, yet, though still working on it.
What I heard, distinctly I am certain, was "Ahoy there." It was a loud man speaking through a bullhorn. He looked a lot like a halibut, but fatter. Sort of.
I did not ask, but said, "What the fuck."
"Permission to come aboard."
"Who are you?"
"We're on an expedition searching for whales."
What if he came aboard and the additional weight sunk me? What if I ended up looking flat yet bloated like him? What if the shock waves emanating from the bullhorn were the source of the leak?
I said, "I may be leaking."
"How so?"
I said, "You won't find any whales that way."
"What way?"
"Whales are very choosy. If they want you, they find you. It's a matter of aesthetics."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Who are you?"
"We're your friends who have come to help."
"As if."
"What about dolphins? Have you seen many dolphins?"
"What dolphins?"
"We've been observing you?"
"Doing what?"
"Have you been speaking to an imaginary friend? You may need assistance from experts."
"Did you see me puking?"
"I'm asking the questions here."
"Disgusting huh? Who are you?"
"We're only here to help."
I said, "As if."
"Do you know that dolphins are being trained as spies?"
"Do you know that I don't know who you are?"
"Foreign spies."
"Doesn't that cover all spies?"
"Very dangerous to your well being."
"Not as long as I stay afloat."
"I think you'd better come with us."
I repeated, "As if."
"You'll tell us everything you know."
I said, innocently, "What are you using for bait?"


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Friday, 2 September, 2016 at 7:30PM
pre-show 'My Culture, Our Culture' workshop at 6PM
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We share a post recently published in Child Migrant Stories, written by Amy Clare Tasker.
What is a migrant? An immigrant? An expat?
What am I? I was born in the UK to English parents, and in 1990, when I was five years old, we moved to California. I remember being friends with the children of local British families for a time, and then when I went to school, I made friends with my American classmates. Eventually I picked up the local accent, so my new friends would stop asking me to "say something in English" on the playground. My sisters and I must have changed subtly, slowly, immeasurably over the next decade or so; I will never forget, in the car park of a pub on the outskirts of Leeds, hearing my grandad's friend remark, "It's a shame you've all become American."
[…] What am I? In some ways, I feel like an immigrant: it took me a full week when I arrived in London to figure out where to buy coat hangers; I don't speak like the people around me; I've never seen an episode of Eastenders. But in other ways, I do feel I've "returned": dark chocolate digestives are no longer a special treat to unpack from a relative's suitcase; I can now see my extended family more than once every year or two; and there's just something about being back in England that feels right.
[…] Since 2014, I have been working with a team of fellow cultural hybrids in London to create Home Is Where… a verbatim theatre project with music, movement, and multimedia. We've interviewed dozens of third culture kids, and writer Guleraana Mir is weaving together their true stories with a fictional narrative inspired by our post-Brexit political landscape. Our cast of five actors will take on the role of a resistance movement in a futuristic dystopia, using an innovative headphone verbatim technique to tell real-life TCK stories from the interviews.
Alongside the performance at Rich Mix on 2 September, we've partnered with HOPE not hate to offer a free and inclusive workshop before the show, using theatre games to explore the themes of the play: identity, culture, and belonging. This is one of many events in a national Weekend of HOPE, part of the #MoreInCommon campaign.
Even if you're nowhere near London, you can listen to the stories in our Online Oral History Library, which holds short audio clips from the 30+ third culture kids we've interviewed.


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How to Get Rid of Favorite Styles in TextEdit
We've used TextEdit since it was first released for all of our word processing and find it does almost everything we need. Recently, we decided it was time to modify or delete some of the early Favorite Styles we no longer needed or wanted to re-title to something more descriptive.
We tried everything from deleting our TextEdit plist file to reinstalling TextEdit but we were still stuck with the same styles we created earlier and wanted to eliminate. Nothing helped us find out what we needed to do, from searching the TextEdit Help Menu to the Apple Support Forums to saying lots of bad words. Then by accident, we discovered what has to be the most convoluted procedure ever included in an Apple application. Not only that, but there is no way to edit a Favorite Style, other than to create a better named Favorite Style with the same features as the one you delete.
Here's how to do it:
- Open a rich text document in TextEdit, or create a new, blank, rich text document in TextEdit.
- Be sure you are in RichText format.
- If the Ruler isn't visible at the top of the document window, select Format > Text > Show Ruler.
- In the Styles menu, select Other from the list.
- Doing so will open a new window with buttons at the bottom for Add To Favorites, Select, Apply, and Done. Immediately above these buttons are two radio buttons.
- Click the Favorite Styles radio button, which will also deselect Document Styles. This will change the left-most button from Add To Favorites to Remove From Favorites.
- If the style you want to delete isn't showing in the pulldown menu, pull down the menu and select it.
- Choose Remove From Favorites to delete that single style.
- You will have to repeat the process for each Style you want to delete.
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Fierce Innovation Awards: Healthcare Edition program announces finalists, Pulsara recognized
BOZEMAN, Mont. — Pulsara announced today that the company has been selected as a finalist in this year's Fierce Innovation Awards: Healthcare Edition 2017, an awards program from the publisher of FierceHealthcare. Pulsara was recognized as a finalist in the category of Digital/Mobile Health Solutions.
Pulsara was selected as a finalist for its innovative, industry leading product, the Pulsara Prehospital Alerting Package. Finalists were selected by a distinguished panel of judges from renowned U.S. hospitals and healthcare systems. The panel included:
- Terry Booker, VP Corporate and Business Development, Independence Blue Cross (IBC)
- Roy DeLaMar, Internal Business Communications Manager, Cigna
- Neal Ganguly, VP and CIO, JFK Health System
- Deborah Gordon, VP Marketing Sales and Product Strategy, Tufts Health Plan
- Jessica Grosset, VC of IT, Infrastructure and Operation, Mayo Clinic
- Kurt Cwak, CIO, Proliance Surgeons
- Roger Neal, CIO and VP, Information Technology, Duncan Regional Hospital
- Todd Richardson, Senior VP/CIO, Aspirus
- Edward Ricks, VP and CIO, Information Services, Beaufort Memorial Hospital
- Julie Slezak, EVP, Clinical Analytics, GNS Healthcare.
All applications were evaluated based on the following criteria: Competitive Advantage, Financial Impact/Value, Market Need, and Overall Innovation. Applicants with the top 3 scores in each category were selected as finalists. "It's About People," said James Woodson, MD, Founder and CEO of Pulsara. "Device-centric and provider-centric models of healthcare coordination aren't working. When you make it about the patient and the clinician instead, you do so much more than build a successful app – you build a true regional system of care. That's what Pulsara is all about, and we are honored to have been selected as a finalist this year."
Pulsara's Prehospital Alerting Package allows prehospital providers to enter information about a patient into a mobile device from the field and instantly transmit it to the emergency department. Because the information is stored in the cloud, and not on the user's device, the platform is HIPAA-compliant and secure. The app also allows the medic to upload a secure image of an injury or ECG, and automatically notifies the hospital of the ambulance's location and ETA based on GPS. The emergency department team can view the information and send instant messages back to the EMS team via the secure chat feature. The Prehospital Alerting Package complements Pulsara's current product features to create a truly innovative platform that includes prehospital, intra-facility, and inter-facility communication. Pulsara offers the package to EMS providers at no charge, and at no charge for the length of the contract to hospitals who sign up by December 31, 2017. To learn more about Pulsara visit, www.pulsara.com/ems.
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FierceMarkets, a division of Questex, LLC, is a leader in B2B e-media, providing information and marketing services in the telecommunications, life sciences, healthcare, IT, energy, government, finance, and retail industries through its portfolio of email newsletters, websites, webinars and live events. Every business day, FierceMarkets' wide array of digital publications reaches more than 2 million executives in more than 100 countries. Current health publications include: FierceEMR; FierceHealthcare; FierceHealthFinance; FierceHealthIT; FierceHealthPayer; FierceHealthPayerAntiFraud; FierceMobileHealthcare; FiercePracticeManagement and Hospital Impact.
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If you would like to lead up a subgroup on a particular topic and become a Contributor to Bootstrap, please contact Bijoy. Ideally, subgroups have 1 or 2 leads with a nice Maven, Relater, Evangelist balance! Usually, it will start with one person wanting to do it and then evolve from there. If you're the initial lead for a subgroup, we can work together to find a colead. Having a colead is not a requirement, but highly recommended so you can get "Power of 2," lighten the load, etc. Please do not take on a Subgroup lead role unless you plan to do it for at least 6 months.
It's also important that if you cannot continue leading a subgroup and would like to step down, please alert bijoy so we can help with that process! Given our bootstrapper realities, this is more than likely to happen and also totally fine! Being a Contributor should NOT be a burden and you will likely give others the opportunity to step up. And please, do it sooner rather than later.
- Engage the subgroup in the question: what is/how to bootstrap x? (x being your subgroup theme)
- Please see Bootstrap Your Community to learn all about effective community-building.
- Organize a monthly get-together of some kind for the members. Consult the Experience Subgroup to structure the before/during/after of each meeting.
- Invite speakers who can enlighten the group on bootstrapping as it relates to the subgroup theme. Speakers need to relate their story/model to the Bootstrap Map. Also, a Book Club format may be appropriate. Record talks/author call-ins and send them to be edited for the BootRap Podcast.
- Connect subgroup members with each other
- Be a resource and notify the group of appropriate resources
- Coordinate with other subgroup leads on joint activities and cross-pollinate members
- Forge connections with appropriate external communities and organizations and conduct joint events as necessary
Administration and Online Tools
One of the coleads will become the online administrator for the group. online tools:
- Group Wiki page: communicate information about the leads, mission, needs and any other internal operation of your group. See the Art Subgroup for an example. You need a login and edit permission to do this.
- Yahoo (or Google) group is used for group discussion and communication of events.
- Use Evite for your events. Copy and paste the email list from the yahoo group (by going to the "Members" page and clicking on "Download." You should also create a public URL (and shrink it at budurl.com) for your event, which can be shared with others.
- Please update your event info on the Bootstrap Austin Calendar. Set it up to remind the yahoo group 6 days before the event. Also suggest an additional reminder on Evite 2 days before the event.
- Bootstrap Blog is on Blogger - you need author permission for the blog
- Twitter - use your personal twitter account and include: #bootstrapaustin at the end of your bootstrap-related tweets.
Useful Links
- Austin Meeting Locations
- Austin Wireless Hotspots
- Boot Boards - connect your members who are interested in participating to the appropriate Boot Board lead


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"Through Him we received grace and apostleship to call all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith for His name's sake." -Romans 1:5
One of the paradoxes frequently discussed amongst those in the Christian faith is the relationship between faith and obedience. We find the Bible does place importance on both faith and deeds, though it also tells us our deeds are meaningless, in that we cannot acquire salvation from them and of our own accord.
We, as Christians, more often than not understand this conceptually, for it is a cornerstone of our faith in Christ. As it is said, if it was possible to become righteous because of deeds, then Christ need not have come in the first place (See my note on Galatians 2:21, "On Righteousness by The Law").
It's unfortunate, but even us Christians, me included, continue to lose our way, and each and everyone of us can think of a time where we have backslid spiritually. When I read this verse I feel it is not only important for me, but all the Body of Christ. In fact, I have dealt with this very thing recently and perhaps anyone reading this can relate.
I had backslid quite a bit, from what I would consider the most pious time in my life. The scripture tells us of the sin that so easily entangles (See my note on Hebrews 12:1, "On Running The Race"), and more or less, I threw myself headlong into that thorny hedge of intertwined sin and darkness.
The thorns pierced deep into my bone, and once more I was caught in a life of sin. My heart, however, as corrupt as it was, ached for God to pull me out of that hedge. I knew the Lord would love nothing more, for I had a very pious relationship with Him in the past. So I desired to come back to the relationship I once had with Him, and thought I could get that by obeying His statutes. Imagine my disappointment when I found it was doing no good for my relationship with Him, nor was it pulling me out of sin, for I found the sin still abundant in my life despite my disgust with it.
It took me a while, but I eventually was shown I had it all backwards. Even the most taught of us in the faith, make this very mistake. We find ourselves in a place, much like where I was at, and we think to have a relationship with the Lord, we must clean up to approach Him. Yet as Paul touches on here, it is faith that brings us to the Lord and by that relationship, it's manifest in our deeds.
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The time has come again: for the third time in a row, the ABC/J Geo-network sent students exploring the desert under the supervision of Dr Gösta Hoffmann and Valeska Decker.
For two weeks (11th to 25th of March) the participants exchanged the auditorium for the open field, a bed for a camping mattress in a tent, and a shower for the sea and bright blue wadi streams. In an unparalleled experience the 20 geoscience and geography students from Aachen, Bonn, Cologne, and Jülich learned more about the geology, archaeology, and culture of Oman.
Oman is an outstanding destination for field trips like this: rock formations that are rarely observed at the earth`s surface are on display here in an almost museum-like manner. Best examples are the Mohorovičić discontinuity (Moho), that represents the border between earth`s crust and earth`s mantle or the pillow basalts of the Samail Ophiolite.
Did this spark your interest? Get more information on the field trips blog. Furthermore, we recommend our latest release: Field Guide to the Geology of Northeastern Oman. The book covers most geological stops of the field trip and contains detailed maps that make exploring on your own as simple as possible.
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Each summer, the Everett Public Schools Foundation conducts a massive school supply drive called "Stuff the Bus for Kids" to fill backpacks for students needing that support to succeed in school.
This year they have received requests for over 1,800 backpacks filled with school supplies from their 26 schools before the start of the school year.
As of July 22nd they were short of their goal by 700 stuffed backpacks.
Be sure to watch for big yellow buses outside select locations from August 16th to 18th to donate supplies!
Gathering supplies and packing backpacks helps each student have tools for school success.
Click here for more information: Stuff the Bus for Kids school suppy drive begins.


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1923249419959081206.post5600392931540480426..comments2020-05-20T17:58:59.964-04:00Comments on Inside/Outside: #MeTooLinda Sherby PH.D., ABPPhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1923249419959081206.post-43016013399439060782018-01-01T17:52:36.467-05:002018-01-01T17:52:36.467-05:00 Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.Linda Sherby PH.D., ABPPhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1923249419959081206.post-9199309980690189552018-01-01T08:48:38.843-05:002018-01-01T08:48:38.843-05:00Awesome article. mata kuliah manajemenAwesome article.
mata kuliah firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1923249419959081206.post-66351904263839662572017-12-17T18:22:59.670-05:002017-12-17T18:22:59.670-05:00 Thanks, Claudia. I appreciate your comment.
Thanks, Claudia. I appreciate your comment.Linda Sherby PH.D., ABPPhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1923249419959081206.post-14677479729694155532017-12-15T20:45:15.749-05:002017-12-15T20:45:15.749-05:00So relieved you PROTECTED Her...another beautiful ...So relieved you PROTECTED Her...another beautiful session snippet..Claudia Sheftel Luizhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1923249419959081206.post-12729522589383070742017-12-14T22:30:57.064-05:002017-12-14T22:30:57.064-05:00 And thank you, Rosemary, for your kind words abou...
And thank you, Rosemary, for your kind words about my blog.

I think that the more one can speak about the abusers and get to a place where the pain and the shame diminishes, the more one can be free.

Good luck!

LindaLinda Sherby PH.D., ABPPhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1923249419959081206.post-10674656766914670392017-12-14T22:25:17.418-05:002017-12-14T22:25:17.418-05:00 Thanks for your comment, Anonymous. First I woul...
Thanks for your comment, Anonymous.

First I would say that every patient is unique and that what she or he is able to reveal in any specific time frame will be similarly idiosyncratic. But, yes, I do have trauma patients who come to a point where they can speak their fears and their abuse, as well as being able to reflect on their thoughts and feelings.

I wish you the best on your journey.

Linda Sherby Linda Sherby PH.D., ABPPhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1923249419959081206.post-84618810100262546952017-12-14T18:41:33.876-05:002017-12-14T18:41:33.876-05:00Hi, I too wonder how it would be if I were to exp...Hi, I too wonder how it would be if I were to expose the Monsters... although they are dead would I be free? I read all of your Inside Out stories and am always afffected in some way ! Thanks for writing !
 Anonymoushttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1923249419959081206.post-68513098222093463702017-12-14T16:45:00.695-05:002017-12-14T16:45:00.695-05:00Thanks for the interesting story. However, it got ...Thanks for the interesting story. However, it got me wondering if people (particularly trauma patients) really are so open about talking about their thoughts and plans.

For instance, I couldn't ever imagine telling anything like this to my therapist because I wouldn't tolerate most of the responses you describe here - I wouldn't tolerate questioning my thoughts, I wouldn't tolerate the request to consider consequences and I wouldn't tolerate the confusion expressed by the therapist. That all would feel to me as a massive criticism that would cause huge amounts of shame in me. And so I still just can't discuss basically anything with my therapist even though I've seen him more than four years.

I guess my question is whether the patients you see are really so easily talking or do these kinds of verbal pseudo-patients occur in these stories just because otherwise it would be boring to email@example.com


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THE Criminal Investigations Department (CID) conducting investigations into LTTE activities, yesterday (22) produced Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Vanni District MP Sathasivam Kanagaratnam before the Colombo Chief Magistrate and Additional District Judge Nisantha Hapuarachchi and said the MP is alleged to have violated the Emergency Regulations and assisted the LTTE.
Kanagaratnam was arrested by the CID while he was with the people who came from the uncleared areas. He was trapped in Mullaitivu for several months.
The CID has commenced an investigation against the MP who is alleged to have been involved with LTTE terrorist activities under the detention orders issued on May 21 by Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.
Investigations revealed that Kanagaratnam is alleged to have violated the Emergency Regulations and committed several offences.
On an application by the CID, Judge Hapuarachchi ordered the CID to detain the suspect and conduct investigations and submit a comprehensive report to Court on the next date, July 26. (Courtesy : Daily News)


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Community Garden Planning Grant
We are no longer accepting applications for this grant.
Open Your Heart's Community Garden Planning grants are targeted toward determining the feasibility of developing a community garden for hunger relief programs, principally food shelves or programs that distribute food to hungry people.
MISSION: Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless believes that every Minnesotan should be free from hunger and homelessness. We make an impact by partnering with those who serve people in need, growing donor engagement, and increasing awareness.
MAXIMUM GRANT: $3,000. We anticipate garden planning efforts to equal $1,500 – $3,000 depending on the size of the garden and amount of people involved in decision making, as these would result in more meetings.
DUE DATE: March 15th, 2015
- Agencies must serve hungry and homeless Minnesotans.
- Agencies must have 501(c)3 status OR be recognized as tax exempt by the the IRS (i.e. schools, units of government or tribal governments) OR use a fiscal agent with 501(c)3 status.
- Organizations must not limit service based on individual's race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, age, or disability.
Grant funds are to be used to help agencies determine whether operating a community garden is a feasible and desirable undertaking. Developing a garden is an investment of time and resources. Usually, it is necessary to conduct soil testing, assess water capacity and landscaping needs, apply for permits, determine storage and refrigeration capacity, equipment needs, etc. It is also critical that agencies assess their organizational capacity to determine whether they can effectively recruit and manage the additional volunteers or staff to operate a garden.
We encourage applicants to consider hiring consultants specializing in developing community gardens to help their organization through this process. You will find links to contractors and other resources that can assist applicants. We have also provided links to some food shelves in Minnesota that currently operate gardens.
Use of grant funds may include:
- Hiring consultant to guide agency through the process, assessing feasibility, developing timelines and budgets, developing an implementation plan.
- Contracting with firm to conduct soil and water testing.
- Pay necessary permit or other fees.
- Pay for food, supplies, materials, and other costs associated with holding meetings to engage board, staff, and community stakeholders in planning process.
- Funding for dedicated staff hours to planning project, up to $1,000.
Grantees are encouraged to hire outside expertise to coordinate the planning process. Open Your Heart will provide contact information of vendors specializing in community garden development, but grantees may use any qualified consultant they choose. Since the purpose of a Planning Grant is to determine feasibility, grantees are not required to develop a garden as condition of receiving or expending funds.
Agencies already operating gardens who wish to be considered for grants for equipment, storage, refrigeration, etc., should apply through our regular grant process and not through this RFP. See our website for information on Hunger and Homeless Grants for this information.
Note: The garden you are planning does not need to be open to the public/community to work on, it could be volunteers or staff that work the garden.
Funds must be expended by April 20, 2016.
Community Garden Design & Start Up consultation includes a walk-through of the process of designing a community garden with the greatest potential for produce yields and community building. Workshops are interactive and participatory, with a focus on exercises that garden groups can replicate in their own communities. We can tailor workshops to specific audiences, depending on the group's needs. Participants will explore their visions for their gardens, learn consensus-building and outreach principles, and walk through planning exercises. Everyone should leave with principles, tips, and practical ideas along with a draft design for your community garden.
Charge examples, may vary:
- 2-3 hours of phone consultation: $100
- In person 1/2 day group workshop: $500
- On-going follow up design and skills building, 2 hours: $150 (plus mileage)
- A package process that includes initial phone consultation, 1/2 training and ongoing follow ups over several months: $1500
See http://www.gardeningmatters.org/ for more resources on creating a community garden including start-up guides.
Please note: This is just one example, garden planning consultation can be with anyone or any agency you choose.
- Applications and attachments must be emailed to OYH by the deadline to be considered for review at the next board meeting. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed until all information is received.
- The Grant Review Committee will review and evaluate each request based on the information included in the application.
- It is important that each application be as specific as possible about the need for the project and the cost of the project components.
- Upon review of the application, the Grant Review Committee may request additional information via email, a telephone interview, or a site visit. Please note that cover letters, correspondences with OYH staff, and other attachments that are not required (i.e. brochures) will not be reviewed by the committee.
- As one of the few funders that support programs throughout the state, OYH receives far more eligible applications than we can fund. Careful consideration is given to each application and grants are awarded based on needs in the community, impact of grant, and the ability of agency to carry out grant objectives.
- The OYH Board of Directors considers Grant Review Committee recommendations and makes the final decision on each complete application. The Board reserves the right to reject any application or portion thereof.
Applying for or receiving a Community Garden Planning Grant does not preclude applicant from applying for any other OYH grant in 2015.
Your agency agrees to follow OYH requirements for closing out its grant by submitting an application. By completing this form, your agency is assuring OYH that your organization has spent the grant funds in accordance with your original request. Please note: This grant does not require the development of a garden; however it does require that you report on your study results. Your agency must complete the closure form and unused funds must be sent to OYH within 45 days of the grant's use to be in compliance with OYH grant requirements and to be eligible for future funding from OYH.
Open Your Heart will provide a closure form once grants are awarded.
Contact Open Your Heart staff at 612-338-5577 or email [email protected].


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Here are some of the key stories CNBC is following this hour:
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