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Reached. I have mixed feelings about this trilogy, to be honest. Matched was one of the first dystopian stories I ever read. I read it even before I read The Hunger Games trilogy. And I loved it. Then this year, I reread it and read the second book, Crossed, and I was pretty disappointed. The first one wasn't as good as I remembered, and the second one was a bit dull. But for some reason, I'm really excited about the last book.
Son. I've actually only read The Giver (which I loved), and that was a couple of years ago. But I've collected the second and third books from thrift stores and hope to read them soon. So of course I'll have to read the final book. :)
Shades of Earth. I really enjoyed Across the Universe (gorgeous cover, too), and I've had a copy of A Million Suns for months now. But I've been holding back on reading it until the final book is released next month, because I've heard the end of the second one has a big cliffhanger. And that drives me crazy. :)
Under Wildwood. I liked the first Wildwood book quite a bit. I had heard it described as very Narnian, but I didn't really see that (of course I may be biased...the Narnia books are perfection :). It was pretty long, and the writing style was overwhelming. But it was quirky and had some very memorable parts. Overall, it's a good woodsy adventure story.
As for other things I'm very excited about...how about The Hobbit film coming out next week? I just finished rereading the book and had forgotten how good it was, so now I'm even more excited. :) Also, I'm feeling a little less nervous about there being three films, because I hope that means they'll include all of the lovely details of the book.
And Downton Abbey! I need to rewatch the first two seasons before January. I saw a gorgeous (and very expensive) Downton Abbey book at Target the other day that reminded me of how awesome the series is. :)


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As sweetgreen grows and matures as a company, some of the fun, easy-going benefits that came with being a whimsical startup will disappear as they become more corporate (e.g. more concerned with the bottom line). Last year, they applied a 30 day window to use one's referral credit. It wasn't a huge shift, but showed that they wanted to be sure their rewards program worked for them.
Along with sweetgreen's maturation process is another update to their rewards program. It used to be that you had forever-and-a-day to spend $99 to earn their $9 thank you credit. With this new change starting July 12, 2018, you only have 120 days to reach $99 in spend or your progress will be reset. And any $9 thank you reward will be valid for just 120 days from issue.
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A 52 year old man was admitted for acute inferior myocardial infarction evolving for two hours. He was a mild active smoker, and had no history of heart disease. Coronary angiography revealed occlusions of both the posterior interventricular and retroventricular branches of the right coronary artery (RCA) (panel A). Because of the angiographic appearance, coronary embolism was suspected and a transoesophageal echocardiographic (TOE) examination was performed in search of a cardiac source of the embolism. TOE revealed the presence of an 18 × 7 mm pedunculated floating mass in the right coronary sinus of Valsalva. The mass was implanted on a small, minimally calcified atheromatous plaque, and had a highly mobile extremity prolapsing into the RCA ostium during diastole (panel B). These features were suggestive of an ascending aortic thrombus complicated with right coronary embolisation. After five days of medical treatment, including unfractionated heparin, aspirin (75 mg/day), clopidogrel (75 mg/day), and high dose atorvastatin (80 mg/day), a further TOE showed complete disappearance of the thrombus. The patient was discharged from hospital on β blocker, antiplatelet agents, and statin treatment. He is being followed up on an outpatient basis.


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Therapy chickens. Yes, this is surprisingly a thing, and I don't really know how to feel about it. I mean, I've heard of therapy dogs and on occasion cats to help with therapy and stress relief, but chickens? Apparently, chickens offer significant therapeutic benefits to people of all ages, providing a powerful therapeutic tool for those suffering from loneliness, isolation, dementia, depression, and anxiety.
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An animal therapy advocate in the UK conducted a study where she brought chickens to visit elderly people in nursing homes. Ione Maria Rojas founded the Furry Tales project, where she took chickens, rabbits, and guinea pigs to care homes and centers across the city. She stated the reaction from elderly people to see the chickens arrive, was delightful and were all smiling broadly to participate in the experiment.
Chickens were used for the study since the ideal therapy bird of any species has to be calm, is not easily startled and enjoys interacting with people. Of course, just like dogs, these chickens must be trained to work in the therapeutic setting. All chickens working in a program involving humans should be screened beforehand for parasite and salmonella by a licensed professional on a yearly basis. The chicken must also pass through an appropriate training through the national therapy animal organization.
So how exactly are these chickens considered therapy animals? Chickens are known for being docile and enjoy perching on people's laps making them the perfect therapy animals. The same way a dog will react to a human that shows them any sort of affection or love, chickens react the same.
The chicken is not only mending a relationship with the origins of food but is actually nurturing an emotional connection with people in need, to help them with their health. For example, if a resident is experiencing Alzheimers's, they can use the chicken as a calming effect by feeding it, which can improve cognitive boost.
According to experts, all chickens have the intelligence and capacity to become therapy animals and change the lives of those around them. Believe it or not, therapy chickens are used around the world to encourage recovering patients mobility. It's all about people who face challenges with mental illness and health issues to enjoy the little things in life. So if that means having a pet chicken, by all means, time to go to the farm! I guess Old McDonald was up to something, huh?


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As mentioned in an earlier post, the winter holidays have given us some downtime with which to reflect upon the Southern Poverty Law Center's audited financial statements from 2006 to 2013. Having no accounting training beyond what we got as a college freshman years ago, we freely admit that spreadsheets, etc., are not our strong point, and so we ask our readers to look at the numbers and see what they think.
Is there a CPA in the house?
Obtaining the SPLC's financial information is simple enough, as we described at the end of that previous post. Interpreting the numbers is the tricky part.
Above is a breakdown of SPLC expenses through the end of Fiscal Year 2013. With the help of the Internet Archive's cantankerousWayback Machine, we were able to obtain the same information going back to 2006, and it is only after one compiles the numbers that patterns, and questions, begin to emerge.
For example, below is a compilation of postage costs claimed by the SPLC over the eight year period and using the same headings as the audited report.
Looking at the numbers for 2013 in particular, we can almost justify Development (Read: "Fundraising") spending the better part of a million dollars on postage, because many of the SPLC's mostly elderly donors still prefer snail-mail, but we're having a really tough time understanding how Legal Services could rack up more than $400,000 in postage, and that's down $80 grand from the previous year! Have they never heard of e-mail?
And that $400k is just a little more than half of what Management spent in postage last year! Is the management of the SPLC still using stone tablets to communicate? What gives?
Given the high labor costs associated with producing hieroglyphics and cuneiform, that might explain the SPLC's printing expenses.
According to this, Management actually outspent both Legal Services and Fundraising, respectively, on printing costs. What the heck are the all-white managers at the SPLC printing with all of those tax-free donor dollars? And what, for that matter, is Legal Services printing to the tune of $422,000 dollars?
The SPLC doesn't charge their clients for services rendered, so it can't be for billing.
To make things even more confusing, Printing costs are a completely different category from Lettershop expenses?
Finally, we see Fundraising, er, Development, getting the lion's share.
"Well," you might say, "Hate is on the rise and these are necessary expenses. Plus, it takes money to make money, so Development needs to spend these donor-dollars on fundraising."
Business must be booming at the SPLC, which has nearly doubled in size since 2006, from 139 employees to 271 on the payroll in 2013, according to the IRS Form 990s.
If salaries are any indication of where the job growth occurred, it would have to be in the Legal Services sector, whose payroll jumped by a whopping 123% since 2006, compared to a rather anemic 39% for Fundraising.
Such an unprecedented bolstering of the legal team can only mean that the dedicated lawyers of the Southern Poverty Law Center are slogging it out in the courts more than ever, right?
Oddly enough, Legal Case Costs have pretty much remained flat for the past eight years, as shown above, despite the more than doubling of Legal Services salaries.
So where is all that money going? How can SPLC Management justify $779,000 for postage in 2013? As with most SPLC mysteries, the answer is fairly simple.
The only plausible explanation is that the bookkeepers at the SPLC are probably engaging in an old accounting technique known as Joint Costs Allocation.
According to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA):
"[Joint Costs Allocation] focuses on expenses associated with certain joint activities, which in part serve a fund-raising function, but also have elements of program services or operations.
For instance, the expenses associated with an educational mailing that also includes an appeal for donations might be jointly allocated between program services and fundraising expenses." [Emphasis added]
How does it work?
"Joint costs allocation is unfortunately an area where NPOs [Nonprofit Organizations] sometimes use questionable financial practices, such as arbitrarily dividing up and spreading most or all of their actual fundraising and/or operations costs in their financial reports among their various program services in order to make it appear that they have very low fundraising and overhead costs." [Emphasis added]
And what's the problem with it?
"That contrasts with legitimate accounting procedures for accurately assigning a particular program service (or fund or grant) its true share of the operations and overhead costs."[Emphasis added]
And here's what the American Institute of Philanthropy's Charity Watch has to say about the procedure:
"In nonprofit financial reporting, the funds spent on telemarketing, direct mail, or other solicitation activities that also include an "action step" or "call to action" are referred to as "Joint Costs." Charities often use joint costs as a way of inflating their reported charitable program spending and deflating their reported fundraising costs. [Emphasis added]
Although the use of this accounting "trick" is often perfectly in line with the accounting rules for the reporting of joint solicitation costs (AICPA SOP 98-2), these rules allow for many interpretations and judgments that can produce questionable results." [Emphasis added]
Questionable results. Perfectly legal. Inherently scuzzy. Remember this the next time you write a check out to the SPLC.
You think this is a one-off aberration? Check out what the SPLC claims for "Office Equipment" expenses versus Legal Case Costs to see where your donor dollars really go.
To those of you who believe your donor-dollars actually go toward "fighting hate" and "civil rights" law we only ask that if you have any legitimate explanation for the bizarre numbers we've cited, please share them with us.
If an average of $898,000 a year for office equipment and $711,000 for Management postage costs sound like legitimate expenses, we'd like to hear from you. As always, we remind our readers to never take our word for it. Look at the SPLC's own documents and come to your own conclusions, and please share them with us.
If the Southern Poverty Law Center is actively obfuscating on such primary documents as their own audited financial reports, what else can they be "exaggerating"?
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A California mom is facing multiple charges after police said she covered her toddler son's head with a plastic bag and bound his hands while flames tore through their home Sunday evening.
According to KTLA, police arrested Maricela Magana Ruiz, 47, of Santa Paula, on child endangerment and arson charges early Monday, hours after firefighters rescued her and the 3-year-old boy from the blaze.
In a news release, Santa Paula police said the Ventura County Fire Department responded to a report of a fire at the Bahia Circle home just after 6 p.m. Sunday. Firefighters discovered Ruiz "tied to a bed" and the child "in another part of the home," police said. Crews put out the fire and rushed the pair, who suffered smoke inhalation, to a nearby hospital, according to the release.
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Investigators later spoke to Ruiz and "determined she endangered her 3-year old son by placing a plastic bag over his head and tying his hands before placing him in a bedroom by himself," the release said.
Ruiz was jailed and released after posting $50,000 bail, KNBC reported late Monday.
Authorities have not revealed a motive but suspect the incident may be connected to a custody dispute, according to KTLA. Detectives are still investigating "the origin of the fire," police said.
#SantaPaula: Maricela Ruiz is NO longer in custody. Police tell @NBCLA 3 yr old boy told them mom put a bag over his head, tied him up then set fire to their home. 47 yr old Mom has bailed out. pic.twitter.com/U18nB1hFtc— Robert Kovacik (@RobertNBCLA) December 3, 2019
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Maasikas: North Macedonia NATO, EU integration backs regional stability
On 25 and 26 February, the Foreign Ministry's undersecretary for European affairs, Matti Maasikas, was on a visit to the North Macedonian capital of Skopje.
Mr Maasikas met with Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov and Vice-Prime Minister of North Macedonia for European Union Affairs Bujar Osman, and also held European Union consultations, the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote in a press release on Tuesday.
At the meeting with Foreign Minister Dimitrov and Vice Prime Minister Bujar, Mr Maasikas expressed Estonia's support of North Macedonia's ambitions to begin accession talks with the European Union as early as June this year.
"North Macedonia has made considerable progress with reforms, and today we were assured that the government will continue on the same course. I believe that the EU member states will appreciate this," Mr Maasikas was quoted as saying in the press release.
He also reaffirmed Estonia's readiness to support North Macedonia in carrying out reforms.
On behalf of members in the alliance, Mr Maasikas also welcomed the signing of NATO accession protocols by North Macedonia, which clears the way for the country to become the 30th member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
"The enlargement of NATO helps increase security in the Balkans as well as in all of Europe. We are happy to welcome North Macedonia as a future member of the alliance—it helps bolster regional stability and shape a common space of values," Mr Maasikas said.
He also recognised the efforts of North Macedonia and Greece in the recently successful attempt to resolve their name dispute after 27 years of conflict.
"It is a remarkable achievement, and we hope that the advances that have taken place in the relations of the two countries will set an example for other countries in the region and beyond where settling complicated issues is concerned," the undersecretary said.
North Macedonia's accession to NATO and the EU will also increase its bilateral cooperation with Estonia, the ministry wrote. The Macedonians want to get an idea of how to build an e-state and learn from Estonia´s experiences in its integration with NATO and the EU.
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Now there's a great book that describes Istanbul through its most beautiful weddings: "Weddings and Istanbul." This work is a veritable A+ guide for every individual and organization that wants to host a wedding or event in Istanbul. The author of "Weddings and Istanbul" is Meltem Bayazıt Tepeler, a doyenne of the events and wedding industry in Turkey. The first edition of "Weddings and Istanbul" was published by Doğan Kitap, while the second edition was published by Remzi Kitabevi.
"Weddings and Istanbul" was met with great interest both nationally and internationally and was displayed in all fairs related to weddings and wedding trends. The book was exhibited at the Maison & Objet Fair held in France in January 2011 and 2012; the attention it received from professionals from all around the world proves that "Weddings and Istanbul" is a bedside book for the wedding industry.


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Although tight pants may temporarily compress your nerves, there's not much evidence they can damage your sperm or do you long-term harm.
Long answer
The evidence that skinny jeans reduce sperm count in men is pretty weak. Such a problem was described in a study from the late nineties - men who wore skinny jeans had higher numbers of malformed sperm that those who did not. That study has not been successfully reproduced, however, and further research has shown that there's not likely a connection between tight jeans and a reduced sperm count.
There's some anecdotal evidence that wearing tight jeans can cause problems with your nerves. A report in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry described the case of a woman who suffered from such a problem - the skinny jeans compressed the nerves in her legs until she lost feeling and fell over. That's relatively weak evidence, as far as these things go: describing a single case, rather than a study or a review of multiple studies. You probably shouldn't throw out your skinny jeans over fears that they'll ruin your nerves just yet.
There's other evidence, however, that tight pants can up your risk of other medical conditions. An Italian study highlighted an increased risk of bacterial vaginosis in women who wore skinny jeans. Another case study cited by the Pacific Standard described a man who was in a traumatic accident while wearing skinny jeans - when they were cut off his body, his blood pressure dropped dramatically (he was later fine).
Meralgia paresthetica, another condition connected to tight pants, is a numbness of the nerves near the skin. It's usually temporary, though, and is easily treated - wearing looser pants helps, as does weight loss.
So far, though, there's not a lot of systemic evidence that describes these effects - just anecdotes. More large-scale research on skinny jeans is still needed. Irreversible problems, so far, haven't been described; there are some scary anecdotes about nerve compression that was later reversed. In short: jeans that are too skinny may cause problems, but you'll probably be fine.
Possible short-term side effects
- temporary compression of the nerves
- meralgia paresthetica
- increased blood pressure
Healthier alternatives
- loose pants
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Inline CO2 Regulator [control each keg separately] – $5.99 + Hands on Review & Hacks AND Hundreds of Items on Sale
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An ideal solution if you want to serve different beers at different gas pressures. In a typical multiple line, multiple pressure system you would run a gas line from you main regulator into a secondary regulator where you would set different pressures. While that is ideal it is a little pricey. This little sweetheart lets you set different pressures at a far lower cost. What we do is set the main regulator at the highest pressure we want in the system – for example a keg of soda that you want to carbonate and serve at 25 psi. Run the gas line into a manifold and then install one of these after the manifold on each line where you want to decrease the pressure, for example lowering to 10psi to serve your British pale ale and 14 psi to serve your summertime lawnmower lager.
While this unit does not have a pressure gauge you can use an adjustable relief valve/spunding valve on your keg to tell the pressure. Pressure adjusments can be made with a screwdriver.
The maximum inlet pressure is 150 psi. Made from non corrosive acetyl, nitrile, and stainless parts. The regulator comes with two brass barbs to fit 3/16″ tubing on. Alternatively, you can remove the barbs and use 1/4″ tubing directly on the regulator. The aluminum manifolds linked above feature 1/4″ barbed outlets and are a good match with this regulator.
- Works with 0 – 150 psi
- Works with both gas and liquid
- Comes with two brass barbs
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- Made from non corrosive acetyl, nitrile, and stainless parts
Notes from HBF: This is an inline secondary regulator. You still need a primary regulator attached to your CO2 tank. The idea is, you set the primary to the highest pressure you will use (without exceeding specifications of any component of your system) and then use these regulators inline (one per line) to fine tune pressure and carbonation [See: Balancing Your Draft System]. As an example, you could set your primary to 25 PSI for faster force carbonation and set each line to a different pressure based on desired carbonation level. Since this does not have a gauge, you need some sort of a gauge to use for tuning this in. The gauge doesn't have to stay connected, just while you're setting the regulator. This is a perfect application of a Spunding Valve [See: Build a Spunding Valve! – How and Why]
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We tour three wineries, pay all tasting fees, and pay for your lunch!
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- We tour three wineries, pay all tasting fees, and pay for your lunch!
What should we expect?
Every tour will visit wineries and have a lunch stop. You will join others who are looking to have a good time as well, so be prepared to socialize! We normally limit tours to a maximum of 14 people. You will have time for wine tasting, gift shopping, and to sit down and relax a bit. You will be outside most of the day, so dress accordingly! Do not expect a "booze cruise."


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A Matter of Art
Art Matters Festival Celebrates 14 Years of Presenting Concordia Art in a Professional Capacity
Art Matters is a testament to what Concordia students are capable of.
Fourteen years ago, university art students banded together to create a festival to professionally exhibit their work to the Concordia community and all of Montreal, flying in the face of the all-too-common sneers about how art majors can't get "real" jobs or that their passions and crafts don't actually matter.
Art Matters is now the largest student-run arts festival in all of North America.
The annual fee-levy-sponsored festival will run from March 7 to March 21 this year, proudly exhibiting Concordia talent in the fields of visual art, design, cinema, dance, music, theatre and even sonic, or aural, art.
All exhibits will be free to the public, and this year Pabst Brewing Company will be providing free beverages for the festival's vernissages.
According to Coey Kerr, outreach coordinator for Art Matters and photography student at Concordia, planning for the festival began as early as last May, with the hiring of this year's fest's head coordinators.
"There's a rejuvenation of undergraduates who run [Art Matters] every year," she said.
"This year has been so smooth, our team is so good. We seem to work in sync in a really great way."
Curators are hired in the fall, and artists submit their work for review—this year saw over 360 applications from artists. The curators then review the submissions in a jury weekend and, with their specific exhibition's theme and curatorial vision in mind, choose the works to be featured.
Claudia Edwards, a third-year studio art student, is curating her first show this year, titled Future Perfect. The exhibition opens a dialogue on the future perfect verb tense, in which the speaker discusses a future event as if it has already happened, and explores ideas of erasing history and the "contemporary artifact."
"These ideas are of particular interest to me—I think a lot about where we are going in this quote unquote 'post-modern' time," she said.
"I think we have an active role in the ideology of the next generation."
Future Perfect will feature paintings that blur the space between traditional and digital forms of representation, experimental sculptures and more. A webcam will be constantly streaming the gallery space and the people within it at all times to Width; 700 px, an online-only gallery and digital venue created by Levi Bruce that is new to Art Matters this year.
"Art Matters stands as a very important educational tool for Concordia. The very fact that it's organized by a handful of undergraduate students, it's quite essential to the Concordia identity." — Kevin Leung-Lo, technical coordinator of Art Matters
One of the shows Edwards is looking forward to is another first for Art Matters— Stirrup, Hammer & Anvil, an audio-only exhibition, taking place at the VAV Gallery in Concordia's VA Building.
"It's the first time that Art Matters is going to have sound-artwork, and the show is just designated to sound art," she said.
"We're so over-saturated with images and we get so much information through that particular sense, but there's all these other senses that have been, for a long time, ignored," she continued.
"So I think it's interesting to open that up more and have some conversations about it."
In Response to the JMSB's Fee-Levy Petitions
At the CSU's latest meeting on Feb. 12, a councillor from the John Molson School of Business put forward two petitions to drastically alter the fee-levy system. The petitions listed numerous fee-levy organizations, including Art Matters, which the petitioners would like to see JMSB collectively opt out of funding.
"It's important to maintain a community, and I interpret the actions of the JMSB as an attempt to fracture the unity of the community that Concordia is trying to build," said Kevin Leung-Lo, one of the technical coordinators for the festival and a third-year studio arts student.
"It was discouraging. But at the same time, I'm very curious to hear their rationale behind it."
Kerr was quick to point out that Art Matters welcomes all students, including business students—some of whom have taken part in the festival.
"A drummer playing at Nuit Blanche and our opening party is a JMSB student; we had a JSMB student on our Board of Directors this year. Art Matters is a rad thing for JMSB students to get involved with, or any student for that matter, because it's really about developing working experience and getting outside just the Concordia community, and I think that's good for everybody," she said.
"I really think this is not reflective of all of JMSB, I think it's reflective of the people who put together this petition," she added.
"It's a shame because so much work has gone into getting these fee-levy groups up and going, and it's such a small amount of money per person, it doesn't really seem worth it."
Undergrads pay eight cents per credit to Art Matters, with the exception of fine arts students, who pay 30 cents per credit.
Why Art Matters
While Art Matters is a Concordia-centric festival, what makes it so beneficial to students is its many connections and interactions with the outside world, providing relevant work experience and more.
As Leung-Lo explains, the festival acts as a bridge between the safe space of school and the unsafe realm of the "real world."
"There are a lot of entrepreneurial skills that students who are involved begin to learn," he said. "We become familiar with a professional standard in our field.
"These skills are essential if you want to become a working person in the arts. The nature of the arts, it's at times very difficult to enter into, or at the very least get […] experience," he continued. "[Art Matters is] a real gateway into obtaining skills and opportunities that I wouldn't have gotten out of a regular school curriculum. It's learning through doing."
Art galleries around the city will be hosting exhibitions for Art Matters and workshops will be led by visiting professional artists, including artists from Toronto's Whippersnapper Gallery giving a talk on the importance of DIY in emerging art and much more.
The opportunity for discourse to take place between students and professionals in the field is inevitable at the far-reaching fest.
"Art Matters stands as a very important educational tool for Concordia," Leung-Lo said. "The very fact that it's organized by a handful of undergraduate students, it's quite essential to the Concordia identity."
More information at artmattersfestival.org


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I admit it. I've memorized only one speech in my life. And it's the famous speech from the movie Braveheart:
Will you fight?
When chasing your dream gets hard, how will you respond?
When doing what you are called to do seems too difficult, what will you do?
Will you fight or will you run?
Fight and you may die. Run and you'll live…at least a while.
But it will kill you.
Your enemies may kill you. But nothing will kill you more painfully than not doing what you are called to do. Nothing will cause you to writhe in agony worse than not fighting.
What will you regret not doing?
Like Mel Gibson asked these soldiers, I ask you, when you think of the end of your life, do you think that you will look back on life with regrets? If so, resolve right now to do whatever it takes to avoid that.
Lying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to say that right now you made the decision to change something? That you resolved to pursue your calling, to love your family more, to serve the people you've been called to serve?
So I ask you the same thing asked in the movie:
Will you fight?
If so, for what?


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text: Written by CRAIG KYLE, CHRIS YOST & GRANT MORRISON Penciled by GABRIELE DELL'OTTO & LEINIL YU Cover by GABRIELE DELL'OTTO Undercover and under covers! Wolverine wants Domino. He wants her bad. Unfortunately, he's not the only one: She's being hunted by the infamous Assassin's Guild. Sensing her mutant-powered luck is about to run out, Domino accepts Wolverine's help, and the two set about fending off their attackers - and putting the moves on each other. But with the Assassin's Guild calling in all its super-powered heavy-hitters, can the X-Force teammates compete against this murderer's row of villains while distracted by each other? Collecting X-FORCE: SEX AND VIOLENCE #1-3. And see where the sex and violence began for Wolverine and Domino in NEW X-MEN ANNUAL 2001. 120 PGS./Parental Advisory


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Your Complete Guide To Holiday Beauty Essentials
Whether you're camping, glamping, travelling overseas, having a staycation or staying at a relative's 1950's beach shack, holiday beauty essentials need to be part of your holiday.
Our Holiday Beauty Essentials
Here are our favourites which we always pack to ensure we are indulging in some luxury while enjoying our holiday.
Small Natural Deodorant
A basic one but oh so important! I've tried quite a few brands, but at the moment I am hooked on No Pong. Not only for their cute travel -friendly tins but because their deodorant smells so fresh and is silky smooth. It won't STOP you sweating, but I do believe it reduces the amount of sweat and there is, well, no pong. And it lasts all day!
Choose one that you can use both morning and night. I've brought along with me the Purify Facial Cleanser because it's so light and fresh. It's not a makeup remover but to remove makeup. I mix a dollop of my exfoliator in with our Exfoliating 2-in-1 Scrub & Mask. It does the job nicely, and my skin feels extra clean. We recommend not using this combination on your eyes.
Mask Or Exfoliant
For a little in-room pampering there's nothing better than chilling out with a book or a favourite show with a treatment product on your face. Maybe you've saved that hydrating sheet mask in your bathroom drawer for an occasion like this. Whatever you love indulging in, pack it for your trip! I've brought along both the Exfoliating 2-in-1 Scrub & Mask and the Radiant Rose Mask, which is also a sleeping mask and this is how I usually use it.
Hair & Body Hydrating Product
Ok, so if you're anything like me – you pay a decent amount of attention to your face, but your body always seems to play second fiddle. All of a sudden – your holiday has arrived, and that bod is on display which means waxing, shaving, plucking, fake (safe) tanning and hydrating! Phew – seems a lot just writing it!
All that beaching and pooling is going to require:
- A product to tame that hair, without turning it into crunchy locks.
- Something to hydrate that body, add a healthy glow – without the icky-sticky.
- Something that smells beautiful, preferably reminiscent of a tropical holiday.
A multipurpose product that does all of that is ideal, to make more room for shopping. GET. YOUR. HANDS. ON Coconut Glow Hair & Body Oil. You can thank me later.
Small Bottle Of Natural Shampoo & Conditioner
The ones at the hotels are full of SLS! Argh! Decant your fave brand or buy smaller travel sizes. If you have a mop of hair like me, bring the full bottles. I use a travel sized bottle in one wash.
Toothbrush & Toothpaste
Most hotels have this too but once again, SLS-laden toothpaste. I love the Dr.Bronner's All-One toothpaste right now. I usually buy liquorice or peppermint – yum!
Everyday Tinted Moisturiser & Sunscreen
An excellent solution for remembering to apply your sunscreen every morning while evening out your skin tone. No need for makeup! It's a holiday must-have!! I'm using the Andalou Colour + Correct right now with SPF 30. I pop it on over a couple of drops of Olive Skin Serum, and off I go!
Day & Night Hydrating Serum
Your skin can often suffer from the effects of travelling, such as:
- Air travel.
- Hotel air conditioners/heating.
- Change in climate.
- Quality of water when showering and also chlorine in the pool.
Natural Mineral Makeup
Foundation, blush, lipstick & mascara. Ok, so I haven't used mascara since I had the kids because I have naturally dark lashes and I find it just that extra annoying step to remove at night! I have with me, permanently in my handbag. Also, some loose mineral foundation that I usually use a light dusting of if I'm going out at night, some peachy mineral blush, a sheer pink gloss and a lippy. All natural and vegan from brands like Hanami and Inika.
Have a fab holiday! Let me know what your holiday beauty essentials are below!


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Helping students get career ready
A career ready program for students and staff
A career ready program for students and staff
Students need to develop their soft skills to function well in professional life. Our EGGS service designers have therefore helped design a new three-phase career ready program for students, as well as staff at Oslo Met. Through various courses, counselling and activities, the university's career advisors can now give students more useful and relevant advice on personal development outside of their regular studies.
HiOA needed an improved career service - something more visible, and with a broader influence than the previous one-to-one career advice they'd been offering. A service that reached out and inspired a greater number of students, but that didn't cost more than what the university was already spending on advising. Many students were unaware of how important it was to develop their soft skills - skills relating to how people interact with each other. On average, students with good soft skills excel in their chosen profession. EGGS was asked to help design a programme that not only advanced students soft skills, but also enabled the university's career advisors to work in a much smarter way.
To successfully implement the programme, it was important to investigate students needs, and to get their views on the university's current career service. Equally important was how the career advisors felt. To find out, we conducted a series of in-depth interviews and studies. We discovered that many students were unaware of their own personal capabilities. In addition, we realised that what the career advisors were offering wasn't visible enough. With the insight we gained, we set about designing a new service strategy - one that's a lot more widespread and based on the needs of all students.
The result is a huge improvement compared to how HiOA offered career advice before. The career services are now organised on a campaign basis, and follow the three-phase learning programme. Plus students no longer have to chase up advisors for individual advice. Information is more clearly communicated, relevant and engaging. Not only between the advisors and students, but amongst the advisors as well. These days they have a common overview of the advice they're offering. They can target a specific year group of students, and pass on the right advice at the right time.
The programme is in three distinct phases: Insight, Opportunities and Job - each phase being relevant to the start, middle and end of students studies. Insight focuses on their initial year, and encourages them to identify their interests, strengths and weaknesses. Opportunities focuses on students in the middle of their studies and gives them a broader outlook on what opportunities there are and how they can benefit from them. And finally, Job focuses on the transition from studying to work, which helps increase their ability to make good choices related to their education and job prospects. All three phases are free and readily available to all students through various courses, counselling and activities. Officially launched in spring 2017, HiOA's new career ready programme will hopefully ensure that all graduates feel confident enough to take the world by storm!


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In Alaska, 82 percent of communities are situated off of the state's road system. Without airplanes and pilots, many of these communities would be unreachable during winter months. And that means no emergency health care, no food or water deliveries, no winter fuel transport, no trips to Anchorage or Fairbanks.
The Alaska Division of Statewide Aviation
produced this two-part series video that attempts to illustrate how
important the aviation industry is to the 49th state. So doing, the
state also offers a glimpse of what life would be like without
airplanes, bush pilots, Era, Ryan Air, Alaska Airlines or the myriad
other airlines that keep things moving up here.
Part one of the series was filmed on location in the Yukon-Kuskokwim
Delta, a region roughly the size of Oregon. The Y-K Delta is one of
rural Alaska's most populated regions, home to Bethel, Alaska's
second-busiest cargo airport, and encompasses 35 villages populated by
nearly 25,000 Y'upik Eskmos. Hear first-hand what life in Southwest
Alaska would be like without flight.
Watch video: http://www.alaskadispatch.com
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
What do airplanes mean for Alaska? In a word, everything
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Professional Organizers Spill the 10 Best Tips for Organizing Your Home
There's no right way to organize your home. Whatever strategy you choose just has to work with your lifestyle, habits, and tastes. But there are a few tried-and-true strategies that can enhance the effectiveness of any system. From being aware of clutter hot spots to identifying red flags that your organizing method isn't working, we […]Read more


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Find a Medical Billing company in Turlock, California Like A Pro
Deciphering the right medical billing for your needs can be tiring. From researching quotes to understanding what type of medical billing you need; the process can be dauting. Time is money. But the process doesn't have to drain your time or money. At 360Connect we can supply multiple quotes based on your needs in a simplified process.
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Factors to Consider When Choosing a Medical Billing Company in Turlock, California
Choosing the right medical billing company in Turlock, California isn't just about the services they offer. Many factors should contribute to you choosing the right medical billing service, not just the price point. Here are some of the most important factors you should consider when choosing a service.
A medical billing company's experience reflects its ability to efficiently handle the complexities of billing procedures. A proven track record displays a thorough knowledge of the industry, legislation, and emerging best practices. Look for a billing firm that has worked with comparable specialty to yours, as this knowledge can help to expedite operations and enhance revenue outcomes.
Data Security Measures
To protect patient anonymity, ensure that the billing company follows industry standards such as HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). Investigate the company's data security measures thoroughly to guarantee that sensitive information is kept secure throughout the billing process.
Performance Metrics
A dependable billing company is known for its performance metrics. Reputable firms provide performance indicators that represent their success rates, collection efficiency, and overall impact on the income growth of your practice. These metrics provide useful insights and assist you in determining the value they provide to your practice.
Customer Support
A medical billing business should act as a collaborative partner, ready to respond to your problems and inquiries as soon as possible. Customer service can be the defining factor in a smooth transition and optimal efficiency.
Even with a professional medical billing company working with you, you'll still need to train staff on best practices. This will ensure the accuracy of coding, claim filings, and overall revenue cycle management. It will help bridge the gap between your administrative team and your outsourced billing. Furthermore, well-timed training sessions can help ensure medical staff are compliant with the latest laws and regulations.
The flexibility of a billing business to tailor its services to your individual needs can significantly improve billing accuracy and efficiency. Look for a provider that places a premium on adapting its services to your practice's workflows and preferences.
Services Medical Billing Companies Offers in Turlock, California
Not every medical billing company is the same and is going to offer the same services. If fact, depending on your needs and specialty, a medical billing company could offer just a specific set of services. However, below is a general outline of most duties covered by medical billing.
Patient Registration
Medical billing companies can help with patient registration including gathering and verifying documents, ensuring document accuracy, and providing clear customer instructions. Medical billing companies can take over this process entirely for you or help train your staff for best practices. Patient registration is about recording data such as:
- Name
- Address
- Date of Birth
- Insurance Provider
- Policy Number
- And more.
A medical billing company can help you simplify this process or better manage this documentation.
Insurance Verification
Prior to treatment, a billing business verifies the patient's insurance information to ensure active coverage. This stage determines whether services are covered, as well as co-pay amounts, deductibles, and any pre-authorizations required for certain procedures.
Medical Coding
One of the most important parts of the medical billing process is medical coding. The process of medical coding involves converting healthcare diagnoses, procedures, medical services, and equipment into universal codes. They can specialize in or handle different types of coding like:
The medical billing company can either do this coding for you or they can review your coding for billing purposes. They can also help keep you up to date on various changes to coding practices and procedures.
Claim Submission
Most clinics partner with medical billing companies to handle their claims submission process. This may mean that the medical billing company completes the entire process for you or helps you improve your practices claims submission practice. They will also track and follow up with the insurance company to make sure claims are processed and paid.
Medical billing companies can help to reduce the amount of time that it takes for patients to receive their insurance payments. These companies can also help to reduce the amount of administrative work that medical providers have to do. This can free up providers to spend more time on patient care.
Payment Posting
Payments collected from insurers or patients are entered into your clinic's billing system. Proper posting ensures that account balances are correct and that any inconsistencies between billed and received amounts are identified. Medical billing companies can monitor and pinpoint incorrect balances and help rectify them with patients.
Denial Management
Denials are the bane of every practice's billing department. You don't have to go it alone though! Medical billing companies can help manage your denials and resubmit them on your behalf. Denials are analyzed to determine why they were denied, including coding errors, missing information, or uncovered services. These claims are corrected and resubmitted by the billing company on your behalf. The best part? You'll be working with experts in the field of medical billing who can navigate complex claim denials.
Accounts Receivable (A/R) Management
Medical billing is a complex and time-consuming process. Fortunately, these companies have experts to help you navigate accounts receivable and verify potential payments. This will improve your accuracy and reduce your need for full-time employees. You can then free up more time and money to hire staff that can help with patient care and support.
Patient Billing and Collections
After insurance payments, any remaining balance is billed to the patient. Medical companies will handle this for you. They may help you with monthly statements, handling inquiries, setting up payment plans, or referring long-unpaid accounts to collection agencies. Medical billing companies can help you navigate the collections process and help you devise the best plans for patient billing.
Reporting and Analytics
Want to learn more insights about your billing process and the health of your clinic? Medical billing companies can help you analyze many different metrics such as:
- Collection rates
- Denial rates
- Days in A/R
- Charge capture rate
- Coding accuracy rate
- Claims processing time
- Patient satisfaction
- And more!
Credentialing Services
In order for providers to bill insurance companies, they must be credentialed, which means they are recognized as legitimate healthcare providers. The process of credentialing involves paperwork, background checks, and sometimes interviews. Billing companies streamline this process. They work daily with these insurance providers and can help you navigate this process.
Electronic Health Record (EHR) Integration
Medical billing companies can help with the transition and integration of an EHR system. The elimination of manual data entry between EHR and billing systems reduces errors and increases efficiency. The interface guarantees that clinical data flows automatically into the invoicing system. You don't have to hire an entire IT department to make this transition, instead, you can work with your medical billers to make this a reality.
Compliance and Auditing
Medical billing must follow a variety of standards, such as HIPAA, which safeguards patient data. Billing firms verify that processes are compliant. Medical billing companies may perform audits on a regular basis to discover areas of risk or inefficiency.
Patient Support and Inquiries
Did you know that medical billing companies can help with patient support as well? It's true! Patients frequently have billing questions. A specialized support system with the medical billing company can answer these questions, explain prices, and handle conflicts, ultimately increasing patient satisfaction.
Payer Contract Negotiation
Contract arrangements with insurance companies have a substantial impact on revenue. Medical billing businesses can negotiate arrangements on your behalf to ensure better reimbursement rates and conditions for providers.
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Canto Deo's choirs have performed over 450 different pieces from chant to modern, baroque to jazz. Canto Deo is also very accomplished at performing gospel, Southern gospel and spirituals. Here is a list of the composers/arrangers and their pieces we have performed. Many of these can be viewed on YouTube
Ames, Jeffery (Living) – I've been in the storm so long (spiritual); Let everything that hath breath; Rejoice
Anderson, Lela – I opened my Mouth to the Lord
Anerio, Felice (Renaissance) – Christus factus est
Bach, J.S. (Baroque) – (see list below)
Barber, Samuel – Sure on this Shining Night
Barnett, Carol (Living) – Angelus ad virginem; Wonder where (spiritual)
Barnett, Steven (Living) – Go Tell it on the mountain
Beck, John Ness – America the Beautiful; A Holy Festival❊
Beethoven, Ludwig van – Hallelujah! from Christ on the Mount of Olives
Berlioz, Hector – Shepherd's Farewell to the Holy Family
Bernstein, Leonard – Make our Garden Grow [from Candide]
Beible, Franz (Classical) – Ave Maria
Billings, William (Early American) – Easter Anthem; O Praise the Lord of Heaven; When Jesus Wept
Bird, Daniel – Canticle of Faithfulness❊
Blackwell, David (Living) – Lo, how a Rose e'er blooming
Blow, John (Baroque) – Let my prayer come up
Bradford, Barlow (Living) – (see list below)
Brahms, Johannes (Romantic) – Warum is das Licht gegeben; Create in me, O God, a pure heart; O cast me not away [op. 29, no. 2]; How Lovely is Thy Dwelling Place
Brinsmeade, Daniel (Living) – Amazing Grace
Britten, Benjamin – A Hymn to the Virgin; Te Deum in C
Bruckner, Anton (Romantic) – Christus factus est; Ecce Sacerdos❊
Burleigh, Glenn (Living) – Order My Steps (Gospel); Deep River (Gospel)
Busto, Javier (Living, Spanish) – Ave Maria
Caldwell, Paul – John the Revelator
Caracciolo, Stephen (Living) – People Look East; To Everything There is a Season; Ubi Caritas
Carter, John (Living) – Holy Manna; I will Arise and go to Jesus (Early American); The Morning Star
Carter, Roland (Living) – You must have that true religion (spiritual)
Casals, Pablo – O vos omnes
Cashmore, Donald – Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen
Chilcott, Bob (Living) – (see list below)
Christiansen, F. Melius – Lamb of God
Christiansen, Paul – Wondrous love
Christopher, Keith – Poor Wayfaring Stranger
Clausen, Rene' (Living) – (see list below)
Copeland, Aaron – Stomp Your Foot (from The Tender Land); Zion's walls (early American)
Courtney, Craig (Living) – A Musicological Journey; Carols of the Night; None Other Lamb; One Faith, One Hope, One Lord❊
Culloton, Matthew (Living) – Shall we gather at the river
Daley, Eleanor (Living) – Gabriels Message; The Huron Carol
Dake, Kenneth (Living) – I come with Joy; I will Arise
Darke, Harold – In the Bleak Midwinter
Delgado, Robert – Prayer of St. Francis (arranged by Allen Pote)
Desamours, Emile (Haitian) – Alelouya (Haitian Easter)
Dove, Jonathan – Seek Him That Maketh the Seven Stars
Dubra, Rihards (Latvian) – Oculus non vidit
Durufle', Maurice – Ubi caritas
Esenvalds, Eriks (Latvian) – Psalm 67; Trinity Te Deum; The Heaven's Flock
Fettke, Tom (Living) – Give me your tired, Your poor; It is well with my soul
Fleming, Larry – Give me Jesus; Sing and Ponder; Humble Service
Forrest, Dan (Living) – (see list below)
Foster, Kevin (Living) – Somebody's knocking at your door (Spiritual)
Fry, Gary (Living) – (see list below)
Gallus, Jacobus (Renaissance) – Ascendit Deus
Gershwin, George – Summertime [from Porgy and Bess]
Gibbons, Orlando (Renaissance) – Almighty and Everlasting God; Hosanna to the Son of David; O Clap your Hands
Gibbs, Stacey (Living) – Get Away, Jordan; Great Day; Way over in Beulah Lan(1) (spirituals) Way over in Beulah Lan (2)
Ginastera, Alberto (Argentine) – The Lamentations of Jeremiah; Recordare Domine quid acciderit nobis; O vos omnes
Gjeilo, Ola (Living, Norwegian) – Evening Prayer 1; Evening Prayer 2; Prelude; Ubi Caritas
Goodall, Howard (Living) – Love Divine❊, Veni, Sancte Spiritus❊
Graun, Karl H (Baroque) – Surely He hath born our griefs
Gregoriano – Christus factus est
Gretchaninoff, A (Russian, Romantic) – Our Father
Guest, George – In night's dim shadows lying; Zion at thy shining gates
Gyongyosi, Levante (Living, Hungarian) – Domine Deus meus (Psalm 7)
Hagen, Jocelyn (Living) – Now our meeting's over
Hairston, Jester – Angels Rolled de Stone Away (Spiritual)
Hampton, Keith (Living) – Praise His Holy name (Gospel)
Handel, George Friderick (Baroque) – And the Glory of the Lord; Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite
Hanson, Howard – One Hundred and Fiftieth Psalm (1); One Hundred and Fiftieth Psalm (2) A Prayer of the Middle Ages
Hatfield, Stephen (Living) – Ain't that News; When the Stars Fall
Hayden, J (Classical) – Insanae et vanae curae
Hayward, John Paul – I Wonder as I Wander ✢; O Holy Night
Helvey, Howard – O Come, Divine Messiah
Highben, Zebulon (Living) – The Lord shall come and not be slow
Hofheins, Nathan (Living) – Good King Wencesclas✢; Luke 2: For Narrator and Orchestra✢; The Little Drummer Boy
Hogan, Moses (Spiritual) – (see list below)
Holst, Gustov (Impressionism) – Let all mortal flesh keep silent; O God Beyond all Praising; Psalm 148; O Spirit all embracing❊
Howells, Herbert – Long, Long ago; Requiem; Salvator mundi
Hovland, Egil – Stay with us
Ivory, Sean – John the Revelator
Ives, Grayston – A song of Christs Glory; Sixty-Seventh psalm; O Remember Adams Fall; Listen Sweet Dove❊
Jackson, Gabriel (Living) – Salus Aeterna; Tomorrow go ye Forth; Advent Responsory
Jackson, Richard (Living) – Crossin Ovah (spiritual)
Jasperse, Greg (Living) – Abide with me
Jenkins, Karl (Living) – Exsultate, Jubilate ; The Prayer: Laudamus Te (from Gloria)
Jennings, Joseph (Living) – Calling my Children Home (bluegrass)
Jennings, Kenneth – Hosanna; The Lord is the Everlasting God; Steal Away (spiritual)
Johnson, Hal – Ain't got time to Die (spiritual)
Johnson, Lane (Living) – Inward Stillness
Jones, Thomas Hewitt (Living) – Child of the Secret Stables Birth; Lead me, Lord; Oculi Omnium
Kirchner, Shawn (Living) – (see list below)
Ladizinsky, Elizabeth (Living) – Down to the River to Pray (Gospel) (with JAC Redford)
Lakschevitz, Eduardo (Living, Brazilian) – Deus Cuidara de ti
Lange, Kinley (Living) – Esto les digo
Lauridsen, Morten (Living) – O magnum mysterium
Ledger, Philip – Adam lay ybounden
Lehman, Robert (Living) – Annunciation Carol, Vesper/Matin Responsory, Advent Responsory
Lloyd, Richard (Living) – Advent Prose
Luboff, Norman – All my Trials (Bahamian spiritual)
MacRae, Stuart (Living) – Adam lay y bounden
Mager, Stephen (Living) – (see list below)
Manuel, Ralph – Alleluia
Manz, Paul – E'en so, Lord Jesus, quickly come
Marchbank, Peter – People Look East
Martin, Gilbert M. (Living) – Great is thy faithfulness; When I survey the wondrous cross
Martin, Matthew (Living) – Ecce Concipies; O Rex Gentium
Matsushita, Ko (Living, Japanese) – Jubilate Deo (Psalm 100)
McDermid, J. Aaron – I Thank my God
McDowall, Celia (Living) – Annunciation; Christus Natus Est; 1. Personent Hodie 2. Entre le boeuf 3. Gaudete! 4. Infant Holy 5. Angelus ad Virginem
Mealor, Paul (Living) – A Spotless Rose; Peace
Mendelssohn, Felix (Romantic) – (see list below)
Mennicke, David (Living) – Come Away to the Skies
Messiaen, Olivier – O sacrum convivium!
Mollicone, Henry (Living) – Hear me, Redeemer
Moore, James (Living)– Irish Blessing, Irish Blessing (2)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (classical) – Mass in C; Ave Verum Corpus; Requiem (unfinished)
Murphy, Ryan (Living) – Dance and Sing; Pilgrim Song;
Nystedt, Knut (Norwegian) – Be not Afraid
Orban, Gyorgy (Living, Hungarian) – Daemon Irrepit Callidus
Ord, Boris – Adam lay ybounden
Palestrina, Giovanni (Rennaisance) – Sitivit anima mea (Psalm 42:2-3); I look from afar ( First responsory of Advent Sunday)
Parker, Alice – Melodious Accord, A concert of praise
Parker, Alice/Shaw,Robert – Bright Canaan; John Saw duh number (Spiritual); Same Train
Part, Arvo (Living, Estonian) – Bogoroditsye Dyevo
Paulus, Stephen – Pilgrim's hymn; The Road Home
Perry, Hubert – I was glad when they said unto me
Pettman, Edgar – The Angel Gabriel
Poston, Elizabeth – Jesus Christ the apple tree; Angelus ad Virginem
Poulenc, Francis – Motets for a time of penitance
Powell, Timothy Michael – Take Me to the Mountain
Praetorius, Michael (Medieval) – Come Thou Redeemer of the Earth
Purcell, Henry (Baroque) – Remember not, Lord, our offences, Thou Knowest, Lord, the Secrets of Our Hearts, Let My Prayer Come Up.
Rachmaninoff, Sergei (Romantic) – Slava v vishnih Bogu (from the "All Night Vigil")
Raminsh, Imant (Living, Latvian) – Ave Verum Corpus
Rathbone, Jonathan (Living) – Drop Down, Ye Heavens from Above✢; Gabriels Message
Redford, J.A.C. (Living) – Christmas Mourning; The Nativity of Christ; Down to the River to Pray (with Elizabeth Ladizinsky)
Rheinberger, Josef (Classical) – Abendlied
Robinson, Christopher (Living) – Make we joy
Rossini, Gioacchino (Romantic) – O Salutaris Hostia
Runestad, Jake (Living) – I Will Lift Mine Eyes
Rutter, John (Living) – (see list below)
Sametz, Steven (Living) – Calvary; There is no Rose of such Virtue
Sargent, Malcolm – Cowboy Carol
Schlenker, Terry (Living) – Come Emmanuel; Of the Fathers Love Begotten
Schrader, Jack (Living) – Precious Lord, Take my hand; Order my steps
Schutz, Heinrich (Baroque) – Psalm 100❊
Sirett, Mark (Living) – Thou shalt know him when he comes
Sjolund, Paul – My Jesus, I Love Thee
Skempton, Howard (Living) – Adam lay y bounden; To Bethlehem did they go; To You O Lord, I lift up my Soul
Smallwood, Richard – Total Praise
Smith, Alan – There is no Rose; View me Lord
Spencer, Williametta ( Living) – At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners
Staheli, Ronald (Living) – How can I keep from Singing; Peace like a river
Stainer, John (Romantic) – God So Loved the World
Stanford, Charles (Expressionist) – When Mary Through the Garden Went
Stopford, Philip (Living) – (see list below)
Stravinski, Igor – Symphony of Psalms
Stroope, Z. Randall (Living) – Lamentations of Jeremiah
Takach, Timothy (Living) – Neither Angels, nor Demons, nor Powers
Tallis, Thomas (Rennaissance) – A New Commandment; O sacrum convivium
Thomas, Tawn B. (Living) – Guide My Feet (spiritual)
Thompson, Randall – Alleluia; The Last Words of David; Frostiana, Seven Country Songs
Thomson, Virgil – My Shepherd will supply my need
Todd, Will (Living) – The Call of Wisdom; Christus est stella; My Lord has Come; Lead me Lord; The Rose
Twine, Linda (Living) – Come on Children, Let's sing (Gospel)
Unterseher, Reginald (Living) – Lord thou hast searched me
van Dijk, Peter Louis (Living) – Chariots
Vivaldi, Antonio (Baroque) – Gloria [mov 1 & 12]
Voth, Ellen (Living) – Advent Carol
Ward, Samuel A. – America the Beautiful
Warlock, Peter (Expressionist) – Benedicamus Domino; Bethlehem Down
Weir, Judith (Living) – Drop Down, Ye Heavens, from Above
Whitbourn, James (Living) – Glory to Thee, O Lord
White, David Ashley (Living) – Adam lay ybounden; Christe qui luz es et dies; Comfort, Comfort ye my people
White, Robert (Rennaissance) – Christe qui lux es et dies
Wilberg, Mack (Living) – (see list below)
Wilcocks, David – (see list below)
Williams, John – Three Holiday songs from Home Alone
Williams, Ralph Vaughn – Hodie; The Old Hundredth Psalm Tune❊; The Blessed Son of God; This is the Truth sent from Above
Williams. Roderick – Let nothing trouble you
Wishart, Peter – Alleluya, a new work is come on hand
Wood, Charles (Impressionist) – Hail Gladdening Light; Ding Dong! Merrily on High; This Joyful Eastertide
Zgodava, Richard – Out of the Orient Crystal Skies
❊These pieces have been recorded and are available on our CD, "Hymns to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit"
✢These pieces have been commissioned by Canto Deo
J.S. Bach – Alleluia [Motet VI]; Excerpts from Motets III; Jesu, meine Freude (Motet IV); Magnificat; O Sacred Head, now Wounded; Mass in B minor; Shout Ye be Joyful!; Wake, O wake!; Zion hears the watchmen's voices;
Barlow Bradford – Angels we have heard on high; Away in the Manger; Bring a torch, Jeannette Isabella; Carol of the Bells; Ding Dong Merily on High; I wonder as I wander; It came upon a midnight clear; Joseph dearest; Luke 2-A Silent Night; Silent Night; Sing we now of Christmas; Still, still, still; Sussex Carol; Wexford carol; What Child is this?; Winter Wonderland
Bob Chilcott – The Bethlehem Star; The Gift to be Simple; Gifts for the Child of winter; Jesus Springing; MidWinter; Nova! Nova!; Remember, O Thou Man; The Rose in the middle of winter; The shepherds carol; This is the truth
Rene' Clausen – Peace I Leave with You; Prayer; Psalm 108; Ubi Caritas; (Plus several other pieces for the performance with Mr. Clausen as conductor)
Dan Forrest – And can it be?; Carol of Joy; Cantate Canticum Novum; Entreat me not to Leave You(1) Entreat Me Not to Leave You (2)
Gary Fry – De Tierra Lejana venimos; Fa-La-La!; My Dancing day, on Christmas night; O Holy Night; We wish you a Merry Christmas
Moses Hogan – The Battle of Jericho; Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel?; Elijah Rock; I can tell the world; I want to thank you, Lord; My soul's been anchored; Old time religion
Sean Kirchner – Angel Band (1); Angel Band (2); Unclouded Day; Halleluia; I'll Fly Away; O! What a Beautiful City; Sweet Rivers
Stephen Mager – Angelic concert; Come all ye shepherds; Here is Joy for every age; If ye could hear the angels sing; Long, long ago; Noel de la Vierge; O come little children; Shepherds shake off your drowsy sleep
Felix Mendelssohn – And then shall your Light break forth (from Elijah); How Lovely are the Messengers; Mitten wir im Leben sind; Psalm 43, Op. 78 no. 2; There shall a Star come out of Jacob; Justice! O God
John Rutter – Arise! Shine; Cantate Domino; Christ is the morning star; El Noi de la Mare; Esta noche; Gloria; The Holly and the Ivy; God rest ye merry gentlemen; It came upon a midnight clear; I wish you Christmas; The King of Love my Shepherd is❊; La Berceuse; O come all ye faithful; O come, O come Immanuel; O God our help in ages past; Open thou mine eyes; Past three o'clock; A prayer of St. Patrick; Psalm 150; Rejoice and Sing; Sans Day Carol; Star Carol; The Jolly Shepherd; The Twelve days of Christmas; We three kings; What Sweeter music
Philip Stopford – Do not be afraid; Jesus Christ, the Love that Gives Love; My servant shall be healed; Sans Day Carol; Tomorrow Shall be my Dancing Day; Ubi Caritas
Mack Wilberg – Angels we have heard on high; Angels from the Realms of Glory; Come thou Fount of every blessing; Christmas is Coming; Death shall not destroy my comfort; Ding Dong! Merrily on High; The First Noel; Hark! The Herald Angels Sing; How firm a foundation; I'm Runnin on (spiritual); Infant Holy, Infant Lowly; Jingle Bells; Joy to the World; Masters in this Hall; My Shepherd will supply my need; My Song in the Night; Noe! Noe; O Holy Night; Saint's Bound for Heaven; Peace like a river; The Virgin Mary had a baby boy; We'll Shout and Give him Glory
Sir David Wilcocks – A Child is born in Bethlehem; Come, thou redeemer of the Earth; Gabriel's Message; God rest you merry, Gentlemen; Hark! The Herald Angels Sing; Lo! He comes with Clouds Descending; The Lord at first did Adam Make; Of the Father's heart begotten; O come all ye Faithful; Once in Royal David's City; Veni Emmanuel


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Note from Monday, September 7th, 2020
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🚚 Bowhead is now at version 0.1.8, which adds a few things and fixes others, namely cleaning up what files are packaged for npm so as to send as little as necessary.
If you're looking for a barebones SCSS solution for managing design tokens or even for a tool that will generate CSS Variables for you, I'd be honoured if you gave it a try:
npm install @chrisburnell/bowhead


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Carlos Cartlidge...educator, altruist, student, traveler...was born in 1917 on a farm near Kirkland, Texas. He graduated from high school with honors, entered Hardin-Simmons University on a football scholarship, and transferred to West Texas State. While employed on a Texas cattle ranch he met Minnie Mae Dalmont, "the boss' daughter". They married in 1942 and had two sons, Carlos III and Kenneth.
In 1942 Carlos enlisted in the US Cavalry, transferred to a field artillery unit when the cavalry was disbanded, and landed in Normandy on D-Day + 2. He was awarded the Purple Heart and a Bronze Star medal.
Carlos recieved a BS in Animal Husbandry from Colorado State University in 1947. He began his professional career as instructor of vocational agriculture at Tulare High School in 1948, where he was instrumental in expanding the Vo-Ag Department and in developing the school farm. His dairy cattle judging team swept the state, the national FFA finals at Waterloo, and the International Dairy Show at Indianapolis in 1950.
Carlos joined the UC Agricultural Extension Service in 1951 as Farm Advisor in Kern County. He attended UC Davis and received an MS in Agricultural Education in 1957. His success with dairy programs brought requests from Los Angeles County dairy groups that he be transfered there in 1958. Following a year of advanced study in Animal Science at the University of Maryland, he was transferred to Tulare County in 1962 as Dairy Farm Advisor. He distinguished himself in Extension work with his practical attitude, his knowledge, and his willingness to help dairymen. He was a leader in Dairy Herd Improvement Association programs and contributed greatly to the advancement of electronic data processing of DHIA records, dairy cattle fertility, and dairy business management.
Widely travelled, Carlos visited forty-nine of the fifty states, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Canada, as well as wartime Europe. His ethics, dedication to public service, and genuine respect for others served him well as a teacher and leader in his Extension career.


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Zenit St. Petersburg have a 1-0 lead in their Champions League play-off against Auxerre after the first-leg. An Aleksandr Kerzhakov third minute goal was enough to give the hosts a slender advantage ahead of the second-leg in France next week.
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(This post was inspired by an informative Facebook post by one of the awesomest Religious Educators in the UU faith movement eva…)
Take a quick look at this video by clicking here. (it's a 3:22 long). Be prepared to be horrified.
Thing is, this sexuality educator, if that's what her formal title is, has mad skills at building rapport, using humor, being a little edgy with adolescents but not crossing boundaries. If I were a teenager, I would listen to her instead of zone out. Or at least multi-task with my phone and her presentation. Despite the purple fringe.
So she has educator-style going on, but her substance is killer. Seriously, killer. As in killer of respect for women, as in killer of respect for gender equality, as in killer of those kids' spirits and lives who don't follow her heteronormative assumptions.
Really? Women can't bond if they have too many sexual encounters before they decide (if they do) to settle down? But men can?
Plus, she's carrying around all the DNA from all her past boyfriends ~ and their skin cells to boot. How gross is that? Apparently, she forgot how to bathe after losing her virginity?
And isn't that just a bit homoerotic for the last guy's DNA to be bonded to the next guy's? Better watch out for that possibility.
According to Evie Blad, who wrote this great piece on the state of sex ed in our country, that video clip above reflects a
lesson is part of the W.A.I.T. Training materials created by the Denver-based Center for Relationship Education (W.A.I.T. stands for Why Am I Tempted?). Joneen Mackenzie, a nurse by training and the organization's founder, said in a phone interview that her team works with focus groups to constantly revise and update its prevention curriculum to make sure it is effectively communicating with teens. The tape illustration is optional for teachers who use W.A.I.T. Training, and it is not intended to promote a sense of shame, Mackenzie said.
This is why Our Whole Lives (OWL) Sexuality Education — the secular or the faith-based version — is so important, is such an important presence in the world. Because sh*t like this is being taught. Whole-heartedly, apparently, and without much sense of balance or self awareness.
OWL is also necessary because of limitations placed on very creative, wonderful sexuality educators who are trying to get around the narrow confines place on them. Watch this and be inspired by the creativity and persistence:
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Thank you, Sanford Johnson, for your creativity. Thank you for not caring if I am using a dress shoe or wearing athletic shoes. And yes, if I am going to engage in a shoe-related activity, I don't want any sweat to fall out. For realz.
I'd like to say that unskillful sexuality education happens in those states that are the usual suspects, the places where politically and religiously conservative energies hold sway over public and education policy. But I just learned from that friend who inspired this post, a respected sexuality educator that even in my very blue state of Massachusetts, there is no requirement for sex ed, for education about HIV, or what sex ed is provided need not be "medically accurate."
What up with that, MA?


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Arashima Hachimangu is located right on Route 9. Hachiman is usually a trio of kami, Homuda Wake, the name of Emperor Ojin, is usually the primary, and the other two being taken from his mother, Jingu, his father, Chuai, or his wife, Himegami. Unusually this one lists Homuda Wake, Jingu, and Takeuchi Sukune, who was Jingu's minister.
It is a direct branch of the Usa Hachimangu. Almost two thirds of Hachimangu nationwide are branches of Iwashimizu. Like all the other shrine in this area there was a Zuijinmon which also had a pair of nice wooden komainu.
Again, like all the other shrines in the area there was an altar to Kojin, the most common kami in the region that hardly gets a mention in any sources on Shinto as it is neither national nor imperial. Represented as a rope snake, in my neighboring area the name is different, but it is just as prevalent and important.
There are several outcroppings of smooth, rounded rock in the grounds. The smaller one has a hokora to Sumiyoshi in a small hole carved into it.
The larger one has steps carved into it that leads up to an Inari Shrine.


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Cleaning your windows can often result in streaks, hard water spots, and frustration. That's why it's easier to lean on professionals like All Kleen.
But what can you do in the meantime when the glass gets dirty?
Here's some do it yourself window cleaning tips to get you through until your next professional window cleaning in Phoenix.
Gather the Proper Materials
There are a few tools proven to clean your windows more effectively without the risk of damage. This includes a squeegee, a strip applicator, microfiber cloth, and a glass cleaner solution that contains vinegar and water such as Windex. You can also create your own homemade window cleaner using part distilled vinegar and part tap water.
With these items, you'll have what you need to effectively rid the glass of dirt, and just as importantly, dry it sufficiently afterward.
How to Perform the Ideal Window Cleaning
The problem with most people's cleaning method is that they effectively rub the dirt around the glass without ever actually removing it. Even if you scrub from top to bottom, all you're doing is moving the debris, which is going to leave behind scratches and make your windows unsightly.
Your applicator is the ideal tool to move around soap as well as remove dirt from the glass. You actually want less soap suds to reduce the opportunity for it to leave streaks. Once you've gently cleaned your glass surfaces, you can then utilize the squeegee.
The squeegee is the most effective tool at removing moisture while creating a streak free window. If you use paper towels or harsh fabrics, it will take multiple passes and never quite pick up all of the soap and water without leaving marks or streaks. Work your way from top to bottom, always slightly overlapping with the previous pass. Wipe the squeegee with your lint free microfiber cloth to rid the blade of any dirt or excess moisture.
Afterward, you'll likely have some minimal soapy water left at the window edges. Use your cloth to neatly tidy up these edges and corners as not to leave behind swirl marks or streaks.
How to Remove Hard Water Stains
Whether you've seen them on your home windows or on your car's dash, you're likely familiar with hard water stains or spots. This occurs when you allow water to evaporate naturally rather than drying it with a scratch-resistant cloth. It ends up leaving behind minerals which solidify as the unsightly stains you see.
The best way to combat them is by being preventative from the get-go. Always dry your windows immediately rather than allowing them the chance to dry.
However, when it comes to dealing with stains you already might have, there's still hope. Many homeowners utilize a variety of tested homemade methods to get it done. For light to mild stains, you may be able to rub these stains off with some persistence if you utilize a solution of white vinegar and water. Others have found success utilizing the properties in white wine to break down the minerals.
For more egregious buildups, try creating a paste-based solution using baking soda and vinegar. Apply the paste over the spot entirely and allow it to settle and work. Scrub the remaining solution off and, once again, thoroughly dry the area. Not all hard water stains are removable, so be sure to tell your professional glass cleaner during their next visit.
Get a Professional Window Cleaning with All Kleen
Cleaning your windows is simple and something anyone can do, but it's frustrating to get them looking perfect. When you add difficult hard water stains into the mix, it can seem hopeless to get them crystal clear.
All Kleen is one of the best window cleaning companies in Phoenix, serving the area for nearly 15 years. We provide cleaning services for windows, screens, tracks, solar panels, blinds, and much more. Just check out our long history of satisfied clients!
If you're tired of your windows never looking quite right, call All Kleen today at 602-515-6129 for a free, fixed quote right over the phone!


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How to enable network visualization chart icons in IE
For some users, when a network visualization chart is plotted in Internet Explorer, the icons may not display, even though it displays in Chrome browser. See screenshots below:
IE Chrome
First note that Chrome is the preferred browser for Analytics and IBP. To resolve this issue in Internet Explorer, please follow these steps:
- You must have SAP-icons font installed
- Check your security settings in Internet Explorer and verify that "Font Download" is turned on:
- Internet Explorer Settings -> Internet Options
- Under Security Tab, select Internet, and then Custom Level
- Make sure font download is enabled under Downloads
3. Explicitly set font to SAPGUI-Icon
a. Click on Settings -> Internet Options.
b. Click on Fonts button under General Tab
c. Select SAPGUI-icons under Webage font and select OK. (Any idea where this can be downloaded from?)
d. Refresh Network visualization chart and icons should display in IE.


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Thursday, April 03, 2008
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The New England Revolution announced today that they have completed the signing of Malian defender/midfielder Kalifa Cisse on a free transfer. Cisse, 28, last played for English Championship side Bristol City until he was unable to come to terms with the club at the end of the 2011-12 season.
"We're very pleased to add a player of Kalifa's stature and experience, having played in the top divisions in Portugal and England," Revolution General Manager Michael Burns said. "We were fortunate to have him in for a training period a few weeks ago, and not only did his quality show as a player, but we had the opportunity to see his interaction with our players and coaches. We believe he has the ability to make a significant impact on our club, both on and off the field, in 2013."
Cisse began his career in Portugal with G.D. Estoril-Praia in 2005 before making the leap to top-flight soccer with Boavista ahead of the 2005-06 season. He made 42 appearances for Boavista over two seasons before making the jump to England and the Premier League with Reading in the summer of 2007. Cisse stayed with the club when they were relegated at the end of that season, playing two more years with the Royals before moving to Championship side Bristol City.
While born in France, Cisse also retains citizenship in Mali, who he has represented at the international level. Cisse has made five appearances since debuting in 2008, including matches in World Cup and African Cup of Nations qualifying.
"Once I decided to leave Bristol City it was important to take my time and make sure the next move was the right one," Cisse said. "A number of European clubs were interested, but as soon as I met the Revolution coaches, the team and the staff, I could see everyone has a winning mentality. I felt everyone was going in the same direction, so it was an easy decision for me to sign here. I've come to New England to make an impact and help the team win titles."
Cisse is the Revs' second signing of the off-season, joining midfielder and former Revolution standout Andy Dorman. According to a tweet from Jeff Lemieux, GM Mike Burns expects Cisse to make his impact as a defensive presence in the midfield, which will continue to create a gluttony of talent in the center of the pitch unless further moves are made.
The Revs also announced that they placed four players on waivers ahead of this afternoon's Waiver Draft. Blake Brettschneider, Florian Lechner, Alec Purdie, and Michael Roach will be available for selection by the other 18 teams in the league, and will not be returning to Foxboro for 2013.


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Family and friends of soldier Elor Azariya are celebrating his release from prison Tuesday morning.
A festive reception was held next to Azariya's home in the city of Ramle. Azariya was supposed to be released on Thursday, but was released this morning after his request to be able to attend his brother's wedding.
Elor's father, Charlie, said in a statement to the media that "Today is a happy day, after 26 months of suffering and a nightmare that I do not wish for anyone - not even for those who hate me."
"We have gone through a very difficult period. Today we celebrate, the rest we will have the time and place to say. Ninety-five percent of the people supported us - the embrace of the people is the biggest embrace there is," added the happy father.


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Greater Mekong Subregion Power Trade and Interconnection
It highlights a two-pronged and phased approach to develop the GMS power market to realize the full benefits of synchronous operations - the policy and institutional framework to promote power trade and the physical interconnection to facilitate cross-border power transfers. This publication aims to help stakeholders understand GMS members' efforts in power cooperation and to draw attention to crucial issues on regional power trade.
Greater Mekong Subregion Power Trade and Interconnection
Last Updated: Saturday, 1 September 2012


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As the holidays approach, we're going to lighten up a bit and provide some links to feature stories. There continues to be news, of course, and a couple of items are in this post. But enjoy the break…. Read More
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