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"Buffy Sainte-Marie makes music for a new generation of activists"
Buffy Sainte-Marie paid a visit to CBC's q in Toronto for an interview and performance with her live band. Buffy chats with q guest host Ali Hussan about her brand new album Medicine Songs, and performs "You Got To Run (Spirit of the Wind)" and "The War Racket".
Hear the whole interview and performance here.

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Lisa Mann is one of my favorite people in the whole world and we've never even met. She's based in Portland, Oregon and I'm here in Virginia. Only an entire country separates us, but we've become good friends through her music and trading emails when we can. This lady is extremely busy; she's touring, recording, writing, and doing some amazing work and I'm lucky enough to get to hear it later. Her second album "Satisfied" is self-published and available at live venues or at CD Baby here. You can find out all things Lisa Mann at her website.
I guess what I'm saying is, if you're looking for a completely objective review of her music, well, I'll be honest and fair, but honestly I really liked this album a lot. I first listened to it the way I listen to a lot of CDs, I threw it in my car player and listened while I drove back and forth between Richmond and Jordan's Branch. I can catch up on a lot of CDs while covering that territory, but I mainly listened to Mann's sides over and over again.
Her voice is remarkable – she has the ability to purr and then immediately switch to a deep growl. There is no doubt that she is growing as an artist, her confidence is sky high, and it should be. She's assembled a fine band made up of Jeff Knudson on guitars, Michael Ballash on drums and Brian Harris on keys. There are a number of guest artists that I'll cover in a minute.
Mann wrote nine of the thirteen songs on the album and she starts out with one of her compositions, "See You Next Tuesday," that documents her tribulations with a variety of people who mess up her life. It's a swinging number and you know we're off to a good start. Next up is a side penned by Jeff Johnson titled "Gamblin' Virgin Mary." It's a cool bar song, a little surreal, and the keys get a gospel workout. I'm not sure if that is Harris on keys or guest Alex Shakeri. Dave Melyan also sits in on drums for this number.
The title track "Satisfied" was written by Milton Campell and Oliver Sain. It features Knudson's fine guitar work to lead us into the song and Harris' keys drive it much of the rest of the way. Mann and company then bring the tempo way down for a smoky blues number, "Surrender To The Blues." Henry and I have featured this one on the show and I love it. It's a great late night song and features Brad Ulrich on baritone sax, Dan Fincher on tenor sax, and Joe McCarthy on trumpet.
"Always Nobody" picks things up again and sings that age old lament that you can be famous all over the world, but you are always a nobody in your home town. Lloyd Jones adds his guitars and vocals to this number. "Have I Told You I Love You Today" brings a little country flavor to Mann's CD and it is one of the most heartfelt numbers she has recorded. Caton Lyles adds percussion to the song. The next song is a driving number, "Til The Wheels Come Off." Melyan and Shakeri are back on drums and keys respectively, and once again Knudson's guitars get a real workout.
"Catch Me When I Fall" is another slow number that makes you sit up and listen. Sonny "Smokin'" Hess joins in on guitar and Kevin Labaron adds some stellar sax work. It's one of many stand out songs on the CD. Mann picks up the tempo again and gives us a swinging number "I Was Gonna" that lets the keys run with a little gospel fervor.
"Alone," written by Peter W. Allen and Carole Bayer Sager is another slow number that pulls at you. It is beautiful in its stripped down simplicity. The pause leading into "Don't Touch Me" written by Maxwell Davis, Sam Ling, and Johnny "Guitar" Watson just makes this an even stronger song. Kevin Selfe adds his guitar to the mix as well as the horn trio of Ulrich, Fincher, and McCarthy.
"Kings of Black Gold" is a story of those who control black gold, Texas Tea, you know that stuff that made Jed Clampett the head of the Ozark Opec leaders. Mitch Kashmar lends some nice harmonica work to punctuate the song. Even with the pointed lyrics, Mann still manages to make this one sound like it rose from the depths of the swamp before exploding on the stage. She ends the CD with "Doin' Alright" that features Joe Powers on harp, Brian Foxworth on drums and backing vocals, and Larhonda Steele, Rae Gordon, and Sonny Hess joining the backing vocals.
All in All, "Satisfied" is a very strong CD, one that I'm proud to put on the juke box. And Lisa, if you ever make it to the East Coast, we'll make sure you have a stage to play. Just come on down to the crossroads and we'll set you up.
(Picture of Lisa Mann artfully pilfered from her website. If you are the owner of the picture and want us to remove it, by all means, be a bully and have us take it down.)


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T his image imagines the Huygens probe on the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. The probe, which landed on the satellite in January 2005, is shown as it might appear now, having weathered Titan's icy, hydrocarbon-rich climate for several years. This image appeared in Universe: Journey into Deep Space, by Mike Goldsmith and myself.
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Willis & Woy Sports Group Names Jack Scharf Vice President of Football Operations
It is not as big as the news from early June that wide receiver Terrell Owens signed with Willis & Woy Sports Group LLC, but at least in agent circles, the company's hiring of football agent Jack Scharf has created a buzz. The company publicly announced the addition of Scharf yesterday on its Twitter account.
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Scharf will become the Vice President of Football Operations for Willis & Woy Sports Group, which is led by NFLPA certified contract advisor Jordan Woy. The reason that Scharf's move is garnering so much attention is because it is the latest in a long series of changes for the agent.
In a short period of time, Scharf has gone from Impact Sports (where he worked with Mitch Frankel, Tony Fleming, and Sean Kiernan) to LMM&P Sports Management [working with Ethan Lock, Eric Metz, Vance Malinovic and Joe Panos (Panos has since left and joined with Athletes First)], and is now joining up with Jordan Woy's company. Meanwhile, as was first reported by Neil Stratton of InsideTheLeague.com, LMM Sports Management (the "&P" has been removed since Panos' departure) appears to be seeking a $329,492.48 award of damages against Scharf. The Complaint alleges that Scharf breached his independent contractor agreement with LMM by failing to reimburse LMM for all advances and recruiting and training expenses, in addition to diverting funds owed to LMM by clients to Scharf's own account. The Complaint additionally states the following:
The Company also learned that, during two separate meetings with two of the Principals, that Scharf, contrary to his earlier promise to Company, stated that not only had he paid players in the past, but that, he had never signed a player who he had not paid.
In the representation of athletes world, that's a very bold allegation, and one I would assume Willis & Woy Sports Group confronted Scharf about prior to designating him as their new Vice President of Football Operations. Whether LMM has support for that statement, which is embedded in its Complaint, is something that is likely being contested by Scharf. In the meantime, Jack Scharf is joining another agency and I am sure that he and Willis & Woy Sports Group hope that this move is more permanent than what has been historically been the case.


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A new DVB-S2 platform with new and extended services has been launched on Hispasat at the 30 degrees West slot by Media Broadcast Satellite GmbH to address the B2B market in Europe.
Announced at IBC2016 in Amsterdam, the agreement was completed by the company with the Hispasat Group, a leader of distribution of Spanish and Portuguese content. With this additional orbital position, Media Broadcast Satellite complements their existing B2B business with a new and independent high-throughput platform in DVB-S2 standard.
This marks a further step to guarantee a wide and satellite operator-neutral portfolio of satellite services to customers. In combination with the DVB- and IP-platforms, with their encryption and playout technology, Media Broadcast Satellite is able to provide tailor made distribution solutions to satisfy the individual needs of the customers in this growing market. The heart of the new platform is located at Media Broadcast Satellite´s own teleport in Usingen (Germany, close to Frankfurt/Main), which offers outstanding security and reliability standards with the highest levels of connectivity.
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Calvin Harris is ready to provide you with all the essential party jams this summer, as he just announced the details for his new album. Titled Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1, the producer's fifth LP will arrive on June 30.
The stacked album boasts some of the biggest artists in the game, with features from Travi$ Scott, Kehlani, Future, Katy Perry, Big Sean, John Legend, Snoop Dogg, Khalid, Schoolboy Q, D.R.A.M., Nicki Minaj, Lil Yachty, Jessie Reyez and PartyNextDoor. We've already got a taste of the new music with "Slide" featuring Frank Ocean and Migos, as well as March's "Heatstroke" single with Ariana Grande, Pharrell and Young Thug.
Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1 follows 2014's Motion, which debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 and produced U.K. chart-topping singles "Under Control", "Summer" and "Blame." Before the album arrives, throw it back to 2012 where Calvin Harris stopped by Fuse to explain how Rihanna helped his career:


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Jorge Solis of Villain Media has a great article on "Astronomicon"…
Jorge is giving you five reasons to get to this weeks second annual convention, which goes down in Sterling Heights, Michigan this weekend!
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The mainstay of Alin Alkass, DDS and his practice is professionalism. It is beyond important to conduct business in the most professional and ethical manner possible. Being a dental professional means providing quality dental care and treating patients with respect.
Not only does a high level of professionalism apply to Dr. Alkass, it applies to all members of his staff, including the receptionist at the front desk. Part of the positive dental experience with Dr. Alin Alkass includes understanding how your dental insurance works. Insurance questions are explained in clear, easy to understand language, just like any dental solution.


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This Is What All 50 States Look Like When Perfectly Captured In Lego: "Jeff Friesen puts us all to shame with his fantastic Lego dioramas. Hailing from Nova Scotia, this creative started building Lego representations of U.S. states in 2013, using nothing but the Lego in his daughter's collection. Hard work and a very clever imagination resulted in an incredible project that contains all 50 states, each capturing a very defining aspect of the place's history, geography or culture."
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Stuffed Chicken Parmesan
Serves: 4
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cooking Time: 20 minutes
Difficulty: Medium
This is a simple and quick way to serve chicken.
1 pound chicken breast, boneless and skinless
1 cup diced tomatoes, canned, drained
1/2 cup marinara sauce, already prepared, jar or deli
1/2 cup cheese, mozzarella, low moisture and part skim milk, grated
1/4 cup parmesan cheese, grated
1 tablespoon oregano, fresh, chopped
1 tablespoon basil, fresh, chopped
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper, black, ground
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Mix tomatoes, mozzarella cheese, and herbs together in a small bowl. Carefully cut open each chicken breast lengthwise but don't cut all the way through, just enough to open it up like a book. Spoon tomato and cheese mixture onto one side of each breast. Fold the other side on top and secure with toothpicks. Season outside of chicken with salt, pepper and garlic powder. Heat a large skillet over medium high heat. Add oil and chicken to skillet and brown for 4 minutes on each side. Remove chicken from skillet and place in a baking dish. Top chicken with the Parmesan cheese. Place in oven and bake for approximately 8 to 10 minutes until cooked through. Meanwhile, heat the marinara sauce in a microwavable bowl for approximately 40 seconds and serve on top of the chicken.
Per Serving About: 260calories, 11 g fat, 3.5 g saturated fat, 30 g protein, 9 g carbohydrates, 1 g dietary fiber, 610 mg sodium; WW Points Plus value 6


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Heather and I have been working hard on new products for Inspiring Stitches! I'm excited to share a finished quilt and our 2019 pattern — Sew Hometown.
Sew Hometown
This quilt is full of whimsy with it's adorable blocks. Can you spot the birdhouse, and butterflies? My favorite blocks always have some pretty pinks in them. We even pulled in a bit of improvisation, in a really easy way!
And lots of illustrations to walk you through the process. If you are sewing Heartland Heritage with us right now, you might be excited to know that there are a lot less HST units in this quilt. This wasn't a conscience decision, but since working on the pattern it's a notable difference.
Compare & Contrast
Looking at the quilts side by side highlights the uniqueness of the pattern. I love that each quilt is specific and special to each maker!
Heather and I have both made a sample quilt, and I love seeing them next to each other this way! Heather used a bright white solid background (right). While my quilt on the left, I used a mix of creams and whites for my background fabric, all prints.
Plan Ahead
We are offering a special to our loyal blog readers and friends – you! The 2019 Pattern is 30% off through Sept 18 with this link. Pre-order you copy now, and be ready to sew with us all year long! The calendars will begin shipping in October which will give you plenty of time to shop for your project too!
Do you have a favorite block? I have a couple but would love to know yours!
I'm looking forward to sewing up this fun project with you next year.
Together, we hope to inspire you to stitch a little more everyday.
xo – Amy
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A cooperation agreement for e-commerce and money transfer for the benefit of Egyptian expatriates in Jordan was signed in Cairo, Egypt between Jordan Post and Egypt Post. The agreement was signed on behalf of Jordan Post by Dr. Khalid Theeb Al Lahham, General Manager, and on behalf of Egypt Post by Mr. Issam Al Soghayer, Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Mr. Al Soghayer said that pursuant to this agreement, the logistic centre of Egypt Post in Cairo International Airport will be used to allow customers of Jordan Post to easily shop online from USA, UK and China; parcels from those three countries will be pooled and transported to the logistic pooling centre in Cairo and then to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, so as to contribute to decreasing shipping costs and improve the service level. The agreement also provides for the provision of express money transfer service for Egyptian expatriates in Jordan to allow them to send money to their families in Egypt through more than 4000 post office on the Republic's level.
Mr. Al Soghayer also added that this Protocol aims at enhancing cooperation and business relations between Jordan Post and Egypt Post and opens the horizons for further cooperation between Egypt and Jordan by making use of the capabilities that postal services make available in both countries for the provision of high quality e-commerce services in competitive prices, so as to acquire the confidence of the public and retain a fair share of the e-commerce market that is now dominated by international transportation companies.
From his side, Dr. Al Lahham, General Manager of Jordan Post, welcomed this cooperation with Egypt Post and hoped that this exchange of experience between Egyptian Post and its Jordanian counterpart will maintain the exchange of successful postal practices between the two countries, he also applauded the recent development by Egypt Post in infrastructure and technology, and the conversion of the conventional post offices into integrated service centres, noting that those developments under the current leadership represent an unprecedented leap and holds Egypt post as a role model for other postal service providers.


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Beginning in the early 1980s a whole professional class of consultants grew to offer assistance to a rapidly growing pool of institutional investment funds, largely in what are now labeled as old-fashioned pensions, which provided a defined stream of benefits to retirees. One of the tasks undertaken by the consultants was to measure performance and to recommend replacing managers if the performance was disappointing. As the data began to accumulate late in that decade, major doubts arose about whether the investment managers were adding value. This created a new pressure on manager selection. Managers were challenged to at least cover their own fees. Sometimes they did, but often they did not.
During the 1990s, in what was one of the most powerful, long-lasting bull markets in recent history, the generalized performance pressure seemed to ease, and the role of the consultants gradually morphed into suggesting more targeted, specialized investment approaches or "styles." Managers, for example, were required to choose whether to invest in large cap stocks or small cap stocks, but generally not both. Similarly, were they going to be growth managers or value managers? Consultants kept close track and watched carefully for any "style drift."
Beginning in the early 1980s a whole professional class of consultants grew to offer assistance to a rapidly growing pool of institutional investment funds, largely in what are now labeled as old-fashioned pensions, which provided a defined stream of benefits to retirees. One of the tasks undertaken by the consultants was to measure performance and to recommend replacing managers if the performance was disappointing. As the data began to accumulate late in that decade, major doubts arose about whether the investment managers were adding value. This created a new pressure on manager selection. Managers were challenged to at least cover their own fees. Sometimes they did, but often they did not.
During the 1990s, in what was one of the most powerful, long-lasting bull markets in recent history, the generalized performance pressure seemed to ease, and the role of the consultants gradually morphed into suggesting more targeted, specialized investment approaches or "styles." Managers, for example, were required to choose whether to invest in large cap stocks or small cap stocks, but generally not both. Similarly, were they going to be growth managers or value managers? Consultants kept close track and watched carefully for any "style drift."
After the year 2000, the data started to accumulate to show that no matter which "style box" a manager was in, as a group, managers failed to beat their relevant benchmarks.
The chart shows a representative sample gathered by Standard & Poor's in their "SPIVA" data (S&P Index vs. Active).
From the early days of this performance pressure, it was increasingly clear that portfolio managers' fees were a big reason for underperformance. As well, the research needed to create the portfolios was increasingly expensive. The pressures on managers grew.
Competing Returns and a Breakthrough
Even before these performance shortcomings came under increasingly intense scrutiny, "index investing" became of greater interest. A portfolio could easily be constructed which exactly replicated the index. This passive approach came with extremely low management fees. "Indexing" was partly premised on a growing body of academic interest in the early and mid-1970s as well as from veteran investors who sensed (or learned the hard way) just how difficult and expensive it was to "beat the market." Given the rapid overall growth of assets, indexing initially only accounted for a very small portion of the total. However, there were other, newer, pressures on the traditional managers as well.
Before 1999, investor—particularly investment strategists—each had their own opinion about which sector and industry a company might belong in. It was a particularly fluid set of definitions. When energy stocks got hot, for example, some strategists included the railroads as energy stocks because they hauled coal and had some rights of way that included potential energy production. Companies in the higher tech aerospace business sometimes were classified as industrials and sometimes as technology.
The lack of a standard classification for each company slowed the growing attempts by outside consultants to attribute performance to sector weightings and selection. That all changed in 1999 when Standard & Poor's and Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) joined forces to classify each company worldwide into one of ten sectors and about 100 industries. What turned the project into the standard was that the classifications were accompanied by more than ten years of historical data. This Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS®) set the stage for the historic takeoff of growth in the ETF world. Strategists stopped dreaming up classifications and, instead, went to work employing the products that grew in the wake of the project.
Targeting Returns
Both before and especially after 1999, ETFs began to be created to reflect different segments of the overall market. ETFs for small, mid cap, international, industry, country and more began to be offered. Investment strategists who typically had a macro and "top down" perspective were big supporters of this slicing and dicing of the whole traded market. Some of those pre-1999 strategists who were forced to create their own sectors and segments were faced with the additional frustration of not having any specialized security to use for implementing their strategy.
While there were several "sector" mutual funds, like a fund specializing in retailers, or a fund specializing in technology stocks, strategists were not guaranteed to receive just a generic retail return or a generic technology return. Rather, for good or bad, the returns were highly dependent on the success of the individuals managing those funds. As strategists dipped into the pool of industry mutual funds, they never really knew what would come back in performance; but the new ETFs were designed from the start to be just passive reflections of their sector or segment. No person would intervene in the process.
The first major ETF-like products to employ GICS were State Street Bank's Sector SPDRs ("Spiders"). A version of these products had been offered in 1998, but they were soon revised to reflect the new GICS scheme. Competing ETFs rapidly followed. Investors who became bearish, as an example, could now quickly sell all their technology "exposure" and buy just utilities, hoping to perform relatively better if general concerns turned bearish. All it took was two ticker symbols. Inevitably, assets were taken from traditional, "active" managers.
Still Another Way to Slice the Market
The "fundamental" company research being conducted by traditional portfolio managers was not completely scorned. After all, would it not be nice to own stocks that were relatively inexpensive compared to their earnings? In a passive index fund, the securities are owned in the same percentages they represent in the index. Virtually every index at that time (whether for the market or a segment) was merely an index of the total market value of all the member stocks. That is, the portion of a portfolio any individual stock represented was its relative market value weight. However, analysts and some academics contended that the index contained a range of stocks, from overvalued to undervalued. What if instead of weighting each stock by its market capitalization, the weights were proportional to the amount of earnings a company had to the total earnings in the index? In theory, stocks that were cheap had lots more earnings per market value dollar than those which were expensive. So, a scheme that weighted earnings would result in a tilt of the portfolio toward theoretically more attractively valued stocks. Early in the decade of the 2000s, the first of these kinds of ETFs were introduced.
In what turns out to be a brilliant marketing stroke, these ETFs were called "smart beta." "Dumb beta" was seen by some as just the prior group of capitalization weighted index ETFs. Others joined in and weighted their portfolios by the dividends in the index. Others by the revenues. In the 15 years since, smart beta ETFs have grown to almost $700 billion in assets just in the US. Interest in these funds has grown apace internationally.
A 1952 Concept Still Called "Modern"
The notion of "beta" is at least a half century old. "Modern Portfolio Theory" (MPT) was heralded by Harry Markowitz in 1952, promoting the notion that a portfolio could absorb the disparate individual volatilities of the member stocks. About a decade later, William Sharpe introduced the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), suggesting the market will proportionately reward risks (defined then as a stock's beta). In academia it became accepted that investors were rational—so much so, that the market was "efficient" (Efficient Market Hypothesis – EMH) and no special reward could be actively earned by investors beyond the risks they took.
Over the last several decades, while still somehow giving EMH its due, academics introduced so-called "anomalies" into the literature. The first of these was the idea that cheap stocks could earn
a premium and then, a second, was that smaller capitalization stocks could as well. By now, however, the EMH hypothesis is getting a little stretched, as more than several dozen anomalies have been posited. Virtually every one of these "factors" has had a place among traditional, active portfolio managers. Perhaps a little sheepishly, academia has started to label its highly mathematically-oriented discourse as "Standard Finance" rather than MPT. But how "efficient" and "rational" is a market with dozens of so-called "anomalies?"
"Smart" Not Smart? "Active" Not Active?
A portfolio weighted by, say, earnings, cannot long stay as different as it was initially to a portfolio weighted by market capitalization. As more money goes into a winning smart beta ETF, the undervalued stocks will tend to gradually become much less undervalued as they receive a disproportionate amount of new funds. From this, it follows that a fundamentally-weighted scheme cannot always outperform the market cap index. One answer to the problem is that if the smart beta ETF were "rebalanced" frequently, then the drift mentioned here would be mitigated. However, this presupposes that the value (or other) anomaly is rewarded before the rebalancing. Unfortunately, most academic studies suggest that, in fact, it typically takes somewhere between three and five years for anomalies to be rewarded. Meantime, there is a good probability that during periods shorter than that there could be noticeable underperformance. Therefore, the results obtained seem unduly influenced by the timing of the purchase and sale of the smart beta ETF. In other words, it is the investor who needs to be smart in these cases, because even a smart beta fund is just another passive (dumb?) fund. Smart beta ETFs, in a sense, were perhaps smart on the day they were conceived but, thereafter, discretion passed to the outside investor or advisor.
On December 24, 2015, a CNBC host said that actively managed funds have "stock pickers" at the helm. But perhaps recognizing the challenges mentioned above and the desire to be different, ETF issuers have recently begun to hint that what they are offering is really an active fund, which is a relatively new definition of active.
However, this activity seems to be at least somewhat mechanical. In one case, the rebalancing is just done more frequently and thus there is more activity in the portfolio. In another approach, a manager or a computer program watches to make sure the factors stay within prescribed limits and makes trades to rebalance them back into line, instead of waiting for the calendar to tell them when to rebalance, as is the case for other ETFs, both smart and dumb.
The very newest wrinkle is to employ artificial intelligence and "deep learning" (neural networks) to find and implement factors. Again, humans are clearly involved in the research and rulemaking, but that may be the only place for exercising discretion. Investors in these new concepts should probably be aware that in the general debate between man and machine, the estimates run from now to thirty years from now when the machines can successfully do the kind of activities contemplated here.
It's Our Fault
The fundamental challenge is that the markets are not rational. Why? Humans are not rational, not even generally or partly or usefully. Even those humans involved in building the AI networks are subject to all kinds of behavioral biases. The chances that there could be antiseptic for behavior are very low.
Even the choice to invest in any fund—smart, dumb, intelligent, or active—is obviously an action. In the end, it is clear that discipline is needed by someone. Obviously the better that discipline is supported by logic and evidence, the higher the odds for success. It is only adroit marketing that can make it seem as if there were some other, easy way to invest.


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Yes exactly. But with no clients installed (on any PC I own) and both NAS drives OFF, there is nothing to up/download to/from my cloud accts. and definitely not to/from my (affected) PC.
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|19 Dec 2014
The only other thing I can think of to isolate the problem.
1. Completely remove Avast and keep it off until the problem is solved.
2. Install MSE for testing your system. You can always install Avast later.
3. Keep the problem computer from any contact in any fashion (wired or wifi) from your NAS and clouds.
4. Check and make sure your Restore Point is set a 5% and stays there.
5. Make sure nothing is scheduled. No auto update of anything.
6.Scan your system with Eset Online Scan.
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I'm not really sure what to do with your Raid setup.
Never used Raid.
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|19 Dec 2014
Yep I have not yet re installed Avast. and I will try the other things you said, in the mean time keeping all my NAS's off. thanks a ton for your info and I'll report back my findings...
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|20 Dec 2014
That Avast uninstall tool may've done the trick. Eset found nothing, went most of the day and no further change to restore settings. Reinstalled Avast a few hrs ago and still so far all is still well. By now it would've changed on its own and gigs would be disappearing again. Even no change when I power up my NAS's. I can't thank you enough for your help!
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|20 Dec 2014
Every week it seems that there are more Avast problems reported. They have really fallen in just the few years since they were recommended here almost co-equally with MSE. Today I would class Avast with AVG which was already bloated up and buggy before Win7 was even in beta. For some reason it takes years for the word to filter through, probably because so many still stick with XPired tools and methods, even try to carry them over when they finally migrate to Win7.
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|20 Dec 2014
I agree. I've used Avast for years and it has saved my hump on numerous occasions but now seems so full of bloat I think I am done. I have a pro license with them until may/15 and when its done I think I am too.
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|21 Dec 2014
I uninstalled Avast Free and then only reinstalled the 3 Basic Shields (nothing else).
It has been behaving itself since.
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|22 Dec 2014
I think part of the problem with some of these anti virus is they try to do things a anti virus isn't meant for.
They start checking email, tweater, I.M. ebay, Craigs List the coffee pot and my sister stockings. ON and ON until it starts tripping on itself.
They try to take all the user interaction away from the user.
Just be a anti virus program that stops nasties from getting into my system.
I don't want to join a Cloud or have a bunch of shields to select or any other little do dads one can think of to make it look like a better program.
I personally use MSE for a anti virus program. and Marwarebytes Premium. I really don't care how much resources they use because of have lots of resources. I'm not a enterprise person with domains and large networks just a home user.
The reason I use them is because no muss and fuss and for years they have worked.
For years I was buying 2 ,3, 4 different Security Suites a year.
I would look and read reviews and keep changing for what ever they said was the new and greatest one. It was B/S then and I believe still is.
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|22 Dec 2014
The best protection is to make (multiple) regular backups.
Depending on what your system is used for they may need to be made daily!
I create monthly partition backups on Patch Tuesday (actually Wednesday here) before I install the MS Updates.
I usually also create backups if I'm installer "dodgy" software like drivers, as they are often responsible for "system killing" crashes.
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Anna van der Breggen soloed to victory today at Amstel Gold after breaking away from a lead group of six riders which included her Boels-Dolmans team-mate Lizzie Deignan inside the closing kilometres.
The Olympic champion finished fifty-five seconds ahead of the chasers with Deignan winning the sprint for second to give her team a one-two.
Van der Breggen made the race-winning move with a bit more than seven kilometres left to race. Her jump afforded her an immediate ten-second gap, and she hit the base of the Cauberg with a 30-second lead. It was plenty to hold off her challengers.
"This was the big goal of the spring – not only this race but the upcoming two races," said Van der Breggen. "I'm happy to have this shape finally now. You can gamble on this week, but it's always hard to have the right shape at the right time."
"It's difficult to have this shape for three months," added Van der Breggen. "It's not possible. If you're good at the beginning of the season, it's difficult to be as good this week, and this is an important week because if you're good, you have three big races."
"As a team, we rode very well," Deignan said. "We all feel confident and excited ahead of the rest of the week. It's exciting that a team with full health can race aggressively and play the beautiful tactic game again. That's where we excel."


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"Last Week on Stardoll" - week #152
I don't know about you, but here is freezing cold, and have I mentioned I hate winter? Anyway, I am here today to discuss last week on our favorite game. Without further intro, here it goes.
On Monday, we got new Winter Peak interior collection.
Items are nice, perfect for winter, as they give an impression of cozy feeling. There are many nice items, and some really interesting and unique. There is that adorable rabbit, a pillow pith paw prints on it, and many other nice room accessories.
On Wednesday, we got new collection in Bonjour Bizou.
Again with winter theme, with coats, scarves, sweaters, etc. Items look good, I love sweaters and I love black and white dress. There are even items for males, which is a great idea, even though boys are minority on Stardoll.
On Thursday, surprisingly, we got new Callie's Picks Decor collection - "Winter Garden".
I really love how Callie chose and set items up. The room presented looks fantastic, and I would definitely love to have a cup of coffee in a place like that. If they replaced monkeys with cats. We have some clothes too, a Stardoll pal, and the background is fantastic.
On Friday, Stardoll released new Ink'd collection.
Even though I love tattoos, and I love the idea for the store, I am not really into buying items when I already have similar ones. (Oh, who am I kidding, I'm gonna probably end up buying all of them.) Piercings look great, and I love rose print on some tattoos. There are even tattoos specifically designed to fit male dolls as well, which is ok, as we have them too fit for female dolls.
And finally, yesterday Stardoll announced February HotBuys.
Not much to say here. They are ok, decent, except for few pieces, overall, the collection is fine. My favorites are pencil skirt and black/beige sweater. (More sweaters?) But now that I am summing up this post, seems like all the releases were winter themed, and I prefer summer clothes.
That is all. I know my post is a bit shorter than usual, I am just not really in the mood for writing, but still won't let you down. Now vote, comment, and see you next week.
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Dr Michał Oszmaniec from the UG's Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics winner of the HOMING Competition of the Foundation for Polish Science
The Foundation for Polish Science has announced the winners of its competitions as part of the HOMING and POWROTY programmes. Funding from the Smart Growth Operational Programme to a total value of 7.6 mln zł will go to ten young academics who will be able to implement their innovative R&D projects in Poland.
As part of the HOMING programme, aimed at individuals abroad who wish to implement their research programmes in Poland, eight young academics will develop their careers in Poland. They will receive a total funding of 6.1 mln zł to implement projects in the form of post-doctoral internships.
Among them is Dr Michał Oszmaniec from the UG's Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics. He has received 749 670 zł towards the implementation of his project Teoria informacji przy ograniczonych zasobach: klasyczna symulowalność, rozszerzenia do uniwersalności oraz zastosowania w kryptografii i sensingu (Quantum information with restricted resources: classical simulation, extensions to universality and applications to cryptography and sensing).
The other competition, as part of the POWROTY programme, will enable two researchers to return to their scientific work after a break connected with parenthood or working outside the field of science. For the implementation of their projects, the winners of this programme will receive a total funding of 1.5 mln zł.
Full list of grant recipients of HOMING 2/2016
Full list of grant recipients of POWROTY 2/2016
A total of 36 projects were entered for the 2nd competition in the HOMING programme and 11 for the POWROTY programme. Winners of both programmes will cooperate, amongst others, with 13 foreign and 3 Polish research partners as well as one Polish economic partner. Funds received from the Foundation for Polish Science will allow for the financing of at least 12 work places for researchers employed in projects and 16 scholarships for young researchers (students and doctoral students) involved in the implementation of research work.
The project funding has been awarded for a period of two years. The winners have been selected as a result of a three-level evaluation conducted by two panels (scientific-economic and interdisciplinary) of international reviewers and experts.


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Spring 2017
College of Education Program Closure and Changes:
1. The Service Learning Program-SLP, (formerly the CIP-Community Internship program and earlier ESCAPE), will be terminated on June 30,2017. I am not sure any other unit or area will run with it upon it's cessation.
2. The Substance Abuse and Prevention Program-SAPP will be closing altogether at the end of Summer term 2017. It is also unknown if anyone or place will continue along the lines that SAPP has served.
Department of Human Physiology:
The department of Human Physiology is pleased to announce expanded course offerings for summer term 2017. These 100-level courses have been designed for non-science majors seeking to fulfill the science group requirement (>3). Please help us spread the word! HPHY 103, 105, 111, 112
April 26, 2017
UO Senate
Below are live links to proposals of interest that were just passed in the faculty senate meeting on April 26th. If you would like to view the full senate meeting agenda click here: https://senate.uoregon.edu/2017/04/24/senate-meeting-agenda-april-26-2017/
- Major declaration policy to be implemented in Fall 2017: PASSED- Vote: US16/17-20: Major Declaration policy proposal; Alison Schmitke (Education), chair of Undergraduate Council
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August 4, 2016
Ian McNeely, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, College of Arts and Sciences.
College of Arts and Sciences has discontinued the policy under which CAS majors were given priority access to register for upper-division non-group-satisfying courses. Departments may still apply this restriction on a case-by-case basis during scheduling data entry. Contact Ian McNeely at firstname.lastname@example.com for additional information.


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Thursday June 02, 2016
From The Guardian
By: John Lewis
The show starts with Lila Downs '" resplendent in a flowery yellow dress and a pair of crazily high white heels '" opening a bottle of tequila. She pours a drop on the floor ('as is traditional among native American communities in Oaxaca, Mexico, as a show of thanks to Mother Earth'), swigs from it and then passes it around the audience to loud cheers. It's a triumphant start to a show that never puts a foot wrong.
Downs's latest album, Balas y Chocolate (Bullets and Chocolate), covers some harrowing aspects of life in contemporary Mexico '" drug cartels, the disappearances of students, the murder of investigative journalists '" but, in concert, she never forgets her duties as an entertainer.
She impersonates a cooing dove and dances like an iguana, then dons a huge sombrero in tribute to Emiliano Zapata
Over the course of two hours, the Mexican-American singer (and songwriter, actor and activist) is hilarious and heartbreaking, raucous and ridiculous. She impersonates a cooing dove. She dances like an iguana. She dons a huge sombrero to pay tribute to Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata. She covers herself in a shawl to sing songs of death and mourning. A huge screen behind her displays accompanying footage '" song lyrics, Day of the Dead-themed animations and atmospheric films of Central America.
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A Sympathetic Ear.
Oh, Davy Warner, you poor delicate innocent little flower,
Has the onfield jolly jokey blokey jousting begun to sour?
Did De Kocks disagreeable dialogue offend the ear, so tender
Of crickets deep-dredging low down sledging main offender?
It's understandable for Davy to blow his fuse
When his wonderous team occasionly gracelessly lose,
But even when the
bas Baggy Greens win
He can't help putting his too little sense in.
So what has brought about whining Warnies petulant pout?
He can't take the fact someone else is dishing it out;
So does he keep his counsel, as a good vice-captain ought?
Crikey, not on your ever-loving effing blinding life, sport.


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The ultramobile PC market got a little more crowded today, as Lenovo announced its entry into the netbook arena with the Ideapad S10.
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my design team just celebrated its 1st anniversary! for this project (march 1, 2012) i wanted to do something based around luck but wanted to make it a little different than st. patrick's day. the theme was "oh, lucky day" and the requirements were to use at least 3 colors, emboss or deboss, and to make an accordion flower.
i was really excited to complete this project! i had never made an accordion flower (in fact, these 4 are some of the only i have ever done!). i was also excited to use my new scoring board, embossing folder, AND i had recently become addicted to distressing inks (yes, this is something i have just begun using...i am always behind the times!)
the "luck" part of the cards came in while i was creating the sentiment. i was a little slow getting this year started and then, with the loss of my kitty, halo, i really hit a funk. my boyfriend is always so wonderful to me and i wanted to make something for him letting him know how much he is appreciated and how LUCKY i am to have him! i also wanted to do the same for my mom and stepdad who are so wonderful, giving, and supportive!
creating this project also reminded me how theraputic crafting can be and, while my little kitty isn't right there with my while i am creating, she is still with me always! luck doesn't always mean things going your way...the word "luck" reminds me to count my blessings and be thankful for everything i have <3


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25th April, 2019
Campaigning for the fourth phase of Lok Sabha elections has reached a feverish pitch as only three days are left for polling in this phase on 29th of April. 71 Lok Sabha seats will go to polls in this phase. Top leaders of various political parties are holding rallies and road shows at different places to woo voters.
Senior BJP Leader and Prime Minister Narendra Modi today led a road show in Varanasi. He will file his nomination from Varanasi Lok Sabha seat tomorrow.
Our Correspondent reports before beginning his road show from iconic Lanka Gate in Banaras Hindu University, Mr Modi paid his tribute to the BHU founder Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya.
" Senior BJP leader and Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived and led the mega road show through kashi vishwanath, madan pura, assi, shimala, bangali tola and culminated at dashashwamegh ghat where he participated in ganga arti. Senior BJP leaders Yogi adityanath, mahendra nath pandey, piyush goel and ashwini chaube were also present in the road show. . SUSHIL CHANDRA TIWARI, AIR NEWS, VARANASI."
Earlier today, Mr. Modi held rallies at Banda in Uttar Pradesh and Darbhanga in Bihar. He charged the opposition with playing politics of caste and regionalism. Expressing his party's resolve to finish terrorism, he criticised the opposition for not having any policy to deal with terror. He also criticized the Samajwadi Party and the BSP of misguiding the people about the welfare schemes launched by his government and said the proposed Expressway and Defence corridor in Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh will generate massive employment for the people. Mr. Modi said under Prime Minister Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana 12 crore small farmers will be benefited. Mr Modi stressed the importance of first time voters, saying they have a crucial role in the development of the country:
"इस लोकसभा चुनाव में पहली बार वोट डालने जा रहें नौजवान नए भारत के नए संस्कारों का निर्माण कर रहा है। इसकी वजह है उस पर अतीत का बोझ नही हैं। उसके पास सिर्फ और सिर्फ भविष्य के सपने हैं।"
At Darbhanga, taking a jibe at the Opposition, Mr. Modi said those who are contesting only a few seats in the Lok Sabha elections are aspiring to become the Prime Minister. He said the first time voters and youth are transforming a new India.
BJP President Amit Shah has said that his party does not believe in vote bank politics. Addressing an election rally at Auraiya in Uttar Pradesh, he said, the nation's security is the first priority for the BJP and Narendra Modi government is giving a befitting reply to Pakistan. Earlier, he held a rally at Ghazipur.
Addressing a rally at Ajmer this afternoon, Congress president Rahul Gandhi said his party had brainstormed with eminent economists for minimum income guarantee 'Nyay' scheme. Mr. Gandhi said demonetisation and GST were ways to rob the poor, the labourers and small traders of their money. He said the NYAY scheme will benefit them. He said the money deposited through the scheme will move the wheels of the economy and create job opportunities for youth.
"अब हिन्दुस्तान का गरीब किसान, मजदूर सोचिये पांच करोड़ों के परिवारों के बैंक अंकाउट में 3 लाख 7 हजार रूपये 5 साल में डाले जा सकते हैं और कांग्रेस पार्टी ने मन बना लिया हैं ऐतिहासिक निर्णय है 2019 के चुनाव के बाद हर महीने बैंक अंकाउट में पैसा जायेगा।"
Rahul Gandhi also held election rallies at Jalore and Kota in Rajasthan.
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra held roadshows in Jhansi and Jalaun on the second day of her visit to Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh.
The Samajwadi party, BSP and Rastriya Lok Dal Alliance leaders accused BJP of doing only lip service to the poor, the down trodden, youth and farmers, and serving the cause of capitalists. Addressing a joint rally at Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh today, BSP Chief Mayawati alleged that the Centre did nothing to fulfill the promises made to the youth and farmers of the state. She also criticized the Congress for not giving Bharat Ratna to Dr. B.R.Ambedkar when it was in power. Ms Mayawati promised that if her party forms government at the Centre, it will ensure employment for the poorest sections of society:
"यदि केंद्र में हमें सरकार बनाने का मौका मिलता है तो तब फिर हमारी सरकार यहां देश में अति गरीब परिवारों को हर महीने छह हजार रूपये देने की बजाये उन्हें सरकारी व गैर सरकारी क्षेत्रों में स्थाई रोजगार देने की ही पूरी-पूरी व्यवस्था करेंगे।"
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav counted the development schemes launched during his government in Uttar Pradesh.
Rashtriya Lok Dal Chief Ajit Singh alleged that lakhs of posts are lying vacant and the union government is not bothered to fill them while the youth are unemployed.
In Maharashtra, the remaining 17 Parliamentary constituencies will go to polls in the fourth phase. With this, Lok Sabha polls in the state will be complete. Some of the prominent candidates in the fray include Minister of state for Defence, Dr. Subhash Bhamre, Poonam Mahajan and NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal's nephew Sameer Bhujbal.
"Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Shiv Sena Chief Uddhav Thackeray will be holding joint rally in Mumbai tomorrow while Congress Party President Rahul Gandhi is holding rally at Shirdi, tomorrow. Today too a series of rallies were organised - senior Congress leaders P Chidambaram and Prithviraj Chauhan campaigned for Mumbai south candidate Eknath Gaikwad; Senior BJP Minister Suresh Prabhu held rallies at Dhule and Malegaon. SONALI GHADYALPATIL, AIR NEWS, MUMBAI."
In Rajasthan, 13 constituencies are going to polls in the 4th Phase.
"Congress and BJP are leaving no stone unturned and have put all the might to woo the voters. Top leadership of these parties is campaigning in Mewar, Marwar and Hadauti region, from which most of these seats come from. Congress President Rahul Gandhi today addressed three election rallies. BJP president Amit Shah will address a rally in Jalore and also participate in a Road Show in Jodhpur. Jitendra Dwivedi, AIR News, Jaipur."
Aam Aadmi Party convenor Arvind Kejriwal today hit out at Congress President Rahul Gandhi ,alleging that the Congress chief is responsible for not having an alliance between the two parties. He alleged that only Mr Gandhi will be responsible if the BJP again comes to power. He was speaking at the launch of his party's manifesto in New Delhi.
The Central Administrative Tribunal at Bengaluru today stayed the order of the Election Commission suspending IAS officer Mohammed Mohsin for checking Prime Minister Narendra Modi's helicopter in Odisha during an election campaign. The officer from Karnataka cadre, deployed in Odisha as a general observer, was suspended on 17th April in violation of norms for dealing with SPG protectees, and sent back to the state.
The Supreme Court today constituted a one-man panel of former apex court judge Justice A K Patnaik to hold inquiry into the allegations of larger conspiracy to frame Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi and fixing of benches in the top court.
The apex court asked the Directors of CBI and IB as also the Delhi Police Commissioner to cooperate with Justice Patnaik during the inquiry.
The top court, however said that the inquiry will not deal with the allegations of sexual harassment against the CJI. The court said the outcome of the inquiry will not affect the in-house committee which is dealing with the complaint against the CJI.
The apex court also said that on the completion of the inquiry, Justice Patnaik will file a report in a sealed cover before the court after which the matter will be heard again.
Former US Vice President Joe Biden today formally joined the crowded Democratic presidential contest. He made the announcement to run for the President in a video posted on Twitter. President Donald Trump raised doubt over Joe Biden's mental capacity for a successful primary campaign.
Sri Lankan defence secretary resigned today taking responsibility for the suicide bomb attacks on Sunday as the country remains tense in the aftermath. Hemasiri Fernando said that while there had been no failure on his part, he was taking responsibility for failures of some institutions he headed as the secretary of defence. He was asked to resign yesterday following reports that security agencies failed to act on intelligence inputs about the attacks.
In a related development, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed one of the suicide bombers involved spent time in Australia on a student and a graduate skilled visa.
The Enforcement Directorate today filed a supplementary charge sheet against former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala in connection with a money laundering case. The charge sheet was filed before special judge Kamini Lau who posted the matter for consideration on May 16.
In Gujarat, third batch of 100 Indian fishermen released from Pakistani jails reached Veraval today. These fishermen had been kept in Pakistani jails for the last one and a half year. AIR correspondent reports 90 fishermen are from Gujarat, while 10 belong to Union Territory of Diu.
At the stock markets, key indices ended lower. The rupee slipped sharply against the dollar.
"At the stock markets, the Sensex at the Bombay Stock Exchange plunged 324 points to close at 38,731. The Nifty dropped 84 points, to 11,642. At the forex market, the rupee slumped 39 paise, to an over six-week-low of 70.25, against the dollar. Gold rose 150 rupees, to 32,870 rupees per ten grams in Delhi. Paul Thottham, for AIR News."
Onto Sports Now:
In Shooting, India opened its medal account with a gold each in 10 metres Air Rifle Mixed Team and 10 metres Air Pistol Mixed team events on the third day of ISSF World Cup in Beijing today.
Young shooters Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary took the top spot in the 10 metres Air Pistol Mixed Team event after Anjum Moudgil and Divyansh Singh Panwar opened the country's gold account in the 10 metres Air Rifle Mixed Team event. Bhaker and Chaudhary outshot Jiang Ranxin and Pang Wei of China 16-6 in the final, which was held in the new format wherein top two teams battled for the gold medal.
Six pugilists stormed into the finals of Asian Boxing Championships in Bangkok today. With this India look good to notch up its best ever performance at the Championships. Amit Panghal and Kavinder Singh Bisht remained on course for their second successive international gold medals this year. They were the most impressive on a day when Shiva Thapa's unprecedented fourth successive semifinal appearance ended with a bronze.
Deepak Singh and Ashish Kumar joined Panghal and Bisht in the men's finals, while Pooja Rani and Simranjit Kaur advanced to tomorrow's summit clashes in the women's draw.
In IPL Cricket, Kolkata Knight Riders were 96 for 4 in 14 overs against Rajasthan Royals at Kolkata a short-while ago. Earlier, Rajasthan won the toss and opted to bowl. Tomorrow, Chennai Super Kings will face Mumbai Indians in Chennai.


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As I told you before, I have been using Pharo/Moose/Roassal to approach certain problems by agile prototyping and visualization. It has been a really empowering community and technology and even a newbie can feel more eloquent talking to/with computers, so thanks as always.
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Hopefully I have been clear in the blog, but any advice to my almost self taught English, or proof reading or improvements are welcomed. I also hope putting proper credits to all the people involved in this visualization. And hopefully soon (at some point in February) I will be sharing some advances in the interactive notebook front also.


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Introducing Pete Socks
Pete Socks has established himself as one of the most reliable Catholic book reviewers out there today. In his seven years of reviewing books and interviewing authors, many have come to recognize him by his online nickname The Catholic Book Blogger. We are pleased to announce that Pete will be bringing his talents and fair reviews to Catholic Stand effective immediately as our new in-house book reviewer.
Each week Pete will provide a review on one of today's current book releases on the Catholic market. He will also be sharing with us his weekly podcast "Off the Shelf" which he hosts on Breadbox Media where he serves a General Manager. We are excited to have Pete back n a regular role here at Catholic Stand and we look forward to seeing what books he has to share with us and you.
Catherine O'Donnell
From the publisher Three Hills
In 1975, two centuries after her birth, Pope Paul VI canonized Elizabeth Ann Seton, making her the first saint to be a native-born citizen of the United States in the Roman Catholic Church. Seton came of age in Manhattan as the city and her family struggled to rebuild themselves after the Revolution, explored both contemporary philosophy and Christianity, converted to Catholicism from her native Episcopalian faith, and built the St. Joseph's Academy and Free School in Emmitsburg, Maryland. Hers was an exemplary early American life of struggle, ambition, questioning, and faith, and in this flowing biography, Catherine O'Donnell has given Seton her due.
Catherine O'Donnell is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University and she writes about religion, culture, and politics in early America and the Atlantic World. She is the author of Men of Letters in the Early Republic: Cultivating Forums of Citizenship.


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THE WOODLANDS, Texas - The College Park Cavaliers came up short Thursday night against Klein Collins Tigers with the final score concluding 30-0. The Cavaliers look to make a redemption run after having two back to back losses against The Woodlands and Klein Collins. College Park started their season 3-0, with a two-loss skid, they look to improve next week and continue their winning ways.
Klein Collins Tigers came into Thursdays game 4-0 in the season and were looking to make a statement that they are a top-tier team, in the Klein district. The Tigers got off to a sluggish start but then turned into the undefeated Tigers we all know. College Park's defense held up in the first quarter and slowly started fading as the game progressed.
The 17 points that were put up by the Tigers in the first half came from a 25-yard field goal by Axel Zavala, and a touchdown from Tre'veon Petty who took a jet sweep run for 20-yards into the end zone. For the College Park Cavaliers, offensive execution was a struggle. Jake Hunnicutt and his offense tried everything in the first and second quarters but came up drastically short.
Looking to come into the half, not too far from the Tigers, the Cavaliers tried to hold off the explosive offense of the Tigers. With 3:34 in the first half, Klein Collins running back Isaiah Spiller drove the offense all the way to the scoring position. With a 60-yard run, running back Isaiah Spiller cemented himself as a household name for the night and his first rushing touchdown of the night, finalizing the first half score to 17-0 Klein Collins Tigers.
In the second half, Klein Collins quarterback Carter Rhyne and his Tiger offense pushed forward until they were at the Cavaliers 40-yard line. With the Klein Tigers being in scoring position and Isaiah Spiller running on all cylinders, the inside handoff came to back up junior prospect Braelon Bridges, who floored down the left sideline, punching in a 40-yard touchdown for the Tigers, pushing the lead to 24-0.
Coach Lonnie Madison and his Cavaliers looked to have their back against the wall all game, as they punted more this game than they had all season. Junior punter Andrew Lutz was out there more than the Cavaliers could have ever wanted, and like that the ball was back in Klein Collins hands.
With the game getting out of reach and out of hand, Braelon Bridges got to work, running down the clock and torching the Cavaliers defense. Running back Braelon Bridges found seems and holes as he ran all over the Cavaliers defense and drove in Klien Collins into scoring position.
With 6:51 left in the fourth quarter, the Cavaliers seemed to want to pack it up and go home. As time kept running down and another Andrew Lutz punt was called, blasting it to the Cavaliers side of the ball. Just like that Klein Collins Tigers and Carter Rhyne's offense came out with a mission. Coach Madison tried new strategies to get his Cavaliers defense to learn from the disaster and push forward, but Klein Collins already had Coach Madisons moves planned out. Thursday night was Coach Madison's homecoming against his old ballclub, and it was the first time he had coached against his ex-team.
Senior quarterback Carter Rhyne looked to finish the game strong. With pocket mobility Carter Rhyne started taking off on the Cavaliers defense, running forward and racking up yards. Five minutes left in the quarter and Tigers quarterback Carter Rhyne and offensive star Isaiah Spiller seemed to be packing it in. Lessing their production to save them for next week, the Tigers sent out running back Jonathan Lewis. Lewis started his campaign as he started to rack up numbers with the game winding down. Rhyne became a handoff machine as the game came to fruition, fullback Jonathan Lewis took an inside run after all his work and ended up with another Klein Collins Touchdown. Totaling the score 30-0, the Tigers looked to wrap up the contest and head home with another undefeated victory.
Cavaliers and Coach Lonnie Madison are currently sitting at 3-2 and are looking to make corrections heading into next week against Klein Forest High School. With last week 's game-winning loss to The Woodlands Highlanders and another blowout loss to Klein Collins, the College Park Cavaliers look for a rebuilding game, when they face 1-2 foes, Klein Forest.


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19, female. From ages (14-17) I used to talk to older guys, sometimes as old as 45. I had naturally big breasts for my age and I would talk sexually and exchange pictures or videos (nude). I've done this hundreds of times (not meeting in person) although I wanted too. And I've finally realized how wrong it was at the time that I was basically talking to *pedophiles* but I liked it..
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Add me on Snapchat we can play. Girls only. Andyc2104. Send a message saying (fun). So I know where u from.
RIP= "rest in poaching" trannies is a happening thang !
I think demonologist make pedos pay somehow. I am not a pedo and I thank god every day I came out and told my story of being abused by a pedo. I feel shocked for you that you can't see what bad people the men abusing you are getting you to send nudes to them. I met a kid boy doing this shit at adults and to be honest I could see him ending up a pedo for sure, cuz he likes old women and he don't like girls his own age and he is just 12 and he will be looking for cock or 6 year old girls soon. I could see he was not normal. not a cop. and some of these cops are doing this supposed to be legal trailing the pedo ring market online but they are up to bad themselves and should be kicked out of the police force. I think they get jaded and complacent with their profession. that is when you need new wiser skilled people in. I am actually sad that you can't see these men are bad for you.
Tranny pedeos are big now. RP is a transgender it is very in for people to fake a death after getting a few years life insurance and then their family think they have died and they have been cured of a illness and transgendered living somewhere else or they want to marry their offspring under fake names. this is so huge man. the level some people are going for longevity of genes and power and control over their families and having new sets of families maybe mulitple families in each gender lifetime as they change. I couldn't imagine doing this or being a pedo or getting it on with pedos for fun unless they were hot young and beautiful but even then pedo stuff is dead end.
You can have a sex change and try doing it back as you get older too.
The world is going jail bait 13 year sex toy teen now. the rest of us a doomed for being honest. liars birds end up jail birds too.
Sweet thirteen year old pussy..
Yes like the norfuck and Filipino lot that will all fall down for her cuz it won't last either. 1 husband 2 husband, 3 husbands , 5 husbands, 6 husbands, 700 more.
Should that be 1 husband, 2 husbands, 3 husbands , 4, 5 husbands, 6 husbands, and 700 hundred husbands more. to keep in the rhyme?
, some men do have em' hello betty and funko-ratz our president is one too. ahhaaha.
This makes no sense
Have a murray churnmas and splappy flu gear. it makes no sense like dr seuss. does it have to make sense to matter?
If this happened when you were 14 thru 17 and you state you have large breasts then these men weren't pedophiles . They may have been perverted older men but pedophiles are attracted to young pre puberty children not teen girls with the figures of grown women. The term gets used incorrectly all the time.
Fact! Thank you!
My bad.
But it is illegal and in terms of the law if one of them was caught with a nude photo of an underaged person, It'd be considered "child porn" and punshiable by the law
True, but the point was they are not pedophiles just perverted men who like teen girls with big tits.
My problem is, I think it's fucked up that people like super young girls where they're still babies, the only young girls I can't help but like are the ones that are 15-16 but look 18. I don't think sexual things at all, I just hope that someday I would get the chance to maybe be with them. That does not make me a pedophile at all. You can't help who you like, especially if they're really sweet and have a great smile.
Most straight men see older teen girls in that age range and think the same thing. They have the looks of adult women even though they are not of legal age and can be very flirty.
Yeah, plus a lot of them start having sex at 13 or 14 and start acting really mature. I went to high school with a blonde who was 14 and her boobs were pretty big. Not huge, but still really big for her age.
I can remember being in middle school with a girl who had fairly big tits for her age. She sat next to me and would always flash me her bra or drop something so I could see down her top. I think I had a hard on in that class the entire year.
I know exactly what you are saying , I started at a very young age flirting and exposing myself to older men. This turned into sex with older men. It's a fetish that I have not been able to control . My only regret is that eventually my husband may find out and I know that it'll hurt his heart.
Are you still fucking older men now that you are married?
19 female, like it says, for those who can't read????
Yes? how old are you sweetie. If i was your mom.you would off have being to busy with activites and other stuff to.be do that shit and if I ever you where my little girl your panties would have being dowm for one reasron and thats for my husband and I to smack your bottom. Hope you realise you where only a little girl who needed love and structure. Take care sweetie....
I believe you commented on my other post about being too young as well. It has nothing to do with not having enough activities. I had good grades, showed horses in 4-H ans FFA (took up most of my time) I was just a really horny teen that's all. My parents had no idea and if they did I would have been beat.
She comments all the time about bare bottom spanking. Makes me wonder why she has bare bottoms on her mind so much.
'Horses', 'a really horny teen' and 'parents had no idea' in the same breath.
I never said beat you honey and theres a diffrence. But my husband and I would have smacked your bare bottom and you would not have had much accsess too phones or anything else too do that stuff. Im not trying to be mean honey but concernd for you. There is alot off danger out there. Take care sweetie..
I hope you realize that your bust line need not be your most elevating feature ...
It's not, I have others. It's just something I like(ed) to show off
How old are you


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Not long ago a lot of men and women started getting involved in raising their own chickens the primary reason being that they would like to produce their own food and feed their family members. But since the demand for chicken produce grew a lot of individuals found an opportunity in the market to rear chickens for profit.
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Chickens need a lot of attention and care. You should be sure to feed your chickens the right feed to keep them healthy plus illness free. Feeding birds is not a complicated process. Birds can eat all kinds of food like garden pests, weeds and even your leftover foods. With this being said chickens can be ideal for your garden as well because as they eat up the insects and also fertilize your garden with the poo.
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text: "mcu-boot" does not show up in the list of middleware for the FRDM-K64F board when creating an SDK. I am following the MCU Bootloader v2.5.0 Reference Manual section 10.2 where it says " To find the most recent bootloader release, click on mcuxpresso.nxp.com, select middleware mcu-boot when configuring the sdk package.". It then show an example for the FRDM-K64F board in section 11.2. However, mcu-boot does not appear in the list of middleware. What is going on?


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One of the perks of my job is being able to travel to different places. Pictured below is Mount Muhabura as seen from a village in Kisoro District, Uganda. It lies along the border of Uganda and Rwanda. Mount Muhabura According to my Ugandan colleague, the name Muhabura means "The Guide" in the local language. … Continue reading Mount Muhabura | Uganda
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I've been planning this Christmas/New Year trip since I arrived in Uganda six months ago. With my current work permit, I can just go to Kenya or Rwanda whenever I please because it will be visa free and I only need an Interstate pass. By October, I already booked my accommodation and plotted my itinerary. … Continue reading Rwanda: The Land of a Thousand Hills
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Today's recipe is an extremely original appetizer: molecular pumpkin soup with Traditional Balsamic Vinegar! This tasty appetizer is perfect to open a special dinner! Aren't you curious to try it? Keep on reading! Ingredients: 500 grams of pumpkin 200 ml of vegetable stock 3 teaspoons of gellan gum 10 cl …Read More »
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Cold omelette with Original Balsamic Vinegar
Today we suggest you another healthy and tasty summer dish that can make your veggies less boring: cold omelette with Traditional Balsamic Vinegar of Modena DOP. Keep on reading to discover another tasty recipe! Ingredients for 4 people: 2 little aubergines 1 onion 1 large courgette 2 peppers (One green …Read More »
Onion soup with prosciutto and balsamic vinegar
Winter is coming! No, is not a quote from Game of Thrones, but a reality. During cold days what's better than a hot soup? Nothing. What's better than a soup with balsamic vinegar of Modena? DEFINITELY NOTHING. So, here it's our recipe for an onion soup with prosciutto and balsamic …Read More »
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Rorem studied at the Curtis Institute and the Juilliard School of Music and received private instruction from Virgil Thompson and David Diamond. After winning a Fulbright in 1949, Rorem left for Paris to study composition with Honeggar. He then moved to Morocco to devote himself to serious composition. He began to set his favorite literature to songs, the area in which he was to earn his fame. After another period in Paris where he enjoyed personal popularity, Rorem returned to the USA to continue his compositional career. Although he is most known for his song cycles, Rorem also composed instrumental, orchestral and music for combinations of voice and instruments. He experimented with modal and polymodal techniques in addition to the use of tone clusters and altered chords. Since 1958 he has avoided large-scale orchestral works and has concentrated on extended cyclic forms. He won the Pulitzer Prize in music for Air Music in 1976. ~ Lynn Vought~ Rovi