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5903: The surroundings of Calydon, AD 2001.
Location of Calydon in Aetolia
The eponym of Aetolia
Aetolia is called after
Endymion's son Aetolus 2, who left Elis because he had been convicted of an unintentional homicide. However, on arriving to the new country, he did commit some intentional homicides, killing his hosts in the Curetian country: Dorus 2, Laodocus 2 and Polypoetes 2, all three sons of Apollo and Phthia 2.
His sons founded two fine cities
Aetolus 2 married Pronoe 2 and had by her two sons, Calydon and Pleuron, who gave their names to the Aetolian cities they founded. Calydon's daughter Epicasta 1 married her cousin Agenor 6, son of Pleuron and Xanthippe 1. This Xanthippe 1 was a daughter of Dorus 2, one of the three hosts that Aetolus 2 killed when he came to the land of the Curetes.
3108: Oeneus, King of Calydon, neglects Artemis in a sacrifice. Engraving by Bernard Picart, 1673-1733.
Thestius 1 and Porthaon
Agenor 6 and Epicasta 1 had children: Porthaon, Demonice and Thestius 1. Thestius 1 is also called son of Ares and Demonice.
When King Tyndareus of
Sparta was banished by Hippocoon 2, he came to Thestius 1, who at the time was king of Pleuron. Tyndareus married Thestius 1's daughter Leda,
and once Heracles 1 had defeated Hippocoon 2 and his sons, he restored Tyndareus and
entrusted the kingdom of
Sparta to him. Porthaon married a granddaughter of the river god Achelous, Euryte 2, and became father by her of, among others, Oeneus 2, who in time became King of Calydon.
Oeneus 2
It is told that when Oeneus 2 was king of Calydon, he was negligent towards Artemis, and the goddess punished him and his country by sending a boar of huge size and strength, which destroyed the cattle and the people, and prevented the land from being sown. To get rid of this ravaging beast, King Oeneus 2 assembled the noblest men of Hellas, who are now known as the CALYDONIAN
HUNTERS, and promised to give the Boar's skin
as a prize to him who should kill it. King Oeneus 2 is also remembered for having entertained Bellerophon in his palace, exchanging friendship gifts with him. Later, during the Trojan
War, the descendants of Oeneus 2 and BellerophonDiomedes 2 and Glaucus 3met as enemies in the battlefield, but instead of fighting they also exchanged gifts to honor their ancestors' friendship.
Coup d'état
King Oeneus 2 was, in his old days, deposed by the sons of his brother Agrius 3 and put in jail by them. But after the fall of Troy, his grandson
Diomedes 2 liberated him, killing Agrius 3 and his son Lycopeus, and restored the kingdom to him (see details at Diomedes 2). However, some affirm that Diomedes 2 did not restore the kingdom to Oeneus 2 because of his advanced age, but to the latter's son-in-law Andraemon 1, who had married Oeneus 2's daughter Gorge 2. Others assert that Lycopeus was killed by Tydeus 2, son of Oeneus 2 and father of Diomedes 2. Because of this, they say, Tydeus 2 fled to Argos, arriving at the same time as Polynices, who had been banished from Thebes by his twin brother Eteocles 1. Both exiles were received by King Adrastus 1 of
Argos, who gave them his
daughters as wives and promised them to restore
them to their native lands. And having decided to
restore Polynices first, they jointly organized the
expedition of the SEVEN
AGAINST THEBES, which ultimately meant death for both Tydeus 2 and Polynices.
Thoas 2
5906: The river Evenus, AD 2001.
When Andraemon 1 and Gorge 2 died, their son Thoas 2 became king of Pleuron and Calydon, and during the Trojan War, Thoas 2 became leader of the Aetolians, contributing forty ships to the Achaean fleet. Some say that after the war the exiled Odysseus came to him
and married his daughter, having by her a son
The circle almost closed
Thoas 2 had a son Haemon 2, who in turn was father of Oxylus 2. The story of Oxylus 2 reminds of the story of Aetolus 2, but emigrating in the opposite direction. Oxylus 2 fled from Aetolia to Elis on account of the murder of Thermius or else of Alcidocus. Oxylus 2 became guide of the HERACLIDES, and
subsequently king of Elis. It is told that as he was throwing the quoit he missed the mark and committed unintentional homicide. The man killed by the quoit, according to one account, was Thermius, brother of Oxylus 2; according to another, it was Alcidocus. Oxylus 2 and Pieria 2 had a son Aetolus 3, who could have inherited the throne fulfilling the circle, had he not died so young. He was buried in a tomb in the gate leading to Olympia because an oracle forbade the corpse to be laid either outside the city or within it.
Apd.1.7.7, 1.7.10, 1.8.1-5, 3.10.5;
Hes.CWE.98; Lib.Met.2; Pau.3.13.8, 4.35.1, 7.4.1, 8.45.7.
Other mentions of Calydon: Apd.1.8.1-3, 2.6.3, 2.7.5, 2.7.6,
3.6.1, 3.7.5, 3.9.2, 3.13.2; Arg.1.190; Hom.Il.2.640, 9.531,
9.577, 13.217, 14.116; Hyg.Fab.14, 69, 70, 172, 173a, 174,
248; Nonn.35.85; Ov.Met.6.415, 8.324, 8.495, 8.526, 8.528,
9.147, 14.512.


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Experian failed to complete the agreed disposal of its price-comparison websites after an Indian company did not come up with the cash in time. The $175m deal for PriceGrabber and LowerMyBills fell through after Ybrant Digital, a marketing company based in Hyderabad, missed Tuesday's deadline to pay. Experian said it had received assurances from Ybrant that financing for the deal was in place.
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The Leading Man: Hollywood And The Presidential Image, Featuring FDR And The Rage For Movie Presidents
In the second of our excerpts from The Leading Man: Hollywood and the Presidential Image, historian Burton Peretti looks at how the relationship between the White House and movie stars intensified during Franklin Roosevelt's administration, leading to high-profile movie-star appearances and to more movies about past, present, and imaginary presidents. (Unlike Steven Spielberg, who held his new Lincoln movie until after the election, Hollywood during FDR's administration had no qualms about mixing past and present politics.)
The Great Depression and World War II intensified the escapist power of the movies and the voters' tendency to search for idealized, cinematic, heroic traits in their elected leaders.
It is striking how much more visible Hollywood became in the Roosevelt White House. Movie stars, familiar to Americans from their appearances on theater screens, began to show up regularly at the White House during the Roosevelt administration. The main impetus was an annual event on behalf of a charitable organization founded by the president, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (which later renamed itself after one of its fundraising efforts, the March of Dimes). While the public never received a clear account from the press of the extent of Roosevelt's handicap, they were aware of his illness, and the novelty of having a president afflicted by polio intensified press coverage of the disease and efforts directed toward its prevention and cure.
As a result, in late January 1934 a small gathering of movie celebrities at a Washington hotel, hosted by the performer and humorist Will Rogers, celebrated Roosevelt's birthday for the purpose of raising money for polio research. Hollywood publicists then concocted a plan to transport a larger group of well-known movie performers to Washington every year, beginning in 1935, in conjunction with the president's birthday. The performers lunched at the White House with the First Lady and attended a variety of fundraising affairs around the capital. With the exception of young Ginger Rogers's invitation in 1936 to witness the delivery of a Fireside Chat in the Oval Office, none of the participating actors met the president himself. FDR instead attended annual birthday dinners, which were held the same evenings as the movie stars' lunches but were attended only by government officials. From 1935 to 1937, when Roosevelt was at the height of his popularity, the annual Washington birthday event inspired similar events on the same night in other cities, to raise money for the fight against polio.
Owing to such Hollywood–White House contacts, Alan Schroeder argues, "it was Franklin Roosevelt who first perceived the power of association waiting to be harnessed in Hollywood stars." This power of association was a deeply emotional bond connecting Roosevelt, his family, and more liberal members of his administration with their most fervent supporters in the movie industry. During Roosevelt's terms, the unwritten but long-standing American taboo that barred star performers from partisan activism was often breached.
Hollywood's increasingly central role in American political culture was also evident in the first significant depictions of U.S. presidents—fictional and real ones—in sound films. Not coincidentally, these depictions first appeared during the depths of the Depression, at the precise time the nation looked to Roosevelt for leadership. D. W. Griffith had presented Washington and Lincoln as supporting characters in his silent historical epics, and his first talking film was a Lincoln biography, but before 1932 Hollywood avoided depicting real or imagined presidents; politics, in the main, was not considered dramatic. The Depression steadily altered this view in a number of the popular arts, as exemplified by the groundbreaking musical comedy Of Thee I Sing (1931).
In Hollywood it was, perhaps not surprisingly, William Randolph Hearst who produced the first, fevered cinematic portrayal of the presidency. Gabriel over the White House (1932) has long fascinated critics and historians with its story about a weak president who is transformed by a blow to the head into a bold, quasi-dictatorial leader. Walter Huston (who had portrayed Lincoln for Griffith two years earlier) enacts Hearst's own thwarted fantasy of a populist leader unbound by legalistic restrictions, free to confront the Great Depression and the threat of organized crime with paramilitary squads and government by decree.
As the Great Depression eased later in the decade, presidents in movies were portrayed in a more sentimental fashion. The avalanche of Lincoln lore, unleashed in the wake of Carl Sandburg's very popular biography, epitomized the back-to-the-land sentimentality of the New Deal era. It was manifested in Hollywood in the late 1930s films Abe Lincoln in Illinois (from the play by Robert E. Sherwood, soon to become FDR's speechwriter) and Young Mr. Lincoln, as well as Frank McGlynn Sr.'s supporting appearances as Lincoln in many films. More generally, the leading director Frank Capra developed a passion for contrasting homespun, Lincolnesque American goodness with ruthless corporate power in a series of celebrated films. The most overtly political of Capra's films, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), was vaguely based on the story of Senator Burton Wheeler, who before his isolationist heyday had arrived in Washington from the Montana farmlands as progressive young crusader. Yet, as Michael Rogin and Kathleen Moran have shown, Mr. Smith muddled its political messages and obscured its ideology so completely that Capra—possibly by design—leaves the audience with only a vague yet powerful sense of pride in the little man. (Capra's last political film, Meet John Doe [1941], is more pessimistic but equally opaque in its political orientation.)
Finally, there was FDR himself, whose representations in 1930s studio films still startle viewers today. The first FDR movie "appearance" occurred in the 1933 musical extravaganza Footlight Parade, in which the Broadway impresario James Cagney's closing stage show "Shanghai Lil" evolves unexpectedly into a patriotic celebration of the New Deal (and the National Recovery Administration in particular). An audience onstage holds up cards to produce a large image of the president's face, as martial band music explodes on the soundtrack. The scene is often considered an illustration of the fervent support of FDR by the brothers Warner, well known as the leading Democrats in Hollywood.
Darryl Zanuck at Twentieth Century Fox was another Roosevelt supporter, as was the director John Ford, and it was undoubtedly these men who ensured that the resettlement camp director in California in The Grapes of Wrath (1940)—the virtual savior of the Joad family, welcoming them smilingly to the clean and friendly camp at the end of their cross-country ordeal—resembles an ambulant FDR, down to his grin and eyeglasses. In wartime, Warners and Cagney revisited Roosevelt in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), an award-winning biography of the entertainer George M. Cohan, which begins with Cohan (played by Cagney) visiting the Oval Office and receiving warm praise from President Roosevelt (portrayed once again by a lookalike, but only shown reverently from the back). [Watch the scene here.] Zanuck then gambled the Fox studio's assets on an expensive film biography of FDR's mentor Woodrow Wilson, which explicitly endorsed the internationalism at the heart of American policy during World War II. These films collectively represented the apex of Hollywood's favorable depiction of a sitting president and his goals.
Text from The Leading Man: Hollywood and the Presidential Image, by Burton W. Peretti, Rutgers University Press 2012 and used with permission. This is the second in a series. Read part 1 here.


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Dutch hold 10 for Bitcoin money laundering
Dutch police have arrested 10 people in the Netherlands as part of an international probe into money-laundering through sales of the shadowy virtual currency Bitcoin, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Fifteen places were raided Tuesday in eight Dutch towns as part of the probe, during which luxury cars, cash and the ingredients to make ecstasy were seized.
"Bank accounts and Bitcoin accounts were also seized thanks to help from the United States, Australia, Morocco and Lithuania," the Dutch prosecution service said in a statement.
The alarm had been raised by banks which had seen "large sums of money" being deposited before being immediately withdrawn at cashpoints. The amount of money involved was not revealed.
Criminals working in the shadows of the dark web—illicit sites trading in everything from firearms to drugs—are often paid in a virtual currency, known as Bitcoins.
"Bitcoin trade is not regulated or monitored by financial authorities," the Dutch prosecution service said.
"So it's an attractive way for criminals to launder funds."
Bitcoins are generated by complex chains of interactions among a huge network of computers around the planet, and are not backed by any government or central bank, unlike traditional currencies.
Its initial success has met with a number of highly publicised setbacks.
One of Bitcoin's biggest exchanges, the Tokyo-based MtGox, shuttered last year after admitting 850,000 coins—worth US$480 million at the time—had disappeared from its digital vaults.
Bitcoin's reputation was also damaged when US authorities seized funds as part of an investigation into the online black market Silk Road.


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So how do you know if there's asbestos in your drywall?
If your home or work site was built from the 1950s through the 1980s, there is a very strong likelihood that asbestos is in the drywall. It was added to drywall to make it more noise absorbent, improve fire resistant capabilities and to make the drywall stronger. Even once it was no longer in common usage for new home and commercial construction, the drywall already in place was still there and still contains the toxic fiber.
What's scary about asbestos in drywall is that, depending on the structure of the material, even sanding it could release the fibers and sanding is a common activity many people take prior to repainting, after spackling or when renovating. Any time you disturb drywall that contains asbestos, there's a potential to release the fibers. When dust is released and inhaled, it may contain the potentially deadly fibers and you'll never know your health has been impaired.
Assuming versus testing
If the structure was built in the 80s or prior, it's best to assume there's asbestos in the drywall and other building materials. This means that you shouldn't do serious renovations without professional help. Intrusive sanding, cutting into walls or ceilings to install fixtures or outlets, removing or cutting down walls in renovations all have the potential to sicken your family. Even pulling down decades old wallpaper can release asbestos fibers into the air.
If you want to be certain, you can have your walls tested. You can bring someone in to collect and test your samples or you can do a DIY test yourself. Western Analytical is one of the many labs that offers reasonably priced self-asbestos testing. Click here to read detailed directions for DIY testing to minimize risk. Tips include shutting off HVAC so there's no air blowing, spreading plastic under the area where you'll take the sample, wearing gloves and thoroughly wetting the area so that dry fibers aren't released. If you're worried about the risk, have an external firm come in to test your walls.
The bottom line – you can't know for sure without testing
There is no way to look at drywall and know whether asbestos is present. The same goes for your tiles and other building materials. The fibers are microscopic and there is absolutely no way for you to detect them on your own. Use professional contractors knowledgeable about working with asbestos if you need to do any work that will disrupt potentially asbestos-containing materials. Even though asbestos is a known cause of cancer, the US still allows its use in products.
If you or someone you love has been diagnosed with mesothelioma, contact the experts at Bergman Draper Oslund. We have been focused on protecting the rights of mesothelioma victims for more than 15 years and have won more than $700 million in settlements. Let us help you and your family. We understand what you're going through and are ready to be part of your support network in this difficult time.


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Monday, February 23, 2009
Why does the WOLF Platform support IE browser to start with?
A Client platform for deployment. We had to pick one and in the beginning were all Microsoft guys. We were debating using of Flash for delivery then we debated some more...
The Wolf platform is built using 2 disintegrated platforms:
1] The web services Engine
This is the one that represents the real application and its business rules. It has no dependency on the host application interacting with it. Establish a session/ authenticate and use it in any fashion. This partially integrates with the database platform but we'll discuss that in another article.
2] The Client Interface
The client Interface or the User Interface is entirely HTML, Javascript and AJAX to interact with server. The Client interface has purely been derived in this fashion.
1] How is the application going to be delivered?
The application will be delivered over an Internet Browser.
2] Who are the target users of the application Runtime
The target users of the application runtime will mostly be teams who understand the implementation of the business applications and their roles in it. The application functionality would decide the target users. The browser once again is considered only as a method of delivery for a functional business application.
3] Why not any other browsers.
Browsers by nature have been supporting W3c Standards but then they also prefer to add a few fancies which tend to start making their own fans. For example (for a web developer) rounded corners are actually quite simple using "-moz-border-radius/ -webkit-border-radius" while working with Mozilla/Firefox and Safari 3. If the goal is to only deliver functionality why would one bother to have images to make up rounded corners for other browsers like Microsoft Internet Explorer.
4] Which browsers should we support on mobile devices.
We are wondering, should we just put the effort to make a client host for web delivery?? Maybe, our own browser??
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Another advantage of Symfony: Debugging
I'm not even talking about the unit testing and functional testing setup that Symfony has built in, as I haven't even had the time to use it (I know, bad bad bad, but sometimes you just can't do it when the needs for speedy delivery are high). I'm simply talking about the clarity of structure.
The application I'm dedicating most of my worktime on these days used to be built in Mambo, with components doing all the hard work. Not an ideal setup, because the underlying technology (Mambo) hardly offers a good guideline for the development. It also hardly offers any real utilities for writing clean code, such as the Symfony helpers, a clear MVC structure, or even a clear OO approach.
Over the past few work days, I've been focussing on debugging our first stable release. Where, with our previous (Mambo-based) version, when you had to debug something, you were spending more time searching for the bug in the code than fixing it. A LOT more time. Now, with this new Symfony version we have, because Symfony offers clear guidelines on project structure and code structure, because the MVC setup is so clear, and because code has it's clearly identifiable place within your source tree, fixing bugs is a matter of opening the right file, and fixing the code. This way, it's not a boring and annoying job anymore to do bugfixing. It's a joy to do it, since it's so darn easy to identify the offending code!


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Geomorphology, growth pattern and substrates of the inshore Kimberley Reefs, Western Australia: A spatial analysis approach
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Kordi, Moataz Nael S
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Coral reefs occur extensively along the northwest coast of Australia forming major geomorphic features of the Kimberley coast. These reefs are seldom studied due to limited accessibility and extreme water conditions, which make management of these vital ecosystems a challenging task. Remote sensing and GIS were used in this study to create a foundation for the first comprehensive geodatabase of theses reefs and to provide some of the first detailed analysis ofreef distribution.
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How to convince a teacher to use non-formal approach?
In recent years we have been trying to find ways to motivate students and to convince them that math classes can be fun and pleasant. Also, we want them to become actively involved in the learning process, but we do not always find the right resources to achieve this.
Formal teachers are often looking to discipline their students while providing information. Their classes are highly structured so that every student has the opportunity to learn without distraction. Formal teaching often takes place solely in the classroom where students work through prepared material over the course of an academic year. Once students complete the year, they move on to the next educational level.[1]
Non-formal learning, on the other hand, is characterized by a deliberate choice of the person, which takes place in any organization pursuing educational and training purposes, even volunteering, the national civil service, private social service and in enterprises. Thus, non – formal education is any type of structured and organized learning which is institutionalized, intentional and planned by an educational provider, but which does not lead to formal level of qualification recognized by the relevant national education authorities. People of all age groups can participate in non – formal education which can be offered through courses, workshops, seminars. [2]
The majority of teachers find it a lot easier to teach in a formal way, given the fact that there is a great range of teaching materials that will help them achieve their objectives. What is more, they are the product of the formal kind of training and some of them have never seen or experienced the non-formal approach. Through teacher refreshment courses, the European Union is trying to convince teachers to use innovative teaching methods and up to a point it works. Enthusiastic, the teachers, as it happened to me, go back to their schools and for a few weeks they try to introduce the new non-formal methods in their everyday teaching. Things go south when they realize that the teaching materials are scarce and that the fellow teachers will see the methods they use more or less suspicious.
It gets even more difficult when they have to correlate the non-formal teaching methods with the all-so-formal exam items. And this leaves them wondering: is the non-formal approach approachable? Can I teach without using it? Yes, this can be done, but aren't students' knowledge and wellbeing the ultimate goal of teaching? There are ups and downs when it comes to formal and non-formal educational processes, and we, as human beings, will always tend to choose the easy way. Teachers who will not easily give up the classical methods have to be well-informed about the non-formal approach in teaching, as opposed to the formal one
Formal education does work; we are all its visible results. But experts around the world have been trying to give people a wakeup call: education is the key to everything and it has to be oriented towards the students, as they will be the creators of the world we would live in at an old age. The famous Ken Robinson said: `Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface. You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.` Standing in front of a group of children or teenagers, telling them about sciences, literature or any subject is not really an image of an explorer, is it? The circumstances Ken Robinson is mentioning can be created by using non-formal methods, such as immersive activities using Virtual Reality gadgets, which will help students visualize and explore notions that maybe seemed extremely abstract for them.
From a psychological point of view, learning math can be a real struggle. There is a condition called dyscalculia, which makes it hard for people to do math or tasks that involve math. It is estimated that 5 to 10 % of people might have dyscalculia. [3] This condition does not only affect children, but it will continue through adulthood and it may interfere with the quality of people's lives. By finding alternative, non-formal ways of teaching and learning math, we, as teachers, would improve our students' self-confidence and we would definitely manage to reduce the number of drop-outs.
So, how do you convince math teachers to use non-formal approach? The process is long and sometimes tiring. First off, make sure they know what the non-formal approach is. Then you should teach them the same things in a formal way and then in a non-formal way. This is where they will see the real difference. The next step involves the teaching material available, most of which could be found online (try https://www.ixl.com/).Teachers also love a bit of a challenge and maybe they will be willing to teach two groups of the same age range using the different approaches, the informal one and the non-formal one. This way they will realize that the non-formal approach is rewarding and entertaining not only for the students, but also for them. Last but not least, although reports are not what we love doing, ask them to write one after performing this experiment. If things are done the right way, the advantages of using the non-formal approach will outweigh the ones of the formal one.


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2 x MAES Introduction Courses – Croatia October 2017
We held two Introductory Courses: first in Đakovo in Eastern Croatia and then the second in the capital Zagreb.
We also held two Evening Talks for Parents in both Đakovo and Zagreb – see comments below.
A total of 38 paediatric Therapists benefitted from this Introduction Course training.
During two very intense days, the participants were able to learn the basic principles of the MAES Therapy Approach, to look at numerous video analysis and live demonstrations of treatment for children with Cerebral Palsy. The participants were very enthusiastic and pleased to learn a different and deeper way to understand the issues of children with Cerebral Palsy.
Our grateful thanks to MAES Team Croatia for their work and support to make both courses such a success! Therapists: Marija Maras, Marija Juko and Jasminka Gagula
Thanks also to the two venues for their friendly support:
Dom Zdravlja – Đakovo,
Mali Dom, Dnevni centar za rehabilitaciju djece i mladeži, Zagreb
Course Leader: Jean-Pierre Maes MCSP, Director MAES Therapy
'MAES is a completely different way of thinking to Bobath'
Uzbudljivi tjedan za Maes terapiju u Hrvatskoj je zavrsio!
Odrzali smo dva Uvodna tecaja Maes terapije: prvi u Đakovu, a drugi u Zagrebu.
Ukupno cak 38 polaznika je prisustvovalo ovoj dvodnevnoj edukaciji. Polaznici su tijekom dva vrlo intenzivna dana bili u prilici nauciti osnovne princip Maes terapije, pogledati brojne video analize i te demonstracije terapije djece s cerebralnom paralizom.
Prema rijecima polaznika, tecaj im je pomogao na drugaciji i sveobuhvatniji nacin shvatiti problematiku djece s cerebralnom paralizom.
Na Uvodnom tecaju Maes terapije najavljeno je i odrzavanje Osnovnog tecaja Maes terapije koji traje 4 tjedna.
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MAES Evening Seminars for Parents of Children with CP
We also held two Evening Talks for Parents in both Đakovo and Zagreb.
26 October – 2 Hour MAES Seminar in Đakovo was presented by Maria Maras
29 October – 2 Hour Talk in Zagreb was presented by Maria Juko
Congratulations to both Marijas for their first MAES Presentations, which were well delivered and appreciated by all the Parents of children with CP who attended.
Well Done!
We look forward to returning to Croatia in 2018 for our 3rd MAES Full Course:
MAES Therapy Course – Zagreb 2018
'Movement Analysis & Education Strategies for the Treatment of Children with Cerebral Palsy and similar neuro-developmental conditions'
Part 1: 5 – 16 March 2018
Part 2: 16 – 27 April 2018
For more information, contact:
Local Organisers:
Therapists: Marija Maras, Marija Juko, Jasminka Gagula
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1st July 2018
Dr Sheaves was willing to listen and to read medical journals to deal with my complex endocrine case and prescribe medicines that were slightly outside the norm but proved to be completely effective (after ten years of struggle). He also explained the complicated connection between the acute and the chronic aspects of the condition I was sufering at the time. He even drew me a little picture so I could visualise it more easily. I recommend highly.
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Easy No-Boil Spinach &Cheese Manicotti
This Easy No-Boil Spinach and Cheese Manicotti is a delicious, cheesy pasta recipe that uses a no-boil hack to lessen prep time. Stuffed with a creamy spinach and cheese filling, smothered in red pasta sauce and sprinkled with mozzarella cheese, this is a must-try.
- 3/4 cup ricotta cheese
- 1 1/2 cups mozzarella cheese
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 4 oz cream cheese, room temperature
- 2 eggs
- 8-10 oz frozen spinach, drained
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 1 package manicotti noodles, uncooked
- 1 24 oz jar spaghetti sauce, whatever kind you prefer
- 36-48 oz hot water, spaghetti sauce jar hot water 24 to 36 but you may add up to 12 oz more if pasta is not covered
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Mix cheeses, eggs, garlic powder, salt, and pepper together. Add drained spinach and mix.
- Using a piping bag or Ziploc bag with plastic coupler tip, pipe filling into each uncooked manicotti noodle. Place in a 9x13-inch baking dish.
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) is the title of a text written by the head of the art commission of the Gasunie. This text accompanied a solo presentation of my works in the monumental entrance and central hall area of their headquarters in Groningen. This exhibition coincided with the tenth anniversary of my practice being based in the Netherlands. It was apt therefore that this presentation should take the form of a summation of a number of series which had been developed during previous years. Given the grandeur of the space itself there was also a particular suitability for the placement of larger sculptures, though there were also a number of niches in which smaller sculptures could be placed. The particular geography of this interior space presented the opportunity to position the works along a central dividing line which extends straight through the building, connecting the sculptures both formally in terms of their installation, as well as suggesting an inherent lineage of historical references from one to the other. Emphasising both the developmental nature of these works as well as their unifying autobiographical character.
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Free ebook: Programming Windows Store Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, Second Edition
We're pleased to announce our free (1311-page) ebook: Programming Windows Store Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, Second Edition, by Kraig Brockschmidt.
Download all formats (PDF, Mobi, and ePub) as well as link to the companion content hosted by the Microsoft Virtual Academy .
Kraig began updating the first edition exactly a year ago, and when you examine the new ebook's Table of Contents you'll quickly see how much work he has done to share his deep understanding of Windows Store app building. Even in the simplest sense—new pages added to this edition: 478—Kraig's effort and generosity are impressive. Thank you, Kraig, and enjoy, app builders!
The following excerpt from Kraig's introduction to the ebook shares our goals for the title:
Work on this second edition began almost as soon as the first edition was released. (I'd make a quip about the ink not being dry, but that analogy doesn't work for an ebook!) When Windows 8 became generally available in the fall of 2012, work on Windows 8.1 was already well underway: the engineering team had a long list of improvements they wanted to make along with features that they weren't able to complete for Windows 8. And in the very short span of one year, Windows 8.1 was itself ready to ship.
At first I thought writing this second edition would be primarily a matter of making small updates to each chapter and perhaps adding some pages here and there on a handful of new features. But as I got deeper into the updated platform, I was amazed at just how much the API surface area had expanded! Windows 8.1 introduces a number of additional controls, an HTML webview element, a stronger HTTP API, content indexing, deeper OneDrive support, better media capabilities, more tiles sizes (small and large), more flexible secondary tile, access to many kinds of peripheral devices, and more options for working with the Windows Store, like consumable in-app purchases. And clearly, this is a very short list of distinct Windows 8.1 features that doesn't include the many smaller changes to the API. (A fuller list can be found on Windows 8.1: New APIs and features for developers.)
Furthermore, even as I was wrapping up the first edition of this book, I already had a long list of topics I wanted to explore in more depth. I wrote a number of those pieces for my blog, with the intention of including them in this second edition. A prime example is Appendix A, "Demystifying Promises."
All in all, then, what was already a very comprehensive book in the first edition has become even more so in the second! Fortunately, with this being an ebook, neither you nor I need feel guilty about matters of deforestation. We can simply enjoy the process of learning about and writing Windows Store Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
And what about Windows Phone 8.1? I'm glad you asked, because much of this book is completely applicable to that platform. Yes, that's right: Windows Phone 8.1 supports writing apps in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, just like Windows 8.1, meaning that you have the same flexibility of implementation languages on both. However, the decision to support JavaScript apps on Windows Phone 8.1 came very late in the production of this book, so I'm only able to make a few notes here and there for Phone - specific concerns. I encourage you to follow the Building Apps for Windows blog, where we'll be posting more about the increasingly unified experience of Windows and Windows Phone.
Who should read this book?
I'm also assuming that your interest in Windows has at least two basic motivations. One, you probably want to come up to speed as quickly as you can, perhaps to carve out a foothold in the Windows Store sooner rather than later. Toward that end, Chapter 2, "Quickstart," gives you an immediate experience with the tools, APIs, and some core aspects of app development and the platform. On the other hand, you probably also want to make the best app you can, one that performs really well and that takes advantage of the full extent of the platform. Toward this end, I've also endeavored to make this book comprehensive, helping you at least be aware of what's possible and where optimizations can be made.
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Nevertheless, many insights have come from working directly with real-world developers on their real-world apps. As part of the Windows Ecosystem team, myself and my teammates have been on the front lines bringing those first apps to the Windows Store. This has involved writing bits of code for those apps and investigating bugs, along with conducting design, code, and performance reviews with members of the Windows engineering team. As such, one of my goals with this book is to make that deep understanding available to many more developers, including you!


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The real endgame of Diablo III starts in Adventure Mode, when our character finally finds one or two powerful items, and begins its journey to collect all the pieces required to clear everything on the highest difficulty levels in no time. The road to get there is bumpy, but our small guide might help a bit.
We already had tips for beginners, and for players who played the game years ago and want to come back for the new patches. So this time we won't talk about followers, or what to do after finishing the campaign. This batch of tips rather tries to give some advice for all the playable classes, how to play them on higher Torment levels, which legendaries or set items are the best for them and why. The end goal is to create a character on which all the items match perfectly with the chosen skills and the entire character feels like a puzzle, pieced together.
How to start gearing up for Torment I: Finding powerful items requires playing on higher difficulty levels. But playing on higher difficulties requires powerful items. It's a catch-22, but luckily crafted items help a bit. Crafted Cain's and Aughild's sets are perfect for not just leveling, but early bounty farming. It's nothing crazy, but their set bonuses will help us gain Paragon levels more quickly and, more importantly, make killing elite packs a bit easier. Better set items and legendaries will drop eventually.
Is it worth keeping legendaries even if they look crappy? Absolutely. If you're not familiar with your class and all the builds around, and found something that has a bonus affix, drop it in your stash. Bonus affixes are unique abilities and displayed as orange text on the item's description. While advancing through difficulty levels, you might change gear and skills a lot as well, and you never know when that exact legendary in your stash could become an essential part of a new, more powerful build.
Besides a few essential items though, all classes are different and need different strategies, stats to boost, abilities to highlight. So lets focus on the classes and some items for them that might come in handy:
Their best set: The good old Immortal King's set is still in business. Its bonuses to the Wrath of the Berserker and Call of the Ancients skills are just unmatched.
Fan favorite build: Top barbarians like to mix up a bunch of items from different sets. The above mentioned Immortal King's set AND Raekor's set and its additional bonuses to Furious Charge are quite powerful together.
Great Kanai's Cube powers: That's a lot of sets, so The Ring of Royal Grandeur is a must. It reduces the number of items needed for set bonuses by one, so it's always a good choice if we're using a lot of set items. The Vile Ward and the Standoff's legendary affixes boost our Furious Charge skill further, so those should be our other choices. The Furnace is a good alternative (it's actually a good alternative for all classes, but its drop rate is the worst) as well: elite packs will die in no time to that weapon.
Their best set: Instead of a 6-set bonus, top crusaders are only using the combined powers of The Wailing Host and the Litany of the Undaunted set rings. With these, every ancient legendary item equipped will increase the damage dealt by 100%. That sounds terrifying, and it really is!
Fan favorite build: The bonuses of this 2-piece set mean that the top crusaders' favorite builds will include as many ancient legendaries as possible, focusing everything on resource regeneration, cooldown reduction and increasing the strength of one particular skill. Most of the time it's the one called Bombardment. Ancient legendaries are hard to get, but almost all the top players are using this class in Season 5 and since patch 2.4. Right now they're the most powerful ones.
Great Kanai's Cube powers: Depends on the build. In-geom is a great choice all the time because of its powerful cooldown reduction bonus, but the weapon called Mortal Drama fits really well into a build that focuses on Bombardment.
Demon Hunters:
Their best set: The Marauder's set, of course. Its 4- and 6-set bonuses make Sentry Turrets incredibly powerful.
Fan favorite build: Any build based on the Marauder's set is a winner, and a Bombardier's Rucksack adds two additional sentries to an already Sentry-heavy play style. Anything that supports mobility (think about Vault) and skills such as Vengeance comes handy.
Great Kanai's Cube powers: Top players like to use the legendary abilities of Dawn and another one called Visage of Gunes. Both of these boost the power of the Vengeance skill. The ring called Convention of Elements works pretty well too as it significantly increases elemental damage.
Their best set: Monks got a big nerf in 2.4 so they're not as shiny (yet) as before. There are still some great builds and sets that'll make monks unstoppable though. The Sunwuko's set for example, focusing everything on the monks' Wave of Light skill, is superb if we'd like to speedrun rifts and bounties. And of course we want to do that, monks are fast melee fighters. The reworked Inna's set is also great but it's more useful if we want to build a tanky character relying on Mystic Ally
pets followers.
Fan favorite build: Anything that boosts skills such as Sweeping Wind (items like Kyoshiro's Soul or Vengeful Wind) and Wave of Light (Tzo Krin's Gaze or Pinto's Pride) is gold. Some of these items, mixed up with some essential legendaries and Sunwuko's set pieces, will make an awesome, fast, unstoppable monk.
Great Kanai's Cube powers: If we're using Mystic Allies, the Crudest Boots help a lot, since they can summon some additional allies. Other than that, the Flying Dragon weapon and its ability to double our attack speed is quite powerful, and some essential legendaries, such as In-geom or the Ring of the Royal Grandeur will work just fine.
Witch Doctors:
Their best set: The Jade Harvester set is still amazing and makes the Soul Harvest skill super powerful. Reinforcing it with a Sacred Harvester weapon and its ability to further boost Soul Harvest will grant us the basis of a very popular Jade build. It's still very effective in patch 2.4.
Fan favorite build: Although the Jade Harvester build's pretty powerful already, all the top witch doctor players are using the same strategy top crusaders do: the 2-piece set of rings, The Wailing Host and the Litany of the Undaunted, and a crazy amount of ancient legendaries. Stick to a build using set items if you're on lower Torment difficulty levels, and try to switch to something with ancient legendaries for Torment X and above.
Great Kanai's Cube powers: The Mask of Jeram has a pretty cool bonus. With this head item, pets will deal 75-100% more damage, and as witch doctors are heavily relying on pets all the time, this item (or more importantly, its legendary affix) is quite essential. Other than that Lakumba's Ornament (more Soul Harvest bonuses) and In-geom (skill cooldowns are reduced) are always working too. As you can see there are some legendaries that work really well in Kanai's Cube all the time, with all classes.
Their best set: The Firebird's set is the best choice for rifts and bounties. With its set bonus it's enough to just tag the monsters we encounter and the burning effect will do the job automatically. With the Tal Rasha's set however we'll do more damage and at the same time survive more easily.
Fan favorite build: While the above mentioned sets are still pretty powerful, the current top wizard players are using a build based on the Delsere's set and its huge boost to Explosive Blast, Energy Twister and a whole bunch of other skills. This build requires some pretty rare legendaries, but if you can add a Twisted Sword and the Orb of Infinite Depth (both have additional boosts to the same skills) you'll get a crazy powerful wizard. A build based on Firebird's or Tal Rasha's is pretty cool around Torment VI, but if you'd like to step it up and clear Torment X and crazy Greater Rifts, go for Delsere's and the additional rare legendaries.
Great Kanai's Cube powers: Depends on which elemental power is used in our build. The Cindercoat for example reduces fire resource costs, so if we're boosting fire damage, the harvested Kanai powers should reflect that. If it's cold, something that gives some extra cold damage (the Rimeheart is a good weapon choice for example) would work. And so on and so forth.
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Buena Vista Social Club band was formed in 1997 by the American guitarist Ry Cooder and CEO of World Circuit Nick Gold. The organizers had a dream of reviving the early and mid-20th century Cuban music, which was popular before the Cuban Revolution of 1959. Cooder managed to get together a group of legendary Cuban musicians. When the band released its first album, all the artists were older than 70.
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The Ballerina
This is the story of my Oma
She would often practice ballet in the tiny backyard of her family's house that she shared with her parents and younger brother. Her love would often see her there and watch in silence. Not leering. She knew he was there, and he knew that she was aware of him. No words ever needed to be spoken during these beautiful, unspoken moments shared between just the two of them... and all the while, the rest of the world was screaming.
When they were together, it felt so natural. So safe. So loving. They both knew they were meant to be together. It was understood but never spoken.
One morning, in the early summer mist, soldiers approached their village. They could hear the stomping of their feet following along in time with their hearts pounding. The clanking of their arsenal was sharp. Piercing and approaching.
They were coming.
They were coming for the men. And the boys.
New soldiers for the Soviet Army or death, if you were of age... or close enough to it. Her love was 17 and they both knew what was going to happen. The entire village was crying. Hiding was too late of an option and there was no running. Mothers saying horror-filled goodbyes to their husbands and sons, knowing it was likely the last time they would embrace.
Panic had seeped in to the people. There was screaming, struggling, fighting and running. The ballerina was holding tightly to her love, as tightly as she possibly could, gaining strength she never knew she possessed. They were both terrified and she had begun to openly weep as she could see the soldiers had spotted her love. He kissed the side of her tear soaked face. Then one tender kiss on her forehead as he let the soldiers pull him away, although his body was riddled with tension, anger and hesitation.
She took one last lunge towards his body, clawing at the dirt beneath her, screaming, "NO!"
An officer stood over her and slapped her across the face, Hard. Then he dragged her back inside her home. Her love's anger raged at this offense and he attempted to escape. There was a struggle.
Doors slammed.
Shots fired.
And then silence.
Soon after, she knew she could not stay there. She had knowledge of an acquaintance's brother who escaped to Canada and he needed a wife. Thinking that her love was dead, she escaped and was married the next spring. She was a good wife; a grateful wife. An obedient wife, but she never danced again.
They had a daughter some years later.
Decades had come and gone and then she became a grandmother.
How quickly life can melt away.
One day, her husband became ill and passed.
She was 76 and had not once been back to Estonia since that summer in 1940. With her child grown and her husband gone, she felt it was time to return.
Of course, the reunions shared many tales of family and loss. So much catching up with old friends and family and yet she never once felt tired or old. How much had changed in 60 years and also things that had stayed the same. Then 'her love' had come up in a conversation.
"Oh yes, he is doing just fine. He is a widower now. Lives just down the street."
Her heart raced as if she were to pass out, "HE IS ALIVE?"
"Of course he is alive, and well. He thought YOU were killed, didn't you know... all those years ago?"
"I thought HE was killed! HE IS ALIVE??" She repeated again through tears of excitement and disbelief.
As quickly as her body would take her, she got up, threw a pale blue shawl around her neck and shuffled out the door. She went to his house, trying to make herself presentable along the way. She took out a pocket mirror, looked at her reflection and saw the ballerina shining back at her. He answered the door and it only took one shared look to see, to know, to feel that they would indeed never be separated again.
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Such a powerful story, the ending is so bittersweet :\ReplyDelete
Aw, I'm a sucker for a good story about what's meant to be. Your telling of it is so compelling.ReplyDelete
You know how I feel about love stories...ReplyDelete
This kind of enduring love is the stuff my dreams are made of. No wonder my head's in the clouds most of the time, and during the few times I actually checked-in with reality, I got shocked most of the time ;)
*sigh* Lets write an epic love story, you and me, shall we? Pour our ALL into it. I wonder what it'll be like. hahaha.
magnificent story! Not gonna like but I shed a little manly tear at the end. lol :DReplyDelete
This is almost too bittersweet for me to handle.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFriday, 02 December, 2011
Beautiful!!! True love always comes home.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFriday, 02 December, 2011
Ugh. I am totally crying. Second time today. BAH!ReplyDelete
What a wonderful story. Just wonderful.
Every now and then you completely sideswipe me!ReplyDelete
That was beautifully written.
(god, does that sound like a back handed compliment? It wasn't meant to be!)
I love that.
So many years passed but they were meant to be together.
What a beautiful story.
@Sarah MacReplyDelete
That's OK. I was in a side-swiping kinda mood ;)
you rascal......you managed to squeak a tear from my eye.....bless your omaReplyDelete
Oh my god, are you serious?! I'm crying. That's amazing.ReplyDelete
(ps: hello, novel or screenplay. seriously. do it.)
That made me cryReplyDelete
What a heart wrenching story and you wrote it beautifully.ReplyDelete
Oh you squishy teddy bear - what a beautiful love story. Love it!ReplyDelete
This is true????? For real??? This is book material here. Totally. I really loved this story!ReplyDelete


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Growing Your Law Practice in Tough Times helps law firms respond and adapt to the challenges of recent economic changes. It covers topics aimed at helping firms with:
• Choosing the kind of law practice they will be
• Marketing and business development tactics
• How to price, bill and collect for services
• How to figure overhead
• How to manage the cash flow cycle
This book helps in identifying and capturing the right kinds of clients, providing the services those clients need in ways that add value, explaining how and why traditional approaches lead to success in today's market, and ensuring prompt payment and the ability to grow profits.


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Prospects for finance and accounting outsourcing have been high as more businesses seek to focus more on core processes to grow their business. As research firm Everest, predicted early this year, finance and accounting outsourcing, which includes processing of accounts receivable services, accounts receivable follow-up, as well as general accounting and back-up, will grow steadily this year.In the Everest Research report which came out last February, it was predicted that the Finance and Accounting Outsourcing (FAO) market would revert back to pre-recession levels by the end of the year. (Everest Research, 2010) As Katrina Menzigian, VP of Research for Forrester stated, "as the global economy continues its path towards recovery, we expect to see the FAO market regain traction, driven by new deals and scope expansions, as well as more than 45 contracts up for extension this year. We foresee increased adoption across industries and geographies to continue. Beyond the United States, we expect contract signings in the domestic Asia-Pacific market as well as Rest of Europe to rise." The company predicted growth of as much as 20% up from the 11% growth in 2009. A second report from Everest on the 9th of June was also released wherein Saurabh Gupta, Everest Research Director, stated that, "the mature FAO market is getting increasingly competitive with players vying to carve out unique value propositions to differentiate themselves."While the FAO market in 2009 saw massive deals among large players such as Genpact (NYSE:G), Accenture (NYSE:ACN) and IBM (NYSE:IBM), given the increasing demand for FAO in the past few months, new players in the FAO market have emerged or are emerging in order to take advantage of the growth in the market.One such company is private equity firm, Huntsman Gay Global Capital, who announced on the 30th of September that they have made a majority investment in iQor Holdings Inc. The investment by Huntsman Gay in iQor, the second largest accounts receivable services provider in the world, will allow iQor to increase its share in the accounts receivable (A/R) outsourcing market, while introducing Huntsman Gay into the A/R outsourcing market.Regional growth meanwhile in the FAO sector has seen expansions, notably in key areas including the Latin Americas and the Philippines.Latin American countries such as Guatemala, has been pinpointed by outsourcer, Genpact, as a key area where finance and accounting talent can be found. The company announced plans of expanding its workforce in the city of Guatemala by opening a second facility. Aside from that, the company also advised that they are looking into other Latin American countries, Colombia and Brazil, who, along with Guatemala, were previously unknown in the FAO market.Meanwhile the WNS (NYSE:WNS) reaffirmed its confidence in the Philippines when the company announced expansion plans in the country following increased demands for its services. WNS Global Services CEO Keshav Murugesh, cited that their Philippine site will serve as a hub for its clients in the banking and financial industry for the APAC region. He further states that, "considering the quality of talent available in the country and the demand for our services, we believe that 10 percent of WNS' workforce could be based in the Philippines over the next few years."While Everest seems to have predicted the finance and accounting outsourcing (FAO) market accurately so far, it will be interesting to see whether the market will continue to grow as predicted as the year nears its conclusion.
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- Groupon in my area seems to be obsessed with Hair Removal and Belly Dancing lessons.
- If I keep making pots of tea I'm less likely to snack at work.
- My bladder holds nowhere near 3 pots of tea.
- Barn swallows would make excellent guided missiles during mating season.
- My cat, who is afraid of EVERYTHING (including barn swallows), will go exploring and lead me on a miserable week-long search when he escapes the fence.
- I can't trust the estimated fuel range on my car.
- When I trust the estimated fuel range on my car and consequently run out of gas, Mary Kay ladies are nice enough to stop and help out.
- I now have a full new complement of much-needed Mary Kay products.
- Installing tongue and groove pine on a ceiling is slow and painful work.
- Tongue and groove ceilings – once the aches and pains of installation have passed – are freaking gorgeous.
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Monday, April 30, 2012
What I Learned During My Blogger Vacation
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Nice to have you back!! I know what you mean about tea (or for me, coffee) can help you in avoiding the snacks at work. I find that gum helps too. Except when I see peanut butter cups. Very little can keep me from that temptation.ReplyDelete
Thanks, Nicole, it's nice to be back! I wish I could say I had just one weakness - peanut butter cups would definitely be among them, but when the sweet tooth hits I don't discriminate against lesser confections :-)ReplyDelete
Very funny Ashley about the Mary Kay ladies and the tongue in groove stuff. I also think that little dog picture is adorable! Welcome back.ReplyDelete
No need to apologize. I hope you got a lot done in that time. :)ReplyDelete


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Cross Roads Congregations celebrate the promises of baptism and passing on faith through the use of faith practices.
We believe strongly in the power of prayer.
Every month at Cross Roads congregations offer a new prayer experience that encourages people to pray in ways that makes sense to them.
Creative Prayer
Martin Luther's Morning and Evening Prayers
Resources that you can use for the season of Pentecost!
Help yourself to these Resources to use as you do your daily devotions!
These Resources are Available for pick up at the Prayer Experience Display in each congregation.
Prayers to Pass on Faith
please consider using Luther's morning and evening prayers.
Martin Luther wrote these prayers and included them in the Small Catechism for individuals and families to use every day in the home.
Along with the Lord's Prayer, use these words and these prayers to begin and end your day.
SPIRITUAL Experience:
Praying in Color-Adapted from a book by Sybil McBeth
1) You want to pray but words escape you.
2) Sitting still and staying focused in prayer are a challenge.
3) Your body wants to be part of your prayer.
4) You want to just hang out with God but don't know how.
5) Listening to God feels like an impossible task 6) Your mind wanders and your body complains.
7) You want a visual, concrete way to pray. 8) You Need a new way to pray.
Here is What You Will Need:
1) Paper
2) Pen
3) Markers, colored pencils, or colored gel pens.
4) A table or clipboard or book to put your paper on.
Get Started:
1) Write your name for God on a piece of paper. Draw a shape around it or just start to doodle. The drawing becomes a prayer space, a small prayer closet.
2) Add marks and shapes. Focus on the name you chose. Ask God to be part of your prayer time with or without words. If words come, pray them; if not, enjoy the silence.
3) To pray for a person, write their name on the page. Draw around it. Add color, if you want. Keep drawing as you release the person into God's care.
4) Add other people to your drawing. Think of each stroke of your pen as a prayer for them. Take a breath or say "Amen" between each person.
Click Here to Find the Lenten Coloring Pages
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See All of the Celeb Cameos in Ariana Grande's 'Thank U, Next' Video!
Ariana Grande's new video for "thank u, next" features so many stars and BFFs!
The amazing video for the 25-year-old Sweetener singer's newest single was released on Friday afternoon (November 30).
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Ariana Grande
From Kris Jenner to Jonathan Bennett to Jennifer Coolidge, the video is packed with pop culture superstars and references to four different comedies: Mean Girls, 13 Going on 30, Bring It On and Legally Blonde.
Trying to keep up with all of the different cameos in the video? We've got you covered!
Scroll through the slideshow to see who appeared in Ariana's "thank u, next" music video…


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Just because you're an inmate and serving time does not mean you don't have rights, and it certainly does not mean you can't make a difference in the world. Ex-inmate Martin Sostre is proof of this fact. The prisoner received clemency in 1976 from New York's then-governor. Before receiving clemency, he began a successful campaign for prisoner's rights from his New York prison cell.
Sostre was first arrested in 1952 on drug charges. For that offense, he was sent to the Sing Sing correctional facility. While there, he studied Constitutional law, African American history, philosophy and other legal topics. After combining his street smarts with this newfound knowledge, he became an outspoken advocate for prisoners' rights.
Sostre's status as an inmate activist wasn't always easy. One time, prison officials subjected him to solitary confinement after he tried to get religious concessions for his affiliation with the Nation of Islam. He also had his victories. In 1961, he won a lawsuit against a prison warden who denied religious rights owed to prisoners. This lawsuit set a precedent for future lawsuits against prisons.
Sostre was later released from prison and opened a leftist bookstore, which he ran in Buffalo until authorities raided it in 1967. The raid resulted in more drug charges against Sostre, and another jail sentence that was supposed to last decades. While in prison the second time, Sostre continued to file lawsuits on behalf of his fellow prisoners, and he developed a hero-like status among people serving time across the nation. They saw him as their advocate. One historian states that Martin Sostre achieved more to safeguard the rights of prisoners than any other single person in U.S. history.
Are your rights being violated as an inmate in a U.S. prison, or do you know an inmate whose rights are being violated? You can be like Sostre and fight back in court for the legal rights that you or your loved one deserve.
Source: newser.com, "From 'Politicized Prisoner' to Inmate Hero," Jenn Gidman, April 18, 2017


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What Had Happened Was: 9/5/17
Oh, you didn't know? We got you.
Game. Blouses
- Tampa Bay Buccaneers safety T.J. Ward called the way the Denver Broncos handled his recent release "unprofessional." Just two days after being among Denver's final roster cuts, Ward didn't hold back his criticism while discussing his former team on Monday. "I just think they handled it completely unprofessional," said Ward, who signed with the Bucs after the Broncos let him go last week. Entering the final year of his contract, the three-time Pro Bowler hoped to receive a new deal and eventually retire as a member of the Broncos. Yet the play of two 2016 draft picks led Denver to part ways with the veteran safety a week before the start of the regular season.
- Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott will continue to practice while awaiting appeal of suspension. On Tuesday, a U.S. District Court judge in Texas will hear a request for a temporary restraining order that would prohibit the NFL from making a ruling on the second-year running back's six-game suspension for violating the league's personal conduct policy. Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett confirmed that Elliott will not attend the hearing, but remain with his team as the Cowboys prepare for Week 1 of the NFL season. "We're just going to prepare for the Giants, and Zeke will practice until someone tells him not to," Garrett said. If NFL arbitrator Harold Henderson upholds the suspension, Elliott will take the case to court.
- Pittsburgh Steelers running back Le'Veon Bell signed his $12.1 million franchise tender. After a summer-long holdout for a new contract, which both sides could not agree upon, Bell finally got back to work on Monday while preparing to begin the regular season on the one-year contract. As to why Bell decided to sit out for the entirety of training camp, "I wanted to make sure I was prepared and fresh for the season," he said. "I don't want to go out there and jeopardize myself getting hurt in camp." During his time off the field, Bell posted a video on Twitter of him filling out an application for a job at Dairy Queen. The joke, however, has led to the fast-food and ice cream chain to reach out to Bell about endorsement opportunities.
@L_Bell26 applied full time for @DairyQueen today. pic.twitter.com/AERccAnP7F
— Mad Rich (@MaddRichJr) September 1, 2017
Top three tweets
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— Pickle Rick (@MaxHerron) September 3, 2017
Foam "T" injected with helium float through @MBStadium pic.twitter.com/rYXASPUDFj
— JohnMadewell (@johnmadewellNC9) September 4, 2017
I don't know where my man's was supposed to be….but it wasn't here. At all. pic.twitter.com/DgvVJoHLLN
— Tristan (@AyoTristan) September 4, 2017
On Labor Day, remember that even workers, no matter how highly paid, have to fight for equality and access.https://t.co/Kezv8HOgiZ
— The Undefeated (@TheUndefeated) September 4, 2017
On this day in sports history
On Sept. 5, 1960, Cassius Clay (four years before he converted to Islam and changed his name to Muhammad Ali) defeated three-time European champion Zbigniew Pietrzykowski to win the gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the Rome Games. Though he won all four of his Olympic bouts, the then-18-year-old Clay almost didn't make it to the Summer Games for one reason. "He was afraid of flying," Joe Martin, a former police officer man in the champ's hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, said in an HBO special. "He wanted to take a boat or something … I calmed him down and convinced him if he wanted to be heavyweight champion of the world, then he had to go to Rome and win the Olympics."
Annual Labor Day Trick Shot…Enjoy! pic.twitter.com/UvgdCpERg8
— Louisville Baseball (@UofLBaseball) September 4, 2017


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Graeme Smith
Farnborough Academy
Farnborough Road
"Proud to be part of the school"
Farnborough is a highly valued community secondary school, located in Clifton, Nottingham. The school is based in a specially constructed building, which completed prior to opening in September 2014.
The school was noted as 'inadequate' by the most recent Ofsted inspection in 2017, however, rapid improvements have been made since.
Farnborough saw their best ever GCSE results in the school's history in 2018 and are focused on building on these impressive results further. The academy has an atmosphere focused on excellence and are determined that every child will have the chance to achieve their full potential.
Every year shows, exhibitions, performances and plays take place at The Farnborough Academy.
Facilities at the school include a lecture theatre, dedicated gym and extensive grounds.
Join Farnborough Spencer Academy
A small number of places are available for in-year admissions. To express interest in a place or to arrange a visit, please contact the school here.
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Julie & Ryan
April 2014
I hired Kristine for day of wedding coordination in April 2014. It was such a relief on the day of to know that I had Kristine managing all the details!
I knew we would be in good hands from the first time I met her at the consultation. She was timely, came prepared with questions, and also helped to focus me on remaining details in the final weeks before the wedding. I literally never heard from Kristine on the day of the wedding until I arrived at the venue.....I really appreciated that she didn't call or text me with every little detail or issue that came up. So as far as I could tell, the whole event went off without a hitch! We would definitely recommend Events by Kristine!
Lucie & Brian
March 2014
Kristine is a very attentive wedding planner. My wedding included a needy wedding party of 25 people, a very particular mother-of-the-bride, and a live-performance based wedding. Kristine is very organized, so I did not have any doubts of her skills. My only hesitation was that the scale and neediness of my wedding would be out of her experience level. But, I was wrong.
The wedding was timely and well crafted. We had many events, lots of vendors, special requests, and a handful of performances. My wedding day was spectacular. I got to eat and drink! Which I know most people don't get a chance to do. I greeted all 200 guests at least once. I danced, and had the time of my life.
Elisabeth & Christopher
March 2013
The only reservations I had about working with Kristine were that we might have different expectations for certain aspects of the wedding development, because we're quite different people stylistically, but her professional and communicative style washed that concern away. She made sure our work together wasn't about her, it was about us.
Do yourself a favor. HIRE KRISTINE. l could not recommend her more highly. She's a miracle worker. She'll keep you sane. Beyond that, she'll keep you poised and smiling through a process that can frazzle even the most composed of brides and grooms (and mothers-of-the-brides). If you're clear about what you want, and you want an expert to help you execute your vision, hire Kristine. If you're not-so-clear, and you need guidance and support, hire Kristine. If you're clueless, hire Kristine. Just do it.


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Animals tell us a lot about themselves – how they can run, their mouth structure suggesting the type of food they might eat, or how we as humans might look through language which has come into common usage.
Beaks: top to bottom: black skimmer, male pileated woodpecker, and male American goldfinch (c/o Elizabeth Morales)
Such as a man of some importance sitting high up, looking down over his nose at the miscreant below, before passing judgement – no wonder a slang developed for "the beak" to describe the police magistrate or assize judge in the Middle Ages ... it really wouldn't matter if he had a huge proboscis or not, would it?
The description has stuck and became entrenched through its usage in classical literature and as a cartoon, as here dated 6 December 1881, from the magazine "Punch's Almanack For 1882", called "Up Before the Beak" where the "Beak" ,or judge, is a Maribou stork, as shown in this wonderful courtroom scene.
This descriptive word for the horny projections to be found in various guises in nature, derives from the Latin word 'beccus' and Middle English word 'bek', has, apart from the thieves' jargon of the word 'beak' for a man of authority, adopted many other slang names for the human nose. Those pertaining to large, pointed or hooked ones, have become known as hooter, honker or snout, and are used in various contexts today.
Birds, turtles, insects and fish all have similar structures called beaks, which over the years have evolved in various ways. These horny, projecting structures forming the mandibles of a bird do not contain teeth, but are used as crushing organs.
Just looking at the various birds of today and seeing the different types of beaks in use, and the adaption to their habitat really should amaze us at how incredible this planet is. We have hooked cruel looking beaks, adapted to tearing rotten meat, of the birds of prey, raptors and scavengers, or the mainly long straight bills of the hummingbirds, used like straws thrust into the deep-throated tubular flowers to find the life giving nectar.
Or how about a spoon bill, a wading bird with long legs spoon-catching the fish, shellfish, crabs and amphibians as the bill moves from side to side through the water; or even a crossbill, which really does have crossed bills, using the unusual bill as an adaption to assist in the extraction of seeds from conifer cones.
The woodpecker describes itself completely – doesn't it? They hammer their way into trees, both on alive or rotten wood, or in crevices in bark on the trees, and then use their barbed tongue to excavate the prey, but also as importantly to obtain the tree sap, an important food source for some species.
As with kitchen utensils, beaks through their particular shape and size tell us what species of bird we're looking at, what and how it eats. Beaks can be used for all kinds of functions to poke, bite, grasp, maim, stab, slash, pierce, tweet (which sort? bird sort – not twitter sort!), call, scoop, filter, ingest and hook onto – have other creatures adapted as much, I don't think so.
"The Crow and the Pitcher" – Aesop's fable – uses the crow's beak to illustrate how 'little by little does the trick', as the crow drops pebbles into the pitcher to raise the water so that he can drink thereby saving himself. Or as other tellers of the story suggest the crow's persistence, or reminding us that "Necessity is the Mother of Invention".
Another tale from the Classics is this wonderful limerick, "The Pelican", I came across recently from Owen Meredith (Earl of Lytton: 1831 – 1891). My recent post shows its dip netting beak – a loose membrane that can hold onto the fish, while the pouch is drained before swallowing their catch. Large fish can be caught with the bill tip, tossed into the air to be caught and slid into the gullet head first.
A wonderful bird is the pelican
His bill will hold more than his belican
He can take in his beak
Enough food for a week,
But I'm darned if know how the helican.
The wonder of language and its uses that have developed into the word beak for that proboscis that most of the fauna of this world has in some format, whereas the human being has included a somewhat derogatory description for perhaps our most obvious accoutrement to the human face "our hooter", which has been recorded for posterity in our literature and art.
Dear Mr Postman - since my last story with its happy connotations about great nieces visiting my Uncle, sadly he left us on Wednesday. Today is my mother's 89th birthday – so life is, as usual, interesting.
I hope and believe that my uncle left us knowing that he would be going home, once he was more comfortable, and I have to comfort myself that that is where he is now with his precious and much loved wife. He was so much loved and respected, and he was so grateful to see his friends and family at his bedside, in his relatively short illness: may he rest in peace now.
I haven't had much time for anything and things didn't quite go to plan, which I'm sad about, but he left knowing that I'd always been there for him. However, I have to consider my mother and she cannot, due to her strokes, express her emotions, which makes these sort of situations very difficult.
We remember the happy times and a cousin of my mother's, who was over from Canada, came down on Tuesday and had a short visit, and we had supper together. So for the moment we continue on and will remember my uncle for the wonderful man he was, and the amazing times he gave my mother and I with his communication skills and knowledge of life – he will be sorely missed, but I cannot dwell on that at the moment.
Hilary Melton-Butcher
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David Gibbins (born 1962) is an underwater archaeologist and a bestselling novelist.
He was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, to English parents who were both academic scientists. He travelled around the world with them by sea as a boy, including four years living in New Zealand, before returning to Canada. He attended the University of Bristol, England, where he was awarded a First Class Honours Degree in Ancient Mediterranean Studies. He then went to Cambridge University as a Research Scholar of Corpus Christi College, where he completed a PhD in Archaeology in 1990.
Gibbins learned to scuba dive at the age of 15 in Canada, and dived under ice, on shipwrecks and in caves while he was still at school. He has led numerous underwater archaeology expeditions around the world, including five seasons excavating ancient Roman shipwrecks off Sicily and a survey of the submerged harbour of ancient Carthage. In 1999-2000 he was part of an international team excavating a 5th century BC shipwreck off Turkey. His many publications on ancient shipwreck sites have appeared in scientific journals, books and popular magazines. Most recently his fieldwork has taken him to the Arctic Ocean and to Mesoamerica.
After holding a Research Fellowship at Cambridge, he spent most of the 1990s as a Lecturer in the School of Archaeology, Classics and Oriental Studies at the University of Liverpool. On leaving teaching he become a novelist, writing archaeological thrillers derived from his own background. His first novel, Atlantis, published in the UK in 2005 and the US in September 2006, has sold more than half a million copies and is published in 28 languages, and has been a No. 1 bestseller. His second novel, Crusader Gold, was published in the UK in July 2006 and the US in May 2007. Atlantis is also being made into a major film. His third novel, The Last Gospel (The Lost Tomb in US) was published in 2008.
Among his awards Gibbins has held a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship.
He divides his time between fieldwork, a farm in Canada where he writes, and England. He has a daughter, whose mother is the philosopher and broadcaster Angie Hobbs. He is related to the 19th century historian Henry de Beltgens Gibbins.
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The opioid crisis has been in the news a lot in recent years, but what is it really and why should we be concerned? These are not easy questions, but they still deserve answers. Opiates come in many varieties, including morphine, oxycodone, and fentanyl, which are all commonly prescribed to treat pain. However, despite the warnings of high-risk addiction, doctors still prescribe them to treat pain from surgery and other temporary situations. What is not considered is what happens when a patient recovers from the pain and is taken off of the medicine that they have become dependent on, and the "quick fixes" that these patients are willing to use to prevent withdrawal.
By definition, opioids are any substance that gives a morphine-like effect, such as oxycodone and codeine. Doctors prescribe these medicines to provide quick pain relief to surgery patients, chronic pain, and any other physical ailments that warrant an opioid in the physician's opinion.
Let's review the story of a young opioid patient, a 28-year-old who had been prescribed pain pills after a gallbladder surgery in 2014. After running out of pain pills, she turned to heroin, a cheaper, more available alternative to prescription medications which have been harder to get. Slowly, it tore her from her family, as she stopped taking care of her kids, and kept begging for money from her parents for bills or to get to the next paycheck, which she'd use to buy more heroin. Sadly, she passed away on February 23rd due to a heart infection caused by a contaminated needle. Is this really what we want our families to go through? How sad!
Unfortunately, this is a reality for millions of Americans. Because of the careless prescribing of different opioids, millions of patients suffer from addiction with no form of rehabilitation offered by the doctors after a prescription runs out. When that happens, they self-medicate with different illegal opioids to stave off withdrawal symptoms because they are left with no other options. In my personal opinion, pharmaceutical companies should be held accountable for the damage these opioids caused and the lives they have taken.
More recently, people have become more informed about opioids and are realizing the damaging effects opioids can have on a family, including my family, of which I'll now share my personal story. My father was prescribed to take 90 mg of morphine a day, and we saw the effects it had on him. He has recently been prescribed an alternative medicine that had unintentionally lowered the amount of morphine he takes, but to put it mildly, other patients are not as fortunate. Luckily, different organizations and government agencies are helping to combat the damage done by the overuse of opioid prescriptions. The status quo of opioid-related deaths cannot continue, too many good people are dying, and when nothing changes, nothing gets better.
To learn more, click here to read the article from the Tennessean.


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Pertains to supervisors, department heads and those who manage others.
1. Ethical
2. Efficacy – The ability to execute strategy
3a. Has the hard conversations - with subordinates
3b. Has the hard conversations - with customers, vendors, and other constituents
4. Observable self-improvement
5. Linear thinker
6. Commitment to our cause
7. Initiative
8. Acts with urgency
9a. Self-disciplined
9b. Their word is good. They live up to their commitments, even the small ones.
If they commit to doing it, they use the tools to make sure it will get done. (e.g. daytimer, written notes without being asked, reliable filing system).
9c. High attention-to-detail is in their nature
10. Good communicator
11. Inclines to "minimize costs" while striving to "maximize sales"
12. People (at or above the performance standard) like working for them
13. They are the bulwark of the strength-giving company policies
14. Stress hardiness (Grace under pressure)
15. Discernment
16. Draws closure
17. Atmospheric Awareness