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An Introduction to Confucianism
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moreTaking into account the long history and wide range of Confucian Studies, this book introduces Confucianism - initiated in China by Confucius (551 BC–479 BC) - primarily as a philosophical and religious tradition. It pays attention to Confucianism in both the West and the East, focussing on the tradition's doctrines, schools, rituals, sacred places and terminology, but also stressing the adaptations, transformations and new thinking taking place in modern times. Xinzhong Yao presents Confucianism as a tradition with many dimensions and as an ancient tradition with contemporary appeal. This gives the reader a richer and clearer view of how Confucianism functioned in the past and of what it means in the present. A Chinese scholar based in the West, he draws together the many strands of Confucianism in a style accessible to students, teachers, and general readers interested in one of the world's major religious traditions. less
Cambridge University Press; February 2000
362 pages; ISBN 9781107385368
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Adam Milstein is a business owner in America. He was originally born in Israel, but he came to America to go to college and never left. One of the reasons why he loves America is because of the safety of the Jewish people. Adam had to worry about suicide bombers every time he walked out of his home in Israel. Sadly, he thinks the thinking of radical Islam is starting to make its way to America.
In an article written by Adam Milstein and published by Jewish News Syndicate, he describes oppression stories he received from Jews living in America. The story that shocked him the most was about a Jew who wanted to march in an LGBT parade. The parade was supposed to focus on freedom of religion, speech, and sexual orientation. The Jewish man wanting to march was asked to leave due to the Star of David appearing on his clothing. This gentleman tried to fight the system, but no one wanted to hear his voice. Adam Milstein has promised to be the voice of this individual.
Adam Milstein also described receiving news stories put out by several American universities that condemned Israel and the Jewish people. He believes Jewish people cannot feel safe in American colleges, or in America in general, until something is done about the current oppression. Adam wants Jews coming to America to feel more than welcome. Presently, he feels Jews coming to America will feel like they are back in an area of the Middle East where they are hated.
Adam is an active writer Jewish News Syndicate. He is also a long-time member of the Israeli-American Council. He has a beautiful family and resides in California. In addition to having a few traditional businesses, Adam has one of the largest real estate businesses in America and the world.


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Palmyra, Syria
These days, it's an almost irresistible temptation to believe that when the present incumbent finally rides his mountain bike off into the sunset in January, the world will be a better place merely by the fact of his absence. Amid the sinister twilight of the Bush years, such hopes are understandable. Looking at the blazing bodies of their comrades, used as torches to brighten up Nero's royal banquets, the early Christians must certainly have rejoiced when he passed, little knowing that not so far over the horizon loomed Domitian and other emperors eager to add uplifting chapters to the Book of Martyrs.
Is it conceivable that Obama or Clinton or McCain could be as bad or worse than Bush?
Out in the desert some 200 miles east of Syria's Mediterranean coastline, the old oasis city of Palmyra looks at a glance like Las Vegas's future–a couple of thousand years after the water finally ran out, and all that's been excavated are some columns and broken statues from Caesars Palace, maybe the campanile from the Venetian Hotel and the sphinx in front of the Luxor Hotel south down Las Vegas Boulevard.
Early in the second century opportunity knocked for the Palmyrenes and they seized their chance. A shift in the political situation suddenly made Palmyra the safest route between Rome and Parthia for the desert caravans carrying textiles, spices and oils along the old Silk Road from China. The Emperor Trajan finished off Petra as an independent trade entrepôt, and that made him "good" in the eyes of Palmyrenes, just as he became very "bad" in the eyes of the merchants of Petra.
For nearly 300 years the good times rolled as Palmyra taxed the trade shipments. There's a carved stele from 134 ad recording Palmyra's specific excise duties on the silk, dyes, perfumes, ivory, precious stones, jade, slaves, prostitutes and gold coming through. Palmyra flourished. Stone for the new tetrapylon on Main Street? Let's ship pink granite columns in from Aswan! Cemeteries? Stow the clan in a big tower that everyone can see on the way into town. The super-rich gladly ponied up the hefty fee for mummification. Palmyra's special contribution to column design seems to have been a projecting ledge about halfway up where the tycoon paying for the column could put a nice bust of himself. Many of the statues were pre-carved on an island in the Sea of Marmara, shipped across the desert on ox carts like everything else and then chiseled into final resemblance on site. Bountiful were the animal sacrifices in the Temple of Bel, a vast complex personally rehabbed at staggering expense by Palmyra's precursor to Donald Trump, Male Agrippa, who also footed the bill for a visit by the Emperor Hadrian.


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Large gorgeous men, a hidden race, and a magical secret.
Ryanne Arden was on track to being Stormfield High School's Valedictorian. Being the shy, quiet studious type, she's always done her own thing. That all changed when a drunk man decided to get behind the wheel of a car. With the death of her mother, Ryanne is suddenly more alone than she's ever been. With no friends or family to turn to, a local woman named Jane offers to help Ryanne in her time of need.
With graduation looming ahead of her, eighteen year old Ryanne must get her act together if she wants to get out of the small town of Stormfield, Maine and away from her painful memories.
Meeting the attractive Colton Wagner, changes everything. He awakes something in Ryanne that even she didn't know she had. Magic. With her life suddenly thrown upside down, Ryanne has been thrust into a world completely unbeknown to her.
Being the only non-mage to ever gain magic, paints a target on Ryanne's back. She's the girl the whole mage world has been searching for. It has been prophesized for thousands of years that a young non-mage female would put an end to the chaos created by rogue mages, the Gadramicks. Their manipulative leader, Dravin, will do anything within his power to prevent the prophecy from being fulfilled.
Finding out that she's an intricate part to ending a supernatural war, Ryanne has the weight of all mages on her shoulders. With the help of Colton and his family, along with a healer, a dream-walker, and a loud-mouthed mage, Ryanne sets out on the journey of a lifetime. Can she overcome her insecurities and do what is needed of her or will she lose her identity behind the magic inside of her?
BlackMoon Beginnings is part one in the four-part Prophesized Series
So a few things kind of bothered me before I started this book.
1. The fact that the synopsis is three hundred words.
2. The cover looks pretty lame, sorry not sorry. Like that flame thing on her neck is just terrible editing. I don't even know what it's supposed to be.
3. The title of the book. And yeah I know it's bad to judge a book by it's title, but I mean, Blackmoon Beginnings, really? And blackmoon isn't even one word and aslkgasjl;fsdk
4. It says something about the girl's insecurities, and I really hate those books. The one where the girl is "ugly" amidst gorgeous people and is super insecure and hates the way she looks. I cannot STAND reading about the inspiring search the girl goes through to finally think she's pretty.
I wasn't exactly sold on the novel, and I wouldn't have gotten it on my Nook, except it was free. That should've been another warning sign. But alas, I decided to give it a try. All the reviews I read were saying they don't usually read self-published books (ANOTHER WARNING), but this one was refreshing and good and blah blah blah. So I thought why not give it a shot, right? I started the first page.
"School. That place where we are forced to go five out of seven days a week."
That writing is disgusting.
Continuing on (I'm skipping around by the way):
"School is my purgatory right now and all I want is to be set free."
Well I mean the point of purgatory is to be cleansed and ready for Heaven, so I don't think that's really the right word there Kaitlyn, but you do your thing.
"It is the Friday before the last week of school and while most teachers slowly start tapering off their agendas…"
Too many unnecessary words. AND THAT TENSE CHANGE IS JUST AWKWARD.
One other issue Kaitlyn has is including unnecessary random facts. Do you think J.R.R. Tolkien would've gotten anywhere if he stopped to describe each dwarf's shoe of the day, or what exact shade of grey Gandolf's robes were? No, and that's exactly where Kaitlyn's going: nowhere. She adds random facts thinking it adds depth to the story when we actually couldn't care less that Ryanne's converse are green and Jane doesn't like shoes in the house.
I am mad.
That is not true.
She is all I have.
He is gorgeous.
I know that's not a big deal bUT If you want to talk like a teenager you have to use conjunctions. We don't talk with British accents (that's the only way you can pull them off), and we aren't from the time where everyone talked like that.
The writing in this book is so terrible, it just hurt.
"I couldn't find an icepack, but here's the Advil. Is she hurt?" inquires a deep voice that I'm assuming belongs to Colton.
Without moving from my current position I answer, "I'm fine." I don't feel fine, but I don't want any more attention than is necessary.
"Well you don't look fine," he retorts.
"Colton, leave the girl alone."
Whoa there! Colton is off his rocker!!1!! Colton's had enough, he's on a rampage!!!1! Colton you leave that girl alone you menace!! What a terrible thing to say!!!1!!
So why does this bother me? Kaitlyn's use of the word "retort." Does she actually think that's a retort? Wow Colton so feisty! And the girl doesn't want more attention than was necessary? YOU WERE JUST ALMOST HIT BY A CAR SHUT UP WHAT DO YOU EXPECT AND WHY ARE YOU EVEN THINKING ABOUT THAT YOU WERE ALMOST JUST H I T B Y A C A R.
And these dialogues! THEY'RE GIVING ME CANCER BECAUSE I JUST CANNOT HANDLE.
"It takes everything in me not to let out a girly sigh at the attractiveness of this man. Talk about awkward…"
"How do you know my name?" I ask slowly trying to keep my obvious embarrassment out of my voice.
"We go to the same school." His straightforward answer baffles me.
WhaT. WhY. THat's NOT EVEN. I JUST. His straightforward answer baffles me. HE JUST SAID HE GOES TO YOUR SCHOOL WHY IS THAT CONFUSING AND WHY IS IT SO WEIRD THAT HE'D BE THAT "sTRAIGHTFORWARD" I DON'T UNDERSTAND.
So then Ryanne almost gets hit by a car but the wind pushes her out of the way or something and she just goes and tells that to people. WHY. Why would you openly tell anyone the wind pushed you to safety? Do you WANT to be locked up in an asylum?
So then there's this hot guy and she's watching him even though she's obviously there and obviously staring and he obviously knows. But she's watching him, so "I must have made a noise, for he turns around and catches me staring." That girl must have some pent up hormones because if she can't look at a guy for two seconds without moaning there's definitely something going on down there. (ew)
So because she's insecure and annoying as hell, the checkout process with this hot guy leaves her blushing like crazy. SHE'S JUST BUYING A BOOK AJLFSDKHSJKDFAJ IT'S NOT THAT BLUSH-WORTHY.
"I am suddenly overcome by a feeling of sadness."
Now I'm the one groaning, and it sure isn't from pent up hormones.
So I got to page twenty-three, and it was so unbearable that I had to skip forward to see if it got better. If anything, it got worse.
"I hear the sound of chairs scraping in the kitchen, so I have a feeling that the guys are trying to listen in."
STOP. She's implying that guys are trying to listen on this girl chat she's having with her friend when in reality guys do not care at all.
"I turn around and look at him, but he is looking elsewhere."
"Nothing is wrong specifically."
"Because of how I'm sitting, I can see him clearly."
Okay and Ryanne really has issues, because she's all heartsick over this one guy but she's ALWAYS sitting in this other dude's lap and they're always touching. She doesn't even like him sO why does she always need to sit on his lap? And half of this book is just teenage drama. I want to slap everyone in the face and tell them to stop being so damn annoying.
AHAHAHA I'M DYING AT THIS PART LISTEN OKAy so on Ryanne's mirror this girl wrote in red lipstick about this guy she lusts over: GET OUT OF MY WAY. HE'S MINE.
IS THIS DISNEY CHANNEL? Even Disney Channel wouldn't stoop that low, OH GOD IT HURTS. IT HURTS ME SO BADLY. WHY?? And the room was trashed and a picture was broken and REALLY? PLEASE STOP.
"Did you get my message?" SAYS THE GIRL IN CHARGE OF THIS HORRIFYING ACT.
"Are you freaking kidding me?" I CAN FEEL YOUR ANGER RYANNE I CAN REALLY FEEL IT. OVERWHELMING.
"And now you'll listen to my warning." Whoo!! Whoa there!! That's some intense threat!!!1!!
"There is no oxygen going into my lungs so I slump to the ground" Wow! Astute connection there!
"Nope, I'd rather see how long it takes for all the blood to rush to my head and I pass out." That's Ryanne saying she'd rather do that than watch a movie, but the thing is, she actually isn't kidding. And they just laugh, but they know she isn't kidding. SHE'S NOT KIDDING. I don't get this author or this character or any of these characters. Or this book, or why this author thought self-publishing was a good idea. She REALLY needs an editor to look at it.
So then Ryanne uses some magic to overturn some chair this guy was gonna sit in and they're all like "oh you're so devious Ryanne!!!1!! Such badassery!!!" Stop.
And then they're watching a movie and Ryanne looks up and realizes everyone's watching her and this guy (WHOSE LAP SHE IS CURRENTLY SITTING UPON) and she asks if she disturbed the movie and they respond saying it's been over for a few minutes. SO basically they've all been staring at her and this kid talking and if that's not weird or uncomfortable I don't know what is.
I'm starting to get a headache from wearing my hair so tight in the ponytail. Pulling my hair out of it, I shake my head and run my fingers through my almost waist-length hair, trying to tame it. Handing the ponytail to Emma, I realize that I'm being watched.
"It's like a freaking shampoo commercial. How the heck do you do it?" Emma asks.
"Do what?"
"I'm a completely straight girl and I'm attracted to you right now. I don't want to know what these guys are thinking."
"Well I could tell you what they're thinking." I myself want to know. I don't understand what she's getting at.
"Please don't," says Colton, shaking his head.
"I second that," agrees Liam. Logan just nods.
"Okay…I don't really know what just happened there, but I'm going to go change."
She's so, so stupid! She doesn't understand what she's getting at. She's such an idiot, and again, GUYS DO NOT REACT THAT WAY. They wouldn't say "please don't" and be so annoying and I just cannot do this anymore. I JUST CAN'T. HAS SHE NEVER HANDLED HUMANS BEFORE?
And I guess I totally missed the part where we learn she can read minds ooPS
So overall, this writing was horrid, and I kept sending pages of it to my friends so they could feel my pain. You couldn't pay me to continue on in this series. This story had some potential, maybe. I mean, to be completely honest I had no idea what was going on but that's probably because I skipped around a lot. So I can't even tell you if the story has potential. But if it did, do you know who would've found it? AN EDITOR. A PUBLISHING COMPANY. No wonder you self-published this book, because NO ONE WANTED IT. Is that not a sign? I mean I shouldn't say that because Harry Potter was rejected like nine times or something and Harry Potter is just,
it just is. It's so good you use it for an adjective to describe other books. For example: This book was like Harry Potter level (there are few of those)
Back to this terrible book, sorry Kaitlyn, but she should not have self-published. She should've had people give her ideas and advice and anything, but not just published it without getting good advice. She wrote like an adult trying to write like a teenager, and the dialogue gave me a colon infection. The plot was-just kidding I can't review the plot I don't even know what it was. But point is, if you appreciate writing that flows and is realistic, do not pick up this book. Maybe Kaitlyn got better later in the series, but I just can't read to see if that's true.
So out of five faces,
Blackmoon Beginnings (BLACK MOON IS TWO WORDS, TWO) gets…
ONE! (and that's only because the plot might have been good)


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Lift Up Your Spirit During This Time Of Sorrow - Poem by Alisha Ricks
Life may not be what you expected, but there is a reason you have life
For all of the pain and affliction you have endured in your life don't let it have prestige over you
Take hold of yourself and your life
We are in the presence of a recession, tornados, hurricanes, and floods
It may have taken something from you, but not everything
Take the strength left in you and strive for survival
Life is a blinded shield
With no cover
Spreading agony
The world in which we live
Unleashes nothing but bitterness
The malicious finds people who are weakened
To strike a deadly blow
And tear down their happiness
You have to find cheerfulness
Look within yourself
And ask who you are
And what you want
Your guidance is inside you
Spread your wings and soar
Because there's no giving in
Who are these people to cast judgment upon you?
They're not almighty, no not one
God is the only almighty, Alpha, and Omega
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Ladies and gents, welcome to Celtic Gaming's Thursday Table Trimmings, where this week, I'm gonna yell about Downloadable Content, and how it appears to be so…well, crap.
This came about when I found out that Bethesda has recently released a third DLC pack for Fallout 3, a game I said a couple of months ago I wasn't going to review as I liked it too much. The story was good, the guns were fun, and the V.A.T.S. targeting system kept making me love getting a critical headshot on a Super Mutant…so how the blue hell can they fuck up not once, not twice but a colossal three times?!
Anchorage was only good to get Power Armour early; the Pitt was more buggy than a cockroach convention and lo and behold, Broken Steel is more broken than a Window factory opposite a Spice Girls concert on helium ((Thanks to Tyris for that line)) I mean, I can't really be surprised, it's the same company who came up with Horse Armour for Oblivion's DLC. What I don't get is how big companies can royally screw up like that! I mean, at least Peter Molyneux came out and said that Knothole Island was rushed, and that the new DLC, See the Future, is actually been worked on properly. In fact, if it holds up, I'll be picking it up alongside a new DS game that I've been waiting for.
DLC is such a big possibility, as Rockstar proved with the Lost and Damned. Yet companies are perfectly happy to do bugger all and expect to get paid for it. I mean, I can't yell about freebie stuff, but why is that not in the game? Resident Evil 5's Versus mode is a perfect example, with the file a lot smaller than you'd expect, hinting that the option was on the disc, and you had to pay to get it! If I liked Resident Evil I'd be really pissed! I may review it in the coming months if my dentist's drill slips and gives my brain a nice airing.
If Fable 2's newest stab at this market slips on the greases stairs, then I will actually be rather happy – it means I can save up money and save up for games I actually want rather than bolster old games with crappy additions. Mass Effect, Team Fortress 2 ((At least on the PC)) – these games prove it's possible to have good DLC. So why is it so hard? Show me some good DLC, and I'll…well, be happy. Also, 3D Realms have gone bust – Does this mean Duke Nukem Forever may finally get released, if at least by a new company? This internet reviewer says…who cares? Let's go kill crap.


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Two lion cubs born in Gaza this week and named in honour of Hamas' last major clash with Israel died on Thursday, a zoo official said.
"The lions named Fajr and Sijil (Dawn and Clay in Arabic) died today due to a deterioration of their health at birth," Shadi Hamad, supervisor of animals at Bissan park, told AFP.
"The cause of death is a lack of experience and resources for the birth and treatment of cubs. Food and medicines for such a situation are not available" because of the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, said Hamad.
"We had tried to contact the relevant authorities in Egypt, but these are blockade conditions," he added without elaborating.
Since toppling Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in July, the Egyptian army has destroyed nearly all tunnels used for smuggling goods into the Palestinian territory that Israel prohibits.
The lions were born in the Hamas-run Bissan park less than a week after the first anniversary of the eight-day conflict between Gaza's Islamist rulers Hamas and Israel in November 2012.
The head of the park, Nahed al-Majdub, announced their birth on Tuesday, saying the male and female cubs' parents were imported from Egypt four years ago.
At the time, Hamas armed wing the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades congratulated itself on having smuggled the cubs' parents past the Israeli blockade.
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Stumbled upon a strange thing in my latest project.
Every time I close the project and re-open it all the events in sub folders get copied to the root folder, the multitrack events keeps their automations and the simple events will turn into multitrack events. If I close down and re-open the project again another set of copied events will appear beneath the old ones.
I'm using Mac and tried it in a couple of different versions of Fmod Designer including the latest release. Currently I'm using 4.42.05 because of the sound-definition preview crash in later versions.
I'm able to simply delete all of them before I make a build of the project, but it's still somewhat annoying. Any ideas?
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[quote="gumviktor":211wera9]Yeah, I set the template file to another directory and that fixed it.[/quote:211wera9]Incidentally, if you're not actually using templates for anything, you could simply leave the 'Template File' project property's field blank.
Hmm, this sounds like a certain little-known issue that occurs when a project's 'template file' property is set to the project's own filename and path. You should probably check whether that's the case – look at the 'template file' property in the 'Project Properties' window.
Templates are supposed to be stored in an external file, you see. Because project files and template files use an almost identical format, Designer will load a project file as its own template file without trouble – but when you save, it will save both sets of data into the same file, meaning that every event will appear twice. Then, when you re-load, it will load the saved events as both events and templates once more – and then when you save, it will save them twice each, and so on. Effectively, if the problem you're seeing is the one I'm describing, the number of events in your project is being doubled every time you load and save.
If that doesn't solve your problem, I suggest sending a copy of your project file to email@example.com along with a detailed description of the problem, so that we can try and work out what's going wrong.
Yeah, I set the template file to another directory and that fixed it.
Thanks for the fast reply!
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MacFixIt Answers is a feature in which we answer questions e-mailed in by our readers.
This week people wrote in with questions on how the Java vulnerabilities and Flashback malware seen on OS X might affect Linux systems and older versions of OS X, how to set up Time Machine to work with networked volumes, and the options for showing invisible characters when composing word processing documents in OS X. We welcome alternative approaches and views from readers, so if you have any suggestions, post them in the comments!
Question: Setting up Time Machine on any networked volume
MacFixIt reader Stuart asks:
I would like to know how to set up Time Machine on a NAS network-attached storage or any type of network?
To use Time Machine with unsupported network volume setups, you will need to open the Terminal and run the following command:
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
After doing this, and with the NAS formatted and available via AFP (Apple Filing Protocol--the native file sharing protocol for Mac systems) on the network, open the Time Machine preferences and the shared drive should appear.
Question: Threat of Flashback-like attacks on Linux
MacFixIt reader Sky asks:
Hi, I run Linux systems, but Java is used in the browsers such as Firefox and SeaMonkey. Is [the recent Flashback malware] something that I need to pay attention to also?
The Java vulnerability is universal and will affect all platforms that support Java; however, this current Flashback malware is targeted to OS X systems. Nevertheless, be sure to update Java on your system to the latest version so the hole in it that allowed for this malware to work on OS X will not be taken advantage of for Linux or any other OS you use. You can get the latest version from the Java Web site.
Question: Java vulnerabilities on older OS X systems
MacFixIt reader Michael asks:
While I run MacOS 10.6.8 and have the Java Preferences application in /Applications/Utilities, what about the older systems that can't upgrade? There's some concern for these machines that can't run the 10.6 Java patch recently released from Apple.
Will the instructions in your article on how to check for and disable Java work for older versions of Mac OS X?
In older versions of OS X you should still be able to use the Java Preferences to disable the Java runtimes. The screenshot in that article of the Java Preferences was taken from a machine running OS X 10.5, and you can uncheck both of the runtimes listed to disable Java.
Alternatively you can remove the JavaVM framework as well, which should also break the Java installation, though only do this if you do not use any programs that require Java.
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In a previous version of Mac OS X, possibly Tiger, I used Command-; to show invisible formatting such as "space" or "end-of-line." Do you know how I can do this in Snow Leopard?
This feature will depend on the program you are using. It will be available in some, and not in others, and the controls for enabling them may change in different versions of the programs. For instance, in Apple's Pages program you can press Shift-Command-I to show invisible characters, but in Word 2011 you will need to click the "show nonprinted characters" option in the tool bar.
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Planning For An Emergency In Your Home
Planning for an emergency in your home isn't always something we want to think about, but is something we need to be prepared for. Have you taken time to look around your space and assess what you would do in a fire? An Earthquake? A Flood? An Intruder? Have you shared your plans with your family? Read on for a few tips including what's in our emergency box, just in case an emergency situation occurs!
In our own home we keep a plastic tub located near the front door that contains things we might need in a hurry. It helps cover us in times of need or those when time is of the essence!
In it, there's a first aid kit, clothes for children and adults, non-perishable snacks and bottled water, a few small toys and decks of cards, cell phone charger, small stash of cash (because we don't carry any and the power goes down more often than not in the Midwest sometimes!), important phone numbers, addresses and copies of important legal documents.
Now, it might sound like we're preparing for a Zombie apocalypse, but in all reality, we've had to rely on our emergency stash before and we couldn't have been more grateful for our diligent preparations. We know that if there's a fire or flood we can grab and go without looking back. If something like an ice storm or hail storm knocks out your power, there's enough to tide us over until it's restored.
There's tons of great resources out there aimed at getting you prepared for an emergency and even some checklists to walk you through the process.
It's never too late to bring your family together and make sure everyone is on the same page concerning safety procedures! You can even practice every 6 months so everyone stays current. It won't be as big of shock to your little ones as you might think as they will be running drills and listening to procedures at school for the same types of things!
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- (2018). Assessment of piRNA biogenesis and function in testicular germ cell tumors and their precursor germ cell neoplasia in situ. BMC Cancer 18 (1), 20 [+]
Aberrant overexpression of PIWI/piRNA pathway proteins is shown for many types of tumors. Interestingly, these proteins are downregulated in testicular germ cell tumors (TGCTs) compared to normal testis tissues. Here, we used germline and TGCT markers to assess the piRNA biogenesis and function in TGCTs and their precursor germ cell neoplasia in situ (GCNIS).ID:2056
- (2017). Two modes of targeting transposable elements by piRNA pathway in human testis. RNA 23 (11), 1614–1625 [+]
PIWI proteins and their partner small RNAs, termed piRNAs, are known to control transposable elements (TEs) in the germline. Here, we provide evidence that in humans this control is exerted in two different modes. On the one hand, production of piRNAs specifically targeting evolutionarily youngest TEs (L1HS, L1PA2-L1PA6, LTR12C, SVA) is present both at prenatal and postnatal stages of spermatogenesis and is performed without involvement of piRNA clusters. On the other hand, at postnatal stages, piRNAs deriving from pachytene clusters target "older" TEs and thus complement cluster-independent piRNA production to achieve relevant targeting of virtually all TEs expressed in postnatal testis. We also find that converging transcription of antisense-oriented genes contributes to the origin of genic postnatal prepachytene clusters. Finally, while a fraction of pachytene piRNAs was previously shown to arise from long intergenic noncoding RNAs (lincRNAs, i.e., pachytene piRNA cluster primary transcripts), we ascertain that these are a specific set of lincRNAs that both possess distinguishing epigenetic features and are expressed exclusively in testis.ID:1961
- (2016). Distinguishing epigenetic features of preneoplastic testis tissues adjacent to seminomas and nonseminomas. Oncotarget , [+]
PIWI pathway proteins are expressed during spermatogenesis where they play a key role in germ cell development. Epigenetic loss of PIWI proteins expression was previously demonstrated in testicular germ cell tumors (TGCTs), implying their involvement in TGCT development. In this work, apart from studying only normal testis and TGCT samples, we also analyzed an intermediate stage, i.e. preneoplastic testis tissues adjacent to TGCTs. Importantly, in this study, we minimized the contribution of patient-to-patient heterogeneity by using matched preneoplastic/TGCT samples. Surprisingly, expression of germ cell marker DDX4 suggests that spermatogenesis is retained in premalignant testis tissues adjacent to nonseminoma, but not those adjacent to seminoma. Moreover, this pattern is followed by expression of PIWI pathway genes, which impacts one of their functions: DNA methylation level over LINE-1 promoters is higher in preneoplastic testis tissues adjacent to nonseminomas than those adjacent to seminomas. This finding might imply distinct routes for development of the two types of TGCTs and could be used as a novel diagnostic marker, possibly, noninvasively. Finally, we studied the role of CpG island methylation in expression of PIWI genes in patient samples and using in vitro experiments in cell line models: a more complex interrelation between DNA methylation and expression of the corresponding genes was revealed.ID:1361
- (2016). Intragenic Locus in Human PIWIL2 Gene Shares Promoter and Enhancer Functions. PLoS ONE 11 (6), e0156454 [+]
Recently, more evidence supporting common nature of promoters and enhancers has been accumulated. In this work, we present data on chromatin modifications and non-polyadenylated transcription characteristic for enhancers as well as results of in vitro luciferase reporter assays suggesting that PIWIL2 alternative promoter in exon 7 also functions as an enhancer for gene PHYHIP located 60Kb upstream. This finding of an intragenic enhancer serving as a promoter for a shorter protein isoform implies broader impact on understanding enhancer-promoter networks in regulation of gene expression.ID:1525
- (2014). Expression Profiles of PIWIL2 Short Isoforms Differ in Testicular Germ Cell Tumors of Various Differentiation Subtypes. PLoS ONE 9 (11), e112528 [+]
PIWI family proteins have recently emerged as essential contributors in numerous biological processes including germ cell development, stem cell maintenance and epigenetic reprogramming. Expression of some of the family members has been shown to be elevated in tumors. In particular, PIWIL2 has been probed as a potential neoplasia biomarker in many cancers in humans. Previously, PIWIL2 was shown to be expressed in most tumours as a set of its shorter isoforms. In this work, we demonstrated the presence of its 60 kDa (PL2L60A) and 80 kDa (PL2L80A) isoforms in testicular cancer cell lines. We also ascertained the transcriptional boundaries of mRNAs and alternative promoter regions for these PIWIL2 isoforms. Further, we probed a range of testicular germ cell tumor (TGCT) samples and found PIWIL2 to be predominantly expressed as PL2L60A in most of them. Importantly, the levels of both PL2L60A mRNA and protein products were found to vary depending on the differentiation subtype of TGCTs, i.e., PL2L60A expression is significantly higher in undifferentiated seminomas and appears to be substantially decreased in mixed and nonseminomatous TGCTs. The higher level of PL2L60A expression in undifferentiated TGCTs was further validated in the model system of retinoic acid induced differentiation in NT2/D1 cell line. Therefore, both PL2L60A mRNA and protein abundance could serve as an additional marker distinguishing between seminomas and nonseminomatous tumors with different prognosis and therapy approaches.ID:1101


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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is an infection caused by a type of Staphylococcus, or staph, bacteria that's resistant to many different antibiotics. These bacteria naturally live in the nose and on the skin and generally don't cause any harm. However, when they begin to multiply uncontrollably, a MRSA infection can occur. These infections typically occur when there's a cut or break in your skin.
MRSA is very contagious and can be spread through direct contact with an infected person. It can also be contracted by coming into contact with an object or surface that an infected person has touched. Though a MRSA infection can be serious, it may be treated effectively with antibiotics.
MRSA infections are classified as either hospital-acquired (HA-MRSA) or community-acquired (CA-MRSA).
HA-MRSA is associated with infections that are contracted in medical facilities such as hospitals or nursing homes. You can get this type of MRSA infection through direct contact with an infected wound or contaminated hands. You can also become infected through contact with contaminated linens or poorly sanitized surgical instruments. HA-MRSA can cause severe problems, such as blood infections and pneumonia.
CA-MRSA is associated with infections that are transmitted through close personal contact with an infected person or through direct contact with an infected wound. This type of MRSA infection may also develop as a result of poor hygiene such as infrequent or improper handwashing.
MRSA symptoms can vary depending on the type of infection.
HA-MRSA is generally more likely to cause serious complications, such as pneumonia, urinary tract infections, and sepsis. It's important to see your doctor right away if you notice any of the following symptoms:
CA-MRSA usually causes skin infections. Areas that have increased body hair, such as the armpits or back of the neck, are more likely to be infected. Areas that have been cut, scratched, or rubbed are also vulnerable to infection because your biggest barrier to germs — your skin — has been damaged.
The infection usually causes a swollen, painful bump to form on the skin. The bump may resemble a spider bite or pimple. It often has a yellow or white center and a central head. This may often be surrounded by an area of redness and warmth, known as cellulitis. Pus and other fluids may drain from the affected area. Some people also experience a fever.
Risk factors vary depending on the type of MRSA infection.
You're at an increased risk for HA-MRSA if you:
You're at an increased risk for CA-MRSA if you:
Diagnosis begins with a medical history assessment and physical examination. Samples will also be taken from the site of infection. The types of samples obtained to help diagnose MRSA include the following:
Wound samples are obtained with a sterile cotton swab and placed in a container. They're then taken to a laboratory to be analyzed for the presence of staph bacteria.
Sputum is the substance that comes up from the respiratory tract during coughing. A sputum culture analyzes the sputum for the presence of bacteria, cell fragments, blood, or pus.
People who can cough can provide a sputum sample easily. Those who are unable to cough or who are on ventilators may need to undergo a respiratory lavage or bronchoscopy to obtain a sputum sample. Respiratory lavage and bronchoscopy involve the use of a bronchoscope, which is a thin tube with a camera attached. Under controlled conditions, the doctor inserts the bronchoscope through your mouth and into your lungs. The bronchoscope allows the doctor to see the lungs clearly and to collect a sample of fluid for testing.
In most cases, a sample for a urine culture is obtained from a "midstream clean catch" urine specimen. To do this, urine is collected in a sterile cup during urination. The cup is then given to the doctor, who sends it to a lab for analysis. Sometimes, urine has to be collected directly from the bladder. To do this, the healthcare provider inserts a sterile tube called a catheter into the bladder. Urine then drains from the bladder into a sterile container.
A blood culture requires the removal of a small sample of blood. Blood is then placed on a dish in a laboratory and allowed to grow bacteria that may be present within it. Results from blood cultures typically take about 48 hours. A positive test result can indicate sepsis, a type of blood infection. Bacteria can enter the blood from infections located in other parts of your body, such as the lungs, bones, and urinary tract.
HA-MRSA and CA-MRSA infections are typically treated differently.
HA-MRSA infections have the capability of producing severe and life-threatening infections. These infections usually require antibiotics through an IV, sometimes for long periods of time depending on the severity of your infection.
CA-MRSA infections will usually improve with oral antibiotics alone. If you have a large enough skin infection, your doctor may decide to perform an incision and drainage. This procedure is typically performed in an office setting under local anesthesia and involves using a scalpel to cut open the area of infection and drain it completely. You may not need antibiotics if this is performed.
Take the following measures to reduce your risk of getting and spreading CA-MRSA:
People with HA-MRSA are typically placed in isolation temporarily until their infection improves. Isolation prevents the spread of this type of MRSA infection. Hospital personnel caring for people with MRSA have to follow strict handwashing procedures. To further reduce their risk for MRSA, hospital staff and visitors should wear protective garments and gloves to prevent contact with contaminated surfaces. Linens and contaminated surfaces should always be properly disinfected.
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1,000-mile trek to be reunited with lost dog ends in heartache for hopeful Ohio manBy Jason Schreiber
Union Leader Correspondent
April 06. 2013 4:09PM
HAMPSTEAD - When Barret Paust saw an online picture of a lost German Shepherd found in Hampstead, he was convinced that it was his 10-year-old Chewie.
She disappeared on Jan. 17 when Paust, who lives in Ohio, had traveled to Salem for work.
Paust was so sure that the dog was his that he immediately contacted Animal Control Officer Sheila Johannesen and made arrangements to travel to New Hampshire for what he hoped would be a happy reunion with the dog he's had since she was a puppy.
Paust packed his bags and made the 1,000-mile trip over the last days. He knew there was a chance that this dog wasn't Chewie, but he was optimistic when he arrived at Carol's Grooming and Kennels in Hampstead Saturday morning.
"It just looks so much like her," he said as he waited to see the dog.
But when kennel owner Carol Etscovitz brought the dog out to meet with Paust, his excitement turned to sadness.
After a few moments, Paust quickly realized that the dog wasn't Chewie after all. This dog was bigger, had a darker face, and was missing other traits.
Paust kneeled down to pet the dog, and after a minute or so, she walked away.
"If it was Chewy she would be all over me," Paust said, wiping tears from his eyes.
The heart-wrenching scene wasn't what he expected, but Paust isn't giving up hope that one day he'll find his dog.
"I would make the drive again in a heartbeat. To the ends of the earth for my dog," he said. "She's my baby."
Johannesen said this is the first missing dog case she can recall where someone traveled such a long distance for a reunion.
Paust's search began after Chewie vanished while he was staying at the Red Roof Inn in Salem on Jan. 17. Paust installs lighting for companies and often travels for work. At the time of Chewie's disappearance, Paust was doing work at A.C. Moore Arts and Crafts in Salem and said he let Chewy outside the hotel after she pawed at the door.
"Without thinking I let her go out, thinking she would just be a minute, and I laid back down and fell asleep. I woke up an hour later and she was nowhere to be found," said Paust, who brought Chewie on the trip to New Hampshire because she was still recovering after being hit by a car while staying with a neighbor last December.
Paust searched for Chewie and often checks websites for places like Granite State Dog Recovery, a nonprofit organization that helps reunite lost pets with their owners.
It was on the website for Granite State Dog Recovery where Paust spotted a photo this week of the German Shepherd found hanging around outside Acropolis Pizza in Hampstead on March 28.
"It looked so much like her that I stopped and said, 'That's got to be her.' Even a guy that I work with said, 'That's your dog,'" Paust said.
Andy and Wendy Medolo, the Hampstead couple who contacted authorities after the dog was found at Acropolis Pizza, were also on hand for Saturday's reunion that wasn't meant to be.
"It was a letdown, but this shows that he's still out there looking for her," said Johannesen, who stressed the importance of making sure dogs and cats are microchipped to make it easier to trace their owners if they ever get lost.
Paust still hopes someone will come forward with information about the whereabouts of Chewie.
In the meantime, Johannesen hopes she'll find the owner of the other German Shepherd that still needs a home. The dog was covered in mud when it was found, but has been cleaned and appears to be in good health.
Johannesen said the dog will likely be adopted out within the next couple of days if the owner isn't found.
Paust said he wouldn't adopt the dog because he didn't want to take it 1,000 miles from home when there's a chance its owner could be looking for her.
Anyone with information on Chewie or the dog found at Acropolis Pizza is asked to call the Hampstead Police Department at 329-5700.


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I'm thankful for being alive, because I really enjoy it.
Thanksgiving came early, did it? I'm thankful for having bare necessities, especially when I'm reminded of how such things are taken for granted. I have somewhere I call 'home' and the means to buy food and water when an increasing amount of people don't. I don't feel particularly safe but you can't have everything I guess. My mother who was always there for me and helped me in every way she could. She's someone I can count on. I'm thankful to my supervisor for accepting me in his lab and everybody in it who have helped me grow. I'm thankful to myself (?) for getting into a public university. I didn't have to pay to have certain doors open.
I'm thankful for this place.
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Over the last year I have read and reviewed a lot of books by Packt Publishing, and I wanted to share one of the reasons (aside from the awesome books) why I have chosen to work with Packt Publishing.
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Packt Open Source Project Royalty Scheme Packt believes in Open Source. When we sell a book written on an Open Source project, we pay a royalty directly to that project. As a result of purchasing one of our Open Source books, Packt will have given some of the money received to the Open Source project.It's this kind of commitment from a publisher that really separates the wheat form the chaff. I feel good when I read a book that is written by Packt because I know that I am, at least in some part, giving back to a community that has given so much to us.
In the long term, we see ourselves and yourselves, as customers and readers of our books, as part of the Open Source ecosystem, providing sustainable revenue for the projects we publish on. Our aim at Packt is to establish publishing royalties as an essential part of the service and support business model that sustains Open Source.


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Do you know what Parisher Ransomware is?
If Parisher Ransomware finds a way to your computer, it could cause you severe headache since it encrypts all your documents. You can only see your files again if you pay the ransom fee, which is, in this case, very high. In fact, this fee is so high that most likely only companies would have this kind of capital to transfer in the hope of being able to recover their files. Unfortunately, this ransomware program uses an algorithm that is unknown; therefore, you cannot find free tools on the web yet to restore your files for free. You can only be saved actually if you have a recently made backup copy stored on a portable drive. But even if you have this copy, your first move should be to remove Parisher Ransomware from your system. Our researchers say that it is not too difficult to eliminate this threat but prevention should be your priority if you do not want to have further malware threats endangering your virtual world and your data. Please read our full report on this dangerous ransomware to learn more about the risks and solutions.
Most ransomware infections infiltrate your system via spam e-mails or Exploit Kits, but not this one; at least, not yet. Right now, according to our researchers, this malware program is mostly spread through remote desktop protocol and related software, including TeamViewer. This means that your computer could be the part of a company network and the system administrators can access your computer via such protocol. However, cyber criminals can somehow exploit certain weaknesses, such as easily hackable passwords or configurations, and gain access to your system as well as the whole network. This means that a whole company LAN (Local Area Network) could be infected with this vicious malware in no time. This is one reason why we believe that this ransomware could be targeting corporations.Parisher Ransomware screenshot
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But it is quite possible that these criminals will change tactics to distribute Parisher Ransomware more widely. Therefore, you might find it spreading in spam e-mails and by Exploit Kits as well. We suggest that you be more careful when you are checking your mails even in your inbox because modern spam mails can easily end up there. These spams may use totally legitimate-looking sender addresses, for example, and believable subjects that could draw your attention right away. There are usually three clicks involved in a spam attack. First, you open the mail. Second, you feel the need to click on the attachment to save it. And, finally, you click to open the attached alleged overdue invoice. However, by the time you realize that the attached file is fake or wrong, all your files will have been encrypted. If you delete Parisher Ransomware at this stage, there may be no way for you to restore your files.
Our research shows that this ransomware is a new version of the well-know threat called Mobef Ransomware. This infection encrypts your text files, including .docx, .pdf, .txt, .xml, and more. Unlike most of other ransomware programs, Parisher Ransomware does not alter your file names and does not add a unique extension to them either. Before changing your desktop background with its ransom note window, it also drops a number of files onto your system. For example, "HELLO.0MG" and "LOKMANN.KEY993" into all subfolders of %USERPROFILE% as well as a log file that contains the list of the affected files called "[6-digit ID].log" in your %WINDIR%. The 6-digit ID you will see in the ransom note that actually comes up moments after the encryption is over.
The ransom note has a blue background that looks very much like the infamous blue screen of death. This note does not tell you too much about this attack and the payment method. All you learn is that you have to send an e-mail to these crooks using firstname.lastname@example.com. If you do not get a reply, you are also given three more alternative addresses to use. We have information about a user who claims that he contacted these criminals and they demanded 5 Bitcoins for the recovery of his files, which is around $3,200. We do not think that every computer user could easily pay this amount. The usual rate ranges from 0.1 to 1 BTC. This amount is totally insane; therefore, we do believe that it is meant for companies. In any case, if you find this beast on your computer, you need to act quickly and remove Parisher Ransomware.
Please follow our guide below if you want to take matters into your own hands. It is not impossible to delete this malware program even if you are not an experienced user. It is also possible that this is not even the only threat on your system; however, it is definitely the most severe one. We hope that you see how easy it is to let such dangerous threats onto your system. If you want proper protection against all kinds of malware invasions, we suggest that you download and install a reliable anti-malware product, such as SpyHunter. If you need assistance to remove Parisher Ransomware, please leave us a message below.
Remove Parisher Ransomware from Windows
- Tap Ctrl+Shift+Esc simultaneously to open Task Manager.
- Locate the malicious process, right-click on it, and select Properties.
- On the General tab, identify the Location of the executable (e.g., %APPDATA%, %TEMP%, and %LOCALAPPDATA%).
- Kill the malicious process by clicking End task.
- Bin "HELLO.0MG" and "LOKMANN.KEY993" from every %USERPROFILE% subfolders.
- Delect the log file from %WINDIR%
- Empty your Recycle Bin and reboot your system.
In non-techie terms:
Parisher Ransomware is a malware infection that you must take very seriously because if this threat manages to sneak onto your system, you can virtually say goodbye to all your documents. The cyber criminals behind this attack seem to have set a very high ransom fee in exchange for your decryption key and software. If you are ready to pay around $3,200, of course, there is no problem for you, as long as you get something for your money. You may not know but cyber criminals are not famous for keeping their words. Also, technical issues may emerge that could stop you from getting your decryption key from the remote Command and Control server. Therefore, we suggest that you remove Parisher Ransomware as soon as possible. If you want to protect your system from similar dangers, you may want to consider installing an authentic anti-malware program.


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Born in Philadelphia, PA, Yvonne began writing music at the age of 11. She grew
Attending Malone College in Canton, OH, she graduated in 2003 with a BA in Commercial Music Technology, studying under George Payne and Mark Townsend (former guitarist for DC Talk & Jennifer Knapp, former producer of Relient K).
Shortly after graduation, she moved to Nashville, TN, to get to know the music scene there. She was a regular at open mic night at the Bluebird Cafe, and was accepted to play a writer's night (by audition only). Not feeling a huge draw to the area, she moved back to Philly and worked with producer/engineer Brian Bricklin (well-known in the Philly area and beyond), recording "Proof of Purchase," a full-length album of her own original music.
In the summer of 2006, Yvonne married Jonathan Bonomo and moved to
Yvonne at " TheBlue Bird Cafe"
While most of her music is in the "Contemporary Christian" genre, Yvonne has many crossover pop tunes, reaching people of all ages and in all stages of life. Her goal in writing is to cause people to see themselves for who they really are, so they can see Jesus Christ for who He really is.
Although Yvonne loves to perform she is also very interested in selling her songs to other performers or producers. If you are interested in purchasing her CD or the rights to her songs, please contact her via email.
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When Delicious Alchemy got in touch asking if I wanted to try out some of their Gluten Free mixes I jumped at the chance. I've been loving featuring more food and recipes on my blog and have found such a passion for baking and cooking. This is the first mix I've tried and these brownies are UNBELIEVABLE so I'm really excited to try some more. (Victoria Sponge cake coming soon!)
Anyway, onto the brownies. The mix comes in a beautifully packaged bag (this one travelled back home with me hence the creasing). It's also dairy free if you simply substitute the butter for a dairy free alternative. The instructions are super simple and are on the side of the packet.
Pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees. Line a baking tray 20cm (ish) with greaseproof paper, leaving an amount left out of the edges, approx 2.5cm.
Melt 100g Unsalted butter and add to the mix. It should form a light batter (mine was more of a lumpy mess at this point). Lightly beat two large eggs, then also add these to the mixture. You stir the mix rather than whisking, due to the chocolate and fudge pieces inside. The picture below shows the consistency. I was panicking that I had lumps of powder mixed in, but it had all mixed together really well.
Serve up into the tin and flatten the top. As you can tell, I was terrible at this so this was my attempt. When cooked, the top all went flat anyway, but try to keep the mixture as level as possible to avoid burning sections.
Place into the oven for 18-22 minutes. Mine took 18 and it was cooked through, personally I wouldn't have liked the mixture anymore cooked as I like my brownies really soft! Take out of the oven and leave for 20 minutes in the tray. After this time has passed, you can use the greaseproof paper to lift the brownie out. Then wait until it has completely cooled before cutting. That was definitely the hardest part!!!! The temptation to have a taste was unreal.
Once it's completely cooled, go ahead and slice it up. You could leave larger slices like this to serve as a big portion, or cut them up into small squares for nibbles at a party. My grandma and friends all taste tested these and loved them. I left a box at my friends flat when I went out and they were all gone before I got back, definitely a successful bake!
The mixes do have a "May contain traces of nuts & peanuts" warning, typically unavoidable especially with gluten free foods, but they are currently setting up their own entirely nut free factory! Such a rarity (everything seems to have allergy warnings these days!) and definitely something that attracts me to brands.
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Some people enjoy a tasty wine or rum whether it's casual drinking or celebrating an event. But for those watching their intake, the pounds created by certain drinks are worthy of killing anyone's buzz. Flip through this list to see which alcoholic drinks won't add too much to your weight.
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Joyce Ritscher
Joyce Ann Ritscher, 68, of Cedar Rapids, formerly of Keystone, died of cancer on Jan. 18, 2012, at the home of her daughter in Chicago. A memorial service was held Jan. 23 at St. John Lutheran Church in Keystone, with Pastor Richard Osslund officiating. Committal services were held at Holy Cross Cemetery near Keystone.
Joyce was born Sept. 20, 1943, in Vinton to Delbert and Lucille (Holst) Junge, and graduated from the Keystone High School in 1961. She was a member of St. John Lutheran Church in Keystone and she sold real restate.
Local survivors include Doug (Jeanne) Junge of Swisher.
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Darger HQ connects Nebraska contemporary artists to the world by creating discourse and collaborations between local artists and national and international artists. We develop partnerships that benefit artists by providing new means of support through combined private and nonprofit sources. Darger HQ educates, enriches and exposes the community to some of the most inventive contemporary art being produced today. We expose the world to innovative contemporary art from Nebraska, and bring awareness of it, around the world.
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|Nelson's column comes into view at Trafalgar Square. The column is made of granite; Horatio Nelson, facing you from the top, is made of sandstone; and Lanseer's four lions at the base are cast in bronze. The sea Battle of Trafalgar took place off the coast of Spain and was the most decisive British victory of the Napoleonic war. Nelson was mortally wounded although none of the British ships under his command was lost. The statue shows Nelson with just one eye and one arm wounds he sustained during earlier conflicts. The square is regarded as the geographical centre of London. Over at the far side is the National Gallery with one of the finest collections of European paintings in the world
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Talk:Mountain mapping
Discuss Mountain mapping here:
peaks & munros tagging
I'm pondering additional tagging: Is the peak a peak or a top, is it a Munro, a Donald, a Corbett, etc. Some mountains seem tagged already, but the tag munro=no seems a little redundant! Perhaps something like mountain:set=munro mountain:summit=peak.
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The introduction of The Tobin Family this season on Damages was one of the best decisions this series could have made. It's so devilishly wonderful to be able to get to follow an entirely different group of characters other than Patty and Ellen. Not that Patty (Glenn Close) and Ellen (Rose Byrne) have grown entirely stale, but it's always great to see the other side of the criminal issue. Season 1 did that perfectly with the trials and tribulations of Arthur Frobisher (Ted Danson), but Season 2 wasn't really able to make us care all that much about Walter Kendrick (John Doman) or Dave Pell (Clarke Peters). Season 2 also had too many villains for its own good - plus William Hurt to boot. It was a good season, but definitely scattered. Season 3 is much more accessible, but without losing its dire edge. Watching Tom (Tate Donovan) head on down to Antigua was great, and his investigative scenes are much more potent now that he's got a direct connection to the case. He's really turning up the heat and becoming a darker, sterner character with some weight - which fits in perfectly given his inevitable demise.
The little pursed lipped smiles between Ellen and Patty continued this week, with both of them playing little mind games with one another. From Patty calling Ellen at 4am to invite her to a party that didn't exist in order to make her jealous about Patty's new protege Alex Benjamin, to Ellen convincing Alex to work with Josh Restin on a vanity article in order to get her in hot water with Patty. Ultimately, it seems like Patty has the upper hand in this little petty game, since we got to see Ellen smile at the thought of being invited to a Patty party, but Ellen's line to Patty "You haven't replaced me" pretty much solidified the fact that Patty is the one that's really pining for her lost Ellen. So Ellen did, technically get the last word in. But I'm sure we'll wind up seeing that the two of them need each other in a sickeningly equal manner.
Martin Short's catatonia is absolutely captivating. He's comes off as a horribly vulnerable lawyer who is in no way a match for Patty. And that might be the point. Whenever someone is cast as a lawyer on Damages we think that they might be a foil, much like Zeljko Ivanek was back in Season 1. But Claire Maddox (from Season 2), and now Leonard Winstone, are much more than just their job. They're not just there to battle Patty on a legal level. It seemed as though Leonard was lying when he told Joe that he had to skip town for a day to visit ad sick friend because, well, he's a horrible liar. But it turns out that he wasn't stretching the truth all that much. Leonard took off to see his mother, who had unfortunately already died. We learned a bit more about Leonard's loyalties and his desperate need to be part of the Tobin clan in "You Haven't Replaced Me." Patty told him outright "keep acting like a Tobin and I'll punish you like one." Will Leonard get scared enough to stray from Joe? It's a strange question to ask given the fact that Leonard was about to stand calmly on a New York sidewalk while Joe got executed in public. Did Leonard's Tobin loyalties die with Louis?
The mysteries are really piling up too. Now we've got Ellen's stolen handbag with some fingerprints on it belonging to a "Lester Wiggins" – which is Leonard's family name. We know that his father is Albert. Could Lester Wiggins be Leonard's real name? Was he actually a small time grifter back in 1984? Also, it appears as though Tessa Marchetti has no idea that she's being used as a money trafficker, which makes Louis' dealings seem much more devious. It also seems as though Patty and Ellen will now be working together since Ellen doesn't trust her own boss (Ben Shankmen) to recover the Tobin loot. This was a good episode, with some good reveals, but I'm ultimately looking for more bang. I guess I'm not as interested in seeing Ellen and Patty play "who misses who more?" right now, even though it's led to their new team-up.


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Hiddink, who won the FA Cup during his short time as a caretaker manager at Stamford Bridge and is well liked and respected by all at Chelsea, could be seen as a replacement for Frank Arnesen.
Arnesen is set to leave Chelsea for Hamburg in the summer which could open up a route back in to English football for Hiddink.
Turkey currently sit third in qualifying Group A, behind Germany and Austria, with Hiddink demanding six points from the country's next two games to revive their qualification hopes.
"I'm trying to make a better Turkish national team," said Hiddink.
"If I can't do that, I'll ask the chairman to sack me. Six points from these two games is vital.
"If we don't get that I can offer my resignation to the chairman and then it's up to him. It will mean that I am not a successful manager."
Hiddink has a wealth of experience of European and international football including a European Cup win with PSV Eindhoven in 1988 and the extraordinary achievement of taking South Korea to the semi-finals of the World Cup in 2002.
He has a close friendship with Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich and the Russian has made no secret of his desire to work again with Hiddink at some point in the future.


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Many people were instrumental in the founding of the library but none had a longer involvement or deeper relationship with the library than former trustee Dr. James Gillig. Dr. Gillig was part of the original citizens group formed in 1978 to secure funding and start the work of forming a library. He was also one of the original library trustees, serving from 1980 until his retirement in May, 2009. He helped hire the three library directors, saw the library through a tremendous period of growth in the 1980s and 90s, shepherding the construction of the current library building and later the expansion of the building. A local orthodontist, Dr. Gillig and his wife were very involved in the Canton community. They retired to North Carolina but stay in touch with CPL through friends and our website. We invite you to post your greetings to Dr. Gillig through the Contact Us link and we will pass them on.
Dr. Gillig has been a vocal advocate and tireless champion of Canton Public Library, as you can see from this video from 2000 about the library's Board of Trustees.


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(The Hallman/Hughes story. Could Matt Hughes be getting one more shot at revenge before he retires?)
— Anderson Silva's manager Ed Soares has debunked a report by Yahoo! Sports in which he was quoted as saying Silva wanted to give up his middleweight title to compete as a light-heavyweight permanently. As Soares told MMA Weekly: "It's not true. I never said that to Dana. I have said to Dana that he'd like to fight again at 205 (but not permanently)…he wants the biggest fights possible, whether it's at 205 or 185." Silva and Soares still aren't psyched about an impending rematch with Dan Henderson: "I feel a true number one (middleweight contender) would be if Henderson fought the winner of Nate Marquardt and Damian Maia…we could take another fight at 205 or a catchweight fight (in the meantime)."
— For the fourth time in his career, Dennis "Superman" Hallman has signed a contract to fight in the UFC. He expects to make his next UFC appearance sometime this fall. Hallman is best known for two lightning-quick submission victories over Matt Hughes, the second of which came at Hallman's Octagon debut at UFC 29 in December 2000. The 33-year-old fighter lost subsequent UFC fights to Jens Pulver, Frank Trigg, and Jorge Rivera, and is currently on a four-fight win streak, with two of those fights taking place in Strikeforce.
— After a split-decision loss against John Howard at UFC 101, Tamdan McCrory has reportedly been released by the UFC. The aspiring pick-up artist compiled a 3-3 record during his time in the Octagon.
— TUF 7 finalist CB Dollaway will return at UFC Fight Night 19 (September 16th, Oklahoma City) against Dan Miller. Both fighters are coming off losses, with Dollaway taking an upset submission loss against Tom Lawlor at UFC 100, and Miller losing a decision to Chael Sonnen at UFC 98. One fighter who won't be on the Fight Night 19 card is Chris Lytle, who injured his ACL during training and has pulled out of his fight against Carlos Condit.
— Dana White has decided to pull all of his video blogs from the UFC's YouTube channel. Despite reports to the contrary, the decision doesn't seem to be the result of a rumored "behind the scenes" series with HBO.
— The UFC has announced that Spike TV will begin airing a new compilation series called "The Best of Pride Fighting Championships," premiering January 11th, 2010. The series will showcase the most exciting bouts from the legendary MMA organization, featuring such stars as Chuck Liddell, Anderson Silva, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueria, Dan Henderson, Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic, Wanderlei Silva, Josh Barnett, Mauricio "Shogun" Rua, Mark Coleman, Takanori Gomi, and Fedor Emelianenko; yes, even Fedor. "The Best of Pride" will be hosted by Kenda Perez.


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Don't Blame Sammy "the Bull" Gravano for John Gotti's Conviction
As any mafia/organized crime buff knows, in 1992 mob boss John Gotti was convicted of racketeering and murder and sentenced to multiple life terms in prison.
The Teflon Don, as Gotti was nicknamed, was convicted and carted off to jail, thanks in part to the damning testimony of his right-hand-man and Gambino underboss Sammy "the Bull" Gravano.
Sammy "the Bull" Gravano, a short, stocky gangster was one of Gotti's most trusted and loyal henchman. His flipping and ratting out of John Gotti sent shockwaves through the underworld and elated federal prosecutors.
Gravano, in a move unprecedented at the time in the annals of organized crime, agreed to tell all on his boss and testify in exchange for a reduced sentence.
Over the course of nine days on the witness stand, Sammy bared his criminal soul: he described his own life of crime, the many murders he was involved in or committed (totaling 19 - yes, 19!), and the role of John Gotti as head of the Gambino family.
He described in vivid detail the murders that Gotti ordered, both to silence potential rats or informants within the family and to punish mafia members for various mob-related indiscretions.
As Gravano famously said at trial, "John was the boss, and I was the underboss. John barked, and I bit."
Most sensational of all the murders Gravano described was the 1985 slaying of former Gambino godfather Paul Castellano, who was shot to death along with his driver/bodyguard Tommy Billotti on a midtown Manhattan street directly in front of Spark's Steakhouse.
The murder, testified Sammy, was orchestrated by John Gotti himself and cleared the way for Gotti's coronation as Gambino boss!
Sammy's testimony was historic and damaging, and after the prosecution rested it's case, the jury took less than a day to return a guilty verdict that would doom John Gotti to prison for life.
But what gets lost by mafia revisionists and Gotti groupies is this: John Gotti incriminated himself on numerous FBI tapes.
In mine (and many people's view), John Gotti would have been convicted on the strength of the tapes alone.
Gotti admitted to some very bad things on those tapes, including multiple murders. The governments whole case against Gotti and Co. hinged on the contents of those tapes.
However, Sammy Gravano often gets unfairly blamed for bringing about the downfall of John Gotti. Many people act like if it weren't for Gravano's testimony, John Gotti would be walking the streets today (if he had lived).
But that's absurd.
Sure, Gravano turned "rat" and spilled the beans on his boss, and you can hate Gravano all you want for that.
But it was Gotti's big mouth, and not Gravano's testimony, that doomed the Dapper Don.
Those "Gotti tapes" were the basis of the governments case against John Gotti and Co. And it was because of those tapes that Sammy Gravano and Frankie LoCascio (Gotti's consigliere) were arrested and charged in the indictment.
So, logically, if a finger is to be pointed at anyone, it should be pointed at John Gotti. His were the loose lips that sank the Gambino ship!
Granted, Sammy Gravano did "flip" and decide to cut his losses and rat out his boss in a plea deal. But it was only after stewing in the Manhattan Correctional Center for over a year that Gravano decided to flip.
And during that time, the government played excerpts of some of their tapes that showed John Gotti criticizing Gravano for being too greedy, too vengeful, and too deceitful.
Of course, Gotti never broached his concerns with Gravano on the outside; it was only through government tapes that Gravano learned of Gotti's true feelings towards him.
So, in the end, Gravano decided to help himself by testifying against the very boss who was responsible for his own incarceration and likely life sentence.
And Gravano's testimony, while damaging, was not the sole basis for John Gotti's conviction. It was John Gotti's own words!
Everyone knows this is important. But what the hell are you supposed to do if the "man" you're loyal to trashes you behind your back? What if you know he is willing to throw you under the bus in return for your loyalty? Think about that for a minute before you open your mouth and bitch about Gravano. I guarantee you'd do the same thing he did if you were in his shoes.
I agree with the premise that Gotti "hung" himself. In the "club" which he used as his "headquarters" he opened his mouth as if he had complete privacy. The "bugs" were planted and listening. The FBI was recording his words. Unfortunately he believed that no one was listening. The older mob bosses knew better. They went for a walk if they had to discuss "business." They covered their mouths with their hand when they spoke. This tactic thwarted the FBI lipreaders. Gotti stupidly believed that he was "untouchable." He truly believed that he was made of Teflon and that no charges could ever stick to him. What a dope!
This rat killed my uncle and put my great uncle in prison. I would like to have just five minutes with this p.o.s