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DAVID BEN ARIEL wrote:
Hi Jon,
I've thought that before, the Bible to the Jews and the NT preserved by the Greeks - one complete Bible showing God is God of both the Jews/Israelites and Greeks/Gentiles and that it is HIS Word - but how do we account then for Gen. 49:10 and Romans 3:2 that says God has entrusted His oracles to the Jews until Shiloh reigns in Jerusalem and regathers the Tribes? Ever wondered about that?
David Ben-Ariel
From: Jon Bowles
To: davidbenariel
Sent: 12/26/05 1:36:41 PM
Subject: Re: Canonization?
Hi David,
Both passages are refering to the Hebrew scriptures - just as is 2Tim 3:15.
We need to remember which people actually did preserve the NT. That itself should tell us something, as it was not the Greeks themselves, but God doing so through them.
This concept also fits with Heb 13:10, that shows the Jews do not have jurisdiction over the things of the NT - certainly when you put verse 10 into the context it is found in of verses 7-9.
Too often Catholics will smugly claim they gave the Bible to the world. However, that's a religious lie parrots like to repeat, or a mantra of the mindless who don't know better. God knows. The apostate Roman Catholic Church did not give us anything but mass delusion and counterfeit Christianity.
The early Church of God, consisting of both Jewish and Greek Sabbath-keepers, widely circulated among their congregations what later became known as the New Testament, as historians verify - long before the RCC decided which books they would accept and even add to. What they did give were copies.
Who Gave Us the Bible?
I agree it was definitely THE GREEKS - not the Roman Catholic Church - who preserved the New Testament, but conclude (regarding matters of authority) with an appropriate quote from Passover and Pentecost Differences Settled! -
God has ordained that the Jews preserve His Word on the Law, Prophets and Writings - despite themselves (Rom. 3:2-3). God will not renege on giving Judah this special calling and precious gift (Gen. 49:10, Rom. 11:29).www.DavidBenAriel.org
God has also ordained that Church officials can make binding decisions based upon biblical legal precedents, affecting Church issues (such as discussed in Acts 15 at the Jerusalem council of elders), that do not undermine the foundation of the Church - the Law and the Prophets (Rom. 11:18; Eph. 2:20).
God has not given Church leaders a license to "kill" the brethren by destroying them doctrinally, uprooting and overturning foundational truths, or "playing God" by stealing divine prerogatives (Matt. 5:17, 19; 2 Thess. 2:3-4).


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The conventional wisdom amongst "moderate" members of the Labour party and their supporters in the press, is that although Labour has made a big mistake in choosing Jeremy Corbyn as leader and although the political pendulum has (quite gently) swung to the Tories, in the end a new leader and the inevitable Conservative failures will one day bring the return of a Labour government.
The problem is that Labour's problem extends well beyond the short term and the tactical. As we have noted before, their very ideology is not merely irrelevant, it is intellectually bankrupt. This bankruptcy can be seen ever more clearly in the attitude that key Labour figures, albeit from the left wing of the party, continue to show towards Communism.
We have seen Diane Abbott suggest that Mao Zedong was "more positive than negative", We have seen Seamus Milne, an unapologetic defender of Stalinism, become one of the most powerful figures in the party. Labour moderates are aghast, but they fail to understand their own culpability. The ambivalent attitude of "Democratic Socialists" to their undemocratic cousins is part of a critical problem.
The fact is that no state that followed the example of Soviet Socialism has ever been anything except a charnal house. Every single time Communism has been tried as a state ideology it has resulted in mass murder: the death toll of Communism everywhere- in the USSR, in China, in Cambodia, Ethiopia, Angola, Cuba,*everywhere* - is horrific and stands in the tens or even hundreds of millions.
The fundamental problem is that at the very root of Marxist thought there stands the idea of the sectional interest defined as class. The idea of "working class" is in fact pretty arbitrary, the industrial proletariat were supposed to be the elite of Communism, yet the definition of what was a "good class" and what was a "class enemy" rested on more or less fictitious considerations. In any event the idea of some random class elite having the moral authority to dictate to not merely wider society but the whole world is as ludicrous as the idea that some random race- a concept as vacuous as class- should have such power.
The fact is that Soviet Socialism and National Socialism are morally identical. Both believe that narrow and arbitrarily defined groups have the moral right to seize power and establish a dictatorship of unlimited power.
However, the British Left has utterly failed to understand the moral equivalence between Fascism and Communism. Too many have made excuses for Communism. Too many have even suggested that there is a core of moral good at the heart of Communism which does not exist in Fascism. Sometimes those who are confronted with the moral degradation of Communism try to suggest that the Soviet model is not "Real Communism". It is a totally specious argument: when everything that is called "Communist" behaves in the same, brutal and murderous way then why accept the moral opprobrium of the name. The fact is that adding a hyphen to "-Communist" does not alter the vile and blood stained history of the ideology.
So when Dianne Abbott or Seamus Milne defend or even promote Communism, they are either fools or knaves. Communism is indefensible and yet in terms of language, even the "moderate" Labour party still uses the concepts and the vocabulary of the utterly discredited Communist ideology. "Working Class" is the shibboleth of self-proclaimed Socialists.
Yet the fact is that the intellectual justification is growing as thin as the moral justification for Communism. In the face of the increasingly diverse world of self identifying collectives, economics-based, "class" identifications grow ever weaker- and this is a matter of choice, not the machinations of some fictitious oligarchy. The world of Facebook is not simply an IT based communication facility, it is a world of a myriad of communities. A social, political or economic analysis that continues to reference some non-existent working class solidarity is about as relevant as the spinning jenny in the world of the Internet.
Some Labour figures have clearly understood this. Indeed the Labour modernizers under Tony Blair actually seemed to have moved Labour from a class based analysis to a more generic, albeit shallow, "progressive" agenda. Yet Blair and his allies are now seen as politicians who not merely abandoned "Socialism", but abandoned all principles. That lack of authenticity has been fatal for the Labour brand. However, in seeking to re-establish guiding principles the party has made the fatal mistake of reverting to the intellectual void of discredited Socialism.
Labour is now fatally split between those who recognize the moral turpitude of Socialism and those that do not. This is not a house that can stay together.
The question for those who believe in any political vision for Britain that is different from the Conservatives is how to make a united case when a significant part of the Labour Party does not even understand the terms of the debate and prefers to simply howl at the Moon. In Scotland the divisive SNP may be feasting on Labour's corpse, but the vision they offer is a political cul-de-sac, which in a world of volatile oil prices is utterly unrealistic in any event.
Liberals and progressives are still dealing with the political evisceration of the Liberal Democrats, and although small signs of recovery exist, even to climb back into the same, weak position the party had in 2010 is a formidable task. The tactics of local political organisation no longer mark out the Liberal Democrats' unique selling point. Nor is it clear that the party recognizes what path it should take. Yet even still, the Liberal Democrats do have a core vision which has retained its intellectual validity. More to the point it is increasingly clear that it is not merely tactical reasons that could bring a realignment of the historic centre- left of British politics.
Disillusioned supporters of Labour, both within and outwith Parliament, are reappraising their own political ideas. Dialogue is beginning. The election of Jeremy Corbyn underlines that Labour has reached the end of the road. The repeated failures of Communism and Socialism reveals Marxist analysis is an empty failure. Socialism is stone dead. A new analysis is opening up.
In time I believe that a political agenda that understands the impact of technology on our society and promotes freer, more open social communities can emerge. It will be less tribal and less exclusive, reflecting a more mature view of the positives and negatives of policy. It will not espouse the all embracing grand theories of Socialism, but will be more pragmatic and more open.
It is time to open up new debates and new ideas. The power of an open society, a Liberal society, prosperous and open and based on scientific method and tolerant scepticism is still within reach.
Perhaps much sooner than we think, there will be demand for a new political vehicle or alliance that can unite behind this agenda. It is about time we began to live in a post-Socialist world.

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Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Finished Card
It's been a cold, wet depressing day today starting off with walking to school and me mentioning that she hadn't had her letter about passing her swimming certificate upon where I receive the reply that she's been told she's already got it. I asked what she meant and she said that she'd been told yesterday that she has already got Goldfish 2, to which I replied that she definitely hasn't got it because all her badges to date are on her towel and why would the instructor be making her do a badge that she's already received.
When we got to school I mentioned it to the ta who said that it was right, that's what Marion and Honor had done and she didn't hand out a letter as she already has it. Honor piped up and said that her letter says she's passed Goldfish 2. When we got to swimming the instructor said that both girls had passed Goldfish 2 and the others in their group Goldfish 1.
So why do we still have no letter home when it's a pre written letter and it would only take 1 minute to write the child's name on and date it? On Friday Marion will be the only one in her class not receiving a swimming badge and getting herself upset about it when it's not her fault. So do I put the £1.50 in an envelope and hand it in tomorrow with the details written on it and not bother waiting for a letter?
On top of that we found out today that the hospital haven't written up any notes on Grandad, they're not sure why he's on a drip so they've taken him off it, he's not on any medication because they don't know what he needs and the Sister that Mum spoke to last night said she wasn't aware he had this bug thing. She basically said that she didn't even know why he was there at all, but she couldn't check his notes as the doctors were in a meeting and they had all patients notes with them.
So we just have to wait and see what happens when Mum calls later on demanding a doctor returns her call with the answers to her questions.
Feeling Depressed and Deflated
According to an article I read recently, buying jeans is the most stressful item of clothing a person can buy - I totally agree. Boot cut, hipsters, skinny, super skinny and the others I can't seem to remember.
But there is some good news in all this and that I have finally found a pair of jeans that fit me and I didn't need to rob a bank to pay for them. I can't wear hipsters, they just fall down even with a belt, I don't have the right shape hips and I don't feel comfortable because I want to keep pulling them up. When I was a teenager I was a size 10 and 6 stone and envious of women with any kind of clevage, not that my bust was small, just a different shape. In my 20's I was a size 10 and 6 1/2 stone. In pregnancy I went up to a size 12 and 9 stone (which is the weight I should be without being pregnant). After pregnancy I went back to a size 10 and 7 stone.
In the last year my bust seems to have become bigger and I now have that clevage - which is free to a good home, I'm still 7 stone but I'm now a size 12 in some clothes.
In my teens and 20's I didn't like figure hugging clothes because I like to be able to breathe and not feel claustrophobic. The age I am now I detest figure hugging clothes, I feel so uncomfortable in them. How can people wear skinny jeans or even super skinny anything? Who do these design people think they're making clothes for - a washing line? I'm in no way skinny or fat, I'm in between. I like to be comfortable, but these designers don't seem to design clothes for comfort now. Why not?
Anyway I walked into New Look this afternoon and found a pair of regular rise boot cut jeans in a dark blue in a size 12 that fit comfortably for £9.99. After I had paid for them the lady informed me that they also do them in black and a lighter blue - oh yes I am returning next week for more. What's more if I look after them like I have my pair, I won't need to worry about buying anymore for another 2o years (yes that is really how old my favourite pair of jeans are).
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
It's Burns Night
That's newly sprung in June.
O, my luve is like a melodie,
That's sweetly play'd in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonie lass,
So deep in luve am I,
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a' the seas gang dry.
Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi the sun!
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o life shall run.
And fare thee weel, my only luve!
And fare thee weel, a while!
And I will come again, my luve,
Tho it were ten thousand mile!
Monday, 24 January 2011
I relaxed
Yesterday afternoon my 8 year old daughter yelled at me to relax a little bit and get worked up later on again "and for goodness sake Mummy sit down and do some stitching and watch this film with me". She smiled at me, handed me a can of coke and told me if I dared move she'd smack me.
So, as you can see I did as I was told. All through 'See Spot Run' and 'Aladin' I sat and stitched. I can't really say that it looks anything like the piece in the magazine at the moment, not like the first one I did, but we'll see when it's finished.
I didn't do anymore after those two films, my face was really itchy and irritable and I just wanted to rip it off. I had to keep wiping it over (especially my forehead) with a cold facecloth every half hour or so. Today it feels much better, but still not quite right.
Oh well, mince and potatoes await and I am starving. I will catch up on all your blogs soon.
Sunday, 23 January 2011
I am Furious
I never heard anything until Thursday evening. My Aunt had called the hospital at 9.30pm like she said she would and found that Grandad had only just arrived. The hospital is a maximum of 10 minutes away and he was in the ambulance on the way at 8.30pm - so where was he for 50 minutes? Nobody knows, they can't account for it.
Apparently at 1am her phone rang and it was the hospital asking my Aunt for the phone number for the home so they could ring and tell them they were sending him back home. They have the number on his notes, so why couldn't they look them up or call directory enquiries themselves? At 9am the home phoned to say that Grandad had arrived back at 4am.
I am even more disgusted with the hospital than I was at New Year when they left him fully dehydrated for over 9 hours before taking a look at him. The NHS are happy to do that to a 93 year old man obviously. They're not getting away with it, my letter of complaint is still in the process and the more they screw up the longer it's getting.
And this Government think it's a good thing to be cutting back on the NHS services. It's ok for them, they can all go private because they can afford it. No wonder this Country is classed as a 'third world treating country'. The lowest to diagnose major diseases and the slowest to do anything about it. For example a woman (from Kent) in her twenties had just had a baby and then diagnosed with untreatable leukemia and was given 3 months maximum and told nothing more would be done to help her. Her husband wouldn't accept that decision and scoured the internet for a solution. This woman, after having been treated in Germany for a very treatable condition is now fully recovered with a long life ahead of her and will be able to see her daughter do all the things a mother should, yet this country had given up on her without doing anything.
On Friday Mum had spent most of the day on the phone going back and forth between the home, my Aunt and the doctor surgery. The district nurse had to be called out to check his catheter and found it was completely blocked in the tube in his stomach, so she had to remove that and flush it out (chcolate brown blood came flooding out). The home then tried to get hold of the doctor, he refused to speak to them. My Aunt tried calling and he refused to speak to her, so she called my Mum, who then called the surgery to find he wasn't there but 5 minutes after saying exactly what she thought he was calling her back from his mobile and sorting things out.
Later on that evening my Mum called me to say that the doctor had just phoned her to ask her permission to have Grandad admitted to hospital as he thought he might have a bacteria/parasite associated with too many antibiotics. Of course Mum said yes.
*Edited on 23/1/11
Yesterday we had a visit from Marion's Grandma and John. It wasn't a bad day in all. When they'd left I tried calling Mum to see whether she'd gone to see my Grandad and after chatting to the answerphone I called her on her mobile, she was in the car with my Aunt and had just left the hospital. Grandad had finally arrived at the hospital in the early hours of the morning (so why did it take an emergency patient 5 hours to get to hospital?) and was in a very serious condition. If this parasite spreads to the lungs or kidneys nothing can be done to cure it, it's fatal.
The 2 Sister's at the hospital that Mum and my Aunt saw were very helpful and knew that they were very angry and upset. Apparently when he was in hospital the other day, the hospital informed the GP about this parasite and asked him to make sure he prescribed the medication for the home to administer. He obviously ignored it.
Mum spoke to Grandad and he managed to say that his mouth was very dry. One Sister said she'd give him a little drop of water, but he's not actually allowed anything to eat or drink my mouth due to the severity of the illness and the fear it might choke him and he's being drip fed. He took a few sips of water and she asked what kind of things he liked to eat, so they told her and she said that they have the supplement meals there (like Complan) and did he like soup - oh yes he loves soup. So they're going to give him those to build his strength up, through the drip system for the time being.
He has also had a big disgusting kind of blood blistery scab on his ear for over a year now. The home have said there's nothing that can be done because it's a cancer of some sort and yet when Mum went in yesterday they had cleaned up his ear and you could hardly see it. The hospital are now so concerned about the level of care at the home that they have already reported them and their abilities as a care home.
I have said for a very long time that I didn't think they were doing their jobs properly. I've worked in a council run care home, it was cleaner, it didn't smell, the staff were approachable and it just was a nicer place to be. I don't see my Grandad very often because he's 100 miles away, but when I do go I can't wait to get back out because the smell just makes me heave. It doesn't look clean and I never sit down.
I hope that they learn from this, but the doctor and the home won't be getting away with it, they're not going to hear me complaining to them, I'm going straight to the General Medical Council and they had better reply, otherwise there will be hell to pay. I am so sick of incompetence.
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
First Finish for 2011
As sweet as you are heart
28 ct evenweave
carries threads - passion
started 14/01/11 - finished 18/01/11
Well this is it, I finished it last night and I'm really pleased with it. It states in the magazine to do the backstitching in 2 strands, but I think using 1 thread gives it a more delicate feel. I'll be making it up into a card and it will be available for sale soon.
This morning we had a thick frost, which looked more like a light dusting of snow. Outside on the pavement I took 2 steps, slipped and jarred my back. I had taken some painkillers for a headache about 10 minutes before that happened, but they did nothing to ease the headache or the pain I was feeling in my back. I even had to sit down at the swimming pool while I was watching the kids, which is something I never do.
When we got back to school, I was about to start the slow process of walking home, which isn't far and the bus driver told me to get back on and he'd drop me off. I thought that was really nice of him and it got me home that little bit quicker.
Unfortunately more painkillers and a hot water bottle haven't really done anything to ease my back, so if it feels any worse in the morning I'm calling the doctor.
Monday, 17 January 2011
More Stitching
I sat down again yesterday and stitched more on this piece, it's going to be lovely when it's finished.
I didn't have a very good night sleep last night, I was still awake at 3am and at 3.50am I woke myself up coughing. After that I couldn't get back to sleep. I just lay there with my mind buzzing and thinking 'why hasn't the heating come on yet' and 'why hasn't the alarm gone off yet' and everytime I checked it was still a long way off for either of those things to happen.
The heating did come on and the 2 radiators that wouldn't heat up yesterday were red hot this morning and I was sweltering!!!!
I popped to the post office and sent off 2 more postcards and then settled myself down to watch Land Girls on BBC1. I watched the first series and really enjoyed it and then I decided I'd put in a few stitches before going to pick Marion up from craft club. At 3.25pm the phone rang and it was school telling me that craft club wasn't on until February, so could I come and collect her. Megan's Mum was just reversing out of her drive to go to school when I went past, so they didn't know it wasn't on either. School are now sending out letters letting us know when the clubs start back up again.
Sunday, 16 January 2011
Another Evening Stitching
I spent another evening last night stitching, I did have to frog a little big from the night before, but had stitched it back up in a jiffy.
I'm really enjoying this piece, so intend on stitching it again tonight.
I hope everyone has had a wonderful weekend and I'll catch up on your blogs soon.
Saturday, 15 January 2011
First Stitches of 2011
Started on this last night. The chart said to use 2 strands for both the backstitching and cross stitching, but I decided that it would look nicer to do all the backstitching in 1 strand...............ok I admit it, I read the instructions after I had got this far, but I still believe that it will be much nicer in 1 strand.
I'm hoping that this is a sign of things to come because I really enjoyed stitching what I've done so far and can't wait to settle down tonight and maybe see if I can finish it off.
I want/need to get a lot more stitching done this year than I have done in the last couple of years.
This morning I had my hands full and Rascal was wanting something to eat, I told him to just wait and I'd be with him when I had my head out the cupboard, but he decided he'd just go and help himself to the crunchies instead.
And clever little boy, you better eat that lot up because I'm not sweeping it all up. He did, he must have been hungry after going outside without his breakfast.
Sunday, 2 January 2011
First Book of 2011
Kathy Burton longs to escape the drudgery of her life as an unpaid labourer on her father's farm. With only the local church choir and the occasional dance at the village hall for amusement, she yearns for the bright lights. Spurning Morry Robinson's proposal of marriage, Kathy goes to live in the city with his aunt, Jemima Robinson. Jemima finds employment for Kathy in a department store, but is anxious when Kathy is captivated by the sophisticated and handsome manager, Tony Kendall.
Kathy has fallen deeply and irrevocably in love and, even when the country is plunged into war, she can see no obstacle to their future. But she has reckoned without the devious mind of Tony's invalid mother, Beatrice Kendall.
Determined that the possessive woman won't win, Kathy plans her wedding, but the day is ruined and Tony is called up before another date can be arranged. Feeling deserted, Kathy is forced to face yet further heartache and shame alone. At last she finds solace in a concert party entertaining service men and woman and war workers. But behind the songs and the smiles, her heart is breaking…
Recommended book, I couldn't put it down.
Saturday, 1 January 2011
My New Year's Resolution is to turn up at Sally's house sometime in the year, hypnotise her into stitching everything I want stitched and then patiently sit and wait for them to arrive!!!
She just seems to have way more time than I have and gets far more done in a week than I do in 6 months. I bet she's got at least 2 finished pieces by the end of the day ;)


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According to several dictionaries a mindset is:
Mindset: a fixed frame of reference, the minds orientation or perspective. The mental grid a person uses to filter data from their environment.
Noun: a set of beliefs or a way of thinking that determines one's behavior, outlook and mental attitude.
Mentality: a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations.
There are all kinds of 'mindsets' that we develop over the course of our lives and all of them are important in determining just how we act, react and move through our world during our daily lives. As always, there are degrees to any mindset and some requirements – personal, mental and physical.
For instance, at the root of a self-reliant mindset is a conscious effort of replacing an "I need help" attitude with an "I can do it myself" attitude. Therein lies the silver-lining of self-reliance; when you achieve even a modicum of it, you feel really good about yourself.
I found this fancy psychological study done on mindsets to determine what traits or attributes hinder or help a person with any particular mindset. What the long, wordy study said was that basically all mindsets are either of the Fixed or Growth type.
The more 'growth' mindsets you have, the more adaptive and resilient you are – the better capable you are to not only survive adverse situations, but thrive.
While a Lifestyle is:
Lifestyle: A way of living of individuals, families (households), and societies, which they manifest in coping with their physical, psychological, social, and economic environments on a day-to-day basis. Lifestyle is expressed in both work and leisure behavior patterns and (on an individual basis) in activities, attitudes, interests, opinions, values, and allocation of income. It also reflects people's self image or self concept; the way they see themselves and believe they are seen by the others. Lifestyle is a composite of motivations, needs, and wants and is influenced by factors such as culture, family, reference groups, and social class. The analysis of consumer life styles (called psychographics) is an important factor in determining how consumers make their purchase decisions.
Noun: the habits, attitudes, tastes, moral standards, economic level, etc., that together constitute the mode of living of an individual or group.
Adjective: pertaining to or catering to a certain lifestyle: unhealthy lifestyle choices; lifestyle advertising; a luxury lifestyle hotel; suggestive of a fashionable or desirable lifestyle a lifestyle café
A mindset and a life style are similar in that the mindset is how we view or 'filter' what we see around us and how we react to it. While a life style is what we do to meet our fuzzy wuzzy side of wellness and how we want others to see us while doing it.
Over the years I have worked with seniors that needed to downsize because of health and or the economy. Just about all of them felt that they were somehow losing their status in society by downsizing. Now some of these people felt that anything under 3,000 sq ft was just right or small. Granted that might be true if there are 6 or more of you in a home, or a household member is claustrophobic, but the reality is that that is a huge home for the majority of US households of 4 or less and in most cases that much space is not being utilized.
Up until the late 1800's to early 1900's closets in homes were small as most people only had a few articles of clothing and rooms were much smaller or cozy. In the 1980's large master bedrooms with walk-in closets and master baths was all the rage. Remember the sales pitches or the marketing and advertizing; "Have your own master suite", "Relax in luxury in your own private spa-like bath" and the like? Yet just how often do these people utilize all the clothes in their closets or relax in their master bedrooms and baths? Yet they are paying for it with their mortgages, time to clean and maintain and money to heat and cool these underutilized rooms.
Then there is the old stand-by of "Look good, feel good", which is great for depression riddled people but has absolutely no value to people who accept life as it really is. Reality lifestyles are people that know that how we feel and perceive ourselves to be, is rooted in our own minds and not our outward appearances.
That is not to say that the people living in reality are not happy and content with life, because I can assure you most of us are and then some! The real difference is how we perceive ourselves and civilization. We have become a society driven by stuff and convenience. We have been lead to believe that the more stuff, the flashier the stuff, the more expensive the stuff we surround ourselves with equates to success, wealth and beauty. The reality is that this is just stuff and success, wealth and beauty are not attributes that can be readily displayed. We can project the illusion of them, but display it to achieve it – NO. Studies around the globe have proven that people that are truly content and happy in life usually don't have tons of stuff around them and that people who are striving to reach this state of mind do. The realist knows the difference and still strives to fulfill their dreams in the face of it – without any illusions.
What does all this have to do with preparedness?
In many ways being prepared, having the preparedness mindset, is a lifestyle change, however in a very real sense it is not. Instead it is merely an extension of frugality, positive thinking, readiness, faith and common sense used to control some of the many factors in our environment. This means that the changes to our lifestyles for preparedness are rather superficial and not bone deep. True you have to live it to have it; however it does not require much in outward changes to our lifestyles.
When thinking of preparedness or survival in a worst case scenario, most people focus on storing food, water, medicine, fire starters and other survival gear. We prepare ourselves in every way imaginable. But how many of us stop long enough to prepare ourselves mentally? To prepare our mindset to survive and thrive?
So, what is the preparedness mindset?
It is a mental attitude you take on that breaks you from your normalcy bias, or the mentality that nothing bad can happen to a person.
With Preparedness this means having more than insurance policies, first Aid kits, bug-out bags and meeting places for our families. It means being ready, spiritually, economically, intellectually and physically.
There really is nothing to be afraid of because we are already more capable than we can imagine. If we are prepared spiritually, economically, intellectually and physically; then when the time comes, we will be able to tap into our inner survivor and stay focused and strong - no matter what is thrown at us in a SHTF world.
This will be much easier for us, if we prepare ourselves ahead of time. And the sooner we start training our mind and body the better they will respond when the time comes.
Remember that 99.99% of the disasters we will encounter will NOT involve a widespread, government/world altering event. Instead they will take the form of lost jobs, accidents, medical issues, fire, crime, etc., followed by the usual severe weather and natural planetary issues.
Key points from the Pro's on Preparedness/Survival Mindsets:
In all my research on a Preparedness Mindset, a few things stood out as being the most important. Now granted these are those relatively intangible, fuzzy wuzzy things, and no matter how hard they are to describe and implement - they are vital to a healthy preparedness mindset!
- A Positive Mental Attitude – Can Do, Will Do rather than Can't or Won't
- A Firm Grasp of Reality – Fact oriented rather than conjecture or perception, allowing calm informed action vs panic-like uninformed reaction.
These two factors appeared in article after article, book after book, study after study. Since they were repeated so frequently this places them at the top of the Preparedness Mindset requirement list.
Read on to find out what else makes up a Preparedness Mindset @ http://www.scribd.com/doc/104447717/Mindset-What-Mindset
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."
Winston Churchill


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I love coming here for the atmosphere though. It is a higgledy-piggledy building filled with truly ancient beams (some of which are so pitted from long dead wood worm that you wonder how on earth they are still holding together), wooden floorboards and huge open fireplaces with worn leather chesterfield arm chairs in front.
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The students, under the guidance of their lecturer, Manelia Shakela, took it upon themselves to approach the CoW to find ways of lending a helping hand to ameliorate the current water crisis. The City has created a project of identifying water leaks at a number of public schools that would be spearheaded by the students.
The students were keen to explore ways of applying principles of Disaster Management to bring relief to the situation. The pilot project in which the students will participate, focuses on 20 schools in the capital. The students each received their information kits for the project during a brief ceremony where NUST Vice-Chancellor, Tjama Tjivikua, said he was extremely proud of their initiative.
"This is a demonstration of the new NUST commitment to engaging communities and working with them to find solutions to challenges facing them as well as our commitment to prudent and sustainable use of our scarce natural resources," Tjivikua said.
The Acting CEO of CoW, Fillemon Hambunda, said initiatives such as these allow the authorities to mitigate the situation. He emphasised that the public should not panic as the municipality has plans to contain the shortage should it reach alarming levels.
Jona Jona, a student, said: "We as students have realised the importance of sustainable water management. Although this is a short-term project, we are positive that there are also long-term plans and we want to give the assurance of our full commitment to the City if further assistance is needed."


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From a Crooked Rib by Nuruddin Farah
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I struggled with how to rate this book. As a feminist, of course I admired Farah's portrayal of the sexist culture that oppresses women in Somalia and how a struggle against the current cultural beliefs and structures are difficult, if not impossible to break out of, for the individual.
For Ebla, the main character, every time she attempts to find freedom and independence, she further ties herself to people whom mistreat and take advantage over her. As the narrative continues, it is difficult to understand Ebla's true intentions as she struggles against these forces, and the intentions of those she finds herself depending on and using her.
I found Farah's narrative difficult to follow at times, and found the partial portrayal into Ebla's thoughts and actions frustratingly seperated from the actual core of the book's unfolding plot. I believe Farah meant to keep the reader disconnected from Ebla and the other characters to help convey Ebla's confusion as she encountered various situations and characters throughout the narrative, not knowing who she could trust or not trust, and how the intentions of each character may not be what they seem.
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The Mumbai terror attacks have evoked emotional reactions because they challenged our self-esteem and sovereignty. We need to review our security ecosystem because sea entry gives the attack connotations of an invasion that many countries have gone to war for.
But India must have policy responses at two different levels, because the short-term challenge is driven by external factors (the global terror network, India's changed perception and Pakistan) while the long-term challenge is driven by long-term factors (a sense of national Muslim grievance, inequality of opportunity and weak participation in India's growth for India's poor).
We know how foreign interference corrodes the fabric of society.
Few people know that the peaceful instincts of Kashmiris meant that nobody died in the valley from gun-shot wounds from 1947 to 1988 till General Zia-ul-Haz began devious meddling with Operation Topaz. While it would be delusional to blame the Kashmir problem on ourselves, the benifits of hindsight and age make us grudgingly acknowledge that poor employment and educational opportunities in the valley were fertile soil for strife exploited by Pakistan. An environment where youth do not have equality of opportunity and cannot escape their "opening balance" leads to a "dead end" view of life that has lead to problems in Pakistan, Palestine, India's North-East, Saudi Arabia, and other hotspots.
A long overdue revamp of our security ecosystem (unified border control, intelligence gathering, detention laws, innovative prevention, effective disaster response capabilities, specialized police training and weaponry) must address the frustration of policemen with a judiciary often incapable of prosecution.
This incident is different because the killing of Americans obligates the US Federal Bureau of Investigation to pursue the perpetrators and their masters. But the most important difference is that US President-elect Barack Obama has acknowledged India's need to reach and destroy the sources. This represents a radical change from US unwillingness to allow India the "hot pursuit" option that many of us advocated in Kashmir. This opens a window for surgical operations against targets such as Muridke near Lahore (Lashkar-e-Taiba headquarters), the Dawood apparatus near Karachi and terrorist camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir because we need to dry the swamp.
The long-term solution is different, as this attack couldn't have happened without local support. This support needs to be smashed, but we must acknowledge a sense of alienation among some Indians.
We missed our tryst with destiny because true freedom comes from equality of opportunity. Equality of opportunity comes from the 3 Es (Education, Employability and Employment). Unfortunately, our 3E regime is broken: 57% of our youth suffer from skill deprivation; 58% of graduates make less than 6,500 per month; 93% of our people work in the unorganized sector for whom job security, social security and workplace safety are distant dreams; 1,200 employment exchanges last year gave 2,00,000 jobs to the 40 million people registered; 25% of government schoolteachers don't show up for work. The poor, minorities, and traditionally discriminated suffer disproportionately and this has dangerous consequences.
As Nandan Nilekani says in his exceptional book Imagining India:
"our failure to create opportunities can turn our demographic dividend into a crisis. We have already experienced these problems through the 1970s and 1980s when unemployment and the lack of income mobility for working-age Indians fed into criminality and extremist movements across India such as the extreme-left Naxalite and extreme right Bajrang Dal movements, as well as the rise of the underworld in major cities. Key players in Mumbai's underworld, for instance, were people belonging to discriminated groups and the impoverished underclass - Chota Rajan was the son of a Dalit sweeper, Abu Salim's mother rolled beedis for a living, Chota Shakeel grew up in a Bombay slum and Arun Gawil's father was a textile worker laid off during the mill strikes of the 1970s. While these circumstances do not exonerated their actions in the least, these are signs of how economic bitterness can create high social costs."The crucible of our indipendence struggle was the minority rule of the British; 1,50,000 white people lorded over 340 million brown ones. Our Constitution guarantees that citizens are equal and everybody has a vote. Yet, after 60 years of indipendence, why do we tolerate a 3E regime that perpetuates inequality of opportunity? Creating a hostile envioronment for terrorism in India needs our security infrastructure to be supported by an equal opportunity habitat. This needs forming an education regulatory authority of India, revamping our skill system and reviewing labour laws. These changes need political backbone to take on insiders who lock out outsiders.
As any competent policymaker or entrepreneur knows, the short-term response to a crisis is often different from the long-term one. India must honor the memory of the brave policeman who died by revamping our security ecosystem and explore action against Pakistan with US support. But we must also create equality of opportunity for every Indian - Muslim, Dalit or poor. After all, an uneducated, unemployable or unemployed Indian is not a free Inidan.


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Obama Takes Firm Stand on Net Neutrality
President Obama has come out swinging on the issue of Net Neutrality, even taking a swing (figuratively) at Tom Wheeler, his own appointee to head the FCC. Tom Wheeler had originally been in favor of Net Neutrality, and later flipflopped in favor of segregating the Internet into a Fast Lane (for those who are willing to pay a little extra) and a Slow Lane for everyone else.
Under the 1996 Telecommunications Act, the FCC has the authority to reclassify Internet Service Providers as utilities, and this is what Obama is urging the FCC to do. If ISPs are classified as utilities, the FCC will be able to enforce Net Neutrality, i.e. the same Internet speed for everyone; no fast or slow lanes. President Obama said:
"The time has come for the FCC to recognize that broadband service is of the same importance and must carry the same obligations as so many of the other vital services do. To do that, I believe the FCC should reclassify consumer broadband service under Title II of the Telecommunications Act...This is a basic acknowledgment of the services ISPs provide to American homes and businesses, and the straightforward obligations necessary to ensure the network works for everyone — not just one or two companies."
Bravo! Net Neutrality is a populist issue — along with increasing the minimum wage and legalizing marijuana — that cuts across party lines. I doubt if there are a whole lot of Internet users — regardless of how conservative they are — who are thinking "Sure, I'd be happy to pay more for Internet access or be relegated to the slow lane, because Freedom."


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(Reuters) - Internet radio service Pandora Media Inc said it paid nearly $500 million in artist royalties over the past 12 months, bringing the total to more than $1.5 billion in about 10 years.
"It took us nearly nine years to generate the first billion dollars in royalties, and just over a year to increase that total by 50 percent," Chief Executive Brian McAndrews said in a statement on Wednesday.
Pandora gets revenue from advertising and paid subscriptions.
Reporting By Lehar Maan in Bengaluru; Editing by Savio D'Souza


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I have so many trepidations about publicly claiming this blog. First and foremost I'm afraid of what it could do to my professional career. What do employers think about a personal blog? Y'all know I never ever talk about my job on here, and I would never do anything to compromise the company I work for. But still, an employee with a blog is a bit of a liability isn't it? In this difficult job market why would I do anything that could jeopardize myself as a potential candidate *not a candidate for political office. Don't worry, I have no plans or desire to pursue that life. But I do want a career in politics, so even if I myself am not the politician, as a staffer you're still subject some elevated scrutiny of your personal life. Is this blog a political liability? I'm gonna say no, but would an employer? I'm not so sure.
It's freeing not to be worried about what other people think. I can write whatever I want, no matter how stupid or frivolous. Sure we all get those negative comments that sting, but I can brush it off because at the end of the day, who cares? I never have to see them in real life. But that anxiety that comes from the fear of in real life judgment, sometimes it's just too much.
So, there you have it. I'd love to hear how you have incorporated your blog into your personal life. How do you handle sharing the blog in your real life?


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Edited by Azizi Powell
This post is showcases the song "Playing Chicken with the Train" by African American country rapper and songwriter Cowboy Troy. Information about Cowboy Troy is included in this post along with information about the song "Playing Chicken with the Train Cowboy", and a video and lyrics for that song.
Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/05/roots-of-african-american-braggadocio.html for a companion pancocojams post that presents excerpts from the article "Playing Chicken with the Train Cowboy: Troy's Hick-Hop and the Transracial Country West" by Adam Gussow, in Southern Cultures: Winter 2010, Volume 16: Number 4, edited by Harry L. Watson, and Jocelyn Neallyn Neal [Google books].
This post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to Cowboy Troy and all others who are featured in this embedded video. Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_Troy
"Troy Lee Coleman III (born December 18, 1970), better known by his stage name Cowboy Troy, is an [African]* American country rapper and songwriter. He is a member of the MuzikMafia, an aggregation of country music singer-songwriters whose membership also includes Big & Rich, Gretchen Wilson and James Otto. He has released four studio albums and one EP, including two releases on Warner Bros. Records, and has charted twice on the Billboard country singles charts.
Troy graduated from Skyline High School in the Dallas Independent School District. He then attended the University of Texas at Austin where he earned a bachelor's degree.[2] Prior to beginning his career as a singer, he worked as the assistant manager of a Dallas area Foot Locker.[2]
He got the name Cowboy Troy in college, after a friend used the name to distinguish the cowboy-hat-wearing Coleman from his other friends named Troy.[3]
On May 17, 2005, Troy released his first major-label solo album, Loco Motive, through the RAYBAW records production label and the Warner Music Group distribution label.[4] The album debuted at No. 2 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart. The first single, "I Play Chicken with the Train," peaked at No. 48 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart on April 9, 2005 and was the No. 1 country download at the iTunes Music Store on April 15, 2005."....
*I added this word "African" to this Wikipedia article.
From https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-243121243/playing-chicken-with-the-train-cowboy-troy-s-hick-hop Playing Chicken with the Train Cowboy Troy's Hick-Hop and the Transracial Country West
By Gussow, Adam
There was no necessary reason why Cowboy Troy's country-rap single, "I Play Chicken With the Train," should have caused such an uproar among country music fans when it was released in the spring of 2005. The song itself is a sonic Rorschach test: not so singular a curiosity as many might think, but still a challenge to what passes for common knowledge in the music business. It is animated by a sound and a lyric stance that might strike us, in a receptive mood, as uncanny--at once unfamiliar, a half-and-half blend of two musical idioms that rarely find themselves so jarringly conflated, and strangely familiar, as though the song has distilled the sound of ten-year-old boys filled with limitless bravado, jumping up and down and hollering into the summer afternoon.
Compared with other country-rap hybrids, "I Play Chicken With the Train" contains surprisingly few sonic signifiers of hip-hop: no breakbeats, no samples, no drum machines, no scratching. The full burden of audible blackness is carried by Cowboy Troy's decidedly old-school rap, with its square phrasing, tame syncopations, and echoes of Run-DMC. One hears white voices framing, doubling, responding to, supporting, that black voice; simultaneously, one senses that somebody has torn down the wall that is supposed to demarcate firmly the boundary between twanging redneck euphoria--the lynch-mob's fiddle-driven rebel yell--and rap's exaggerated self-projections of urban black masculinity?....
The email blast that alerted potential purchasers to the recording's release fused a kind of King-Kong sensationalism with an assertion of scandalous, unprecedented hybridity: Cowboy Troy, we were informed, is "the world's only six-foot, five-inch, 250-pound black cowboy rapper." Was that a threat, a brag, or a promise? (3)"
This excerpt is reformatted for this post.
"Blacknecks" is a referent that may have been coined just for this song. "Blacknecks" refers to 'country' Black folks and is the equivalent of the sometimes considered pejorative referent "rednecks" (i.e. - 'country' White folks).
"Playing chicken with the train" means to show your fearlessness by stand on the train tracks and jumping quickly jumping aside when a train is almost in front of you. Needless to say, "playing chicken with the train" is a very dangerous and foolish thing to do.
(composed by Troy Lee Coleman III)
(performance by Cowboy Troy featuring Big & Rich*)
[Chorus - Big & Rich]
I play chicken with the train
Play chicken with the train train
Unh huh huh unh huh huh
You know that I play chicken with the train
Play chicken with the train train
Unh huh huh unh huh huh yeah
[Verse 1 - Cowboy Troy]
Hold 'em up! Here we go!
All the hicks and chicks feel the flow
Big black train comin 'round the bend
Gwone kinfolk tell ya mamanem
Chug-a-lugga, chug-a-lugga, chug-a-lugga who?
The big blackneck comin' through to you
Boy you done fell and bumped your head
Uh huh that's what they said
People said it's impossible,
Not probable, too radical
But I already been on the CMA's
Hell Tim McGraw said he like the change
And he likes the way my hick-hop sounds
And the way the crowd screams when I stomp the ground
I'm big and black, clickety-clack
And I make the train jump the track like that
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 2 - Cowboy Troy]
From mic to cassette deep into your ear
My voice is your choice that you wanted to hear
Southern boy makin' noise where the buffalo roam
Flesh, denim and bone as you might have known
See me ridin' into town like a desperado
With a big belt buckle, the cowboy bravado
All over the world wide web you'll see
Download CBT on an mp3
Speak clearly what I'm sayin' so you'll comprehend
Hit the net for hick-hop radio, tune in
Rollin' like thunder on the scene
It's kinda hard to describe if you know what I mean
I never claimed to be the hardest of the roughest hard rocks
But I'm boomin' out yo' box
Skills got you jumpin' outch'a socks
From Texas here I come, movin' yo body with a bass kick drum!
[Repeat Chorus]
[Cowboy Troy]
I play chicken with the train
Play chicken with the train train
Unh huh huh unh huh huh
I play chicken with the train
Play chicken with the train train
[Big & Rich]
Unh huh huh unh huh huh you know that
[Repeat Chorus]
[Cowboy Troy]
One time!
Get you some of that!
Source: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/cowboytroy/iplaychickenwiththetrain.html
*"Big & Rich are an [Anglo] American country music duo composed of Big Kenny and John Rich, both of whom are songwriters, vocalists, and guitarists." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_%26_Rich
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It's Alice Through the Looking Glass Time and I'm not immune to the Alice mania-rave. With great anticipation, I look forward to Tim Burton's upcoming movie release, his adaptation of our beloved Alice. Super talented Burton never fails to inspire...his productions deliver the goods. His movies open up our imaginations to his fantasy filled, tweaky visual world. One has only to see a snippet of his movie trailers, to see Burton's visual stamp - no one else crafts a movie style or script quite like him.
This gown has sold!
Alice, the story was written and originally copyrighted in 1865 by English author, the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (he was also a mathematician at Christ Church, England). He penned his story under the pseudonym, Lewis Carroll. At it's debut, Alice was a sensation, quickly sold out and was/is loved by children and adults, alike. This book has remained so popular, worldwide, that it's never been out of print. Two of the original printing readers were a delighted Queen Victoria and a young Oscar Wilde.
So, Alice, it is! On May 5th, you'll find me in a darkened theatre, eyes glued to an immense full color screen, listening to Dolby stero surrond sound while my sense are inundated by Tim Burton's movie making magic. Oh, yes...don't forget the 3D glasses. My, oh my, do my artist eyes love the movies!
Meanwhile, to take the edge off the movie debut wait, my imaginings have been whipped into a whirl of creativity. How about this little froth of a slip dress - my Alice's Tea Gown? A piece designed to make The Queen of Hearts, oh so-o-o-o jealous.
"Off with her head!" ....after all, we're all mad here.


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Volume 23, Number 4 October 1994
The Overworked American
Many of us have been struck by the incredibly long hours worked by so many Americans. Juliet Schor has written a fascinating book about the puritanical commitment of Americans to work, work and more work. Schor's book is fascinating in its own right, and it is also highly relevant to the current debate over sustainable futures.
Our work ethic is really quite amazing. Long work hours is a relatively recent invention, dating to the industrial revolution. In 14th-century England, people worked only some 1500 hours per year. By the mid nineteenth century the industrial revolution had lead to a massive increase in work--to some 3500 hours a year!
The rise of labor organizations lead gradually to work time reductions. This continued until the post-World War II era, after which work time began to climb. In the two decades from 1967 to 1987, annual hours of paid employment in the US increased from 1786 to 1949 hours. Men's work increased by 98 hours per year and women's by 305 hours, as male labor force participation dropped from about 80% to 75%, while female increased from about 40% to 57%. Today--if you have a job--you work harder than ever.
What is going on here? It can't be that we are poor. American incomes average some sixty-five times greater than those of the poorer half of the world's population. Does this income make us better off? Apparently many of us think not! Today more and more of us feel pressed for time. Nor is it that we've lost our ability toproduce. Schor points out that since World War II US per-capita worker productivity has more than doubled. We could live at the same standard as we had in 1948 (which was not so bad, I think), while working only six months a year. Or we could take every other year off. Or retire at age 45. Yet we feel compelled to work. Why? One reason is that we've defined well-being so that there is no such thing as "enough."
A nation that defines itself in terms of ever more material goods, novelty, gadgetry, throw-away items, and "keeping up with the Joneses" is a nation of people who can never, even in principle, be satisfied. We educate and train ourselves to believe in "more" as the true pathway to satisfaction.
What has this to do with sustainability? Here I diverge from Schor, whose focus is on regaining the contentment made possible by leisure. Today's sustainability discussion results from the idea that the world is using resources so fast that we are destroying irreplaceable fossil fuels, rain forests, and species. Resource use is, by definition, equal to population multiplied by resource use per person. Developing nations deplete primarily by population; developed nations by high per capita consumption. Not only do we deplete exorbitantly, but our national posture emphasizes constant growth for an indefinite time.
As economist Herman Daly cogently observed, in the curious language of U.S. economic policy, "constant" has come to mean "constant growth rate," rather than"constant value," as any physicist would think. This is strange but entirely consistent with the exponential growth implied by materialistically "keeping up the Joneses."
These issues are difficult for everyone, physicists included. While physicists as a group may not strive for the excess incomes and golden parachutes characteristic of lawyers, doctors, and University of California top management, we are certainly well endowed with the work ethic. Physicists, differing from most Americans in our interest in intellectual pursuits, still often measure our success in terms of material assets. Is our behavior consistent with sustainability?
Juliet Schor's insightful book provides an unusual jumping off point for exploring what sustainability might mean in America. What better place to start that exploration than to ask ourselves what makes life worth living. And to seek an answer in questioning our national preoccupation with that cornerstone of national doctrine--salvation through consumption. Schor gives us the technical background for understanding one incarnation of Pogo's famous bonmot: "We have met the enemy, and he is us."
Paul Craig
Industrial Ecology and Global Change
edited by R. Socolow, C. Andrews, V. Thomas, and F. Berkhout Cambridge University Press, 1994, 420 pages.
The central theme of this book is how humankind can fully industrialize our society without overwhelming the Earth's natural systems. It is written for those who already understand the importance of this question for the future of civilization and wish to participate more effectively in attempts to implement appropriate strategies. In the five main parts of this book, contributors discuss the industrialization of society; the main natural systems cycles (e.g. carbon and nitrogen cycles); toxic chemicals in the environment; industrial ecology in firms; and policy-making with respect to industrial ecology. These articles address such important issues as recycling, solar energy, chemicals in agriculture, industrial innovation, and international cooperation and present perspectives from North America and around the globe.
OVERVIEW: Six perspectives from Industrial Ecology.
PART I: VULNERABILITY AND ADAPTATION. Industrial Ecology: definition and implementation / Industrialization as a historical phenomenon / Changing perceptions of vulnerability / The human dimension of vulnerability / Global industrialization: A developing country perspective.
PART 2: THE GRAND CYCLES: DISRUPTION AND REPAIR. Human impacts on the carbon and nitrogen cycles / Charting development paths: A multi-country comparison of carbon dioxide emissions / Reducing urban sources of methane: An experiment in industrial ecology / Reducing carbon dioxide emissions in Russia / Energy efficiency in China: Past experience and future prospects / Roles for biomass energy in sustainable development.
PART 3: TOXICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT. Soil as a vulnerable environmental system / The vulnerability of biotic diversity / Global ecotoxicology: Management and science / Industrial activity and metals emissions / Metals loading of the environment: Cadmium in the Rhine Basin, Emissions and exposure to metals: Cadmium and lead / Nuclear power: An industrial ecology that failed?
PART 4: INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY IN FIRMS. Policies to encourage clean technology / Initiaitves in Lower Saxony to link ecology to economy / Military-to-civilian conversion and the environment: Problems and prospects in the Russian Federation / The political economy and industrial ecology of raw materials extraction and trade / Integrating environmentally-friendly energy technologies into the development process.
END PIECE: Industrial ecology: The agenda.


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If you love the wicked sense of sarcastic humour…you will come to love these two sites.
I could totally be BFFS with the two of them…like laugh so hard you cry.
J'adore. Le love.
And for the record, I blame the neglect of children over the last two days on these two sites.


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Boracay Mansion is a spectacular, totally private, single family home, hidden on top of a mountain ridge above the green valleys of Diniwid, on the north coastline of Boracay Island. Located within a large 1.hectare gated compound with 10ft walls, it is just 5 minutes by walking path down to a secluded cove with pristine swimming beach or 10 minutes drive to the famous White Beach.
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In my life I have met people who were afraid to eat sushi and people who would eat it everyday of the week. I would not go that far, I will just say that I enjoy eating sushi and that I consider it a perfect meal especially if you are after a time where you over-stuffed yourself with various other dishes - mainly during Christmas/New Years Eve/Easter/Your Very Own Birthday. It is quite light and very much filling, plus you can practice not using a fork but the chopsticks and I always found that fascinating. Everybody seems to have their very own style of using chopsticks, so each time someone asks how I do it I show them but also let them figure out the best motion for them - I believe there is no one-way perfect-way to use them.
The nice thing about sushi and going to a sushi restaurant is the fact that you can feel relaxed and very much at home. If you do not know how to use chopsticks, using your hands is acceptable. Also, if you are first timer, I recommend you to start with cooked fish - usually anything with shrimp and clams are cooked - or the fish-free versions - be it cucumber, avocado, pomgrenates, you name it! Also what you need to know is that you should not put a lot of soya sauce... you should, but I love it so much that I always end up dipping it too long! You should take the sushi, roll it and dip it with the part of the fish, so the soya would not destroy the rice... I always fail, but it is fun either way!
A lot of people don't know about ginger and just leave it aside thinking it is part of the dish. Oh, no! Don't do that! Ginger - aka the thin, pinky pieces rolled into one - is your best friend! You eat it between the several types of fish in order to clean your taste buds ;) also you may notice a green little mount on the plate = wasabi = be careful! it's spicy and it burns! put it in small quantities in the soya sauce and mix it for a little bit of extra kick! Also, when you are using soya sauce it is better - at the beginning - just to put bit by bit, as it is a disgrace to waste soya sauce! so until you don't know yourself and your limits, stick to smaller portions :)
The Sushi Restaurant I will tell you about today is located on ul. Sw. Anny 5, Krakow 31-008, Poland and it is named 77 Sushi :) On TripAdvisor it is listed as #583 of 902 Restaurants in Krakow, not that bad, but I still believe it should be rated higher. Considering that Miyako Sushi is #468! We were quite satisfied with Miyako Sushi as even though it was posh - located in the heart of the City at Galeria Krakowska, exactly in the middle of the mall - the sushi was quite decent. I, for one, really liked the Miso Soup there! 77 Sushi is a nice place to meet with friends and have a decent and light meal. There are not many vegetaria/vegan places - as far as I know - in Krakow, so I was happy to bump into this one.
We had very nice green tea with fruits - around 8 zloty & we combined a plate from which 3 grown people ate :) You can see here the full menu for Krakow/Poznan. If you wish to have sake, around 250 ml costs between 30 and 40 zloty. My very own favourite soup: misoshiru is around 13 zloty - common mistake: the soup should be drank last, after the rolls! Set Sake Ten with 12 pieces - 6 with salmon futomaku + 6 with salmon and avocado = 37 zloty.
Theoretically you can pay both cash&card there but when we were in there were some troubles with the POS so it is better to have some cash with you, just in case. Either way, if you don't have it it ain't that bad, especially if you are with someone, as you can make a run for it to the nearest ATM machine and extract how much you please - don't forget you are maximum 2-3 minutes walk from the Main Square, where you have a bunch of them to choose from ;) There is no seating outside, just inside, and you can make reservations ;) We recommend it for a cute and cozy dinner with friends ;)
** This post was made out of love for the food we had. I was not repayed in any way by 77 Sushi and all the opinions are my very own, straight from the heart! **
** This post was made out of love for the food we had. I was not repayed in any way by 77 Sushi and all the opinions are my very own, straight from the heart! **
Yours truly,
A LadyBug That Enyoys Sushi


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How much greater is the gap that Gemma and her team of volunteers have taken on. Although Tanzania is Gemma's adopted country, (see the distinctive African dress she wore on a fundraising trip to USA earlier this year) she acknowledges that she will never be African. She says the School of St Jude could not come about without the partnership of her Tanzanian husband Richard.
Gemma Sisia and Mr Yap at Rotary meeting in USA
The volunteers at School of St Jude report their wonder at encounters with African culture as well as the ceremonies that emerge from the cultural mix in the volunteer accommodation.
It was with great pleasure that I read on Jacky's blog (see links) about the Thanksgiving Dinner they shared in Arusha.
Thanksgiving chooks for vollies at St Judes
It resonated with my first ever Thanksgiving Dinner, held here in Sydney on our new deck overlooking Australian bushland. Thanksgiving has come into my life through Hal, my American husband. I am sure that he is bemused to celebrate Thanksgiving in summer, with Jacarandas in flower and parrots trilling and singing all around.
I am in awe of those people who seem to be able to reach across wide cultural gaps to give and receive, and to meet the challenges that are involved.
This School of St Jude does more than fight poverty through education, it throws a bridge across a cultural divide and helps us to expand our horizons and live a larger life.


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- Whether the disputed site was a 'bhakt place' of Bhagwan Ram
- Whether disputed structure was a mosque
- When was it built and by whom
- Whether mosque was built after demolishing Hindu temple
- Whether idols were placed in the night of Dec 22-23, 1949
- Whether the claim is time-barred
- What will be the status of disputed site – inner and courtyard
A thick security has been thrown on UP with paramilitary forces keeping an aerial vigil of sensitive places, including the disputed site in Ayodhya, even as the High Court, which would be pronouncing the verdict, has been declared a "no-access zone" restricting the entry to only those connected with the case listed today. The intelligence network is on high alert throughout the state to monitor movement and activities of anti-social elements.
As a preventive measure, aerial survey, including at night, of sensitive places, including Ram Janmbhoomi complex in Ayodhya has been done, police sources said, adding the force deployment has been such that it would take minimum time for them to reach any troubled spot.
Three dog squads, four bomb disposal squads, five anti-sabotage teams and fire tenders have also been deployed at strategic points in Ayodhya and Faizabad where a total of 20 companies (over 2000 personnel) of CRPF has been deployed for the inner security of the Ram Janmbhoomi complex, besides 38 other companies of police and PAC for the twin towns and 16 other companies for rural areas, police sources said.
In Lucknow, 20 companies of the CPMF, 30 officers and 900 special police officers have been deployed and the sale of liquor and firecrackers has been banned to check any overt display of victory or defeat.


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It's Friday, so a new fortnightly challenge over at Polkadoodles this week. And the theme is Animal Magic. So lets see those creations with animals included this time around. You have until Friday, April 18th (12 noon GMT) to enter.
I decided to use a couple of CD's again this week. I made a shaped card by using my Silhouette Cameo Design Studio.


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Pocket Genius: Facts at Your Fingertips
Elementary. Price $7.99
DK: www.dk.com
Pocket Genius: Facts at Your Fingertips is a collection of hardback books designed to help your elementary age child have basic facts in a variety of subjects at your fingertips.
Pocket Genius: Facts at Your Fingertips include topics such as:
Ø Ancient
Ø Animals
Ø Bugs
Ø Dinosaurs
Ø Earth
Ø Horses
Ø Human Body
Ø Mammals
Ø Rocks and Minerals
Ø Science
Ø Sharks
Ø Space
I was sent the Horses and the Human Body ones to review. The Human Body one covers: All about your body, from bones and breathing to blood and the brain; Clear and crisp photographs and diagrams with bite-size chunks of information; Spectacular full-page images; Amazing stats and incredible facts. The horse one includes the above mentioned, but with Profiles of more than 130 horse and pony breeds and Amazing stats and record-breakers.
Pocket Genius: Facts at Your Fingertips will help reinforce your child's knowledge reading the information and fun facts about the different subjects.
The only bad thing I found was for those who believe God created the world, these books do support evolution. They also support the Common Core, the new standard of education. These are perfect for fun study, playing school or keeping skills up during the summer or as supplements to unit studies.


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Last night for our family night we talked about the meaning of the Christmas season. We watched the short video which focuses on the sixth day of the Light the World for 25 days, Jesus read the scriptures, and so can you. We read Luke 2: 5-14:
5 To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.
6 And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.
7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
As a family, we have fallen short of our goal to read scriptures together, and we have committed to being more diligent in learning about our Savior every morning and evening. As the mother in my home, I feel the need to remember to focus on having more kindness and reverence in our home during our various challenges, because I'm realizing that they look to me to bring us all together to work on our goals.
Working on our first rehab in Western Pennsylvania where we used to live has kept me busy solving challenge after challenge, and I sometimes lean to my own limited understanding. And he lets me realize that I've forgotten again to include Him in my prayer when a new problem arises that I need to decide how to quickly handle. The stress and anxiety take over for a short time as this is all so new to me, and I'm SO grateful that the Spirit gently prompts me back into His fold.


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Battlefield 4 Discussion
Trainer Tools and Resources
Question 1. How do I find what version of BF4? I am assuming that it's the latest version since I downloaded and installed the game yesterday.
Question 2. Nothing happens with the trainer. I have placed the latest trainer in the C:\Programs Files (x86)\Origin Games\Battlefield 4 directory
I open the trainer first, then open the game through (the stupid) browser -> Campaign and click on Play Campaign, but nothing happens. I have tried both links for BF4 and BF4_x86. I don't hear the normal "Activated" after pressing F1.
When I close the game and hit F1 I hear the normal "Trainer cannot find game".
Any ideas please?
disable/uninstall all AV, firewall and other security software. right click run as admin on trainer. run trainer. run game. alt tab to trainer and press f1 to activate. alt tab to game and use options. only said this about 400 times on this board already.
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I figured out the problem. It was a failure on my part to fully read through the Previous messages.
Thanks for the reply though.
I found out that the issue stemmed from the default game exe through the Origin menu. After I changed the default to 32bit it works fine.
Sorry to be a pain in this instance.
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The Schott Zwiesel Taste range is a lifestyle collection, designed for gourmets where the design makes a big difference. These glasses are timeless; concentrating on classic wine glass shapes that reinterprets along modern lines. The result is an elegant ensemble that's ideal for uncomplicated gourmet pleasure for both use in the home or a restaurant or bar.
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States hold onto unclaimed properties on behalf of the owner. Such property includes life insurance policies, tangible goods, and unclaimed employment paychecks.
You can search online with just your name to find out if you have any unclaimed property by going to http://unclaimed.org/ or http://missingmoney.com/. I did a search myself and discovered a $300 paycheck from an old employer that we had, for whatever reason, not received. Though we have not yet gone through the process, we are going to file a claim tonight and I will post a review.
Be very wary of scams, however, as this information is public and various firms may try to charge you to claim your money. The state comptroller will charge you a small fee (my state charges 1% for up to $5,000 and 1.5% above, zero for less than $100). Some however will try to get up to 10% out of you, or charge you to do the search. Don't fall for it - the information is free and filing your own claim is easy and cheap (so far as I can tell, it can all be done online).
Acting in the best interest of consumers, each state has enacted an unclaimed property statute that protects your funds from reverting back to the company if you have lost contact with them. These laws instruct companies to turn forgotten funds over to a state official who will then make a diligent effort to find you or your heirs. Most states hold lost funds until you are found, returning them to you at no cost or for a nominal handling fee upon filing a claim form and verification of your identity.If in doubt, call your state comptroller or visit your state's official website and search it for "unclaimed property".


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But I've been on a cooking kick today and so far, we have:
Owlhaven's book Family Feasts for $75 a Week. I made them gluten-free by using 1 c. white rice flour. Other changes: I used 18 eggs and about a cup of milk, 1/2 lb. of bacon and a whole bag of frozen broccoli, chopped. This made 36 muffins in 3 Pampered Chef muffin pans. They freeze great and are easy to pull out for breakfast or cold lunches.
crockpot of chickpeas going and another of lentils. Rosebud is hungry for lentil patties. Patties are a super on-the-go GF food. They can be cooked up and refrigerated for the week, or frozen. She likes salmon patties made with cooked brown rice instead of bread crumbs.
kale chips! The only sad thing about making kale chips is that such a huge head of kale makes such a small amount of chips. Must buy more kale. (and note to self: wash it first next time. :P) updated to include link to a recipe. Changes I made: I used Italian dressing, sparingly. 1 large head needed 4 Pampered Chef pans to be spread in a single layer. Every recipe had a different temperature, with 300 being most common. I baked them at 300 for the first 10 minutes, flipped the kale and turned the oven down to 275.


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This is an "MB-2A" Body kit mounted on a CJ2A frame. It also includes the "MB-XL" conversion kit featured below.
"MB-2A" Body Kit
Can't find an MB or GPW to restore for parades and re-enacting but you've found
CJ2A's by the dozen? Here is the body for you. This body looks like an
MB but is made to fit the CJ2A or 3A chassis with the T-90 transmission.
"MB-XL" Conversion Kit
Having trouble comfortably fitting behind the wheel of your MB? This may be
just what you are looking for. We now offer a kit which includes a modified driver's
seat and two wheel house pockets. With this modification, the driver's seat can be
moved back 3" to allow for more belly and leg room. This is sold as a kit and requires
modifying the rear fender wheel house by welding in a pocket to allow for clearance.
Passenger side works with stock seat after installing pocket.


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I thought I came up with a way to deal with the people who think I give a damn about these latest so-called "Celebrities".
The only problem is, like so many times before, I'm afraid these people just don't get it.
Here's my story.
Last night I was sitting at a table with three other people who, at this point in our lives, should know better.
In an effort to strike up some sort of conversation one of them turns to me and asks, "So, what do you think of......"
Now, for the sake of the story, I can't even remember the names of the 2 people he asked me about.
See how inconsequential they are?
I'm sure you can do the work on your own to find out who I am talking about but he was referring to some....I dunno, singer? Actor?
Some kind of celebrity couple where the guy is accused of smacking the girl around and neither one of them are Baldwins.
Anyhow, when I said I had no idea who he was talking about, someone else at the table started insisting that I not only knew who these people were, but was intimately familiar with their work.
I tried to keep my cool during all this while reassuring myself that "comfortable silence" is so much better than this "conversation".
After politely trying to explain that I not only live under a rock when it comes to this stuff but like it that way, it hit me.
I had a plan, a strategy.
This was my chance to turn the tables, as outnumbered as I was.
After what seemed like a lifetime of them volleying ideas of me secretly watching "America's Next Idol" or whatever that show is called, I saw my opening.
"So..." I said calmly, "Lux Interior dying was kind of a shock huh? Who saw that coming?"
The response I got was a resounding, "What?"
"Lux Interior" I insisted, "of The Cramps?"
"What" they seemed to say in unison.
(Here's where I really started to play up my flabbergastedness)
"You know, The Cramps? How could you not know The Cramps? Hell, they've only been around over 30 years!!!"
I knew I hit my mark when the one who started this whole thing said, while laughing at his own joke as if he had the upper hand, "I'll give you a cramp."
"Uh huh." is all I said.
I felt it was all I needed to say.
The battle was over, the war was won.
My only regret is, I don't think they realized they had even participated.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
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a battle of wits against the unarmed
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The state of Oregon is a photographer's paradise filled with water, mountains, snow, and amazing landscapes. The feature photo above is Oregon's Broken Top peak. This exquisite photo was put together using 12 combined long exposures.
Ryan Dyar is a professional landscape photographer based in Seattle, WA. Ryan enjoys backpacking and snowboarding, and has developed a keen eye for composition and natural beauty. As you can't miss in these incredible shots, Ryan enjoys the capture of bigger than life dramatic scenes.
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AS is not a problem it is a difference. We are part of the other spectrum. NTs aka HFR (high functioning retards) will continually victimize us unless preventative action is taken. AS,HFA or whatever that is characterized by mindblindness, needs protection as in civil rights.Laws and social interactions must be aspie friendly. Nothing less can be tolerated. nor should it be. We are the future. Human evolution has been guided by neoteny.
Neoteny is basically the retention of immature features. Human Beings are basically "APES thatnever grew up". AS is a pervasive DEVELOPMENTAL disorder. We are that next stage in human evolution. We have bigger and heavier brains. We must prevent and stop people from detecting autism before birth and then having an abortion. Our lives are worth living. We as a group are responsible for so much what is known as "progress". I dont need no stinkin theory of mind. phooey. I was not born withinnate monkey rules, so be it.
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
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WrongPlanet Wrong Numbers
Have you seen www.wrongplanet.net?? it as of this writing claiming to have 916 members. yet roughly only 50 or so actively post. Very low ratio. But even more telling is the memberlist. it lists 915 members. The last member purportedly joing in middle of September 2004. Yet if you have been folllowing WP you know that there have member joins in November and december. Apparently , some thing has gone awry at WP now that alex is home alone so to speak
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Hello & Happy Sunday!
It's football day here today and that means time to relax!
We had our good friends, Deb & Ed over last night for a cookout & firepit and then they stayed over night. We had such a fun time! I really miss them as neighbors but thankfully we have continued to stay very good friends since we moved away. It was the perfect evening to grill out then sit by the fire. Even Ryan joined us!
So, today I am just sharing a pack of cards I made for a card order. Audrey sure keeps me busy! She's anxious for the Halloween goodies and I told her that they would be ready soon! She also requested a pack of pumpkin cards when I get the time. I can do that!
She raved over the colors on this card! Watermelon Wonder is a very summery color and I like it with Bermuda Bay! I wanted to add a bow but decided to keep them mail friendly for her.
Happy Birthday Card Set:
Stamps: Happy Birthday, Everyone (hostess)
Ink: Bermuda Bay
Cardstock: Watermelon Wonder, Cucumber Crush, Bermuda Bay, Cherry On Top DSP Paper Pad
Accessories: 2 Sided Tape
That's all for today!
Going to finish watching the game and maybe grab a nap! It was a late night! I'm too old for 1am bedtime! LOL
Thanks for stopping by & enjoy the rest of your weekend!
See you tomorrow for Merry Monday!


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Fire Alarm Equipment: A Global Strategic Business Report
San Jose, California (PRWEB) October 23, 2012
Follow us on LinkedIn – With safety and security assuming critical significance against a backdrop of rising violence in today's world, electronic security systems such as fire alarm equipment, CCTV/Video surveillance equipment, and access control systems, among others, are fast becoming an integral part of building infrastructure worldwide. The fire alarms market especially has been witnessing incremental feature innovations over the years and new generation systems currently feature better efficiency, lesser false alarms, and faster response times. Multi-sensors that integrate a variety of detection tools in a solitary logic head, and application dependent detectors have emerged as preferred technologies for quicker response and improved resistance to false alarms. Several developments and introductions have taken place in remote screening and diagnostics that offer better features such as distributed intelligence and superior surveillance. A number of manufacturers are also shifting to multi-criterion detectors such as smoke detectors and are incorporating CO as an important fire component. In addition, increasing opportunities and new developments in the CO detectors is also driving the growth as hotels, schools, nursing homes and other buildings are installing and upgrading carbon monoxide detectors to implement novel NFPA 720-2009 CO detection standards.
Growth in the global fire alarm equipment market will stem largely from the need to comply with the stringent building security norms stipulated in respective countries. Several countries, especially the developed economies such as the US, Europe and Japan, stipulate strict norms for commercial, manufacturing site, residential, educational and entertainment buildings thereby fueling the demand for fire alarm equipment. Additionally, the market is poised to benefit from the retrofit demand emanating from existing buildings that replace the obsolete systems in the process of complying with the newer regulations. Also driving growth in the market is the growing demand from developing economies across the world. Characterized by burgeoning economies, increasing foreign investments, rise in the number of new business establishments, increase in employment opportunities, household income, and subsequent rise in residential and commercial building constructions, Asia-Pacific in general is witnessing increased adoption of fire alarm equipment. The Asia-Pacific market will receive further impetus from the large population base in India and China, which will propel demand for new constructions, thus driving adoption of fire alarm equipment.
While the market in major countries across the globe witness steady growth, Europe is mired in new challenges. Economic activity across the European Union has been fairly volatile all through the year 2011 and the Euro plunged to its lowest point in over two years in mid-2012. The downward spiral of the Euro crisis has triggered volatility in the housing and construction markets in the region primarily because of the austerity measures that limit public expenditure and financing for infrastructure projects. Consequently, the market for fire alarm equipment is witnessing dampened growth reflecting the sharp decline in construction activity in the region. However, the relatively less steep declines in non-residential renovations, provides a ray of hope for the fire alarm equipment market. Key reasons cited for the better performance of the renovations sector is the EU Government's emphasis on green and energy efficient buildings. As sustainable constructions emerge to represent the domestic construction industry's new future, the flurry of renovations is poised to benefit the fire alarm equipment market.
As stated by the new market research report on Fire Alarm Equipment, Europe represents the largest regional market worldwide. Asia-Pacific region emerges as the fastest growing regional market with the revenues from the region projected to wax at a CAGR of 6.9% over the analysis period. Among the product segments, Fire Alarm Panels represents the largest product segment, while Fire Alarm Devices is the fastest growing product segment.
Major players profiled in the report Bosch Security Systems, Inc., Cooper Safety Inc., Fenwal Controls of Japan Ltd., Gentex Corporation, Hochiki Corporation, Hochiki America Corporation, Honeywell International Inc., Napco Security Technologies, Inc., Nittan Co. Ltd., Nohmi Bosai Ltd., Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd., Panasonic Eco-Solutions, Nordic AB, Siemens Building Technologies Group, Space Age Electronics, Inc., Tyco Fire & Security Inc., ADT Security Services, Plc., United Technologies Corporation, and UTC Fire & Security.
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I talked to her for the first time on the pretext of her birthday (the 11th of July). I threw her a small birthday celebration so I could see her (on the 15th). We watched our first movie (The Batman Begins) in Ambi Mall on the 29th of July (and hated it). I said it to her on the 30th of July, and she msged it to me, along with a #, for the first time on the 8th of August. We took our first trip from the 19th to 22nd August to Jaipur.
And it all ended with betrayal on the 20th of October.
"Cry Me A River" - Edited. Original by Justin Timberlake.
You were my sun
You were my earth
But you didn't know all the ways I loved you
So you took a chance
And made other plans
But I bet they will come crashing down
You had your say, on what you did,
I already know, you don't even feel guilty about the kiss
Now there's just no chance, for you and me, there'll never be
And it don't even make you sad to know about it
You told me you loved me
Why did you leave me, all alone
Need you to tell me you need me
Need you to call me, on the phone
even though I refuse, to be used
for some time more
The bridges you've burned, I hope it's soon your turn
To cry,
Cry me a river
I hope she does cry a river one day. It will make no difference to anything, but I still hope it does happen.


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The Iowa Caucuses will be held on Tuesday, January 21, starting at 7 p.m. The first in the Nation, Iowa Caucuses is an event that is held every two years to help each party with their grassroots party building.
The purpose of this year's caucus is to discuss and adopt proposed resolutions to be added to the county platform. Attendees will elect delegates and alternates to the county convention as well as elect precinct committee persons to the county central committee.
Dallas County Democrats will meet at the following locations: Adams, Adel 1 and 2, Colfax/Adel, DeSoto, Union, Lincoln/Washington/Linn, Van Meter: Adel Public Library Conference Room, 303 S 10th St., Adel
West Des Moines 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 321, 322: Brookview Elementary School Commons, 8000 EP True Pkwy, West Des Moines Waukee 1-6, Clive School Commons, 8000 EP True Pkwy, West Des Moines Waukee 1-6, Clive 5 and 6, Urbandale 13-15: Waukee Elementary School Commons, 850 6th St., Waukee
Perry 1-3, Beaver/Des Moines, Spring Valley/Dallas, Sugar Grove/Dallas Center, Walnut/Grimes/Grant: Perry Middle School Media room, 1200 18th St., Perry
Dallas County Republicans will meet at the following locations:
Adams: Crossroads Church, 18293 365th Street, Earlham, IA 50072
Adel 1 and 2, Colfax/Adel, DeSoto, Lincoln/Washington/Linn, Van Meter: ADM Elementary School, 1608 Grove Street, Adel, IA 50003
Clive 5 and 6, Urbandale 13-15: Schuler Elementary, 16400 Douglas Parkway, Clive, IA 50325
Beaver/Des Moines, Perry 1-3: Perry Elementary, 1600 8th Street, Perry, IA 50220
Spring Valley/Dallas: Dawson Community Building, 208 S. 1st Street, Dawson, IA 50066
Sugar Grove/Dallas Center: Memorial Hall, 1502 Walnut Street, Dallas Center, IA
Union: Dexter Roundhouse, 707 Dallas Street, Dexter, IA 50070
Walnut/Grimes/Grant: American Legion, 1804 Main Street, Granger IA
Waukee 1-6, Van Meter: Prairieview School, 655 SE University, Waukee, IA 50263
West Des Moines 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 321, 322: Maple Grove Elementary, 1455 98th St., West Des Moines, IA 50266.