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As hard as it is to believe here we are almost at the end of the month of October already. We have been traveling a little and time slipped on by.
We recently took a trip up to the North Carolina mountains to see the beauty of the changing Fall leaves. If you have visited Sweet Southern Days in the past, you know I have shared spending Fall days at our mountain cabin in the Snowbird Mountains in a little town called Robbinsville.
We have mutual friends who first shared and introduced us to this charming little mountain town. It is definitely not a tourist town. Most of the folks in and around this mountain town have kinfolks going back for generations.
The below photo taken from the front porch of our mountain cabin shows the leaves on the trees shortly after we arrived. As you can see there is only a little bit of leaf color on just one tree.
We took a side trip into the little tourist town of Cherokee, North Carolina and as you can see from the trees below the leaves had already begun to change and were so pretty.
Passing through Cherokee, North Carolina it is not uncommon
to see real Cherokee Indians entertaining the many tourists who come to this region.
This Cherokee Indian was kind enough to let me take his picture and smiled so nicely for the camera.
This area of Western North Carolina has been home to the Cherokee people for untold centuries. Artifacts that have been found in the area indicate people lived here more than 11,000 years ago. Today, the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians is a sovereign nation of 100 square miles with more than 13,000 enrolled members.
Today there is great respect and a wish to preserve the history of this special Cherokee Indian Tribe.
Two other Cherokee Indians were kind enough to pose for my camera.
Driving north on through Cherokee, North Carolina in just a few minutes we arrived at the entrance to the Great Smoky Mountain National Park.
If you ever get a chance to visit this area, it will be a treat for you to drive through this amazingly beautiful park. And, there is so much to see and do. There are many spectacular hiking trails all throughout the park, plus camping and horseback riding. You can make reservations to hike one of the trails to Mt. LeConte Lodge for an overnight stay in their delightful rustic cabins. I have been told you must make your reservations to stay at the Lodge a year in advance.
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Driving north through the park you arrive at the amazing tourist town of Gatlinburg, Tennessee. About midway through the park you cross the state-line over into beautiful Tennessee. And at this half-way mark you can also see the Appalachian Trail.
After a short visit in Gatlinburg we continued on over to the Pigeon Forge/Sevierville area. As we drove through the area we spotted this cute little log cabin wedding chapel all decorated for Fall.
There is lots and lots to do in an around the Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge/Sevierville area. One of the fun things to do is visit the amazing shopping outlet malls. Our favorite is called the Tanger Outlet Mall. If you are ever in this area you might enjoy going there. Here is a link if you would like to take a look at this mall:
Traveling on back to the cabin we could see the leaves were changing so beautifully.
The below photo was taken from the front porch of the cabin on the day we first arrived.
As time went by we can see in the below photo how the leaves have
really begun to change and how pretty and colorful they are.
During our stay at the cabin a friend stopped by with this pretty little Halloween plant.
What a thoughtful gift and so cute!
The leaves became more colorful everyday.
The Good Lord is truly such an amazing artist ... We could not do this no matter how hard we tried!
The below photo is a view from the side front porch.
Photo taken from the front porch. The leaves are just about as colorful now as they are going to be.
A Fall wreath porch decoration.
View of the colorful leaves from the back side porch.
A local friend suggested we build a deck on the side of the mountain, off to the side from our cabin. He also said he would be able to build it for us. We thought it would be a good idea to have a place for everyone to gather when we have a cook-out and to be able to enjoy the views of the mountains.
We were not there when he was building this deck and when we arrived we were totally amazed he was able to build this deck coming off the side of the mountain. Can you believe he built this all by himself. And then he also concreted stones all around the posts supporting the deck.
I can't even imagine carrying each stone plus the concrete down the hill of the mountain and getting the stone to stay put in the concrete long enough to dry and stay put. It is hard to see in this photo, but on the far side of the deck he built a long bench all across the back side for guests to have additional room to sit and enjoy the view. He did a most amazing job!
We did so much enjoy visiting the mountain cabin and the local area, enjoying the cool and even cold breezes coming across the mountain at this time of year and seeing the beauty of the leaves changing.
The below photo was the last view of the pretty leaves from the cabin as we drove on down the road on toward home.
It was a beautiful time in the mountains, but we were looking forward to getting on back home so we would not miss the very special time of Halloween night seeing all of the ghosts and goblins as they come trick-or-treating. Would not want to miss that for anything!
Wishing you a Happy Halloween with lots and lots of fun wherever you may be.


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It's always the same problem for many women when going on a holiday; what to pack? You don't want to pack to much and heavy and certainly not to little and end up not having enough. There are some staples to bring along and they can be be a true saviour. One of them is the striped t-shirt that is really a piece of clothing that fit all occasions. Let the photos show you how.
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After a prolonged cold with nasal drip I had a cough & was prescribed 3 lots of antibiotics without effect. During this time I developed (diagnosed) mechanical bladder incontinence & indigestion plus vomiting during a cough, particularly after a meal. It didn't seem to matter what I ate, though spicy foods seemed slightly worse.
The mild pain I sometimes had on bending has become much worse and I have been on Omeprazole for 8 months – far longer than the patient leaflet implies and with symptoms apparently gone I forgot to take this, only for the indigestion problem to reoccur.
My G.P. has diagnosed cough asthma. I developed acute pain in my sides that lead me to go to A & E to be told I had a pulmonary embolism – given heparin which thinned my blood so when I coughed my eye went bright red from burst vessels! Tests confirmed it was not but I had enlarged liver and very low oxygen in my blood. Heart and lung tests were fine (An innocent heart murmur was all that could be found and later tests proved blood oxygen was at 98%) No answer has been given regarding the enlarged liver.
I think the cough has caused a hernia which in turn causes the gastro-digestive problems as well as the incontinence. But I can't seem to get anyone to listen.


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The late, great Roy Orbison on Dutch television in 1964.
One thought on "A Texas Legend"
Thanks very much. Roy Orbison has few – if any
equals, in my opinion.
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Humans have been making lists for as long as there has been writing. Umberto Eco called the list "the origin of culture."
What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order — not always, but often. And how, as a human being, does one face infinity? How does one attempt to grasp the incomprehensible? Through lists, through catalogs, through collections in museums and through encyclopedias and dictionaries.
If list-making is natural, so is augmenting our memory by making lists of things to do. To-do lists make us more productive by getting our plans out of our heads so we can stop obsessing about them. (I've even read that checking something off a list can trigger the release of endorphins, but I can't find anything to back that up so it may have been made up by a productivity guru.)
Productivity systems like Getting Things Done impose structure and habit on list-making, which increases the productivity potential, but they also increase the difficulty of keeping lists. Writing down a few Most-Important Tasks every day, on the other hand, is incredibly simple and incredibly effective.
Gina Trapani may have been the first to mention Most-Important Tasks as a productivity concept, on Lifehacker in 2006. She recommended picking a single MIT for each day:
Near the end of the day, deliberately decide on your MIT for [tomorrow] morning. Make sure it's tiny, achievable and important. Write it down and place it somewhere you will see it, even if it's a Post-It note on your keyboard.
In 2007, Leo Babauta mentioned Most-Important Tasks as part of his morning routine on Zen Habits, then explained his approach to MITs in greater detail. Babauta recommended writing down three MITs every morning:
I've tweaked it a bit so that I have three MITs — the three things I must accomplish today.
There has not been a whole lot more written about Most-Important Tasks, which is a shame because there is probably nothing else that is as simple, effective, and easy to implement for increasing your productivity. As I wrote on Lawyerist:
Setting aside a few minutes every day to put your Most-Important Tasks down on paper will make you more productive. And knowing what's most important every day will probably lower your stress level a bit, too.
I built this site because writing down Most-Important Tasks as a daily practice is a worthwhile productivity system all on its own. Stay tuned for tips, tricks, and tools for MITs and other simple productivity hacks.
Featured image: "Beginning?" by Francisca Ulloa is licensed CC BY 2.0.


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Windows Azure provides researchers, educators, and students with the power and scalability of cloud computing for collaboration, computation, and data-intensive processing.
Windows Azure is an open and flexible global cloud platform that supports languages, tools, and frameworks, such as Linux, Python, Java, Hadoop, and the Microsoft .NET Framework.
Watch our webinar series and learn how cloud computing can help researchers resolve the issue of big data and focus on accelerating breakthroughs and insights. Learn more…
If your interested in teaching Windows Azure in your undergraduate course see www.windowsazure.com/education
We are pleased to announce that we have published three new technical papers to help researchers quickly start working with Windows Azure.
The latest papers provide instructions on working with Windows Azure Cloud Services
1. Scaling a Windows Azure Cloud Service
2. Installing the Windows Azure BLAST Example
3.Building Scalable Services in Windows Azure with Python.
These papers are appropriate for those who have received Windows Azure for Research training, awardees of the RFP program, or researchers who are simply curious about Windows Azure; however, they do assume some prior technical computer programming skills. Read more…


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A New York Winter's Tale (Colin Farrell/Jessica Brown Findlay) Trailer
Set in a mythic New York City and spanning more than a century, A New York Winter's Tale is a story of miracles, crossed destinies, and the age-old battle between good and evil.
The film stars Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay (TV's Downton Abbey), and Oscar® winners Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt, Eva Marie Saint and Russell Crowe. Winter's Tale also introduces young newcomers Ripley Sobo and Mckayla Twiggs (both from Broadway's Once).
The film marks the directorial debut of Academy Award®-winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind), who also wrote the screenplay, based on the acclaimed novel by Mark Helprin.
The behind-the-scenes creative team includes five-time Oscar®-nominated director of photography Caleb Deschanel (The Passion of the Christ, The Patriot), production designer Naomi Shohan (Constantine, I Am Legend), costume designer Michael Kaplan (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Star Trek) and editors Wayne Wahrman (I Am Legend) and Oscar® nominee Tim Squyres (Life of Pi, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon).
The music is composed by Oscar® winner Hans Zimmer.
Watch the trailer:
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In chapter 58 Isaiah is sharing this message from God about the people fasting and praying and what was happening as they did. They were fasting and praying yet there was no change in how they were living their lives. They still took advantage of their workers and had this air of because I am fasting and praying I deserve God to hear me and give me what I seek. In fact 58:4b says, "You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high." WOW!! What an incredible statement. So that got me thinking. Fasting and prayer are acts of worship. It's giving up of self to see God glorified. Worship is something that we as humans and especially children of God were created to do. So often we get into these worship wars over style of worship. Traditional, contemporary, liturgical. Praise choruses, hymns, no music, lots of music, chanting, etc, etc, etc... As I read this chapter it began to dawn on me that there are two styles of worship but it is not what we think it is.
Style 1. It is worship where it's all about us. We are not truly worshipping God. We arent allowing the glory to go to Him. We aren't changing the world we live in through worship. We are doing it more out of habit or to put on a show. This style of worship is heartless, passionless, and selfish. The goal is to look good or be comfortable in what we do. We pray the same prayers, we sing the same songs, we go through the motions without ever stopping to consider what needs to be happening in and through our worship. That is style 1 and according to 58:4 we think God hears it and is moved by it?
Style 2. It is worship that is all about Him. We begin by truly putting the Lord of Lords before everything else and we lift up all glory to Him because it is truly due to Him and Him alone. When we worship the way He has instructed us to the world is changed. In 58:6-14 it goes on to explain what will happen when we truly fast and pray and worship. Change comes to the world. The chains of injustice are loosened. The oppressed are set free. The hungry eat. The poor are housed. The naked are clothed. The family is restored. And God hears our cries. This style is one that is defined by a heartfelt, passionate, selfless pursuit of the face of God. Not for what He can give to us but because we long to seek His face. Nothing else matters but the things of God and if something is bothering God it bothers us. Regardless of the song we sing or dont sing. Regardless of the type of music. This is a lifestyle that is comfortable worshipping because it is what we do daily. This is style number 2 and God is deserved of this and this alone.
So there is a style war going on in the church. But it is not over the type of music. If the war becomes about this then it has become style one and both "sides" are wrong. But if worship stays in style 2 where God is glorified the type of music wont matter. It doesnt matter what songs we sing. We could sing twinkle twinkle little star and because our heart is so consumed by the things of God we would become lost in worship. Certainly there are preferences and that is fine. I prefer one style of music over another. I prefer certain things. The problem is when our preferences become more important than who it is all about. When we prefer one thing over another and so because of that we "can't" worship. We should be able to worship in all things. We are called to be a people of worship and to live in a style of worship that transforms our lives as well as our world. Worship should no longer be focused on the song style but on the giver of the song. Scripture tells us that there is "nothing new under the sun." That means every song that we sing has been sung for eternity already. The angels have been rejoicing God with praise choruses, hymns, chants, etc... since they were created and so there is no "new" worship songs. This idea that one type of music has a "holier" meaning is lost. In now way is this meant to bash what some would call traditional or contemporary because there are those on both sides who think the same way. They think and spout off that their style is true worship and that the other is not. When really both are worship its the state of the heart that determines the style.
My hope and prayer is that whoever reads this blog would be challenged to look beyond the type of music and to see which of the real style of worship they are about. This worship war over style has much more eternal implications than the "war" we tend to focus on in church. When we fight the traditional worship war over "styles" unfortunately both sides have already lost and Christ is not the focus the type of music becomes what is being worshipped. Great hymns become meaningless in God's ears. Great choruses fall flat and don't reach the altar of sacrifice. It's fine to have preferences. It's those differences that allow us to paint such an incredible tapestry of worship that is beautiful because of the differences. Just don't let those preferences become the object of worship. Well until next time,
I am outie 5000,


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View from the other end of the room. Don't you just love this?
Still got the blues???? You bet!
Blue quilts...a favorite yesterday, today, tomorrow and .forever!
Sharing my passions... fabric, quilts, antiques, food, gardening and more.
I love Prussian blues almost as much as indigo and these are some of my favorites, but again, not all are created equal, two have a greenish cast. I don' like to get too matchy-matchy, but sometimes the odd fabric will throw the whole look off in blues, more than any in other color family. Frustrating, right? If the project is really scrappy, then you won't have to be as careful.
One of my favorite quilts, a chintz medallion in one of my favorite fabric combinations, blue and brown. Whose boot is that? Picture taken a few years and hairstyles ago.
Check this out! Still got the blues???? My dear friend Pat loves to 'play quilts' as she likes to call it. As seasons change, so does this room. My first visit to her home was a few years ago when a number of friends and I went to San Antonio to see the Shelburne Quilt Museum exhibit at the San Antonio Museum of Art. Pat invited us over for wine and cheese and this was what awaited us, as we entered her home. Oh my gosh! Pat prepared a fabulous spread of treats for our magical evening. I think we were there in March or April?, so it could have been her spring arrangenment. Note the sewing ephemera mixed in with the cheeses and fruit. We all felt as though we had stepped into Country Living magazine. Delightful! A great memory as timeless as her blue and white quilts...thanks Pat for letting me share this!!!!
View from the other end of the room. Don't you just love this?
Still got the blues???? You bet!
Blue quilts...a favorite yesterday, today, tomorrow and .forever!
Betsy, I am so inspired by both your blue posts. Your quilts are gorgeous and I liked the peek at your stash. I haven't seen Prussian blue in awhile. What a treat your trip to Pat's house was.ReplyDelete
Fun read to think about blues or rather how to think about blues....
You are to be commended .... you did not write about brown FIRST.
Oh Betsy it is so nice to see pat,s dining room all dressed up for company again. Oh how I love the quilt on the wall. Beautiful. Thanks for sharing your blue insight. I always am looking for good blues. I do find it challenging to work with a variety of blues
I do love it....both quilts are just wonderful....you have some lovely blues there, thanks for showing.ReplyDelete
Betsy, I remember that great trip to San Antonio and the wonderful evening at Pat's lovely home and family. Love your Chintz Medallion I don't think I had seen it before.ReplyDelete
Hi! I am so glad you left a comment on my blog so I could find your blog. I didn't see an email so I am leaving you a comment.
Blue is my largest color of fabrics in my stash. Yeah, I got the blues!! LOL


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Ethical considerations in the design and execution of the National and Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (HANES).
Published Date:Apr 1995
Source:Environ Health Perspect. 103(Suppl 3):75-80.
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Description:The purpose of this article is to describe some ethical considerations that have arisen during the design and implementation of the health examination surveys conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Three major areas of concern are discussed: sharing information from the study, banking and using banked tissue samples, and obligations for future testing of subjects. Specific concerns of sharing information include: when to inform, whom to inform, maintaining confidentiality, and how to inform individuals. Specific concerns of determining when sera will be banked and using banked samples include: depletion of samples for quality control, obtaining informed consent for unanticipated uses, access by others, and requests for batches of samples. Finally, specific concerns regarding future testing of subjects include: retesting for verification, retesting for interpretation, testing for different risk factors, and follow-up. Although existing surveys can provide experience or even suggest guidelines, the uniqueness of any new survey will generate unique ethical problems, requiring the careful formulation of unique solutions.
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Contact Congress April 11–May 2, 2018
Ask for Respiratory Therapists to Be Included
in Telehealth
What is a respiratory therapist (RT)?
A respiratory therapist (RT) is a certified medical professional who specializes in providing healthcare for your lungs. RTs work alongside doctors and nurses; focused only on patients who suffer from respiratory ailments like COPD, asthma, pneumonia, lung trauma and other respiratory-related diagnoses.
Respiratory therapists help improve outcomes for their patients by offering disease self-management education and training, proper medication delivery techniques, breathing assessments, exercise methodology, and monitoring patient progress. They also have advanced knowledge of high-tech equipment and medical devices, such as mechanical ventilators, supplemental oxygen, aerosol delivery devices and more.
What is telehealth and who uses it?
Telehealth is when healthcare providers use technology to evaluate, diagnose and treat patients remotely, without the need for an in-person visit.
Patients who benefit most from telehealth services are those:
- Living in rural areas with long commutes, or
- Who have physical ailments making it difficult to visit a medical facility
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How can RTs use telehealth to help COPD and respiratory patients?
Respiratory therapists can use telehealth services to offer their patients self-management education and training, demonstration and evaluation of inhaler techniques, smoking cessation counseling, as well as remote patient monitoring and evaluation.
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Respiratory therapists are uniquely qualified to provide telehealth services given their understanding of COPD and other respiratory diseases. Because of this, AARC is asking Congress to support pilot telehealth legislation that would allow respiratory therapists to assist Medicare patients who have COPD. If legislation is enacted, it will help pave the way for respiratory patients to receive additional telehealth services from RTs in the future.
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The NFC East has been one of the more dominant divisions in the NFL for the past decade, however last season only one team from the East made the NFL Playoffs; the eventual Super Bowl champion New York Giants. The rest of the division is comprised of the Philadelphia Eagles, Washington Redskins, and the Dallas Cowboys. All of these teams have made adjustments in the offseason, thus the NFC East should once again be a highly competitive division.
4. Washington Redskins projected 2012 record: 6-10 (2-4 in division)
The Redskins had a plethora of issues last season that resulted in poor play; however the future is looking brighter after selecting Heisman winning quarterback Robert Griffin III with the second overall pick in this years Draft. RG3 will look to revamp a Washington offense that had a tough time establishing its passing attack last season. The Skins also beefed up their offensive line, which finished a below average 25th in the NFL in rushing yards in 2011 by drafting guard Josh LeRibeus out of Southern Methodist University. Mike Shanahan is an architect and should design an offense that will utilize Griffin's athletic abilities, however due to the strength of the division, this will most likely be another rebuilding year in Washington.
3. Dallas Cowboys projected 2012 record: 9-7 (3-3 in division)
The Cowboys have been one of the bigger let downs of the past decade, entering every season with Super Bowl like expectations, and often losing those dreams in a very careless way. On paper, they are one of the best teams in the NFL, with quarterback Tony Romo, veteran tight end Jason Witten, and the emergence of receivers like Miles Austin and Dez Bryant. Thus, there is no reason why Dallas should not at least make the playoffs each season. However, history has a tendency to repeat itself and so expect another below expectation finish for the Cowboys in 2012, with them just missing the NFL playoffs.
2. Philadelphia Eagles projected 2012 record: 11-5 (4-2 in division)
The Philadelphia Eagles are coming off one of their worst seasons in the Andy Reid coaching era. Though they addressed several of their issues in the offseason, making sure to lock up running back LeSean McCoy who had the best single season of his young career in 2011 gaining 1,309 yards and scoring 17 touch downs. The Eagles traded up in the NFL Draft to get perhaps the best defensive lineman in the 2012 class, Fletcher Cox from Mississippi State University. If not for having the defending Super Bowl champions in their division, Philadelphia would be a lock to win the NFC East.
1. New York Giants projected 2012 record: 12-4 (5-1 in division)
The defending Super Bowl champion New York Giants should not disappoint their fans in 2012, winning the NFC East. Their lone division loss, hypothetically of course, will come against Dallas in week 8. New York should have a relatively easy time through the 2012 season and look for wide receiver Victor Cruz to continue his phenomenal play that had him total 82 catches for an unbelievable 1,536 yards in 2011.
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Ladies Behind Lenses is a column that explores films directed, produced, and written by women who are kicking ass within the male-centric world of cinema.
Susan Seidelman is probably best known for directing the charming Desperately Seeking Susan but it was her debut, Smithereens (1982) that first made a splash within the film festival circuit. It would become the first American independent film to be selected by Cannes to compete for the Palme d'Or. Seidelman's filmography since then has consistently been celebrated for centralizing feminist themes around identity and desire. Since her debut, she has leapt from promising indie filmmaker to a mainstream American director – yet she still tactfully manages to blend alternative methods of direction and feminist rhetoric with popular, mainstream interests.
The idea for Smithereens came about while she was still at NYU film school in the late 70s. The low-budget albeit stylish film is set in the East Village and was shot docu-style on stunning 16mm which offers the appropriate grittiness the East Village had at the time. It features a stellar soundtrack by The Feelies and co-stars Richard Hell (resident NYC punk figure). Smithereens follows, Wren (Susan Berman), a fame mongering young woman desperate to escape the confines of suburban New Jersey (much love to Jersey <3) and break into the already wavering punk rock scene. Her obsession for fame and inclusion leads her to use people she's around in just about every capacity in her search for something in the right direction. However, we soon realize that this runaway twenty something year old has no apparent talent for anything really – anything but self-advertisement (she'd fit in pretty well today if she were around). We watch as she flip flops between Eric (Richard Hell) a scheming narcissist who apparently has some kind of record deal, and Paul (Brad Rijn) a sweet guy from Montana who is smitten by Wren and happens to be living out of his van along the West Side Highway. She eventually dumps Paul when Eric loosely promises her a future in Los Angeles to which she exclaimed, "I just want to be in a swimming pool eating tacos and signing autographs, that's all".
We painfully watch as Eric, who is broke at this point, manipulates her into posing as a prostitute to con a man and steal his money. Eric obviously bails out the next day with the money they gathered together- nowhere to be found. Wren, shocked by his sudden departure, goes back to try and make amends with sweet Paul. However, it turns out he's left too; he sold his beloved van and is probably somewhere in New Hampshire now.
You kinda expect Wren to get away with the things she tries to pull off. However, she just seems to hit wall after wall – being duped and dumped by Eric (duh) and left by heartbroken Paul. The film ends with her luck finally running out. It carefully depicts the harsh reality of the city- it's power to chew you up and spit you out. Smithereens exemplifies the magical version of New York that people have romanticized for so long – an apocalyptic wasteland, a much edgier and riskier place. Although the New York in Smithereens is definitely long gone, Wren's character – flawed, spirited, with tenacity for survival – is a character easily identified with still today.
Seidelman's East Village odyssey examines issues of identity and desire from a distinctly female perspective. In fact, most of her films portray women trying to find their voice in the world; navigating their way through self-reinvention and fulfillment. Her films all share a sense of humor that pervades the sadness found within her characters. Seidelman, as she puts it, "uses humor as a way of making observations about how we live and what makes us human" – CB. An evocative film still relevant in many ways today (35 years later!); Susan Seidelman's masterful debut paints a humorous yet unsettling portrait of a young woman trying to find her place in the world.
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Film Column by Ida Yazdi. Find her online at @idaym.


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Must watch investigation.
The revolving door between the Pentagon and the private sector.
The report (below) and short video, released in partnership with Brave New Foundation, reveal the extent of the Pentagon's revolving door, in which retired high-ranking generals and admirals cash in on their years of military experience by taking lucrative jobs with the defense industry.
CREW's investigation found 70 percent of the 108 three-and-four star generals and admirals who retired between 2009 and 2011 took jobs with defense contractors or consultants. In at least a few cases, these retirees have continued to advise the Department of Defense — all while on the payroll of the defense industry.


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Not so long ago I found the Icebreaker group on the Internet, who called themselves communists. In their program, pointed out the need to create a unitary Soviet state, and one video participant of this group talked about some of Stalin's mistakes, in particular argued that the Soviet Union be a unitary state, the destruction of the Soviet Union could have been avoided. In full it is clear that some members of this group are nationalist prejudices, fundamentally do not understand the national question in Marxism and causes destruction of the USSR.
I came across many articles on the Internet about the causes of the destruction of the Soviet Union. Basically, the authors relied on laws adopted in the Soviet Union, which led to the restoration of capitalism and called the adoption of these laws properly. In fact, when the Ministry is developing legislation aimed at the restoration of capitalism, and the deputies of the Supreme Council during the session take these laws, it is silly to call errors. It is obvious that kontrevolyutsionnye forces invaded the Soviet government and all possible Ministry, as well as the top party, parliamentary seats in the Supreme Council. Does something like this before going on? Yes, there was an example of what kontrevolyutsionnye plots in the late 40's and early 50's in Hungary, Albania, Romania and Bulgaria, while the conspirators in the government were exposed and judged.
The famous court case took place in Hungary in 1948, then was exposed kontrevolyutsionnaya network of conspirators on trial was the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Reich, as well as a group of high-ranking officials in the government. As it turned out, the American and the British government created in Yugoslavia Center kontrevolyutsioonnoy espionage activities aimed at the restoration of capitalism and the failure of the construction of socialism in Eastern Europe, namely, then was exposed Tito, have been exposed his crimes during the Second World War. In 1949, Yugoslavia was completely restored capitalism, plants were sold, exported valuable resources abroad by US companies, and Tito, crack down on the Communists received the stigma of Nazi executioner. Yugoslavia was the first capitalist country where under the guise of socialists and communists were hiding the real executioners of the working people, to rip off three skins with workers and organize the camp for real Communists. Capitalist relations of these renegades of communism called specific Yugoslav socialism.
Kontrevolyutsionny conspiracy in the USSR
In October 1952 he passed the 19th Party Congress in which, inter alia, the decision was made on processing program of the party, maybe the current adopted in 1919, is outdated. The commission processing program includes: Stalin, Beria, Kaganovich, Molotov, Malenkov, Kuusenin, Pospelov, Rumyantsev, Saburov, garlic, Yudin. Stalin died in March 1953, Beria was executed conspirators, Molotov and Kaganovich were completely removed from power, and a new program was drawn up a few years after the 20 Congress of the CPSU, the final version was edited and adopted by Khrushchev in 1961. The new program for the transition to communism came Zinoviev's position on the peaceful transition to socialism in capitalist countries, much attention was paid to cooperation, although Lenin's co-operation was needed for the transition to socialism and in its time was developed to backward sections of the peasantry could get used to the collective labor as required under socialism.
By the end of 50 years of the conspirators and their followers have been completely captured by the imperial place in the USSR. Nikita Khrushchev had left their mark wherever possible: he was the last one attended Stalin's office, which is a few hours later he died at his dacha, he was the last person who edited the third program of the CPSU, which included various Zinovievites kapitulyanskie provisions defeated Stalin still in late 20's. All this is a historical fact. Already in 2000 a famous ideologist of perestroika Yakovlev, who by the way was involved in the development of the new Constitution of 1977, wrote in his memoirs that in 50 years there was a group of senior officials concerned in the restructuring of society, due to the action of these individuals during the Khrushchev thaw was called.
I suppose that the return of the Crimea Ukrainian Khrushchev was also done for a reason, as well as the construction of pipelines to Europe. Tito, Khrushchev, and so on. It's pathetic agents of world imperialism. Admire where Yugoslavia now? This state no longer exists, as the Soviet Union. Capitalist Ukraine war with Russia over the territories, and 60% of the revenue deficit budget capitalist Russia – is the sale of oil and gas to Europe, when the Soviet Union was the world, and 85% of the budget revenues were from socialist enterprises.
In 1984, the new composition of the Supreme Council was elected under Brezhnev, which included MPs, which further endorses all the criminal laws of the Gorbachev government restructuring. In the early 90's in the Soviet Union it was completely restored capitalism, the country ceased to suschestovanie and was divided into separate capitalist countries between the national bourgeoisie of the former Soviet republics that emerged and gained strength in the restructuring.
It should be a mass workers' involvement in government, thanks to the reduction of working hours and so on.
As long as the state exists, and it is bound to wither away under communism, the majority of workers should be involved in the matter of governance, and it is quite possible with the modern technologies in the conditions of general automation and robotics.
The Perestroika Soviet government issued a series of laws that lead to the restoration of capitalism, which were approved by deputies of the Supreme Council during the parliamentary session. Then the mass participation of the workers during the Supreme Council session was limited to technical capabilities, as well as the length of the working day, which is not decreased, despite the decision of the program of the RCP in 1919 on the need to reduce the workday to 6 hours and 2 hours of time dedicate training of government affairs . Today, automation and robotics can reduce working hours at times, but it frees people from many professions. Free time people can devote to family, education, science and state administration.
Due to technical progress and the growth of productivity forces people will be replaced by robots in different sectors of the economy. This substitution is uneven, in the transport sector of the replacement will be faster, for example, vehicles without drivers. People who lost their jobs will live on welfare, which should be sufficient to satisfy all human needs. Until now, in the modern world, people work more than 8 hours a day. Because of the automation of working time should be reduced to 4 hours while maintaining the high payment for work. This will reduce the unemployment rate, for example, if the seller or the manager previously worked for 8 hours, now it will work for 4 hours at payment for conservation work as a full day, which will employ two people.
To reduce the operating time up to 6 hours intended 100 years ago, there was no computers and robots. An hour of free time a person must spend learning management of the state, and then to vote via the Internet during the parliamentary sessions of the Supreme Council, which took place in the USSR 2 times a year for 3-7 days. During the session of the Supreme Council of the majority of working people have to devote the vote, all the conditions must be created for this purpose: weekends and shorter working hours. This vote on the adoption of the law should be open to everyone to know who and what vote.
Using a computer, a person can be connected during a session of the Supreme Council to the Internet and go to the site, which will host an open vote on the adoption of various laws. Originally intended to give each person the right to a deliberative vote. After passing educational courses, training, every citizen will have the right to vote.
election system of deputies – deputies will continue, but with the growth of culture, education of citizens and the further growth of the productive forces will be possible to get away from the deliberative vote, preserving them for the pupils and students, and all other citizens to extend the right to vote.
This practice of mass involvement of workers in the administration of the state in the future should be extended not only to the session of the Supreme Council, but also at the session of the regional and city councils.
Socialist inviolability of the territories – their economic and cultural autonomy.
In the future, as the growth of the productive forces and the territory of the regions to be economically independent, residents will be able to resolve all issues on their own without the participation of the federal government and the Union. Territory will be self-governing, so no longer needed in the state and humanity will go from socialism to communism.
In the USSR, the Moscow Soviet was in 1000 deputies. In Putin's Russia the number of capitalist Moscow Duma deputies is 40. I watched the meeting of the Council on the old video is huge rooms with lots of people, I could not believe my eyes. Today, with the internet there is no need to collect a large number of people in one place. Max, for example, fit in the stadium of 40 thousand people.
Take a small town numbering 220 thousand people, of which 185 000 voters a person, it is necessary that the majority of voters to actively participate in the affairs of governance and have a casting vote in open voting during parliamentary sessions.
In the Soviet Union Supreme Council session held 2 times a year and lasted from 3 to 7 days. Under the Constitution, the deputies voted for this or other laws, which are developed by the Ministry in advance. Kontrevolyutsionnye force the government managed to spend a number of laws that lead to the restoration of capitalism, maybe, deputies and heads of the party also were kontrevolyutsii hands. Deputies took these criminal laws.
So let all the workers and the unemployed, all the citizens go to the damn session, on which depends the fate of hundreds of millions of people in the world, the fate of all mankind. Then each will be responsible for all the adopted laws, and none kontrevolyutsiya not find the strength to enslave people, to revive the damned capitalism.


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Rental cars and toll have been a problem in locations with frequent use of electronic free flow tolls. It has been an issue in Australia with people renting cars but being unaware of how to pay for toll roads, especially when they may drive the road and find no toll booth. Some forget, and so the toll becomes a violation which, like other traffic violations (e.g. speeding), gets passed onto the credit card holder for the booking. For those renting, this can be an expensive nuisance because it is typically much higher than the toll.
Hertz Australia has announced that it has introduced a toll payment service to be included in rental agreements, allowing motorists to pre-register to pay automatically for tolls on any of Sydney's toll roads. It is called Roam Express Rental e-Pass.
There is an activation fee of A$2.75 (US$3.02) for the first toll road, plus the toll and a A$0.75 fee for each toll point (which is called the "video matching fee"). If there is no toll road used, there is no charge. In essence, it saves the customer time in paying the toll directly, although it does not save money compared to doing so. The key for customers is saving money from penalty charges.
Given the number of times I have been asked the question "what about rental cars" in the context of congestion charging or other forms of road pricing, it is good to see that the market can easily come up with an answer.


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Leading for the Future
- Ever wanted to take a more active role in leading Woodcraft Folk activities, but not sure where to start?
- Interested in supporting other groups in your district, but feel you don't have enough experience?
- Inspired by projects and campaigns around you led by other young people? Want to find out more about how to get involved?
- Do you lack enough volunteers to run groups in your district?
- Do DFs and young kinsfolk from your district tend to disappear rather than becoming young leaders?
Leading for the Future is a resource created with children and young people and adults from across Woodcraft Folk to support local groups to explore and develop their understanding of leadership, learn new skills and grow in confidence as young leaders. It is a set of activities, exploring different aspects of leadership, developing new skills and putting them into practice. Find out more...
How do we use these activities?
The Leading for the Future resource pack contains a series of activities, organised into a number of sessions, which could be run at regular group night meetings. You don't have to run all the sessions week-after-week – you could break up the programme and do one a month, or a little bit each term over a year. Decide what would suit your group best. If you wanted to do the whole thing in one go, you could even go away for a weekend as a group and work through the programme together at a hostel or camp. You can adapt activities to suit your group, or pick the ones of most use to you, but remember that they are designed to follow on from each other over the course of the programme, so make sure you don't skip something that you'd come back to later on.
How do we get started?
Download the resource pack below, or email firstname.lastname@example.com for a printed copy if your group doesn't already have one.
Woodcraft groups can also use the fold out leaflet produced to support the 'Leading for the future' programme. This is a journey log, or scrap-book for young people in the group, to record ideas, plan next steps and look back at what they've done. And, when you're done with the programme, turn it round and there's a great 'Youth is not wasted on the young' poster on the back! Everyone doing Leading for the Future activities should have their own copy – again, email Rebecca with the number of young people in your group to order some.
All of these printed resources are free to registered Woodcraft Folk groups and the pack is also available to external organisations for a small charge of £7.
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I'm participating in: The August Break – a series of photo prompts created by photographer and author, Susannah Conway.
Looking forward to these photo prompts.
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I've been writing about my experiments with structured water on the Crimson Circle message board. Other message board users have been keeping up with my comments and sharing their questions and comments. One on the message board decided to create her own portable unit with stuff she had around the house. After having some shocking and surprising initial success with her first homemade unit using a recycled water bottle, some glass flower-arranging beads, a rubber band and some plastic mesh from an avocado bag, she upgraded her design to use actual food-grade glass marbles and a cupcake-maker plastic bottle with a spout on the end. She can definitely tell a difference in the water that goes through her homemade device; her daughter prefers this water to water that's right out of the faucet; she made another unit and sent it to a friend who can also tell a difference in the water. Her latest experiences with her own Do-It-Yourself structured water device:
Update on my own experiences with this (which BTW is fitting together in amazing ways with my light body exploration/research): I'm growing some alfalfa sprouts, testing the water. Measured the same amount of seeds into identical jars, soaked them, rinse them every day, keep them in separate but similar parts of the kitchen. It's been 5 (?) days now, they're almost ready to put in the window to get green. Everything but the water is identical, but one jar has about twice as much in it. Both more (more seeds actually sprouted) and bigger sprouts. Will post pics in a couple days. My hair is STILL not falling out anymore! It started coming out in big wads in my brush in 2002 and since then I've tried a lot of things to help it stop. Nothing worked …. until… it stopped falling out soon after I started using my homemade (cupcake-pen-and-marbles) unit. Just a few hairs in the brush now, maybe a dozen each day instead of what looked like hundreds. Me happy!! Every other evening or so I like a glass of wine. You want GOOD wine? Pour it through the unit! I'm not a wine expert whatsoever, but I won't drink it straight from the bottle anymore! Gotta go through the marbles.
Okay, sprouts update. In all photos, well watered sprouts are on the left, structured watered sprouts are on the right. I noticed that, after putting them in the window the last couple days to "green up," the well watered ones almost caught up. Maybe the physical proximity to the structured watered ones affected them? I also did a taste test. Well water sprouts tasted fine, like sprouts. Structured water sprouts tasted almost the same, at first I thought "sweeter?" then realized… no, they taste more like the outdoors, like something just picked outside. That the best I can explain the (very subtle) difference.
Bunch on the left weighs 1 ounce; bunch on the right weighs 1.5 ounce.


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The Family Court Process
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Wedding in a Tuscan Wine Resort
A charming wedding in a wine resort among the vineyards
In an area renowned for its wines, the opportunity to celebrate your wedding at the heart of its production is the height of sophistication. Many Tuscan wine producers open the doors of their estates, guest house and cellars to weddings and events. An original idea to the country chic style will take you and your guests among the rows of vines and barrique barrels with tasting of wine and selected local produce under a pergola or by a swimming pool,.
Who is a wedding in a Tuscan wine resort for?
It's the right solution for couples who love simple genuine pleasures, conviviality and a country chic style, who have a passion for good wines, excellent grappa and local produce.
By celebrating your marriage in a wine resort in the Tuscan hills you will give your guests a unique experience: A holiday on an estate which has been traditionally restored with great attention to detail and is immersed in the green countryside. They will have the opportunity to enjoy guided visits of the vineyards, cellars, to take part in wine tasting combined with other local produce and to enjoy the pleasant weather in the garden or by the pool.
A wedding in a wine resort by BeA Alfresco Wedding
Even with the theme of wine resort, the offer in Tuscany is so vast it will surprise even the most discerning of visitors and will satisfy the needs for a more sophisticated wedding.
BeA Alfresco Wedding will help you discover the main wine producing areas in the province of Siena and Tuscany in general and guide you in the choice of the right wine resort for your wedding.
The wine producing areas correspond to the more fascinating areas in terms of landscape and they are Chianti, which runs from the hills of Florence to Siena, the Val di Chiana v with its Nobile of Montepulciano and the Val d'Orcia with its famous Brunello di Montalcino. Heading towards the coast we also find the so called Super Tuscan and Bolgheri wines, produced on gentler hills.
You will discover restored farmhouses that reflect traditional architecture and materials, all equipped with every comfort for your guests. The wine cellars with their barrels will turn out to be alchoholic treasures thanks to centuries old knowledge and constant modernisation. The terraces that overlook the perfectly cared for vineyards will be the back drop for your party.
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However, as a birthday present to myself, on Saturday I splurged and spent $19 + tax to decorate our hall bathroom (Is it weird that I was giddy to decorate in a new color scheme on my birthday? Ah, well, I was!). I was inspired by the bright blue tile in the shower.
And finally, two things about our new hall bathroom that make me happy, other than the bright colors: a small round skylight, and crown moulding! Seriously, I have a deep love for crown moulding, and it's in every room of the upstairs of our house.
So there you have it, my $19 bathroom makeover. Amazing what 3 new things can do to brighten up a bathroom. One room down, 11 to go!
Have you ever been able to reuse home decor items after moving, or do you prefer to start fresh with all new home goods?


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Thursday, August 15, 2013
My favorite invitation of All Time
I've been desperately trying to find the time to photograph this invitation and show it off. It is the product of a collaboration between my client Jen (who had the guts and the vision to create such a statement piece), Jenna Blazevich and myself.
Jen's wedding is going to be full of fun bright colors (she had me at neon pink) and gorgeous gold details. Jen wanted to really ramp up the fun for the invitation, but still appeal to the formality and beauty of the wedding. There was no doubt that Jenna's beautiful calligraphy would be the way to go! We printed her artwork in gold foil and infused the super thick card stock with intense turquoise color.
Then we hit a design wall. The invitation suite needed something to bring the colors together and add a modern touch but I felt my own graphic patterns were too hard and I wanted something more flowery but not too old fashioned. I spent some quality time looking up decorative papers online and found the perfect pattern on Spoonflower by a designer named Katarina Roccella (take a look at her other patterns here--you can see what a tough choice it was with all the beautiful designs!). Then the world heard a trio of high pitched squeals as I passed along the pattern to Jen and Jenna. It was absolutely perfect! I used the paper as custom envelope liners and finished off the colorful design with a hot pink envelope (Jenna's calligraphy for each guest's address) and reply card in saffron yellow. It was a day to make this bright color, pattern loving, traditional with a touch of modern girl happy indeed. I could not have done it without my team of talent, and I am so grateful!
As a side note, I decided to order some of the same liner pattern in wallpaper and used it on my stair risers. More on that later.
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As an aside here... my father always used that same phrase, "You've got another think coming", especially when he would say, "If you think that you are leaving the house in that short skirt, you've got another think coming!". That was long ago and far away, back in the late '60's, the era of the mini-skirt and I kind of rocked those short skirts. Wow, that was a blast from the past! I just heard my Dad in my head..
My inspiration here was the quilt made by Patti R., pictured above. She's a newer member of the Guild and this was her quilt that she shared at our recent retreat in Gold Beach. We each layed a quilt that we had made on our beds and then we had a little room-to-room quilt show. I was completely captivated by Patti's quilt! I quizzed her about just how she put this thing together, she was so incredibly helpful and as soon as I got home from the retreat I dug out my 1930's fabrics and ordered the green fabric for my "garden paths". Then Patti invited me to her beautiful 1920's vintage home to go through her amazing collection of 1930's reproduction fabrics and choose what I liked to add to my quilt! My quilt-to-be and I are absolutely indebted to her. I imagine women long ago, making quilts using this same pattern, sharing bits and pieces of their fabrics with their friends...
To continue, I have always loved handwork and that makes this project perfect for me. It will take forever, and then even a little longer, but I am trying to grow myself some serious patience here, something that I have often been a bit short of.
I love the portability of it all. I carry my little vintage sewing basket along with me wherever I go. I make hexagons while Mr. T. and I are traveling from one place to another in the car, while waiting on our meal in a restaurant, while attending the Grand Boys baseball games, or during the lulls while I am making dinner. This is like found time to sew, little moments that turn in to productive opportunities, one tiny hexagon at a time.
I knew that there was a certain way to sew these little hexagons together into the flower blocks so I did some looking around online to see if I could find the directions. I laughed out loud, I LOL'ed, when I found the directions that I was looking for. They were posted on a website called Quilt-O-Rama and the post was titled "How to Make a Hexagon Quilt in 492 Easy Steps" !!!
I am indeed, crazy nuts....!


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Travel Game Schedule
The game schedule for WSSL's Red Bulls Travel Team games is set by the Westchester Youth Soccer League (WYSL). They schedule games for thousands of teams in the NY area. The schedule for each team is available via the link below -- you will need to know your division. Please note that, while the schedule has been published, it is likely to change during the season for unforseen reasons. Please check the schedule each week before heading out to a game.
WYSL Game Schedule Link


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Thursday, September 28, 2017
The Fisherman and the Farmer. A Theater Piece
The story of this idea is described in English at this link
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Hello! This is Ugo Bardi - I tend to overextend myself on the Web by writing a lot of stuff. Presently, my blog in English is titled "Cassandra's Legacy". In English, I have another blog a little more esoteric, titled Chimeras. The first is dedicated to sustainability, the second to mythology, history, and art. See also my latest book, "The Seneca Effect," Springer 2017.
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Ugo Bardi is a member of the Club of Rome and the author of "Extracted: how the quest for mineral resources is plundering the Planet" (Chelsea Green 2014). His most recent book is "The Seneca Effect" (Springer 2017)


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spring websocket programmatic tests (z3)
Budget $250-750 USD
Respost with USD$300, should not take more than 2 days for a programmer who has used web scraping or Apache HTTP Components and Websockets API (spring or other).
Programmtically call zeppelin URL and then send it data, read result and parse output, validate with what we expect.
Basically test zeppelin using libraries like apache HttpUtils and ([url removed, login to view] or
[url removed, login to view] )
Steps to start : 1. must know basic web scraping and HTTP client programming 2. big data knowldge not needed (might need scala and spark in local too, best if your on linux
or virtual box linux. i have ubuntu OS on my laptop) make a text file like [url removed, login to view] (attached) and a zepplin note like [url removed, login to view] Now run note.
Validate output. Now need to call the note URL and pass it parameters OR make a new note with this notes contents and pass parameters in the body of that.
Using zeppeling REST API to create note and then HTTP and websocket test codew to call it *Need good clean, well designed, extensible and well configured java code.
Generic posts will be ignopred. type "zep2" to indicate you read and understood description and project requirements.
*Budget USD $250/- Deadline 22th Dec 5pm GMT
* not sure if both images made it : [url removed, login to view]
** Should be a maven or gradle project and use 0.62 [url removed, login to view] and scala 2.11, spark spark-2.0.1-bin-hadoop2.7
** Your example should take 6 parameters so that can test 4 transformations including date. this example does not have date parsing.
** your example should parse a date using DateFormat and use that date to compare to a column (is equal)
from file See [url removed, login to view]
this is the zeppelin code you can use as is Zepplin works on windows but, install it on a top level folder with short name like
c:\a\ or d:\a\ fails if too long a folder like d:\myapps\jobs\apache_zepplin...
Need to start this within 2 days, so if anyone can do it, has time to go thru requirements,
set up zepplin, copy the zepplin note from [url removed, login to view] name it your freelancer user id,
take a screen shot and attach it in chat or proposal - i can award this to you today by 5pm India time and escrew 2 mile stones of 50% each.
can release 50% when u show me a demo on Monday and give first cut code, and 50% after testing. Code in [url removed, login to view] in your account,
share it with my id when ready. cancelling this project as i have a deadline and no serious bid with response to my questions
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Black Fury Lore
Black Fury Lore 1: What a Cub or Cliath would know
- Furies is often perceived as little more than a sorority of man haters
- Pegesus is the Tribal totem
- Male Garou Black Furies are typically given away to be reared by other tribes
- May have heard of the Sisterhood and perhaps another kuklos (camp)
- Has heard of the Outer Calyax and knows how it is chosen
- The tribe originated from the Greek Goddess Artemis
- Black Fury consider themselves the defenders of women and children.
- Black Fury typically have a distrust of men
- Black Furies consider themselves the protectors of the wyld.
- Black Furies are Gaia's vengeance
- May know a little tribal history
- May know a few Greek Myths
Black Fury Lore 2: What a Fostern would know
- Has heard of the more several of the prominent kuklos and might be mentored by a member of one
- Knows of the Homeland of the Black Furies, has a rough idea of how to get there
- Has heard that the Patriarch is an enemy of the Black Furies
- Has heard that the tribe distrusts and fights with the Get of Fenris
- Has heard of a Kuklorchoros, a Black Fury informal moot, and may have attended one
- Has heard stories of some Black Fury in your area.
- Has heard the tale of the creation of the Furies
- The Furies see the Triat as the Fates(Clotho =The Wyld, Lachesis= The Weaver, Atropos = The Wyrm).
- Has heard of the Weaver called the Namer
- Has heard of the existence of Black Fury specific rites and gifts.
- Knows the names of a few members of the Outer Calyx.
- Knows a little of the history of the tribe.
- May know a few of the important tales about the Greek pantheon and the great heroes
Black Fury Lore 3: What an Adren would know
- That in the past the Namer was considered a greater foe than the Wyrm.
- Knows the Black Furies part in beginning the Impergium and why
- Knows of all the kuklos (camps), has general knowledge of each and may belong to one.
- You can name your tribemates in the area, as well as the Tribal Elders
- Black Furies have long standing treaties with the Child of Gaia and the Silent Striders
- You have heard of and possibly attended a Ulaka Megaleis, a Black Fury only grand howl
- You have heard of, and possibly attended, a Kunergeseon, a Black Fury hunt of a male offender.
- You have heard stories of Elders
- Understands the significance of the colors white, red, and black in the Fury cosmology.
- Knows the names of most or all of the Outer Calyx members.
- Knows of the component spirits of Pegasus' brood.
Black Fury Lore 4: What an Athro would know
- May have heard rumors that the Fury warred with the Uktena and Wendigo over the "new world" settlement
- May have heard rumors that tension between the Fury and the Get intensified when the Get sided with Witch-hunters against the Black Fury during the Burning times.
- You can name many of your fellow tribemates, and have heard many stories of the Elders
- Knows most of the furies history as presented in the Revised Tribebook
- Knows the correct methods for approaching/summoning spirits of broods related to or allied to Pegasus'.
Black Fury Lore 5: What an Elder would know
- You know that there are tensions between the New World and Old World Furies, though the tribe shows a untied front.
- You know the names of the First Daughters, The Gorgons, and what they stood for.
- You know that there was a brief alliance with the Fianna and Get of Fenris in Rome that ended shortly after the fall of Rome
- You know the Tribal History and Mythology as presented in the Black Fury Rev. Tribebook
- Knows some of the tales of the tribe which are not commonly known in the present day.
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Neatoramanaut Senor Mysterioso (featured previously) did something neat that you would never have thought of in a million years. He crocheted an entire gun store! The pistols in the display case, the ammo boxes, the weapons hanging on the walls -all made of yarn! This was his Bachelor of Fine Arts thesis project. See details in his Flickr set for the installation. Link
(Image credit: Flickr user SenorMysterioso)
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Canadian artist, Barb Hunt, did something similar almost 10 years ago, but with anti-personnel land mines as the subject matter.
Excellent work, Senor Mysterioso.
Um, this earned him a degree? That's seriously messed up. Not saying I don't think it was a cute idea, but this was his Thesis?
Coming up next: Neatoramabot amigurumi
I am impressed. You have mad skills.


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Bulldogs mix it up with Tascosa in first scrimmage
If Plainview's football scrimmage against Tascosa Friday night at Greg Sherwood Memorial Bulldog Stadium is any indication, the Bulldogs are poised to provide some excitement on both sides of the ball this season.
Plainview held its own against Class 6A Tascosa and even got the better of their opponents throughout much of the evening.
Providing some of the excitement was running back Warren Flye. The speed burner ripped off a 55-yard touchdown run on the third play of a 12-minute live quarter the teams played to conclude the scrimmage. Earlier, in the portion where each team ran 10 plays and later, when each team ran eight plays, Flye motored down the sideline for a 65-yard touchdown run. A 60-yard run to the end zone was called back due to a penalty.
Senior quarterback Paxstyn Oldfield also got into the act with a 32-yard run for a touchdown during the earlier portion of the scrimmage.
Plainview coach Ryan Rhoades said after the scrimmage that the big plays are a result of 11 players all doing their jobs on the field.
"We had some big plays. And when you have big plays that means everybody's doing their job," Rhoades said. "The line did a great job opening holes. But, ultimately, it's 11 guys. On Paxstyn's long run, (sophomore receiver) Braxton Riddley came back and made a big block. Initially, the line opened the hole. That's where it all starts every play. But at the same time, we understand that there is no small role. The back side receiver or the play side receiver, there's no small role whether it's a pass or a run. They're there to do their job. And when they do their job, big things happen."
The defense also had its moments, especially during the early part of the scrimmage. At one point, Tascosa drove the ball inside Plainview's 20-yard line, but Bulldog defensive back Quenion Hines stepped in front of a receiver and intercepted a pass at the goal line to thwart the scoring attempt.
Plainview took an early 8-0 lead during the live quarter on Flye's touchdown run and a two-point pass from Oldfield to Domingo Saucedo. However, Tascosa rebounded with a defensive touchdown and then a 17-yard scoring pass with just five seconds left for a 16-8 advantage.
But Rhoades wasn't concerned about the final score. He viewed the scrimmage as a chance to evaluate his team. And he did just that.
"I think we had the upper hand, for the most part," Rhoades said. "As I told our kids, this is a glorified practice. And it was our best practice of the year. We're playing varsity players for upwards of three hours, and that's what you want out of a good, hard practice. Our kids responded and our kids played hard."
Rhoades said during the regular season he and his coaches will develop a game plan each week for each opponent. That wasn't the case for the scrimmage.
"Our coaches didn't game plan or scheme Tascosa for more than 15 minutes because we knew it was a scrimmage," Rhoades said. "We knew that we're not here to win a scrimmage. We're here to evaluate personnel, see who wants to compete and who doesn't. And I think our kids responded well."
Rhoades said he expects his team to provide many entertaining moments throughout the season.
"We'll be an exciting team this year, on both sides of the ball," the coach said. "We did some really good things, offensively. We did some really good things, defensively. And when you can do that and spend very little time on an opponent, you feel good about that. We're trying to get ready for the first game and this was a great practice to do that. Tascosa's got a really good team. It was good for us. It was good for them. And I think it was really productive."
One aspect of the game Rhoades stressed heading into the scrimmage was for his team to play physical on both sides of the ball. They seemed to do just that.
"I really believe they did a great job," Rhoades said. "If we set out to win scrimmages, I think we probably could have."
Still, Rhoades said, the scrimmage was a practice and not a regular-season game.
"Teams that want to be great keep their eyes on what matters," Rhoades said. "We want to get better and we want to focus on the games. And this was a practice. Sometimes, our kids think this is a game. But you don't win or lose a scrimmage. It's about competing with your teammates to know who can play, who needs to play and who may not need to play.
"Our kids all responded and competed really hard and it will be up to us to grade them and see who did well, where technique mistakes can happen and be corrected. My impression is they had a great effort and a great evening."
The Bulldogs open their regular season at 7 p.m. Thursday against Randall at Kimbrough Stadium in Canyon.


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Harvard-Bound Darnell Ready to Roll
By Jay Cook
As a high school athlete, capturing that healthy balance between scholastics and athletics is key to success on and off the playing field. They are the two pillars on which college offers are dependent upon.
Yet when one student goes noticeably above and beyond in the classroom and during games, it is always an impressive spectacle. This is exactly the case for Red Bank Catholic's Nasir Darnell.
Combining his 4.3 grade point average along with his 7.5 sacks this past season, Darnell is more than prepared for his next step in life: continuing his student athlete career at the illustrious Harvard University.
"I've been playing football since I was about six-years-old," said Darnell, a Matawan resident. "It's really been a part of my life, and imagining it being done after high school is something I didn't want to do."
For the past two seasons, Darnell has been a standout defensive lineman for the Caseys, a team led by former National Football League pro scout and assistant coach Frank Edgerly.
Despite a less-than-stellar season in 2016, which ended with RBC at 5-5, Darnell was a menace at defensive end all year long. His abil- ity to bend around tackles and set the edge against mobile quarterbacks and halfbacks made him stand out on film each week.
Donning the No. 6 jersey, with what came to be his trademark dreadlocks pouring out the back of his helmet, Darnell accounted for 31 hur- ries on opposing quarterbacks – a number so frightening for offensive lines that it was equally as exciting for his future college program.
Darnell ended his college search in late July, right before the Caseys began their preseason football activities. After receiving offers to play football at every single Ivy League school, he decided upon Harvard after three total visits to the Cambridge, Massachusetts campus.
"The process itself was a once in a lifetime process," he said. "Just being able to say you have an of fer from ever y Ivy League school, that's not something that everyone can say."
It surely is a unique achievement, one that Darnell has already treasured in his young career. Those feelings really hit hard, maybe even as hard as he does to opposing passers.
"I don't think many people would turn down going to Harvard," Darnell said. "It's a great atmosphere, and along with the facilities, everyone has a nice family sense to them."
For Darnell to entertain offers from each of the Ivy League schools, his prowess in the classroom had to transcend that of the average student. That was evident though his scores on the SAT, where he scored a 2070 on the three- part version of the test; he blindsided the math section with 770 out of 800.
At RBC, he currently is taking AP Statistics and AP Calculus BC – the highest level of math of fered at the school.
Darnell has always considered himself a math guy, even dating back to his youth when his parents Jasmin and Terrence pushed his intellectual limits. In kindergarten, Darnell was completing third-grade level arithmetic with ease.
"They've always been there for me," he said of his parents. "Sometimes they'd be up with me late nights, up with me finishing home- work. They always just push me to do my best and push me beyond."
Although his high school football career has ended, and the scholastic year now enters the second half, the Caseys' own math whiz has his sights set on preseason workouts in Cambridge for the Crimson. He wants to get a jump on the rest of the incoming freshman, so a move-in date of around late June or early July is a possibility.
A position change may also be in the works for one of the Shore Conference's most feared pass rushers in 2016. After overpowering tack- les and guards the past two seasons as a defen- sive end, Darnell said a move to becoming an edge defender is a real possibility.
"I'll probably be a little of both, it depends on where they want me," he said. "I have a lit- tle experience at outside linebacker from when I was younger, but wherever they need me, I'm willing to play."
While figuring out the playbook for his freshman campaign, the current Casey will also be figuring out his key area of study. He wants to work with numbers – go figure – and a major in business or engineering seems to be in the works.
Between Harvard's classrooms and football field, there is a lot on Darnell's plate for his future, but he is surely not one to shy away from the challenge.
"I think I'll fare pretty well considering I've been balancing it my whole life," he said. "I know with time management that will make things a lot easier, but I'm definitely ready for the challenge."
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We live in the digital era
We live in times of rapid transformation from analog to digital, we consume digital content daily and companies that have not yet recognized this in their marketing strategies need to adapt quickly.
Nowadays, a digital marketing strategy is essential if you are to create real successful businesses.
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In Portugal, with about 11 million inhabitants:
• 7 million use the internet;
• 25% shop online;
• 63% use a smartphone;
• 79% are online daily;
• around 6 million are active users of Facebook (1.4 billion worldwide);
• 40 minutes is the average usage time of Facebook per day per user.
That being said, it's a huge, low-cost audience. Advertising on Facebook is, at this time, the best and most economical way to do mass advertising.
The digital methods of communication and marketing are faster, versatile, practical and simple. But one of the key benefits is the ease with which results can be monitored, being able to quickly see customer response rates and measure the success rate of a real-time campaign, which then leads to more effective planning of the campaign. next campaign.
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I'm glad everyone's worried about the safety of the cloud and no one gives a shit that these women were violated. This is no different from revenge porn and all of it should be a crime. My one question is: with the abundance of dick picks online, how come the only celebrity nudes that ever seem to be revealed are of women? Think about it, ladies. Think hard and get angry.
When "the man" fights "the power," we should all pay close attention.
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