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confused1 wrote:Yes but that form has good heart benefits. Mag threonate penetrates the blood brain barrier. Mag chloride and sulfate get absorbed into muscle. So different forms get used differently. Do some research and you'll find the best for you. All mag is not created equal.guitarplayer007 wrote:This study is for CHF, I have CVD aren't they completely different?
ofonorow wrote:There are muscles in the arteries that dilate/contract in times of need/stress - allowing more blood flow, or restricting the diameter to increase blood pressure - unless you arteries are stiff and calcified. In theory calcified arteries from lack of vitamin K (usually induced by heart medications by the way) would overcome any advantage that NO induced from arginine might offer. However, Arginine has many other helpful benefits, especially for men
Sorry, I didn't mean to confuse anyone. I think any mag you take is beneficial, different forms might target different things a little better. Here's an article I found that may help.francisunderwood wrote:
The article mentions magnesium orotate, is it similar to the threonate? This is very confusing. I currently take the doctors best magnesium glycinate/lysinate chelate form and wonder if I should be taking more than one form and if the one I take now is okay, ideas?
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South African startup named Innovation Prize for Africa finalist
A South African startup based in Cape Town has been named as an Innovation Prize for Africa finalist.
Social entrepreneurs Nokwethu Khojane, left, and Lauren Drake envisioned Lakheni in 2015, when designing a food buying cooperative that helps families to pool their resources and purchase food in bulk within their communities. Cost reductions of about 30 percent make staples like maize and cooking oil more affordable for low-income families, who place their orders via app or at selected community locations.
More than 50 buying groups signed up in the first six months of operation in 2016. The cooperative clubs arise from neighborhoods, day care centers, faith communities – or almost anywhere at least seven community members commit to buying products together. The money they deposit then goes to purchase the bulk products which are delivered to community-based locations for pickup, with the added benefit that people living in "food deserts" without a nearby grocery have easy access to food.
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The app developed by Khojane that attracted the eye of the African Innovation Foundation may also be expanded for financial and other services. "In essence, the poor end up paying a poverty premium," the foundation noted. "Lakheni solves this problem by aggregating poor households into a buyer's market by leveraging mobile technology."
More than 2,500 applicants from 48 African countries applied for this year's prize. The 10 finalists also include Dougbeh-Chris Nyan of Liberia, who developed a single rapid medical test to handle multiple infection diagnostics, and Nzola Swasisa of Democratic Republic of Congo, whose Lokole device makes mobile email access far less expensive than standard-bandwidth service provided by cellular companies.
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OHAI. I'm neurotoxins and this is my f*ck everything murder everyone build for Ashe. Now, as Ashe is somewhat of a glass cannon you may want to go with a 9/21/0 build, but personally i play with friends who know to look after me so i prefer to go with the 21/0/9. As for runes glyphs and seals are interchangable to whatever pleases you. I like +health seals to help out early game since I usually solo mid and +mana glyphs since late game your AS is around 2 attacks a second which with your Q active will eat through your mana pretty quickly.
Item Build and Explanation
boots + 3x health pots: i take this over health regen because as solo i usually have to dodge skill shots a lot and since Ashe has a slow base movespeed this helps a lot. pots for in case they do get a couple hits in. If you aren't soloing feel free to take the regen since you can always hang back and let your mate take the focus for a while
Zerk grieves: Since you'll be getting phantom BoS isn't really necessary. Plus if you're about to get your face hammered in you can just ult (which if you didn't solo you might not have by the time you get these) or exhaust for those few precious seconds.(more on escaping later in the guide)
Wit's End: GENIUS item! On hit takes 42(sometimes a few less) mana from your target and deals magic damage equal to the mana drained. It is an incredible harassing tool and also provides a bit of survivability. if you're soloing against vlad(or any other champ without mana as a resource) feel free to take malady instead, although if the other team has atleast 3 champs who do use mana this could be a tough decision.(lane opponent with mana, always take wit's)
Infinity Edge: This is where it starts getting fun. you already have a decent AS, so let's get some dmg. Start off with BF>axe>cloak. I don't think it needs any explanation as any champ with a dps build grabs this.
Phantom Dancer: AS, crit, dodge and movespeed all in one YES PLEASE. This is why you passed on BoS as you will be able to chase just about any champ with this+your slow(yi is a huge exception, though once you get close to the end of the build you can basically 3-4 shot any squishy champ)
2x Black Cleavers: Now these may be expensive as hell but i promise, it's worth it. Any tank will bow down to you if not willingly then by force. Almost no champ will be able to touch you without the jump. Since the passive is not unique this provides a -120 armor debuff to your target(-12 a stack after 10 stacks) coupled with your rune master this gives you a whopping 150 armor penetration. Anyone not stacking armor will cry and rage at your ability to swat them like a fly, and tanks who do will think twice before engaging while you're there. Some of you may be thinking that this is overkill, not at all as you can actually give someone negative armor making them take increased damage instead of being mitigated. (I have gotten 1300-1500 crits on squishies with this build)
Bloodrazor: Now as awesome as Wit's End is early game, it's completely useless late game 42 mana won't even be noticeable on most champs(not to mention they'll be dead before it matters). This is a great choice to replace Wit's with, if you weren't already able to get a penta kill, you will now. The AS loss is hardly noticeable, the passive in case any tanks were somehow giving you problems, and the armor incase you have to tower dive for that little bugger who thinks he can get away.
The Game
Early Game: Play it safe, you are very squishy right now, until you get Wit's you shouldn't be harassing too much unless you get pushed back to tower. Keep on farming until you're able to down your lane opposite. This should be around the time you get Wit's. Now if you somehow get into a sticky situation use exhaust first, the slow/blind(it slows more than your current level frost shot does) almost guarantees an escape, but if that somehow doesn't work and they are chasing you back to base, don't be afraid to blow your ult. being called a noob by the other team for doing so is better than shaving precious time off your farming.
Mid Game: You've got some kills, you're using your ult+tele combo to make people rage.(OH! i forgot to mention, some of you may know this combo, but this is for the newbz. If you haven't already, buy some green wards and place them where you can tele to for ganks when your towers are being pushed. Your Ult+tele combo is when your tower is being pushed, you ult from your fountain at the tower, get a lil mana and tele to the tower before your ult hits. This results in a decent duration stun and almost always ensures a kill and a failed push on their part. While this may work on preschoolers anyone with half a brain will run away when they see the tele animation on the tower. This is why you have wards. teleporting to a ward does not show the animation and most of the time allows for better positioning for the gank. ie the bushes closes to your turret on top and bot and near the entrance to the river in mid. I've had a 99.99% success rate with the ward combo.) After a couple of these combos every lane will be reluctant to push your towers for fear of you coming to smash their face in. So unless they've got elixirs or purple wards do this whenever a tower is in danger.(always be sure to bpill first so no one sees you ult, letting your teammates know you are doing this helps too). you should have you infinity edge and phantom dancer by now.
Late Game: The other team has either surrendered or is raging up a storm in all chat. If someone quits on their team, it's your fault. you are now a true carry, but you're not done yet, oh no. Team fights with competent teammates should always go in your favor just remember, is that extra kill worth the 1000g the enemy gets if you die?(read:DO NOT DIE)though you lose ntthing on death, the absence of your insane dps will be sorely missed and you may lose a tower or two. If you're doing well, the game is close to over, but if it's a close game, you've got a lot of fun left. You shouldn't be going anywhere alone as most of your income is from kills now, besides, venturing out to farm lowlies will leave you vulnerable and trust me, if you do YOU WILL GET GANKED. The other team hates you and will do anything to kill you, even if it means a 5v1 gank. leave the lowlies to those who can't ks you. Chances are, you'll rarely get your second cleaver.(i've only finished this build a handful of times, though those games i did over 200k)
Now go get legendary and watch people rage!
GL and happy hunting
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Writing and self doubt go together like Nutella and a spoon.
Writers, naturally full of doubt, introspection, and self-criticisms, are often strapped in tightly to the emocoaster (emotional roller coaster). The range of emotions over the course of a writing project, or a period of querying or editor submission, or even a single week or day can vary wildly. One minute you're in love with a project, it's the greatest thing you've ever written no seriously I love this story, and the next, you're ready to tear out your hair, gouge your eyeballs and drink a drano cocktail to rid the world of another hack writer (okay, a bit dramatic, but you get my point.).
The highs are high, the lows are low, the little self-doubt monster continues surfing on the swell of emotions that comes in droves, driven by the constant back-burner wrangling of fears: will I make it? Will I ever be good enough?
On a good writing day, you're riding high, and it's easy to banish the thoughts, but one little slip up: a bad writing day, a batch of particularly negative beta comments, an agent/editor rejection, a bad review, whatever, can send the emocoaster plummeting once again.
And then there's those times where you're stuck in one pattern or another, either sailing on the whoo hoo my writing rocks breeze or sloshing through the I suck sewers and just trying to get through the fricken first draft, when you happen to read a great book, one that grabs you and pulls on every emotion, has you rereading lines and whole passages because the language is that beautiful, but you're flying through it anyway because the plot and tension are amazing too and you finish and put it down and are so smitten with the book that you broodingly stare at it and want to break down in tears because:
Damn it will I ever write like that?
Here's the thing about reading. For a writer, there is nothing as useful as reading, and reading a heck of a lot. It keeps ideas fresh, keeps us current on what's happening in the reading world, and, duh – writers are readers – it's fun, too. Plus, there are things you really can't just know or learn any other way. It's one of those you'll know it when you see it things. Things like story flow, plotting, pacing, dialogue, tension, action, emotion, relationships, climax, characterizations, sentence structure, plot structure, mythology, and gosh, the list could go on forever. These things soak in when you read, whether you're consciously looking for them or not.
But reading can hinder us too. I tear through books pretty quickly but I find that when I read too much, too fast, my head starts getting too crowded with ideas. If I'm really taken by one author's metaphors, but the next book amazed by another's tone, and the following week swimming in awesome voice and dialogue and next floored by descriptions… etc., I start looking at my ms like I need to fix everything at once. It's overwhelming.
I know many of us do this comparison thing, so here's what I've learned to remember:
When I am first drafting, I have to slow down my reading DRASTICALLY. Too many different voices interfere with mine, and if it's anything even close to my genre/story, my muse is off balance, stumbling along like she sucked down way too many books at last call.
Also, when reading a published novel, it's good to always keep in mind: it's been written, rewritten, revised like hell (most likely) and edited by many industry professionals. Your book? The one you're crying and thinking sucks? Most likely it's a draft – go easy on yourself. Just finish the thing, then freak out.:D
Relax. Ride the emocoaster when you have to, allow yourself to feel whatever you need to feel before letting it go. Like I tell my kids, we can't control the outside forces that make us feel what we feel, we can only control our reactions to them. A rejection, beta comments that bring us down, or a beautifully written book we feel we can never aspire to. Whatever it is, let it soak in, accept it, have some chocolate/wine/cheese doodles/etc. and then move on. We all have our down days and rejection and writing can beat us up, but just keep pounding away at the keyboard and finish that draft so that someday, it's your book people are sighing over and underlining in and putting on the shelf for a second, third or fourth read someday.
So up up up we climb again, until the emocoaster takes another dive.
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Thanks to the loyal alumni and friends of UTC who participated in the 100th year of Chattanooga Football Homecoming! A comfortable fall day prevailed for the Annual Homecoming Golf Tournament, and Mocs Rocked the Cricket Pavilion Friday night during the March of Dimes Cajun Festival. On Saturday alumni and friends of UTC enjoyed tailgating at Cricket before the football game and reunions into the night. Go Mocs!


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The Twilight of Usefulness.
I have a colleague who recently retired from
an administrative position in an Acute Care
Faciltiy. "Early" retirement, I believed, it was called. She did so as an avenue to seek other challenges exterior to the Health
Care area. She was 55 years of age , at the time. She is now 58 years of age and has
decided to seek re-entrance , on a part-time basis or contractural basis, to the Health
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resumes throughout the Health Education and
Health Services domains and has had a significant number of interviews.. all to no
avail. My colleague and I have had many
hours of reflective discussion pertaining to
the outcome of her endeavours for re-entry to the Health Care Sector. We have not defined
any other parameter that could reasonably be
pivotal contributing or causative factors for the outcomes of her deliberations other than
the "age factor". How discouraging, yet how
double standard the reality. Here she is
faced with the probability of age discrimination and being imprisoned by
"double jeporady" (active response to the former ensuring the reality of the latter)resulting in a definitve no re-entry outcome. Did she reach that
age of "Twilight of Usefulness" when she accepted early re-tirement? I don't know,but
it sure appears so. How effective are those who remain in the system and who are at one and the same time 55 and beyond. Surely they would not adjudicate themselves as ineffective or "Twilight" candidates.. would they? And , if not, why adjudicate a 55 years of age re-tireee as such? Interesting question , I would say.
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DECEMBER School Improvement Activities
For a list of all the Winter activities - see the Practical School Improvement Timeline site. Information comes from that site, and all originals can be found there.
Classroom Activities
- Review Formative and Interim Assessment Data.
- Make necessary adjustments for 2nd Semester and inform SI Team.
- Consider completing another Instructional Learning Cycle .
- Continue measuring how students are individually moving toward their goals and engage students in the monitoring process.
- Celebrate with students the growth that has occurred.
Building Activities
- Hold Monthly School Improvement Meeting (4thfor the school year) Printable Sign in sheet; Sample December Agenda
- Begin School Process Profile: (SPR 40 or SPR 90 or Interim SA or SA)
- Gather information: Teacher perspective on process re: building system. (Could use small groups to address segments of rubrics and report out or online survey tools)
- Study and Discuss: Celebrate a few and narrow focus to 3-5 to improve
- NOTE: If a thorough process was used last year to create staff buy-in on a smaller subset of indicators, simply monitor progress on those indicators and roll over results on the rest as this aligns to the new draft 6 year cycle for MDE.
- Compile summaries of both adult monitoring data (fidelity of implementation of SI strategies) and student impact data (generated from Fall benchmarking or other assessments) to use when reporting to District Improvement Team during December meeting
- Identify barriers and challenges that have occurred since implementing the SI plan.
- Identify steps to take to address challenges and/or barriers.
- Target students who require additional screening for 2nd Semester course placement
- Make refinements to 2nd Semester courses and student placement in Tier II and III classes
- Determine if teachers require additional training to monitor student growth; model expected focus on student achievement during SI meetings, PLCs, and/or collaborative time
- Administer staff perception survey
- Identify January SIT meeting objectives; build meeting agenda
District Activities
- Begin discussion of completion of the District Process Rubrics (DPR) (DUE April 18, 2014)
- Option 1: meet with appropriate school leaders and use completion of the DPR to model completion of the School Process Rubrics (SPR)
- Option 2: use SPR data submitted by buildings to complete DPR
- December 1 is the final submission data for the original Consolidated Application with DIP and Title I School Selection (TISS)
- Registry of Educational Personnel (REP) submission DUE December 1 prior to Comparability
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- January 15, 2014 is final submission date for amendments for all budgets (including carryover funds and final allocations) addressing final semester and summer programs
- Remember ONE amendment allowed prior to January 31, 2014.
School Improvement December
- AdvancEd: ASSIST platform for school improvement plan reporting
- MI School Data Michigan Data portal
- Michigan Dept of Education
Online Tool Kits
- Wayne RESA
- Practical MI School Improvement Timeline
- School Improvement in Maryland - has many useful school improvement resources and ideas
More Help Documents:
Find Top 30/Bottom 30 in the BAA secure site Kathy Stewart of Gratiot Isabella RESD has created a step-by-step guide with screenshots of how to access the data since the system has changed.
Cite the Research:
Best Evidence Encyclopedia - from Johns Hopkins University
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Atheists are ruining 'Saving Christmas'
In a desperate bid to save Saving Christmas from being rated one of Rotten Tomato's worst films of the year – maybe even of the century – Kirk Cameron took to Facebook yesterday to urge his Christian fundie fans to vote this turkey up.
Trumpeting "help me storm the gates of Rotten Tomatoes!" the evangelical actor wrote:
All of you who love Saving Christmas – go rate it at Rotten Tomatoes right now and send the message to all the critics that WE decide what movies we want our families to see! If 2,000 of you (out of almost 2 million on this page) take a minute to rate Saving Christmas, it will give the film a huge boost and more will see it as a result!
Thank you for all your help and support in putting the joy of Christ back in Christmas!
A day later he wrote:
Keep storming! The gates of Rotten Tomatoes are falling! You are A M A Z I N G! You just drove the Rotten Tomato rating to an all-time, soaring high of 94%!
That didn't last long. The Tomatometer immediately plunged to 9 percent, with an audience score of 49 percent. This is even worse than the 2011 straight-to-video atrocity, Christmas With a Capital C, which got a 60 percent audience score, but didn't even register on the Tomatometer.
So who does Cameron blame? Why, the "haters and the atheists", of course.
Now the haters and atheists are coming out of the woodwork, attempting to hammer your good work (they rallied to drop your rating super low).
They are attempting, once again, to ruin Saving Christmas for everyone. Look at their language, vulgarity, and spirit of hate. They can try to ruin a rating, but they can't stop you from going with family and friends to see Saving Christmas this weekend! If people continue to turn out, the theaters will hold the movie longer. YOU have the power, just like with Rotten Tomatoes, to keep Saving Christmas in the theaters.
Your support sends a very loud message. Films like Soul Surfer, God's Not Dead, Courageous and Saving Christmas are small lights in a dark world. Together, let's light up movie theaters this weekend and remind everyone this Christmas of the true reason for the season. Together, they can't stop us! Are you with me?
Saving Christmas is, in essence, a lame comedy, but the real laughs are provided by the critics. The fella who made me laugh loudest today was Alonso Duralde of the The Wrap:
The oft-repeated formula here is to take something that exists and is beloved, and then work backwards to find a way to make it Biblically-inspired. Had Saving Christmas run any longer, Cameron would no doubt have found a way to find the divinity in Frosty, Rudolph, the Grinch, peppermint bark, the Elf on the Shelf, frosted cranberry hand soap and Mr Hanky the Christmas Poo.
Duralde also points out:
It's not a movie so much as it's an extended Sunday school sermonette …
Cameron's answers all come from the Bible, that same book that has previously been used to excuse slavery, racism, imperialism, the destruction of the environment, and the subjugation of gays and women.
For instance, there are trees in the Garden of Eden, and Jesus was crucified on planks of wood, so ta dah — Christmas trees! Christian is too busy being a whiner and a sad sack to mention Saturnalia or the solstice, and as Cameron reminds us, 'The last time I checked, God created the winter solstice'.
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Just to turn that on its head I think Christians are trying to ruin Christmas for atheists. I love celebrating our pagan Christmas (and I don't mind the name Christmas as I'm not prejudiced) but I dislike the theft of our pagan customs. And, of course, the BBC will broadcast floods of offensive mythology as it seizes a licence fee funded chance to pretend that most of its audience are religious.
Anyway, the holly with berries is thriving in my garden although the birds are helping themselves to the berries. I've got the Christmas Tree lined up. And I will keep clear of being preached at by the BBC.
Have we had the first lie about a crib being banned yet?
Cameron 'took to Facebook yesterday to urge his Christian fundie fans to vote this turkey up.'
What, both of them?
Is his selfless 'self promotion' of the film, and that he is in it, (got paid for it?), and might be on commission in any chance related?
All of the xmas stuff is make believe superstitious stuff whether xtian or pagan, and so I celebrate it with a make believe tree, make believe wreath, make believe garland. And burn real trees in the fireplace. And the one thing I don't do is shop til I drop like the xtians do as they are the ones trying to ruin their holiday. They should not be doing ANY of the stuff us atheists or pagans are doing and should be hiding in their churches all day as that was how it was originally celebrated.
Broga: love it! Christians are indeed trying to ruin Christmas for the rest of us. But to draw inspiration from Clark Griswald, "We're gonna press on, and we're gonna have the hap, hap, happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny fucking Kaye."
It is OK for the Christian loons to harangue other Christians to vote this ghastly film up but not OK for Atheists to vote as well – usual double standards from our religious foes again. The religious use the same method by contacting all their churchy mates to complain about something they find offensive, usually facts.
@Laura Roberts: I'm lucky. My children and grandchildren are coming and not a Christian amongst them. No Christmas stories either although it wouldn't trouble me if they did want to have them read. Instead the grandchildren, too young to read, are already well into Greek legends for children so more of these on the way.
I remember a religious relative being horrified because I read "Peter Rabbit" to my children. She thought Mr McGregor putting Peter's father in a pie would traumatise my kids. They have grown up more balanced and mature than myself. They escaped the trauma. I think we will take a chance with the grandchildren.
so much xtmas bashing, and its not even thanksgiving in merica . LOL
have a wonderful time explaining the winter solstice FACTS this year
@dennis: We are getting our retaliation in first. As Christmas approaches in the UK the "Christian Whine" begins. This usually involves tales of Christians being persecuted. An annual treat is the Council or shop which has banned a display of the crib on the grounds that it will offend "minorities." On investigation these complaints have no truth in them.
Another, and this was very big last Christmas, is that supermarkets don't sell Christmas cards with Nativity or other religious themes. On enquiring the reason was found to be that these sell so poorly.
Christians are very unhappy about TV programmes despite a plethora of these. We also have dreary religious films regurgitated every year which are of interminable length. Christians seem to want TV turned over to them so that only religious programmes are shown.
I could go on but you get the idea. The "Christian Whine" should begin soon.
Kirk Cameron = K: I corker man.
Once again religion, loke politics has to use one of the five basic tools of communication to further its message. In fact most articles in the freethinker deal with one of these 5 things that religion does. They are: Propaganda; censorship; spying; secrecy; indoctrination;
Propaganda; In the case of the article above.
Censorship: Such as forbidding parishioners to see certain movies or read books.
Spying: getting the dirt on other churchs.
Secrecy: In the case of the RC and child abuse.
indoctrination: School that teach the young. The RC says 'get the kid at 5 and you'ved got him for life'.
Since they can't stand up to open debate or education. the good tools of communication.
In the states it's "their taking christ out of christmas". Like this over glamorized supposed son of god belongs in the original celebration, winter solstice, anyway. Every where you go there will be religious symbols, religious songs playing, religious specials on TV and then some more religious bull shit, but Fox news will find some supposed town in the state of religiously confused where they have "banned" a nativity scene. Like clockwork, the stories will start after Thanksgiving, the attacks on christmas. I'm getting nauseous just thinking about it. By the time xmas gets here I'll need a holiday to get over the holiday!
Here in sunny Australia at xmas, that Baby jesus has been long forgotten and replaced with that hairy fellow in the red suit, big xmas retail sales and time off work. Having wee plastic jesus' all over the place went out with the sixties, the rest of his PVC family have been packed away too and replaced with the joy of family, food and fun. I'm sure there would be a core of firm believers that may attend a churchy building for some hymns and the taste of the dead deity they love but most now know to stay away, especially when children are involved as it's just too risky with priests and children in the same building,most celebrate the warmth of summer with friends and family. No need for any church nonsense.
Sounds very refreshing. A break from the constant religious onslaught-MERRY FUCKING XMAS!
I hate the run up to Christmas as I work in a supermarket it starts in September by November the the Christmas songs have started on the tanoy if i hear frosty the snowman to often I am liable to run amok with a sharp knife among the happy smiling shoppers. as I live on my own I am working boxing day and new years day so the holiday will mostly pass me by allthough I will spend a week with my daughter at the beginning ofddecember.
I couldn't agree more. I feel for you.
Even in Istanbul Starbucks has had crimbo music for several weeks.
I've stopped going. For tax reasons and my mental health.
I just tell my friends to enjoy the soltice and have a prosperous New Year. No christmas religous nonsense.
@ Broga. I came to the same conclusion-that Christians have hijacked the winter solstice. It is perfectly understandable that our ancestors would want to celebrate the lengthening of daylight hours and have a bit of a binge from their stocks, before facing up to another few months of hardship. Additionally, the celebration is of something tangible and verifiable.
"Thank you for all your help and support in putting the joy of Christ back in Christmas!"
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Founder of the Backbone Campaign, Moyer organized a group of artists in 2004 on Vashon Island, Washington, to bring a puppet of a giant spine to the Democratic National Convention. Each vertebra was a platform plank like "no corporate personhood" and "civil unions for all." The campaign called on political leaders to take a stand on issues Americans care about.
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How many freaking times do we have to repay for the same songs? Changing technology is a money pit. I've owned records, 8-tracks, cassettes, and CD's.
It seems my plan of having my CDs loaded on my laptop and then putting them on my desktop from my laptop doesn't work. And in my search to try and figure out how to do this I found people who had computers crash, or were trying to get stuff from old computers to new computers and this is the type of reply to problems:
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I have lost every program I have bought online when I've upgraded computers. I doubt that I will ever buy a song through iTunes because it seems a far more sure way to end up paying for the same songs yet again. It will most certainly have to be the economics of truly only liking one song on a CD...
Meanwhile, 3 months before I get back to Vancouver, when I bring my desktop back and I load the CDs... I have them on my ipod and a clock I can play them off. I was just want to save on electricity, which is about 10 times more expensive here than in Vancouver. I kid you not, December's electricity bill was $750 before this subsidy you get up here.
Did you pull the hard drive from your old computer and add it to the new computer? This is one of the best ways to transfer programs, in my experience. Make the old hard drive a slave, (changing the little jumper to tell it that), and install it in the new computer. You could then always copy the files from the one hard drive to the other if you want. Quick, easy transfer. Remember though, if your new hard drive is much faster than your old one, you will want to add your old hard drive on the same controller line as your CD/DVD or the new hard drive will slow down to the same speed as your old hard drive. (Controllers generally want to access both hard drives on the same controller at the same data rate, so the faster drive will have its transfer rate lowered to the level of the slower drive.)
Some programs will give you a code you need to write down if you change anything, as they take a picture of your hardware and store that in a file so if you make any changes, (new motherboard, different processor, new hard drive), they will think they are on a different computer and won't work. By adding in the code, you can sometimes get them to work again. Otherwise, you would need to call customer service and see if they can check your ISP and your MAC address to verify you are who you are and then they can tell the program that you are verified and it will work again. Sometimes they can and sometimes they can't.
Transferring between laptops and desktops can be tricky, but if you have a docking station for your laptop, or some sync'ing software, this problem can be made much easier.
As for crashing hard drives, you can only hope you did data backups to load on your new hard drive. Otherwise, you are hosed. (Been there, done that.)
Been through the LP/8-track/cassette/CD dance myself. Have lots of CDs now, so don't plan on changing formats anytime in the reasonable future. Lost all my LPs during a move once. (Moved to Phoenix during the summer. Got too hot in the moving van and all my LPs warped. Sad day. Had to replace all my music.)
Sorry to hear about the high electricity prices. Can you use solar in the summer, (since at that latitude you should have lots of daylight hours during the summer)? That should help cut down on the summer bills. (Of course, during the long winter nights, solar would be useless, so you would have to calculate if they would be practical when they could only be used for half the year.)
I won't be here for the summer. I go back to Vancouver 3x per year, hence having a computer here, Vancouver and the laptop. Those were problems I read about. In Vancouver I had wireless and would just do a transfer over the network.
I don't own here, nor do I intend to. No one can say land is worth anything here and prices are crazy. I live in a mobile home here and owner is trying to sell it for $145k. You have to drive 2 hours to get to the closest town with a restaurant, well, the closest town period. We have a gas station and two general purpose stores.
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Fundraising Day 2015: Amplify Your Fundraising
April 15, 2015
by Anthony Keatin
This year on Tuesday, May 26, Toronto Fundraising Day will bring together an incredible group of passionate individuals, committed to transforming the communities where we live and work – through fundraising. Held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, a full-day array of educational sessions and plenary speakers will help you to find ways to take your fundraising approach to the next level.
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The theme for Fundraising Day 2015 is amplify your fundraising, and all sessions are designed to help you and your organization reach the next level of fundraising performance.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The backlog of tests on evidence at Illinois State Police labs climbed into the thousands and interfered with criminal cases while the agency sat on money that could have accelerated results, a report released today found.
Auditor General William Holland also concluded that state police provided misleading or incorrect numbers to the governor and Legislature, misstating the size of the backlog.
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Watch 18-Year-Old Channing Tatum Work As a Stripper in Florida
As "Chan Crawford."
Channing Tatum has not been shy about drawing upon his past work as a stripper for his Magic Mike films, recently telling T Magazine, "Being a stripper exposed me to a lot of people I might never have met, and that has turned out to be a gift. There are lots of characters I feel I can play as a result." Us Weekly recently got footage of an 18-year-old Tatum when he was working under the name Chan Crawford at the now-defunct club Male Encounter in the Tampa Bay area in Florida. You can watch below to see where he got his original moves, complete with late-'90s boy-band hair and clothes.


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That fails badly for a number of reasons. If you're just testing a function, it's OK. If you're really testing whether a class provides a given method, it fails. For example, if you have an inherited method, your test fails even though the class "has" the method. Further, the method might no be inherited but also not yet installed in the symbol table, yet <tt>can()</tt> might be overridden to supply the method (I've had to do this for "load on demand" services.) If you have OO code, use Perl's OO facilities to work with it. Just peeking into the namespace isn't enough.

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Last Letter: A Message to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney from a Dying Veteran
Activism | Dick Cheney | George Bush | Iraq | Militarism | Politics | Veterans | Video
Submitted by tnjp on March 20, 2013 - 12:52pm.
The Last Letter: A Message to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney from a Dying Veteran
To: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney
From: Tomas Young
"I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488 soldiers and Marines who died in Iraq. I write this letter on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of veterans who have been wounded and on behalf of [those who bear those wounds. I am one of those.] I am one of the gravely injured. I [am] paralyzed in an insurgent ambush in 2004 in Sadr City. My life is coming to an end. I am living under hospice care.
"I write this letter on behalf of husbands and wives who have lost spouses, on behalf of children who have lost parents, on behalf of the fathers and mothers who have lost sons and daughters and on behalf of those who care for the many thousands of my fellow veterans who have brain injuries. I write this letter on behalf of those veterans whose trauma and self-revulsion for what they have [done, witnessed, endured] in Iraq have led to suicide and on behalf of the active-duty soldiers and Marines who commit, on average, a suicide a day. I write this letter on behalf of the some 1 million Iraqi dead and on behalf of the countless Iraqi wounded. I write this letter on behalf of us all—the human detritus your war has left behind, those who will spend their lives in unending pain and grief.
Exclusive: Tomas Young Reads in Full His Letter to Bush & Cheney, "A Message From a Dying Veteran" | Democracy Now!
"Your positions of authority, your millions of dollars of personal wealth, your public relations consultants, [and your privilege and power] cannot mask the hollowness of your character. You sent us to fight and die in Iraq after you, Mr. Cheney, dodged the draft in Vietnam, and you, Mr. Bush, went AWOL from your National Guard unit. Your cowardice and selfishness were established decades ago. You were not willing to risk yourselves for our nation but you sent hundreds of thousands of young men and women to be sacrificed in a senseless war with no more thought than it takes to put out the garbage...
"I write this letter, my last letter, to you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney. I write not because I think you grasp the terrible human and moral consequences of your lies, manipulation and thirst for wealth and power. I write this letter because, before my own death, I want to make it clear that I, and hundreds of thousands of my fellow veterans, along with millions of my fellow citizens, along with hundreds of millions more in Iraq and the Middle East, know fully who you are and what you have done. You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americans—my fellow veterans—whose future you stole.
"I joined the Army two days after the 9/11 attacks. I joined the Army because our country had been attacked. I wanted to strike back at those who had killed some 3,000 of my fellow citizens. I did not join the Army to go to Iraq, a country that had no part in the [9/11] attacks and did not pose a threat to its neighbors, much less to the [U.S.] I did not join the Army to 'liberate' Iraqis or to shut down mythical weapons-of-mass-destruction facilities or to implant what you cynically called 'democracy' in Baghdad and the Middle East. I did not join the Army to rebuild Iraq, which at the time you told us could be paid for by Iraq's oil revenues. Instead, this war has cost the United States over $3 trillion. I especially did not join the [Army] to carry out pre-emptive war. Pre-emptive war is illegal under international law. And as a soldier in Iraq I was, I now know, abetting your idiocy and your crimes. The Iraq War is the biggest strategic blunder in U.S. history. It obliterated the balance of power in the Middle East. It installed a corrupt and brutal pro-Iranian government in Baghdad, one cemented in power through the use of torture, death squads and terror. And it has left Iran as the dominant force in the region. On every level—moral, strategic, military and economic—Iraq was a failure. And it was you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, who started this war. It is you who should pay the consequences.
"I have, like many other [wounded and many other] disabled veterans, suffered from the inadequate and often inept care provided by the Veterans Administration. I have, like many other disabled veterans, come to realize that our mental and physical [disabilities and] wounds are of no interest to you, perhaps of no interest to any politician. We were used. We were betrayed. And we have been abandoned. You, Mr. Bush, make much pretense of being a Christian. But isn't lying a sin? Isn't murder a sin? Aren't theft and selfish ambition sins? I am not a Christian. But I believe in the Christian ideal. I believe that what you do to the least of your [own] brothers you finally do to yourself, to your own soul.
"I would not be writing this letter if I had been wounded in Afghanistan against those forces that carried out the attacks of 9/11. Had I been wounded there I would still be miserable because of my physical deterioration and imminent death, but I would at least have the comfort of knowing that my injuries were a consequence of my own decision to defend our country I love—the country I love. I would not have to lie in my bed, my body filled with painkillers, my life ebbing away, and deal with the fact that hundreds of thousands of human beings, including children, including myself, were sacrificed by you for little more than the greed of oil companies, for your alliance with the oil sheiks in Saudi Arabia, and your insane visions of empire.
"My day of reckoning is upon me. Yours will come. I hope you will be put on trial. But mostly I hope, for your sakes, that you find the moral courage to face what you have done to me and to many, many others who deserved to live. I hope that before your time on earth ends, as mine is now ending, you will find the strength of character to stand before the American public and the world, and in particular the Iraqi people, and beg for forgiveness."
—Tomas Young
Tomas Young, Iraq War veteran and the main subject of the documentary, Body of War. On April 4, 2004, his fifth day in Iraq, Young's unit came under fire in the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad. Young was left paralyzed, never to walk again. Released from medical care three months later, Young returned home to become an active member in Iraq Veterans Against the War. He recently announced that he will stop his nourishment, which comes in the form of liquid through a feeding tube — a decision which will hasten his death.
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Two Philadelphia men have pleaded guilty for taking part in a drive-by shooting on Wedgewood Drive in Lansdale on Sept. 4, 2011, where an 18-year-old man was shot in the torso by a .22-caliber handgun, according to reports.
John Sambath, 21, of the 1600 block of South 15th Street, was given a five- to 12-year state prison sentence in Montgomery County Court this week, per The Times Herald. Sambath pleaded guilty to felony aggravated assault, causing serious bodily injury, per court records.
Sambath admitted to pulling the trigger on the gun that fired seven rounds into the Wedgewood neighborhood shortly after midnight, police said.
Sambath's accomplice in the shooting—Christian Vietri, 22, of the 1200 block of South 11th Street has yet to be sentenced after pleading guilty to felony possession of a firearm without a license and DUI, per court records. Vietri is free on bail.
Police arrived on scene Sept. 4, 2011 and found the victim with a wound to his upper torso, police said. Witnesses said Vietri and Sambath were a group of individuals who got into an argument with residents along the 900 block of Wedgewood Drive, police said.
The two pulled handguns, and Vietri shot twice in the opposite direction, police said. Sambath went to leave the scene, but stopped and fired seven rounds toward the area, police said.
The two fled the area in separate cars, and Vietri was stopped several blocks away. Sambath got away, but was later apprehended thanks to surveillance footage and photographs from security cameras at area businesses, police said.


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CL meets Madonna at Alexander Wang's Fashion Show
CL met the Queen of Pop!
The "Lifted" singer had a ball at the recent Alexander Wang Spring 2017 Fashion Show in New York, and she couldn't wait to share her happiness with her Instagram followers. Yesterday, the 2NE1 member uploaded a classic black and white snapshot of herself with the music legend Madonna. Both ladies looked nervous as they posed for the photo that is sure to become an iconic music moment for years to come. I'm sure CL is a fan of Madonna, but I wonder if the "Material Girl" is a K-Pop lover as well. If the musical genuises end up collaborating together in the future, I wouldn't be surprised!
On August 19, the 2NE1: 'New Evolution in Seoul' artist made her official debut in the American music market with the hip hop single "Lifted". She seems to be spending alot of time in North America promoting the song these days, and now she is meeting music icons! It is just a matter of time before she releases her first solo album, and embarks on a full blown tour.
Besides the Queen of Pop, who would you love to see CL tour the USA with?
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Brian Smith is plotting Irish's escape route as his side started to dig themselves out of relegation trouble with a morale-boosting win over title challengers Sarries.
The director of rugby insisted that his players needed to pick up another 16 points from their remaining eight league games to avoid dropping out of the top flight as tries from Shane Geraghty and Ofisa Treviranus lifted spirits.This win moves them to within the coat-tails of London Welsh.
Full-back Tom Homer laid down the foundations with 19 points after a crucial first-half kicking display which enabled Irish to keep on terms with their under-strength opponents – and then sweep ahead after the break.
Saracens struggled without a host of international players – five of whom will line up for England in Dublin today. But Irish fully deserved to win, having lost England centre prospect Jonathan Joseph to a toe injury.
Centre Geraghty's fine interception try from Nils Mordt's badly-judged pass put Irish in command. England wing David Strettle gave Sarries some hope with a try of his own before replacement Treviranus raced over in the corner after fine work from Topsy Ojo on the right to seal a confidence-boosting triumph.
Smith said: "If we can get 16 points from our remaining eight games that should be enough to stay up and it would have been a successful season for us.
"Sarries are not my favourite team as it is well documented and it was a very physical contest.
"The boys stepped up to the plate and you don't get anything from Saracens without earning it."