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Morgoth's Ring is the tenth volume of Christopher Tolkien's 13-volume series The History of Middle-earth in which he analyses the unpublished manuscripts of his father J. R. R. Tolkien. This volume along with the subsequent The War of the Jewels provides detailed writings and editorial commentary pertaining to J. R. R. Tolkien's cosmology that eventually would become The Silmarillion. This book mentions a few characters excluded elsewhere, including Findis and Irimë, the daughters of Finwë.
The title of this volume comes from a statement from one of the essays: "Just as Sauron concentrated his power in the One Ring, Morgoth dispersed his power into the very matter of Arda, thus 'the whole of Middle-earth was Morgoth's Ring'".
Morgoth's Ring presents source material and editorial on the following:
- Later 1951 revisions of The Silmarillion showing Tolkien's drastic revisiting and rewriting of his legends.
- "Annals of Aman" — Detailed chronology from the creation of the world through the end of the First Age, including an explanation of time reckoning in Valian Years.
- "Laws and Customs among the Eldar" — Several essays and legends on the Eldar, particularly mating and naming customs of the Elves, and Tolkien's conceptions of the soul and body.
- "Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth" — A discussion between two characters, an Elven king Finrod Felagund and Andreth, a mortal woman, about the metaphysical differences between Elves and Edain.
- "Tale of Adanel" — The Middle-earth version of the tale of the original sin.
- "Myths Transformed" — Several fragments concerning Morgoth, Sauron, and the origin of the orcs.
| J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium
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Criminal District Attorney Bob Wortham announced Aug. 10 that Sidney Maxwell, 61, pled guilty to nine charges of aggravated sexual assault of a child, a first-degree felony, and one charge of indecency with a child by contact, a second-degree felony. Judge Raquel West accepted a plea agreement in the cases for 30 years confinement in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in each aggravated sexual assault, and 20 years for the indecency with a child, to run concurrently.
Chase Martin Floyd, a 22-year-old Port Neches man, was taken into custody Friday, June 22, as a suspect in a robbery of the CVS Pharmacy on College St., which occurred two days prior.
Port Neches Police Department released a statement Monday, June 11 reminding citizens about the ordinance regarding the operation of golf carts. This reminder comes after PNPD received numerous complaints concerning golf carts on city streets.
Beaumont police arrested two suspects they believe burglarized American Bedroom on 11th Street Dec. 28, after finding one suspect inside the business and one in a vehicle in the parking lot while responding to the store's burglar alarm at about 2 a.m. that morning.
Police in Port Neches are investigating an apparent murder-suicide, reports Police Chief Paul Lemoine.
According to a news release from Lemoine, officers with the Port Neches Police Department responded to the Ridgewood Apartments at 699 Ridgewood Dr. in reference to a welfare concern at 12:10 p.m. on Oct. 22. A caller from Arkansas was trying to contact his father at that location for the past couple of days.
Brian Landry's experience epitomizes mom-and-pop. He grew up working in his father's grocery store in Port Neches — Rodney's Hello Grocery Store. Father and son ventured into the restaurant business together with Landry's Cajun Eatery, but his father retired in 2001 and later passed away in 2012.
Selling and consuming organic products and food has been a growing trend nationally since the early days of the new millennium, and Texas tendrils of that same movement have burst through not only in likely hot spots like Austin but also in the Mid-County area.
The Port Neches Police Department (PNPD) frequently gets calls from citizens about whether or not operating golf carts on City streets is legal, the deparment posted on their Facebook page. The answer is "yes" but with restrictions, PNPD said.
Fleur Fine Books in Port Neches will be having two author meet and greets in the next few weeks.
Mad Maude & The Hatters will perform at the Neches Brewing Company on Saturday, Feb. 11, beginning at 8:30 p.m. The band will also be selling The Sweetheart Sessions on 10-inch vinyl for $10 at the show. The music was recorded in 2015 at Sweetheart Studios in Austin.
While we harbor no disrespect for the Wall Street Journal who called us "that scrappy little paper from Southeast Texas," we prefer to think of ourselves as simple seekers of the truth. We're of the opinion that headlines and sound bites never tell the whole story. Our readers demand all the facts, facets and flavors of every story or event. And, they expect to be informed, educated and stirred to action.
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Who says 'The Dark Knight' is an Oscar long shot?
Who says The Dark Knight is an Oscar long shot? Christopher Nolan's billion-grossing Batman Begins sequel was just named Best Picture by the influential Utah Film Critics Association. Another pleasant surprise? Best Director honors for Wall-E helmer Andrew Stanton, the Pixar genius' first such award this season. [Deseret News]


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It is hard to imagine a better setting for Jim Hightower to renew the populist call to action than Fighting Bob Fest, the county-fair-style outdoor gathering of 10,000 progressives where the agitator from Austin will appear Sept. 11.
And it is hard to imagine a better time.
Hightower has for almost three decades — since his election as Texas agriculture commissioner in the second year of the Reagan/Bush era — been America's best-known and most ardent progressive populist.
Along the way, he has defended family farmers and factory workers, small-business owners and teachers, neglected rural communities, and inner cities from the ravages of the Wall Street speculators and their political handmaidens in Washington. During the farm crisis of the 1980s, it was Hightower who rallied activists across the country and forced Democrats to get serious about tackling the abuses of big agribusiness. That initiative spawned a renewed rural populism that produced a new generation of candidates in the Hightower mold: Minnesota's Paul Wellstone, Wisconsin's Ed Garvey, Iowa's Tom Harkin. In the 1990s, he warned that trade agreements like NAFTA would devastate farm country and factory towns, and, like Wellstone and Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold, he condemned not just the Republicans but Democrats like Bill Clinton for selling out America's economic future.
Of course, Hightower was a critic of bailouts for Wall Street and, with Feingold, he was a critic of the so-called banking reform that Congress passed this summer. Of that legislation, Hightower observed: "The regulatory reforms were hailed by Democrats as possessing powerful cleansing power, while Republicans wailed that the new rules were overly caustic, imposing such a heavy-handed governmental scrub that the delicate layers of Wall Street innovation, competitiveness and profitability will be rubbed away. Meanwhile, the big bankers were grinning from ear to ear, for the bill requires no restructuring and decentralizing of the monopolistic grip that these giants have on America's credit system. Thus, they still retain the power to rip off consumers, gamble with depositors' money, haul in exorbitant profits and pay themselves ungodly bonuses — all while remaining 'too big to fail.' "
That's the truth, not the spin.
We will need more of that if we are to stand a chance in the great wrestling match over how the banking bill will be implemented — with real regulators or toothless tigers in charge of key agencies, with consumers calling the shots or lobbyists continuing to define things, with Wall Streeters forced to take responsibility for their greed or with taxpayers facing the threat of another "bailout" raid on the treasury.
When Hightower appears at Fighting Bob Fest events (Sept. 10 with Feingold at the Barrymore in Madison; Sept. 11 with the Rev. Jesse Jackson and others at the Sauk County Fairgrounds in Baraboo) he won't tell anyone to trust the Democrats or the Republicans. He'll do what progressive populists going back to Robert M. La Follette have done: shine a light on the honest players and shine an even brighter light on the banksters and the unindicted co-conspirators in both parties.


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Top 5 Trends in Vacation Types, according to Destination Counsellors International (DCI)
Experiences: Consumers in pursuit of the "E Factor" remains a primary driving force in travel, particularly among Baby Boomers. Experiences topping the list include culinary and culture, with interest noted in nature, adventure, photography and golf.
Mystery Trips: Within the budget travel category, "Mystery Trips" are projected to be one of the fastest growing trends for 2012. There are so few surprises left in life that travel suppliers are finding that consumers are increasingly interested in booking a trip to an "unknown destination" – provided that the destination is guaranteed to offer experiences that match their personal interests and travel budget. That's great news for suppliers who are now better able to move excess inventory without having to heavily discount rates.
Ancestry/Heritage Travel: Top luxury suppliers cite "tracing your roots" trips as popular in the luxury segment.
Tourism Dollars Matter: Across market segments, travel to destinations impacted by natural and political disasters, as well as destinations where cultural sites depend on tourism dollars for preservation, is on the rise. Travelers are becoming more educated about where their visitor dollars have the greatest impact.
Cruising and Island Getaways On The Rise: Cruising and island escapes can expect a resurge in popularity while amusement/theme park trips, lake trips and hiking tips are expected to decline in 2012.


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This webinar series takes an interdisciplinary look at permafrost and thermokarst dynamics in Alaska's North Slope. It is designed for an audience from a broad range of backgrounds including physical, biological, and social sciences in order to take a holistic look at changes in the terrestrial arctic system.
Topics covered include: an overview of permafrost and thermokarst, impacts of thawing permafrost on people, geomorphology, soils and microbes, and arctic vegetation, streams, and lakes.
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Derivational Morphology
- LAST REVIEWED: 25 May 2018
- LAST MODIFIED: 31 March 2016
- DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199772810-0043
- LAST REVIEWED: 25 May 2018
- LAST MODIFIED: 31 March 2016
- DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199772810-0043
Derivational morphology is concerned with forming new lexemes, that is, words that differ either in syntactic category (part of speech) or in meaning from their bases. Derivation is typically contrasted with inflection, which is the modification of words to fit into different grammatical contexts. Words formed by derivation are complex in the sense that they typically have a base or root that has been modified in some systematic way to form a new word. The most widespread of techniques for derivation is affixation, the addition of prefixes, suffixes, infixes, circumfixes, and so on, but new words are often formed by other means such as reduplication, internal modification or rearrangement of consonants and vowels, or by subtraction of segments. Languages frequently have means of derivation that form agents, patients, or locations from verbs or other syntactic categories, or verbs of various sorts from nouns or adjectives. Adjectives may be formed from either nouns or verbs. Words may also undergo derivation that does not change their category but rather modifies their meaning, maintaining category. So, adjectives, nouns, or verbs may be negated, concrete nouns can be made abstracts or collectives, verbs may be made transitive or causative. Most general reference works on morphology treat derivation alongside inflection, so the reader is referred for additional resources to the Oxford Bibliographies article Morphology.
General Textbooks
Any general textbook on morphology will treat derivation. All of the texts below give good basic introductions to the topic. Aronoff and Fudeman 2010 and Lieber 2016 are geared toward undergraduate students who do not have an extensive background in linguistics. The other texts are more advanced and treat matters of theory that concern derivation in more depth. Spencer 1991 is an excellent theoretical introduction, but it is out of date at this point.
Aronoff, M., and K. Fudeman. 2010. What is morphology? 2d ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
A clear and comprehensive introductory work, with good exercises. Matters concerning derivation are spread across a number of chapters.
Bauer, L. 2003. Introducing linguistic morphology. 2d ed. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press.
Basics concerning derivation are concentrated in the beginning chapters of the book, with theoretical issues postponed to later in the text.
Booij, G. 2007. The grammar of words: An introduction to linguistic morphology. 2d ed. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.
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A more advanced text, this has a single concise chapter devoted solely to derivation, but derivation figures in many of the theoretical debates discussed elsewhere.
Haspelmath, M., and A. Sims. 2010. Understanding morphology. 2d ed. London: Hodder Education.
Like Booij 2007, this is intended for more advanced students.
Katamba, F., and J. Stonham. 2006. Morphology. 2d ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Extensive treatment of derivation, especially in its relation to matters concerning phonology.
Lieber, R. 2016. Introducing morphology. 2d ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press.
This text concentrates on analysis, postponing matters of theory to the end, and it has two chapters devoted to derivational morphology.
Spencer, A. 1991. Morphological theory: An introduction to word structure in generative grammar. Oxford: Blackwell.
Now somewhat dated, this text gives an excellent overview of the theoretical debates that were important in the first two decades of generative morphology.
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The University of North Dakota (UND) is the state's oldest and largest university, equipping students with the insights to lead and the skills to make a difference.
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Every accredited college or university offers education, but not every school prepares students to make a real impact the way UND does. We consistently rank among the best for educational quality, affordability and career outcomes. And it's not just for our on-campus programs; year-after-year our online programs climb the ranks.
UND surges in 2018 'Best Colleges' U.S. News & World Report rankings, joining the ranks of Harvard, Stanford and MIT.
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We focus on our goals with the eye of a hawk and rise above whatever challenges come our way. We are leaders that do and doers that lead. We are forever UND.
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As the only university in the state with graduate, law and medical schools, UND continues to lead in educating the region's doctors, lawyers, engineers, scientists and business professionals.
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As the Energy U, Medical U and Unmanned U, we will continue to serve as the chief opportunity engine for this state and its citizens.President Mark KennedyInaugural Address, October 10, 2016
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So i've been on the forum for a while, mostly reading the threads and journals people post. And they've been really really helpful.
I'm about 56 Days in (Closing in on 60 days!) I have felt some big changes in the last few days.
I have been wanting to start my own thread, but I haven't been able to submit posts i've written... I seem to back out.
However, I believe i need a thread for myself to be able to post things that are going on with me. And this will help me stay honest with myself. And a place to place ideas. Writing helps.
Lately i've been coming to the forum a lot more to because, i feel i've been hitting a rut. I know it's my responsibility, and I haven't been treating my life, and being as active as i should be. So I feel i'm mostly aware why i'm at an unbalance and experiencing situational depression. Tomorrow i will drive south a few hours to visit friends, this i hope will bring some much needed positivity.
Background longtime toker.
Feb 2017 - I quit, with the presence of a new roommate, i decided i would use it as a test to myself to be honest to myself and stop smoking. It worked... it was a real struggle with big withdrawals, energy crashes, etc etc...
July 2017 - I relapsed, relationship got rocky, and i hitting the green again... hard
Nov 22, 2017 - I Managed to build up the courage and quit again, with the help of my bro.
This quit was a lot easier, due to my 6 month break earlier this year, The encouraging words from users on this forum said me that i shouldn't give up, and it's better to quit again. A relapse doesn't mean it's over.
Jan 2, 2017- Decided to stop drinking beer; i've noticed it makes me feel depressed for the following days
Today - Lately It's been real tough, i just want to go back and smoke up a bit... but i know it'll turn to an all day thing.
Positives: I've started reading a lot more, and i LOVE it. I've been reading book on philosophy, and it has been absolutely encouraging and eye-opening.
Fitness has bene so so, my name is 'Ink Chalk' cause i draw and i rock climb lots.
I've been taking Vitamin D, and Magnesium, and it seem to be really helping. I've stopped drinking beer, and it's made a huge difference to my health.
I have been productive compared to my stoner times, and sent resumes. Also my mental clarity has given me ability to see further into the future, and set goals and a path for myself in the long run.
Constant dehydration has stopped, and my sleep pattern has improved (6 weeks clean)
Also a new thing... is that i've had a stash available this whole time. This has stopped the need for a hunt when i'm feeling down (this i think is something i do when i hit a hard point, and i'm desperate for an activity... which leads to me smoking again. contemplating to toss the stash soon, the availability is not helping me much lately.
Recent Weaknesses:
The things that make me depressed and relapse more i think is Youtube, and internet, and watching movies. Lately i've been spending hours, wasting my time on the computer... it's been pushing me back into wanting to go back to my old habits. - I think i'm going to change my desk setup to discourage this habit. I would rather read on the couch... but i haven't been able to shake the computer habit.
Lately i've been going to bed later, i think i've been cooped up inside the same place for too long.
Not having a consistent diet, (I have not gotten around to making a meal plan/grocery list... i think this may help)
I hope to update this thread in the future, to help myself keep track of my progress and realizations i come across.
Sorry if this post seems rushed, but I need to post something now.
Thank you to all people on this forum (all types of addiction fighter out there) I've found a lot of support in your words, and you will continue to do so.


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Genre: Comedy, Crimina
Year: 2003
Country: US, Australia
Director: Harold Ramis
Actors: Lisa Kudrow, Robert De Niro, James Biber, Billy Crystal, Joe Viterelli, Cathy Moriarty, Kyle Sabiha, Joey Diaz, Anthony LaPaglia, Callie Thorne
The main character Paul Vitti, played by the wonderful actor Robert De Niro, there is very little before the end of the prison term, and at this time are trying to kill him. But Paul was aware of it and hid under the bunks and survived. After this attempt, he called his doctor, who for many years was his personal psychoanalyst and asked for help. FBI agents continually monitor all calls Paul Vitti and cause the analyst to confirm his patient's madness. Ben Sobel says that his patient is not faking it and the FBI let him out of prison under the responsibility of the doctor. Coming out of prison and got into the car of Ben, Paul once said that he pretended to be mad, but was disappointed that he would have to live in the house analyst. The doctor offers his patients find the usual work. He tried a lot of different professions, but in the end decided on the position. Paul finds out who wanted to remove him in prison: the order was from the family Rigatstsi. Explaining clan Rigatstsi he retired, Paul Vitti is a wonderful option to employ. With the help of this site you can download Analyze That full movie in HDrip.


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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary1. (n.) The act of discerning.
2. (n.) The power or faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes one thing from another; power of viewing differences in objects, and their relations and tendencies; penetrative and discriminate mental vision; acuteness; sagacity; insight; as, the errors of youth often proceed from the want of discernment.
Greek144. aisthesis -- perception
... Noun, Feminine Transliteration: aisthesis Phonetic Spelling: (ah'-ee-sthay-sis)
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1922. epignosis -- recognition, knowledge
1506. eilikrines -- judged by sunlight, unalloyed, pure
4907. sunesis -- a running together, spec. understanding
145. aistheterion -- organ of perception
4893. suneidesis -- consciousness, spec. conscience
1233. diagnosis -- a distinguishing, determination
1253. diakrisis -- the act of judgment
Strong's Hebrew998. binah -- an understanding
... Word Origin from bin Definition an understanding NASB Word Usage clearly (1),
consideration (1), discernment (3), truth (1), understand (1), understanding (29 ...
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8394. tebunah -- an understanding
995. bin -- to discern
7919a. sakal -- to be prudent
2942. teem -- taste, judgment, command
2940. taam -- taste, judgment
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Lacks (27 Occurrences)
Weak (102 Occurrences)
Insight (39 Occurrences)
Teach (172 Occurrences)
Teaching (372 Occurrences)
Teacher (103 Occurrences)
Blind (91 Occurrences)
Redeemer (42 Occurrences)
Bible ConcordanceDiscernment (43 Occurrences)
Matthew 11:25 About that time Jesus exclaimed, "I heartily praise Thee, Father, Lord of Heaven and of earth, that Thou hast hidden these things from sages and men of discernment, and hast unveiled them to babes.
1 Corinthians 1:19 For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing."
Philippians 1:9 This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
Colossians 1:9 For this reason we also, from the day we first received these tidings, have never ceased to pray for you and to entreat that you may be filled with a clear knowledge of His will accompanied by thorough wisdom and discernment in spiritual things;
2 Timothy 2:7 Mark well what I am saying: the Lord will give you discernment in everything.
Hebrews 5:14 and of perfect men is the strong food, who because of the use are having the senses exercised, unto the discernment both of good and of evil.
Deuteronomy 32:28 For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.
1 Samuel 25:33 And blessed be thy discernment, and blessed be thou, who hast kept me this day from coming with bloodshed, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.
1 Kings 3:11 And God said to him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life, neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies, but hast asked for thyself discernment to understand judgment;
1 Kings 4:29 God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore.
2 Chronicles 2:12 Huram said moreover: 'Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, endued with discretion and understanding, that should build a house for the LORD, and a house for his kingdom.
Job 12:20 He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.
Job 34:35 Job speaketh without knowledge, And his words are without wisdom.
Psalms 2:10 Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth.
Psalms 119:66 Teach me good discernment and knowledge; for I have believed in thy commandments.
Psalms 119:125 I am your servant; give me wisdom, so that I may have knowledge of your unchanging word.
Proverbs 2:2 So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding;
Proverbs 2:3 Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;
Proverbs 2:6 For Jehovah giveth wisdom; Out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding:
Proverbs 2:11 Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee:
Proverbs 3:21 My son, let not them depart from thine eyes; keep sound wisdom and discretion;
Proverbs 10:13 Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.
Proverbs 10:23 It is as sport to a fool to do wickedness; And'so is wisdom to a man of understanding.
Proverbs 11:12 He that despiseth his neighbor is void of wisdom; But a man of understanding holdeth his peace.
Proverbs 14:6 A scoffer seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not; But knowledge is easy unto him that hath understanding.
Proverbs 14:33 Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding; But that which is in the inward part of fools is made known.
Proverbs 15:14 The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge; But the mouth of fools feedeth on folly.
Proverbs 15:21 Folly is joy to him that is void of wisdom; But a man of understanding maketh straight his going.
Proverbs 16:21 The wise in heart shall be called prudent; And the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.
Proverbs 17:10 A word of protest goes deeper into one who has sense than a hundred blows into a foolish man.
Proverbs 17:27 He that spareth his words hath knowledge; And he that is of a cool spirit is a man of understanding.
Proverbs 28:11 The man of wealth seems to himself to be wise, but the poor man who has sense has a low opinion of him.
Isaiah 27:11 When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.
Isaiah 29:14 For this cause I will again do a strange thing among this people, a thing to be wondered at: and the wisdom of their wise men will come to nothing, and the sense of their guides will no longer be seen.
Isaiah 40:14 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding?
Isaiah 40:28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? The everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary; there is no searching of his understanding.
Isaiah 44:19 And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood?
Jeremiah 51:15 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding hath he stretched out the heavens:
Ezekiel 28:4 by thy wisdom and by thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures;
Daniel 2:14 Then Daniel hath replied 'with' counsel and discretion to Arioch chief of the executioners of the king, who hath gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon.
Daniel 9:13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come on us: yet have we not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities, and have discernment in your truth.
Obadiah 1:7 All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee on thy way, even to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; they that eat thy bread lay a snare under thee: there is no understanding in him.
Obadiah 1:8 Shall I not in that day, saith Jehovah, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?
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The Messiest Mixer Badge was an award given by the Potions Club to students of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry during the 1996–1997 school year, regardless of their house. To receive the badge, students had to spill a large amount of liquid onto the table they were brewing on.[1] The badge was a Potions Silver Badge.
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It is not just the traditional forms of gambling such as casinos, card games and horses that are cause for concern but also internet gambling. It is impossible to log on to the internet without encountering at least one pop of how you could be richer in the next ten minutes if you click the link to said gambling site. They come in many forms, from online poker to online bingo, it is understandable that so many are addicted what with having gambling opportunities thrust at us every five minutes.
Unfortunately there is currently no government legislation in place that condemns the advertising of gambling like it does with that of cigarettes, alcohol and drugs even though it is an addiction like any other.
Gambling is obsessive compulsive behaviour and offers the 'high' of winning which is what spurs the victim to continue.
Surprisingly many addicts report losing as just as addictive as winning because the loss of money posseses them with a desperate hope for gaining control again, leading them to act out compulsively on gambling behaviour.
There are many rehabilitation programme's currently on offer for those addicted to gambling including both in and out patient facilities depending on the severity of the problem and with treatment and a daily programme of recovery this addiction can be maintained.
Hypnotherapy is now considered effective therapy for smoking and alcohol addictions and could also be effective for certain people with a gambling addiction. It essentially works in the same way as hypnotherapy for other addictions by putting the patient into a state of intense relaxation and enabling access to the subconscious in order to retrain it.
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Special Education
The Carroll County Public School System provides Special Education programs and services to all children with disabilities (from birth to their twenty-first birthday) who reside in Carroll County. Special Education services include diagnostic, instructional, and related services. Programs and services are provided on a continuum ranging from consultation with regular education teachers, up through full time special education programming. This continuum of programs and services is designed to ensure that appropriate programs are available to all children with disabilities and that the least restrictive environment for each child is determined based upon the child's unique needs.
For information about the special education programs and services available in Carroll County Public Schools, please contact any of the staff listed below.
For additional information about special education services in Carroll County, please call the Office of Special Education at 410-751-3033 or Partners for Success at 410-751-3955.


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Latitude was German built as an Ice Class supply boat (OSV), converted and refit 2003 thru 2006 into a fantastic Expedition yacht with a first class yacht interior. Her interior designer was Claudio Bernardes, a famous Brazilian architect. She has recently returned from an extended three year exploration and fishing adventure in Tahiti and the far Pacific. Designed for long range, global adventuring, LATITUDE is currently configured with a 42' and 28' catamaran sport fishermen plus 3 other tenders and a wide array of toys of all kinds. Fish for world records, surf, dive, explore. Relax in the 40,000 gallon fresh water swimming pool. The cranes can handle most submersibles. Clear the decks and land a mid size helicopter (EC 155) or create your own globe trotting mission oriented configuration.
The Grand Salon Deck is luxuriously comfortable in Brazilian Cedar with ample storage done with warm, excellent joinery. An owner's galley to die for joins the common salon and dining area, all opening to the pool deck. The owner's suite is above and behind the bridge and has panoramic views with separate owner's office, walk-in closet, large marble bath and balcony overlooking all the action. On the main deck below the Grand Salon Deck are five guest staterooms with ensuite baths. The generous Captain's cabin is joined by the Captain's office on the man deck aft and seperate from the guest. The crew galley and crew mess are on the main deck aft. The lower deck is dedicated to crew, laundry and machinery.
LATITUDE offers the world adventurer a unique opportunity to take over a vessel that is robust, luxurious and versatile to strike out to the far reaches of the world.
LATITUDE is berthed in historic, charming Cartagena, Colombia. Direct air connections are available from many US and European cities. Seller will supply 2 round trip air tickets to qualified buyers. Cartagena is a safe and fascinating Unesco heritage site with great shopping, dining and maritime history. Cotecmar, a highly qualified Colombian Naval Shipyard in Cartagena with a 3,500 ton synchro-lift is well versed in large yachts and very economical. Cotecmar would be an ideal candidate for fine tuning LATITUDE for a fortunate buyer to make their signature refitting and outfitting.
LATITUDE is seriously for sale represented by a recent $2,395,000 USD price reduction. The seller will consider terms.
Bridge Deck:
The luxutious Master Stateroom with an office and marble head is located on the top deck. This location provides privacy, expanded views and a private balcony. The Navigation Bridge, Communication Room and Day Head are located forward of the Master Suite.
Grand Salon Deck:
Main Salon with the owner's galley, dining room, swimming pool. Wine store room, storage for service and row boats, life rafts, barbecue apparatus.
Main Deck:
Five Guest Staterooms with ensuite heads forward.
Main galley, freezer room and crew mess are aft completely separated from the guests.
The generous Captain's cabin and office are aft of the Guest Staterooms.
Lower Deck:
Crew quarters for 15
Ship's galley and storage area
Common crew meeting and dining area
Engine room, engine workshop, steering room, forward equipment room, with massive storage.
The salon deck features a panoramic view from the owner's gourmet galley, salon and formal dining area, generous built in storage lockers and bar. Also on this deck is is the main entertainment center with a large screen TV. This deck has a very comfortable and warm atmosphere.
Owner's Galley:
L-shaped bar with seating for 8
Miele microwave
Miele Refrigeration
Gaggenau induction stove
Gaggenau oven
L-shaped settee with pillows
Chairs with designer accents
Desk with chair
Full service bar
The Pilot House has a Portugese Bridge with dual wing stations.
Main engines alarm control panel
Watertight indication panel
Speich rotate and swing wipers
Watertight doors port and starboard
Captain's day berth
Day Head
Proper navigation area
Foredeck decks are hearty teak over steel
Aft decks are cedar over steel
(2) Forward Anchors - 2,645 lb each
(1) Stern Anchor - 1,543 lbs., 328' of 12 mm wire cable
Windlass - Hitzeler Electric
(2) Stern mooring winches - hydraulic
Cranes: 14 ton 2001 Heila Gru HL RM 90/35, and 2008 Palfinger PC2300MA, 1 ton
Custom steel gangway
Fresh water pool: 40,000 gallons
Helicopter capacity on aft deck to 10,000 lbs, Dauphin EC 155
Furuno FR-2125 and 2135 Radar
Raymarine C120 GPS/Plotter/Echo sounder with Hybrid touch
Furuno GPS GP-33
Robertson AP9-MK3 Autopilot
Raymarine ST-60 with (3) displays
VHF portable - (5) units
Azimuth 1200 Electronic Compass
Simrad AR-68 Gyro
Robertson FU-91 Steering System
VHF portable - (5) units
Communication and Navigation Room:
GMDSS Console
Furuno Inmarsat System
KVH Mini SAT Broadband System
Navigation computer with printer
Telephones for all cabins
Caterpillar Generators:
1 x 180 KW
2 x 210KW
Main and emergency switchboard in the engine room
(12) Batteries
440V/220V 50 cycle with 110v transformers
Twin MWM 440-8 diesel engines , 938 hp each
Hydraulic manual steering
Bow Thruster
2 x SeaRecovery Coral Sea watermakers. 4000 gpd
Fire suppression system
Air ventilation system
Alfa Laval fuel filtering system
Dedicated Bauer model JRII dive compressor. Capacity to fill 2 tanks in 40 minutes +/-
Cruising 9 knots about 48 gallons/ hour plus 3-3.5 gallons/hour for the generators, giving around 6.5 to 7 gallons for each nautical mile
(4) Service boats
Fire hoses and nozzles uniformly distributed according to the vessel's safety plan
Fire extinguishers are uniformly distributed according to the vessel's safety plan
CO2 system for engine room
Smoke detection and general alarm system
43' Mares Catamaran Sportfish with 2 Caterpillar C-7 acert 455 hp, equipped and rigged for fishing
27' Catamaran SeaCat with 2 x 225 hp Yamahas, rigged for fishing
21' inflatable fiberglass hull with Yanmar 210 hp stern drive
18' Inflatable fiberglass hull with 90 hp outboard
2 x 15' fiberglass "pangas"
4 Kayaks
Approximately 16 sets of swim fins and masks
Dedicated Bauer model JRII dive compressor. Capacity to fill 2 tanks in 40 minutes +/-
8 BCs
16 tanks
10 wetsuits
32 fishing rods, all types
Water skis
4 Stand Up Surfboards
5 Surfboards
Commercial oven
Commercial refrigeration
Stainless prep area
Stainless counters
Cabinets storage
Separate freezer and fridge rooms


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If you'd like to create a warm and inviting living space, consider using homemade, eco-friendly natural paint. Using natural materials is a great way to bring the outdoors in, and they're easier on your home because they can allow painted surfaces to release moisture naturally. Plus, most commercially manufactured paints contain toxic materials or petroleum-based ingredients that are energy-intensive to produce.
There are several eco-friendly options on the market, but their cost (up to twice as much as conventional paint) can be prohibitive to painters on a budget. Many DIYers are choosing instead to make their own paint. Creating your own paint is considerably less expensive and can be an extremely satisfying endeavor for anyone whose goal is self-reliance. Mixing your own paint is sometimes the only way to achieve a specific color or effect. In fact, natural paints offer unique finishes very different from those of manufactured products.
There are numerous combinations to choose from when attempting to create the perfect paint for a particular situation. What follows is a guide to understanding natural paint, recipes for some of the easiest and most common types and photos of each kind to inspire you. When you're ready to experiment with even more natural materials, a good place to start is The Natural Paint Book by Lynn Edwards and Julia Lawless.
In its most basic form, paint consists of color (the pigment) and the glue in which the pigment is suspended (the binder). Many paints also contain ingredients that add texture and bulk (fillers), a thinner (the solvent) and other additives, such as biocides and drying catalysts.
Pigments. Safer alternatives to the toxic compounds and heavy metals used to color conventional paint include natural pigments derived from plants, insects, iron oxides and minerals. These are usually in powder form at artists' supply stores.
Binders. Binders keep paint glued to a surface. The acrylic and vinyl binders in commercial paints are derived from the byproducts of refining crude oil. The binders in natural paints rely instead on materials such as starch (from flour), casein (the protein in milk) and linseed oil (from pressed flax seeds).
Fillers. Fillers create texture and add bulk to paint. Common fillers include whiting (powdered chalk), talcum, limestone, silica and marble. Clay is a popular filler to pair with flour, because it reinforces the binding ability of starch, and it's abundant and potentially free if you have clay soil.
Solvents. Solvents, or thinners, help achieve a workable consistency. The solvents in commercial paints are usually made from organic materials, but they will evaporate or "outgas," causing that new paint smell. The outgassing of these volatile organic compounds (VOCs) can cause headaches, nausea, dizziness, blurred vision and fatigue, especially in areas that are not well ventilated. The hazards are significantly worse for people who paint regularly. Natural solvents such as citrus thinners and natural turpentine are preferable, but they can still emit low levels of VOCs.
Additives. Commercial paint manufacturers frequently include several additives in their products, but they aren't required to list them on the can. Additives include plasticizers, foaming and antifoaming agents, driers, biocides that inhibit the growth of mold, and ingredients that improve water resistance or opacity.
When selecting which kind of paint to mix for a particular surface, your first consideration should be whether the surface is interior or exterior. Then select a paint that is appropriate to the type of surface.
Interior surfaces: flour; casein; oil
Exterior surfaces: oil; flour in mild climates; casein in extremely mild, non-humid climates
Bare wood: oil; flour; casein
Stone: flour; casein
Bare drywall: casein; flour (but not over joint compound)
Wallpaper: flour; casein
Earthen plaster: flour; casein
Gypsum plaster: flour
Masonry (cement, lime, unglazed brick, unpainted earth): flour; casein; oil
Painted surfaces, sanded: flour; casein
Surfaces that require frequent cleaning: oil
Are you ready? One of these mixes should get the job done and then some.
Flour Paint
Oil Paint
Casein Paint
One or more of these vendors should have the necessary ingredients.
Environmental Building Supplies
If you decide you'd rather buy pre-mixed paint after all, consider one of these vendors.Yolo Colorhouse
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Can I used banana or guava leaves as an eco friendly paint and answer please because I need this for my research 3
Hello! Has anyone experimented with using a paint sprayer to apply natural paints? We will be painting over textured drywall, an entire house, and have a sprayer to use. I am compelled to use a natural paint and would prefer to make my own as opposed to purchasing already made to save costs and for the fun of the process. I appreciate you sharing your experiences :o)
Hello! Has anyone experimented with using a paint sprayer to apply natural paints? We will be painting over textured drywall, an entire house, and have a sprayer to use. I am compelled to use a natural paint and would prefer to make my own as opposed to purchasing already made to save costs and for the fun of the process. I appreciate you sharing your experiences :o)
Thailand has high humidity plus high heat. What type of interior and exterior can you recommend for this weather? Also wondering if Milk and Flour Paint would attract ants and insects since they're both edible!
In step 2 of the flour paint it looks like eleven half cups, but it is actually one and one half cups
Rita- There is already such a product. It is called Paverpol from Holland. It is available in the USA and Canada. It has a safety approved seal to be non-toxic. I used it a lot and it really works-- we made a garden statue out of an old t-shirt! I think it is a patented recipe, so I think you cannot get it. But it is already made, so maybe try to see if it is what you want. Hope this is a help to you.
I want to make an environmentally friendly water based glue that will be used for outdoor projects. The glue has to be a hardener for exterior work. I would appreciate a recipe anybody knows of. Thank you so much.
I have been using some flour based paint with clay (and some gypsum powder for lightening). I have been painting over an earth plaster. I love the color and texture, but the paint has a tendency to crack pretty extensively. Then I have to paint over the cracks maybe more than once, with not the best results. I wonder if the gypsum might be caussing the paint to crack on drying, or is this a normal characteristic of flour based paint? Thanks.
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Choosing Courses to Take Abroad
With proper program and course selection and planning in consultation with study abroad and academic advisers, students can earn credit toward requirements for most Northwestern degree programs.
- Northwestern academic requirements
- Courses eligible for transfer
- Non-transferable courses
- Preliminary course plan
- Changing courses while abroad
- Important reminders about credit transfer
Northwestern Academic Requirements
When selecting courses to take abroad, you must:
- Enroll in a full-time course load, as defined by your program.
- Enroll in a sufficient number of credits abroad to maintain full-time enrollment at Northwestern (the equivalent of 3 units at Northwestern per quarter) during the term(s) you are abroad.
- If you participate in a program that requires enrollment during 2 Northwestern quarters (Fall+Winter or Winter+Spring), you must enroll in a minimum of 15 semester credits or the equivalent thereof. If you enroll in fewer credits--or if any of your courses do not transfer back to Northwestern--you will not earn 6 units at Northwestern, which could prevent you from meeting the Undergraduate Registration Requirement or maintaining satisfactory academic progress for financial aid eligibility.
- If you plan to study abroad for the full year and need to earn 12 units at Northwestern (4 units per quarter), you will need to enroll in a minimum of 31 semester credits or the equivalent during the year. 30 semester credits translates to approximately 11 units at Northwestern.
- Complete at least one quarter of language instruction in a language of your host country either before departure or while abroad. Many study abroad programs have their own language requirements above and beyond this Norhtwestern Language Requirement; check your program's website for more information.
- Complete all academic requirements for your school. The downloadable School Letters explain the study abroad policies and procedures for each school. Read your School Letter carefully, and contact your School Representative (primary school adviser) if you have any questions.
- Complete all academic requirements for your program; review your program's website for details.
courses eligible for transfer
A course taken abroad is eligible for credit transfer as long as:
- Northwestern teaches its general subject at the undergraduate level. For example, an Irish literature course is eligible to transfer because Northwestern offers literature courses.
- It is taken for a letter grade (not on a "pass/fail" basis).
- You earn a grade equivalent of a C or above.
- It is worth at least 2 semester credits or 2 ECTS. Refer to Earning Academic Credit Abroad for more information about study abroad credit conversion.
Non-transferable courses
You will not receive credit at Northwestern for the following types of courses, which are deemed non-transferable:
- Courses covering subject matter not taught in Northwestern's undergraduate curriculum (e.g., wine tasting, cooking, fashion design, etc.).
- Some business and law courses: Since Northwestern does not offer undergraduate majors in Business or Law, taking these courses for credit abroad can be tricky. See the Taking Business and Law Courses Abroad page for more information.
- Courses taken abroad on a "pass/fail" basis.
- Courses for which a grade equivalent to a C- or below was earned.
- Courses worth less than 2 semester credits or less than 2 ECTS.
- Online courses taken abroad at a foreign institution.
- Duplicate courses (meaning, they duplicate courses for which you have already received credit at Northwestern).
Taking non-transferable courses may cause you to drop below minimum full-time enrollment at Northwestern (the equivalent of 3 units at Northwestern), which could prevent you from meeting the Undergraduate Registration Requirement or maintaining satisfactory academic progress for financial aid eligibility. Only consider taking a non-transferable course if you can manage this course in addition to the full-time course load for your program.
Preliminary course plan
All students will be expected to research course options when selecting a program abroad, and will discuss their preliminary course plan with the academic adviser(s) as part of the Northwestern Study Abroad Applicaiton process.
Changing courses while abroad
While abroad, you may decide to register for different courses than those you reviewed with advisers before departure. Before registering for an unanticipated course:
- Contact your Northwestern advisers to discuss potential changes.
- If applicable, read Northwestern policies about research abroad or internships and service learning and discuss them with your School Representative.
- Be aware of the way course changes (such as reducing credit hours, earning an incomplete or a grade lower than the equivalent of a C) could cause serious problems with your financial aid eligibility or Undergraduate Registration Requirement. Contact your study abroad adviser to discuss these issues.
Important Reminders about credit transfer
- Be sure to review information about earning academic credit abroad.
- Northwestern does not guarantee credit for courses taken abroad. Final course approval, for any kind of credit, will be determined after you return and upon review of an official study abroad transcript and course descriptions.
- Bring back with you as many of your course materials as possible, regardless of what type of credit you are seeking for your courses. If the Office of the Registrar has questions about the credit-worthiness of a course - even one for which you are only seeking elective credit - they may ask a professor in the appropriate field to review your course materials.


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Mold Inspection Journal: 4-1-09Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
Case Study 09036: Successful Attic Mold Remediation
An initial inspection by GML revealed that the mold Cladosporium was actively growing on plywood roof sheathing and on both gable ends in the attic. A professional mold remediation company was hired to clean all surfaces in attic under environmental controls and using standard mold remediation procedures. After the work was completed, we re-inspected the attic to determine if remediation was successful.
Attic insulation was removed, leaving the topside of the second floor ceiling Sheetrock exposed. Among several other important steps, the plywood sheathing was dry-ice blasted (similar to sand blasting except dry ice pellets were used as the abrasive agent). Visual evidence of mold was no longer present.
Inspection Strategy:
- Visual inspection of attic
- Surface swab sampling from several representative areas of the previously moldy plywood sheathing
Lab Results:
- Lab results describe a negligible amount of mold spores
- The current level of mold on wood materials in the attic is normal
- Remediation was completely successful
- Maintain a dry and well ventilated attic
- Re-install insulation


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Texas is one of 13 states leading the way in providing the essential tools ─ goals, performance measures and data ─ needed to help decision makers choose more cost-effective transportation funding and policy options, according to a new report by the Pew Center on the States and the Rockefeller Foundation.
States use a range of performance measures to assess the ease in which travelers move between destinations. In Texas, we use an online dashboard called TxDOT Tracker that presents and explains data on a number of core mobility measures, including a statewide congestion index, large and small urban area travel delays and costs of congestion delays.
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The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) recently awarded $15 million to Texas for the development of the proposed Dallas/Fort Worth to Houston Core Express Service, a high-speed rail corridor that would link two of the country's largest metro areas. TxDOT will use the funding to pay for engineering and environmental work on the project. The rail corridor is one of several in the Texas Transportation Commission's recently-adopted statewide passenger rail line plan.
The federal grant, announced May 9, is part of more than $2 billion DOT awarded in high-speed rail funding designed to create tens of thousands of jobs, improve mobility and stimulate American manufacturing. Twenty-four states, the District of Columbia and Amtrak submitted nearly 100 applications, competing to be part of the historic investment.
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The Texas Transportation Commission will convene at 9 a.m. Thursday, May 26 for its monthly meeting. The Commission will present a resolution recognizing former Travel Information Division Director Doris Howdeshell, who retired from TxDOT in April with 32 years of service, and will receive a staff update on the agency's modernization efforts.
The Commission also will consider the selection of pass-through toll projects totaling up to $250 million and approving the 2012 Unified Transportation Program for FY 2012-2021. The Commission will not hold workshop sessions in May or June.
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TxDOT marked Travel Rally Day May 10 with a variety of activities at many of its 12 Travel Information Centers throughout the state. The annual observance promotes travel and acknowledges its important economic impact on communities and is part of Texas Travel and Tourism Week. In 2010, the centers hosted an estimated 2.4 million visitors. Agency officials participated in a festive ribbon-cutting ceremony with the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce at the Amarillo Travel Information Center to celebrate and welcome Texas tourists.
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TxDOT's Corpus Christi District will send a bill for more than $14,000 to the person charged with creating an illegal tire dump the district recently cleaned up in sensitive wetlands adjacent to US 181 in Portland. The bill will include labor charges of approximately $2,700 for 32 TxDOT employees; more than $1,300 for vehicles and gasoline; and $9,000 for a contract tire recycler to haul away the 392 tires. A Corpus Christi man has been arrested and charged with the illegal dumping, a state felony that carries up to two years in jail and a maximum $10,000 fine.
"Along with facing criminal charges, the suspect will receive a detailed bill for expenses associated with the cleanup effort," said Tom Tagliabue, Corpus Christi District public information officer. "As a victim of crime, we are working with the city of Portland Police Department to submit these expenses and seek restitution from the guilty party. The expenses TxDOT amassed in the cleanup effort took away limited resources from other highway maintenance activities."
TxDOT kicked off its 10th annual "Click It or Ticket" spring campaign at the state Capitol in Austin May 3 with the good news that Texans are buckling up more than ever, saving thousands of lives. Before the campaign began in 2002, only 76.1 percent of the state's population was buckling up. Today, 93.84 percent of drivers and passengers use safety belts. To ensure that Texans continue complying with seat belt laws, thousands of state troopers will join other statewide law enforcement officers between May 23 and June 5, including the Memorial Day holiday weekend, to ticket drivers and passengers who aren't buckled up.
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TxDOT produces a weekly Statewide Podcast to keep you updated on the latest transportation news and issues, and new podcast episodes are published every Friday on the TxDOT website, www.txdot.gov.
In this week's episode, we talk TxDOT Rail Division Director Bill Glavin about the $15 million in federal funding for the proposed high-speed rail corridor between Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston. Episodes are also available on iTunes.
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JEFFERSON CITY – More than 220 roads remain closed across the state. The westbound direction of Interstate 44 from I-270 to Route 100 in St. Louis/Franklin counties is open to traffic by evening rush today. The eastbound direction of I-44 remains closed and there is no estimate on its reopening. Interstate 55 in St. Louis opened to traffic this morning. Motorists should check for road closures on the Traveler Information Map at www.modot.org before traveling.
The eastbound I-44 traffic will continue to be detoured at Route 100 in Franklin County for 25 miles to I-270 in St. Louis. The detour is taking up to two hours at peak times. Please use Interstate 70 between St. Louis and Kansas City and then use Interstate 435 to Interstate 49 to Joplin to reconnect to Interstate 44. All work zones have been suspended on I-70 to allow for optimal traffic flow.
Route 50 at Mount Sterling in Gasconade County is expected to open sometime tonight.
The following are some of the major routes closed:
Motorists are reminded that not all flooded roads will have closure signs. MoDOT cautions all travelers to never drive through water on the roadway. Turn around and find an alternate route. Flash flooding is particularly dangerous at night or the early morning hours when motorists often cannot see they are driving into floodwaters until it's too late. Less than a foot of moving water is enough to push a vehicle.
When the water recedes, MoDOT will inspect the pavement and bridges for safety before opening the roadways for public use.
Check MoDOT's Traveler Information Map to stay current on all flooding closures at http://traveler.modot.org/map/. The map is also available as a free app on iTunes and Google play listed as MoDOT Traveler Information. You can also call 1-888-ASK-MoDOT (275-6636) for up-to-date information. ###


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From Gold Bras to Gold Bars
Like haute couture, gold's worth is very much in the eye of the beholder. Mix the two and, in valuation terms, you're into CDS-squared territory.
But Jean-Paul Gaultier, the French fashion designer famous for putting Madonna in a bra that could take your eye out, has done exactly that. Fashionistas with a taste for the flamboyant but more than a little concerned about the side effects of quantitative easing can now buy a one-ounce 24 karat gold bar engraved with a heart, rays and Gaultier's name on a banner.
Dillon Gage Metals, based in Dallas, TX, is the U.S. distributor. According to them, this is the first time a "fashion icon" has turned his hand to jazzing up gold ingots.
It's certainly one way of adding some luster to a gold price that's been moving sideways for months now. Branding is an old way of adding cachet to otherwise commoditized goods, be it gold, gasoline, or cigarettes. But getting your hands on this shiny limited edition "collector's piece" will cost you. Dillon Gage quoted a price for the bar this morning of $1,826.33 plus a $25 handling fee. With spot gold trading around $1,660 per ounce, that means you're paying a 10% premium for the Gaultier brand.
With Valentine's Day around the corner, it seems certain Dillon Gage will be taking some orders for the ingot, of which 5,000 have been made. But it's hard to see hardcore goldbugs — the ones building bunkers in anticipation of a Mad Max-esque apocalypse — paying a premium to add a touch of French style to their survival fund.


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Work is what we do to better ourselves, to build dreams and to support our families. But work is more than that. Work cures, creates, builds, innovates and shapes the future. Work connects us all.
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March 10th, 2018: Thanks to our union volunteers, members across the city are being educated about Anchorage going Vote by Mail for city elections. Visit www.muni.org/votebymail or call 243- VOTE for more information. Ballots will be headed to mailboxes starting March 13th, 2018- keep an eye out and vote!
Wondering who your union endorsed for mayor or school boards or what the propositions are all about? Contact your hall or call the AFL-CIO at 258-6284 for more information.
April 5th, 2017: The municipality of Anchorage election results are in and the candidates endorsed by the Anchorage Central Labor Council and local unions overwhelmingly won their races. This is no doubt in part due to the continued dedication of our volunteer force that came out every Saturday to knock on union members' doors to educate them about the issues and candidates before them.
Voters also passed several bonds that will equal much-needed work for Anchorage residents.
Our work doesn't stop here. Now is the time to hold our elected officials accountable. New Assembly members begin their terms on April 18, 2017. Find the Anchorage Assembly meeting schedule here and get involved.
October 15, 2016: Over 80 union members and their families showed up for our Labor Walk. These dedicated volunteers spent their Saturday knocking on fellow union members' doors to educate them about our endorsed candidates for State Senate and State House. Without our volunteers, we wouldn't be able to do the work that we do.


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Our Band had the distinct honor of being the first high school band in the entire parade, right behind all the military groups... WOW! What a sight! After the performance, the band came back to the hotel for a well deserved rest before heading to the concert on the Capital Lawn.
The pride felt by all the participants will stay with them for the rest of their lives.
The students, chaperones, guides, directors, and drivers have all made this trip a huge success. Thank you to everyone for making this Positive Life Changing Experience possible.
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National Independence Day Parade
The HHS Band departed for DC at 7:30am on June 30th. They traveled south to Chicago then headed East on HWY 80. They arrived in Cleveland Ohio where they toured the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and spent the night at the Crown Plaza Hotel overlooking Lake Erie. In the morning the had a full beffet breakfast before continuing on. Everyone enjoyed the beauty of our great country as they traveled through the hills of Pennsylvania. After arriving at their hotel, the band took advantage of their early arrival to get in an additional practice before supper. They marched and played through the winding parking lot of their hotel before departing for a well deserved dinner. Everyone was tired from the long bus ride but excited to start sight seing Washington DC in the morning.
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AK 49 Seeds | Vision Seeds
With spicy flavour, incredible yields and power packed resin, these AK-49 feminised seeds from Vision Seeds really are something special. It's like experiencing all the benefits of AK 47 but two levels up, with more productivity, more power and more exceptional flavour.
Ideal for growing weed indoors, this baby has a beautiful skunky stink but in her smoke she is sweeter, more floral and even has a touch of sandalwood to finish off a beautiful experience. In the US, AK 49 is prescribed for the treatment for all range of conditions including chronic pain, insomnia, headaches, PMS and arthritis. Now you can create your own high quality therapy, all thanks to Original Sensible Seeds.
Expect yields of up to 450g/m2 to offer THC levels reaching up to 20%, ensuring AK 49 weed seeds have both power and production. She's the perfect combination of everything Vision Seeds stand for. Now it's your turn to look to the future, and make sure AK 49 is part of it.
AK 49 Specs
- GenderFeminized
- PhotoperiodNormal
- GeneticsColombian x Mexican x Thai x Afghani
- CultivationIndoor & Outdoor
- Minimum Yield450 gr/m2
- Indoor Yield500 gr/m2
- Flowering Time64 Days
- Outdoor Harvest MonthOctober
- Outdoor Harvest Week
- CBDMedium
- THCHigh
- Height50 - 80 cm
- Vegetative cycle cuttings20 Days
- Type35% Indica
- Type65% Sativa
- Type: Non PercentageMostly Sativa
- MedicalYes
- Medicinal LevelHigh
- Medical uses otherThe AK-49 is very suitable for medicinal purposes by people suffering from chronic pain, nausea, depression, insomnia, headaches, PMS, and arthritis.
- Grow Difficulty3/5
- TasteSweeter and more floral than the smell
- AromaSpicy smell with a touch of sandalwood
- EffectsEuphoric, Happy, Uplifting


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Top quality set of six tea glasses they are useful to serve hot mint tea or any other drinks . Exquisite and royal set of 6 tea glasses to serve your tea in style. you may also add them to you home Moroccan decor. don't forget to check our collection of tea pots and trays.
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Substitute a bowl of cold water for a candy thermometer to tell the temperature of your candy. You can by checking the stage it is at by simply dropping some of the candy you are cooking into a bowl of cold water to see if it makes threads or balls up. There are several stages that candy goes through at different temperatures, so if you do not have a candy thermometer handy, use these tricks.
Step 1
Drop a little of the candy into cold water to cool. If the candy forms a liquid thread that does not ball up, it is in the thread stage. This stage produces a type of sugar syrup but it is not yet candy. When your candy is in the thread stage, expect the temperature to be around 230 to 235 Fahrenheit.
Step 2
Drop some candy into cold water. If the candy forms a soft, flexible ball it is at a temperature of 235-240 degrees Fahrenheit or at the soft ball stage. Candies such as fudge and fondant are done when they are at the soft ball stage.
Step 3
Drop a little bit of the candy into cold water. If it forms into a firm ball, it is in the firm ball stage. This stage is at a temperature of about 245 to 250 degrees Fahrenheit. Caramels and other similar candies are cooked to the firm-ball stage.
Step 4
Take a spoon and dip it into your cooking candy. If the candy forms, thick threads when it drips from the spoon, it is at about 250 to 265 degrees Fahrenheit, or the hard ball stage. You can also drop some candy into cold water to see if it forms a hard ball that will not flatten, hence the term "hard ball stage." If you are cooking divinity or rock candy, it will be done at this temperature.
Step 5
Watch the candy as it cooks. If it bubbles on top it is likely at the soft crack stage or at 270 to 290 degrees Fahrenheit. Alternatively, you can drop some of the candy into cold water. You will be able to tell if it is at this temperature when it solidifies into threads that are flexible but not brittle. Cook candies, such as butterscotch, to this temperature.
Step 6
Drop your candy into cold water. If it forms hard, brittle like threads that easily break, you are at the hard crack stage, which his 300 to 310 degrees Fahrenheit. This is the highest temperature used to cook candy. Cook your toffee and lollipops to this temperature.


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Living room is, was and always will be the place where out daily life takes place. We are the only ones who decide and define it the way we like; it can be for entertaining, spending time with whoever we want, reading, watching stuff on TV or even having fun near the fireplace waiting for Santa Claus. Here are a few favorite examples and ideas that will guide you to design your own extraordinary living room. The following ideas will give you hope to live the life in your glorious living room. Flawless Living Room. It is characterized by …Read More »
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In regards to modern living room design, it should be provided with all means to help you perform all kinds of activities and take advantages of the space available in your living room to furnish and decorate it. In case you have no idea what the modern living room style is, it's a trend for a more open design. That's why you should search carefully and choose wisely proper light sources as an addition for your natural lighting source in the living room. Believe it or not, wooden pieces of furniture which come in natural finish will be a fascinating …Read More »


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Nick is a teen participant in the Junior State of America (JSA), a student-run political organization for high school students.
It is not uncommon for presidential primary elections to be chaotic, messy, and often all-around unpleasant affairs. When candidates with similar ideological views are competing for the same politically homogenous electorate, it is not surprising that the contests quickly become personal and personality-driven. But this year's primary season is one for the history books -- and, of course -- the late-night comedians.
The embarrassingly comedic turn this election has taken is due, in large part, to the cast of characters and larger-than-life personalities that have dominated the race. From Donald Trump's high-profile flirt with a presidential bid to the dramatic derailing of the Cain Train, from Bachmann's "gay-fixing" husband to Newt Gingrich's moon colony, the group of Republicans that have left their mark on the 2012 primary season bear an uncanny resemblance to the quirky gaggle of dinner guests in Dinner for Schmucks. In fact, Rick Santorum -- who opposes birth control, favors making homosexuality illegal and constantly claims to see the devil at work in the Obama administration -- may actually make Steve Carell's eccentric, rodent taxidermist character seem like a perfectly normal human being. Meanwhile, Mitt Romney, a brilliant political chameleon whose views always seem to coincidentally match those of his electorate, no matter which end of the political spectrum his electorate falls on, has been hard at work creating potential campaign commercials for President Obama, providing the President with such gems as "I'm not worried about the very poor" and "I like firing people." And speaking of campaign commercials, who can forget Rick Perry's 30-second homophobic rant in which he is dressed like Heath Ledger's character from Brokeback Mountain? To quote the Governor himself: "oops." Even Ron Paul, the race's most under-reported candidate, found ways to contribute to the spectacle. Late last year, as Hurricane Irene barreled along the East Coast, Ron Paul opined that we abolish FEMA, calling the Federal Emergency Management Agency "the real disaster."
While the personalities, egos and gaffes of the presidential contenders have done a lot to add to the circus-like atmosphere of the race, they are not the only factors making this presidential primary the most chaotic in modern history. A share of the credit must go to the Tea Party movement, which has succeeded in shifting the GOP further to the right than it has ever been.
Equally complicit is the shift in focus to social issues, with conservative hard-liners giddily offering up 16th century solutions to 21st century problems. At a time when the vast majority of Americans are focused on the economy, social conservatives have chosen to take a very high profile stand against women's healthcare, with a prominent Santorum supporter suggesting "aspirin between the knees" as a cost-effective alternative to oral contraceptives. Conservative talk radio host and Viagra poster-child Rush Limbaugh recently made headlines for calling a young woman who testified before Congress in favor of contraceptive insurance coverage a "slut." These distractions, while embarrassing for the country, have become fodder for comedians and Democrats alike. And of course, no political circus would be complete without a boisterous and rancorous audience. In many of the GOP debates the most talked-about moments came not from the candidates themselves but from the live audiences that cheered for executions, shouted "let him die" in response to a question about an uninsured man with a health condition, and booed a gay soldier.
Americans who have watched this unprecedentedly shocking primary season unfold like the plot of a reality TV show should be horrified by the prospect that one of its characters will go on to be a major party candidate for the most powerful job in the world. While we should give the Republican presidential contenders credit for putting on a very amusing show, we should also recognize what is at stake in November. The United Sates presidency is not a laughing matter and the White House is certainly no place for a circus.


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This is somewhat belated, but I just learned over the weekend that Lucien Stryk, an acclaimed Zen poet and long-time English professor at Northern Illinois University, passed away in London on Jan. 24th at the age of 88.
NIU English instructor and fellow poet, John Bradley told the university's news service, "He was a world class-translator of Japanese poetry, especially Zen poetry, both Haiku and other forms. There's an art to being able to pull off a translation. To really make it feel like an English poem takes great skill, and Lucien was very good at it."
Bradley noted that Zen influenced Stryk's own poetry: "He'd write about ordinary objects and places and make the ordinary extraordinary."
According to NIU Today,
Stryk was born in Kolo, Poland, in 1924, and moved at a young age to Chicago with his family. After serving in the U.S. Army in the South Pacific during World War II, he studied at Indiana University, and later at the Sorbonne in Paris, London University and the University of Iowa.
At NIU, he served on the faculty from 1958 until his retirement in 1991, teaching courses in creative writing and Asian literature.
Lucien Stryk was more than a "Zen" poet. He was also a prairie or Midwest poet. Many of his poems reflected Midwestern American themes, which resonated with me since I am from the Midwest, and his work as an editor of poetry, especially with his two anthologies, Heartland I (1967) and Heartland II (1975), "put the Midwest on the literary map." Another anthology of his has a cherished place on my bookshelf, World of the Buddha: An Introduction to Buddhist Literature (1994). Actually, I should say that it has two or three places on my bookshelf, as mine is an old paperback edition that has come apart and is now in several pieces.
Unfortunately, I don't know a great deal about Stryk's life, like how he encountered Zen, but I know enough to say that his translations of Buddhist poetry and his writings on Zen made him a prominent figure in our Western Dharma.
Here is one of Stryk's best known poems, inspired by Chekhov's short story "Gooseberries."
(after Chekhov)
Because I sit eating cherries
which I did not pick
a girl goes bad under
the elevator tracks, will
never be whole again.
Because I want the full bag,
grasping, twenty-five children
cry for food. Gorging,
I've none to offer. I want
to care, I mean to, but not
yet, a dozen cherries
rattling at the bottom of my bag.
One by one I lift them to
my mouth, slowly break
their skin—twelve nations
bleed. Because I love, because
I need cherries, I
cannot help them. My happiness,
bought cheap, must last forever.
And this is a translation of a poem by one of Japan's greatest poets, Shinkichi Takahashi (d. 1987), from Triumph of the Sparrow, 1986.
Shinkichi Takahashi
Time oozed from my pores,
Drinking tea
I tasted the seven seas.
I saw in the mist formed
Around me
The fatal chrysanthemum, myself.
Its scent choked, and as I
Rose, squaring
My shoulders, the earth collapsed.


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AYSO referee training is designed to provide education to referees and prospective referees that will allow them to officiate AYSO soccer matches in accordance with the FIFA Laws of the Game and the AYSO National Rules and Regulations. It is the intent of the AYSO National Referee Program to provide practical, incremental referee training that will ensure consistency throughout AYSO. To register for a course, visit AYSOU. Enter your AYSO user name and password and access short How-To tutorials anytime for free in your My Courses tab on your AYSOU navigation menu. . Requirements for upgrades as a Referee, a Referee Instructor and a Referee Assessor may be found in the Appendix of the National Referee Program Manual. Questions on training? Contact Al Prado, Section 1 Director of Referee Instruction.
AYSO Section 1 Advanced Referee Instructor Evaluation Policy and Procedure
In order to maintain consistency at the highest levels of instruction within Section 1, this policy and procedure shall be utilized for all Advanced Referee Instructor evaluations. This policy as well as the current list of Advanced Referee Instructor Evaluators in Section 1 may be found using the links below:
- Section 1 Advanced Referee Instructor Evaluation Policy and Procedure — Updated 31 July 2018
- Section 1 Referee Instructor Evaluator List — Updated 5 July 2018
- Referee Instructor and Evaluator Upgrade Application
Questions on an Evaluation? Contact Al Prado, Section 1 Director of Referee Instruction.
Summer Referee Training Opportunity
The Area 11L Referee Training Conference July 28-29, 2018 will be held at Trabuco Hills High School, 27501 Mustang Run, Mission Viejo CA. This is an opportunity to further develop your referee skills in classes taught by some of the finest instructors in Southern California. For detailed course and location information, simply click here.
Upcoming Upper Level Referee Training in Section 1
Area Referee Information
- Area 1B: Diamond Bar and Pomona Valley
- Area 1C: W San Gabriel Valley
- Area 1D: Beach Cities
- Area 1F: Southwest Los Angeles County
- Area 1G: Inland Empire
- Area 1H: Coachella Valley
- Area 1N: San Bernardino County
- Area 1P: Central and West Los Angeles
- Area 1R: W Riverside County
- Area 1S: W Arizona, E California, S Nevada
- Area 1U: E San Gabriel and W Pomona Valley
Updated 2018 AYSO Player Development Initiative Implementation
This presentation of these changes covers the referee implementation of 10U and 12U PDI in Section 1. Also available in PDF format.
Additionally, our own Area 1P staff has created a video presentation of the implementation of the Build-Out Line for Coaches & Referees. — Special shout-out to Tony Robinson and James Bisely for making this available.
NOTE: Referee Course Lesson Plans, Presentations, Handouts and Exams are being updated for 2018. Download your Course materials on AYSOU under Resources. Contact Section Director of Referee Instruction Al Prado for passwords to Exams.
Comments or suggestions? Contact the Section Director of Referee Instruction Al Prado.
Heads-Up: Concussion Awareness & Safety Training
Many States have recently passed Concussion Awareness & Safety Laws. Key elements from State legislation:
- Information: Need to inform parents and players about concussions.
- Training: Require Concussion Awareness Training for "Officials" (e.g., Coaches, Referees, RCs, etc.) similar to the Center for Disease Control's online course.
- Participation Release: Most laws require a "Medical Release" before a player suspected of having a concussion may return to play.
Best practices and policies are being developed for AYSO as a whole and for local programs impacted by new laws. What to expect in AYSO's Concussion Awareness & Safety Practices & Policies:
- AYSO/CDC Parent/Athlete Concussion Information Sheet – distribution & signature of Parent/Athlete.
- AYSO Concussion Awareness Training utilizing materials from CDC's Heads Up Program for Coaches, Referees, Region/Area/Section Board Members you can take online at AYSOU. You will need to login and click on "My Courses" then open the "CDC Concussion Course".
- Signed Participation Release Form before player suspected of concussion may return to participate.
Please watch for the implementation of the new Concussion Awareness and Safety Best Practices and Policies for AYSO and for your Region, Area and Section. AYSO has partnered with the CDC to use the Heads Up program for concussion awareness materials. Go to CDC HeadsUp Training. When you've completed the training, print the Certificate of Completion and send to Karen Mihara at AYSO National Office to receive credit for this training.
The Importance of Establishing Good Match Rapport
Paul Castellani, Area 1S Referee Administrator, offers his thoughts on the importance of understanding and knowing how to defuse and control, if not eliminate, the problems that come with more competitive matches. As competition increases, players acquire improved skills and a stronger attitude toward winning, Referees must be prepared for the increased emotions and control problems. Referees that are unprepared contribute to problems to a greater extent than anyone would expect. This can be remedied by proper continuous education. Please read this short memorandum Paul has provided.
AYSO Help for Instructors
AYSO Training Manuals
Referee Course Pre-Tests
As the referee upgrade courses are increasing in numbers, instructors are asking candidate to take the Pre-test to help them prepare. Pre-tests are located in the section "Referee Pre-Test" and don't require a password. Your Section Referee Administrator or Section Director of Referee Instruction have the passwords for the Pre-test Answer Keys.
Registration is on your Regional Blue Sombrero website
Becoming Safe Haven™ certified may take a little time, but AYSO families know their child's safety is worth it. Safe Haven™ is both a child and volunteer protection program. It was the first of its kind in youth sports. Volunteer protection comes into play as a result of volunteer training, certification and continuing education. The Volunteer Protection Act of 1997 provides certain legal protections for volunteers who have been trained and certified and act in accordance with a written job description. Safe Haven includes these three elements, giving volunteers the highest degree of protection available under the law. Safe Haven™ training is one of the courses you can take online at AYSOU. You will need to login and click on "My Courses" then open the "AYSO's Safe Haven Course".