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Blogging has dominated the Internet world and successful bloggers at top blogs are true rock stars of the online community. It is being estimated that the number of blogs added to the World Wide Web each day is greater than that of new borns. From this, we can imagine that how blogging has gotten popular now a days.
If you are new to the concept of blogging and don't know where to start, here is a list of 3 top blogging platforms which provide you powerful features for publishing your content online. These three blogging platforms have made content management extremely easy. Here is the list.
1# WordPress, the Best Blogging Platform
WordPress is the most popular and most powerful blogging platform of present time. The CMS is developed by dedicated and helping coders from all over the world. Studies show that out of every three bloggers, 2 prefer WordPress as their blogging platform.
WordPress supports different plugins which empower it to do almost anything with blog publishing. Security plugins help you in protecting your blog from hackers, SEO plugins provide you easy and powerful SEO, social bookmarking plugins share your content on social networks automatically each time you publish and so on.
Along with the free blogging service, WordPress allows you to setup a blog on your own hosting also. If you don't afford to purchase a self hosting, then you can signup and create a blog at WordPress for free.
When you choose to go with the free blog hosting of WordPress, you get a storage space of 3GB along with unlimited bandwidth. This space is more than enough for text posts with less media.
2# Blogger, Google's Gift for Bloggers
Although giant Google's Blogger is somehow behind from WordPress in providing blogging features, still a very large number of low budget bloggers (including me till the time of publish) prefer to go with Blogger rather than WordPress. Blogger provides free blog hosting which allow you to use your custom domain also. Additionally, a 10GB storage space is allocated for each blog which can be considered as unlimited for blog posts. You can purchase additional space for a low price also when the space is consumed up in long run.
Blogger is better than a self hosted WordPress blog in several ways. The hosting of Google is reliable. More importantly, Blogger allows you to monetize your blog but you can't monetize a free WordPress blog. These features make Blogger the second most popular blogging platform of the online world.
3# Tumblr, the True Micro Blogging Platform
Tumblr is the third most famous and most loved blogging platform among bloggers. The service was initiated in 2007 and it touched the heights of success in a comparatively short time. Tumblr hosts more than 100 million blogs and number is growing rapidly.
On Sunday May 19, 2013, Yahoo bought Tumblr from its founder David Carp for a huge sum of 1 billion US dollars. Now the service is owned by Yahoo Inc.
The clean interface and easy customization as well as the publishing support through several apps on mobile phones and other devices make Tumblr a loveable blogging platform. These are the features and ease of use of Tumblr which have brought such a large number of consumers to it in a short period of time.
So if you have decided to start your blog, then these three services must be your top choices. On these services, your blog will grow effectively with your minimum effort. Good luck for your blogging career.


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Feroz Son's interiors are offering different deals on furniture at different events. Yes, you can get furniture at the discounted price. They are offering complete wedding packages products at reasonable price. The price after discount is reasonable and you can get home interior at half price. The furniture brand offered to buy one and get one free offer for eid festive season and this offer was valid for three days only. The furniture shop is offering New Year sale, Valentine's Day sale, Quaid e Azam day sale, Eid ul Azha and Eid ul Fitr sale, winter and summer season sale.
It always maintains the level of quality and the price in sale is very reasonable. Now it is offering Winter Sale up to 50% OFF on the entire stock. In Feroz Sons Furniture's Sale, they have Bedroom Furniture, Sofas, Couch, Dining Tables, and LED Units, Bedroom Chairs as well as many other accessories. Also, they are offering up to 30% OFF on Kids Furniture, Flooring, Home Decor Accessories and Wedding Collection.
Winter and wedding on at its peak, for the wedding events they are offering the complete package at the economical price. The prices of the furniture are half in its promotional offer and you can get the mega discount on its winter sale. The price of bed set is PKR 35000 only after discount and the regular price of its bed set is Rupees 72000. They have unique designs are available in different shades.
The famous furniture brand uses 100% original material, they have glass door cupboards, dressing table, the railing of draws is original. You can easily open and close the draw of bed and dressing table. The paint of furniture is fabulous and they use different woods which are heavy in weight and some are light in weight. When we talk about doors, they have stylish and new trendy doors are available and you can also get furniture in order.
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The timing of Alexander Soros's published piece in the New York Times today will do nothing to quell the understandable skepticism of the 'pipe bomb' story that broke across all news agencies earlier today given the article was apparently written and then published within an hour of the events being made public.
That's not just a quick response—it's a response to events happening almost in real time. So, while Mr. Soros is absolutely correct in his condemnation of political violence of any kind, the speed at which he and the New York Times were able to publish a response to the pipe bomb story within an hour of that story breaking is fuel to the conspiratorial fires now swirling around the entire situation.
Here is the link to the NYT opinion piece by Alexander Soros published within an hour of the pipe bomb story breaking titled, The Hate That Is Consuming Us: https://nyti.ms/2ApFWkg
It is also interesting to note that Mr. Soros's pipe bomb events reply in the New York Times came less than 24-hours after he was featured here in D.C. Whispers via his alleged links to the human caravan making its way to the U.S. Mexico border:
What's This? Just Nancy Pelosi With George Soros's Son Last Month Wearing A 'DACA Dreamers' Hat.
Is it all just a remarkable coincidence of timing?
Who knows.
For now, let's all be grateful no-one was injured and hope that the person or person's responsible for sending the packages are located by law enforcement and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.


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I am currently writing a textbook on homeland security (due out from Elsevier next spring 2015). Unique to this text are interviews with renowned experts in the fields of homeland security and national security. Dr. Rebecca Katz is one such expert. Her work focuses on public health preparedness, particularly the intersection of public health preparedness and national security. She is the author of the Essentials of Public Health Preparedness (a great book that I have used in my consulting work) and several other volumes. A short excerpt of her interview - where she talks about her career, thoughts on her field and the gender disparity in her profession - appears below. Read the rest when it publishes spring '15
Dr. Rebecca Katz is an Associate Professor at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services in the Department of Health Policy. Currently her primary research concerns the domestic and global implementation of the International Health Regulations. Generally, Dr. Katz's research focuses on public health preparedness, the intersection of infectious diseases and national security, and health diplomacy. Dr. Katz continues to be a consultant to the State Department on issues related to the Biological Weapons Convention, Avian and Pandemic Influenza, and disease surveillance. Previously, she worked on Biological Warfare counterproliferation at the Defense Intelligence Agency, was an Intelligence Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic Intelligence Research in the Joint Military Intelligence College, and spent several years as a public health consultant for The Lewin Group. She also authored a textbook on Public Health Preparedness. Dr. Katz obtained her undergraduate degree in Political Science and Economics, an MPH in International Health, and a PhD in Public Affairs.
Tell us a little about yourself and how you came to your current position.
RK: I'm an associate professor of Health Policy and Emergency Medicine. My background is in social science--demography, public policy, and epidemiology, all focused on public health policy. I think, there are many different avenues for working public health preparedness. Some have hard science backgrounds, but it is not a requirement.
Is a background in national security law or policy helpful for the work you do?
RK: Absolutely, some background in these subjects helps.
What would you advise a student, in terms of their academic career, if they chose to do the work you do on a regular basis?
RK: One thing that is consistent amongst all of us on our team, even those not formally trained in public health, is that we all take a public health perspective.
Is it a detriment to your success in the field if you don't have that perspective?
RK: No. But then you won't be the public health person in the room.
What do you believe is the most valuable experience you've had in shaping your career?
RK: My answer for when I was in my twenties is different for my answer for my thirties, which will be different for my answer for when I'm in my forties. I come from a public health background, many members of my family are public health professionals. I always knew I'd end up in that field. After I graduated from college I was volunteering in maternal and child health clinics in southern India and got very sick. The bug that I was sick with, Brucella melitensis, turned out to be a Class B biological weapons agent. It's the first agent the United States ever weaponized, as part of the US offensive biological weapons program in the early 1950s.
So, I'm assuming you got better once they figured out what you had?
RK: It took four years. And I still have it. It's endemic in some parts of the world. If you get it through lab exposure you know right away. Otherwise it becomes intracellular and really hard to treat. I spent much of my masters programs hooked up to I.V. medication. I would go in the morning to the medical center to get my I.V. drip then go to class. What was really interesting was, you come back to the States and you have this disease nobody knows about and you have to become, as any patient does, your own expert in your disease. And the best literature on my disease in the US was related to bioweapons. So the interest in my own condition helped me to develop an interest in public health and bioterrorism issues. I thought, "Hey I have this social science, political science, international relations, and economics background, and I'm studying epidemiology in international health – and here is this thing, bioterrorism, that brings all of these interests together. So I became really interested in bioterrorism issues and biodefense, and I started going to meetings on these issues after graduate work.
Talk a little bit more about the gender disparity in your profession.
RK: Since I've been interested in these issues, the world has changed a lot. Up until 9/11 the people who looked at biological weapons were part of a very small community. Mostly, they were members of the military or intelligence communities. It wasn't a question about gender disparity- there just weren't many people interested- male or female. I had completed my masters and I was working in the public health field and I decided I really wanted to become an expert in this area of disease and security, so I applied for my doctoral degree in 1999. I wanted to do my PH.D. in epidemiology and the schools of public health almost uniformly told me that they liked me as a candidate but we're not sure about this "thing" (biological weapons, bioterrorism) you're interested in. I had a hard time finding faculty who were willing to work with me. I ended up in a policy school for my doctoral work, which was more amenable to multidisciplinary approaches, and I found a mentor who was willing to take me on.
Still the case?
RK: I wrote a paper on biological weapons as a public health problem and handed it in on Sept. 10, 2001 to my faculty advisor. One day later, 9/11 happened, and there was suddenly a lot of interest in the things I had been studying. The 90s were a time that people were admitting emerging infectious diseases were a problem again. In the 1970s there had been a shift of focus from infectious diseases and onto non-communicable diseases. Cancer was the new thing in public health in the 1970's, and it wasn't until the emergence of HIV, Ebola, and other emerging infectious diseases in the late 80s and early 90s that people in the public health community started talking about infectious diseases again as a problem and starting to focus on the connection between disease and security. For instance, the term "emerging infectious diseases" wasn't even coined until the early 1990s. Really the shift in thinking to infectious diseases as weapons or weaponized agents - didn't start until late in the Clinton Administration.
Where do you see the field headed?
RK: The Global Health Security Agenda was launched in February 2013. So hopefully that is the future: what actions the global community should take to protect population's health and make populations more secure against bio-threats. So the 2000s, was about making the intellectual jump that public health and security are connected and now we're looking at what the public health community is going to do about it.
What challenges do you see coming up in the next 5-10 years in the field?
RK: One of the things that we are thinking about a lot is metrics: asking how do you measure success? Is your population safe? Yes or No? Do you have disease surveillance? Yes or no? Have you been able to detect outbreaks? It's not as easy as some of the other questions in terrorism-related disciplines. To me, metrics is the next major intellectual challenge. Measuring success is what holds people accountable.
If you could ask Congress for one thing what would it be?
RK: Money spent wisely. I think investing in building good disease surveillance systems, which means systems and policies which can help detect outbreaks of infectious diseases quickly, is a valuable use of resources. Good disease surveillance means you can also respond quickly to disease outbreaks and save more lives. We don't have these kinds of detection systems in many parts of the world. You can't separate the domestic from the global, so spending the money across the world is in many ways just as useful as spending it at home.
Let's say somebody graduates from college and is about to embark on a career like yours. They don't really know what you do day to day, but they are passionate about the subject. So what career advice, in terms of courses that are important, internships to take etc., would you give to such a student?
RK: First, if you want to work overseas, you actually have to get some global experience. The easiest time to do that is right after you graduate college. Life gets much more complicated as you get older. If you have even some idea that you want to do global work, you should try to go abroad. If you want to work in emergency preparedness go spend some time in a local health department. All public health is local, so figure out what that "local" is, whether that is here or abroad, and then go work there.
So practical, on the ground experience is important?
RK: If you have practical experience it makes you somebody worth listening to. It's important to have policy skills. Some of these skills can be taught. Some can't be taught and they have to be learned from experience.


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The Nathan Bickart Trio, featuring Owen Clapp (bass), Michael Mitchell (drums), and Nathan Bickart (piano), invites you to celebrate the release of their album at Jo Bar and Rotisserie. The trio writes and performs original music informed by their eclectic musical education, building upon the jazz tradition with folk-song melodies, rich harmonies, and a deep commitment to rhythmic unity. The result is warm and welcoming, evoking the landscapes of the band's Bay Area roots.
Individually, the band's members can be found in a diverse array of musical contexts, having performed with Bay Area stalwarts like Dayna Stephens, Steven Lugerner, Ambrose Akinmusire, Jonah Levine, Anderson Paak, Courtney Knott, Smith Dobson, Emily Afton, and others. Their debut album, showcasing the synergy of these diverse musical influences, will be released on March 31st, 2018


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Sherwood's Bassich, Hughes earn state swim bids
GRESHAM — Brandon Hughes pushed Danny Bassich.
Bassich pushed Hughes.
And the two Sherwood High School boys swim team co-captains pushed each other all the way to the Class 6A state championships.
Although they were three lanes apart, Hughes and Bassich, ended up celebrating together, as they took second and third in the 100-yard backstroke event at the Three Rivers League district swimming championships, held Friday and Saturday at Mt. Hood Community College.
"That doesn't happen a lot," Hughes said with a smile after receiving his second-place ribbon during Saturday's district finals. "We're normally the underdogs, so taking second and third with Danny is really big. We've always kept beating each other in different meets, so today was like who could win."
"I was seeded second, with a time of 57, and got to the 'A' finals, and my co-captain, Brandon, was seeded fifth," Bassich said. "And he shot his way up to second, and beat me, and I wouldn't have it any other way."
Each event winner at the district meet, as well as individuals and relay teams that meet state qualifying standards, or earn wild-card bids, advance to the Class 6A state meet, which will be held Friday and Saturday back at Mt. Hood Community College.
Hughes and Bassich both garnered wild-card bids to state in the 100 backstroke.
Hughes took second place in that race with a time of 57.38 seconds.
"It means a lot to me," Hughes said. "I've put in a lot of time of the past two years to make myself better. Last year, I swam a 59 at district, so (to set a personal record) by two seconds is great. Honestly, telling myself to push over and over again. Definitely in that last 50, I just kept thinking of my captain from last year, Jacob Buckner. He kept telling me to push it and don't die."
Bassich finished in third place in the race in a time of 57.53.
"Oh yeah, I'm really happy," Bassich said with a smile.
Bassich and Hughes will also be going to state in the 200 medley relay. In that race, they teamed with senior Eugene Tan and junior Samuel Ettelstein to earn a wild-card bid with their fourth-place time of 1:45.66.
Bassich also took sixth in the 100 butterfly in 57.90.
Also for the Sherwood boys, junior Braeden Howard was fifth in the 200 freestyle in 1:55.76 and Ettelstein was sixth in that race in 1:55.82. Howard also was fifth in the 500 freestyle with a time of 5:09.02. Tan was sixth in the 100 breaststroke in 1:07.26 and he was eighth in the 100 butterfly in 58.24.
For the Sherwood girls, sophomore Hunter Stewart took seventh place in the 200 freestyle in a time of 2:06.00. Junior Lizzy Cichoski was eighth with a mark of 2:09.40. Stewart was also seventh in the 100 butterfly in 1:02.93. Freshman Shelby Slenes was eighth in the 100 breaststroke in 1:12.33.
"District has been great. A lot of us dropped a ton of time. It's immeasurable how much time we dropped," Bassich said. "It's been a blast. The support is a really big thing for us."
"It's been a great day, we're all having a good time out here," Hughes said. "At a lot of the meets, the other team talks about how loud we are, and how supportive we are. It's kind of nice to know we have a great family behind us."
The Sherwood boys finished in sixth place in the team standings at the district meet with 215.5 points. The Sherwood girls took ninth place with a total of 148. The Newberg boys and the Lakeridge girls won the district team titles.
Action at the Class 6A state meet is set to start at 9 a.m. on Friday, and Saturday's finals begin at 8:15 a.m.
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Ronald Scliar Sasson's Palina Armchair
Ronald Scliar Sasson Creates The Palina Armchair
Ronald Scliar Sasson, the creative mind behind the award winning design Armchair:Palina by Ronald Scliar Sasson points out, My project is an armchair made with a Brazilian solid wood call Jequitibà . The armchair has organic visual , as the branches of a tree. What makes this project a different project is the possibility to combine a design so unusual an extraordinary comfort. .
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Flores island, pronounced flôr ' es and is Portuguese for flower, is a large island inhabited by almost two million people and it belongs to the island nation of Indonesia. Flores Island was named so because of a showy flowery shrub named the Poinciana regia that dominates the Flores Island landscape. Indonesia, as a nation, is a vast collection of seventeen thousand oceanic islands. many of which are small volcanic islands that remain uninhabited and unnamed to this day. Yet the Indonesian islands are home to over 230 million people and is the fourth most populous country in the world. Flores, island, is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands and is heavily wooded, rugged, and mountainous, with peaks rising to 7,872 ft (2,399 m). Unlike Muslim Indonesia, the Flores Island inhabitants are predominantly Christian, mainly Roman Catholic; those in the west are chiefly Malayans, and those in the east are Papuans. Corn and coconuts are grown as staples. Ende is the chief town and port with a population in excess of 50,000. The climate on Flores Island varies considerably due to the mountainous terrain and is subject to both drought and monsoons. Flores Island is now enjoying a bit of a tourist boom and can even boast the addition of a four star hotel. So accommodations on Flores Island are no longer as stark as depicted in Flores Girl: The Children God Forgot.
Download this free fictional account of the discovery of the Ebu Gogo on Flores Island by two American Scientists!
There are many languages spoken on the island of Flores, all of them belonging to the Austronesian family. There are at least six separate languages that are identifiable. These are from west to east: Ngadha, Nage, Keo, Ende, Lio and Palu'e , which is spoken on the island with the same name of the north coast of Flores . Locals would probably also add So'a and Bajawa to this list, which anthropologists have labeled dialects of Ngadha. Modern humans, Homo sapiens, have occupied Flores Island for thousands of years. As for the western world, the island was originally discovered by the Portuguese and was named Flores . Much later under the rule of the princes of Sulawesi, Flores Island came under Dutch influence about the year 1618. The Dutch gradually gained control of the island, although Portugal held the eastern end until 1851 and the natives were not completely subjugated until 1907.
As to fauna the west coast of Flores is one of the few places, aside from the island of Komodo itself, where the Komodo dragon can be found in the wild. The Flores giant rat is also endemic to Flores Island Island . The rat's head and body length is 41–45 cm and tail length is 33–70 cm, making the Flores giant rat at least twice the size of an average Brown Rat ( Rattus norvegicus ). The rats has small, round ears, a chunky body and a small tail, and that the giant rat of Flores appears to be adapted for life on the ground and refuge in burrows. The Flores Island rat has dense dark hair and subsists on a diet of leaves, buds, fruit, and certain kinds of insect. Their large size is seen as an important adaptation to their island home.
In case you didn't know... The Ebu Gogo (pronounced abu, rhymes with Paula Abdul) are the main characters in a traditional folk story told by the Nage, a people on Flores Island. As the main characters in the island legends the Ebu Gogo are described as a small, nasty people with a voracious appetite that sometimes included the devouring of the occasional human baby. The Ebu Gogo were said to walk awkwardly and could be heard to murmuring in their own language and were said to be capable of parroting human speech. When they could tolerate the Ebu Gogo no more the Flores islanders drove the small people in the direction of the caves, perhaps near Liang Bau or perhaps they burned the survivors alive. In any case, these stories were probably told to keep truculent Flores children in line in much the same fashion as some western fairy tales are told.
Excerpt from the Flores Girl Novel Regarding Flores Island
"Richard, when you are right, you are right, and I'm dead tired. That's it for today, and I'm going to bed early. I'll see you bright and early tomorrow. Thanks everyone. Have a good night!" Sarah said as she turned away to leave the dock.
For a westerner, the Flores Island food was sometimes very bizarre and often challenging. The word 'challenging' is almost desirable when used to describe a novel or a game, maybe even a sexual conquest, but not when it's used to describe food! To a western observer, it sometimes looked as though anything that moved was fair game for the cooking pot. In reality, the staple diet for the local population consisted of rice, fish and vegetables. The local delicacies that the natives loved inevitably entailed the head of some small animal or dog meat. For a treat, entire chickens would be roasted with the feathers left on the hapless bird. Other than some meals consisting of chicken, fish and rice, the two westerners found it difficult to find enough edible food to eat, and maintain their weight. In the week they spent preparing for the expedition, they both had lost over ten pounds, and they spent much of their time racing each other to a toilet. However, the tropical sun, combined with their illness gave the two a distinctive leaner, almost healthier look. Sarah and Richard kidded one another about the possibility of forgoing the Ebu altogether, and promoting a new "Flores Island Diet Book" instead.
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Learn to negotiate your financial future through an AAUW Work Smart Salary Negotiation Workshop!
Whether you are negotiating for a new job or an earned raise or promotion, in every workshop you will gain confidence to:
- Identify and articulate your personal value
- Develop an arsenal of persuasive responses and other negotiation strategies
- Conduct objective market research to benchmark a target salary and benefits
Why is negotiation so important? AAUW's research on the gender pay gap shows that, one year out of college, women are already paid significantly less than men. Women who work full time take home 80 cents for every dollar a full-time male worker is paid. And over a lifetime, those lost potential earnings add up.
Women who negotiate increase their potential to earn higher salaries and better benefits packages. By negotiating fair and equitable salaries, you'll be better able to pay off loans, buy the things you want and need, and even save for retirement.
A Collaborative Initiative
AAUW and the City of Tempe launched a large-scale grassroots initiative to teach and empower 8,000 women by 2021 to negotiate their salaries and benefit packages with confidence. The initiative also aims to help close the gender pay gap in Tempe.
In 2017, median earnings in Arizona's 9th Congressional District, which includes Tempe, were $48,219 for men compared to $41,526 for women — an earnings ratio of 86 percent. And for many women, the pay gap is wider.
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Suspect in China serial blasts died in one of the explosions
The 33-year-old suspect behind the serial parcel blasts in a south China county city on Wednesday was killed in one of the explosions, state media has reported.world Updated: Oct 04, 2015 00:40 IST
The 33-year-old suspect behind the serial parcel blasts in a south China county city on Wednesday was killed in one of the explosions, state media has reported.
Police had earlier identified him as Wei Yinyong, a resident of the Liucheng county in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region who either himself planted some the bombs or hired street vendors to deliver them to at least 13 sites across the location where the explosions were triggered, killing at least 10 people and injuring more than 50.
It has now emerged that Wei was himself killed in one of the blasts.
"Police in the southern Chinese city of Liuzhou (in Liucheng county) on Friday identified the suspect of serial blasts on September 30 and confirmed he had been killed in one of the blasts," a state media report quoting the official news agency, Xinhua, said.
Wei was identified as one of those killed through DNA evidence collected from one of the blast sites; the report did not reveal the location of the blast sit.
"Police believed Wei committed the crime to revenge some villagers and institutions that he had disputes within the quarrying business," the report added.
According to a separate report in the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post, Wei was "allegedly angry with the local government for failure to intervene in a dispute with villagers over a stone quarry he had an interest in".
"Wei had been manager of the Zhihao Stone Quarry since its opening in 2003, and in 2010 took out bank loans along with the quarry's founder in order to buy more than a million Yuan worth of equipment to upgrade the quarry," the SCMP report said.
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text: ✚ gCal ✚ iCal The Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC) and Texas Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts (TALA), in collaboration with California Lawyers for the Arts (CLA), will convene the Texas Art for Justice Forum on July 14, 2018 at the Museum. The forum is designed to expand the role that the arts can play in addressing mass incarceration and criminal justice reform as part of a nationwide discussion in six states.As part of this forum, the Museum will hold panel discussions that will include legislators, arts and criminal justice reform advocates and returned citizens, will facilitate dialogues in breakout sessions and will curate a month long exhibition of artwork created by incarcerated individuals and returned citizens. This program is funded by the Art for Justice Fund, the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Quentin Hancock Fund and the Texas Commission on the Arts.Join HMAAC, TALA, CLA and Texans for the Arts in dialogue and discussions geared toward recommendations to advance criminal justice reform through arts engagement. The event will be held from 9:30 am to 6 pm on Saturday, July 14 at the Museum at . Admission is free, but your RSVP is requested in advance by July 12 on Eventbrite.


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Left: original studio photograph
Used low key lighting to dramatize the effect of alcohol and abuse. A spotlight was used on the "victim" to emphasize
the distress and sadness they are in. Another light source was used on the arm and bottle.
Right: edited with Photoshop
Edited with a cooling filter to give the feel of a white light in the "victim" and cleaned up the ground to get rid of the foot
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In this piercing and magical story, an old man looks back on an
unlikely boyhood friendship torn asunder by a heart-breaking
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A mixed-race daughter of 1970's activists must start a new life on
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Ruta Sepetys
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One night in 1941, Soviet officers barge into fifteen-year-old lina's
lithuanian home, tearing her family from the comfortable life
they've known. Separated from her father, forced onto a crowded
and dirty train car, lina, her mother, and her young brother slowly
make their way north, crossing the Arctic Circle, to a work camp in
the coldest reaches of Siberia. "In terrifying detail, Ruta Sepetys re-creates a World War II coming of age all too timely today....A document long overdue."—Richard Peck, author of A Year Down Yonder.
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Mahbod Seraji
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into the life and customs of a country on the verge of a revolution."—Gail Tsukiyama, author of The Street of a Thousand Blossoms.
"A stirring story about the loss of innocence, Rooftops of Tehran
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He received the Best Dutch Filmposter Award for feature film God Forsaken (Van God Los) in 2003, still considered to be one of the best films ever made in Holland. Subsequently he created the artwork for Oscar Nominated Dutch entry Twin Sisters (De Tweeling) and International Documentary Festival Amsterdam winner Position Amongst the Stars (Stand van de Sterren, 2010).
Marketing campaigns of note include Demolition (Jean-Marc Vallée, USA, 2015), Beautiful Boy (Felix van Groeningen, USA, 2018), Colette (Wash Westmoreland, USA/UK/Hungary, 2018), Heaven (Tom Tykwer, USA/EU, 2002), The Girl Who Played with Fire (Flickan som Lekte med Elden, Sweden, 2009), The Migrumpies (Die Migrantigen, Austria, 2017), The Foster Boy (Der Verdingbub, Switzerland, 2011), Vipers Nest (Gooische Vrouwen, The Netherlands, 2011) and Iraqi Odyssey (Switzerland, 2014).
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Incense for the Autumn Equinox
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As the Wheel of the Year turns with each season, you may wish to use different types and scents of incense for your ceremonies and rituals. While incense isn't mandatory for a good ritual, it certainly can help to set the mood. To make your a blend of incense for the autumn equinox, we'll be using scents that remind us of the autumn season, and the second harvest of the year.
You can make incense with sticks and in cones, but the easiest kind uses loose ingredients, which are then burned on top of a charcoal disc or tossed into a fire.
This recipe is for loose incense, but you can adapt it for stick or cone recipes if you wish.
As you mix and blend your incense, focus on the intent of your work. In this particular recipe, we're creating an incense to use during the Autumn Exuinox. It's a time to celebrate the season of balance and harmony, as well as the gratitude and thanksgiving of the harvest season.
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2 parts sandalwood
2 parts pine
1 part rosemary
1 part cinnamon
1 part dried apple
1 part dried oak leaf
Add your ingredients to your mixing bowl one at a time. Measure carefully, and if the leaves or blossoms need to be crushed, use your mortar and pestle to do so. As you blend the herbs together, focus on positive and calming thoughts.
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Interviewer- First of all Chaarvi, congratulations on your book 'Across- The Vision of Futuristic Past', that is soon to come out in the market. The whole team of Kalaage wishes you the best on this journey that you are to embark upon. My first question is where do you get your ideas from?
Chaarvi- I try to be aware of the surroundings and the people around me, incidents that happen in my day to day life provide me with ideas. If something really shakes my soul, I blend it with my imagination and let the words do the talking.
Interviewer- Do you try to be more original or to deliver to readers what they want?
Chaarvi- I try to write for myself; I always believed that any sort of inspiration whether it is poetic or something else should come from within. Ever since childhood, I kept my written pieces for myself, never gave them to any publication.
I believed in the philosophy of Leo Tolstoy that any Art is superior only if it reveals some sense of truth and that truth reflects your inner self, it can only be true if you have felt, dealt and lived it. And eventually, I think the readers also like it as it seems like a part of their own and they can relate to this truth.
Interviewer- What was an early experience where you learned that language had power?
Chaarvi- I read a Hindi poem prescribed in our syllabus when I was quite young named 'Hiroshima' by Agyey ; I got goosebumps while reading it and after that all I could think about for days was how the tragedy that fell upon people living there and how it still affects generations of humans who can never be the same again.
Interviewer- Does the process of writing energize you or exhaust you?
Chaarvi- It does both, certainly. Sometimes writing is liberating, you feel amazing, and in the depth of something you absolutely know, swirling through the realm of the unknown; that is the territory of the words that you choose to define those known emotions.
I feel that when you can reproduce the thoughts and emotions that you have in your mind, that is the most exciting feeling but when you struggle with doing justice to your thoughts and are not able to portray them righteously, it becomes exhausting.
Interviewer- What form of writing expresses you the most or appeals to you the most?
Chaarvi- That would be poetry, for sure.
There are a lot of perks associated with writing poetry like it gives you the flexibility to write about the things (personal or impersonal) in the most mysterious, enigmatic manner that you otherwise cannot say explicitly. It gives you the freedom to exercise your imagination.
For the readers also poetry can seem like their own as it provides them with the liberty to choose/interpret their own meaning.
Interviewer- What is the most difficult thing about writing characters of the opposite sex?
Chaarvi- It is difficult to write in the perspective of the male gender as all you have about them are some preoccupied notions or the males in your life that you interact with like your father and brothers and friends. You don't actually know how they feel, handle situations, it is difficult to imagine their frame of mind.
It becomes hard to picture the uniqueness of men. Then what you have to do is build a character out of all these things and try to do justice with it.
Interviewer- This is a question I love to ask all the writers because almost everybody has one, what is your all-time favourite quote of any other author?
Chaarvi- Oh, it is actually from J.K Rowling, it goes like this:
"It's our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
Interviewer- What was the hardest/ most challenging scene you had to write in the book- Across?
Chaarvi- Well, in Across there were many challenging scenes that I had to write because as you know it is a very unusual story but some scenes were really challenging for me personally like the one where Yashpal, the male protagonist of the book stands on the balcony of the Dharamshala Guest House he is staying in and the beauty and enigma of the nature compels him to reflect upon himself and the human absurdity, the whole purpose of existence and the pain and suffering of our being. For me it was difficult as I got lost in my own thoughts, wandering through the past and thinking about the future. It actually made me gloomy to feel that I am just a tiny organism in the immensity of nature.
Also, there was this lovemaking scene between Yashpal and Leslie that I found hard to write as I feel that it is very difficult to try to write about the intimate things that happen. It is a powerful expression in itself so putting it in words never does justice to it.
Also, it is very hard to be objective about sex and to try to build the whole scene from the perspective of your characters.
Interviewer- What kind of literature do you like?
Chaarvi- I like to learn and explore all kinds of literature you know to gain all the sorts of perspectives that I can. If I were to mention my favourite kind I would say, Indian History and Mythology. I find the Indian mythology very intriguing and captivating, you can find all kinds of characters in them, it's like you are walking through the entire universe.
And one more thing that I would like to point out is the language of Indian writings, I prefer reading them in the original form, that is why I am working on my Sanskrit, as I find it very rich and expressive and I feel that if you even read them in Hindi, it loses some sense of meaning in translation, the essence goes away.
Interviewer- Lastly, I would like you to give a few pointers for aspiring writers in light of these things,
- How to perceive/ take literature,
- · Best authors to look up to and
- · A message.
Chaarvi- Well, as for the first question, I would ask the aspiring writers to take literature as a friend that provides you with different perspectives in life that gives you a sense of connection with the feeling that other people have or are going through the same pain and experiences that you have. It inspires you to become a better person.
This was on a more individual level, coming to the social part of it I think people can relate to literature, it holds a mirror to the society, tells you how much culturally rich and vibrant we are.
It gives you the motivation to improvise the good aspects and to minimize the bad within ourselves that ultimately reflects to the society.
The best authors to look up to are Amish Tripathi, Premchand and J.K Rowling.
A message for the aspiring writers would be to listen to the driving force that pulls you to write something, that moves you from inside and don't force yourself to write because that art is not going to be precious.


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Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Nov.13
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Senate of the Oliy Majlis (upper house of parliament) of Uzbekistan Nov.13 approved the state budget for 2015 with a deficit of about 1.8 trillion UZS, or in the amount of 1 percent from the projected gross domestic product (GDP).
The official exchange rate on November 13 is 2 392.50 UZS / $1.
The revenue of the state budget for 2015 will amount to 36.2 trillion UZS (20.2 percent of GDP), expenditure - 38 trillion UZS (21.2 percent of GDP).
The budget options were designed to meet the planned next year GDP growth by 8 percent, industrial production - by 8.3 percent, agricultural production - by 6 percent, the volume of capital investments - by 9.6 percent and projected inflation at 5.5-6.5 percent, the First Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Uzbekistan Rustam Azimov said during the presentation of the document.
The revenue side of the state budget of Uzbekistan provides basic reduction of the tax rate on the corporate income from 8 to 7.5 percent, which will leave about 90 billion UZS at the disposal of enterprises.
Single social payment for small firms and enterprises, as well as farms in 2015 will be reduced from 25 to 15 percent, the single tax rate for construction companies, which are micro firms and small enterprises from 6 to 5 percent.
Personal income provides for the introduction of the four-assessment scale with the establishment of the zero rate on the first group of income - to a single minimum wage, while increasing rates for other groups by 1 percentage point.
In addition, indexing of a number of taxes, including the personal property tax, land tax, the excise tax on alcohol and tobacco products is provided.
The rate of compulsory insurance payments of citizens of their income in the form of wage increases from 6.5 to 7 percent in order to ensure a balance of the Pension Fund.
"Revenues to the pension fund in 2015, taking into account the measures proposed to strengthen the revenue base and cost optimization, will make 14 trillion UZS, which will provide timely financing of expenditures on pensions and benefits," said Azimov.
Social expenditures of the state budget for 2015 will make 59.2 percent of total budget expenditures. Compared with the current year, they will increase by more than 1.2 times.
Expenditures on the economy will amount to 2.3 percent of GDP, the improvement of human settlements, including the costs of the overhaul and repair of roads in rural areas - 0.4 percent of GDP, which is 1.3 times more than in 2014.
Expenditures on the co-financing of a program to build 12,000 individual houses on the standard projects in rural areas in 2015 will make 0.6 percent of GDP (along with the means of individual developers and borrowings from international financial institutions).
The approved by the Senate budget will be sent for approval of the president of Uzbekistan.
The state budget of Uzbekistan for 2014 was approved with a deficit of 1.3 trillion UZS, or in the amount of 1 percent of projected GDP. The revenue part of the budget was approved in the amount of 30.2 trillion UZS (23.2 percent of GDP) and expenditures - 31.5 trillion UZS (24.2 percent of GDP).
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Well I was finally forced to upgrade my Apple mobile devices to iOS 7. As of December 2013, 74% of the iOS App store users were on iOS 7. I was one of the hold outs.
I didn't upgrade because I thought installing iOS 7 would slow down my iPhone 4s and iPad 2, and quickly zap the life of the batteries. Additionally, when you upgrade to iOS 7, there's no rolling back to iOS 6. And as much as I love using the latest tech, sometimes my mantra is, "If it ain't broke don't fix it."
I upgraded because of a vulnerability recently found in the iOS's security. To use Apple's technical terms, "An attacker with a privileged network position may capture or modify data in sessions protected by SSL/TLS." Additionally, the iOS's, "Secure Transport failed to validate the authenticity of the connection. This issue was addressed by restoring missing validation steps."
What this means in English is, according to security tech firm Crowdstrike, a hacker using the same wireless or wired network as you, can bypass your phone's security verification protocols and appear as a trusted service such as a webmail provider. They can then intercept or modify data being transmitted between your phone and its intended destination. So, yes, this security patch is a critical one to be installed quickly.
My question was, can I install the security patch without having to upgrade to iOS 7. The little red notification dot on my iOS devices' Settings icon had been indicating the iOS 7 update was ready for download for months. But when this security patch became available, I didn't see a separate notice in the update area just for iOS 6 users.
I did upgrade my iPhone without too much griping a few days ago because I plan on upgrading to the iPhone 6 later this year, and I can deal with my 4s being slow until then. Additionally, I couldn't get the latest updates for certain apps and the system had started acting buggy lately.
But I didn't want to update my iPad 2, it worked fine as it was. However after searching around it became clear that the iOS 6.1.6 security update was only available for the iPhone 3GS and iPod touch (4th generation). More current devices were stuck with updating to iOS 7.
It would have been nice if Apple had provided a way for people to manually download the iOS 6.1.6 and install it. They know there are people with earlier versions that don't want to update to iOS 7.
Apple should be more like Microsoft which puts out security patches for multiple versions. Come April 8, Microsoft will end its support for Windows XP. That's 12 years of simultaneously providing security patches for XP and the newer Windows releases.
It's not that I don't want to change or use the latest tech, it's just that I don't like being strong armed in to using it. It's like Google +, Google's constantly pushing people to use it. My YouTube experience has become less enjoyable since it's been integrated with Google+. The problem with this approach is that it's a big turn off for users.
Apple runs the risk of turning off its customers by not being flexible in how its updates can be installed. But it is what it is. I'll get used to it, but a choice would have been nice, Apple.


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It may be too little, too late, but the Angels are on a hot streak.
The Angels won their fourth straight game, beating the Tampa Bay Rays, 6-5, at Tropicana Field on Tuesday night, and they did it in dramatic fashion.
Trailing 5-1, the Angels scored three times in the seventh and twice in the ninth to take their first lead of the night. Erick Aybar's one-out double drove in the tying and go-ahead runs against Fernando Rodney, a former Angel who revived his career in Tampa Bay.
The Angels caught a break in the inning when Rays center fielder Desmond Jennings misplayed J.B. Shuck's blooper for an error.
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Care Fund has announced former NHL player and Arizona Coyotes captain Shane Doan will host its fourth annual Celebrity Poker Tournament and Casino Night fundraiser Saturday, May 12 at Harley-Davidson of Scottsdale, 15656 N. Hayden Road.
The fundraising event will benefit Care Fund, a local nonprofit that keeps families in their homes with financial assistance while they care for their seriously ill or injured child, according to a press release.
Bill Rogers, co-founder of Care Fund and CEO of Homeowners Financial Group, said the nonprofit is Mr. Doan's commitment to what the nonprofit is trying to accomplish.
"We grant mortgage or rent to support families with ill or injured children and are in medical and financial crisis," Mr. Rogers said in a prepared statement. "We want them to stay in their homes, to care for their children. Shane represents high family values and Care Fund's vision to serve our community like family."
The history behind the Care Fund is a collaboration between numerous local and national companies, employees, volunteers and a donor community who all help to support families by keeping them in their homes, a release states.
By the end of 2017, the mortgage assistance charity has helped more than 500 families in 53 cities cover their rent or mortgage. It has granted more than $1.2 million in mortgage and rent payments for Arizona families, according to a release.
That means Care Fund has given more than 106 years of monthly payments and 152,760 restful nights for families to stay in their own homes during their child's health crisis. The average grant is $2,377 and provides one to three months of support, a release states.
Mr. Doan was drafted in 1995 and started his professional career in the dead-puck era and saw plenty of changes in the sport through his 1,595 regular season and playoff games. He spent his final 13 seasons as captain of the Coyotes, before announcing his retirement last summer.
He holds the all-time record for most games played in NHL. Now, 41-year-old Mr. Doan starts his post-playing career in the NHL's hockey operations, after playing 21 seasons for the Winnipeg Jets/Coyotes franchise.
Care Fund's Celebrity Poker Tournament and Casino Night is a charity poker event in Arizona.
Joe Cada, the youngest winner of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) main event, and Tom Schneider, a 4-time WSOP bracelet winner will host coaching sessions and play against some tables. The winning prize is a new Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
More than 1,000 attendees, including ranked and novice poker players and guests, will participate in tournament play, casino tables, slots, live music, dancing and live and silent auctions, raffles and a TributeArt Live celebrity painting show by Randall Hedden, who was featured on "America's Got Talent."
A VIP lounge will host tastings, private blackjack and craps tables as well as celebrity photos.
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Back in the Saddle (trailer)
Follow the trials and tribulations of one time character actor Bruce Tanner when he's forced back into sitcom work.
A Preview of the Tweets
(with the whole story happening on Twitter and in the LongShorts app)
This is it kids. Back in the sitcom saddle for the first time in years. Wish me luck... I think I'll need it
kinda strange no-one here has recognised me. Guess they're being shy. Who didn't see me star as President Reagan in the biopic?
what a sh!tshow. This sitcom is the tale of 21st century entitlement. A celebration of 'the millenial'. Curse you, internet.
my character is a joke. the script is a joke. the cast is... beyond words
Guys. Help. You are not gonna believe this.
I'm stuck on the roof. Still dressed as a goddam clown.
well whoever it was. Congrats. You've ruined my life and this entire Sh!tcom. Bravo
for those of you enjoying witnessing my car crash life, my daughter just totally freaked out and left the set over some tweets she received
what. In God's name. HAPPENED LAST NIGHT
I have a black eye, lipstick smeared on my face, no money, and deep sense of regret
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The plastic surgery fever doesn't cease
It is well known that Asia is one of the continents where there is a greater number of aesthetic surgeries, but to our surprise does not have the higher rates in these procedures. The region of the world in which more invasive and aesthetic surgical procedures are made is Latin America and Venezuela has become the plastic surgery paradise.
According to ISAPS (International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery), America is the region of the world with the greatest demand in these surgeries. Countries like Brazil, Colombia, Argentina and Venezuela, are among the 25 with more interventions every year.
Despite the unfavorable economic conditions in many of our countries, the image is the priority of many women and a growing number of men every day.
Nowadays, almost anyone can access an aesthetic treatment, whether or not surgical at very low costs, and as a result of the desire to change something that does not satisfy the body image, many clandestine places offer these services at low costs but without any guarantee for the patient.
All over the world, when talking about a Latina woman one of the first images that comes is someone with a tanned skin, small waist and big breasts and buttocks, and this is precisely the pattern sought by women who resort to cosmetic surgery to mold their bodies according to their preferences. Not in vain we have liposuction and breast augmentation in the first places of the most common procedures.
As already mentioned, the number of men who practice surgeries is increasing. In Latin American countries, approximately 10% of the male population has attended a professional to receive an aesthetic treatment of any kind.
According to statistics made by the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, in countries like Venezuela the number of procedures is very large considering its population: Approximately 8 out of 1000 Venezuelans have undergone a cosmetic surgery. Following in this statistic we find Brazil, with 7 of each 1000 people and in third place, Colombia, with 6 procedures per thousand inhabitants.
With regards to the reason people undergo surgery and according to surveys conducted in these Latin American countries, the main reason why a person practices such a procedure is acceptance and recognition in society.
The centers for physical care (spas, gyms, aesthetic centers, clinics) increase in quantity and competitiveness across the continent. Anyone can have access to an aesthetic procedure to satisfy their need or desire for change.
Alternative therapies also increase in popularity and the demand for professionals in the field of cosmetic surgery is increasing. Surgery is a growing trend in Latin America and many people are making aesthetic tourism to this region in search of quality interventions at low costs.


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Dear Pastors and Friends,
Greetings once again from the Slobodians.
This month's video update also comes from Bilogorodka, Ukraine which is on the outskirts of the capital city of Kyiv. In last month's video you saw church planter Anatoly Kosyanchuk expressing his thankfulness for the pews which came on our most recent container which ended up in Brother Anatoly's church. This month's video is also from Bilogorodka, but it features Eugene Buyko who is pastor of the church planted on the other side of Bilogorodka, which is why we refer to it as Bilogorodka 2.
The recently completed in Bilogorodka 2 church building has doors and kitchen cabinets made of some very beautiful oak wood. In this video Brother Eugene shares how this came about.
In Christ,
Sam & Amy Slobodian


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Yakking with purpose
Around 160 internal comms professionals gathered on 9 June at The Big Yak Unconference to share ideas, experiences and to network.
Crowdsourced topics included: IC's role in innovation; reviving comms through 0365; helping line managers be better communicators; working smarter; getting executive buy-in; communicating with remote workers; connecting people to purpose; organisational comms and many more.
Sequel was there – here's our top five take-outs:
- Leadership comms and helping line managers be better communicators continues to be on the agenda as a big challenge
- Skills: we need to up our game, be more courageous and better at relationship- building skills to connect with other departments within the organisation including HR & IT. The knowledge gathered from surveys, conversations with employees, and measurement helps us to surface the truth and to be honest about what's not going well. This gives us confidence to challenge leadership and search for efficient ways to align internal comms strategy with the broader business objectives
- Measurement: communicators still have issues with measurement. Most of us have a passion for the written word and comms because we don't have the same love and passion for numbers, so struggle with long reports, tables of numbers and stats we don't understand. It's ok to admit we don't know everything and can learn! Take 'baby steps'. Start small, try things out
- O365: The biggest issue? Frustration. Employees say there are too many places to go with no clear purpose, too many tools to use and no structure or organisation. Internal communicators also feel that strategy and comms teams need to create more synergy and work together with a front row seat in top meetings when it comes to deciding what tech and tools a company will adopt. Not being at the table for the insight into tech adoption is contradictory and counter-efficient for a business
- IC career path: Developing our own skills and confidence is key, as is nurturing young talent.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Welcome to Salvy's house!
Royals catcher Salvador Perez recently showed off his Kansas City home in a video with Officialize, an athletes-only media publisher.
In the video, the six-time All-Star introduces fans to a few of his family members and gives an exclusive look at his five bedroom house, including his prized jerseys, trophies and World Series ring.
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Daily College Fantasy Football QB Picks – Week 13 (Early Fri) FanDuel
Note: This selection page is for Fanduel's Early Friday CFB slate of games listed below. I will post picks specifically for Draftkings later today as well.
Honestly this is an odd slate of games where I've looked over the top 8 QBs on the salary board in favor for some value QBs below them. Is that a mistake??? Maybe. However, I think based on the matchups I don't think paying up for QB production is needed in this slate of games.
Here are the games we are picking from. Stay tuned for the other slates – I will be posting all slates this big NCAA football weekend.
FanDuel (Early Only)
Navy @ Houston (-1) 61 o/u
Western Michigan @ Toledo (-8) 60 o/u
Marshall @ WKU (-10.5) 63.5 o/u
Miami @ Pitt (-6.5) 55 o/u
Kent State @ Akron (-10.5) 39 o/u
Eastern Michigan @ Central Michigan (-23.5) 59 o/u
Troy @ Georgia STate (-1) 57.5 o/u
Missouri @ Arkansas (-14) 44.5 o/u
Iowa (-1.5) @ Nebraska 58 o/u
Boise State (-7.5) @ San Jose State 58 o/u
Washington State @ Washington (-6.5) 53.5 o/u
Zach Terrell – WMU
$8,100 Fanduel
In a slate full of tough matchups, Terrell faces one of the easier pass defenses. His team is an underdog so he might be asked to throw more late in this game. Toledo's pass defense has given up 262 yards per game, but have held teams to 13 TDs. Most teams try to attack Toledo through the air as their run defense is above average. At these prices, I think Terrell is a cash game option since most of his upside is priced in a bit.
Chase Litton – Marshall
$6,800 Fanduel
Has been really good the last 3 weeks, and I think he has a decent shot at 40+ passing attempts which would increase his upside potential. I think you can use him selectively in cash games, and tournaments.
Phillip Ely – Toledo
$7,700 Fanduel
Likely a tournament option because of his 4 TD upside. Western Michigan doesn't pressure the passer much – as they only have 13 sacks all season vs 19 TDs. I think Ely will have time/room in the pocket to deliver throws this game.
Cooper Rush – CMU
$7,700 Fanduel
Passing against Eastern Michigan is often an afterthought considering how bad their run defense is. Rush has serious blowout risk – but could provide upside at these prices before that happens.
Brandon Silvers – Troy
$7,400 Fanduel
Another solid tournament option based on his box score. Can get you 4+ TDs and 35+ passint attempts at times. Georgia State on the season has only 13 sacks so Silvers should have time in the pocket to throw.
Jake Browning – Washington
$6,800 Fanduel
Is always viable in tournaments since he's capable of 4 TDs against this defense.
$7,300 Fanduel
Probably not high enough upside for tournaments, but steady enough that you can't ignore him. Home favorite against Miami – will likely be asked to manage the game again this week.


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Eyal Sherf: Shtetl to Broadway - February 3rd at 7:30 PM
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Celebrating the Jewish Songwriters who created Broadway's Songbook
Saturday, February 3rd, 7:30 p.m. at Sinai Synagogue
For the past 3 years, Sinai has been fortunate to have multi-talented cantor and performance artist, Eyal Sherf, travel from Israel to South Bend to help lead our High Holiday services. Now, we want to share him with the whole community!
Join us on Saturday, February 3rd at 7:30 p.m. as Eyal puts on his show: "Shtetl to Broadway," at Sinai Synagogue. Eyal will be accompanied by musical director Stephen Borsuk for a rousing tribute to the Jewish songwriters of musical theatre. This is a performance NOT to miss!
Tickets are $18 for adults, and $6 for students (under 18 years). Doors open at 7 p.m., concert starts at 7:30 p.m.
Richard Rodgers, George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Stephen Sondheim, Kurt Weill, and the list goes on – it is the list of composers and lyricists who created some of the most enduring American musicals. And what else do they have in common? Yes, all are members of the tribe.
Join us for this special concert celebrating the Jewish contribution to America's seminal art form. Expect to hear some of the most well-known songs as well as lesser known gems from the American songbook and musical theatre. We will also devote some moments to exploring how the very tunes that those genius writers heard in shul - some of them we all still sing – how they found their way onto the musical stage. And sure enough, the program will be interspersed with a few liturgical treasures – compositions set to some of our most cherished prayers.


text: In a shot in the arm for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), former Intelligence Bureau special director Rajinder Kumar on Saturday claimed, that he was pressurised to implicate the then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi in 2004 Ishrat Jahan encounter case. Making the explosive claims, Kumar, a 1979 batch IPS officer who retired last year, said a very senior Congress leader hailing from Gujarat was the mastermind of the conspiracy to defame Modi. While presenting his side of the story, the ex-IB officer said, "As Modi had emerged the biggest challenger to the UPA government, they wanted me to give a statement, which could be used as an evidence to implicate. Kumar maintained that he was allured with big posts after retirement, but he refused to give any false statement. He further claimed that various witnesses were pressurised and a conspiracy was hatched to defame the IB. "A detailed affidavit was filed by MHA on Aug 6, 2009 which proved that inputs provided by IB were all correct, following which some people got disgruntled and pressurised witnesses" Kumar said. It was all part of the conspiracy in which a very senior Congress leader, who hails from Gujarat, was the mastermind. Kumar alleged that the Congress leader was giving instructions to the people with an aim to somehow prove that the affidavit of the MHA was proven wrong. CBI had filed a charge sheet against Kumar and three other IB officers despite Law ministry's denial of sanction to prosecute them. Besides Kumar, a 1979 batch IPS officer who retired last year, those named in the charge sheet are P Mittal, MK Sinha and Rajiv Wankhede. In the supplementary charge sheet, Kumar has been charged under sections 302 (murder), 120 (B) (criminal conspiracy), 364 (kidnapping in order to murder), 346, 364 & 368 (wrongful confinement) of IPC, besides sections 3, 25 (A) and 29 of the Arms Act. Ishrat (19), Javed Shaikh alias Pranesh Pillai, Amjadali Akbarali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were killed in an alleged fake encounter on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on June 15, 2004. David Coleman Headley, convicted in the United States for his role in 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, on Thursday confirmed that Ishrat Jahan, killed in an encounter in Gujarat, was indeed a Lashkar-e-Toiba operative.


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Busy busy!Wed, 7 Mar 2012
It's been busy on robives.com over the past couple of days. The Paper Safe video was picked up by some high profile site and sent a lot of traffic my way. At one point had had 236 non registered and 8 registered visitors on the site at the same time. (see the image left) The site creaked a bit but hasn't failed so far!
Among other places some of the links were
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John Kinsella
'Comatos and Lacon', a new poem by John Kinsella
How likely is it that the fellas who have
moved onto a place down the loop, who
are bricking their crossover, are named
Comatos and Lacon? That they have
Maria Takolander reviews John Kinsella's 'Tide'
Imagine a cross between Tim Winton's The Turning and Kenneth Cook's Wake in Fright, and you might very well imagine John Kinsella's latest collection of fiction, Tide. Kinsella, a Western Australian like Winton, writes of the coast and of the desert, of small-town life and small-town people. However, Kinsella highlights the corruptio ... More
John Kinsella on 'Contemporary Asian Australian Poets'
This is one of the more vital and significant poetry anthologies to appear in Australia. It has been compiled with a purpose as sophisticated and complex as the arguments for existence that it posits. It is an anthology not so much of 'region' (it is a rather massive one), as of the experience of being or having been from Asian heritages in contemporary Au ... More
Open Page with John Kinsella
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'Brother', a new poem by John Kinsella
Searching for his crowd
out of the silence of the cloister,
black robes tousled by the nor'-wester,
first bite of heat caught on the brim
The Land's Meaning by Randolph Stow
Randolph Stow, who died in 2010 aged seventy-four, must now be considered part of the Australian canon, whether that concept is conceived broadly or as a smaller cluster of Leavisian peaks. This status derives from his eight novels, which include the Miles Franklin Award-winner To the Islands (1958), the celebrated children's book Midnite: The Story o ... More
'Emily Poems', a new poem by John Kinsella
Surrounded by the countless dead
And restrained in illness to her bed
The hilltipped winds that seared her face
Made her young as they made her old
'Penillion of Tuning the Harpsichord', a new poem by John Kinsella
Head tilts to strings
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Poly-Drug Trafficking Ring Shut Down By State And Federal Authorities In Stuart
STUART, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and David Dyess, Chief of Police, Stuart Police (SPD), announce the results of a joint local impact investigation into the gang and drug activities centered in the east Stuart community.
The three month investigation dubbed "Operation Rock Star" involved the use of state judicial wire intercepts, informants, and undercover operations in Martin County. Investigators identified Corey (27, Stuart) and Willie (31, Stuart) as key individuals within a distinct drug hierarchy that were bringing illicit narcotics into Stuart to be sold. The Knowles and Hogan poly-drug trafficking organization consists of multiple offenders who solicited the sales of cocaine, cannabis, and prescription medications.
Today's operations resulted in the arrest of 21 out of the 30 individuals charged with over 60 felony drug charges. This investigation is ongoing and additional arrests will be made.
The investigation was conducted by the DEA and SPD, with the assistance of the Martin County Sheriff's Office Special Investigation Unit. This investigation is being prosecuted by the 19th Circuit State Attorney's Office.. These charges are only an allegation and the defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.


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As Singapore celebrates 53 years of nationhood, we also acknowledge and honour the friendship and support of our regional and international partners and friends, without whom the Singapore Story could not have been written.
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Note: If you are an addict, especially a Republican addict, make sure your addiction is to alcohol.
Henry "Trey" Radel is the Republican congressman who was caught buying 3.5 grams of cocaine from an undercover officer on 29 October in Washington DC.
On Wednesday he released the following statement:
I'm profoundly sorry to let down my family, particularly my wife and son, and the people of southwest Florida. I struggle with the disease of alcoholism, and this led to an extremely irresponsible choice.
Rob Ford, the lampooned mayor of Toronto, when asked if he smoked crack, said the following:
Have I tried it? Probably in one of my drunken stupors, probably approximately about a year ago.
It is amazing how quickly politicians retreat to the relative safety of being an alcoholic, you know, the socially acceptable drug. If you drink, you are normal. If you drink too much, you have a disease.
Henry Radel, along with almost all of his Republican colleagues, voted this October for an amendment that would give states the right to drug test food stamp applicants. This follows a recent rash of laws proposed and passed by Republicans in state legislatures that require testing for illegal drugs for public assistance applicants or recipients. One such law was passed in Henry Radel's own state of Florida, but a US appeals court halted its enforcement.
The proposed legislation and laws vary state to state, but the implication and consequences of all of them are the same: those who use illegal drugs are not worth spending money on. If you smoke crack, shoot heroin, snort coke, you are just weak, lazy, and immoral. You don't have a disease.
This is why the way we talk about addiction matters. Having a disease humanizes. It allows the afflicted to be a victim who is worth treating.
American society considers alcoholics people with a disease, deserving of our help. That's why Rob Ford and Henry Radel tried to quickly rebrand their recent problems. It lets them justify keeping their jobs, with wages that are paid with the public tax dollars (Radel has now taken a "leave of absence").
Addiction is a disease, whether the drug is legal or illegal. A heroin addict should be no less deserving of our sympathy, our understanding, and our public assistance, than that afforded to an alcoholic.
If anything, the Republicans have it backwards. Those most in need of our help are those furthest down the spectrum of addiction, those who have a disease that has progressed to the point of taking over their entire body and life.
Those are the addicts I see daily, the ones living under bridges, the ones living in makeshift tents. Their bodies need a $100 worth of heroin a day to keep from going into revolt.
Those addicts sell their bodies, abuse their friends, and will do anything for drugs. Their disease has progressed to the point where the only thing keeping them alive, giving them hope, is the help of others.
Those are the ones Henry Radel and other Republicans want to deny help to.
Henry Radel pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of possession and was sentenced to a year's probation. Had it been his home state of Florida he would have faced felony charges punishable by up to five years in prison.
His last statement, before escaping into "treatment and therapy" was:
I know I have a problem and will do whatever is necessary to overcome it, hopefully setting an example for others struggling with this disease.
"This disease", singular. I hope he means the disease of addiction. Addiction to cocaine, addiction to heroin, crack, weed, pills, or whatever the drug; not just addiction to alcohol.
If that is what he means, then I hope he puts in calls to his Republican colleagues, explaining why voting to deny public assistance to addicts is offensive and spreads that disease.
I doubt he will.


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