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Great man Ammon and I ran into the BITCH SLAP dames (and the film's cool producer) at the Con and they were kind enough to pose with us (pics coming soon) and give us a slew of mucho cool postcards. Tap all of them below! I am officially stoked for the film! Bitch Slap stars Julia Voth, America Olivo, and Erin Cummings and its directed by Rick Jacobson. The film is about 3 bad girls who get in over their pretty heads when they try to swindle some Kingpin. Somebody deserves a spanking that's for damn sure!
NOTE: The Bitch Slap crew gets my "Efficient Guerilla Marketing" award! Props to the film's actresses and the producer for taking the bull by the horn and hustling hard to push their film at the Con. It's not everyday you see the stars of a picture and its producer do it them damn freaking selves. So again, PROPS!
Speaking of bitches, here are two more...
and I don't mean the broad! ; )
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I have spent a decent amount of time in the universes that Trudi Canavan creates. I've read all of the Black Magician Trilogy, and then it's sequel the The Traitor Spy Trilogy. I've also spent some time in the Age of Five universe, but I only read the first book. So it's safe to say that I've experienced Trudi Canavan's writing before, and know some of what to expect in terms of the writing and the set up. From the moment I'd read the synopsis of Thief's Magic I had wanted to read this series, but have only recently got around to picking up the book.
Synopsis [GoodReads]:
In a world where an industrial revolution is powered by magic, Tyen, a student of archaeology, unearths a sentient book called Vella. Once a young sorcerer-bookbinder, Vella was transformed into a useful tool by one of the greatest sorcerers of history. Since then she has been collecting information, including a vital clue to the disaster Tyen's world faces.
Elsewhere, in an land ruled by the priests, Rielle the dyer's daughter has been taught that to use magic is to steal from the Angels. Yet she knows she has a talent for it, and that there is a corrupter in the city willing to teach her how to use it — should she dare to risk the Angels' wrath.
But not everything is as Tyen and Rielle have been raised to believe. Not the nature of magic, nor the laws of their lands… and not even the people they trust.
We are introduced to Tyen, a student of archeology and magic, working to find something valuable whilst on a dig. All her gets is a dusty old book, but it's a little more than that. It's a book that talks, in a sense. Think…. Chamber of Secrets and Tom Riddles diary. Except the book can't lie. And can instantly know everything that the holder knows. Tyen keeps the book a secret from the Academy – the prestigious school where he is studying his magic and history – but of course, these sorts of secrets don't stay secret for long and he's quickly on his way as a fugitive, set up for a theft he didn't commit.
There is also the story of Rielle. A dyers daughter in the city of Fyre. She's sent to the temple to study and become fodder for a marriage into one of the more wealthy families. She can see magic, see the stain it leaves behind but she has never revealed this fact to anyone except her aunt who has instructed her to keep it a secret all her life. Naturally, this also causes some problems for Rielle, but not until after she is kidnapped by someone they call 'tainted' – someone who has learned magic but not through the priesthood. All Rielle wants to do is become an artist, but fate has other plans for her as she is accused of using magic herself, and thus become tainted, and sent away to the mountain temple to serve her sentence.
In both stories all is not what it seemed. I spent a good deal of time wondering how these lives were going to interlink. Is Rielle going to become the book, Vella? Or, if as simple as living in separate worlds, how will their lives interlink? Who would be crossing into who's world – which is a possibility thanks to the knowledge divulged by Vella. Rielle is a powerful untrained magician, and Tyen is also a powerful sorcerer although not fully trained had greater reach with the magic than his professors realised.
There are some very typical Canavan elements in this book. From the empire of Leratia, the magic, the lesser status of women, and a typical evil doer it has all the basics for a good adventure. You could tell that this particular book was the set up book, the journey to get you to where the characters needed to be for the big plan to happen – which would have been better had something a bit more than the journey happened. I was disappointed that the characters didn't meet, thinking that their journey would come together here, even if it was on a cliffhanger ending that is so popular these days.
I will read the next book in the series, that's for sure and hopefully things will pick up a bit there. As mentioned, this book was about the whole journey to get the characters to where they needed to be… not a great deal happened otherwise. There was an interesting character that we were introduced to in Rielle's world that I think maybe the connection to Vella and Tyen so hopefully this will be revealed in the next outing.
That's all for now folks! What are you reading at the moment? I have yet to chose my next book, and I hate the anxiety I get from not knowing what's coming up next!


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Water Structuring Discs & Thelete
In the previous post, Living Water in the New Reel, I described how structured water, or living water as I prefer to call it, helps provide the electrical charge needed to stabilize your character in the new reel. As I explained in that post, we have good quality water here, pure and unfiltered from a deep well, but we have noticed significant improvements since we started using the water structuring discs I'm going to talk about here.
In April this year (2017) Anton from South Africa came to visit, to present his water structuring technology to John Lash and to seek his input on taking it forward. Anton has had a successful business selling water structuring products and consulting in water structuring technology for nearly 20 years in South Africa. The background to his visit is that he listened to John's interviews on Redice and felt that he was of the few interviewees who recognised white genocide, which is an everyday issue for white South Africans and had something useful to say about it. White genocide and the plight of European settlers who built that country is not the subject of this post, but it is a fine example of the success of judeo-communism and well worth studying. If you know the enemy and their tactics, it is much easier to keep them out of your life.
Anton's technology now goes under the acronym, ELFET, which stands for Electrical Field Entrainment Techniques, and involves mimicking the rhythms, shapes and movement of Nature using sound. (In South Africa it is known as Trivortex.) He has created software that turns sacred geometry into sound waves. Objects are put into a specially made chamber and the specially created audio frequencies are 'played' through each end of the chamber to impregnate the objects. There is still some as yet unexplained mystery about this process, although it most likely involves the creation of a scalar field within the chamber. Anton has focused his efforts on delivering the proof that the technology works, rather than theorizing. And we saw the proof for ourselves.
As soon as Anton began demonstrating the software and how to plot the points to create the shapes and movement, John recognised this:
It's called Kepler's Trigon and shows the positions of Saturn and Jupiter in opposition to the sun. Kepler was the first to publish this pattern in 1606, and the diagram shows how Jupiter and Saturn occupy the same positions on three occasions over a timeframe of a couple of months. Then the fourth conjunction returns to within 7-8° of the last conjunction after a lapse of 60 years, which is why the plotted triangle appears to shift around the circle. The next such conjunction will be in December 2020. Anton could have selected other points to plot on his software demonstration, but it just so happened that he picked this pattern, without knowing what it was and that led John to recognize it as Thelete technology. Sophia knows that this happens, of course, but it is the involvement of Thelete that enables the human mind to turn this into exactly the usable technology necessary for these times. Although Anton has been working on this for many years, it is no coincidence that he came to us during the time Jupiter was in the womb of the Virgin.
The Taste Test
We did two taste tests with the water structuring discs. These are small, stainless steel discs (4.5cm) that have been treated in the chambers Anton designed and made. We poured two glasses of water from the tap and placed a disc under one of the glasses for a couple of minutes. Each of us then tasted the untreated water, followed by the treated water. We all noticed exactly the same improvements; the water was somehow silkier and better tasting.
We then did the same test with red wine. We poured two glasses of wine from a newly opened bottle and put the disc under one for a couple of minutes. In just two minutes and average glass of wine matured into a delicious glass of wine.
I have also tested water with my dogs and cats and they all choose the treated water. We use the water structuring discs at home for our drinking water all the time.
Other Test Results
Anton showed us the results of many independent lab tests that have shown the improvements in plant germination, plant growth, nutritional value of plants, elimination of blood toxins and the human energy field. Here are a few images here.
We use the water structuring discs to structure our drinking water, simply by placing the jug of water from the tap on the disc for a few minutes and to water our plants and feel healthy, strong and with constant high level functioning in the new reel. The improvement is noticeable. I've also sent discs to friends to use for pain relief following accidents and injuries, used by taping the disc over the painful area, and they also report that it worked when everything else has failed.
How to Buy the Water Structuring Discs
We are allying with Anton to bring the water structuring discs to Nemeta members and supporters. The price is €50 per disc plus p&p, of which €20 goes directly to funding Nemeta – so there is a three-fold benefit here; when you buy one of these discs you are supporting yourself, John's work going forward and a white South African warrior.
The Nemeta site is currently being set-up which will include a shop where you can buy the discs directly, but we are taking advance orders on the discs now. If you want one, please contact me using the form below.


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This Lemon Butter Chicken Thigh Recipe is quick, easy and bursting with flavor! Juicy chicken thighs cooked with butter, lemon, thyme and garlic. The perfect one pan weeknight dinner!
This post is sponsored by Foster Farms® Simply Raised, which is locally grown in California. The opinions expressed are my own.
Why, why, oh why do I not eat chicken thighs on a regular basis? Let me tell you, that is going to change. I typically eat chicken breast and every once in awhile I will change things up and have drumsticks. But the chicken thighs . . . they are just so darn juicy and flavorful. And this Lemon Butter Chicken Thigh Recipe with Thyme and Garlic will blow your mind! Boom!
In the mood for another great chicken dinner? Try this Italian Stuffed Chicken by Dinners, Dishes and Desserts.
This recipe starts with Foster Farms Simply Raised (without antibiotics) Thigh Fillets. I use the boneless skinless variety because I just do not like to bother with bones or skin. Plus they cook up a bit faster.
I eat local products whenever possible. The great thing about Foster Farms products is that they are delivered fresh from local ranches in 48 hours or less. In California, all fresh products are locally grown in California. And all Foster Farms fresh chicken is American Humane Certified.
Along with my fresh and local chicken thighs, I bought my favorite California grown garlic. Add fresh thyme, lemon and butter for the ultimate chicken dinner!
This truly is my new favorite chicken recipe. It is not really surprising because lemon, garlic and thyme are a few of my favorite things. Not to mention BUTTER! Now if I could only find a way to add cheese to this dish it would be perfection.
- 2 lbs Boneless Skinless Foster Farms Simply Raised Chicken Thigh Fillets
- 2-3 Tablespoons Olive Oil
- Salt/Pepper
- 1 Cup Low Sodium Chicken Broth - divided
- 1/4 Cup butter
- 10-12 Garlic Cloves - halved
- 1/4 Cup Fresh Lemon Juice
- 3-4 Fresh Thyme Sprigs
Heat olive oil in large fry pan over medium/high.
Generously coat chicken with salt and pepper.
Fry chicken in oil until brown. (5-6 minutes each side)
Remove chicken from pan and reduce heat to medium/low.
Quickly add 1/2 cup chicken broth and scrape bottom of pan to deglaze.
Add butter and garlic. Simmer uncovered 5 minutes.
Return chicken to pan and add the remaining 1/2 cup chicken broth.
Cover and simmer for 15-20 minutes. Baste chicken with liquid twice during this time.
Remove lid. Add lemon juice and thyme.
Continue cooking until chicken until fully cooked and no pink remains. (about 10 minutes)
Prep all ingredients before you begin.
This post is sponsored by Foster Farms®, the opinions expressed are my own.


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In January 2013, I hated the way that I looked and the way that I felt about myself. I joined Weight Watchers and saw positive results right away. Within 3 months I was the thinnest that I had been in almost a decade. I felt great about the choices and progress that I was making. I started this site (with my husband) as a fun way to catalog our favorite recipes and to share them with others. We decided to focus on making comfort foods healthy and thus crafted the idea of Made Over Meal. Our last post was in August 2013.
Around that time that I stopped monitoring what I ate and lost focus on living healthy lifestyle. Weighing myself weekly was annoying – tracking everything that I ate was annoying – being personally accountable was apparently worse. By December of 2013 I was back to hating the way that I looked.
It's now May 2016 and I'm pretty much still at the same place that I was at in January of 2013. That's the real talk. But I'm not alone, according to Slate 97% of dieters regain everything they lost and then some within three years. That's pretty discouraging right?
I'm making some changes in my life around how I view food. But I'm not following a specific diet because I don't believe in them anymore. My focus is maintaining a daily calorie intake that I've discussed with my doctor. I'm tracking both what I eat and what I weigh using MyFittnessPal on a daily basis. I don't have a goal weight in mind – I want to find the place where I feel comfortable with me. Along the way, I want to use this space a place to share my journey and some of my favorite recipes – made over or not.
ps. Between 2013 and 2016 the site was hacked. I had to delete all of the content and restart the site from scratch. I tried to reproduce the top recipes from Google's cache. However, some recipes and nutritional data was lost.


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The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has launched the first Open Compute Certification and Solution Laboratory in North America with support from the Open Compute Project (OCP) Foundation. Frank Frankovsky, chair and president of the Open Compute Project, made the announcement today at the annual OCP Summit in San Jose, Calif.
UTSA and the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) in Taiwan are now the first designees in the world with an Open Compute Certification and Solution Laboratory. As the Open Compute Project continues to grow and as its partner community designs and builds more and more OCP platforms, the laboratories will provide a transparent, community-based approach to address quality assurance and to ensure systems meet their specifications for enterprise production deployment.
"As the neutral third-party responsible for testing the quality of new technologies on behalf of the Open Compute Project, UTSA will have a front-row seat to emerging trends in scalable computing," said George Perry, dean of the UTSA College of Sciences. "That insight will create wonderful learning and research opportunities for UTSA students and researchers. It will also nurture partnerships with leaders in the technology industry."
The OCP Foundation is comprised of engineers and technology leaders from around the world, dedicated to designing and enabling the delivery of the most efficient server, storage and data center hardware designs for scalable computing. Members include Facebook, Rackspace, AMD, Intel, Avnet, Mellanox, Quanta and others. The organization believes that openly sharing ideas, specifications and other intellectual property is the key to maximizing innovation and reducing operational complexity in the scalable computing space.
"By rigorously testing OCP designs in a trusted environment, the OCP certification labs will validate the product quality of open hardware solutions and help innovative technologies get to market faster," said Frankovsky. "The Open Compute certification team at UTSA provides invaluable expertise in ensuring that new products meet the community's standards around performance, reliability and energy efficiency, and are ready to deploy in today's data center."
"The leadership at UTSA has been visionary with regard to co-investment in this certification program and partnership with the Open Compute community," said Mark Roenigk, chief operating officer at Rackspace. "At Rackspace, we believe Open Compute is going to be the next computing hardware platform to support all of the emerging cloud and big data technologies. The Open Compute community has some of the best talent and this partnership will create technology leadership for UTSA, San Antonio and the state of Texas. We want the best IT talent to stay right here in Texas."
The UTSA Open Compute Certification and Solution Laboratory will encourage the development and adoption of open source technologies such as Open Compute, OpenStack and Big Data. The laboratory will work closely with the OCP Certification and Interoperability Project to:
- conduct OCP certification and deliver the certification log
- develop OCP certification quality assurance tools and methodologies
- research, build and publish OCP-based cloud and big data reference architectures
- support Open Compute events by providing educational opportunities
"We have a dual mission to foster open technologies such as Open Compute, OpenStack and ZeroVM while attracting students to, and educating them for, future employment in cutting-edge technologies," said Paul Rad, director of the Open Compute Certification and Solution Laboratory.
The AMD Open System 3.0 and Intel Decathlete with high memory capacity are the first systems receiving the OCP certified logo from UTSA's laboratory.
About UTSA
The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is an emerging Tier One research institution specializing in health, energy, security, sustainability, and human and social development. With nearly 29,000 students, it is the largest university in the San Antonio metropolitan region. UTSA advances knowledge through research and discovery, teaching and learning, community engagement and public service. The university embraces multicultural traditions and serves as a center for intellectual and creative resources as well as a catalyst for socioeconomic development and the commercialization of intellectual property - for Texas, the nation and the world.


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Student Success Center - General Studies Session
If you are a new freshman...
Sign up for Weber State University's New Student Orientation, which is mandatory for all new students. At Orientation, you will take a tour of campus, learn important University policies and major and/or minor requirements, get help registering for classes, and have time to work with an academic advisor.
Although in-person Orientation is recommended, you can also view Online New Student Orientation which will take you about one hour to complete.
If you are seeking an Associate Degree In General Studies…
Academic advisors in the Student Success Center advise students on the Associate Degree in General Studies. If you are new to Weber State, you are required to attend Orientation either in-person or online before meeting with an advisor. If you have already attended Orientation or are a continuing student, you can call the Student Success Center to schedule an appointment with one of our advisors at 801-626-6752.
If you are not seeking an Associate Degree in General Studies…
Contact your academic advisor for your specific major/minor as General Education requirements differ for each major. Again, if you are new to Weber State, you are required to attend New Student Orientation as your first step.
Check out all of our resources for General Studies majors or contact the Student Success Center with any questions or to schedule a follow-up appointment.


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Friday, August 21, 2009
Let the Fun Begin!
It's the Sophie Bedding collection and I am in love with the all the polka dots. The kicker are these matching polka dot window treatments.
Tomorrow Jeff and I start Day 1 of registering and picking out furniture for our little girl. I am going to make it a point to stop by Pottery Barn Kids to take a look at the bedding, I would love to see it in person. I am certainly open to suggestions, where did you find your nursery bedding? I have come across so many beautiful nurseries in the blogging world that I would love to hear your suggestions too.
Take care,
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Hi Karen, I'm so excited for you and Jeff, having a little girl, I would have to say is the hardest to decorate for, because they are so many cute options out there, but is also easy :) I have a little boy, so we had a heck of time, trying to find something cute for him. I would recommend JC Penny, they have a very cute collection of bedding, furniture and accessories for little girls. I hope this helps :) Happy decorating!ReplyDelete
Oh so glad to see you back in blogland. I use to read your blog before you shut it down. It was on my blog roll. Congrats on your pg! Wishing you a healthy and happy last trimester. We just had a baby girl 3 mths ago and I loved creating a nursery for her especially with PBK inspiration.ReplyDelete
Congrats again and I look forward to reading your blog again
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Hi Karen, I just came across your blog through Melissa's Heart and Home. I look and read blogs for Home Decor Ideas and Humor. I just had to stop and say Hi because I am from Strongsville, near Cleveland. I am way past having babies. My two babies are 25 and 21 years old. Enjoy this time as they grow up real quick! I will check in ~here and there ~to say hello and to watch you decorate you little girls room! Nancy from OHIOReplyDelete
PS I do not have a blog but will one day soon!
Karen the bedding is beautiful oh soooo sweet at the same time. GREAT choice!ReplyDelete
~Blessings, ~Melissa :)
I love that! I looked at that when I was pregnant too- when we have a girl she is DEFINITELY getting a pink and white and girly room! :) Congratulations on your pregnancy and have fun registering!ReplyDelete
That bedding is adorable! Love the new blog too :)ReplyDelete


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Pokeradar for GO PRO
Find rare Pokémon on the map nearby or anywhere you want with this Pokeradar for GO.
This app uses GPS to find your location, to search and show where you are on the map, and therefor finding pokemons near you.
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- Download Apk (link below).
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If you have been here for a while and haven't commented, the invitation is always open. There are also many other ways to connect, become a fan on Facebook, follow me on Twitter. If this is your first time here this post will thread a path for you through the archive, and is probably a good way to get to know me better. If you like what you read, please pick up the feed.
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Got to know where you've come from to know where you're going.
I started January with Japan Blog Matsuri post about keeping yourself open to possibilities when travelling to Japan or preparing to live there. The inspiration for getting back into blogging was provided by Chris from Nihongo Notes who blogged about getting over your perfectionist streak. Thanks Chris, your insights helped unblock my inner blogger and helped get this blog back on track.
The message I have is still pretty much the same, maintaining an open mind and understanding your motivation is most important if you want to make the most of the Japanese experience. Any experience you have is yours alone to have, so I asked you what's your flavour of Japanese? A post by Jon on the Kurosawa classic Rashomon had me thinking how inseparable culture and language are. Your perception invariably influences your version of reality.
Get your blog on.
One of the most commented on posts of the year asked if learning Japanese loanwords make you lazy. The post actually lay dormant for quite sometime until I submitted it to JapanSoc and it got picked up on Twitter. I was responding to a mothballed review written in 2001 of Giles Murray's entertaining book of techniques for learning Japanese reviewed elsewhere on this blog. It showed me how a little controversy can go a long way to getting some posts noticed.
In February I posted three ways to enjoy Japanese curry rice, another Japan Blog Matsuri organised by Deas from Rocking in Hakata. Mid month I spent two weeks in Japan before coming back for more eduFire where I learnt that teaching in more than one time zone can be tough. With the exception of Field Mice and Japanese Mnemonics most of my lessons since have been at times that make it hard for those in Australia and Japan to take part. So hello North America and Europe, the Middle East and South Asia!
In March I investigated how reading Manga can be good for your Japanese and how there is always room for humour with some bad Japanese puns. I followed up in April with a guide to learning Japanese through manga with the help of my Twitter friend @natuskigirl.
One thing that I must learn how to do well is some kind of weekly link post. I toyed with the idea of sharing links that my students share in the eduFire classroom and did a photographic retrospective of Spring Sumo tournament. These kinds of posts probably should happen more often, but they also need to contribute a more to the blog than just an automated dump of delicious links or a Flickr feed. April was also the where I tapped into 6 ex-pat perspectives on Japan, a theme I continued with 7 J-bloggers far from Japan in June.
The rise and demise of Superpass.
Superpass was launched in June, and discontinued in December. In that short time it provided me with enough momentum to attract over 300 students to my classes on eduFire, so I'm grateful for it. I'll be exploring new ways to maintain that momentum in the new year, and will continue to produce top content and articles relevant to studying the Japanese language. I'll be looking for ways to offer exclusive discounts to existing students and readers of my blog. Get in early for a subscription to my email newsletter, launching in the new year where you can learn about these discounts first.
Moving forward.
Part of the formula for attracting and supporting new students has been the goals I create on smart.fm. I blogged about the introduction of colloborative smart.fm goals in July, and not much else. I got back in to the swing of things with a guest post on Caught*Red-handed about the history of written Japanese and organised a forum for students of Japanese students on eduFire. There was also a bit of fun with bottom grabbing on Twitter.
In September it was all about the JLPT and test preparation with a five step series to ace the JLPT. The five posts outlining the five steps were also completed in 5 days, which was a bit of an experiment in speed blogging. I was also lucky enough to be able to give away a free month of SuperPass to @aggettzz who was overjoyed. I found posting a series of blogs to complement my classes on eduFire helped maintain my motivation. In October I began a book review of 13 Secrets for Speaking Fluent Japanese, a text I've been using in my Fast Track to Fluency classes.
My network on Twitter has been a fabulous source of inspiration for blogging, and even a source of answers where I am unable to provide them to my students. I find every time I'm asked a question that people really want to know, like "what are the best apps for learning Japanese on iPhone?" I get the best answers from my Twitter friends.
Again in November I asked if my friends were using a monolingual Japanese dictionary and came up with 3 good reasons to use a Japanese only dictionary. I had previously written an article for eduFire How to Choose the Best Japanese Dictionary, but I wanted to go into more detail about discovering new vocabulary using a Japanese monolingual dictionary.
By the end of November most people studying Japanese were preparing for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test. I could probably do a lot better at rounding up resources for the JLPT, but it's a long way off now and there is plenty of time. At least I have a game plan for how I'd like to approach the JLPT in 2010.
Thank you for reading.
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The Wadsworth Atheneum has been around for so long that when it opened, people were probably still using the word "atheneum" in conversation. (Whereas now this program, here, that I'm typing into right now, doesn't even recognize it as a word.) To add a little gravity and perspective: when the Wadsworth opened its doors, Abraham Lincoln was still a country lawyer. As one might expect of a museum that is verging on two hundred years old, the Wadsworth has built itself a pretty fine permanent collection, fifty thousand pieces or so, and, not wanting to seem greedy, has lain 50 masterworks on the Taft Museum for the summer; the show, Old Masters to Impressionists, got underway this morning and runs through September 16. (FULL ARTICLE: Cincinnati Enquirer)
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Taft Museum Gets Fifty Masterworks From the Wadsworth For the Summer
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Mayo Clinic notes that alcoholism is a serious, chronic disease characterized by negative medical, social and personal consequences caused by an inability to control intake. The condition is influenced by genetics, social pressure and other environmental factors and an ever-increasing physical dependence on alcohol.
As with most other diseases, alcoholism presents as a collection of symptoms. No single symptom is sufficient to diagnose alcoholism, but the existence of any of its symptoms is cause for concern. Symptoms of alcoholism include habitual drinking; binge drinking; drinking until blackout occurs; lost time; and mounting problems with finances, relationships and the law. Mayo Clinic reports that denial is also a common symptom of addiction disorders such as alcoholism and recommends that patients consult a doctor if concerns have been raised about their alcohol intake, whether the patient believes alcoholism is present or not. Alcoholism is not curable, but its progression can often be managed via medication and behavioral modification approaches such as Alcoholics Anonymous-style 12-step programs and other group-oriented therapeutic methods.
According to a press release from the National Institutes of Health, treatment for alcoholism is often effective. Over one-third of alcoholics are in full remission, and many show no signs of dependence or current abuse.


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A Mass honoring Padre Pio will be celebrated at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Scarsdale, Sunday, Oct. 29, at 5 p.m. It will be the final stop of a national tour of the saint's relics, which began in the archdiocese last month.
Archbishop Bernardito Auza, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, will serve as principal celebrant. Msgr. John T. Ferry, pastor of Immaculate Heart of Mary parish, will be a concelebrant.
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As a child in my household, come December, my first moment of morning wakefulness would be full of the tantalizing aroma of spiced apple cider. Though this concoction was potable, we rarely drank apple cider; instead, my mother simmered her stovetop spiced apple cider each day to fill our home with this pungent scent of the season. Spiced apple cider is an iconic fall and winter treat, and in our household it always reminds us that Christmas is near! The family recipe consists of readily available ingredients. Continue reading
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The spicy and tangy aroma of clove oranges fills the air in my home every winter with this lovely scent of the season. My mother began the tradition when my brother and I were children. We would sit at the kitchen island in front of a pile of bright, fresh oranges and a bowl of cloves with Christmas carols playing over the stereo. The activity is fun, simple and a wonderful tradition for the family to enjoy. Continue reading


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A Maiden's Tale of WoebyUnderYourSpell©
But hark! What sound from distant window breaks?
It is PC, and Annie is the thrower.
A lost connection once too often
amidst the typing of important files,
a crash, a boot call it what and where you will.
Atrocious language now ensues that does by far
outstrip those words expected
from a lady of such gentle birth,
and none but those so sorely afflicted
can harken to it's strident tones.
It is my friends a sorely saddened heart
Oh how I wish it will not be thine.
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I believe that life is like golf. From beginning to the end, golf is what constructs my life and through my experiences I have learned that golf rewards those who are patient and profound.
Learning the art of swinging a golf club came with price. Golf was not a stroll in park and learning the rules and techniques was not only ambiguous but dull. Learning process took awhile.
In golf there is always a direction we aim for, a hole we try to land safely in. That hole at the end of every course represents the goal of every player whose dream is to reach the hole with the fewest strokes possible.
Reaching my goal was not always easy. Often I was too fixated on my goals I would forget the hazards, whether it be sand bunk or water, that stood between me and my destination. I could almost grab the prize yet it was so far away.
In my life the hazards were once the obstacles I faced when I migrated to this country 10 years ago. As young man I had left everything behind to pursue the American dream and because of a language and cultural barrier, it was hard for me to fit in with the crowd. But as time passed I overcame my hazards by breaking the barriers that separated me from others in my school and I learned to enjoy my new life. We all faced hazards one time in our life, some harder to get out of than others, but no matter how deep in the sand we are buried or how rough the grass might be, we have to find ways to overcome our obstacle.
In golf I had to learn to choose and take full responsibility for my actions. It was up to me to choose whether I play the ball the safe going around to reach my goal or risk it and try to go through the hazard. The choices we make in life do not always work out but if we don't follow our conscience and are afraid to take risks we will always wonder "what if." For instance if there is a person I like but because of rejection I do not take action, I will never forgive myself for not trying.
Like George Washington's confidence in leading his army to victory I learned to be confident in making my decisions and learn from my mistakes.
It is after I finish my course that I forget all the hardships I endured and take a moment to reflect upon my accomplishments. Golf is a hard sport and not everyone is going to excel their first time. But like life it is by making mistakes and gaining experiences we learn to become better players.
Every time I'm at golf course I set new goals and though the obstacles I'll face are unknown, one thing I know is that I will always give my 100 percent.
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Unemployment rising in the East of England
Unemployment in the East of England has risen bucking the national downward trend. The latest figures show 207,000 people out of work in the East of England in the September to November 2012 quarter. That's a rise of 1,000 compared to the previous quarter.
In the East Midlands, which includes Northamptonshire, unemployment was up by 10,000 to 190,000.
Nationally unemployment fell by 37,000 between September and November to 2.49 million.
Compared with a year ago though unemployment is down in both regions. It's down by 12,000 in the East of England and down by 1,000 in the East Midlands. During the recent downturn, unemployment peaked in the East of England at 220,000 in September to November 2011.


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The group approaches the sundial and appears on a separate path. In the distance, they hear charging hooves. A gorgon is coming at the group. Hurrying to react, Thanior pulls out his bow and flings two arrows at the charging gorgon, doing 30 points damage. Zanlin readies his crossbow, fires two bolts, but the gorgon proves to be too elusive, and both of the crossbow shots miss. Trageon uses his boots of speed to charge at the gorgon, he misses his first attack, and then fumbles on the second. Mara moves up 30 feet, drops her torch, and attacks the gorgon wither her bow for 23 points damage. Helm casts the spell Flame Sphere for 7 points damage. Now, the gorgon attempts to attack Trageon, but luckily, it misses. Out of nowhere, a second gorgon pops out of the tall hedges in the maze and uses his breath attack. Everyone in the group feels their bodies start to stiffen, but everyone breaks free, except for Thanior, who starts to turn to stone. Ebon then sends an owl in the air to do a shocking grasp for 24 points damage. Thanior fires 2 arrows that do 30 points, afterwards, he starts to change color before saving himself and fighting off the Petrifying Breath. Zanlin hits gorgon twice for 19 points, and Trageon hits once for 15 points. Mara, wanting this silly scuffle to be over, drops her bow and draws her two short swords, who fumbles her first attack, hitting on the second, and then using action surge getting two more attacks, and doing 42 points damage, finally killing the first gorgon. Helm now focuses on putting down the second gorgon, using a flame sphere and throwing a javelin, to do 17 points damage. The gorgon then charges past Trageon and hits Mara for 24 points damage. The gorgon then tries to use his Petrifying Breath once more, but the group resists. Ebon then commands his owl to do another shocking grasp for 5 points damage. Thanior slings two arrows at the gorgon, hitting on one and doing 21 points damage. Zanlin then fires 5 magic missiles, trying desperately to defeat this last gorgon in one final shot, and thankfully, the gorgon is slain.
Helm notices as the gorgon used his breath attack that a gem rolled from his mouth. Looking around, he found one from the other gorgon also. Helm picks up both gems, and as soon as he does, the hedges of the maze part and lead down to a new path. The team walks about 9 minutes and comes back to the sundial. Zanlin walks up the sundial while there are shadows pointed in all 8 directions. The group decides to travel west, after bickering about always coming back to the same place. They walk along the path for 2 minutes and come to a clearing with a circular pond in the middle, measuring about 60 feet, and has a gem hovering about a foot over the pond. Ebon uses Mage Hand to go out and grab the gem. As the hand approaches the gem, 4 pinchers come from the pond and attack Ebon. The first attack misses, but the second grabs Ebon and does 14 points damage. The other two pinchers turn toward Trageon, hit him with a critical hit, and grab him. Thanior attacks one of the pinchers that grasped Ebon, does 10 points damage with the first arrow, and fumbles the second. Trageon, while grappled, uses his manly strength to strike the pincher twice for 34 points damage. Zanlin then points his crossbow at the pincher that has Ebon by the testicles, and hits it twice for 13 points damage. Ebon, using his quick wits, then remembers he has a spell to get him, and his testicles, out of a sticky situation like this, called Misty Step, teleporting him 30 feet away, and then casts a Fire Bolt for 10 points. Trageon feels poison being injected into his body, but fights it off, and is crushed for 11 points damage. Zanlin is hit by a pincher for 12 points and grappled. Trageon is attacked by another pincher, but misses, and Helm is attakced for 12 points and grappled as well. (Jacob (Thanior) arrives from work and asks, "Are we still in the maze?") Helm then wild shapes into a Dire Wolf and breaks the grasp of the pincher. (While Jacob is settling in and getting filled in on what is currently happening, him and Jason make a deal. Jason will write the notes, and Jacob will post them for this time, and the next. Jacob also proudly announces that after months of bumming dice from everyone else, he finally bought his own set, saying that it also came with a bag. Joe, then exclaims, that your reputation in the Dungeons & Dragons world is all about how big of a bag you carry your dice in (pulling out an extremely large bag). Jacob, who is obviously flustered by this news, reluctantly pulls his bag out of his pocket, which is barely able to hold 7 dice without ripping. The whole groups laughs at the pitiful size of Jacob's dice bag, but then quiets down and gets back to the business at hand.) Mara attacks one of the pinchers 3 times with her short swords, doing 33 points damage. Thanior shoots 2 arrows, and hits with one of them to do 11 points damage. Trageon attacks one of the pinchers twice, and does 27 points. He then yells at Zanlin to use a Cone of Cold at the pinchers, which would also hit Trageon. The group thinks this is an act of bravery, "taking one for the team" per say, but then they remember that Trageon wears a ring of cold resistance. So, Zanlin uses his Cone of Cold and does 50 points of damage each, making 2 of the pinchers perish, and causing Trageon to take 12 points. Ebon then fires a Fire Bolt for 13 points. A pincher then grapples Zanlin for 11 points damage. Zanlin feels poison being injected into him, becomes paralyzed, and is taken underwater by the pincher. Helm gets grappled and takes 11 points damage. Mara then hits the last pincher above ground 3 times, "crits" it once, and kills it. Thanior then sheds all of his clothes, and dives in after his buddy Zanlin. Trageon sits and watches, thinking he had already done his good deed for the day. Ebon, then uses Mage Hand to take the gem that is still hanging over the lake, and returns to the party. The pincher then squeezes Zanlin for 11 more points damage. Helm changes into a Giant Octopus and heads after Zanlin. Mara, Trageon, and Ebon all stand by the side of the pond waiting for something to come out, and Thanior heads back up to them, seeing Helm already pass by him. The mosnster crushes Zanlin and makes him take 11 more points damage, but then, Helm catches up to the pincher, and takes 7 points damage and is grappled. Helm takes 11 points damage. While he is grappled, Helm swims 60 feet up towards the shore, but the monster lets go and swims 30 feet deeper. Helm goes after the pincher and misses. The monster then grapples Helm again, who swims powerfully up 15 feet. Helm can feel poison coming through, but fights it off. Helm then attacks the monster for 10 points, who tries to poison Helm again, but fails. Helm then moves 15 more feet towards the surface, and does 12 more points damage to the monster, and kills the last pincher, bringing Zanlin to shore. Zanlin is dying quickly. But thankfully, the group is able to help, and he starts to awaken. Mara then searches the bodies of the monsters, but finds nothing. Zanlin uses Mass Cure Wounds, and the group takes a short rest.
The team leaves the courtyard and walks for 6 minutes and arrive to the sundial with all the paths shadowed. They then move North and travel into a courtyard where there are 6 suits of armor on the edges of the room with a carpeted floor. The ranks of the group are changed before entering the room, as the group is expecting a fight. The fighters of the group step into the middle of room and initiate the battle. Ebon hits a suit of armor for 4 points, Trageon hits for 16 points, Thanior hits with his first arrow for 21 points, fumbles his second, Mara hits 2 of 3 for 23 points damage, who destroys a suit of armor, and a blood stone appears. Zanlin then uses his Wand of Wander and casts Fire Ball, which does 31 points damage to suits of armor and Helm, and Trageon takes 15 points damage. Helm moves forward in the room, Ebon readies for his action, Mara moves farther in, and Trageon then moves to the next suit of armor. Mara then picks up a stone and tries to throw it to Zanlin, but she misses her mark horribly, and breaks the stone. Zanlin then picks up another stone and sticks it in his pouch. The group travels on through the room, then on a path for 3 minutes and come to the Sundial Room. They travel North, once again, for 8 minutes, come to the same room with armor on the edges, and Zanlin notices that the stone in his pouch disappears. This cycle continues to go on many times, and the heroes are confused about what they are supposed to do. (While all of this is going on, Robin is asking people to smell his wrist.)
After 5 insight checks (hints from the DM), the group decides to go through the hedges and they disappear, finally escaping the maze. They appear 5 feet away from the tower, with a portal next to them, on the ground. The group steps on the portal and is transported into the tower. Inside the room they appear in, there are geometrical symbols on the wall, and a lady lies in a pool of blood, killed by a dagger. She looks to be a high ranking official from the cult, a Wearer of Purple. There are no doors in this room, just a portal with controls, and 2 balconies on either side, 8 feet off the ground. Ebon investigates floor, and learns there are portals on both balconies. Under the railing on the balconies, there are buttons which are believed to be controls. The buttons are; a chair, 2 chairs, upside down "L", flames, a triangle, and a hour glass.
Ebon and Thanior both press the downward "L" button at the same time, and disappear. The rest of the group follows and end up in some room where there are doors leading to other rooms. The group investigates all of the doors, and every room is empty. The group then steps back onto the portal in which they came, and pressed a rectangle symbol. They appear in a room with an altar in the middle, and a half dozen cultists, who are surprised to see visitors. Ebon and Zanlin both shoot Fireballs in at the cultists, and do 15 points and 32 points of damage respectively. The group then presses the flame button on the portal, and teleport into a room with a fireplace, two-thirds of a skeleton of a red dragon on the floor, and half a dozen figures dressed in black, who attack the group. Trageon hits twice for 25 points, Ebon shoots a Firebolt for 12 points damage. Zanlin then uses his Wand of Wonder to cast Darkness. The cultists then move in to attack the group. Mara then hits 3 times and does 35 points damage. Thanior backs up away from the figures to be able to shoot a ranged attack, who shoots two arrows and does 36 points damage, which kills one of the figures. Helm then moves to attack, and misses. Trageon hits once for 16 points damage, and Ebon misses his attacks. Zanlin, once again, uses his Wand of Wonder to cast Fireball who hits Thanior for 15 points, and Helm with two other cultists for 32 points of damage each, which kills the two cultists. The cultists then attack Trageon for 10 points and Mara for 6 points of damage. Mara hits a cultist twice for 20 points, and then fumbles. Thanior shoots two arrows at another cultist doing 47 points damage. Helm then uses his Staff of Healing to regain 13 hit points. Trageon attacks a cultist twice for 12 points, and Zanlin hits a cultist with 1 of 2 bolts, then cures Helm. The battle continues with the group finishing off the cultists.


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LEESVILLE, LA (KPLC) - The financial viability of the Vernon Community Action Council was questioned in an independent audit report released publicly Monday through the Louisiana Legislative Auditor's Office.
The audit, conducted by Steven M. Derouen & Associates, says that during 2012, the organization experienced a net loss totaling $164,776 due to a decline in grant revenue. Auditors said in December 2012, the organization had a net deficiency in assets totaling $154,067.
"Which raises substantial doubt about its ability to continue a going concern," the audit report states.
Auditors also said the agency was late on payments of federal payroll taxes for the second, third and fourth quarter of 2012, resulting in penalties and interest in excess of $18,000.
The agency also did not file its audit report within the time limit outlined by state law.
Agency officials responded to the findings and said they would work to correct payment issues and would file reports on time.
The agency helps Vernon Parish residents with housing and social services. It also administers programming to benefit needy residents.
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Zadie Smith FRSL (born on 25 October 1975) is an English novelist, essayist, and short. Later in the same year, Smith published Martha and Hanwell, a book. Martha, Martha. Zadie Smith From her tiny office on the third floor, Pam Roberts looked through a window and correctly identified the Martha Penk she was.
MARTHA AND HANWELL [ Zadie Smith ] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Zadie's second novel, The Autograph Man, was published in 2002, and won the "Mrs. Begum's Son and the Private Tutor" - Zadie Smith's short story from The Canadian Council of Churches pdf ebook has more theological musings on. Zadie Smith NBCC 2011 Shankbone.jpg Zadie Smith, собственно Sadie Smith, 27 октября 1975, Лондон) — английская The Autograph Man), 2002 год.
I'm Nobody, Who Are You? On Zadie Smith's 'NW'. Alexandra Schwartz. "But can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?… Can't he still rep his block?" So Zadie Smith wondered of Jay-Z on an afternoon not long ago. The two were lunching for a profile by Smith published in The New York Times Magazine in September, a few weeks before the opening of the Barclays Center, the new entertainment and sports mecca in downtown Brooklyn for which Jay has served as the homegrown poster boy. By Zadie Smith.
The premise of the novelist's questions was the criticism that the rapper-mogul might be "too distant now from what once made him real"—the poverty, the drugs, the hustle, the street, all the themes he's kept riffing on well past his first million and 100 million. It's a charge familiar to Jay-Z's fans, and Smith's response in the article to her own line of questioning will be equally familiar to hers: "Who cares if they're keeping it real?" she retorted on behalf of Jay-Z and his recent collaborator, Kanye West. The question neatly summarizes the climax of the second section of "Speaking in Tongues," her wonderful 2008 essay on Barack Obama, in which she demolished the accusation that any success blacks achieve in wider Anglo society amounts to a betrayal of their roots. To me, the instruction "keep it real" is a sort of prison cell, two feet by five. The fact is, it's too narrow.
I just can't live comfortably in there. " Keep it real " replaced the blessed and solid genetic fact of Blackness with a flimsy imperative. It made Blackness a quality each individual black person was constantly in danger of losing. "How absurd that all seems now," Smith concluded, and the fact, put so simply, seemed indisputable. "Speaking in Tongues" appears in the collection Changing My Mind (2009). The title is a disclaimer for whatever contradictions and inconsistencies might arise between the autobiographical reflections, reportage, film criticism and book reviews gathered in its pages, but it's a credo as well, both literary and personal. Smith may be contemporary English fiction's most ardent champion of the right to change one's mind and, above all, one's self, an idea that's been at the center of her work since the publication of her first novel, White Teeth.
in 2000, when she was 24. There is a moment in that book when the young Londoner Magid Mahfooz Murshed Mubtasim Iqbal is discovered by his Bangladeshi parents to be going by the name Mark Smith at school. Uproar ensues, but still the question hovers: Well, why not? Magid, longing to be part of a different, more middle-class, more British family, unintentionally grasps what his parents, clutching their old-world ways, don't: that he can be—and on some level already is—a Smith who covets holidays in France as well as an Iqbal who never gets farther than "day-trips to Blackpool to visit aunties.
" He's only 9, and could already plot a small map from the blocks he has to rep. White Teeth is a comic novel brimming with a rare fondness for the foibles of the human condition, and where a different writer might have insisted on casting Magid's split state as a grim symbol of alienation—generational, racial, postcolonial, that Triple Crown of modern angst—Smith observes it with a wink. She sees humor in all this identity confusion, and hope, too.
"You will hardly know who I am or what I mean," Walt Whitman warns readers liable to be baffled by his giddy mutations in Song of Myself. then alchemizes the threat of his strangeness into a communal blessing: "But I shall be good health to you nevertheless. " Along with the rest of White Teeth 's motley crew, Magid Iqbal hails from Willesden, the multicultural London neighborhood where Smith herself grew up, the daughter of a white father and a Jamaican mother many years his junior.
But Magid would be an ideal resident of "Dream City," the Whitmanesque utopia she conjures in "Speaking in Tongues," where "the unified singular self is an illusion…. It's the kind of town where the wise man says 'I' cautiously, because I feels like too straight and singular a phoneme to represent the true multiplicity of his experience.
" Dream City is a place, in other words, where a rapper could choose to travel from his old corner to the penthouse suite and back with no more effort than it takes to step into the elevator, and Smith ended her Times Magazine profile by suggesting just how close to reality this vision might come. After Jay compared his early years in Brooklyn's notorious Marcy Houses, now the stuff of myth, to the unfathomably different circumstances that his baby daughter has been born into, Smith condensed the distance into four syllables: "It's a new day.


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Edward Keenan, president of the Interfaith League of Devotees board of directors, who claim they are in charge of 25 First Ave.
Hare Krishnas clash as eviction effort divides First Ave. building
By TIEN-SHUN LEE
It was supposed to be a spiritual place free from anxiety, but the Hare Krishnas' East Village Sanctuary has become the target of an ugly legal battle between two groups of devotees.
Last month, one group of Hare Krishnas who claim they make up the legal
board of directors in charge of the building served eviction notices to other Hare Krishnas who say their building has been "hijacked" by outsiders who never worked for the place or belonged to their organization.
"It's like you invite guests into your home and they start taking over your kitchen and locking you out of your bedroom," said Sachit Hariyogam, 41, who faces eviction along with his two brothers, two cousins and his sister-in-law.
A splinter sect of the Hare Krishnas called the Interfaith League of Devotees founded the Sanctuary in 1998. Led by their guru Kirtanananda Swami, Interfaith devotees raised funds to purchase a six-floor warehouse building at 25 First Ave. for $500,000 and turn it into a temple and living space with a vegetarian restaurant on the ground floor.
Hariyogam and his family have been Interfaith members for most of their lives. They say they joined an Interfaith Hare Krishna temple in Malaysia as teenagers, and after raising hundreds of thousands of dollars to help establish Sanctuary, they were invited to America to work in the Sanctuary restaurant in exchange for free room and board and $50 per week.
Four out of the five alleged Interfaith board of directors, in contrast, became involved with Sanctuary only about two years ago. They belong to another Hare Krishna sect, the International Society of Krishna Consciousness, or ISKCON.
ISKCON excommunicated Kirtanananda Swami in 1986 after the guru was charged with child molestation, conspiracy to murder and racketeering. But after serving eight years in federal prison for racketeering, the guru let bygones be bygones and invited ISKCON devotees into his building as paying guests.
"Kirtanananda invited devotees of ISKCON to take care of deities, worship in the temple, and the then-board of directors asked certain people to help," said Edward Keenan, president of the alleged Interfaith board. "As far as we're concerned, there is no takeover attempt."
ISKCON devotees were aided by longtime Interfaith treasurer Susan
Bauer a.k.a. "Eternal Love." Bauer invited Johann Diermann, a leader of ISKCON's community center at 26 Second Ave., to be an Interfaith board member in 2005.
The Sanctuary restaurant closed in 2005 after disputes began between Interfaith and ISKCON devotees.
Now the so-called "Interfaith League of Devotees Landlord" has served a 30-day notice demanding that Hariyogam and his family move out by July 31. And Interfaith's lawyers filed a complaint in State Supreme Court in early June charging that commercial and residential leases signed by Hariyogam's cousin, Nark Palliandy, are not valid.
The "landlord" has also turned against the original Interfaith guru.
"We'd like him to live elsewhere," Keenan said of Kirtanananda Swami.
Kirtanananda wears an eye patch over one eye to keep from seeing double and also uses a wheelchair. While not formally evicting him, ISKCON is trying to make arrangements to relocate the swami.
Hariyogam said Keenan and his posse are using "technical word jugglery" to justify their actions.
"They can quote the bylaws, but you have to see the human element as well," Hariyogam said. "Who are the ones who actually built this corporation?"
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Autoexport is up: http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxKB/index.html --jason On Jun 22, 2006, at 12:17 PM, Jason Dillon wrote: > Okay, here ya go: > > http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GMOxKB > > I did a few things... > > First, I setup a geronimo team label, and labeled all of our spaces > (so from the dashboard you can see all of the G-related spaces > easily). New spaces for G should also get this label added (have > add it manually after creation). > > Then I added a {font-size} user-macro to help change font sizes. > > I installed the navigation plugin (which gets us {scrollbar}). > > I installed the footnotes plugin, see this for an example: http:// > cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GMOxKB/CLI > > And I installed the plugin repository client, which makes it easier > to manage plugin versions. I need to know how to get the Utilities > plugin installed into WEB-INF/lib before I can enable some of the > other plugins, but that can wait. If you have admin, you can see > the repository client page here: > > http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/admin/repository/plugins.action > > Just be careful, cause sometimes installing a plugin will hose the > entire Confluence install, or need it to be bounced before it is > usable. > > Who is the point-man for bouncing/installing stuff for this? > > * * * > > Basically there are 3 major sections (each of which could really be > its own space if needed, when we get more content, but for now will > work): > > FAQ - yada yada > Topics - General KB stuff, not really FAQ > Glossary - Definitions for terms > > The way it works is that each bit of content is its own page. That > pages parent page is the section it is under. The name of the page > is the topic title, or FAQ question, or glossary term. > > Each content page has at the top {scrollbar}, so that it is easy to > navigate between all of the pages in the KB. > > Sub-sections are also just pages, but with the {children:all=true} > macro to allow easy navigation to children. It is important to add > that, cause the default rendering of children pages at the bottom > is disabled. > > The main indexes are dynamic, so you just have to add a page in the > right place and presto it updates. > > Use the {excerpt} macro to provide a bit more detail that will > compliment the page title in the listing. > > * * * > > Once we get the Utilities plugin installed into WEB-INF/lib, we can > use the Zones plugin to setup dynamic templates for each of these > sections, and then you don't have to worry about the {scrollbar} or > {children} stuff, just add the content and the zone will render per > the zone template. > > I have not yet set this up to auto-export, should probably do that > soon. > > * * * > > Comments? Questions? Yada yada... > > --jason >
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Holiday Retail Sales Come in at NRF Expectations
Sales Increased 3.8% to $601.8 Billion; NRF Projected 3.9% to $602 Billion
NEW YORK, January 14, 2014 – Severe winter weather did not dampen December retail sales as shoppers took advantage of heavy promotions and last-minute deals. According to the National Retail Federation – the world's largest retail trade association – December retail sales, which exclude automobiles, gas stations and restaurants, increased 0.4 percent seasonally adjusted month-to-month, and 4.6 percent unadjusted year-over-year.
Total holiday retail sales, which include November and December sales, increased 3.8 percent to $601.8 billion, which was in line with NRF's projected forecast of 3.9 percent and $602.1 billion. In addition, non-store holiday sales, which is an indicator of online and e-commerce sales, grew 9.3 percent to $95.7 billion.
"Despite facing a truncated holiday season, severe weather, and shaky consumer confidence, retailers rose to the challenge and executed their strategies with proven success," NRF President and CEO Matthew Shay said. "Today's holiday sales numbers are a testament to a resilient industry that knows what their customers want, when they want it and how they want to get it. Considering that retail sales are an important barometer when measuring the overall health of our national economy, this report provides a level of true optimism that the recovery is picking up steam, and once again, retail leads the way."
December retail sales, released today by the U.S. Census Bureau, which include categories such as automobiles, gasoline stations, and restaurants, increased 0.2 percent seasonally adjusted month-to-month, and 4.1 percent adjusted year-over-year.
"Retail sales have been volatile all year and the holiday shopping season was no exception," NRF Chief Economist Jack Kleinhenz said. "Solid job growth in the months of October and November led to a more-confident consumer and healthy holiday shopping season for many retailers. While economic and policy uncertainties remain, the economy seems set for steady growth in the New Year."
"Undoubtedly, some of the increase came at the expense of margin. Retailers are still stressed and a long-term promotional environment may actually hurt the bottom line," said Kleinhenz. "As consumer confidence grows, there will be less need for retailers to heavily promote and discount their offerings."
Other findings from the December retail sales report include:
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers stores' sales decreased 0.4 percent seasonally-adjusted month-to-month yet increased 4.2 percent unadjusted year-over-year.
- Clothing and clothing accessories stores' sales increased 1.8 percent seasonally-adjusted month-to-month and 4.7 percent unadjusted year-over-year.
- Electronics and appliance stores' sales decreased 2.5 percent seasonally-adjusted month-to-month and 1.5 percent unadjusted year-over-year.
- Furniture and home furnishing stores' sales decreased 0.4 percent seasonally-adjusted month-to-month yet increased 5.0 percent unadjusted year-over-year.
- General merchandise stores' sales were flat seasonally-adjusted month-to-month and flat unadjusted year-over-year.
- Health and personal care stores' sales increased 0.6 seasonally-adjusted month-to-month and 5.9 percent unadjusted year-over-year.
- Nonstore retailers' sales increased 1.4 percent seasonally-adjusted month-to-month and 14 percent unadjusted year-over-year.
- Sporting goods, hobby, book and music stores' sales decreased 0.6 percent seasonally-adjusted month-to-month yet increased 5.8 percent unadjusted year-over-year.
NRF is the world's largest retail trade association, representing discount and department stores, home goods and specialty stores, Main Street merchants, grocers, wholesalers, chain restaurants and Internet retailers from the United States and more than 45 countries. Retail is the nation's largest private sector employer, supporting one in four U.S. jobs – 42 million working Americans. Contributing $2.5 trillion to annual GDP, retail is a daily barometer for the nation's economy. NRF's This is Retail campaign highlights the industry's opportunities for life-long careers, how retailers strengthen communities, and the critical role that retail plays in driving innovation. www.nrf.com
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