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A series of secret United States government projects for the purpose of developing psychological warfare techniques and exotic research into tele-portation, parallel dimensions, and time travel called The Montauk Project was said to have been conducted at Camp Hero or Montauk Air Force Station on Montauk, Long Island. Dr. John Von Neumann began Preliminary experimentation at the Brookhaven National Laboratories. Making claims that one could render objects invisible & the mind could create matter at any point in time amongst other things through the manipulation of high energy electromagnetic fields.
In 1948, Doctor John Von Neumann earned his reputation by making several modifications to the ENIAC computer (Electrical Numerical Integrator And Calculator). The precursor to today's modern computer, the ENIAC had performed arithmetic and transfer operations concurrently, which caused programming difficulties. Von Neumann suggested that switches control code selection so pluggable cable connections could remain fixed. He added a converter code to enable serial operation.
Dr. John Von Neumann attempted to link computers with minds and was apparently successful. Using this computer-human link, Von Neumann affected the minds of others and was eventually able to open a time vortex back to 1943 to the Philadelphia Experiment. In 1943, radar invisibility was being researched aboard the USS Eldridge under the title of 'Montauk Project'. Since the USS Eldridge was docked in the Philadelphia Naval Yard, it is commonly referred to as "The Philadelphia Experiment". He also claimed to have sent a man named Preston B. Nichols through two time lines, a fact confirmed by said Duncan Cameron in 1985. Cameron was trained by the National Security Agency, so his testimony is valid. Many people believe that the Montauk Project is continuing to this day, although much of the information available about this is muddied by speculation and disinformation.
The principle objective of the Philadelphia experiment was to make a ship disappear so as not to be detected by radar. This objective was achieved and the ship, The USS Eldridge was rendered invisible, having possibly been teleported inter-dimensionally. But, to the people involved this was not without unexpected and drastic side effects some actually lost there lives from having been embedded in the bulkhead of the ship. The crew manning the vessel were transported out of this dimension along with the ship. When they returned, they were disoriented and horrified. Not all survived, but those that did were dismissed as mentally unfit and in an effort to cover up the experiment were discharged from the Navy.
Al Bielek was recruited into Project Rainbow, a precursor to the "Philadelphia Experiment," He claims he worked his normal day job in California, and then took a highly classified underground magnetic levitation subway train from Los Angeles to Montauk. In January 1988, his memories of his involvement in the Philadelphia Experiment started to resurface. While working for various military contractors, the people who worked with him began to reveal the truth about the US government's involvement in Psychological Operations. Bielek made the decision to go public with the information about his participation in the Montauk experiments and the Philadelphia project in 1989.
Following the end of WWII Dr. John von Neumann continued his research under the moniker of the 'Phoenix Project', investigating why people could not be
subject to inter-dimensional phenomena without detrimental and sometimes fatal affects to the participants involved. Through the military Von Neumann had vast resources at his disposal which included a database of Nazi psychological research. With sophisticated radio equipment Von Neumann attempted to connect computer technology to people's minds. He was successful in creating a virtual mind reading machine, having human thoughts received by esoteric crystal radio receivers and relayed into a computer that stored the thoughts as bits of information. These bits could be displayed on a computer screen and printed out on paper. A technician could with this technology project a to a computer and manipulate the mind of another person. Out of fear of their own minds being controlled Congress after having been presented the report ordered the project to be officially shutdown.
The project was then phased into the private sector and was allowed to progress independent of Government over-site. A secret group connected militarily with deep financial pockets developed the new research facility at a derelict Air Force base at Montauk Point, New York. This Air Station housed a SAGE radar antenna that emits the same band frequency needed to enter human consciousness. The military became the chief beneficiary of the projects' developments having been convinced to incorporate the technology into their psy-ops programmes. By 1972, the Montauk Project was fully underway with massive mind control experimentation being done on humans, animals, and other forms of consciousness.
Using hardware developed through the discoveries of Nikola Tesla Montauk continued to develop the psychic abilities of people thereby manifesting both subjective and objective illusions to amplify thought . They went so far as to discover that a trained technician could manifest matter to appear at any given time. It was this discovery that led to the idea of bending time. After years of research, time portals were opened with massive and outrageous experiments. The Project in a bizarre time loop came full circle when a time vortex opened to 1943 and the original Philadelphia experiment. No evidence confirming the experiments actually occurring has ever surfaced nor has evidence of any underground facility been found.


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The Mediterranean Diet – perceived by many medical experts as one of the most healthy diet plans around – is based around olive oil. This knowledge is nothing new, since Hippocrates – the father of modern medicine – extolled the health properties of olive oil around 400 years before the birth of Christ. If you don't fully understand the health benefits of switching to olive oil, here are just some of them to get you thinking.
Good for the heart
Olive oil is a monounsaturated oil high in plant-based polyphenols, which are known to reduce blood pressure. Also, olive oil lowers levels of 'bad' LDL cholesterol. Just two tablespoons of olive oil a day can significantly reduce the risk of developing heart disease.
Fights cancer
The polyphenols and anti-oxidants in olive oil are believed to protect against some cancers, particularly breast cancer and colon cancer. Recent research from Spain also suggests the active ingredients in olive oil may shrink malignant tumours. Extra virgin olive oil best in this case, as it's the least processed, and contains more of the cancer-fighting compounds than lower grade oils.
Good for the skin
Inside the body, olive oil helps repair damaged skin cells and stimulate new cell growth, due to the presence of the antioxidant vitamins A and E. It can also be used topically as a natural moisturiser, either alone or as an ingredient in home-made beauty products. Olive oil makes a great massage oil, either alone or combined with essential oils. It encourages improved circulation and leaves the skin fresh and glowing.
Good for diabetics
Olive oil helps to stabilise blood sugar levels, thus avoiding the peaks and troughs which can cause problems for diabetic patients. It also guards against insulin resistance, so it can help in the management of diabetes.
The monounsaturated fats present in olive oil can be used by the body to produce anti-inflammatory enzymes to relieve the symptoms of arthritis, asthma and other chronic conditions where inflammation is a problem. This offers a measure of natural pain relief by settling inflammation and increasing joint mobility.
Aids weight loss
Olive oil's monounsaturated fats can help break down excess fat stored in body cells, and also prevent belly fat forming or increasing. This enhanced fat metabolism can help speed up weight loss as part of a healthy eating plan.
Remember that olive oil, for all its health benefits, is still a form or fat and is therefore high in calories. Make the switch from saturated or vegetable fats to olive oil, don't just add it to your existing diet, and keep an eye on quantities. Two tablespoons a day will provide all the health benefits mentioned here and more, but much more than that could lead to weight gain in the long term. Too much of a good thing can easily become a bad thing!

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I started off making a fitted lining and a fitted lining pattern that I can use for future dresses. I machine sewed this together because I wanted to be sure it was going to work before taking the time to handsew. In the future since it works, I'll hand sew this. The rest of the dress will be hand sewn.
I'm realizing as I look at this that the front is rounded... I don't know why I didn't catch that before. I may need to recut the front lining pieces. I'm sewing it on the mannequin without the stays beneath because I know the lining fits me with stays on, so as long as I sew to the lining it will fit me fine.
The back smoothed out and pinned and the skirt pleated to the lining.
The pleats are being whipstitched to the lining and then with the top fabric folded back over the pleats a spaced backstitch.
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Here is an article about the finale of 'Haven' season three with guest star Laura Vandervoort:
LAURA VANDERVOORT (Smallville) GUEST STARS
NEW YORK – December 3, 2012 – Season three of Syfy's hit series Haven comes to an explosive conclusion on Friday, December 21 at 10PM (ET/PT) when Audrey (Emily Rose), Nathan (Lucas Bryant) and Duke (Eric Balfour) square off against the Bolt Gun Killer – and Audrey's own life-threatening fate.
In this conclusion of her two-episode story arc, guest star Laura Vandervoort (Smallvillle) plays a woman driven to the brink of madness by love.
With all of the mysteries Audrey has been investigating—the Bolt Gun Killer, the search for her son, The Guard and her own past in Haven—converging at the same place and time, Audrey must face hard truths and make a terrible decision as the very existence of Haven hangs in the balance.
Haven is enjoying its best season ever among Adults 25-54 averaging 1.2 million viewers (based on Live +7 data), will return in 2013 for a fourth season of 13 all-new episodes. Building upon last season's successful Twitter integration, Haven continues to maintain a strong social footprint through the creation of custom content for Facebook, Twitter and YouTube while driving social discussion with a hidden #escapetohaven hashtags throughout each episode.
Haven, based on the novella The Colorado Kid from renowned author Stephen King, follows former FBI agent Audrey Parker, who becomes a cop in the small town of Haven, Maine, and soon discovers the town's many secrets, which also hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of her lost past – This season the story behind those secrets is finally revealed and all of Audrey's questions will be answered leading up to Haven's shocking Season three finale.
From leading independent studio Entertainment One (eOne), Haven is co-commissioned by Shaw Media in Canada and globally via Universal Networks International (UNI).
The creative team behind Haven includes executive producers John Morayniss (Rookie Blue, Hell On Wheels) from eOne Television and David MacLeod (Legends of the Fall, The Ray Bradbury Theater) of Big Motion Pictures, who are joined by Lloyd Segan, Shawn Piller, Scott Shepherd (Stephen King's The Dead Zone, Greek) of Piller/Segan/Shepherd and Matt McGuinness (Journeyman, Dark Blue) as well as Sam Ernst & Jim Dunn (Stephen King's The Dead Zone), who also developed the series.
Haven is produced by Entertainment One and Big Motion Pictures in association with Piller/Segan/Shepherd and airs on Syfy in the U.S., Showcase in Canada and internationally on Universal Networks International's channels. Entertainment One controls the worldwide distribution rights to the one-hour series and concluded a deal with Germany's Tele München Group (TMG) for the television rights in Continental Europe."
To read the full article: TVbytheNumbers.
Also we remind you the info on the episodes where Laura will appear in the series:
- Episode 3.12 - "Reunion"
Friday, December 14 at 10PM (ET/PT) on Syfy
Short Plot: Nathan and Duke help Audrey search for a Troubled killer after a string of murders take place at Haven High School.
- Episode 3.13 - "Thanks for the Memories"
Friday, December 21 at 10PM (ET/PT) on Syfy
Short Plot: Audrey, Nathan and Duke face off against the Bolt Gun Killer and Audrey's own life-threatening fate.
Updates as become available...


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Funeral services for Larry Westfall, 73, of Mesquite, Nevada, formerly of Graettinger, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, June 7, 2018, at Bethel Lutheran Church in Graettinger. Interment will be at Graettinger City Cemetery, Graettinger. Larry died May 29, 2018, at his home in Mesquite. Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m., Wednesday, June 6 at the church in Graettinger.
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het_arch(resid, maxlag=None, autolag=None, store=False, regresults=False, ddof=0)[source]¶
Engle's Test for Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (ARCH)
- resid (ndarray) – residuals from an estimation, or time series
- maxlag (int) – highest lag to use
- autolag (None or string) – If None, then a fixed number of lags given by maxlag is used.
- store (bool) – If true then the intermediate results are also returned
- ddof (int) – Not Implemented Yet If the residuals are from a regression, or ARMA estimation, then there are recommendations to correct the degrees of freedom by the number of parameters that have been estimated, for example ddof=p+a for an ARMA(p,q) (need reference, based on discussion on R finance mailinglist)
- lm (float) – Lagrange multiplier test statistic
- lmpval (float) – p-value for Lagrange multiplier test
- fval (float) – fstatistic for F test, alternative version of the same test based on F test for the parameter restriction
- fpval (float) – pvalue for F test
- resstore (instance (optional)) – a class instance that holds intermediate results. Only returned if store=True
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While the housing industry continues to return from its collision in '07 and '08, prices keep on being low enough in most residential areas to make buying inexpensive for those who have solid financial circumstances and a good credit score. Despite price ranges low, many discount seekers are still looking to buy a waterfront home at an even greater price cut. You can do this, in case you have endurance and perseverance as well as good marketing skills. Buy waterfront houses at best rates if you are paying in cash, buying properties which have been available on the market for a long period or even settling with contractors for properties which have been overdeveloped.
Specify Your Spending Plan
Figure out how much you're ready to spend, and the way a good deal of discount is suitable. For instance, determine if a 20 % discount off the particular market price is a triumph, or whether you'll maximize at a $100,500 price.
Pay the Price in Cash
Steering clear of a home loan will help you to save a lot of money while purchasing a house. In 2012, the National Association of Real estate agents documented that 30 % of waterfront property owners were paying out in cash to cut costs and prevent years of interest rates. Get yourself a price cut from the purchase price and closing prices. Work out a lower price in substitution for paying in cash as well as save money on all the closing costs that lenders impose, for example, legal professionals, title insurance coverage, application charges, and mortgage origination charges.
Get Waterfront Properties in Foreclosure
Typically, properties in foreclosure cost about 30 % less than properties that aren't in foreclosure. The financial institution holding the home loan usually auctions a foreclosed residence. Sign up for the public auction. Frequently, it's basically organized on the courthouse steps. In some cases, the public sale takes place at the house itself. Keep at least 5-10 % of an advance payment with you and be ready to fund the remainder of the house. Invest in the foreclosed property. If you've got the highest bid, the house is yours.
Bear in mind that some banking institutions put a lowest on the foreclosed properties that they sell that is normally the amount which is to be paid on the particular loan. Your own bid should be the lowest.
Prepare yourself to invest in the property sight unseen. Several states hold an open property before the public sale; some other states don't require this. You'll get a foreclosed property for a lower price, but you'll be unable to work out any adjustments or fixes.
Get A Short Sale with Real Estate Owned (REO) House
These are generally properties that have not even gone into foreclosures. You'll be able to work out a price tag with the financial institution. Try to make a good offer. The lending company might think about agreeing to a lower price for the property; the amount insures the remaining home loan balance.
Focus on Properties That Nobody Seems to Want
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Think About New Development
Housing improvements started sprouting up during the housing boom, and when the market hit bottom, they stopped offering. It has triggered an overloaded new building market. Discuss with contractors about exactly what they're willing to offer their current houses for. In a new development with more empty properties than populated properties, you ought to be able to work out a deep price cut.
Try to find resourceful opportunities for special discounts. For instance, if you're able only to get a contractor to go that much lower on his / her selling price, try to ask for free improvements in the house such as finished cellars, stainless home appliances or no settlement costs.


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If you seek a golf course that offers a superb, peaceful setting with public access, look no further than Westfields Golf Club. Conveniently located in Clifton, Virginia, Westfields is renowned for spectacular play, scenic views and elegant facilities. It is an easy 16-mile drive south but worlds away from other Reston golf courses.
Virginia golfers who appreciate an invigorating and impressive experience will discover a public, daily-use facility with features and services usually exclusive to private Golf Clubs. At the heart of Westfields is a "golfer's dream" course designed by Fred Couples within a picturesque setting. Challenging yet fair, with five sets of tees, it attracts nearby Reston golfers as well as area players of all abilities.
The course is a rare gem with gorgeous rolling hills and trees lining the fairways with no residences flanking the links so you can soak up the quiet, unspoiled beauty of nature while testing your shot-making skills.
Our concept of "public golf kept private" also means that you can make Westfields your private Golf Club for a day or join for the year to gain extended access and additional benefits. And, because Westfields Golf Club is managed by Marriott, you can expect stellar golf facilities and exceptional hospitality while earning Marriott Rewards® points.
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Whether you're looking to entertain clients, work on your short game after work, host an event, or get away for a relaxing weekend, Westfields exceeds expectations. It offers an enjoyable change of pace for Reston golf enthusiasts – a course that is exciting to play yet readily accessible.
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It's Saturday and I had absolutely no obligations today, no tests to take and nowhere to be. I woke up early as usual, 5 am to be exact, had some coffee, checked emails, lounged around a bit and then headed to the gym. Today was the first day all week that I truly felt back to normal with my lifts and it felt so good. My program called for deadlifts and barbell glute bridges followed with hamstring isolation.
After the gym I came home and cleaned my house that I had neglected all week, caught up on laundry and Netflix and took an hour long epsom salt bath to relax these glutes and lower back that I know are going to be sore tomorrow:)
Here was today's breakfast and lunch:
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We can help you find an insurance provider from our list of contacts for any country and we can supply you with risk assessments and H&S guides along with our operators manual.
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You can run, roll and spin around on top of water whilst inside the AquaZorb.
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In February, President and CEO Leslie Mancuso, and Dr. Alain Damiba, Senior Vice President of Technical Leadership and Global Programs, visited Guinea where Jhpiego and partners are working in collaboration with the government to strengthen health facilities in four regions and improve access to family planning services. The U.S. Agency for International Development's global Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP) is funding efforts to build the capacity of Guinean health providers to deliver quality services to women and their families.
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Between fiscal year (FY) 2011 and FY 2012, Jhpiego/MCHIP expanded its work in family planning from 27 sites to 606 sites. With continued introduction of long-acting and reversible contraceptives at hospitals and high-volume health centers, along with the increase in total number of facilities being supported by the project, clients' access to a comprehensive mix of contraceptive methods significantly increased. For example,
- New users of family planning methods increased from 14,000 (FY11) to 127,226 (FY12);
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- Game Library – July 11th, Volt, Hobby Corner, 5ish pm
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- Vote on AI 2015 bid – Several minor adjustments made and then the bid was approved as modified. Thank you to Katie Heckel, Steve Tait and Andy Wheeler for stepping up!
- Trek Fest 2014 Sold over $100 worth of Star Trek books and the weather for once cooperated. Thank you to Steve Tait and Denny Lynch for working this event.
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GOD 101: Sign Stories And Women In The Christian Testament, and the lesson of source and orbit
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(The following text is taken from Mary & Martha: Women in the World of Jesus, by Satoko Yamaguchi)
Given the context of the Greco-Roman world, it is interesting to look at sign stories involving women in the Christian Testament. There seem to be many sign stories in which women must have been involved but are invisible. For example, women, who are generally invisible in most biblical texts, were undoubtedly included among the "crowd(s)" (see, for example, Mark 6:34; Matthew 14:14; Luke 9:11; John 6:2).
Thirteen sign stories contain specific mention of individual women. Two are the unexpected conceptions by Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptizer (Luke 1:5-25), and by Mary, the mother of Jesus (Matthew 1:18-25; Luke 1:26-38). Another is the account in which Jesus's mother is the mediator of Jesus's wine sign at a wedding in Cana (John 2:1-11). Two other stories tell of signs related to Jesus's resurrection — the empty tomb of Jesus found first by Mary Magdalene (John 20:1; Mark 16:1-6; Matthew 28:1-10; Luke 24:1-12) and the appearance of the risen Jesus to Mary Magdalene (John 20:11-18; Mark 16:9-11).
The other nine stories tell of healings:
1. Peter's mother-in-law: Jesus's performance, with the mediation of disciples, to heal Peter's mother-in-law (Mark 1:29-31; Matthew 8:14-16; Luke 4:38-39);
2. Jairus's daughter: Jesus's performance, with the mediation of her father, to heal his daughter (Mark 5:21-24, 35-43; Matthew 9:18-19, 23-25; Luke 8:40-42a, 49-56).
3. A woman with a hemorrhage: Jesus's performance, at the woman's own mediation (by reaching out and touching), to heal her (Mark 5:25-34; Matthew 9:20-22; Luke 8:42b-48).
4. Syrophoenician (or Canaanite) woman's daughter: Jesus's performance, with the mediation of her mother, to heal her daughter (Mark 7:24-30; Matthew 15:21-28);
5. The raising of a widow's son: Jesus's performance, without being asked, to restore the son's life (Luke 7:11-17);
6. A woman with a spirit of infirmity: Jesus's performance, without being asked, to heal her (Luke 13:10-17);
7. The raising of Lazarus, the brother of Martha and Mary: Jesus's performance, with the mediation of the sisters of Lazarus, to restore their brother's life (John 11:1-44).
8. The raising of Tabitha, a disciple: Peter's performance, with the mediation of the disciples, to restore her life (Acts 9:36-43);
9. A slave girl with a Pythian spirit: Paul's performance, without being asked, to heal or exorcise her (Acts 16:16-18).
We should note that, as was the case in Greco-Roman stories in general, healing stories predominate. However, these stories do not follow the same pattern. Stories in the Christian Testament do not feature the occasions of a woman's betrothal, conception, or disability in order to safeguard her place and role in the patriarchal household. Although two stories do relate to conception, they do not serve to reinforce the patriarchal households. Rather, they function to undermine patriarchal households. In Elizabeth's story, her husband is powerless (Luke 1:19, 59-63). Similarly, Mary appears as an unwed mother (Mark 1:18-25; Luke 1:26-38), and the women are allowed to stay together on their own (Luke 1:39-44, 56).
Indeed, healing stories in the Christian Tradition affirm the affectionate concern of supplicants for their family members, but they do not serve to reinforce either stereotypical women's roles or the patriarchal household. A father can become a supplicant, and not for a son, but for a daughter. A mother appears as a supplicant for a daughter and actually argues against Jesus, a teacher, and Jesus accepts her argument; both of them ignore the patriarchal social codes of gender and social status. In another story a man becomes a supplicant not for his own mother, but for his mother-in-law. This tendency to depart from traditional roles may reflect the earliest Christian ethos that did not share in the patriarchal ethos of Greco-Roman households but that instead strongly affirmed familial relationships.
In the entire Christian Testament, however, there are no accounts of sign-working specifically attributed to women — not even to Mary Magdalene. Does this mean that there were no women sign-workers either in the reign-of-God movement or in the earliest Christian movements? This does not seem logical.
As noted above, religious leaders in the Greco-Roman world were expected to perform signs and wonders, and the Christian Testament texts tell us that means for vindication of their God and their teachings. Since there is firm evidence of women's leadership and their presence as "prominent among the apostles" (Romans 16:7), it is reasonable to assume that these women were also expected to perform signs and actually did.
How then should we interpret this absence of women's sign-working stories? Two major explanations seem possible. First, the general tendency of male-centered material selection was to filter out stories of women, including those telling of women's sign-workings. Second, competing religious propaganda, which presented leaders as powerful divine sign-workers, promoted a kyriocentric (hero-centered) message. Stories of the miraculous and powerful were appropriated from various sources and attributed to leaders, enhancing the leaders at the expense of other active participants in the movements. As a result, the gospels portrayed only Jesus as the ever greater sign-worker, and the Acts recounted the stories of signs worked by Peter (for example, Acts 3:1-10, 9:32-35, 9:36-42) and Paul (Acts 14:8-10, 16:16-18, 20:7-12). Other male participants were rendered as shadowy figures or otherwise marginalized, and women as leaders and sign-workers disappeared from the canonical texts.
Here endeth the written text.
I don't think that feminist theologians understand what they do to God when they write things like the above. If scripture does not have examples of women performing signs and wonders, then it is logical to assert that scripture just dropped out these instances for the sake of its male-obsessed orientation.
That in the light of her own argument that states that the New Testament is just the opposite of being male-obsessed.
And that in the light of the incarnation: probably the most illogical theological statement of all time. A homeless baby as God.
And that in the light of God himself: for finding reason in the works of God is akin to trying to roll up all the yarn that has ever been produced in this world. It just isn't there.
And I should know. I've been working with God all my life. And while, yes, there is reason in the study that I do, it's the reason of God. Learning about God is really learning to learn: learning that the upside-down-inside-out is really the norm, and that standing on one's head is really the way to get to the store and back.
God is just not logical in the way we so desperately want him to be. Just read the Bible. Start at the first page.
And women, even in Genesis, are not set aside, or invisible. In fact, I think of them as God's anti-heroes. But that's a subject matter for another day of writing.
Here is my lesson of source and orbit:
Between two people in a relationship, one takes the role of the orbit and the other, the source. The orbit is the one that gathers energy in and brings it to the source, who, in turn, transforms this energy into that which maintains them both.
This lesson always made me think of the old song about the man bringing home the bacon and the woman frying it up in the pan.
Energy in. Energy transformed. Energy out.
One out in the world, seen; the other, not in the world, unseen. At least in their roles toward life-sustaining energy.
I bring this up because, like the above, I have noticed statements about how only weak men resent strong women. Or all women have what it takes to be strong.
And, again, like the above, I wonder what women think they are doing to the world with their arguments.
The writing above states, very clearly, that to have value, one must perform signs and wonders. And, more importantly, the signs and wonders one performs must be seen and recorded by others.
There is no "unseen" dimension in this woman's mindset. There is the seen, and that is all that is good in the world.
And imagine a world in which every single person is strong. At least, only the strong people in the world are the good ones. Anyone else is weak and bad. Sort of like in 1984.
Weakness is wrong. Being unseen is wrong. And since women are right, they have to be seen and strong.
In the feminist's mindset, there is only this one way.
Which pretty much leaves God out of the feminist picture of the world. Because in God, there is black and white. There is weak and strong. There is seen and there is unseen. In fact, there are all the opposites. All there together. All having its own value.
In fact, as far as we know, the unseen signs and wonders, or even the signs and wonders never performed, are the most significant in the universe.
The way of the unseen is the way of the mystic. And it is the mystic's work to try and explain the unseen to the rest of the world.
I am severely aware of the distinction between the seen world and the unseen world. And when I am "in flight," I feel as though I am walking between the two worlds, using the strengths of one world to perceive and function in the other.
And vice versa.
But, for me, there are very clear demarcations between the two. And the two only connect through God-provided-for doors. To burst from vision to reality, for me, would be only to confuse the subject matter at hand, and to invite chaos into my life.
I know.
I've done it.
So the value in signs and wonders is not that they are noticed, applauded, and recorded by those around you, it is in their reflection of and respect for God. And it is the acknowledgement that what is unseen can be just as (if not more) valuable than what is seen.
Just as sometimes it is far more beneficial in our spiritual growth to be weak, rather than strong.


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When Disaster Strikes, Retail Partners Step UpFebruary 6, 2018
From hurricanes to wildfires to earthquakes, 2017 was one of the worst years for natural disasters around the world. Hundreds of thousands of people and businesses were impacted, and losses in the United States alone were estimated to top $300 billion, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Any time such a disaster occurs, once the immediate crisis passes, the focus often moves to returning communities to a sense of normalcy. This includes reopening retail establishments and supplying consumers with needed goods and services. But when associates, buildings and supply chains may all have been impacted by the crisis, it's not always a simple task to take on alone.
This was the case with a SAS Retail Services' retailer partner after Hurricane Harvey battered its stores in the Houston, Texas area in late August. Record-setting rainfall left many parts of the area flooded and tens of thousands of residents displaced. As flood waters began to recede and people started returning to their homes, the retailer knew it had to move quickly to reopen stores and help get the community back on track. To speed the process, the retailer reached out to SAS Retail Services, who jumped into action to help.
SAS Retail Services quickly assembled a "Hurricane Relief Team" made up of its own merchandisers from various nearby accounts. The merchandisers rallied together and traveled to Houston to assist. For seven days straight, the eight-person team worked and traveled to the retailer's 30 stores in the area, restocking shelves to replace depleted merchandise, cleaning out expired products and unloading newly arrived shipments.
The retailer was extremely thankful for SAS Retail Services' ability to provide support for them at such a tragic time. "Your team has been a key essential part in helping us get back to a normal state of business," said one of the retailer's local area sales managers. "We totally could not have done this without you and appreciate the rapid response from the entire team. Simply amazing what your team of eight was able to accomplish… [it] made a huge difference in the stores they touched for sure."
Offering support to its retailer partners in times of crisis is all part of the partner relationship for SAS Retail Services. When a major earthquake hit the Napa Valley, California region in 2014, the local SAS Retail Services team acted quickly to help its retailer partners. SAS Retail Services associates in the area responded within just a few hours of the quake—some even braving closed roads to get to the damaged stores. Together they worked to move displaced shelving units back into place, clean up undamaged products and return them to the shelves, and replenish shelves to replace the numerous bottles, jars and boxes that were broken. With the team's help, normal operations were quickly restored.
All retailers know they need to have emergency preparedness and recovery plans. But with the right partnerships, they can rest even easier knowing that if disaster actually strikes, they won't have to go at it alone.
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REACH Foundation had celebrated the Madras Day this year on 25th August (Saturday) at the Prayer Hall of Ramakrishna Mission (South) School, Dhandapani Street, T. Nagar. This year had two eminent speakers of their own right Mr. D. Hemanth Rao (Retd. Civil Engineer, Numismatist and Madras Heritage Lovers Forum) and Mr. S. Ramachandran (Retd. Epigraphist, Tamilnadu State Archaeology Department and Faculty, A.A.S.A.I – Educational wing of REACH FOUNDATION) delivering unheard stories of Madras, the present-day Chennai.
Mr. H. Chandrasekaran (Trustee, REACH FOUNDATION) welcomed the guest speakers and the gathering by quoting the importance of Madras Day Celebrations. He also elucidated the intent of everyone to preserve the heritage of the city they live and love.
Then Mr. D.Hemanth Rao began his speech on the title 'Graceful Arch Bridges of Madras' by referring to the waterways of Madras Triplicane or Cooum river, Elambore river in the North and Adyar river on the South. Madrasapatnam was a sleepy fishermen village with only a sandy patch till Britishers occupied the northern side of the river Cooum. From time immemorial, these fishermen were crossing the two rivers Cooum and Adyar by fording when they were shallow water during summer or using small boats during monsoon.
Both the rivers were unpredictable during monsoon times as they get flooded. During 1639, there were many water bodies around the fort and were called 'Drains' or 'Ditches'.
British traders were very much concerned about their business getting leaner during the monsoon as the locals were unable reach the fort as they have to cross the swollen river. It was Elihu Yale, who suggested building timber bridges to cross the drains outside the fort. The first Brick Arch bridge was built by an Armenian named Peter Uscan, across Saidapet river, or Adyar river at Saidapet named "Marmalong bridge" in 1726. One may conclude this be the FIRST MASONRY ARCH BRIDGE AT MADRASAPATNAM. Apart from few bridges close to the fort, it was in 1804, another major brick arch masonry bridge called St. George's Bridge across river Cooum near Government garden was built by Lt. Thomas Fraser. This was a unique, Eleven Arch bridge with good ornamentation. Later bridges lacked in this aspect. One more fascinating bridge across river Cooum at Chintadripet was a "Suspension bridge". After it's collapse another Brick Arch bridge was built.
St. George's Bridge over River Cooum 1804.
The Government decided in 1840s that all 'works' should be given 'on contract'. When the time came to build a new bridge across the Cooum in Chintadripet at the same location where, once, the suspension bridge was, the Military Board invited tenders and gave the contract to two local maistries, whose quotation was much lower than the estimated cost. The Superintending Engineer who built the bridge in 1804 painted it himself in 1805. He presented it to Sir John Sinclair of Ulster, with the above title.
He also referred to many forgotten Arch Bridges of Madras like Law's Bridge over River CooumAt Chintadripettahbuilt in 1854, St. Andrew's Bridge over River Cooumbuilt 1817, Harris Bridge over River Cooum 1854-55.
Mr. Hemanth Rao took the audience back to the 19th Century vividly narrating the story around the various other bridges like Anderson Bridge over River Cooum built during 1829, Elphinston Bridge over River AdyarIn1842, Basin Bridge over Buckingham Canal In 1807, Wallajah Bridge over Buckingham Canal In 1878, Ice House Bridge over Buckingham Canal 1878.
Then spoke Mr. Ramachandran on the title 'Places in and around Chennai in Inscriptions'. He first referred the inscription found in Penneswara Madam near Krishnagiri of Kumara Kampanna period (1367 BCE) who established the Vijayanagara Empire by defeating the Sambuvarayars of North and Sultans of South mentions this area as 'Mādarasaṉ Paṭṭiṉam'. Few more areas referred in the inscription includes 'Nīla gaṅgaraiyaṉ Paṭṭiṉam'(present day Neelangarai), 'Kōvaḷam'. (There is another version of the origin of the name 'Madras' as having connection with the word 'Medeira', the name of the Portuguese goddess as well. But it is a later phenomenon.)The port of Mādarasaṉ Paṭṭiṉam must have been situated on the confluence of river Cooum with Bay of Bengal. The adjacent village Chintadripet might have been the spot where customs and other offices were located. The name of the place seems to have some connection with the people who undertake voyage across the sea. (i.e.) 'Sindu Yaathirai Pettai'. It will be pertinent to mention here that, there is one Vinayagar at Tarangampadi (Nagapattinam District) called Chintadri Vinayagar , a corrupt form of 'Sindu Yaathirai Vinayagar', who was worshipped by people before going on a voyage.
He also brought in the name of the Dutch settlement called 'Sadras' near Kalpakkam as 'Sathira Vaasagan Pattinam' in inscriptions of the 13th Century at Maramangalam near Korkai. It refers to the 'Horses' Import from Arabia around this region. Another 13th Century inscriptions refers to the present day 'Kodambakkam' as 'Kodampakkai', probably a market place, where horses were traded.
He also referred that around 15 years ago, one of the Epigraphists of the State Department Mr. Krishnamurthy had found one 13th Century inscription at Sembarambakkam near Madras stating the place as 'Semmaram Battu'. Semmaram means red sanders, Battu seems to be the tamilised form of 'baad' which is used as a suffix in many place names (i.e.) Hyderabad, Secundarabad, Allahabad etc.
Mr. Ramachandran traced the renaming of the Madras Presidency into a tamil speaking state 'Tamil Nadu' during 2nd Nov 1956. Even Ganjam district of Orissa was part of Madras Presidency until the 1930s. During 1948, the Telugu speaking community in Madras Presidency raised a slogan 'Madras Manadhe' to claim the city for Telugu speaking community. In 1949, the Dhar commission was setup to reorganize the states on the linguistic basis. A demand to retain Madras as the headquarters of the state, where Tamil was the Lingua franca was submitted by Ma.Po. Sivagnanam. He organized a series of agitations with slogans 'Save the State Capital even if we have to sacrifice our Head' (Thalai Koduthaayinum Thalainagaram Kaapom). In 1952, when the first general election was conducted, Rajaji became the chief Minister of the Madras State. During that period, Potti Sriramulu under went a fast unto death for over 50 days with a demand that Madras be made the capital of a Telugu linguistic state. As a repercussion of his death, riots spread through out the border area of Telugu and Tamil linguistic regions. The Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was also in favour of a compromise that Madras be made a temporary capital for both Tamil and Telugu linguistic states. Rajaji staunchly opposed the idea and even stated it very clearly to Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru. Thus, Madras was saved to be the Capital of Tamil Speaking population. History enthusiasts who are keen in celebrating the Madras Day have to be thankful to Mr. Ma. Po. Si and Mr. C.Rajagopalachari for retaining this city as the capital of Tamilnadu.
Mr. Oagai Natarajan, Editor of Yaali Magazine thanked the Guest Speakers for elucidating the unheard, unknown information about the Madras City. The event concluded with the National Anthem. The Guests were treated with a High tea at the end of the function. The attendees thanked REACH Foundation for arranging such informative session about the city.


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Madison's racial achievement disparities remain perplexing, pervasive, political
October 31, 2018 | By Steven Elbow
Some officials, experts and education advocates say initiatives to narrow Wisconsin's gap between black and white student academic achievement have been in place for years and are having an impact on a problem that will likely take decades to solve.
"I think there have been significant successes across different areas," Madeline Hafner, executive director of the Minority Student Achievement Network at WCER, told the Capital Times. "Individual schools and individual districts have seen gaps close across different measures."
"No single educational entity can fix this," Hafner said. "It's a societal challenge that took hundreds of years to create and will require addressing all the aspects that contribute to societal racism."
Hafner, the UW-Madison education professor, heads up the Minority Student Achievement Network, a national coalition of school districts that share strategies for narrowing the achievement gap. In the four districts in Dane County, including Madison, more students of color and more students who live in poverty are taking honors and advanced placement classes. "We have research that shows that participating in honors courses and AP courses, the kids who do that persist in college at better rates than kids who don't take those courses," Haffner told the Capital Times.
She said those districts are also investing in early childhood intervention, a strategy that has been effective in getting kids ready for school, and they are recruiting more teachers of color. "Research shows us that when kids have racially diverse teachers, students of color achieve at higher levels," she said. "You've seen that program grow over time."
Her coalition also trains "equity leaders" to help narrow the achievement gap by interacting with fellow students to encourage achievement. "Just next week our kids are going to a national leadership conference for high school students for becoming equity leaders in their schools and districts," she said. "I see across the United States our kids coming and telling us about the changes they're making in their schools."


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