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Do you know what Fullsearching.com is?
Fullsearching.com is the kind of search engine that you do not want to find in your browsers because it could mean that your computer has been infected with a couple of malware threats. According to our researchers, this search engine may not be unreliable itself for the time being and may not pose a threat to your system security, but this could change in the near future. However, the fact that it is present on your computer can indicate that it entered your system in questionable ways and with a number of malicious and potentially unwanted programs. These related threats could put your virtual security at risk; therefore, you should not take this situation too lightly. Although this search engine cannot be labeled as directly dangerous, due to its questionable appearance in your browsers, we suggest that you remove Fullsearching.com and all related potential threats as well. Please read on for more information about this infection and the potential risks.
This browser extension seems to affect Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. The most likely way for you to find this search engine in these browsers is that you install a potentially unwanted program called Mustang Browser (mustang-browser.com). This is a Chromium based browser that can infiltrate your system via potentially harmful freeware bundles. This means that you may have visited questionable freeware or torrent sites lately where you clicked on unreliable third-party content. This can easily happen when you land on an unfamiliar page that hosts several third-party advertisements. If you are an inexperienced user, you should become aware that these commercial ads can be disguised and show up as something completely different. For example, such a corrupt ad could appear to be a missing plugin that stops you from seeing a supposed content, a fake download button, or a fake virus alert. Clicking on any of these ads could drop a malicious package onto your computer containing Mustang Browser, this search engine, adware programs, browser hijackers, and potentially unwanted programs. It is also possible that your system was previously infected with adware programs and browser hijackers and that is how you were exposed to corrupt ads or links that resulted in your current infection. In any case, as you can see, finding this search engine in your browsers can be an indication of multiple system security threats. This is why we suggest that you run a reliable malware scanner right after you delete Fullsearching.com.Fullsearching.com screenshot
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When you install this potentially unwanted browser, this search engine is set as your home page in the affected other browsers. Although this search engine looks all legitimate and reliable, you should be aware that it has capability to record your searches, collect information about you, and share these with third parties. This search engine redirects your queries to its own server first and then to a normal Google search results page. For the time being, it seems that the search results are not modified, but Fullsearching.com may start manipulating the results in the near future. This could mean that you may be introduced to potentially unreliable third-party ads and sponsored links sooner or later, which may lead to malicious websites if you click on them. This could bring more malware infections onto you computer but you may also fall for online scams and lose money. If you would like to restore your system security, we advise you to remove Fullsearching.com right now as well as all related programs to be on the safe side.
If you feel up to manual removal, we suggest that you start with running the uninstaller that you can find in the list of installed programs in Control Panel. Once you are there, you should also uninstall the undesirable browser. Then, you need to reset the affected browsers to make sure that no leftover remains so that this potential threat cannot regenerate itself. Please follow our instructions below if you need assistance with these steps. If you want to protect your computer and your files from similar and more dangerous attacks, you should consider using a trustworthy anti-malware security tool. But even when protected by such software, you should make sure that all your drivers and programs are always up-to-date.
Remove Fullsearching.com from Windows
Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10
- Tap Win+Q and type uninstall a program. Press Enter.
- Click on the application and click Uninstall.
Windows Vista and Windows 7
- Open the Start menu and select Control Panel.
- Open Uninstall a program.
- Click on the application and click Uninstall.
Windows XP
- Click the Start button and pick Control Panel.
- Open Add or Remove Programs.
- Click on the application and click Remove.
Remove Fullsearching.com from browsers
Mozilla Firefox
- Press Alt+H and open Troubleshooting Information.
- Press Refresh Firefox
- Click Refresh Firefox in the confirmation window.
- Click Finish.
Google Chrome
- Press Alt+F and access Settings.
- Scroll down and click Show advanced settings.
- Scroll down again and click Reset settings.
- Click Reset in the pop-up window.
In non-techie terms:
Fullsearching.com is a questionable search engine that can show up in your browsers after you install a potentially unwanted Chromium based browser called Mustang Browser. This search engine seems to operate reliable right now, but this can soon change because it has the capability to inject third-party ads and links into the search results it displays. Another bad piece of news about this search engine is that it may come on board along with malicious threats, such as adware apps, browser hijackers, and potentially unwanted programs that can all pose a threat to your system security. If you want to recover you system from this invasion, you should start by removing Fullsearching.com and all other potentially harmful programs as well. If you prefer automated solutions, we recommend that you download and install a proper malware removal tool that will automatically stop all known malware attacks and clean up your system.


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. . . [W]here resource abundant regions exploit the fiscal advantage, provided by the resource rents, to compete more aggressively in the inter-regional competition over capital, and as a result attract vast amounts of capital– which in turn mitigates and even reverses Dutch Disease symptoms (and, following Wahba's (1998) model, transmits them to factor exporting regions) so that eventually Resource Blessing effects are observed within federations.That is from this paper by Ohad Raveh, and the title is "Dutch Disease, Factor Mobility, and the Alberta Effect: The case of federations."
Dec 17, 2013
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Eclectic doesn't begin to describe Lake of the Woods, a heavily wooded, water-oriented, gated community in Orange County's Locust Grove, halfway between Fredericksburg and Culpeper on Route 3.
For Diane MacDonald, "it's like living in a campground with a house." MacDonald, an 18-year resident, meditates as she takes solitary walks along the community's narrow, winding, shaded lanes.
For Bob and Sally Shope, eating Sunday brunch or dinner at the community's bustling clubhouse, with its panoramic water view, and participating in several of the 50 clubs is just the lifestyle they were seeking when they moved from North Carolina in 2009. With a batch of grandchildren and great-grandchildren living nearby, Bob said, "this is where we will probably spend the rest of our lives."
Speed limits of 15 and 25 mph reflect the slower pace of life found there, in contrast to the history of the land, which was in the crossfire of the Battle of the Wilderness during the Civil War. Earlier, in Colonial days, the region was home to Germanna, a settlement of German immigrants founded by former Virginia Lt. Gov. Alexander Spotswood, who needed workers for his nearby iron mines. Gold mining thrived nearby in the early 19th century.
Lake of the Woods began in the late 1960s as a leisure-oriented getaway for weekend and seasonal use. The developers chose the site because of its deep natural valleys, ideal for creating stream-fed lakes once dams were built.
Jeff Flynn bought one of the first undeveloped lots in 1967 for $4,000 with a seven-year payment plan. That gave him camping privileges in the community and the opportunity to watch the lakes fill.
By 1976, when Flynn's sons were 8 and 13, the family moved into a lakeside house. "We drove our kids to the front gate to catch the school bus," said Flynn. "There were no schools within 15 miles then. Now, six school buses come through, and there are three schools close by."
Flynn said his family took the pleasant setting for granted until one of his son's college friends exclaimed: "You grew up here? This is the kind of place we go to for vacation!"
There are now 40 miles of paved roads and more than five miles of walking trails within the community. About two-thirds of the residents live there year-round.
Of 3,800 houses in Lake of the Woods, 850 front on one of two man-made lakes. The smaller lake, at 36 acres, is the domain of anglers and paddlers. The larger one — covering 536 acres and stretching almost three miles long, with about 13 miles of shoreline — includes eight sand beaches and two marinas, giving all residents easy access to the water.
Sailing, water-skiing and wave running are allowed, but meandering via pontoon boat or kayak seems to be residents' primary type of water transportation.
The varied income levels in the community are reflected in the home prices, which range from $120,000 to over $1 million. Included are some original cozy cabins under 900 square feet, plus numerous bungalows, ramblers and contemporaries, many sporting wide decks. Each house seems to reflect a different builder and changing styles. "As you go along, you can see the decades," said Sue Bielmeier, a two-year resident.
In the off-season, tranquillity rules. The only sounds heard one recent weekend were those of birds and an occasional barking dog. Ducks and swans glided past docks as dawn's light broke through a fine mist. Streets were occupied mostly by joggers, dog walkers and a few cyclists. "Chipmunks and squirrels are our traffic," said real estate agent and resident Pat Licata.
There seems to be no divide between full- and part-time residents. When Julia Strickland and her husband, Clark, were looking for a weekend place three years ago, Lake of the Woods met their main criterion: being close enough to their Fairfax home so they'd actually use it. "And we do," she said, It's also halfway between home and the University of Virginia, where their son is a student.
"Our first visits were met with baked goods from neighbors on both sides," said Strickland. "We've felt just as welcomed ever since."
Another part-timer, Columbia resident Donna Thomas, said neighbors keep her family informed of any problems, such as downed trees.
Round-the-clock security, ensuring that only residents and their guests have access to the community and lake, was important to Carey Young, who lives in Baileys Crossroads and recently bought a small cottage in a wooded setting: three bedrooms, two baths and a fireplace for less than $150,000. "It's a gated community that doesn't feel gated until you're several hours away, and then you're glad it is," she said.
The homeowners association, composed of a seven-member board and 20 advisory committees, is responsible for operations within the gates. Earlier this year, state officials dropped a long-running demand for the homeowners to upgrade a spillway on an earthen dam along the main lake; the work was estimated to cost $6 million. The dam received a six-year unconditional operational certificate in March.
The homeowners association maintains a reserve fund to help with dam maintenance and to protect members from spikes in the annual assessments. This year's assessment for all lots is $1,175 and covers services of the community's volunteer fire department and salaries for a staff of more than 90 people who maintain the lake, streets and common property and tend to snow removal.
Use of the 18-hole golf course, swimming pools, boat slips or equestrian center entails additional fees. For example, a family pool membership costs an extra $170 per year.
Forty-four years after his purchase, Jeff Flynn says he still enjoys the community's casual ambiance. "It's not a country club atmosphere," he said. "There's a real sense of community here."
Ann Cameron Siegal is a freelance writer.


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I Wish that I Could Cause the Sun
To Warm the World with Love
Remove the Clouds a Moment
To Reveal the Stars Above.
I Wish that I Could Wipe that Tear
From the Corner Of your Eye
Bring Happiness For Your Sorrow
Bring a Smile For Your Sigh.
I Wish that I Could Better Things
Put Hope Within Your Heart
Make Today the Best you've Had
Right From Its Very Start
I Wish that I Were Able
To Make Your Dreams Come True
I wish I Could - I Wish I Could
Do All These Things For You !!


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First, I paired it with a simple striped tee, colored jeans, and metallic flats for a trip to the mall.
Necklace- Forever 21
On a casual Saturday, I wore it with a gingham shirt and cognac boots.
Shirt- J. Crew, Jeggings- Jessica Simpson, Boots- Rack Room Shoes, Bracelet- Glam Grab
Necklace- Glam Grab
My favorite had to be this super comfy all black outfit.
Shirt- Zara, Leggings- Target, Boots- Charlotte Russe
Necklace- Forever 21, Bracelet- Target (on sale!)And finally, I paired my vest with my favorite lace dress from Zara for a more elegant look I am saving for a special occasion.
For dinner out, I wore a sequin shirt and maroon wedges to dress up my vest a bit.Shirt- J.Crew Factory, Wedges- Forever 21 (similar)
Bracelet- Glam Grab
Do you have a faux fur vest? What is your favorite way to wear it?
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February 9, 2005
crepe or pancake?
It was Shrove Tuesday yesterday, a day to eat pancakes, so they say. Personally, I have never celebrated it by eating pancakes on this day, but this year I saw a lot of bloggers doing it, including my friend Naoko (her blog in Japanese) in Sheffield, UK, and she pointed me to an easy pancake recipe. It somehow didn't seem like a bad idea to celebrate some kind of seasonal event when I just missed Setsubun or traditional Japanese end-of-winter bean-throwing day (refer to this for further information), and it was also interesting to me that the thin and large pancakes they make are actually more like crepes. So I decided that it wouldn't hurt if I try.
Actually, I could hurt because I am so bad at making sweets in a pan/skillet. Pancakes and crepes have been among the things I would least want to try, as I have wasted a lot of eggs, sugar and flour in attempting to making them as a kid.
And this time, although the recipe was pretty straightforward and well-detailed, it didn't help me much when it comes to cooking a pancake; first, I might probably be really bad pancake maker by nature, and second, the skillet I have is basically as bad as I am at baking delicate things like thin pancakes. I followed the process with my every attention, but I ended up throwing away my first pancake, and the rest didn't even come out round-shaped; the batter of the first batch got burned and stacked right on the center of the bottom of skillet and wouldn't peel off, so I just used one half of the skillet, avoiding the burned part in the middle.
Even if they were semicircle instead of full-circle, my pancakes managed to survive as a decent nosh. It appears that sugar & lemon is what they traditionally have in the UK, I had mine with a bit different fillings.
One turned into a butter & marmalade pancake. I used June Taylor's Blood Orange marmalade, which was sweet and full-bodied, perfect to subtly sweeten the plain, unsweetened pancake.
Another one was dressed up with a simple delight of butter, sugar, and salt. Crystal-like cassonade and fleur de sel did a great job here, both in taste and as a visual effect.
I had five small semicircles in total, and other three were munched up with the marmalade, butter & cinnamon sugar, and nutella. All in all, it was a fun experiment making pancakes, but I'm not sure if I want do this very often... if I ever do, I should note that I should better add some vanilla extract to the batter (I didn't like the egginess of it), and I really should get better equipment.
posted by chika at: 2/09/2005 06:05:00 PM
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wish i had a big dish of those right now; they look like great comfort food, YUM
Posted by mindy
- 8:02 AM, February 10, 2005
Oh - I love pancakes and it is difficult not to run to the kitchen after seeing your pictures - YUM!
Posted by Marina
- 9:36 AM, February 10, 2005
Hi Chika - I don't believe you're not very good at making pancakes, they look beautiful! I had forgotten about Setsubun (and didn't make pancakes either)...
Posted by keiko
- 4:36 PM, February 10, 2005
Hi there,
mindy - it really would be a great comfort food, I agree - as long as I have someone else to make one for me :)
Marina - did you make some?
Keiko - sure you can believe it, I just put the most decent-looking part in those picture :P
Posted by chika
- 11:27 AM, February 13, 2005
- 10:19 PM, February 27, 2006
- 10:19 PM, February 27, 2006
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If my program crashes with a bsddb (or anydbm) database open, it gets corrupted. How come?
Databases opened for write access with the bsddb module (and often by the anydbm module, since it will preferentially use bsddb) must explicitly be closed using the .close() method of the database. The underlying library caches database contents which need to be converted to on-disk form and written.
If you have initialized a new bsddb database but not written anything to it before the program crashes, you will often wind up with a zero-length file and encounter an exception the next time the file is opened.
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Want to know the best ways to fly for free? It's a no-brainer when it comes to making use of air mile credit cards. Not only handy for retail therapy sessions, these cards obviously also accumulate points and miles, turning them into shopping vouchers, hotel bookings and flight tickets via a number of airlines such as Singapore Airlines, AirAsia and Qantas – a pretty sweet deal for frequent flyers! Here are five of the best credit cards with frequent flyer mile promos and benefits that best suit your travelling needs. Pack your bags – a holiday awaits you!
KrisFlyer UOB
Great for: Those who frequent airlines like Singapore Airlines, Tigerair, Scoot and Silk Air.
You can now redeem flights and upgrade seats with the KrisFlyer miles you earn when you spend with your KrisFlyer UOB Debit Card and Account. This debit card is a great starter kit that accumulates miles rather than interest, and you'll receive 1,000 KrisFlyer miles just by applying – how amazing is that? You'll also start receiving miles from $3,000 in your account upwards. For every $1 spent, you'll earn 1.4 KrisFlyer miles, and if you have a monthly average deposit of more than $350,000, you'll receive 5.4 KrisFlyer miles for every $1. Visit this page for more information on how your miles are being calculated, as well as the number of miles needed to redeem flights. Plus, with the KrisFlyer UOB Debit Card, you get to enjoy exclusive benefits like priority check-in and boarding, additional baggage allowance, seat selection and convenience fee waiver when you book with Scoot and Tigerair. Hello to a hassle-free flight!
KrisFlyer UOB is eligible for Singapore citizens, permanent residents and foreigners of 18 years and above, with no minimum income required.
DBS Altitude Visa Signature Card
Great for: Those planning trips to Bali
This card allows you to earn 3 miles for every $1 spent, which can be used for hotels and flights with international airlines such as Cathay Pacific and Qatar Airways. You can also convert the miles into KrisFlyer and AirAsia points. Singapore transactions earn you 1.2 miles per $1 spent, 2 miles per $1 spent overseas, and 3 miles per $1 when booking flights and hotels online via Agoda, Expedia, Airbnb and more. Your miles will never expire, and you will receive an additional 10,000 miles when you renew your membership fee at $193.60. Sunnies on the ready; you can even redeem a round trip to Bali with 15,000 KrisFlyer miles!
DBS Altitude Visa Signature Card is eligible for Singaporeans (annual income of $30,000 and above) and foreigners (annual income of $45,000 and above) of 21 years and above.
Citi PremierMiles Visa Card
Great for: Miles that never expire
With every $1 spent on booking flights online, you'll receive up to 10 Citi Miles, which can be converted for miles such as Qantas Points, KrisFlyer Miles, Asia Miles and Delta Skymiles. Miles can also be used for hotel bookings. $1 spent in Singapore earns you 1.2 miles, while $1 spent overseas earns you 2 air miles. Receive even more with its year-long promos like earning 3 Citi Miles for every $1 spent on expedica.com.sg/bonusrewards, receiving 50% more miles on overseas purchases when you're abroad for long weekends this year, and getting 10 Citi Miles per $1 spent on Kalingo.com. Plus, clinch an additional 10,000 Citi Miles when you renew your membership with a basic annual fee of $192.60!
Citi PremierMiles Visa Card is eligible for Singaporeans and foreigners of 21 years and above, with a minimum annual income of $50,000.
OCBC Voyage Card
Great for: Travellers who are adventurous in trying new airlines
Cardholders can book flights to any city, allowing you to redeem miles at any airline in the world! You can also redeem your miles instantly, partially or fully, for your friends or family's flights, without worrying about them expiring. For every $1 spent, earn 2.3 Voyage miles for foreign currency transactions and local dining, and earn 1 VOYAGE mile for any other local spend, including retail purchases. Enjoy complimentary VIP airport lounge access around the world, limousine transfer services, golf privileges in Singapore, as well as travel insurance coverage of up to $1,500,000.
OCBC VOYAGE Card is eligible for OCBC Premier Banking customers who are of 21 years and above, with a minimum annual income of $120,000.
ANZ Travel Visa Signature Credit Card
Great for: Frequent travellers to Australia and New Zealand
Cardholders earn $2.8 Travel$ or 2.8 air miles per $1 when spending at retail shops in the two countries, or booking flights with Qantas and Jetstar airlines. Other transactions, including ones in Singapore, earn you 1.4 Travel$ or 1.4 air miles per $1 spent. For a worry-free holiday, the card also comes with complimentary travel and accident insurance of up to $1,000,000 for the cardholder and $100,000 for your spouse and child upon booking flights with the credit card.
ANZ Travel Visa Signature Credit Card is eligible for Singapore citizens and permanent residents with a minimum annual income of $60,000, and foreigners with a minimum annual income of $90,000. Applicants must be between 21 and 65 years old.
Looking for more great travel tips? Check out our story about the dos and don'ts of travelling in Myanmar, and the 5 must have vaccinations for trips in the Southeast Asian region, plus the best places in Asia for solo female travellers.


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Mage XLC1 – gaming PC cooled with liquidin Gaming Gadgets 1 Comment »
iBUYPOWER expands their X:LC line of PCs for game players with a new model based on AMD processors- Mage XLC M1.
It features one of three 6-core processors: Phenom II X6 1055T, 1075T or 1090T. A stable operation is possible thanks to an effective cooling system using Asetek liquid with a big, 240mm radiator. The PC comes with an 8GB of RAM DDR3 memory, AMD Radeon HD 5770 graphics, 1TB HDD and Windows 7 Home Premium operating system. At its lowest configuration settings, the price will be $1099.


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Whiteleys Pop-Up Project
Pop Up Store
London, UK
Pop Store has worked with many brands, either new to retail, or new to specific regions, wanting to test the waters of the market before committing to permanent stores.
London's historic shopping centre Whiteleys, approached Pop Store to create the first ever 'Pop Up Floor' in a Shopping Centre. Pop Store hand-picked various brands for the project, managing the design and build of the stores, as well as running the stores operationally.
The pop up store line up included Frost & French; the celebrity brand owned by Sadie Frost & Jemima French as well as US brand Junk Food, the first stand alone store for Junk Food in the world.
The stores were very successful and were key to securing permanent shops within the centre, helping future lettings.


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Advantages of beautiful and functional indoor glass doors on freera.org
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Remember the time when comedies were actually funny?
Let me get straight to the point. It is quite persumptous to label the movie as a comedy when its humour is so incomplete that some of the viewers maybe won't make even a single laugh while watching it. That's how disappointing this movie is.
It's not like there are some high expectations when we talk about romantic comedies. It is a quite predictible genre made simply for fun and nobody hopes to find Hitchock's genious plots in them. However, there is enough space to make such movies at least cute and charming. To make them watchable.
This is just one of those movies you can watch while doing something else – you won't miss anything special and you will easily follow it even if your concentration is worse than ever. You will probably even be able to tell what's next. The movie is about just married couple trying to make it trough the first year of marriage. From the first day everybody consider that they won't last long. There is this cliche that the first year of marriage is the hardest one. It is simply not a valid fact or a confirmed rule and it's just incomprehensible why would anyone base the whole movie on it. We can see that the characters are having troubles understanding each other, but there is no acceptable and explicit reason for it.
The script problem is based on the lack of character's motivation. You see how the couple is annoyed all the time, but most of the time you can't catch up why is that so. An experienced writer could probably fix it in several lines, but I guess Dan Mazer, who wrote the screenplay and directed the movie, is more expert for comedies like Borat and Ali G (he wrote screenplays for those movies). I Give It a Year is his first directed movie, but that still isn't an excuse for filming such a sloppy screenplay that seems like it needs a big spring cleaning.
I believe Mazer's idea was okay, just like the topic is fine. We are faced with problems of marriage in modern life packed in fancy appartments, sterile looking office, in all the mess and confusion of the 21st century. That's a great topic, if you decide to explore it properly. The rush of getting into marriage and the rush that fallows in marriage could be funny and serious film material at the same time. When the movie is done like this, the viewer is devoid of many interesting branches of such topic.
It could all be forgiven if the movie was at least funny. The "humor" here is reduced to some dirty allusions and double meaning lines which are mostly already used-up long time ago. Like we have already heard them all in at least ten earlier movies.
If you are really into watching it, okay. Try to retell it to someone a week, or even just several days after watching. Now see how you can't remember any good joke or gag. That's mostly because there weren't any jokes like that, worth of memorizing. The only properly funny moment was at the end, but it surely can't make up the rest of the boring hour and a half. If you still feel like watching you can catch a stream on alluc or a download over at filestube. Or if you're out of your mind preorder the dvd, ugh.


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Rev. Letha Brogdon
Rev Brogdon was born in Jackson, Michigan into a family of devote, sincere fundamentalists.
"Since my mother was the church pianist/organist I spent what free moments I had away from school dusting a pew. When I reached college age it was understood that I would attend the school that supported and promulgated our dogmas, tenets and beliefs.
Interestingly, it was during this period that I began questioning much of what was being presented as truth. During my senior year I fell in love and soon married the sheriff of the county.
At that time the sheriff resided in the county jail so for the next twelve years that became my residence, one abutting the home of prisoners. While there I procured a Master's Degree from Ball State University, a valuable step for my chosen field, but secondary in importance to the life experiences gleaned while living in my current home. Our two little boys, ages ten and eight, suffered the loss of their father, my husband, from an unexpected heart attack, leaving us adrift and confused.
Considerable time was required for healing, especially for the boys who viewed their father as invincible, powerful and the rock upon which our family resided. During this period I became an agnostic, convinced that there was a God but one who was beyond reach, understanding and unknowable—out there somewhere doing whatever a God is supposed to do. My focus turned to my immediate family and the need to supply love and financial security. I reentered the school system, teaching for the next thirty years. With stress and burdens mounting, I discovered and entered a class on Transcendental Meditation.
Friends suggested and steered me to multiple books dealing with psychic and spiritual matters. The stage was set when a long time professor friend flew in from New Zealand (her adopted country) and offered to meet for lunch. It was she who carried the name and phone number of the Late Rev. Gladis Strohme and insisted that I make an appointment with her. Little did I know how drastically my life was about to change. Little did I know that guidance was being provided from a nebulous world that I wasn't even sure existed. From that initial meeting I was convinced that I had met a deeply spiritual, humble and wise woman who would be willing to take my hand and guide me in a pathway that would lead forever upward and onward.
Being a well-known and seriously developed medium she still maintained a delightful sense of humor. A bond formed almost immediately which would last as long as she remained on this earth plane and, gratefully, even into the next. 2 From that time forward my search has been for growth, understanding and progress. A love for learning, delving deeply into our philosophy, and personal spiritual attainment are firmly embedded and will never end—even when I reach the next sphere. My prayer is that I may teach our beliefs as honestly and as sincerely as they were presented to me and that lives will be touched in a profound way. It's a life changer!"


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Go grab a pair of super comfy jersey leggings from f21 for around $5.
put on the leggings and mark where you want your circles and how big with sewing chalk. Doesn't have to be perfect here.
If you have a circle drawing problem, make some quick templates out of cardboard and grab something circular to trace. Cut out with xacto knife or box cutter (careful please).
Trace these circles over where you originally marked while they were on you.
Grab a very sharp pair of shears and cut out the circles.
If you're worried about fraying use some of that anti-fray stuff you can buy at fabric stores. it shouldn't fray though.
Good luck!
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Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Blackstone Edge
I always find it fascinating the way these round basins form on the top of gritstone boulders:
The view North(ish), from the summit:
Wandering round the hilltop I was reminded of Alan Burnett's post on his News From Nowhere blog about the commemoration of a Chartist gathering there.
8 comments:
- Gwil W said...
For some reason this post reminds me of the time I tried to walk over the old Salt Path from Wray to Dunsop Bridge. Shotgun pellets suddenly started whizzing out of the heather and fortunately over my head. Then I saw them. They were crouched in their tweeds. The purple face one bellowed something about it being the glorious 12th (August) and me being a bloody fool . . .
- 23 May 2012 at 09:18
- Tom Stephenson said...
They look like the Argyle 'cup and ring' carvings in the Highlands.
- 23 May 2012 at 09:45
- The Weaver of Grass said...
Were these people real or figments of your joint imaginations then? You can't leave us in suspense.
- 23 May 2012 at 19:47
- Dominic Rivron said...
Thanks for these comments!
Gwil W: I hope you reminded him there's an H in pheasant. :)
Tom S: I know what you mean. I think these are naturally formed by the incessant action of water though.
WG: Real. It would have been a nice fictional touch, though.
- 23 May 2012 at 23:49
- Rachel Fenton said...
You've got the bones of an eerily great short story there, Dominic. Most bizarre - love the way they piled in the cars at the end of that scene though - like a C4 film or a Simon Armitage poem. Keeping it real.
"round basins form on the top of gritstone boulder" - fairy baths - obvioulsy! Or, ants trapped in a drop of rain for yonks and running round to try and get out making the circles like cows in a round ditch.....the possibilities are endless...
- 24 May 2012 at 00:59
- GOAT said...
Ice-cream trucks and Druids descending from the hills. Who says the golden age of British psychedelia has gone?
- 24 May 2012 at 22:56
- tony said...
How Odd! I have never heard of those white robe gezzers........[the East Lancs Chapter of the KKK?] Very Much The Same Spot that I came across "Captain Helliwell"
- 25 May 2012 at 12:40
- Dominic Rivron said...
Thanks for these comments.
RF: The bones, indeed, but not the flesh. I'm now irritating myself with my lack of knowledge about the origins of these gritstone outcrops.
GOAT: I'd not thought of that. As I described it, there are definite overtones of a Yorks/Lancs Wicker Man style mystery.
tony: Definitely not the KKK. All the robed people were black. And Capt. Helliwell -that was a sad story, I remember, lightened only by the wonderful "No Potpourri" joke.
- 26 May 2012 at 21:53


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Greetings Mommy Dearests,
Recently, I have been losing sleep over a certain issue and now I am going to stop obsessing over it and share it with my sisters, if for nothing else, absolution. The other day while I was walking to my Hot Yoga class, I came across a happy child, frolicking down the street alongside her mother. Everything seemed perfect, as things sometimes do from the outside but as I was passing her, I realized she was eating something I hadn't seen in years…she was eating a donut.
There they were, just strolling down the ignorant path of life, mother and daughter, unbeknownst to them (I'm assuming because they might be poor or don't read) that this little girl was ingesting pure poison. Now, I didn't stop to ask them where they had bought the donut because initially I reflected upon the fact that we at our home, once or twice a year, do splurge on Fonuts. We are not North Koreans for God's sake but this holed pastry looked too sugary to be a Fonut and as I said before, I think they might have been poor or not able to read so how would they even know where to purchase a Fonut? Here is where my moral dilemma begins; I did nothing to stop them. I watched in horror while this poor (literally and figuratively) little angel orally inhaled a giant, doughy, powdered-sugar piece of nuclear waste and I did nothing. How are they to ever know the long-term damage fried, GMO laden, refined sugar-treats can do to a person? I've spoken to hundreds, make that hundreds of thousands of people regarding childhood obesity and while this child was in no way obese and was actually skipping and eating (another child-danger I abhor), I am sure she was on her way home to a dinner of fried chicken with a side of something fried.
As I continued on my way to Hot Yoga, something began to burn deep inside my soul. My own selfish need for a good sesh with Raaj stopped me from fulfilling my responsibility as an educated woman to gently put myself between the duo and their destination to gift them the knowledge that I bequeath. For people pay me hundreds, make that millions of dollars every year to bestow my self-studied informational facts about nutrition upon their blank slates of a mind and I failed. I failed as a person, I failed as an educator but mostly, I failed as a mother. How can I call myself a sister to all women if I am not able to protect, scold even, their children? I should have scolded that child for her joyous innocence and I should have scolded that poor (literally and figuratively) mother for not knowing in 2015 that sugar will turn her neglected daughter into either a crack whore or just a plain old whore.
I apologize to you all today and solemnly vow that I will never ever again walk by a person, self-poisoning themselves with what we once used to call snacks or treats and not say a thing. You have my promise, sisters – you have my promise. I sign off continuing the fight for a world without sugar, a world without hunger and world without judgment for those who just don't know.
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be fulfilled "– Luke 6:20-23


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Candy box, snowmen cards, sling bag
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"All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them." ~ Walt Disney
LMAO oh excellent I love it!!
I hear ya. Take care!
See ya on the road, Pumpkin!
Jeez, that's not the way I imagined you ... disapointing !!! lol
awwww whats up?
see you when you get here crazy! lol...(((Hugs))) for anything that's bothering you.
PS I got my package in PERFECT condition, it's TOTALLY awesome. Will thank you properly on my blog tomorrow, just got back from a trip and I'm beat!
Yep. Had a lot of those crazy making days over the last month. Only just starting to breathe again.
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By going with a 6-1-1 rotation where we keep the Auburn game alive every year, Georgia would play Alabama twice every 12 years. We'd only get them at home once over that period.
Consider our series with Clemson. In 1987, Georgia stopped playing Clemson on an annual basis. We booked two year deals with them in '90-'91, '94-'95, '02-'03 and '13-14. Let's ignore the future dates for a moment.
From 1988-2011, we faced Clemson six times (3 at home) over a 24 year period. Applying the 14 team, 8 league game model to the past would mean that we would have faced Alabama 4 times during that same period. Only twice at home. Same with LSU.
Rotational Models:
- 5-2-1: Used by the SEC from '92-'01 while at 12 teams. This model meant your four non-permanent opponents only came to Athens once every 8 years.
- 5-1-2: Used by the SEC from '02-Today. Your five non-permanent opponents come to Athens once every five years.
- 6-1-1: Proposed model for a 14 team league playing 8 games. You get the 6 non-permanent opponents at home once every 12 years.
- 6-1-2: A 14 team model that brings non-permanent opponents to Athens once every six years. Not noticeably different than today.


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Magnetic tongue stud warning
Young people are being warned about the dangers of magnetic tongue studs, after reports of serious medical emergencies.
The head teacher of a school in Manchester has sent out an alert to parents and spoken to pupils.
The studs give the wearer the look of a tongue piercing but without a hole.
If accidentally swallowed, the magnets - designed to be worn either side of the tongue - can stick together, trapping parts of the intestine and leading to perforation of the bowel.
While magnetic facial studs can be bought online, schoolchildren are thought to be fashioning their own tongue versions using magnetic earrings and ball bearings from toy puzzles.
In his letter to parents, head teacher Kevin Hogan from St Matthew's Roman Catholic High School said: "We have spoken to all pupils about this matter and warned them of the potentially harmful consequences of swallowing these magnets.
"If your child has accidentally swallowed one or more of these balls you should seek medical advice immediately."
Dr Anil Thomas George and Dr Sandeep Motiwale, of Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham, wrote a letter to medical journal the Lancet, asking doctors to advise parents of the dangers.
They said two young children in the East Midlands had been admitted to hospital for surgery to remove magnets that had been swallowed.
They wrote: "Parents need to be alerted to the potential risk of silent bowel perforation and fistulation from accidental ingestion of magnets in children.
"Accidental ingestion of magnetic foreign bodies, which was once rare, has become more common owing to the increasing availability of toys with magnetic elements.
"A solitary ingested magnet can pass through the gut spontaneously. However, ingestion of multiple magnets or a single magnet along with another metallic part can cause them to stick to each other with forces of up to 1,300G [gauss], compressing the intervening bowel and leading to subsequent fistulation and perforation."


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Monday, February 11, 2019
Lee Muk-kam's floating fish farm in the sheltered bay off Tai Po's Sam Mun Tsai was one of the mariculture zones hardest hit by the onslaught.
By spring of the following year, 8,000 Sabah groupers, which he had raised from fry, had been wiped out by the oxygen-depleting blooms, also known as "red tides".
"That was almost a million dollars in losses," he said, pointing to a lone grouper frolicking in one of his sea cages. "Only one survived and, surprisingly, it is still alive."
Source: SCMP
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Wednesday, February 20, 2019
McDonald's has introduced and quietly killed many dishes over the years (remember McDonald's pizza?), but there's a core group of items that have held their spot on the menu for decades.
Listed alongside the Big Mac and McNuggets is the Filet-O-Fish—a McDonald's staple you may have forgotten about if you're not the type of person who orders seafood from fast food restaurants.
But the classic sandwich, consisting of a fried fish filet, tartar sauce, and American cheese on a bun, didn't get on the menu by mistake—and thanks to its popularity around Lent, it's likely to stick around.
Source: Mental Floss
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Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Glen Libby looks back fondly on his days as a Maine shrimp trawler, but he's concerned about what seafood lovers will think if the shuttered fishery ever reopens.
"Shrimp? What are those?" he said. "There will be a market. But it depends how big of a market you're talking about."
Maine's historic shrimp industry has been closed since 2013 because of a loss in population of shrimp off of New England that is tied in large part to warming oceans. And with a reopening likely several years away – if it ever happens at all – Libby and others who formerly worked in the business are grappling with how much of the industry they'll be able to salvage if the time ever comes.
Source: Journal Tribune
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This is what CEO Regin Jacobsen told SalmonBusiness during Bakkafrost's quarterly presentation at Hotel Continental in Oslo on Tuesday.
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Tuesday, February 19, 2019
The Tory MP for St Austell, Cornwall, told Express.co.uk there is still a "very deep sense of betrayal" in his fishing community over the way the industry was "sold out" to the EU when the UK joined the common market. Mr Double warned the Prime Minister's Brexit deal risks of keeping the UK in the EU Common Fisheries Policy, breaking the promise made to fishermen all over the country who voted to leave the EU to take back control of UK fishing waters.
Source: Express
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Tuesday, February 19, 2019
SIM cards, bluefin tuna, and intercepted intimate conversations are at the centre of the latest scandal in the fishing industry, involving the now-suspended Director Andreina Fenech Farrugia and a Spanish industry magnate. The case appears to be just the tip of the iceberg with the reports threatening to expose a wide-network of bribery and corruption in the highest levels of the industry.
What is this story all about?
Leaked phone transcripts obtained by Spanish investigative authorities have fuelled allegations that now-suspended Fisheries Director Fenech Farrugia would obtain payments targeted at using her influence to regularise fish-catches above quotas that would then be exported to the more lucrative markets of Japan, Spain, and the US.
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Monday, February 18, 2019
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The British International Education Association and the Born Free Foundation hosted a conference in January to highlight the importance of technological solutions in protecting vulnerable species and ecosystems. Speakers underlined how technology can help conservation efforts: fixed-wing drones can land on water and circle high above the Indian Ocean to spot whales, rays and illegal fishing, while artificial intelligence-enabled infrared cameras are able to identify members of an individual species or human poachers, even through thick environmental cover.
Source: The Guardian
IN BRIEF - Eel migration mystery that has puzzled ecologists since Aristotle about to be solved
he mystery of eel migration which has puzzled ecologists since Aristotle is about to be solved, the Environment Agency has said as it announced plans to locate their origin.
The critically endangered species travel some 3,700 miles from Europe across the Atlantic Ocean to spawn - but where exactly remains completely unknown.
Researchers claim the eels spawn and die somewhere in the Sargasso Sea, a vast area off the east coast of the United States and north of the Caribbean.
Source: Telegraph
Monday, February 18, 2019
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The NASF opening session will feature Policy Makers addressing important issues related to world trade, oceans and climate change along with key industry captains.
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IN BRIEF - Clearwater Welcomes MSC Audit of Offshore Lobster Fishery
Monday, February 18, 2019
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In the interest of transparency, and to acknowledge stakeholder concerns, Clearwater welcomes the full review of the offshore lobster fishery. All stakeholders have an opportunity to participate in the audit process. The site visit for the audit will take place the week of April 8th 2019—earlier than the regularly scheduled annual review, which is typically done in June.


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I am again joining #FridayReflections over at Everyday Gyaan.
The prompt today is "If you could re-take a class from your school or uni days, which would it be?" I want to look at this prompt from another angle.
I wish that there had been a different educational world for my brother in law with autism.
I remember well, my first experience with special education, and how far we have come in the last 50 years.
I started elementary school in the Bronx, a borough of New York City, in the United States, in September of 1957. One day, and it may have been in second grade, we had to move down to the "special ed" room for several hours. It was a scary place.
It was located in the basement of the elementary school. The "special ed" students (our name for them used a word totally inappropriate today - a word that began with the letter "R"), were isolated from the rest of the student body. I never did see them again. I barely knew they existed.
Those children, isolated in my school's basement, had few rights in education, as did "Bil", my brother in law, who was born in 1958. Not until 1975 was the "Education of Handicapped Children Act" passed. By 1990, this law had assumed its current name, IDEA, the Individuals with Disabilities Educational Act.
But these laws were too late for my brother in law. I can wish that I could go back in time and bring what exists now to those times.
There was no modern Child Find when Bil started school in the early 1960's. Earlier, when he was a toddler, there was no alarm over the fact that Bil was not speaking by the age of two. Rather, my mother in law was blamed for his deficits. She "spoiled" him, her doctor claimed, when he pointed to items and grunted. He threw tantrums when he wasn't understood. He didn't speak until he was five.
In today's world, his autism would have been recognized at an early age, hopefully. He would have been entitled to educational services through the age of 21 (after 21, what happens is a long, and not necessarily pleasant story, to be told at another time). We'll never know what Bil might have been capable of, had he received the proper interventions.
But, as a wise autism advocate once told me, we can not live in the past. We have to work with the present day Bil, to make sure he has the best quality of life available to him.
But still...I dream....if only. If only, in life, there could be do-overs.
Come over to Everyday Gyaan, link up if you wish, and read some other Friday Reflections.
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French-Canadian comedy directed by Ken Scott and starring Patrick Huard. David Wozniak (Huard) is into his forties but still an eternal teenager, he owes a lot of money and isn't very successful. But his life's just going to get even more eventful... after donating sperm a number of years before, he has now been approached by the fertility clinic and told that 142 of his 533 biological children would like to meet their biological dad. Not only that, his current girlfriend, Valérie (Julie LeBreton), is also pregnant, yet feels David isn't mature enough to be a father.


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The story is told from the point of view of Captain Gulliver. When the book begins he is an young man trying unsuccessfully to support himself and his family. Gulliver's medical practice finally folds and he is forced to find another form of employment, so he decides to become a surgeon on board a ship to the South Sea.
Some months into the voyage a violent storm drives the ship onto a rock destroying it completely. Gulliver and a few of his shipmates escape on the boat but it is quickly overturned by the storm and Gulliver is forced to swim for his life. Gulliver is washed ashore on a small island, where he falls asleep from fatigue.
Upon awakening, though, Gulliver receives a nasty surprise, for he finds that he is tied down to the ground by numerous small ropes and threads. Soon Gulliver discovers that the island that he landed upon is peopled by a diminutive race of people less than six inches in height. Thought Gulliver tries his best to escape the people shoot numerous arrows at him and this convinces him to cease his resistance.
The little people, who call themselves Lilliputians, give Gulliver some drugged wine which causes him to go to sleep and when he awakes he finds that they have transported him inland on a large machine of their making and chained one of his legs securely.
After some weeks during which Gulliver learns the language of the Lilliputians and proves that he is trustworthy the little people grant him his freedom provided that he help them on numerous public projects that could benefit from his vast strength.
One project that Gulliver takes on is conquering the Blefuscudians, another race of small people who live on a nearby island and who are determined to conquer the Lilliputians. Gulliver sneaks up on the island and steals all of their warships by tying cables to them and then pulling them back to Lilliput. This deed earns him the title of Nardac, a great honor in Lilliput.
However, another of Gulliver's helpful deeds is not appreciated quite as much. When a fire breaks out at the national palace Gulliver rushes to the aid only to find that there is little water available to put out the fire. Ever resourceful Gulliver uses his urine to extinguish the fire. This expedient saves the rest of the palace but causes great resentment among certain Lilliputians. They begin to use this as part of a weighty argument against Gulliver. They say that feeding Gulliver will soon starve everyone on the island. By referring to his disgraceful service to the palace and a pretended alliance with the Lilliputian's enemies the Blefuscudians they say that Gulliver should be killed and his body disposed of.
Gulliver learns of the plot through a friend, so he escapes to Blefuscu to save his life. There he finds the overturned boat washed ashore. After restoring it and building a store of provisions he leaves the Lilliputians and after a brief voyage meets up with a ship that takes him back to England.
This first part of "Gulliver's Travels" is pure political satire. Jonathan Swift uses the Lilliputians, the Blefuscudians and their miniature disputes and wars to make fun of real governments and conflicts of his time. For example, in Lilliputian society there are two rival political groups, the High-Heels and the Low-Heels. As there names would indicate these two rival groups are differentiated by the size of their heels. These represent the Tories and the Whigs, two rival English political parties of the 18th century. Jonathan Swift then criticizes George II, then prince, by portraying him in the book as inclined to both parties such that he hobbles along on heels of different sizes. In addition, Swift also religious disputes. A key event in the story of Gulliver's first voyage is the way between the Lilliputians and the Blefuscudians. According to the Lilliputian king this war began over which side of the egg it is proper to crack open first, either the large end or the small end. The two groups of people, the Big-Endians, and the Little-Endians stand for the Protestants and the Roman Catholics.
After a broad criticism of governmental and religious conflict by portraying it in the light of tiny people beneath a giant man, Jonathan Swift switches to a entirely different point of view. On the second voyage, Gulliver once again goes to sea. On this voyage he and a group of crew members stop off at a unknown foreign shore to search for water. However, when his crew mates see what they think to be a giant monster, actually a huge man, they take off in the long boat and leave Gulliver stranded. Gulliver explores inland and soon discovers that the land is inhabited by giants as tall as "an ordinary spire-steeple." Gulliver attempts to hide in a field of giant corn put the reapers find him.
Soon Gulliver finds himself in the ownership of a giant farmer who informs him that Gulliver has found his way to Brobdingnag, the land of giants. The man cares for Gulliver fairly well. However he soon finds that he can make large amounts of money showing him from town to town. Soon he has Gulliver working all day to make a show for crowds of curious people. When he determines that Gulliver's death from being overworked is nigh he sells Gulliver to the king and queen.
At the court Gulliver finds slightly better conditions, but must still endure the persecutions of a dwarf who hates him and continual danger from various huge animals, from frogs, and insects, to fierce rats, and even a monkey.
In the end Gulliver is carried out to sea in a box by a giant eagle who then drops the box into the sea. A passing sea captain picks up Gulliver and takes him home, but Gulliver's mind is affected by the experience:
"My wife ran out to embrace me, but I stooped lower than her knees, thinking she could otherwise never be able to reach my mouth. My daughter kneeled to ask my blessing but I count not see her till she arose, having been so long used to stand with my head and eyes rest to above sixty foot."Gulliver's second voyage is about the futility and the frustration of human life and fighting against powers larger than yourself. At the same time, though, Jonathan Swift explores other interesting lines of thought. For example, in one passage Gulliver is talking to the king of the giant Brobdingnags. Gulliver tells the king about English tools of war such as muskets, gunpowder, cannons, and shells. Then he offers to tell the King about how to make gunpowder and other tools of war. The giant King's response is very interesting:
"The King was struck with horror at the description I had given of those terrible engines, and the proposal I had made. He was amazed how so impotent and groveling an insect as I (those were his expressions) could entertain such inhuman ideas, and in so familiar a manner as to appear wholly unmoved at all the scenes of blood and destruction, which I had painted as the common effects of those destructive machines; whereof he said some evil genius, enemy to mankind, must have been the first contriver. As for himself, he protested that although few things delighted him so much as new discoveries in art of in nature; yet he would rather lose half of his kingdom than be privy to such a secret; which he commanded me as I valued my life never to mention any more."In "Gulliver's Travels" Jonathan Swift portrays Gulliver as critical of the king's stand. Gulliver feels that the King is narrow minded and shouldn't have passed such an opportunity. However, it is obvious from Swift's tone that Swift himself wishes that the kings of Europe would be similarly enlightened. What I wonder would Swift think of modern times, when airplanes, incendiary weapons and atomic weapons have made mere weapons of gunpowder seem harmless? What about the many people who when watching movies or playing video games are "wholly unmoved at all the scenes of blood and destruction"?
Gulliver's third voyage takes an obvious poke at science and higher learning. This time Gulliver's ship is pursued by pirates. Knowing that there is no hope to resist them, Gulliver orders his men to give up without a fight. The pirates imprison the men without killing them, but they have considerably less pity for Gulliver. Gulliver is put out to sea on a small lifeboat with a few supplies.
Soon Gulliver ends up on a remote island where he must live on birds eggs and what food he can find. But then one day he sees a strange sight. A huge island covered in buildings and terraces and floating in the air approaches Gulliver's island. Gulliver hails them and soon they take pity on him and haul him up onto their island.
In this way Gulliver meets the Laputians. According to Gulliver these people are great learners, constantly thinking about problems of astronomy and mathematics. In fact the higher Laputians are always in such deep thought that they have to employ special servants to alert them when there is something worth seeing or hearing or when a response is needed. This servant, called a flapper, has a special tool with which he lightly taps his servants ears, eyes, or mouth:
"This flapper is likewise employed diligently to attend his master in his walks, and upon occasion to give him a soft flap upon the eyes, because he is always so wrapped up in cogitation, that he is in manifest danger of falling down every precipice, and bouncing his head against every post, and in the streets of jostling others, or being jostled himself into the kennel."This humorous passage reminded me of stories of Albert Einstein who was said to take long walks and often appear distracted because he was so deep in thought that he wouldn't notice his surroundings.
A little later on during Gulliver's third voyage he gets the Laputians to drop him off on Lagado, where there is a great Academy of higher learning. Jonathan Swift portrays Gulliver as he explores the Academy and meets some its very eccentric and downright insane professors and philosophers. Speaking of one Gulliver says:
"His employment from his first coming into the Academy was an operation to reduce human excrement to its original food, by separating the several parts, removing the tinctures which it receives from the gall, making the odour exhale, and scumming off the saliva."Another of the Academy's thinkers had "contrived a new method for building houses, by beginning at the rood, and working downwards to the foundation, which he justified to me by the like practice of those two prudent insects, the bee and the spider."
In addition to poking fun at learning and science, Gulliver's third voyage also has political connotations, with the Flying Island of Laputa representing England, and the Laputians dominion, Ireland. Even as the Flying Island demanded that the grounded cities below give tribute or the Flying Island would descend to crush them, likewise England demanded taxes and dues from Ireland.
Gulliver's fourth voyage is without a doubt the strangest of all. Once again Gulliver is captain of his own ship, but his men conspire against him, and after confining him within his cabin for a long period of time they then set him ashore in a distant land.
One of the first things that Gulliver sees in this new land is a very disagreeable sort of animal. Gulliver describes them as being highly grotesque, but at the same time they have all the characteristics of humans, except that they are brute animals, with long claws on their hands and feet.
Soon Gulliver discovers that horses are the sentient beings of this new land. They call themselves Huoyhnhnms, while they call their human-like slaves Yahoos. When these intelligent horses first discover Gulliver they think that he is some strange new breed of Yahoo, but soon Gulliver learns the language of the Huoyhnhnms and begins to understand their customs.
Throughout Gulliver's fourth voyage, Jonathan Swift focuses on drawing similarities between humans and the grotesque Yahoos that are the Huoyhnhnms' slaves. According to Swift the warlike nature, base cruelties, and disgusting lust of humans make them no better than the Yahoos that he depicts as wild animals. Gulliver uses none but the strongest words when he describes the Yahoos as "cunning, malicious, treacherous, and revengeful... insolent, abject, and cruel."
When Gulliver finally returns from the land of the Huoyhnhnms he finds the presence of other humans very distasteful. He faints at the very idea of touching on, and stops up his nose with rue or tobacco to avoid their "odious" scent. Gulliver spends his last days in the stable with two common horses which he buys so that he can enjoy some decent company.
When Jonathan Swift wrote the fourth voyage of Gulliver he was slowly descending into madness, and would spend the last part of his own life in a manner similar to that of his main character Gulliver. Jonathan Swift's hate of humans and gradual dissatisfaction with life and with society are evident throughout "Gulliver's Travels."
"Gulliver's Travels" is a very interesting satirical novel. Its biting wit and sarcastic examination of human nature are just as interesting as its highly imaginative plot and characters. As a piece of classic literature I would highly recommend that everyone read "Gulliver's Travels" at least once.
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Sunday, November 13, 2016
If Cats disappeared from the World
That exchange turns out to be deleting phones from existence, and then wiping out movies until finally making cats disappear from this world. What the devil meant by wiping this things is that they never ever existed in history. These things that the devil wipes out provides Kenshin with a connection with the important people in his life and changes his relationship with them.
The writer could have easily fixed this with the devil being more specific with his trade such as this phone at this certain date in Kenshin's past will not work or the movie metropolis will never be made or that the cat Lettuce will never exist in his life.
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- okto berlin said...
could you tell me where should I find the subtitle of this movie please?
I need it so badly.
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- Akiramike said...
@okto : No English subtitles yet as far as I know but I'm pretty sure it'll get subbed.
- 1:27 am
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Healer Colors
In Skies of Pern, Anne McCaffrey has the Healers in green, but green was
seen as unlucky on Pern. The Dragon Lover's Guide to Pern says the craft color
is purple, and there's mention in other books of the Healers in purple. Master
Oldive's picture in The People of Pern is even purple, and each of those
pictures were approved by Anne. So which is right for the club?
Actually, either purple or green are okay. It's possible Anne meant for both to be colors the Healers wear. Think of it like this. Your doctor, for example, most likely has a white lab coat s/he wears around the office, but if s/he was going into surgery, s/he would be wearing "scrubs" which are often green. White is really an unpractical color for a doctor since blood would stain and be hard to get out. When the colonist came to Pern, perhaps they were using another color -- purple -- where we use white but still using green for surgery.
Tradition's a hard thing to change -- as green gradually became seen as unlucky because of Thread, it was already established in minds of the Pernese as part of what the Healers wore. Now, add in the loss of technology. What the Healers could do became limited. A person would go to the (possibly) purple-wearing Healer for less severe injury, but the green (scrub wearing) Healer would be dealing with injuries that probably didn't have a good outcome. More proof, to them, that it's unlucky. Or perhaps it was purple before the evil abomination *cough* reintroduced the green color for Healers. Then again... Anne lives in Ireland, and perhaps the Emerald Isle worked a bit of magic on her, wanting a better reputation in her Pern books. *wink*
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Making the Right Choice In Bathroom Accessories
Why making the right choice is so important
You finally paid out a lot of your hard-won dollars on an extremely stylish bathroom at last. That unsightly old suite is in the landfill siteand you'll never have to never have to use that terrible mirror again. Life couldn't be any sweeter in your new suite. But for all its elegantly sculpted lines and gorgeous taps, it might still feel that something in the details is wrong. If so, it's probably because you haven't thought about your bathroom accessories.
But what do we mean by bathroom accessories?
Well, this is the catch-all term for the little things which perform practical bathroom functions. Soap dishes. Places to hang your robe. Shaving mirrors. Toothbrush holders. All distinctly unglamourous but necessary articles that you need to do those little thing like clean your teeth. Because of their humble nature, these are often forgotten when people are choosing the big-ticket items for their bathroom. Seduced by the cost of the bathroom suite, it's difficult to get excited about a dressing gown hook.
However, the bathroom's overall look is greatly affected by these things. That expensive sink won't look quite so expensive and luxurious with a shoddy soap basket and a cheap toothbrush holder balanced on it. And if your taps are beautiful retro designs, they won't look as nice if your soap dispenser is as ugly as sin.
Some stylish modern bathroom accessories
Colour, Style and Functionality
So what things are you on the look-out for when picking out those all-important bathroom accessories? Perhaps the obvious defining factor is the colour. A lot of people don't think about it , but the bath manufacturers don't get involved in the whole accessories side of the business. So unless you're buying pure white, you might find it hard to get a colour that matches exactly. This is even more critical when it comes to the metal. Chrome fittings go with chrome accessories. I've lost track of the times that I've happened across a lovely bathroom with gold taps, where the whole look has been rendered pointless with the needless addition of brushed aluminium toothbrush holder.
After colour, there's the actual aesthetic appearance of the bathroom accessories you're buying. If your bathroom suite is very modern, with understated design elements, then don't buy older, period fitting such as elaborately ornate shaving mirrors. These things don't sit well together and will spoil the overall effect you are trying to achieve.
Finally, your bathroom accessories are primarily there to perform a role. You might be tempted to skimp on a something to put your bars of soap on , remember that if it isn't up to scratch you'll find yourself with unsightly smears everywhere. Your toilet brush isn't just an object you put there to convince people that you are a demi-god of interior decor while they sit on the toilet – it has practical purpose, so don't just think about its appearance. Durability is also an important factor. If you buy a lovely matching set of accessories, only to find that your towel rail breaks after a couple of months then you might have to buy a whole different set.
In the final analysis, buying bathroom accessories is something to treat more lightly than the care you took choosing your bathroom suite. By making a good decision, you'll end up with the perfect bathroom.
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Strategic Communications in a Restructured Church: GCOC responds to the IOT Proposal
A response from the General Commission on Communication
I. The value of strategic communications
The early 21st century is a time of constant change and challenge. Technology has made every person a global citizen, and information and experiences are shared with an immediacy that has transformed our understanding of time, relationships and messaging.
In this global, wired environment, engaging people with the life and message of The United Methodist Church depends on strategic communications. A mission and ministry in its own right, communications serves as an engine powering the work of the connectional church. Building vital congregations and being relevant in a world awash with competing messages hinge on this crucial ministry.
Strategic communication is about sharing the faith, transferring the faith and representing the faith in the public conversation. It is evangelism, witness and advocacy in carefully crafted messages implemented to effectively communicate the Good News of God's love for all people. If the church is to serve, thrive and grow, it will need the capacity to communicate. This requires careful research, message construction, implementation and evaluation - in short, a strategic communication function.
A church that is savvy and strategic about communications is a church that speaks with power in society, commands attention beyond its membership and shines like a beacon on a hill for a world in need.
II. The need for change
The United Methodist Church operates largely on a model developed in the middle of the previous century. The church knows it must change to be more effective in reaching people for Christ.
The development of a reorganization proposal by the Interim Operations Team is an effort in that direction. However, the proposal still rests on an old-style model that doesn't address 21st century needs in a forward-thinking way.
The General Commission on Communication affirms the need for change. In a straw poll Sept. 24, the commissioners agreed the denomination must change in order to follow God's call. At the same time, the commissioners agreed that the current IOT proposal is not the way to go.
Strengthening the proposal depends on recognizing the strategic value of communications ministry to the church. A strategic communication function must serve the whole church and should not be subordinated into a support service, as proposed. In a media-saturated, horizontal world, communication is a primary driver through which mission and ministry are expressed. Overlooking or downplaying this vital role would seriously compromise the vision for a restructured church.
With this in mind, the commission offers several recommendations for strengthening the IOT proposal. It also raises questions and concerns that came to the surface during a weekend spent reviewing the proposal.
III. Recommendations
Revise the language: The language of the proposal should be clear that communications is not an ancillary service but a ministry in its own right, one that has strategic value and is indispensable to the other ministries of the church. The call to communications ministry is theologically rooted in the Scriptures and reflected in the power of the Gospel story. As an expression of ministry, a strategic communications function enables the church to engage with key parts of communities and individuals around the world, making faith and the faith community more relevant.
Establish six strategic offices: The IOT proposal bases part of the framework of general church ministries on the Four Areas of Focus. The four areas, however, do not define the full scope of the church's work, nor do they encompass two ministry areas that have equal strategic significance to the church: finance and communications.
The number of offices in the IOT organizational chart should be increased from five to six, with specific offices designated for finance and communications. Adding these offices reflects their strategic value and ensures that these mission-critical areas are not relegated to a back-office role or vulnerable to culture clashes among the other ministries.
The designation of a strategic office for communications will enable the development of stronger communications protocols – internally and externally – that help the church advance its narrative and messaging. It also will give the church more impact on a programmatic level.
Build in appropriate leadership and oversight: Each office should be led by a chief executive with professional expertise in that area.
Expertise should be required for members of the 45-person council as well as the 15-person advisory board. These groups should include people who, collectively, have professional knowledge relevant to the work of the offices; theological depth; missional and programmatic skills; financial expertise; digital media skills; experience in evaluating for-profit and non-profit organizations outside the church; people skills; and global experience/perspective.
Institutional memory also should be embedded in these groups. As the church moves into a new structure, it must not forget its history.
In addition to the council and board, the commission recommends that each of the six strategic offices have an advisory council of up to 15 people with expertise on the work of their respective office. This would ensure the input of external professionals who understand the work and challenges of each ministry office.
In all of the boards and offices, inclusiveness and diversity should be high priorities. With this in mind, the commission is concerned that two governing entities totaling 60 members cannot by its very structure reflect the diversity of the global denomination.
Engage the entire church in the conversation: Going forward, more churchwide engagement with the proposal is needed. Taking this step will also help change the tone of the conversation. Together, we can discern the mission and ministry of the church under a vision of what the denomination can become for the 21st century.
As the proposal is interpreted to the wider church, the communications network across the church should be engaged in educating and informing people about it and encouraging people to offer feedback. The church's professional communicators in the annual conferences and general agencies can be valuable partners in widening the conversation.
Make the timetable appropriate to the scope of change: The proposed 90-day transition period should be extended to at least six months and preferably a year. The task at hand involves changing how a 12 million-member global denomination works and carries out ministry, and the basic logistics involved will require more time and a well-managed process.
Share the information and research behind a budget reallocation: More explanation is needed regarding the proposed reallocation of $60 million. How was this figure determined and where would the money be redirected? The reallocation should be delayed until more information is available.
Study the structure and role of the Council of Bishops: The IOT plan focuses on better supporting annual conferences and local congregations in ministry. In order for this to be achieved, the IOT must look at the Council of Bishops and how it operates. Is the council organized in a way that enables it to provide leadership most effectively? Are there inequities that should be addressed in how the episcopacy is structured in the United States and the central conferences? Can a reorganization of the church's ministries be credible and successful without a reorganization of the top leadership structure of the denomination?
IV. Additional points of concern
A study of the IOT proposal, and a plenary discussion with two of its leading proponents, raised several questions and concerns.
How is the global church reflected in this plan? What will the impact be on the central conferences?
Is the church restructuring primarily as a way to save money? Vision, not financal concerns, should be the driving force of the restructuring proposal and the ministries that it encompasses. Yet the vision for the proposal is unclear – and restructuring without a clear vision can lead to disaster.
The proposal needs a stronger foundation for establishing governance and accountability.
The hurried way in which the plan was developed reflected limited input. It also has left major questions unanswered. "We ran out of time" is not a helpful response to questions about gaps in the proposal.
Other questions revolve around how the proposal defines and addresses vital congregations, how it speaks to the need for engaging younger generations and how the new model would be evaluated and held accountable.
V. Looking ahead
This is a time of great possibility for The United Methodist Church. We must change how we do ministry in order to be relevant and faithful to God's call. A small group of church leaders has put much thought into the restructuring proposal in a very short time.
Now, by engaging the wider membership in the conversation and moving forward in a thoughtful way, we can inspire the vision for a church that is designed to follow where the Spirit leads. By recognizing the power of strategic communications and using this ministry to its fullest potential, we can transform the world in new and powerful ways for Jesus Christ.