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The Darkness in Faith Serial Murderess Volume 1 by C. F. Rabbiosi Genre: Erotic Horror My name is Faith: Tortured sex slave turned brutal murderer. Men have abused my body for inhuman pleasures, hurt me and made me feel helpless. But now... They fear me. I wish I could say that it is all for... Continue Reading →
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Dracones Series by Sheri-Lynn Marean
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BOOK TOUR & GIVEAWAY: Jerry Bader
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The Halfling by Melissa H. North Genre: Fantasy "There are three things I know are certain in my life. Firstly, I am a cursed halfling—part faerie, part human. Another thing I know is I hate faeries. They are deceitful, evil, and conniving. The third thing I know—and it is a certainty—nothing is guaranteed in this... Continue Reading →
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Shadow McClaine is a 25-year-old war hero from Fort Campbell, who went missing on September 2, 2016. The day that she disappear, she was driving her 2013 Silver Hyundai Elantra. She has a wonderful family who misses her beyond belief. Her mother, London, is pleading with the public to help them in their search... Continue Reading →
SERIES REVIEW-Everything He Wants by Jenna Fox (books 1 and 2).
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Garcia-Lopez vs. Wawrinka
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|Sunday May 27, 2018, 11:00 PM (EDT)
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Tennis, NBC
Stan Wawrinka and Guillermo Garcia-Lopez meet in the first round of the 2018 tennis French Open.
Stan Wawrinka continues to work his way back from injury and isn't having much recent success, as he's lost five of his last six matches. Wawrinka is coming off a straight sets loss to Marton Fucsovics in which he won just six of 16 second serve points and was broken five times. It's likely only a matter of time before Wawrinka gets back on track considering he's played just 10 matches since the 2017 Wimbledon, but this isn't the form you want to see from a guy who has made the French Open final two of the last three years. It's hard to trust Wawrinka with the way he's playing. Wawrinka has lost in the first round of a grand slam twice since 2014. Wawrinka has won 10 of his last 12 matches on clay.
Guillermo Garcia-Lopez is currently making a run in Lyon and is playing his best tennis of the year by far on clay. Garcia-Lopez has a win over Kei Nishikori after he retired after the first set and he did beat Pablo Carreno Busta earlier in the year, so there's some highlights of the season for the soon to be 35 year old. Garcia-Lopez has always had a hit or miss career with very little success on the big stage, but he's always played his best on this surface and can never ben counted out. Garcia-Lopez has 13 career wins over top-10 players, one of those victories coming this year. Garcia-Lopez has lost in the first round of a grand slam three of his last six appearances. Garcia-Lopez has split his last six matches on clay.
These two have played 12 times and Wawrinka has won nine of those matches. The most recent meeting was in the 2016 Maharashtra Open, a match Wawrinka won in straight sets. Wawrinka's last loss to Garcia-Lopez came in the 2014 French Open, and they've split the six matches on clay court.
Garcia-Lopez plays his best tennis on clay and has beaten Wawrinka three times on this surface. Wawrinka is playing horribly as he works his way back from injury and usually is always a threat to lose early in grand slam play. He's one of those players who improves the deeper he goes. You can't bet on Wawrinka in his current form with a straight face.
Call me crazy, but Garcia-Lopez has a chance to pull off one of the bigger upsets of the first round. I'll take a shot here.

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I'm no expert and sometimes I wonder if I am getting this parenting thing right, but our children often seem to be an immediate gauge at our progress or lack of in this parenting model.
My children are not described as perfect or gifted but most often as "secure and morally based" which to me is an extreme compliment because that means we are hitting the mark on our ultimate goal.
Since starting Legacy Dad, I have received countless emails and talked with lots of parents on how to raise kids who turn out right. Most want a cookie cutter recipe to follow, just as I did, but unfortunately there is not one.
We've recently had talks with new parents looking for advice on how to go from birth to where we are now and the best advice we have come up with is this:
Moderation - You have to have moderation in all things: TV, video games, music, friends, etc. Going too extreme in restricting or allowing can lead to unintended results.
Healthy Marriage - The basis of the family is the marriage. If the marriage is strong, the family is strong. If there is conflict and pain in the marriage, there will be conflict and pain in the family.
Foundation - The family needs a strong foundation to build on. This includes faith, morals and values, and a set of family rules. Children need to know the boundaries and need to know there are consequences for crossing them.
Focus on What Counts - Basing a child's identity on their win ratio in sports, academic success and physical beauty are what the world deems important. We focus on character traits, relationships (including one with God), calculated risk taking and the freedom to express oneself and be different without ridicule or criticism.
Note: There is nothing wrong with success in sports, academics or physical beauty and if your child has been blessed with these traits that is wonderful. The problem is when we focus on these areas as the most important.
Parental Modeling - Study after study shows that it does not matter what we say, but what we do that shapes our children's being more than anything. The behaviors and example we set in everything, whether our children are watching or not, are the ones our children will adopt whether we like it or not.
Finally, remember that every parent leaves a legacy. Some good, some bad. Some mediocre, some significant. The unknown factor in the equation is not the child but the parents.
Keep up the great work dads, Happy Father's Day.


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He was born at Thessaloniki in 1930. After pursuing Law studies in Greece, he studied Musicology, Art history, Philosophy and Psychology in Vienna, were he became doctor of Philosophy at 1955. He also studied composition (A. Uhl) and conducting (H. Swarovsky, G. Kassowitz) in 1953. He was assistant professor at the University of Hamburg (1969) after completing his 3-volume study on the Kontakia of the Middle Byzantine period. From 1967 to 1995 he was Professor of Musicology at the University of Hamburg. During the early 60s C. Floros was the first to decode the oldest Byzantine and Slavonian notations. He participated in a number of symposia on Musical Hermeneutics (since 1990). In 1998 he was declared Honorary Doctor at the Music Department of the University of Athens. He is a Honorary Member of Musicology.
Most significant publications:
Universale Neumenkunde, 3 volumes, Kassel 1970.
Gustav Mahler, 3 volumes, Wiesbaden 1977/1985.
Beethovens Eroica und Prometheusmusik, Wilhelmshaven 1978.
Mozart-Studien 1, Wiesbaden 1979.
Brahms und Bruckner, Wiesbaden 1980.
Musik als Botschaft, Wiesbaden 1989.
Alban Berg. Musik als Autobiographie, Wiesbaden 1992.
Györgi Ligeti. Jenseits von Avantgarde und Postmoderne, Vienna 1996.
Johannes Brahms. Frei aber einsam, Zürich Hamburg 1997.
Gustav Mahler. Visionär und Despot, Zürich Hamburg 1998.
The Greek tradition in music writing of the Middle Ages, Thessaloniki 1998.
Der Mensch, die Liebe und die Musik, Zürich Hamburg 2000.


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Bella Bag
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This elegant, minimalist consignment shop is the place to go for new and used designer label handbags, from Louis Vuitton and Chanel to Burberry and Prada. Launched by owner Cassandra Connors in 2005, the business recently moved into posh new digs in the Buckhead Atlanta development. Stop by to shop or sell.


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If you're a regular reader of The Amazing Blog, you'll know that we're always looking for products and events that are different and stylish. We love discovering boutique brands and smaller companies and sharing them with all you lovely subscribers, so we of course have to tell you about the Spirit of Summer Fair that's happening next weekend!
From the 16th to the 19th of May, you can visit the Spirit of Summer Fair in Olympia, London, a perfect day out to discover new trends and creative ideas for the home and garden. You can spend the whole day wandering around the variety of over 200 handpicked boutiques, for inspiration on all things home and garden - and best of all you won't be able to find these stylish picks on the high street! The quirky brands on show at the fair are great for anyone looking to find whimsical additions to their homes and gardens, or handmade decor that no one else will have.
At the fair you'll also be able to participate in workshops, inspirational talks and food and wine tastings. Experts from Jo Malone will speak about the launch of their new room scents, you can take inspirational design tips from Nina Campbell, and also speaking is master perfumer Roja Dove. We know we'll be stocking up on Rhodes to Heaven's 'heavenly' natural beauty products and adding to our Summer wardrobes with Louise Sandberg's gorgeous kaftans. With workshops, stalls, and talks for everyone, the Spirit of Summer Fair is great for an afternoon or a whole day, with friends or family.
So whether you're looking for inspiration for your home, garden, or both, be sure to head over to the Spirit of Summer Fair next weekend. It's open from 10am to 6pm each day, and tickets are available online or on the phone. Don't miss it!


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The group hold back a number of tickets for sale on the door of the Tower Ballroom as a gesture to fans...
A triumphant EMBRACE opened their two-night residency at BLACKPOOL's TOWER BALLROOM last night (May 4) with a special gesture to fans. Despite the 2,000 capacity venue being officially sold out, a number of tickets had been held back for sale on the door in an effort to thwart touts.
With support from JJ72 and Witness, the show provided the first proper headlining live outing in the UK for the band's second album Drawn From Memory, released in March through Hut. Their last live appearance in this country was a fan club only show at London's Hanover Grand, and before that they played the London Astoria in January as part of the NME Premier Shows.
Opening with album track 'New Adam New Eve', the group played material from both the new album and their 1998 debut 'The Good Will Out'. Singer Danny McNamara seemed elated at the reaction, telling the audience, "We're not fucking coming down!" Later on, before an acoustic rendition of 'Liar's Tears', Danny went further, saying, "You just never know when it's all going to end, I'll probably remember tonight for the rest of my life. I'm just some Yorkshire lad who's done alright."
Before the final encore of 'Fireworks', the band played an unexpected cover of 'Three Is The Magic Number', the Bobby Darin standard made famous by De La Soul, as well as an untitled new song which Danny admitted "should have been on the album".
Embrace play Blackpool again tonight (May 5), with Coldplay replacing Witness as support, before moving to London's Shepherd's Bush Empire on Sunday 7, with Doves and JJ72. They are also confirmed to play the Glastonbury, T in the Park and the Carling Reading/Leeds festivals.
For Leeds tickets, go to the nme.com Ticketshop – click here
Or call the NME 24-Hour Ticketline on 0870 1 663 663. Calls are charged at national standard rate. For Reading tickets, call Ticketmaster on 0870 534 4444.
'Save Me', the third single to be lifted from Drawn From Memory, is released on 22 May through Hut, backed on CD1 with two new tracks: 'Get On Board' and 'Still So Young', the songwriting debut from drummer Mike Heaton. CD2 features Perfecto and Reverend Bass remixes of 'Save Me'.


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Korean style tacos seem to be a bit of an over served item in Vancouver's street food scene. There are at least 3 if not more separate vendors that offer their take on this Mexican-Korean mixed marriage. Cartel Taco sets itself apart by making this the only thing they serve, in both beef and pork. Described as Bulgogi which I'm told means fire meat in Korean (?) they are served on a doubled up corn tortilla with cilantro, onion and kimchi.
Both tacos were tasty with nice flavor from the kimchi and "fire meat" and I actually had people following me through Pacific Centre where I ate them to ask where they were from, the aroma was that good. As far as value goes street food in Vancouver can be a little pricey but you usually get what you pay for. In Cartel Taco's case the more you eat the cheaper the tacos are. 1 for $3, 2 for $5.75, 3 for $8 and 4 for $10.
Overall I was pretty pleased with Cartel Taco, my only tip would be to ask for only one tortilla per taco as the more traditionally Mexican 2 layer tortillas were a little much and dominated the texture. Go check them out at Dunsmuir and Hamilton just outside Pacific Centre on follow them on Twitter here.


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Vancouver's only marathon started in 1972 when Tom Howard of Surrey, BC, led a handful of marathon runners around five loops of Stanley Park to complete the first 'British Columbia Marathon'. 1977 reflected growth with participants in the marathon tripling to 300. This race satisfied the hard-core runners.
Then in 1988, the Vancouver International Marathon Society approached a young upstart group called Pacific Road Runners with the idea of having them host a Half Marathon as a build-up event to the Marathon in May. With little hesitation, the club agreed to host the 'First Half' in February.
Pacific Road Runners focused on supporting Vancouver's only marathon by providing the running community a competitive opportunity to train for the Marathon in May, raise funds for local charities, attract new runners to the scene, and to create an event people would remember.
These and other objectives served as guiding principles for race organizers of the 'First Half', and the continuous growth in the popularity and reputation of the event is testament to the club's success. The list of event winners and participants includes many Olympians and brings out some of BC's best athletes.
Runners still use the 'First Half' today as a perfect part of their training for the BMO Vancouver Marathon and Half Marathon in May. These local events have staked out a prominent place in Vancouver's sporting life culture, and the Vancouver International Marathon Society is proud to support the continued success of the 'First Half' as a popular local running event, and great complimentary race to the BMO Vancouver Marathon!
Learn more about the 'First Half' at pacificroadrunners.ca/firsthalf/race-info/our-history/.
Like our RUNVAN® Club, the Pacific Road Runners is also a recreational running club, with members interested in leading fit and active lifestyles combined with social events. They meet 5:55pm on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, year round, at the False Creek Community Centre on Granville Island.
Join in, and RUNVAN® at these great local events!
'First Half' (February)
Vancouver's only Marathon, Half Marathon, more (May)
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5 Minute Fat Burners
No time to get a full work out in? No kidding! Slip into one or more of these cardio blasters. It just takes a little initiative to think of more. Let us know which ones you like or thought of and share.
1. Push back the furniture and Hula-a-Hoop. (42 calories)
2. Jump rope as fast as you can. (One of my favorites!) (68 calories)
3. Do walking lunges down the hallway. (45 calories)
4. Run around the block (62 calories)
5. Shovel snow – someone's got to do it. (34 calories)
6. Build a sand/snow man. (27 calories)
7. Turn on Dance Party and rock out. (45 calories)
8. Speed grocery shopping. (22 calories)
9. Vacuum the biggest room in the house. (20 calories)
10. Rock out to your favorite pop/dance song while waiting for the water to boil. (26 calories)
11. Challenge your kids to a snowball fight. May take more than 5 minutes to build your ammunition pile! (34 calories)
12. Power through jumping jacks. (45 calories)
13. Walk/Run up and down the stairs. (36 calories)
14. Speed clean your kitchen just in case that nosy neighbor "pops" by. (23 calories)
15. Jog in place while waiting for your nails to dry, just don't flub them. (45 calories)
16. Bounce on a stability ball during commercials of your favorite show, ie. The Biggest Loser. (58 calories)
17. Sample one of the free workouts on the New Pilates App from itunes.
18. Take on any challengers to a game of Ping-Pong or Air Hockey. (23 calories)
19. Do as many push-ups as you can. (45 calories)
20. Play games from grade school (hopscotch, 4 square or dodge ball). (24 calories)
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There's no better way than to start my year off with some sweet newborn sessions! Earlier this month, I headed over to Meghan & Brad's to meet their new little man, Bennett. And what a sweetie he was... Bennett arrived ahead of schedule to some pretty excited and wonderful new parents. He was even given a welcome kiss from his sweet (and furry!) new 'sibling'.
I had such a wonderful morning with you guys & wish you nothing but the best for you (3!) in this new chapter of life!
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June 17th, 2018
AMIGArama Podcast Episode 34: Lotus Turbo Challenge 2
Gear up for an Amiga high speed challenge as Lorfarius clambers into his Espirit to tackle this classic racer.
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I went back to teaching this semester, and the conversations I had with my students were so rich and enlightening I wish I recorded and posted them all here. Instead I barely wrote at all because I was swimming so deeply in all of their wonderful ideas I had little time to write down any of my own. So I'm taking this lazy post-holiday-break Monday morning filled with the profound silence of a childless home to write down one moment of clarity I remember from the fall.
It started in September when Boo lost her eyeglasses. You know how, when you lose important things, you can usually say when you last had them, or where you last saw them, or where you remember being when you had them last? Wouldn't this be kind of something you'd remember if the item you lost actually helped you to see? Wouldn't you be able to say, "Um, well, things have been kind of blurry since Monday, so I guess that was the last time I had them"? Sure you would. Unless you're Boo. Because Boo had absolutely no recollection of the last time or place she had her glasses. I mean, at all. And because her glasses are not on my face and because I have other things to deal with, I had no idea the last time I saw them, either. Complete blank.
So she comes out of her room one Wednesday morning (and of course it was a Wednesday, because that's one of my work days where I have absolutely NO TIME for anything but get up, get dressed, eat, get out the door) and she says "I can't find my glasses." Now, Critter and I are ready to go, and we have five minutes, so I tell Boo to put on her shoes and Critter and I will start looking. Seeing how Critter finds EVERYTHING, I had no doubt she would locate Boo's glasses in record time.
We had no luck. We searched under beds, on nightstands, in drawers, but nothing. And then I started looking for Boo. Where was she? On the couch, shoes on, reading her kindle.
I'm sorry, what? She was doing what?
She was reading her kindle.
Had she found her glasses? No. Nope. Not at all. She was just sitting there, chillin', reading her kindle while Critter and I searched through the rooms for the glasses.
It was at that point that I felt my blood turn to ice and my heart grow hard as stone.
Okay, not really, but I was pretty angry. And I LOST IT. Now, I'm sure you think that when I say I lost it I started screaming, or yelling, or getting all Italian on that kid. But no. Not at all. I just felt something crack, and that inner voice said, "If she doesn't care, I don't care. I'm done."
I gave the customary order to get their stuff together and get in the car. Boo looked up from her kindle and said, "Did you find my glasses?"
"But I can't see the board without my glasses," she said.
"Well, that's not really my problem, is it?"
"But you said you'd look for them," she whined.
"I did look for them," I said. "Critter helped me. We did not find them. Maybe if you had tried to look for them too, instead of sitting there reading your kindle, you would have found them."
"But how am I supposed to get through the day?" she asked.
"Without your glasses, I guess."
She started to cry. And for the first time in ten years with this child, I. Didn't. Care. At all. Not even a little bit. "Boo," I started as we backed out of the driveway, "This is clearly upsetting you, and that's a good thing. You need to take a lesson from this. As your teachers say, 4th grade is the year of personal responsibility. It is your job to keep your things in order. It is your job to know what you have to keep track of. It is no longer my job. You are almost ten years old. You are growing up. In less than eight years you will be legally eligible to drive a car. If you cannot remember the last place you saw the eyeglasses that you keep ON YOUR FACE, how are you ever going to find your car in a parking lot? How can I trust you with a machine that can kill people? So yes. Be upset now. Be distraught about the fact that you have to walk into your classroom and tell your teacher that you lost your glasses, you can't find them, and now you can't see. And when you get home you will do your homework and then you will do NOTHING but look for those eyeglasses. They are YOUR responsibility. No one else's. And you're going to step up and take care of this."
"What if I can't find them?" she sniffled.
"Then you will get new ones, and you will pay us back for them," I said.
"Why are you being so MEAN?" she asked.
I paused. I thought. I remembered all the fairy tales I'd been reading with my students containing an evil stepmother. And an idea started to form, one that I thought about the entire way to the university that day. It started with my response to my daughter, though, when I said, "I'm sorry that you feel that asking you to take care of yourself, to take responsibility for your actions and your things, seems like me being mean. I don't want to be mean. I want you to know I love you. But part of that love is, and always has been, giving you limits. And right now I'm establishing a new limit–I am not your maid any more. I am not going to clean up your messes. I am not going to find all the things you lose. This is now your job. And the sooner you learn how to do it, the happier everyone will be."
She cried the whole way in to school that day, and thankfully I found a friend to walk in with her and help calm her down. I also sent her in with a hastily scribbled note of apology to her teachers for contributing to her weepy mood. But that was it. That's all I did. And then I went to work.
On the drive I will admit that I cried. I called my husband and just wept tears of frustration, annoyance, and anger at myself and at my bubble headed Boo. He supported me, of course, as he does in everything, and told me that we'd figure it out, that it would be fine, and that he'd email her teacher from work to see if she'd left her glasses in her desk or something. Confident that I had done the right thing and that I had another brain supporting the effort toward personal responsibility, I went into class. By now my students were used to cheery Diane, so when they saw mascara-slightly-smudged distraught Diane, they kind of gave me those looks. Those "You're my professor and you seem approachable and you're kind of upset but I do not want to break boundaries and pry but I am paying attention to you if there's anything you need to tell us."
So I just launched. The class was all about fairy tales, and there was still at this point a little bit of resistance to what my students had come in thinking were "children's tales." Granted, reading the Brother Grimm's version of Cinderella called "Donkeyskin," (in which Cindrella's dad decides the only woman as wonderful as Cinderella's dead mom is Cinderella herself, and seeks to marry her, which drives her to dress herself in the skin of a donkey to escape the palace before her scheduled wedding to her FATHER) kind of disabused them of that notion already. But I think my outburst that day kind of sealed the deal in convincing them that fairy tales might have more of an impact on adults than kids.
I started by briefly describing my frustration with my daughter's lost glasses, and then continued, "You know, the evil stepmother gets a bad rap. As a matter of fact, in the original stories she wasn't even a stepmother. She was the actual mom. But the Grimms changed that because they didn't want to suggest that a MOTHER could do these things to her own biological child. Because, really–what mother would cast out her children into the wild? What mother would make her own child fend for herself? What mother would ask her child to do household chores?"
But you know what?" I continued. "This morning I realized, what mother DOESN'T? What mother NEVER sends her child out into the world by herself? What mother makes NO demands on her child to do some work around the house? What mother, at some point, doesn't say, "Get off your butt and take some responsibility for your own life"? What mother, at some point, does NOT become the evil stepmother? Because that is exactly what happened to me this morning. I turned from the loving, doting, caring, serving, selfless mother to the demanding, unfeeling, heartless, angry stepmother. I drew a line, and that line was that my daughter was going to have to take some personal responsibility. And in so doing I became mean."
"My mom is mean all the time," one of my students said. "Especially when I raid the refrigerator before dinner."
"HANSEL AND GRETEL!" I exclaimed. "That's gotta be Hansel and Gretel, right? Two children, living in their parents' house at a time of famine. The stepmother tells the father that there is just not enough to eat, and that they're going to go out the next day and leave the kids in the forest to fend for themselves. The heartless parents take them out into the woods and leave them there. That seems completely cruel, and so we cheer for the kids as Hansel follows a trail of stones back to the house, thwarting the parents' plans. So the parents take them out again, and this time Hansel chooses to use bread to leave a trail. Bread. At a time of famine? Dude is wasting bread? Really? Did he do dumbass things like that at home? Because if so, no wonder mom decided he was a liability to the survival of the family."
"That's true!" another student said. "That was wasting food. I get in trouble for that all the time!"
"And then what do they do when they get lost in the forest?" I asked.
"They cry," one student replied.
"And then they set out to try to find their way home," another said.
"But the birds ate all the crumbs," said another, "so they end up at the witch's house."
"And they do what?" I asked.
"They start eating," replied another
"Yes," I said. "They're lost, hungry, tired, and sad. But hey! As luck would have it, they come upon a house. The house is made of gingerbread and candy. Do they knock on the door? Do they ask the person inside for help? No. THEY START EATING THE HOUSE. At this point I'm thinking, "Hmm. Maybe the parents had a point. The kids waste bread during a famine, and then they move on to eat a person out of house and home without even asking. Maybe they needed to be taught some personal responsibility." And sure enough, the witch notices the kids gnawing on her walls and decides to bring them in and show them what real cruelty is. You think it's bad your parents left you in the woods? Well I'M going to eat YOU!"
A student raised her hand, "And then they had to fight off the witch. And didn't we read an article that talked about how Hansel and Gretel is about learning to fend for yourself and take responsibility for taking care of your own life?"
I love students who do the reading, by the way.
"Yes, exactly," I replied. "In fighting for the witch they show some real ingenuity. In the Brother Grimms' version of the story, Hansel spends a fair amount of time tricking the witch into believing he is not yet fat enough to eat by poking a stick out of his prison instead of his arm. But when she gets too hungry to care, Gretel is the one who tricks her into going head first into the oven which she then slams on her, killing her. The kids work together, cooperatively, to save themselves. Later in the tale they have to cross a river on the back of a swan, and they have to do so one at a time, individually, further showing their maturity. When they arrive home they do so with riches they acquired on their journey. Their stepmother has died, and they end up providing for their father for the rest of their lives."
We went on to continue talking a little about Hansel and Gretel before we got down to the work of the day, but this idea dogged me as I drove home that afternoon. In Hansel and Gretel these kids leave home, have to overcome obstacles, and return home with riches. Isn't that what most parents want for their kids? Go to school, go to college, get a job, and put me in a nice old folks home? The only thing that seems awful about Hansel and Gretel's family is that they threw them out rather than waiting for them to leave on their own. Yet at a certain point don't some parents have to encourage their kids to leave the comfort zone of their homes either going off to summer camp, or college, or to find a place of their own? Don't some children resist, preferring to have their meals provided and laundry done for as long as possible? And don't at some point some parents have to say, "Enough. Out. Now." Those, I think, have to channel their inner evil stepparent. They have to put their own needs above the wants of their children–because their children are not children any more. They are adults, and need to be treated as such. Even if that means seeming mean for a little while.
Let's look at Cinderella. Once again we have a stepmother, and now we have stepsisters, and they expect Cinderella to do all the cooking and cleaning in the house. What child, asked to clean a living room, has NOT said, "BUT I DIDN'T MAKE THAT MESS! MY SIBLING DID!" I was an only child, and I did it, trying to blame the dog. This sense that Cinderella had to do EVERYTHING for EVERYONE could have just been serious teen melodrama. I've seen a preview of this many times in my preteens. I've started to expect them to sometimes make their own breakfasts and clean their rooms. When these expectations started, you would have thought I asked them to clean a palace. But with a little encouragement and self-starting, now they quite enjoy making their own cereal, or oatmeal. Boo can even make some awesome scrambled eggs with adult supervision. I don't think they'll ever enjoy cleaning their rooms, but I hate cleaning my house, so maybe that's kind of genetic.
So the stepmother tells Cinderella that she has to do some chores before she goes to the ball. Yup. Sounds evil all right. And all of my fellow moms who have ever said to their child "You cannot go to so-and-so's birthday party unless your room is clean" are all part of that evil stepmother club.
"But moooom! I want to go to the paaarrrrtttyyyy. And I don't want to do any wooorrrrkkkkk."
"Get your butt in your room and get it cleaned up or no party."
And then comes the day when it happens–they call our bluff. They just don't do it. And we have to make that phone call of shame, which now might be the email/text of shame: telling the parent of the child to whose party we have already RSVP'd yes that our child cannot attend the party because they did not fulfill their obligations. If we're lucky, we get a "Good on ya, mom! That'll teach 'em!" If not we get the, "Oh, but can't they just come to this party just once? My child will be so sad if they're not there!" Then we have to do the deep breath, ten seconds of thought, angel on the shoulder saying "stay strong" and devil on the shoulder saying, "You don't want to disappoint the birthday child, now do you?" and we have to make that split second decision of whether the damage to the birthday child's psyche will be worse than the damage to our own child's sense of who we are as enforcers of personal responsibility. Hopefully the angel wins out and we say "I'm so sorry. If you need to, just tell your child my little one is sick or something. But I really have to stand firm on this."
After that's settled and we've stuck to our guns, we have to deal with the other end of the issue–our own child, who has somehow transformed into a tazmanian devil of id, doing anything from mild sulking to wild screaming about THE INJUSTICE. THE HORROR. THE SADNESS. THE UNBELIEVABLE UNFAIRNESS OF IT ALL. This makes us sad. We question ourselves. We worry. We maybe cry a little, too. And then, lo and behold, we look–and the ROOM IS CLEAN. The Augean Stables smell of lilacs and roses. The many headed hydra of the messy floor is defeated. And we realize we did the right thing. Our child learned something, and maybe one day her prince–or his princess–will come into her or his house and NOT say, "What is that smell? And is that a tumbleweed or a dust bunny? Is that a cat or a rat? And why is that wall MOVING??" before running out the door.
Snow White has to learn to tend house for seven little guys before she can finally get her prince. Cinderella has to go through a lot of chores. Hansel and Gretel need to prove themselves in the world. And none of it would have been done if the evil stepmother hadn't taken some action. Was she too harsh? Sure. Could she have been nicer about it? Absolutely. If she had acted with love instead of hate, would that have been better? Of course. But should we all, at some time, be proud to release the inner stepmother? You're damn right we should. And so as we head into this new year, sifting through the Christmas detritus and trying to fit yet another year's presents into rooms that are seeming ever smaller as our kids grow bigger, remember–it's not all on us, moms. The kids can take some responsibility too. As a matter of fact, they should. And if you have to mobilize your inner evil stepmother to get them to do it, so be it. It will serve them well in the end. Just don't tell them you want their hearts on a plate for dinner. That's a bit over the top.
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Building the Right Environment to Support AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning
This platform is a fairly generic group of technologies implemented as a single executable and a set of dynamic link libraries. You can use the executable as a starting point for a wide range of software applications. For example, you can easily create a set of interpreted files that display a window just like any Visual Basic, Java or Tcl/Tk program. Sometimes the resemblance is perfect. Companies are already building on and using the Mozilla platform for commercial applicationssome of which run outside the Mozilla browser itself. Examples are tools such as ActiveState's Komodo IDE, Pearson Education's Longman dictionary-on-CD software, and Crocodile Clips' e-learning tools.
In the tradition of modern software tools, the Mozilla Platform isn't small, either. It contains about three thousand object-interface combinations, and half a dozen different integration technologies. The source code for the platform is one of the biggest Open Source projects in the world (Open Office and the GNOME Desktop Suite are larger). It's far bigger than the Linux kernel source. It's far bigger than Perl.
Mozilla Platform Redux
Mozilla has a complete, separate, and enhanced implementation of Microsoft's COM, called XPCOM. XPCOM has its own QueryInterface() method, which acts just like the equivalent method in traditional COM. The 3000 object-interface combinations are due to over a thousand XPCOM components, most of which are bundled with the platform in compiled form.
To support these components, the basic infrastructure of the platform consists of several pieces:
Now, with the Longhorn release, Microsoft is finally replacing the integrated Win32 model with separate pieces:
Windows binds these pieces together in several ways:
Still, they're not quite identical. WinFS has no exact Mozilla equivalent. A messy aggregate of local Web caches and pluggable search engines is the best approximation Mozilla has to offer.
Similarity exists elsewhere, too. On the object integration side, Mozilla doesn't support .NET but XPCOM is a simpler equivalent. On the XML integration side, Mozilla has RDF and overlay systems that perform some of the roles that that Longhorn's use of XML Schema performs.
The details and edges of these gross comparisons are a bit ragged, but overall the similarities are real.
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Washington: Patients over 50 with ulcerative colitis (UC), a chronic disease of the colon, who undergo surgery to treat their condition live longer than those who are treated with medications, according to a new study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The results are published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
"Ulcerative colitis is a chronic disease that most physicians opt to treat with medications, as opposed to surgery," said the study's lead author Meenakshi Bewtra, assistant professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Penn. "This new finding highlights a potential unrecognized advantage of a surgical approach to the disease."
Ulcerative colitis is a type of inflammatory bowel disease characterized by inflammation in the colon, or the large intestine. The inflammation can cause abdominal discomfort, bleeding, and diarrhoea. It affects as many as 700,000 Americans, according to the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America. Men and women are equally affected, with most patients diagnosed by their mid-30s.
The convention in treatment of UC is that surgery is considered a treatment of last resort. However, medical treatments, involving immunosuppressant and steroid drugs, come with significant side effects, and can increase the risk of infection and some cancers. These medications effectively control the disease in less than 50 percent of patients.
In a retrospective study, Bewtra and colleagues analysed data from the Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to examine whether patients with advanced UC pursuing elective colectomy – in which surgeons remove the patient's colon — had improved survival compared to similar patients pursuing chronic drug therapy. The researchers defined advanced UC as those patients who had had at least one hospitalization for UC, had two or more corticosteroid prescriptions within a 90-day period, or had any prescription for immunosuppressant therapy.
The study identified 32,833 UC patients 18 years of age and older who had at least six months of Medicare/Medicaid eligibility and who fit the inclusion criteria. Of these, 830 underwent elective colectomy and the remaining 32,003 were managed on drug therapies.
Mortality rates associated with elective colectomy and medical therapy were 34 and 54 per 1,000 person-years, respectively, thus showing that elective colectomy was associated with an improved survival rate. A person-year is a measure of survival that is equivalent to the number of years a person is followed multiplied by the number of subjects in the study. In further analysis, the survival benefit seemed greatest in patients age 50 and over. The findings also suggested a benefit for surgery in those patients who could not sustain a disease remission – defined as stable disease without the need for hospitalization or changes to drug therapy — on immunosuppressant therapy, but further work is needed to confirm these results.
"With this new knowledge, physicians should be empowered to begin a dialogue about surgery earlier in their patients' course of treatment," Bewtra said. "Many patients are afraid of surgical therapy for UC. This study should help them to understand that the benefits of surgery may extend beyond just reducing the symptoms of uncontrolled UC."


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Flight Level 1
1. Know and understand the safety rules for flying kites.
2. Do any two of the following:
(a) make and fly a glider
(b) make and fly a box kite
(c) make and fly an 'ordinary kite'
3. Make and test a model parachute.
4. Draw and label the parts of a hot air balloon and explain how a hot air balloon flies.
Flight Level 2
1. Make and fly a model plane.
2. Identify five aircraft either in the air or from pictures or models. Explain the use of each aircraft and how it is propelled.
3. Explain how aeroplanes are steered in the air and take off and land.
4. Inspect an aeroplane at close quarters. Watch a plane taking off and a plane landing. Observe what happens, Make sketches of the process and explain what is happening.


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Church Isn't Work
I can remember the first couple years of church planting seeing every relational encounter with people from our church as "doing church." If people came over for dinner, "church work." If we were invited to a birthday party, "church work." I often struggled with the balance between our personal lives, and church. I was an extreme introvert then, and hanging out with people felt like an overload of "church work."
I viewed people, and relationships as work and because of that, I often felt neglected in my personal needs of family time, and lacked in the area of friends. What I didn't realize is, people didn't want to be work. They wanted to be friends. And I didn't need it to be work, it was hindering me.
John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
As pastors' wives it is easy to view everything that involves people from church as "church work." However, I don't think Jesus ever intended for us to view it this way. He never viewed church as work. The bible says, the church is the bride of Christ. Jesus loves his church, as a groom loves his wife. Yes, in any marriage you have to work at it, but you don't view your wife as work. You view her as your best friend, your love, someone you adore and lay your life down for. Church was never intended to be viewed as work. We may have to work at it, but our view of it should be with love and friendship because it is Christ's bride.
It is crazy how life changing and freeing it can be to us when we realize church is no longer "church work." This year I have probably had the most people I have ever had run through my house on a weekly basis than I have the past five years combined. People no longer just come over for small groups and church get togethers. But people come over just to hang out, say hello, ask us questions, eat dinner, watch a movie, whatever. Stuff no longer has to be planned, people just come and go. People are no longer work, they are friends.
Jesus was incredible at this. He never lead with a work mindset. He knew the value of loving people, and serving people before he lead them. He was friends with his disciples, and walked life along side of them. And through loving and serving people, this made him the leader he was.
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Executive Assistant to the CEO
- Employer
- ApplyBoard
- Location
- Kitchener
- Starts
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- Job Function
- Administrative and Clerical
- Job Type
- Full time
- Company Size
- Scaling (20-499)
Reporting directly to the CEO, the Executive Assistant will be the main point of contact for all internal and external stakeholders. Serving as a liaison to the board of directors as well as internal leadership, the Executive Assistant will need to be able to thrive in a fast paced environment. This role is ideal for someone that is passionate about the being part of a fast growing technology company, creating new initiatives and finding ways to implement efficiencies, while managing multiple projects and responsibilities for the CEO.
- Coordinate travel arrangements for the CEO
- Support CEO's business and personal calendar. May be required to work outside of regular business hours as needed
- Organize and coordinate executive level outreach and external communications
- Strong written and verbal communication, administrative, and organizational skills
- Ability to work under pressure, maintain and prioritize multiple projects
- Self-sufficient and able to work independently on projects, from start to finish
- Ability to follow process and procedures; look for ways to improve and promote process improvements.
- Excellent judgement and discretion when it comes to matters of confidentially
- Positive can-do attitude and a sense of humour
- Ability to travel and have a G licence
Preferred Qualifications:
- 3-5 years of experience supporting senior managers, manage upwards, handle confidential information and multitask.
- Experience scheduling travel, arranging meetings, preparing reports and correspondence
- Self-starter, able to work independently and on a team player, able to successfully collaborate across office and departments.
- Experience with G-suite, Adobe Acrobat, SaaS and PaaS productivity tools and social media web platforms
- Experience creating documents and slides for executive-level presentations
- A true professional, that performs well under pressure and tight deadlines
- Bachelor's degree (Master's degree preferred)
- Preferred experience in a high growth startup environment
- Passion for technology and is tech savvy
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- The opportunity to have an impact on a product that is positively affecting change to thousands of students lives every day
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President Trump Declares January 2018 as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month
On the same day that thousands of emails were released from Anthony Weiner's laptop, President Donald Trump issues a proclamation that January 2018 would be "National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month." "And this month, I will sign into law S. 1536, the Combating Human Trafficking in Commercial Vehicles Act and S. 1532, the No Human Trafficking on Our Roads Act," Trump wrote. Back in February, President Donald Trump's administration oversaw 1,500 busts of sex trafficking in one short month compared to less than 400 in one year under Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro Sobarkah. (Source: freedomoutpost.com)
Rape, sex trafficking, spread of disease highlight horrors on UN's watch
In August, 2016, the U.N. finally admitted that they, in fact, "played a role" in the cholera epidemic in Haiti, resulting in the deaths of at least 10,000 people while sickening hundreds of thousands more. Cholera wasn't the only thing the U.N. was doing in Haiti. The Associated Press reported in April of this year of a "U.N. child sex ring" impacting at least 23 countries. Their investigation found, "U.N. missions during the past 12 years found nearly 2,000 allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation by peacekeepers and other personnel around the world. But the U.N. continues to operate, and we continue to fund it. (Source: foxnews.com)
Australian Banks Reportedly Freeze Accounts Of Bitcoin Users
The Sydney Morning Herald reported that bitcoin users across Australia are reporting that their accounts have been abruptly frozen by the country's "Big Four" banks. The bank's sudden decision to close the accounts of digital currency investors was not totally without warning: CoinSpot said it was putting a "temporary restriction on all forms of AUD deposits" that would remain in place until at least the first week of 2018 as a result of issues with Australian banks. If more banks around the world start closing the bank accounts of bitcoin users and bitcoin-related businesses, it could negatively impact the price as marginal buyers, worried about being shut out of the banking system, go running for the hills. (Source: zerohedge.com)
No More Free Money to Pakistan: President Trump Cuts Off $255 Million in Military Aid to Pakistan
The Trump administration on Friday announced the United States will deny Pakistan military aid amounting to $255 million as it expects Islamabad to take decisive action "against terrorists and militants on its soil". a spokesperson of the President's National Security Council stated, "The President has made clear that the United States expects Pakistan to take decisive action against terrorists and militants on its soil, and that Pakistan's actions in support of the South Asia Strategy will ultimately determine the trajectory of our relationship, including future security assistance." (Source: thegatewaypundit.com)
The Cabal Initiates The First Event, Let The Games Begin
Obama tries to convince the public not to listen to social media. South Korea captures the Chinese vessel that was smuggling oil to NK. The cabal places groups of people in different cities and pushes protests which they hope will create larger protests. We are now seeing this in Iran. The last country on the list to have regime change was Iran, they are now pushing for this. The cabal has been spotted air lifting their paid mercenary army (IS) out of Syria. The cabal is now pushing to take back control and start an event around the world. (Source: youtu.be)
Jihadist Group Blows Up Oil Pipeline In Iran, In Midst Of Protests
Though Iran has yet to confirm the attack, the terror group Ansar al-Furqan Ahwaz Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility in an official statement, which noted "This operation was conducted to inflict losses on the economy of the criminal Iranian regime." The timing comes at an interesting moment as multiple major Iranian cities are now in the third day of rare anti-government protests widely reported to be fueled primarily by economic grievances, but which notably have included aggressive anti-Rouhani chants and slogans calling for the end of clerical rule, and could get more violent. (Source: zerohedge.com)
Israel, Syria, Iran, and the US Are on a Collision Course at the Israeli Border
What Israel and the U.S.' recent agreement to target Iran will involve more directly is still unclear in light of the fact that Iranian-backed militias are days away from securing their stranglehold over the border with Israel. Whatever the U.S. and Israel have in mind to combat Iran, clearly Iran and its allies on the ground are moving ahead undeterred. Whether or not America's adversaries are simply calling Israel's bluff or want something to materialize further on the ground remains to be seen. (Source: theantimedia.org)
QAnon claims Debbie Wasserman Schultz contracted MS-13 gang to kill Seth Rich
QAnon directly suggests that the heist of DNC emails, including the emails from Hillary campaign chair John Podesta, was an inside job perpetrated by Seth Rich, an IT employee of the DNC who became disillusioned with Hillary and the DNC. Shockingly, QAnon claims Debbie Wasserman Schultz put out a contract to MS-13 Hispanic gang members to murder Seth Rich, both to punish him for the heist, and to prevent him from doing further damage to Hillary's campaign and the DNC. (Source: infowars.com)
Russia Planning National Biometric Database For Banking Next Year, Expanding Worldwide Trend
The biometric effort is being backed by Russian state-owned Rostelecom, and Sberbank PJSC who has been selected to run the database. The biometric database will incorporate images of faces, voice samples and, eventually, irises and fingerprints. Here in the U.S. the DHS is planning a biometric facial recognition database for border checkpoints and to create the Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) to store 500 million people, including many US citizens' identities within its system. (Source: activistpost.com)
Federal Programs are Helping Local Police Buy Surveillance Drones
According to a report released last spring by the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College, 347 local agencies in 43 states acquired drones between 2009 and March 2017, often with financing from the federal government. The federal government has no constitutional authority to fund equipment for local police departments. And all of this money comes with strings attached. By funding a network of drones at the state and local level across the U.S., the federal government gains access to a massive data pool on Americans without having to expend the resources to collect the information itself. (Source: activistpost.com)
Arizona National Guard military police to help in Guantanamo
Officials with the Arizona National Guard say this is the second deployment for the 850th Military Police Battalion in the last 10 years in support of overseas contingency operations. The soldiers are deploying Friday and will be gone for about nine months. (Source: stripes.com)
Author: Helen McCarthy
After graduating with a BFA, Helen McCarthy spent over thirty years in the advertising and entertainment industries as a designer and illustrator. Part of her job required a fair amount of research. About six years ago, the Lord led her to research current news events and share her findings. During that same period she and her husband were led by the Lord to relocate to a new area. This time became an enlightened experience of instruction, correction and refinement which deepened her relationship with the Lord and her devotion to serve Him. One of the many blessings she and her husband received was finding a home church that expanded their relationships and extended their outreach to the community to grow in faith and share the word of God.
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It was a very cold day, with some sleet first thing in the morning, and obviously we would not have been there without reason. My eldest son was Passing Out.
He has spent the last year working incredibly hard and he is now an Officer in Her Majesty's Armed Forces. We are both delighted and thrilled for him. He has worked with such determination and single mindedness towards this goal that I feel great pride in his success.
The day started at 9.00am in the Chapel with a simple, and moving service, we then had coffee, before sitting in the stands for over an hour and half, watching the most fantastic parade.
There was a delicious lunch provided for the new officers and their parents, with a much needed mulled wine before hand.
We then left, and later in the evening there was the Passing Out Ball, to which my son had invited his younger brother, his girlfriend and several old friends from school.
He is now home on leave, before his first posting in January.
I am just posting a few photos to give a sense of the occasion, if you look at the last photo you can see my sons walking together. The two previous photographs feature the Adjutant, on his horse, mounting the steps of Old College.


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Weber Beer Can Chicken Spice
Another amazing Weber creation inspired by the fun, flavorful and widely popular chicken-roasting method. Weber Beer Can Chicken Seasoning is a unique savory blend of spices. Put politely, it's a less invasive but equally delicious method for infusing your whole chicken (or any other meat of your choice) with that signature beer-bathed flavor.
This seasoning is designed to bring out the best in your meats and recipes, giving it herb-infused skin with a tender beer-injected taste inside.
Nutrition Facts
|Serving Size
|1 tsp
|Amount Per Serving
|Calories from Fat
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|290 mg
|12 %
|Total Carbohydrate
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SPLENDORS RED LOTUS is a dazzling, BRILLIANT-RED beauty with full, red flowers and bright yellow centers. Beautiful, wide outer petals frame this flower nicely and color is AMAZING! An excellent addition to any pond or patio! CUSTOMER FAVORITE! Shape and color are amazing!
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Plant your lotus tuber in the month of May, after all danger of frost has passed. (Lotus may be stored in the crisper of your refrigerator until proper planting time in your area) Plant your lotus tuber in a wide, shallow container in heavy loam soil and 2-4" of water above tuber. In a week or two you should have coin leaves on the surface of the water, a week or two after that, you should have aerial leaves growing out of the water. Once you have aerial leaves, it is time to fertilize your lotus.
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Waterlily World Fertilizer Tabbs + Humates will nourish your lotus giving you optimum growth, best bloom and ease of use. Simply press the fertilizer tabbs into the soil near the roots of your lotus, taking care not to damage the roots. Do this once a month throughout the growing/blooming season, June through September. Your lotus should grow and bloom the very first year!
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H.R.5872 - New Jersey/New York Clean Ocean Zone Act of 2006109th Congress (2005-2006)
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|Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3] (Introduced 07/24/2006)
|House - Transportation and Infrastructure; Resources
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|House - 08/07/2006 Executive Comment Requested from Interior, Commerce. (All Actions)
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New Jersey/New York Clean Ocean Zone Act of 2006 - Designates the New York/New Jersey Bight as the New Jersey/New York Clean Ocean Zone. Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Secretary of the Army, and all states from issuing a permit for ocean dumping, or establishing any new disposal site in the Zone, including under specified provisions of existing law. Terminates all existing disposal site designations, subject to exception.
States that the discharge of a pollutant into the Zone from a point source constructed or put into use after enactment of this Act is prohibited under specified provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. Prohibits permit issuance for such discharge.
Prohibits a state or federal permit issued for the discharge of a pollutant into the Zone from being renewed, reissued, or modified to allow any increase of discharge capacity of any point source or to contain any effluent limitation less stringent than comparable effluent limitations in the permit.
Prohibits the permanent extraction of any nonrenewable natural resource from the Zone for commercial or industrial use, except for the primary purpose of maintaining or establishing navigation channels.
Prohibits the creation, licensing, leasing, easement granting, or right-of-way granting of certain facilities involving nonrenewable energy, including deepwater ports and pipelines.
Prohibits categorically excluding leases, easements, or rights-of-way for renewable energy facilities from specified provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.
Prohibits underwater research or exploration in the Zone unless it meets certain requirements.


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Grants to support oral presentations of conference papers in the USA
This program aims at supporting the internationalization of scientific knowledge produced in Portugal. Posters presentations will not be accepted.
The individual applicants to the Grants for the Presentation of Papers in Conferences in the United States must meet the following conditions:
- Holding Portuguese Nationality or being residents in Portugal;
- Being proficient in English;
- Being PhD students, lecturers or researchers at Portuguese institutions of higher education and/or research centers;
- Holding proof of acceptance of the paper by the conference organizers (this document can be sent within 30 days following the close of the call to email@example.com);
- Holding a recommendation letter from the Portuguese Institution to which the applicant is bonded to, supporting the participation in the conference for the oral presentation of the paper.
Travel grants awarded up to a maximum amount of 1.200 Euros.
How to apply
Applications must be made via an online form, available through the online application system. Apply here (https://si.flad.pt)
Deadlines for applications
Conferences in the USA beginning:
January 2019: Applications until September 30, 2018
February 2019: Applications until October 31, 2018
March 2019: Applications until November 30, 2018
April 2019: Applications until December 31, 2018
May 2019: Applications until January 31, 2019
June 2019: Applications until February 28, 2019
July 2019: Applications until March 31, 2019
August 2019: Applications until April 30, 2019
September 2019: Applications until May 31, 2019
October 2019: Applications until June 30, 2019
November 2019: Applications until July 31, 2019
December 2019: Applications until August 31, 2019
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Combined event combines downhill (speed) and slalom (technical ability) and the winner of this event is the skier that achieves the best time overall. Usually downhill comes first, followed by an event of slalom. A couple of years ago, there was also an event called "super combined", which consisted of one downhill drive and two slalom runs. Due to its complexity but also tiredness of the skiers, this event was canceled at major events.
French skier Alexis Pinturault won the combined overall event four times in his career, while he finished fourth in the last season. Alexis is one of the leading skiers in this event for quite some time now and has also managed to claim the silver medal at the Olympic Games this year, staying behind Marcel Hirscher. He is expected to defend his title from St Moritz from 2017. He has seven wins in combined event and has also finished ten times on the podium. Although Pinturault is relatively young (27), he is already making some great results and is expected to be even better in the years to come, which ultimately puts as a firm favorite for a golden medal at the 2019 World Championship.
Peter Fill is another skier likely to play a big role in the combined event. He won the combined overall event in 2018 in some pretty fierce competition. Although he never won the combined event, he benefited from the consistency this season, but also because some of his rivals got injured or they retired. This does not underestimate his great performances during the skiing season, as at 35 years of age he can still produce great results.
Kjetil Jansrud is another very unique example of an athlete can use his experience and be a favorite at an event. Jansrud was runner up in the World cup in 2018. He did not win a medal at the last World championship, but did in 2015 in Beaver Creek, where he came second in Combined event. Jansrud greatest hope is that his downhill ride goes as planned, meaning slalom is not his strongest asset.
Although he is not considered an expert in Combined event, Marcel Hirscher can still rock things up, as he did at the Winter Olympics, where he won the golden medal in this event. Slalom is his absolute specialty and he can rely on this event to give him a medal, since downhill event is much more even at the end. It is not sure however that Hirscher will decide to pursue this event, because he used to miss out competing here. Besides the 2018 gold, Hirscher also won the 2015 event in Beaver Creek.
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Emojis pepper our conversations with superfluous hearts and cats, and generally make texting more interesting. It turns out they also may make your dating life more interesting too.
According to Time, new data from Match.com's "Singles in America" survey suggests that there is a correlation between people who used emojis and people who had more sex. The survey profiled 5,675 non-Match users in the U.S. and found that 54% of emoji users in the sample had sex in 2014 compared to the 31% of singles who did not. Additionally, it seems that for both men and women, the more emojis used, the more sexually active the people were.
According to biological anthropologist Dr. Helen Fisher, who helped lead the endeavor, one explanation for the connection between emojis and sex is that the emoticons communicate personality in a medium where it's difficult to interpret a person's tone or interest. Fisher says that the findings also suggest that emoji users tend to go on more dates, and that "62% of emoji users want to get married compared to 30% of people who never used an emoji...that's pretty good."
In conclusion: If you like it then you should most definitely put a [ring emoji] on it.
Because if not, you should start.


text: At end of the Southern Mexico section in Wii version. Missed motorcycle jump over pit. Lara crashed to ground but motorcycle is now hanging in mid-air in the statue room. Can leap on to it from above and stand on it but cannot use the remote controller minus sign to sit on it and take control. Does anyone know how to bring motorcycle back into play? Need it to finish this section. Thanks.


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Haapsalu 766
Fiber Content: Wool 100%
Knitting Weight: Lace/Cobewb
Weight: 100 g
Needles: 000 to 1
Hooks: B1 , Steel 6,7,8
Care: Hand wash/Dry flat
Put Up: Skein
Made by Midara, Lithuania
Pale Pink colored Haapsalu will find it's way to your heart, very soft and lacy wool yarn is the most prefect choice for your shawl project.
Could be doubled or even tripled to make a heavier project. If combined with Mohair - makes your project fuzzy, warm and light at the same time. Use bigger needles for that.
Haapsalu could also be used for lightweight sweaters, delicate blouses , stoles.
One skein usually is enough for a shawl or a stole