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Well, for some reason I continue to tell clients how important blogging is with respect to you on-line marketing and Search Engine Optimization, but I don't practice what I preach. Sure, I've been Facebooking...but that's because it's easy and everyone's Posting and Tweeting...but blogging takes some work, more thought, and ultimately more time. This is why many of US don't blog on a regular basis. But that's all going to change (sure Dave, sure). Really!
For anyone who know me, you know that I like to talk, especially about my son or sports or music (specifically that guy from New Jersey they call Boss). So, it's time I utilize the DANIMA Blog (name pending) to provide thought provoking, informative and entertaining blogs for you to read over a nice cup of coffee or tea in the morning or a fine glass of Scotch or wine in the evening. If this preamble hasnt' made you bookmark this page yet, nothing will :)
DANIMA celebrated our 16th Birthday in April. That's right, since 1998 Nick and I have been running this old Dog & Pony show. Web Design in Niagara - that's who we were, but now we are so much more. We have expanded to large web systems, print design in Niagara and beyond, Social Media in Niagara and beyond, as well as Search Engine Optimization in Niagara and beyond.
The past few months have been really busy here in DANIMAville. We are currently working with North Hamilton Community Health Centre on their Intranet system, we are building an Audition System for Earl Haig Secondary School, Ontario's largest high school, we are just getting to launch the new Oakes Hotel and Hilton Hotel sites here in Niagara, as well we are finishing up a very cool training system/site for Ultimate Athletic Challenge and for our golfing friends the new Ultimate Caddy (remember DANIMA's flagship site) is now more than a directory, it's a Golf Social Network and Directory all-in-one! We can't wait for the completion of all of these great projects.
So, forgive me for not writing...I meant to, but it's been busy...oooh, wait a minute...that's the excuse I tell clients not to use. No more excuses...I'll be back before you know it with another captivating post for your info-tainment! In the meantime, enjoy the warm Spring weather and be good to each other!
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Dd Space 3 is a 2013 third-person shooter game developed by Visceral Games and published by Electronic Arts. Announced at E3 2012 on June 4, 2012 and relsed internationally in February 2013,it is the sequel to Dd Space 2 and the third main entry in the Dd Space series.
Primarily set on the frozen planet of Tau Volantis, the game follows protagonists Isaac Clarke and John Carver as they attempt to end the Necromorph thrt once and for all.
Dd Space 3 received favorable reviews from most game critics; reviewers praised the game's rewarding action gameplay, although criticism was directed at the focus on action over horror, as well as a wk and unfocused story compared to previous games.
Dd Space 3 puts returning protagonist Isaac Clarke and new co-op character Sgt. John Carver against the Necromorphs, human corpses rnimated by the signal of an alien artifact known as the Marker. The Resource Integration Gr (RIG) suit returns, using holographic displays projected from the players' suit and wpons to display hlth and ammo count, respectively. In vacuum ars, a timer will appr on the player's right shoulder, indiing how much oxy that character has left before they suffoe.
Isaac and Carver can now roll and take cover to avoid attacks. This new ability was described by a Visceral Games developer as essential, as it "felt dumb/terrible not to have it" and that they have been "making Isaac more responsive", as they "want the horror to come from the terrible things that happen in the game; not from the horror that something is moving slowly towards you and you can't shoot it because the game controls like a piece of crap." The cover system is also described as "organic" in nature; for example, the player does not need to "walk up to certain tagged things and press the cover button; Clarke or Carver just does the action that is appropriate for the given situation."
Aside from the returning Necromorphs, Dd Space 3 ftures a large cast of new enemies. One example is the Waster, whose attacks change depending on how it is dismembered; while another is the , an insect-like giant that can crush or swallow people whole.Other obstacles in Dd Space 3 include a new human enemy, Unitologist soldiers; and environmental hazards like falling machinery and a giant mining drill.
The Bench wpon upgrade system from Dd Space and Dd Space 2 has been redesigned as a new upgrading system called the "Wpon Bench". Here, players are able to construct new wpons from parts gathered throughout the game. The bench provides two main frames to start with—a light one-hand frame and a hvy two-hand frame—and players can build new wpons and put two wpons together (for example, a plasma cutter and a flamethrower). Examples of wpon functions include an electric rivet gun and an incendiary buzzsaw launcher. If a player does not want to build a wpon from scratch, they can choose from rdy-made blueprints, including classic Dd Space and Dd Space 2 wpons. Built wpons can also be shared in co-op mode.
After the battle with the Brethren Moon over Tau Volantis, Isaac Clarke and John Carver wake up on the surface of Tau Volantis, shocked to find that after falling to their nr dths, they are still alive. They then make their way across the surface of the frozen planet, finding memories of the horror they had faced, and in the process lrning that the Marker's effects were still present. They then found out about a Unitologist ship that can take them back to rth. After witnessing many ships lift off, they manage to find a ship only to find out that the ShockPoint Drive in the ship is missing. It can only take them to the CMS Terra Nova.
Once aboard the Terra Nova, Isaac and Carver must find a way to restore power to the derelict CMS Terra Nova and find a new Shockpoint Drive in order to return to rth. However, within the halls of the old Sovereign Colonies ship, they encounter the remnants of The Circle who've taken refuge inside and begun a new following in the name of the Necromorphs. After dling with members of the Circle, as well as their own insanity, Isaac and Carver find a new ShockPoint Drive, but Isaac is now losing his mind. He protests installing the ShockPoint Drive into the ship, because he thinks that if they install it, the Brethren Moons will follow them to rth, and kill everyone living there. After Isaac and Carver have a hallucination of fighting ch other, the hallucination is interrupted by another hallucination, in which the Brethren Moons revl that they were only slowing Isaac and Carver down, and that they have known where rth was all along.
After regaining his sanity, Isaac admits that Carver was right all along. He agrees to install the Shockpoint Drive into the "Terra Nova". Carver then recalls that the Audio Logs hinted that the rctor could power up enough energy in the engine to go into shockspace and return to rth. They connect the ShockPoint Drive to the rctor and overload the rctor by dumping plutonium cores into the rctor which erate enough power to enter shockspace. After returning to the bridge, they activate the ship and return to rth. After attempting to communie with rth, they hr transmissions of people being slaughtered by Necromorphs. When they look out of the cockpit of the Terra Nova, they notice that the Brethren Moons have alrdy arrived and are attacking rth.
One of the Moons comes up in front of the Terra Nova, crashing into the ship and knocking Isaac and Carver unconscious.

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Manchester City midfielder Leroy Sane has all the qualities to be the best footballer in the world, according to former teammate Yaya Toure.
Sane, who joined City in 2016 and played briefly with Toure, has been in terrific form this season with eight assists and seven goals to his name in the Premier League after 20 matches.
The 23-year-old winger picked up another assist against Wolves in a 3-0 win on Monday and Toure was quick to point out just how far Sane's talent could take him.
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A surprise absentee form Germany's 2018 World Cup squad, Sane is contracted at the Etihad until July 2021 but is yet to put pen to paper on a contract extension.
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Thanksgiving 2012
Thanksgiving Party: A wonderful, evening with members and guests
By Herman Santa
The members of the Spanish American Club, Inc. celebrated the Annual Thanksgiving Party on Saturday, Nov. 17 at Disabled American Veterans Club in Port St. Lucie. The board welcomed everyone to the event. After the cocktail, the president Herman Santa made some announcements and Deacon Carlos Melendez said a grace before the dinner. The meal consisted of pulled pork, rice with chicken, rice with gandules, pastas, salads and a vegetable medley. Assortments of desserts were set out for the guests to choose from, among them flan and pies. There was coffee and a birthday cake to celebrate the members December birthdays. Among them were: Vivian Magaro, Ernie Monroe, Celia Alarcón, Jorge Meléndez, Sam Del Rosario and Annie Del Rosario.
After the dinner and the riffles, entertainment took the floor. "D.J. José Ramírez did a terrific job entertaining the guests with bolero, bachata, salsa, merengue, cumbia, chacha, twist and slide dance music until 11 p.m. The decoration committee did a good job. The food was delicious and the music was great. Door prize winners were: Lily Cruz, Roberta Linares, Vivian Magaro, Sonia Hernández, Celia Alarcón, Mary Figliola and Ray Matias. A bottle of wine went to Elizabeth Mejía (Hat dance contest).
To all the members and guests who made donations for the door prizes and donated unwrapped Christmas toys for needy children, your generosity was appreciated. The next event of the club is the Christmas Party on Saturday, Dec. 22. For more details, contact the board.
Future Events: The General Assembly for 2012 to elect a new board has already been scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013 at the Disabled American Club in Port St. Lucie.
Photo # 1 (Top) From left Nancy Rozon, Megan Santa and Cecilia Pulido dancing the Hat Dance
Photo # 2 Door Prize winners from left Lily Cruz, Roberta Linares, Vivian Magaro, Sonia Hernandez, Celia Alarcon, Mary Figliola and Ray Matias.
Photo # 3 Singing with the D.J: from left Lucy Santa, Megan Santa, Gustavo Santa, Isa Bryson, Elizabeth Mejia, Fernando Mejia, José Ramírez (D.J.), Xiomara Guanill, Ivan Guanill and Ray Matias.
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AUTHOR: Jeremiah
DATE: ca. 550 B.C.
Originally one book, 1 and 2 Kings get their names from the fact that they present the history of the kings of Israel. The book begins with the death of King David, and the succession of Solomon to the throne, and ends with the kings of the divided kingdom around 853 — Jehoshaphat in the Southern Kingdom of Judah and Ahaziah in the Northern Kingdom of Israel.
The author is thought, without certainty, to be Jeremiah. However, someone other than Jeremiah would have written the last chapter since Jeremiah was taken to Egypt (Jer. 43:6-7) and Jewish tradition suggests that he died there.
Historical sources are used (11:41; 14:19, 29) and it is both a record of kings and a declaration that the success of any of the kings, and that nation as a whole, was dependent on their faithfulness to God and His law. Apostasy and disobedience led to decline and downfall, and eventually captivity.
Significant passages include the description of Solomon's great wisdom (chapters 3-4), the dedication of Solomon's Temple (chapter 8), the Queen of Sheba's visit (chapter 10), and the ministry of Elijah (particularly his confrontation with the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel, chap. 18).
I. The United Kingdom, 1:1-11:43
A. The Accession of Solomon (2 Chron. 1:1-17), 1:1-3:1
1. The struggle for the succession, 1:1-53
2. The final charge of David to Solomon, 2:1-12
3. The purge initiated by Solomon, 2:13-46
4. The marriage of Solomon, 3:1
B. The Wisdom of Solomon, 1 Kings 3:2-4:34
1. Solomon's request for wisdom, 3:2-15
2. Solomon's display of wisdom, 3:16-28
3. Solomon's administration, 4:1-28
4. Solomon's fame, 4:29-34
C. The Temple of Solomon (2 Chron. 2:1-7:22), 5:1-8:66
1. Preparations for the Temple, 5:1-18
2. Description and construction of the Temple, 6:1-38
3. Construction of other buildings, 7:1-12
4. Furnishing the Temple, 7:13-51
5. Dedication of the Temple, 8:1-66
D. The Fame of Solomon (2 Chron. 8:1-9:28), 9:1-10:29
1. His covenant from God, 9:1-9
2. His gift to Hiram, 9:10-14
3. His subjects, 9:15-25
4. His navy, 9:26-28
5. His visit from the queen of Sheba, 10:1-13
6. His wealth, 10:14-29
E. The Downfall of Solomon, 11:1-43
1. The reasons, 11:1-8
2. The warning, 11:9-13
3. The adversaries, 11:14-28
4. The prophecy of Ahijah, 11:29-40
5. The death of Solomon, 11:41-43
II. The Divided Kingdom, 12:1-22:53
A. The Rupture in the Kingdom, 12:1-24
1. The request of the northern tribes, 12:1-4
2. The reply of Rehoboam, 12:5-15
3. The revolt of the northern tribes, 12:16-24
B. The Reign of Jeroboam in Israel (931-910), 12:25-14:20
1. Establishing religious centers and worship, 12:25-33
2. Encountering the man of God, 13:1-32
3. Elevating non-Levites to the priesthood, 13:33-34
4. Experiencing his son's sickness and Ahijah's prophecy, 14:1-18
5. Expiring, 14:19-20
C. The Reign of Rehoboam in Judah (931-913; 2 Chron. 10:1-12:16), 14:21-31
1. Apostasy in Judah, 14:21-24
2. Attack by Shishak of Egypt, 14:25-28
3. Death of Rehoboam, 14:29-31
D. The Reign of Abijam (Abijah) in Judah (913-911; 2 Chron. 13:1-22), 15:1-8
E. The Reign of Asa in Judah (911-870; 2 Chron. 14:1-16:14), 15:9-24
1. His reforms, 15:9-15
2. His war with Baasha, 15:16-24
F. The Reign of Nadab in Israel (910-909), 15:25-31
G. The Reign of Baasha in Israel (909-886), 15:32-16:7
H. The Reign of Elah in Israel (886-885), 16:8-14
I. The Reign of Zimri in Israel (885), 16:15-20
J. The Reign of Omri in Israel (885-874), 16:21-28
K. The Reign of Ahab in Israel (874-853), 16:29-22:40
1. The beginning of Ahab's reign, 16:29-34
2. Elijah's prediction of drought, 17:1
3. God's provision for Elijah, 17:2-24
4. Elijah's challenge to the priests of Baal, 21:1-29
5. Elijah's flight to Horeb, 19:1-18
6. Elijah's appointment of Elisha, 19:19-21
7. Ahab's Aramean victories, 20:1-43
8. Ahab's desire to have Naboth's vineyard, 21:1-29
9. Ahab's final battle, 22:1-40
L. The Reign of Jehoshaphat in Judah (873-848; 2 Chron. 17:1-20:37), 22:41-50
M. The Reign of Ahaziah in Israel (853), 22:51-53
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The first wedding in the church was the marriage of John Merritt and Sarah Pemberton. The bride designed and constructed her white sateen wedding dress. Her accessories were black cotton stockings and shoes. John wor a new suit of work clothes. The old times tell us that John made a noisy trip up the aisle in his hob-nailed lumbering boots.
The Curtisville Baptist church had a double wedding on June 17, 1914. It was the marriage of John Heileg and Eileen Wilkinson and Edward Bell and Mary Wikinson. The church was decorated with peonies; and each couple acted as the other's attendants.
Perhaps the largest funeral held here was that of Ebenezer D. Curtis. The funeral procession was made out of 60 teams and wagons.
Old timers remember one very heated business meeting. During a discussion, Richard Cutis set fire to Tom Phillip's long hair with a candle. Mrs. H.C., Gordon threw her big apron over his head and quickly put out the fire.
In the ealry years, baptismal services were held in Wilber Creek, just north of the church. Sand bags were piled up in the stream to form a pool deep enough for immersion. In later years, Jose Lake was used for this purpose.
The biggest event held in the church was on August 24, 1937 when Curtisvile Baptist Church hosted the Alpena Baptist Association. The church was packed for two days. Meals were served at the Hall by neighbor ladies. Many overnight guests were entertained in local Curtisville homes and by families from Lott Baptist Church. Two hundred and fifty people registered for the two day event.
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Frank Edwards
Chapter 58
"Does Science Follow the Flying Saucers?"
The world-wide phenomenon of the unidentified flying objects known as "flying saucers" constitutes one of the most fascinating stories of the century-and perhaps one of the most important in human history.
These objects, in various forms, have been seen since 1947 in every part of the world. They have been seen most frequently in the heavily industrialized areas. A study of their appearances shows that they made systematic flights from one important point to another, as though they were mapping which they may have been.
By the time they had ceased to be seen in numbers, one thing about them was well known to those entrusted with the responsibility of analyzing their activities:
These strange craft, operating beyond the capabilities and control of any man-made devices, had visited every important communications center, industrial center, and military installation on earth.
When this interesting and potentially ominous pattern began to develop, the government of the United States issued strict orders to prevent military or government personnel from discussing the objects publicly and provided stiff penalties for those who violated the restrictions. Commercial airlines cooperated with the government by ordering their personnel to refrain from mentioning such sightings in public. Airline sightings were to be dealt with only by written report to the company officials. In cases where the pilots did speak out in public, they generally recanted or became strangely silent on the subject, for reasons which can be easily surmised. In fact, I have a tape recording of a veteran airline pilot describing a strange object which paced his passenger plane. The pilot was subsequently silenced by the airline, which denied that he had ever made such a statement!
When the world-wide compilation of UFO sightings showed clearly that they were engaged in a program of organized surveillance of the earth, culminating in their three memorable appearances in force over Washington, D.C., the lid of censorship came down with a bang and, by and large, has remained down ever since.
By patiently assembling the bits of authoritative evidence which are gradually becoming more numerous and meaningful, it is possible to recognize the true nature of such procedures as the incredibly expensive space program in which we are engaged. Why the great urgency to reach the moon, which we are told is nothing more than a dead and arid orb that has sailed harmlessly round us since the beginning of time? Why the big rush to get there-NOW?
And for that matter, why are we engaged in this headlong risk of life and fortune to get to Mars, which we are told is nothing more than a great frozen desert in the sky? There must be a reason — a compelling reason — for our frenzied activities in these directions. There is a reason, and little by little it is beginning to show through the curtain of censorship.
Dr. Carl Sagan, eminent astronomer at the University of California, is also adviser to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; is a member of the National Academy of Sciences; and, most important, is a member of the Armed Forces Panel on Extraterrestrial Life.
Speaking to a meeting of the American Rocket Society in the winter of 1962, Dr. Sagan said:
"The earth probably has been visited by intelligent beings representing an advanced civilization from outer space!"
And he added that these space visitors logically would have built and maintained a base on our moon, on the side which man cannot see.
In Decatur, Illinois, on January 9, 1963, Brigadier General John A. McDavid, Director of Communications-Electronics for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington, D.C., spoke at the annual alumni assembly at Millikin University. The University Public Relations Office, with approval of the General, prepared and released to the news media a report of the speech:
General McDavid said, "we must be prepared for the future. Our relation to other life in the universe is part of this future, for as the British interplanetary scientist and author, Dr. Arthur C. Clark believes, there can be little doubt we will ultimately come into contact out in space with races more intelligent than our own."
General McDavid added: "Before long people may be forced to realize and accept as a fact that this earth is only an infinitesimal grain of sand in an infinite universe, that the human is one of many forms of life with which God is concerned and that others are far superior to us."
"And, if this is true" he warned, ". . . our meeting with other types of existence in other places in the universe quite likely will increase the potential element of conflict rather than reduce it . . . .this imposes . . . an even greater burden of leadership on your generation," he told the students.
Is this the background information on which our costly space program is predicated? Is this WHY?
Let's look at the record.
On December 14 1962, our Mariner space probe sailed past the planet Venus, beeping its findings back to earth. It was a magnificent milestone for science but a fantastically expensive triumph for the American taxpayer. That series of radio messages cost us more than fifteen million dollars per hour— about fifty million dollars all told. And Mariner was but one of many such experiments.
Beginning with our first satellite launching in February, 1958, we have launched ( or tried to launch ) more than fifty devices of various types: Explorers, Vanguard, Discoverers Echoes, Telestars, Samos, Tiros, etc. There is still another type of satellite, devoted to photography alone, of which we have at least five in orbit, although their launchings never have been officially announced.
This means the American taxpayer has spent about fifty billion dollars on various space projects in the ten years between 1953 and 1963.
Why? What grave emergency inspired us to embark on this program?
At first we were told we must beat the Russians to the moon. Then we were told, more generally, that we must support the space program at any cost "to beat the Russians."
But our fifty-million-dollar Mariner shot past Venus, can hardly be included in racing the Russians. There are no Russians on Venus.
If there is a real urgency for this frantic drive into space — and there must be — then we must look beyond the official statements for it. Especially as you will recall that after the Cuban crisis Assistant Defense Secretary Arthur Sylvester said that the government had a right to lie and to "generate news" if a matter of national security were involved.
Following World War II we began to read news of " flying saucers."
From 1947, when they first appeared, to the summer of 1952, reports on flying saucers were carried openly by the news services; newspapers front-paged many of the sightings.
But the lid of censorship came down with a sudden and dramatic bang in August, 1952. That was the month sixtyeight of these strange glowing objects were over Washington, D.C., all at one time — on the night of August 13. Although this event occurred less than a month after the discs had visited the nation's capital in smaller numbers, the August 13 incident was so well suppressed it was not even mentioned by the news services. However, the full story was carefully compiled in a document, published by the Civil Aeronautics Administration entitled: "A Preliminary Study of Unidentified Targets Observed on Air Traffic Control Radar." It shows the patterns of objects used in flight, specifies which commercial airliners they followed, and it describes them for the guidance of the government personnel who might be confronted with similar experiences.
The lid of censorship is still on. Since then, we have spent a fantastic amount of money trying to get out into space ourselves. And we still are pouring money into the project, in many directions, at a rate which threatens bankruptcy. But we no longer are told we must do this to beat the Russians. Now it is being done in the name of Science which is to the space program what religion was to the Crusades.
The first project to follow the appearance of the Unidentified Flying Objects was the many-nation rush to the Antarctic. Perhaps it was mere coincidence that Russia, Sweden, Norway, Canada, and the United States poured men, money, and materials into many projects which still are largely functioning in the Antarctic; that Argentina, Chile, Australia, France, Great Britain, and the United States all sent expeditions into the Antarctic in 1948. Russia and Sweden joined the rush a year later. This means that within a twenty-four-month period following the appearance of UFO's at the South Polar regions, more nations sent more men and ships and gear into that area than in all the preceding two hundred years!
At any rate, expeditions to the South Pole produced two very tangible developments: First, the motion-and-still-pictures of the disc-shaped objects which circled the ships under Chilean Commander Orrego; second, the realization that these objects presumably were entering our atmosphere at the polar regions for a good reason.
Did it mean there was some invisible obstacle out in space above our equator, as a few scientists had cautiously theorized early in this century?
At the time we had no way of knowing but, as soon as we were able to contrive rockets capable of reaching extreme altitudes with the necessary instruments, we directed our attention to answering the question.
On March 2, 1958, it was announced that two of our Explorer satellites had confirmed the existence of a belt of intense radiation circling the earth about six hundred miles out from the equator. This zone we now call the Van Allen Belt. There is no such belt above either of our polar regions and the confirmation of its existence evidently came as a surprise to our scientists, for the NEW YORK Times quotes them as saying that the radiation was a thousand times more powerful than they had estimated.
When it appeared that the UFO's preferred to enter our atmosphere only at the poles, science began to examine space over our equator and found the radiation belt.
After the skies of the earth were invaded by innumerable disc-shaped devices which seemed to defy gravity, Canada, the scene of so many UFO appearances, set up a project under Dr. Wilbur B. Smith. Canadian equipment was adequate, rather than elaborate. Dr. Smith was a distinguished electronics engineer and an authority on geomagnetics. He and his staff soon noted that whenever one of these UFO's came within range of their gear, there was a sharp disturbance of the earth's magnetic field in that area. In other words, there was gravitational distortion induced by some phase of the disc's operations.
Two years after the Canadian investigation began, Dr. Smith was in Washington to attend an international conference on broadcast wave-length problems. In an interview he said:
"From the weight of evidence, I believe that the 'flying saucers' come from outer space. And I think their appearance is what suddenly increased your government's interest in space travel and an artifcial satellite. Judging from your own operations I would say that your government is also vitally concerned with the secret of propulsion."
West Germany, which had been the scene of so many visits by the UFO's, including some reported landings, named the world-famous rocket and space-travel scientist, professor Hermann Oberth, to head their probe. After three years of studying the information supplied by his own and other governments, the outspoken Oberth said at a news conference in 1954:
"There is no doubt in my mind that these objects (UFO's) are interplanetary craft of some sort. I am confident they do not originate in our solar system, but they may use Mars or some other body for a way station. . . It is also our conclusion that they are propelled by distorting or converting the gravitational field."
Shortly after he made this remarkable statement to newsmen at Frankfurt, Professor Oberth was flown to this country and placed under "security regulations" as a consultant to his former student, Dr. Wernher Von Braun, at the Redstone Rocket Arsenal. These regulations prevented Oberth from making any more public statements until 1959, when he returned to Europe. As soon as he landed in Frankfurt he told newsmen there was a world-wide effort to learn how gravity could be put to use as a form of energy. And he added that he expected men would be traveling to the moon in electrically driven devices within five to ten years. The United States, said Professor Oberth, had made great progress in this field of research.
Dr. George Gamow, the eminent geophysicist of George Washington University, says:
"There exists a profound similarity between Newton's law of universal gravity and Sir Humphrey Filbert's law for the interaction of magnetic poles. And if one can shield electrical and magnetic forces, why can it not also be done with gravitational forces?"
It has been obvious from the outset of our space program that the chemical-reaction rocket is not the answer to space travel. Too much fuel is required to produce too little usable energy. But if, as many scientists believe, gravity can be converted into electrical energy it will be possible to travel anywhere in space at fantastic speeds. This seems to be precisely what UFO's are doing.
Can we duplicate their performance, as Canada's Dr. Wilbur Smith and Professor Hermann Oberth indicated we are trying to do?
Just what has been accomplished I do not know. I do know we have spent — are spending — vast sums of money and great amounts of time in gravity research.
At Dayton, Ohio, the Air Force has a multi-million dollar institution, built and operated especially for this purpose. Government contracts for additional millions have been let to various steel companies and other industrial research groups since as far back as 1955, and renewed year after year. By understanding the force that holds man to this earth we hope to project man into space.
This is still another branch of scientific research that has followed closely on the idea that the "flying saucers" already are utilizing gravity.
Our space effort can be described correctly as a "crash" program — one that is driving ahead at full speed regardless of cost. This ordinarily would indicate an emergency, that it may be — but not necessarily the type of emergency that is being sold to the public.
The appearance of the UFO's in all parts of our earth in the late 1940's and early 1950's apparently jolted our top level authorities into believing the earth was under well-planned and systematic scrutiny — by someone from somewhere.
Obviously we have no control over these craft and thus far we have been unable to match their performance.
One phase of this crash program was the construction of giant radio telescopes — long-range listening devices designed to eavesdrop on the universe in the hope of intercepting transmissions from sentient beings on distant worlds. Or in not-so-distant space craft?
Tesla and Marconi both reported strange, unintelligible signals in the early part of this century. Ohio State University reported to the American Astronomical Society in August, 1956, that it had recorded interesting radio signals from Venus.
Our first space probe, the Mariner, was directed to Venus.
The moon has been the scene of some strange lights and sights in the past half-century, according to astronomers. It is spoken of as a logical space base for men venturing out from the earth to other planets, and so must be considered a logical base for incoming traffic as well. Extra-terrestrial beings conceivably would use the averted side of the moon, which is always hidden from us. Perhaps this explains why the Soviet's picture-taking Lunik, sent to the moon, devoted all its facilities to the far side of the moon and took not a single picture of the side where they expect to land their own first space travelers!
We have by no means dealt with all the scientific activities which have followed our observations of the ubiquitous Unidentified Flying Objects. But I think we have mentioned enough to show that there exists a most interesting relationship between them.
It is difficult to believe that our "crash" program is motivated by nothing more urgent than "scientific research." It hardly seems likely that after thousands of years we suddenly find ourselves desperately in need of knowing, for merely scientific reasons, the temperature of Venus and the depth of the dust, if any, on the moon.
It does seem that the entire space program, intentionally or otherwise, is a process of trying to duplicate the performance of the Unidentified Flying Objects and of trying to trace their presumed path across space.
Isn't there some other motivation well hidden behind the screen of official deception to which the American public has been subjected in recent years, behind our "scientific" exploration of space?
Major Patrick Powers, one of the Army's top missile experts, said,
"There may be life on other cosmic bodies that would resent our intrusion on the moon and move to force us off. To be prepared for this our space ships will have to be armed."
Does he speak only from the military man's natural bent, or does he have some information which leads him to worry in this direction?
General Douglas MacArthur, asked about the possibility of a third World War, is quoted in the NEW YORK TIMES on October 9, 1955, as saying,
"The nations of the world will have to unite, for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of the earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets."
Seven years later, addressing the 1962 graduating class at West Point, General MacArthur retured to this grim theme. NICAP Bulletin for October-November quotes him as saying,
"We deal now, not with things of this world alone but with the illimitable distances and as yet unfathomed mysteries of the universe. We are reaching out for a new and boundless frontier. We speak in terms of harnessing the cosmic energy . . . of ultimate conflict between a united human race and the sinister forces of some other planetary galaxy; of such dreams and fantasies asto make life the most exciting of all times."
Is this the real motivation behind our space program? Do those in charge of it know something we don't know? Something they are not telling us?
Or is it just one more coincidence in the series of strange coincidences so evident in our space program-in our frenzied effort to follow the flying saucers to the stars-and perhaps to disaster.
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While we were counting money, i realised Sonshine boy didn't know how to add in double digits i.e.50 cents plus 20 cents. Hence i came up with this 'lesson'.
Since he has no issues adding in single digits, i first wrote a single digit equation in black color i.e 5 + 2. After Sonshine boy gives me the answer 7, i wrote 7 on the paper. Then i added '0', in purple, on each digit, making the equation to become 50+20. I showed him that the answer 'magically' becomes 70! I showed him a few more equations to make sure that he sees the pattern.
It worked like a charm! With that 5 minutes lesson, Sonshine boy can now add in tens- mentally too. :) WOOT!


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Dreaming of a White Congress
The Parody Project is a musical "group" that regularly puts out hysterically funny parody musical videos lampooning Trump and his merry band of idiots. And they've got a new work to offer on Youtube. Be sure to check out "Dreaming Of A White Congress," based on (obviously) White Christmas.
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7 British True Crime Podcasts That Are Spooky AF & Totally Puzzling
Over the past few years, true crime has transformed from a guilty interest you only admit to your friends once you're sure you're BFFs, to a pop culture juggernaut worthy of water cooler discussion — and the revolution was led by true crime podcasts. Though the market may appear to be dominated by American offerings — is there a smartphone wielding human alive who hasn't listened to Serial, or My Favorite Murder, or In The Dark? — I'm here to inform you that there is, in fact, a healthy British true crime podcast scene just waiting to supply the macabre for your morning commute.
Wave a terrified farewell to the reassuring buffer of the Atlantic Ocean: most of the stories told by these podcasts happened right here in the UK, potentially just around the corner from you. West Midlanders: ever heard of the unsolved 1943 case in which the skeletal remains of a woman were found inside a hollow tree trunk, with just one shoe and a wedding ring? Try an episode of Unexplained to find out more. Peterborough residents: heard about the series of bodies dumped in ditches a mere five years ago, just outside your fair city? Listen to All Killa No Filla if you're interested in never looking at your roommates the same way again.
Ready for some fresh, organic, homegrown horror? Read on to discover seven of the best British true crime podcasts on iTunes, for more chills than an ill-advised summertime dip in the North Sea.
1. 'All Killa No Filla'
Comedians Rachel Fairburn and Kiri Pritchard-McLean launched All Killa No Filla in October 2014, and have released an episode approximately once a month since. Discussing a new serial killer every episode, the pair manage to combine the unlikely bedfellows of comedy and murder with hilarity and tact, researching each episode intensely to ensure they accurately represent their topics.
Recent British cases covered include the Peterborough Ditch Murders, the Teacup Poisoner, and — in a three-part series — Fred and Rose West.
2. 'They Walk Among Us'
What better way to cement a marriage than to hole yourselves up in your bedroom and discuss the most harrowing of British true crime? That's the path chosen by Benjamin and Rosie of They Walk Among Us. As the Guardian reported, the duo record their podcast in their bedroom, unpacking murders and mysteries that hit unnervingly close to home.
Recent episodes have explored the secret language of identical twins Jennifer and June Gibbons, the disappearance of Helen Bailey, and the homophobic persecution of computer scientist and codebreaker Alan Turing.
3. 'Untold'
The first two series of Untold, hosted by Peter Jukes and produced by Deeivya Meir, trace the 1987 murder of private investigator Daniel Morgan, who was killed with three axe blows to the head in the car park of a Sydenham pub. The Times reported that Morgan's family believe he was on the cusp of exposing police corruption to the media, a claim which hasn't been proven in court.
Morgan's murder has been the subject of five police enquiries, none of which have involved a successful prosecution — little wonder, then, that Untold became a true crime phenomenon. After hundreds of thousands of downloads across both sides of the Atlantic, Jukes and Meir are now turning their attention to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in a new crowd-funded series.
4. 'Missing'
Created by British crime writer Tim Weaver, Missing investigates how and why people choose to disappear, tackling the psychology behind the choice to leave their life behind, as well as the practicality of evading discovery in today's heavily surveilled world. Though it's no longer being updated — the initial series was released in 2015, while three bonus episodes were added in 2016 — the podcast remains a worthy listen, offering novel insights aided by experts in the field of finding missing people.
5. 'Real Crime Profile'
OK, it's technically only 1/3 British, but I'm going with it anyway. Real Crime Profile is a podcast hosted by former FBI profiler Jim Clemente, Criminal Minds casting director Lisa Zambetti, and Laura Richards, a criminal behavioural analyst formerly of Scotland Yard (see? British). The trio use their expertise to reflect on real criminal cases.
What's more, they've discussed TV crime shows like Mindhunter, The Keepers, and The People v. O.J. Simpson, and devoted a recent episode to stalking in connection with National Stalking Awareness Week.
6. 'A Stab in the Dark'
Crime writer Mark Billingham hosts this UKTV-produced podcast, which maybe isn't exactly true crime but hits similar notes. In each episode, Billingham interviews a prominent figure from the worlds of crime TV and literature about their interest in the brutal and bloody.
Recent guests include David Simon, creator of The Wire; Sherlock's Mark Gatiss; and American crime writer Karin Slaughter.
7. 'Unexplained'
Created by Richard MacLean Smith, Unexplained unspools the paranormal, the terrifying, and, well, the unexplained. The podcast, deemed "distinctly uneasy listening" by the Guardian, is now into its third unsettling series, accruing millions of streams by the end of its first.
Unresolved mysteries covered by MacLean Smith include the exorcism of Michael Taylor and the Dyatlov Pass incident.
That should be enough to load up your libraries, true crime fans, whether you're into inscrutable disappearances, remorseless serial killers, or otherworldly terror. Are you frightened yet?


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The Annunciation
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I am preparing for an annual oblate retreat by focusing on beauty. I hope it will help fix my attention on peace and truth — two of beauty's closest companions.
Recently, I came across Henry Ossawa Tanner's "The Annunciation."
I do not know any of the most famous Annunciation works, either painting or sculpture, so I do not know where Tanner's 1898 version ranks with art experts, but it has made a lasting impression on me. I am like the person on a Catholic message board who posted the painting and then said that, she/he could not think about the annunciation without Tanner's painting of the scene coming to mind.
I began to read up on Tanner and discovered that Tanner was the most famous artist of African descent in the last part of the 19th and early part of the 20th centuries. He was a member of the realist school and is known for his religious paintings.
He was the son of an affluent African Methodist Episcopal minister and was born in Pittsburgh, in the state of Pennsylvania, USA, but moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania when he was 9.
His middle name is from Ossawatomie, the nickname of abolitionist John Brown.
Tanner received a good education in art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. And "The Annunciation" is housed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Tanner spent most of his adult life living in Europe where he became recognized internationally for his religious paintings.
Tanner's wife was the model for Mary in "The Annunciation."
I was glad that I read about this artist I had never heard of before. "The Annunciation" took on more significance for me when I learned about the artist and the model.
In my reading of Internet resources about Tanner and "The Annunciation," I eventually stumbled across a meditation poem someone had written about the painting. The poem is published in "America," (National Catholic Weekly), March 31, 2008 edition:
"Yet you do not blink.
In the intimacy of a bedchamber
Your soul is awakened from sleep,
Fragile flesh before angelic brilliance.
Your rumpled night sheets tossed aside,
You listen in peace with your whole self
To the question that will define history.
Holding its breath for your answer,
All heaven pauses.
Here it begins.
In such utter simplicity,
In quiet strength, at the appointed hour,
With the rippled rungs of time at your feet,
And the broad lines of history at your back.
At the balance of His grace in your will,
Eve reborn, humanity to be redeemed
Through a child, from a virgin
Whose name is Mary."
That poem was just what I needed to help me prepare for my oblate retreat. And there it is in the poem too — the themes of Peace and Truth.
After I read the poem, I read who wrote it — J. Michael Sparough, S.J., who is director of Charis Ministries, a center for retreats and spiritual direction for young adults in the Chicago area. So, the author of the poem is a director of — Retreats — how fitting.
A good overview of Tanner's works and life
A short summary of Tanner's Life
Overview of some of Tanner's other works
Additional Note:
I told my wife about this blog and she said, let me show you something. She went to one of our china cabinets and pulled out a plate that she had purchased before we were married — it's of the annunciation — not Tanner's, but by another artist. What is surprising is that from the time before we were married I had no religious art and she had purchased only two items, and one was of the annunciation. In 1988 she bought an Eve Licea plate of the Annunciation [web site of company]. She said she fell in love with the beauty of the picture and bought it as her first piece of religious art. Picture of the Annunciation plate
About 8 years later she bought a copy of Luc Olivier Merson's "Rest on the Flight into Egypt," 1879.
"Rest on the Flight into Egypt" and a commentary on the painting by Kate Benedict.


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CLEVELAND -- Running back Noah Herron has signed with the Cleveland Browns, who lost Jason Wright to free agency earlier this week.
The 26-year-old Herron was drafted by Pittsburgh in the seventh round in 2005. He has rushed for 273 yards, caught 29 passes for 211 yards and scored five touchdowns in 23 career games with Green Bay and Tampa Bay.
The 5-foot-11, 225-pounder could fill Wright's role as a part-time back behind Jamal Lewis. Wright signed a two-year contract with Arizona on Tuesday.
Coincidentally, Wright and Herron were teammates at Northwestern.
Herron played 16 games for the Packers in 2006. He spent all of 2007 on Green Bay's injured reserve list with a knee injury and was inactive for all four games he was on Tampa Bay's roster last year.


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Nash Aguas And Alexa Ilacad Join "Wansapanataym's" PerfectoAs "Wansapanataym" prepares for its newest month-long special "Perfecto," it also brings the reunion of young stars Nash Aguas and Alexa Ilacad.
The special will begin airing this Saturday and Sunday (August 30 and 31). The "ASAP 19" boy group Gimme 5 will also star in the series.
In "Perfecto," Nash will play the role of Perry, a young man who wants to be perfect to please his mother and crush Kylie (Alexa). However, he also has insecurities, which makes him more determined to achieve his dreams.
Perry will then have to go through a lot of challenges in order to be the "perfect" person he wants to be. He has to realize, in the end, that what's important is his heart rather than the life he is leading.
Also starring in "Perfecto" are Matet de Leon, Vandolph Quizon, Candy Pangilinan, and Gimme 5 members John Bermundo, Joaquin Reyes, Brace Arquiza and Grae Fernandez.
It is written by Joel Mercado and directed by Onat Diaz.
"Wanspanataym" is ABS-CBN's longest-running and most-awarded fantasy drama anthology. The series will start airing this Saturday (August 30) at 7:15 PM after "Goin' Bulilit."


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I wrote this in MIDI using MaliceX's OPL3 (user mode) MIDI driver, then played it back on Windows 3.11 in a DOSBox mod to log .vgm files. You can hear the lag particularly at the beginning, even though I set the CPU cycles to 32000. :x
Fun fact for nerds: I had to write the vibratos in this manually using the pitch bend controller, since the standard OPL3 MIDI sound bank didn't support vibratos made with the modulation wheel controller (CC#1). Yay for more resource hogging commands! :D
(Hence the uncompressed .vgm log of this is also relatively big, for OPLx .vgm standards anyway)
Music © Matt Furniss 1992-1993
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Sarah Stoltzfus Allen
Sarah is a wife and mother 24/7 and a writer when space allows (and sometimes when space doesn't allow). Her work can be found in The Sacred Cow, Ink in Thirds, the compilation Poppies in the Gold, and her personal blog. She runs on coffee and good intentions. http://becauseican5150.wordpress.com
Devon Balwit
Devon Balwit is a poet and educator working in Portland, Oregon. Her work has found many fine homes, among them: Emerge Literary Journal, Free State Review, Journal of Applied Poetics, Lalitamba, Red Paint Hill Publishing, The Cape Rock, The Prick of the Spindle, The Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Third Wednesday, and Timberline Review.
Dr. M. D. Bolsover
Dr. M. D. Bolsover an Edinburgh-based freelance writer, currently has short experimental prose-poetry published with FREAK CIRCUS Magazine (Edinburgh) and Into the Void Magazine (Dublin), and forthcoming with 404 Ink Magazine (Edinburgh), and an anthology of 'multimodal work' with Twelve Winters Press (Illinois).
Elena Botts
Elena grew up in the DC area, lived briefly in Berlin and Johannesburg, and now attends college in upstate New York. She's been published in fifty literary magazines over the past few years. She is the winner of four poetry contests, including Word Works Young Poets'. Her poetry has been exhibited at the Greater Reston Art Center and at Arterie Fine Art Gallery. Check out her poetry books, we'll beachcomb for their broken bones (Red Ochre Press, 2014), a little luminescence (Allbook-Books, 2011) and the reason for rain (Coffeetown Press, 2015). Her visual art has won her several awards. Go to elenabotts.com and o-mourning-dove.tumblr.com to see her latest work.
Peter Bracking
Peter Bracking tells tall tales. Earth point: a tropical metropolis. Words have literally been published from ocean to ocean to ocean by some really great literary mags in a growing number of countries on half the inhabited continents. The only occupation is being a beach bum.
Marcus Benjamin Ray Bradley
Marcus Benjamin Ray Bradley grew up in Perryville and now lives in Versailles, KY, with his wife and daughters. His work has been published or is forthcoming in the pages of Chiron Review, Five 2 One Magazine, Vine Leaves Literary Journal, and Futures Trading as well as online at the Kentucky Arts Council and Fifty Word Stories websites.
Mark Danowsky
Mark Danowsky's poetry has appeared in About Place, Beechwood Review, The Broadkill Review, Cordite, Red River Review, Shot Glass Journal and elsewhere. Originally from the Philadelphia area, Mark currently resides in North-Central West Virginia. He works for a private detective agency and is Managing Editor for the Schuylkill Valley Journal.
Bill Gardner
Bill Gardner is a rising sophomore at Kenyon College. During the school year, he works as the News Editor for the college's newspaper, the Kenyon Collegian. He writes fiction and poetry in his spare time. His work has appeared in Poetry Breakfast.
Allison Grayhurst
Allison Grayhurst is a member of the League of Canadian Poets. Three times nominated for Sundress Publications "Best of the Net" 2015, she has over 850 poems published in over 380 international journals. She has twelve published books of poetry, seven collections, nine chapbooks, and a chapbook pending publication. She lives in Toronto with her family. She is a vegan. She also sculpts, working with clay;
Lee Kaloidis
Lee Kaloidis is a painter & poet with a background in improvisational music. Married and living just outside NYC. Has been around for a while. http://www.leekaloidis.com
Erren Geraud Kelly
Pushcart nominated poet from Los Angeles. He's been writing for 25 years and has over 150 publications in print and online in such publications as Hiram Poetry Review, Mudfish,Ceremony, Cactus Heart, Similar Peaks, Gloom Cupboard, Poetry Salzburg and other publications.
Amy Kotthaus
Amy Kotthaus is a writer, painter, translator, and photographer. Her work includes poetry, Latin translation, abstract painting, and black and white photography. She received her B.A. in English from the University of Southern Maine, and she currently lives in Maine with her husband and children.
Ashley Mares
Ashley's chapbook A Dark, Breathing Heart is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press & Studio. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Hermeneutic Chaos, Whiskey Island, Rogue Agent, Menacing Hedge, and others. Read more of her poetry at ashleymarespoetry.wordpress.com
Michael Marrotti
Michael Marrotti is an author from Pittsburgh, using words instead of violence to mitigate the suffering of life in a callous world of redundancy. His primary goal is to help other people. He considers poetry to be a form of philanthropy. When he's not writing, he's volunteering at the Light Of Life homeless shelter on a weekly basis. If you appreciate the man's work, please check out his book, F.D.A. Approved Poetry, available at Amazon.
Elaine Marie McKay
Elaine Marie McKay lives in Scotland. She has flash fiction published in 100wordstory, Literary Orphans, Flash Fiction Magazine and SickLitMag. Her picture book, 'Grandma's Face Tells Her Story' (eTreasures Publishing) is due for release early 2017.
Mark J. Mitchell
Mark J. Mitchell studied writing at UC Santa Cruz under Raymond Carver and George Hitchcock.. His work has appeared in the several anthologies and hundreds of periodicals. Three of his chapbooks—Three Visitors, Lent, 1999 , and Artifacts and Relics—and a novel, Knight Prisoner are available through Amazon and Barnes and Noble.. He lives in San Francisco with his wife Joan Juster.
Allison Rhodes
Allison Rhodes hails from Victoria, Canada where she works as an English teacher. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and Psychology, as well as a Bachelor of Education. She also maintains a longstanding love of dance, and, to this day, continues to keep a canvas-slipper-clad foot in that door. Her writing has appeared both online and in print, with recent publications in Punchnel's, Firewords Quarterly, Poetry Quarterly, and Form Quarterly.
Tara Roeder
Tara Roeder is the author of two chapbooks, (all the things you're not) and Maritime. Her work has appeared in multiple venues including The Bombay Gin, THRUSH, and Bateau. She is an Associate Professor of Writing Studies in New York City.
K. D. Rose
K. D. Rose has or will be published in Word Riot, Poetry Breakfast, Candlelit Journal, Voices Project, Stray Branch Magazine, Strange Poetry, Nuclear Impact Anthology, Paragram Press Anthology, etc. K. D.'s book, Inside Sorrow, won Readers Favorite Silver Medal for Poetry. Her latest release is Brevity of Twit. https://authorkdrose.net/
Mathew Serback
Mathew Serback's debut book will be available in October of 2017 through ELJ Publications. He has short fiction everywhere in 2016. He's the managing editor of scissors&spackle, as well as an assistant editor with Bartleby Snopes. He has short fiction pieces upcoming in Crack the Spine, Foliate Oak, and Knee-Jerk.
Lisa Stice
Lisa Stice is a poet/mother/military spouse who received a BA in English literature from Mesa State College (now Colorado Mesa University) and an MFA in creative writing and literary arts from the University of Alaska Anchorage. While it is difficult to say where home is, she currently lives in North Carolina with her husband, daughter and dog. She is the author of a poetry collection, Uniform (Aldrich Press, 2016).
Bonnie Rae Walker
Bonnie is a graduate of UCI with a degree in Drama, emphasizing playwriting. She has lived different places, taken odd jobs and continued to write. A few pieces have been published but most continue to reside in various thumb drives.
Thom Young
Thom Young is a writer from Texas. His work has been in The Commonline Journal, 3am magazine, Crack the Spine, Word Riot, 48th Street Press, and many other places. A 2008 Million Writers Award nominee for his story "Perico."


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GREENOCK opticians Specsavers has sponsored one of its directors £500 as she gets ready to take on this year's Kiltwalk.
Claire Kincaid of Greenock is taking on the 15-mile Big Stroll from Clydebank to Moss O' Balloch Park on Sunday (28 April) in aid of Duchenne UK. The charity aims to fund and accelerate treatments and a cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a devastating disease that affects the muscles.
Claire, who is one of three directors at the store in the Oak Mall, feels passionately about the special cause. She said: "Duchenne muscular dystrophy has touched the lives of those closest to me and I am taking on this challenge to help this fantastic charity realise its ambition of eradicating the disease within 10 years.
"I'm grateful to my colleagues for their generous sponsorship, which has set me on course to my fundraising target, and I'm looking forward to donning my kilt and hitting the trail later this week."
Lesley Brown, store director at Specsavers in Greenock, said: "We're very proud of Claire for taking on this challenge. She is one of our longest serving colleagues and an ever-popular member of our team. The decision to throw our support behind her was unanimous and we'll be cheering her on as she gets ready for her Kiltwalk."
To donate to Claire's fund-raising efforts, contact the store on 01475 724404.


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Local Newport /councillor, Julie Jones-Evans, has started a campaign calling for pioneering Isle of Wight photographer Julia Margaret Cameron to appear on the new £20 notes.
Julie, who owns Dragonfly in St James's Street, Newport, said: "She was inspirational. She was 48 years old before she picked up a camera and she became a ground-breaking photographer."
"She has a massive Isle of Wight connection with her home Dimbola, which still actively exhibits photographers from around the world. Also it would have been her 200th birthday on June 11."
Julie and Tracy, who are calling on everyone to nominate Julia Margaret Cameron on the Bank of England website, have promoted their campaign with a Facebook page and a Twitter hashtag of #JMC20.
They have already received support from London, Cornwall and even Hong Kong, while BBC arts correspondent Will Gompertz has also called for Julia Margaret Cameron to appear on the notes.
Julie said she would raise the campaign at Newport Parish Council, and would put in a motion at the Isle of Wight Council meeting in June, calling for it to support the nomination.
She added: "Just imagine if she was on the £20 note. Everyone in the country would have the Island in their pocket. It would be amazing for our tourist economy."
To make a nomination, visit bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/Pages/characters/nexttwenty.aspx and find out more about the campaign at facebook.com/juliamargaretcamerontwentypoundnote


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Guide to #Job Hunting 15: The power of preparation for #interviews
It is impossible to stress how important it is to prepare for interviews!
On 2 occasions during this past week, different clients have given me similar feedback: "If only John / Jane lived up to the expectations raised in their CV! They knew nothing of our company (In one case didn't even realise the company had no manufacturing facility in the UK!), didn't know what our products or markets were and gave weak examples to support the experience claimed in their CV."
The clients were left disappointed, having had their time wasted. Sadly, this also reflected on my own service delivery, and I was disappointed too because I spend time with all my candidates before interview to give them all the information I know about the company and role. All they have to do is build on the bricks I have already given them.
However, I've also heard from a client how impressed they were with the depth of research an interviewee had done, being able to bring up and discuss relevant business issues outside of his CV that proved his abilities. This set him apart from being a borderline "No" based on his CV, to a resounding "Yes!" based on his research and ability to deliver it concisely.
With so much competition for jobs and the tight current employment market, it still amazes me that candidates waste the interview opportunity. The hiring client wants you to do well; he's already bought into your CV by spending his valuable time to see you. Why not grab the opportunity to amaze him even further with your information-finding skills and interest in their organisation?
Especially in sales or commercial jobs, interview preparation is crucial. A good sales person will know his customers and competition, understand his product's routes to market, the issues that affect pricing and the supply chain. By proving at interview that you have the ability and knowledge to find this information, and use it to position your own objectives and abilities, you show that you have the natural traits of a good sales person on top of the information you provide in the CV. Of course, not preparing sufficiently proves the opposite and you will get short shrift from line managers who have achieved their own positions through doing exactly the same thing properly.
#Recruitment and the Data Protection Act – Did you know this?
Today, I received my renewal notice from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).
Because I last paid this a year ago, it has been out of mind for a while. Best practice with candidate details mean that I naturally store everything on a secure database, and that I don't send candidate details anywhere without their express permission. The same goes for client information: All data is stored on my database, safe from prying eyes. And I use it with great care and consideration.
I don't really think about it – It's an internal process that has simply become part of my daily working practices. But this renewal notification has drawn my mind to it again, and I wonder how many candidates and clients are aware of it?
To quote from the ICO's leaflet: "The Data Protection Act 1998 places obligations on organisations that use personal information and gives individuals certain rights … every organisation (data controller) the process personal information (data) must notify the Information Commissioner's Office …. Failure to notify is a criminal offence."
There are 8 data protection principles embodied in the Act. Summarised, they require that data shall be:
1. fairly and lawfully processed;
2. processed for limited purposes;
3. adequate, relevant and not excessive;
4. accurate;
5. not kept longer than necessary
6. processed in accordance with the data subjects' rights;
7. secure; and
8. not transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area without adequate protection.
Before you next engage with a recruitment agency, it may be worth asking the following questions:
- Is your recruitment agency registered with the ICO, or are they contravening the Data Protection Act?
- Do you know what they are doing with your personal data, how it is stored and how secure it is?
- Do you give permission every time your CV is sent out somewhere?
If they are not registered, you are vulnerable. Food for thought, methinks!
Guide to #Job Hunting – The power of "No"
I find it interesting how difficult it is for some people to say No.
Sometimes, saying No seems to equate with not being nice or courteous, it seems improper to just say "No thank you". So people sometimes say yes when they shouldn't because they try to be nice.
Not saying "No" can lead to problems and raise false expectations where honesty might have been the best policy. Being true to oneself, and standing by the decisions you make, is a skill and ability that is invaluable in business. Being decisive and firm about what you do or do not want will establish an impression of being trustworthy and consistent. This is absolutely imperative when you are looking for you next career move.
Example: I have a candidate's CV on my database. My immediate assumption is that he is looking for another job – Otherwise how would his details get on my database? I am very selective with whose details I keep and I qualify candidates fully every time. After all, circumstances change all the time.
When I call to discuss the job with him, he expresses interest and I submit his details. I make it clear that this must be a two way process: I do this with all my candidates. They don't have to accept every role I offer them, and I certainly don't co-erce them into anything just for the sake of it. Experience has taught me that this style of recruitment is a recipe for disaster.
An interview is offered – He accepts but on the day of the interview asks to reschedule. That is no problem, my client is amenable so the date changes. He goes to the interview and does a really good job, so the client wants to see him again. The feedback is very positive and he appears thrilled.
On the day of the second interview, I get an email to say that he can't get the time off work so he wants to withdraw so that he doesn't cause any inconvenience. I hear alarm bells and call him talk through the situation. He says he will be happy to reschedule so my client, again, offers a new date, as the candidate will be on holiday. Again, I make sure that he is really up for this and give him a chance to say no. He doesn't.
Guess what? On the day of the rearranged, second interview, I get another email to say he has been called away to India for 3 weeks so he isn't going to the interview. My client is terribly disappointed, they wanted to offer him the job at the interview. The candidate does not answer his phone or return calls or emails. However his LinkedIn profile is active as he is shown to link up with other recruitment agents.
My final assumption is that he was just fishing, and was never serious about finding a new role.
So we are back to square 1. But this is what I don't understand: If he said no, and he had opportunities at every stage of the process to do so, it would have saved my client a lot of money and time. It would have saved me time and aggravation. It would have saved his own reputation.
I think there is a moral in this story – Somewhere!
Introducing the new CR Associates!
There is nothing quite like a new beginning!
I am delighted to announce the relaunch of Cathy Richardson Associates during January 2014.
With a new strapline of Resource, Recruit, Retain we will take steps beyond what is normally expected from Recruiters.
Resource: Away with Just-in-Time recruitment! Instead of waiting for recruitment needs to arise within our client companies before we react, we will pre-empt hiring needs. We will work with our clients to understand growth plans, recruitment strategies, medium and long-term business challenges, and any other elements that may impact on how our clients' people strategies may change. We will build talent networks, generate market maps and identify key talent in our core markets so that we can advise pro-actively on market dynamics. We will help build employer branding and assist our employers of choice to develop the most attractive candidate attraction and recruitment strategies to maximise opportunities in the skills short jobs market.
Recruit: Away with outdated tactics! We will actively work with our clients to generate efficient, targeted recruitment campaigns based on a range of social and conventional methodologies to make sure we find the best possible candidate shortlists. We will engage actively with our candidates to make sure they enter into only the best-fit recruitment processes. We will manage these processes for and with our clients, using state-of-the-art psychometric and assessment centre technology to make sure that objective hiring decisions are made. We will work with all parties to make sure that the most positive contractual negotiations are achieved, and that referencing and due diligence takes place in all directions to ensure positive outcomes.
Retain: Away with one hit wonder recruitment! We want the candidates we place to stay with our clients. We want their jobs to turn into careers. We want our clients to build loyal, stable workforces where people are valued and developed. That is why we will work with our clients and their workforces to help with coaching, mentoring, honest broking, advising and ensuring that communication is outstanding. We will actively work with our clients to retain their people. This will help us build employer brands for returning to the resourcing cycle.
Core markets: We have built a reputation for recruiting successfully into the Sales, Service and Commercial arenas. As in the past, we will continue to focus on the manufacturing and techno-commercial distribution markets. This includes Manufacturing, Automotive and Distribution. We will work with Sales, Marketing and Commercial teams to bring the best possible teams of people together to ensure commercial success. This ranges from graduate or entry-level, through regional management and culminates in recruiting at MD, Director or Senior level.
2014 is set to be an exciting and challenging year. We are waiting for a revamped website, the Facebook page has received a face lift and the blog continues to get high levels of attention.
Certainly, new beginnings are full of risk but as the economy continues to improve and the skills shortage bites even more, we look forward to wonderful things!
Definitive Guide to Job Hunting 26 – Ask the Experts how to use Recruitment Agencies
I am very excited about being invited by the Guardian newspaper to be part of an expert panel on their Career website on Wednesday 17th August.
The main subject of the webcast will be Recruitment Consultants, how to deal with them, what to expect from them and, ultimately, how to get the best out of them.
I often meet job applicants who are totally disillusioned by the job hunting scene. People who feel that no one cares to listen to their problems, nobody responds back to their job applications and there seems to be no interest in their plight to find a suitable job. And I am sure, regardless of how hard I try personally to deal with my own candidates, thatsome of them too might be fed up by trickling information streams and a lack of suitable positions.
I am always very upfront with candidates: I am not able to help everyone. If only I was Superwoman – I would flash my cape and jiggle mybelt and there would be jobs, feedback and opportunities for everyone. But the reality of today's employment market and the continual commercialisation of the recruitment process means that having one brain and two hands seem to be a real limiting factor to us humans!
Listening to and participating in the Guardian Careers podcast might dispel some of the myths and give candidates real advice on how to best engage with the recruitment world.
Join us on Wednesday 17 August between 1pm and 4pm – advance questions are welcome – on http://careers.guardian.co.uk/recruitment-agencies
Exciting new job opportunity: Product Manager for a Vehicle Manufacturer's parts distribution program
This is a great opportunity to spearhead a new parts distribution strategy on behalf of a very well known premium Vehicle Manufacturer.
Our client is a very well known European vehicle manufacturer, with several well known premium marques in their stable. With a view to expanding and commercialising their dependent parts distribution strategy, they are looking for an experienced Marketing and Product management specialist to develop this further.
You will be responsible for managing parts product sales planning throughout product lifecycles, driving sales volume and revenue growth for every product channel, group or program. This will also include managing product positioning, taking into consideration price, discount, stock and margins. In addition, you will work very closely with the national parts sales team to ensure adequate marketing support in terms of special deals. This will include promotional activity to the dealer network.
The ideal candidate will have excellent presentation and communication skills, with the ability to manage several diverse projects simultaneously., Your commercial and product management skills will come from a parts related background, ideally from within a motor factor, distributor or components manufacturer. You will be an experienced Product Manager, with a good level of analytical ability, but you will also be comfortable in a sales based context.
For more information, please send your CV to Cathy at firstname.lastname@example.com, or call 0845 269 9085 for an informal discussion.
CR Associates is a specialist provider of permanent recruitment service to the automotive industry and its associated distribution supply chain.
Definitive Guide to Job Hunting 25 – When did you last update your CV?
Yes, when DID you last update your CV?
If you are actively looking for a job, it makes sense to have your CV as current as possible. However, I often find that, when I speak to candidates, the CV's posted online or used to apply to jobs are, in fact, sometimes well out of date! This means that, before your CV can be sent in to a job, it has to be brought up to date. Obviously, we have to supply a recruiting client with fresh information but more importantly, the information LEFT OUT of your CV might actually be the stuff that could get you the job. And wasting the time to get the updated details sorted out, might actually cost you dearly in terms of time. How disappointing if you are pipped to the post for the job of dreams because your CV was out of date ….
1. Starting and leaving dates
If you are made redundant, make sure the date when you left the last employment is on your CV. This makes it clear that you are immediately available, and also opens up opportunities for temporary or interim work. This will be overlooked by recruiters seeking people currently NOT employed; If you don't have a leaving date on your last job, the assumption will be that you are still working.
2. Add your current activities
If you did suffer redundancy or left work for a different reason, mention this on your CV, with the dates. If it was a while ago, make it clear what you have been doing since. It is true that people who are gainfully occupied seem to do better in the recruitment stakes. If you mention nothing and your leaving date is not recent, the assumption might be that you have been twiddling your thumbs – Not a good impression to give those who are in control of selection processes! They are likely to choose people who show resilience, pro-activity and a willingness to work so mention what you have been doing and make it clear that this is just an interim solution until you find "proper" employment again.
3. Update targets, regions and figures
Any recent changes in your job should be reflected in your CV. This gives the recruiter an idea of exactly what your current skills are. This might also cast light on your reasons for looking to move on. If your role was restructured, point that out. Numbers are always a good idea in a CV anyway, so make sure they are fresh: For example, how many people you manage, how large your region is, how you are targeted, etc. This will give a clear picture of the context of your job and responsibility, as well as achievements.
4. Contact details
It seems illogical, but amazingly I often get CVs with out of date mobile numbers or email addresses. Worse are those that have no contact telephone numbers at all! There is no point in leaving your contact details off your CV, or not keeping them fresh. Under pressure, the recruiter will try once or twice and then move on to those candidates they can actually contact.
5. Courses and qualifications
Again, make sure that your CV contains all your qualifications. If you do any courses, these should be mentioned as well. It might give you an unexpected competitive advantage so add them in as soon as you have proof of obtaining the qualification. If the qualification is still in process, mention the anticipated finish date in your CV as well.
6. Update the jobs boards
When you upload a fresh CV onto an online database, it's really important to check that the active online CV is your newest one. Delete old CVs to make sure that only your freshest information is on file. This means that only the freshest information will go out to prospective jobs, employers or recruiters.
Not actively job seeking?
Having a fresh CV is still very important. You can use it during your probationary or appraisal meetings to discuss your progress, or to apply for internal roles that will give you career progression. Or what if an unexpected headhunt call comes in offering you an opportunity that you might not have anticipated? Taking time to prepare a CV might lose you the opportunity!


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(Another story of things happening in threes)
In Kinsley there used to be a really neat drug store that was run by Joe Hamm and Ralph Pool. Joe's name was a perfect fit, because he was always trying to stir up some trouble and was the clown of the pair.
Ralph was the laid back partner, he would just sit back and enjoy all the crazy tricks that Joe pulled, but I always suspected that he was silent but deadly. When Ralph pulled something on someone they never suspected he had been behind the trick.
When I worked in a beauty salon in Kinsley my boss and I would go down to Hamm and Pool Drug Store for a coke and to visit with Joe and Ralph. The drug store had one of the few remaining soda fountains in the area and it was the place to meet and gossip.
The drug store sat on the west side of the street facing east and the front was all windows. It was about 30 feet wide and ran all the way back to the alley. On the south wall and covering almost half the wall sat the soda fountain with a long counter that had short round stools and three stools on the ends to form a [ ] shape. The fountain counter ran from half way down that wall all the way to the back of the building.
At the back of the south wall and just past the counter was a door that opened onto a small parking lot that was adjacent to the alley. In the Northwest corner of the store and on a raised floor was the pharmacy and the rest of the building had all kinds of items to buy from aspirin to gift items.
Every morning there was a bunch of men, most of them farmers, that came in to have coffee and talk. The conversation ran the normal course with the main topic always being the weather and whether the wheat or the beef prices were going to stay up.
One old man always came in the side door to the soda fountain and he always sat on the same round stool at the end of the counter by the door. He had a very strange personality and could be spooked easily.
Once he had his coffee and had taken a few sips he became the target of Joe and his tricks. The old man knew it was going to happen but he still came each day for his morning cup of coffee.
Joe would saunter over to the fountain from the pharmacy and once he was behind the counter would ask if they had heard about a certain person who had passed away over night.
Then the conversation would center on the person that had passed away. The old man on the end stool immediately started to squirm and drink his coffee a little bit faster. He would glance nervously out of the corner of his eye at Joe and the other coffee drinkers as he waited for the other shoe to fall.
Joe would finally say; you know he or she was the first one to die. Then the old farmer would relax. Or Joe would say; well you know he or she was the second one to die that week. (The old farmer was a firm believer in the theory that deaths come in threes.)
So when Joe mentioned that the person who had passed away was the second one the old farmer would bolt off the stool and race out the side door. He would run to his old beat up pickup and race out of the parking lot and probably all the way back to his farm a few miles out of town.
The second he bolted off the stool Joe would burst into laughter and was quickly joined by all the other coffee drinkers. Ralph, who was standing in the pharmacy, was enjoying every minute of the torture that Joe was dealing the old farmer.
One day a blizzard blew into Kinsley and the electricity went out all over town around noon so my boss and I decided to go down to the soda fountain and see if it was still possible to get a coke. We drove down to the drug store and when we walked in the coffee bunch was there.
The only missing person was the old man, but shortly after we got our cokes the old man blew in the side door with snow flying all around him and all over the floor.
The old man shook the snow off his coat and quickly took his normal position at the end of the counter. That day it was Ralph who was behind the counter and he started to pick on the old man the second he began to drink his coffee.
Ralph mentioned that a person had died the night before and then a few seconds later that they were number two. I don't think the old man had taken more than a couple sips of his hot coffee as he tried to warm up from the blizzard but he immediately bounded off the stool and raced out of the drug store and headed home. I guess he thought if he wasn't in town he would be safe and he wouldn't be number three.
As we sat there drinking our cokes my boss told the remaining group that since he couldn't work in the salon that afternoon, because the power was out, he was going to go home, make some hot chocolate, turn on the electric blanket, crawl into bed and watch TV.
Joe and Ralph both jumped on that statement immediately. Almost in unison they said, " Sure……you are going to go home and turn on the electric blanket and get into bed and watch TV." Then my boss realized what he had said and we all had a good laugh at his expense.
From then on Ralph would tease my boss about trying to turn on an electric blanket and watch TV without electricity every time we went into the fountain for a coke. Sometimes it was the quiet one at Hamm and Pool Drug Store that would zing you when you least expected it. To contact Sandy: [email protected]