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TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Jul 24, 2017) - Pele Mountain Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:GEM) ("Pele" or the "Company") announced today that further to its press release dated July 5, 2017, the Company has completed a share consolidation of the Company's issued and outstanding common shares (the "Consolidation") on the basis of ten (10) pre-consolidation shares to one (1) post-consolidation share. Shareholder authorization to effect the Consolidation was approved at the Company's annual and special meeting held on March 9, 2017. The Consolidation reduced the number of issued and outstanding common shares of the Company from 209,996,930 pre-Consolidation common shares to approximately 20,999,693 post-Consolidation common shares. The Company's common shares continue to be traded on the TSXV under the symbol "GEM".
A letter of transmittal was mailed by the Company's transfer agent on July 13, 2017, to all registered shareholders, with information on how to exchange their pre-Consolidation share certificates for post-Consolidation share certificates. Shares held in uncertificated form by non-registered shareholders through brokerage accounts will be converted on the 10:1 basis through each shareholder's brokerage accounts. Non-registered shareholders should consult their broker for further information. No fractional shares will be issued as a result of the Consolidation. Shareholders who otherwise are entitled to receive a fraction of a common share will be rounded down to the nearest whole number of common shares and no cash consideration will be paid in respect of fractional shares.
Further details with respect to the Consolidation are contained in the Company's management information circular dated January 27, 2017, a copy of which is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
The exercise price and number of common shares of the Company issuable upon the exercise of any outstanding stock options, warrants or other convertible securities will be proportionately adjusted to reflect the Consolidation.
About Pele
Pele Mountain Resources Inc. has a strategic relationship with Enirgi Group Corporation to market and develop Enirgi Group's proprietary DXP Technology in North America. The Company is seeking to partner with holders of lithium brine resources to unlock value through the application of the technology.
Pele shares are listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol "GEM".
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements contained in this news release constitute forward-looking information. These statements relate to future events or future performance, including statements as to the following: the outcome of a strategic review by the Board and any new direction in business, the entering into a relationship agreement with Enirgi Group, including any strategic cooperation relating to Enirgi Group's DXP technology or in the lithium industry or the entering into of a management services agreement with Enirgi Group; the settlement of any of Pele's indebtedness; the future use, application or licensing of Enirgi Group's DXP Technology in North America or elsewhere. The use of any of the words "could", "intend", "expect", "believe", "will", "projected", "estimated" and similar expressions and statements relating to matters that are not historical facts are intended to identify forward-looking information and are based on Pele's current belief or assumptions as to the outcome and timing of such future events. Whether actual results and developments will conform with Pele's expectations is subject to a number of risks and uncertainties including factors underlying management's assumptions, such as risks related to board approvals, regulatory or shareholder approvals (if required) for any transaction, negotiation of definitive documentation; risks relating to the closing of acquisitions and settlements of debts with creditors; risks relating to the development and marketing of new processing technologies; and financial risks relating to a lack of operational cash flow. Actual future results may differ materially. The forward-looking information contained in this release is made as of the date hereof and Pele is not obligated to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable securities laws. Because of the risks, uncertainties and assumptions contained herein, investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The foregoing statements expressly qualify any forward-looking information contained herein. For more information see the Company's disclosure documents on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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We saw the ugly side of cricket, says disappointed Dhoni
Frustrated after rain interruptions forced a tie in the fourth ODI against England, Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said the "ugly side of cricket" came to fore in the match as the side which had the upperhand "didn't want to play."
Sunday's tie gave England the five-match series after the first game was washed out and the hosts won the next two.
India had set England a formidable target of 281 in Sunday's match before rain interruptions forced a tie with the hosts at the Duckworth-Lewis par score of 270 for eight.
"We just saw the ugly side of cricket. Whichever team has the upper hand, doesn't want to play. Whichever team is not on winning side, will stick around and even play football. That's what people do and that's what both sides did," Dhoni said, after the match.
Image: MS Dhoni
'If you put it under lights, it doesn't look nice'
There were as many as three interruptions - first when England were up and second when the Indians were ahead on the Duckworth-Lewis rule.
The intervening showers did cease 10 minutes after the proceedings were ended but the rules didn't permit the game to be played under lights.
"If you have a day game, you need different guidelines and principles to follow. If you put it under lights, it doesn't look nice," he said.
Image: MS Dhoni
'Some thought we had won it'
Dhoni said some of the Indian players were confused about the result.
"Some of the guys were confused. Some thought we had won it.
"Most of us thought it was a passing shower and we would be able to get back on the field," said Dhoni.
"Once inside the dressing room, we saw the final sheet of paper.
"After looking at it, it was apparent it was a tie and none of the side had won the game," he added.
Image: MS Dhoni
'We were close to winning the first game also'
Expressing his frustration with the interruptions, which robbed his side of a win in the series, Dhoni said, "This is not the first time.
"We were close to winning the first game also.
"But as I said, you can't control the weather."
Image: MS Dhoni
'We didn't have a target in mind'
Dhoni's batting was quite refreshing as was the knock of Suresh Raina who top-scored with 84 runs.
"We got off to a good start. Openers did well. When I came in, we wanted to make sure we play a number of overs.
"We didn't have a target in mind.
"We wanted to try and rotate the strike. Not to play shots which were risky and get closer to the 40-over mark.
"In the last 10 overs, we were able to get 110 runs which really made a difference."
Image: MS Dhoni
'It's important not to aim too high in batting powerplay'
For the second game running, India did well in batting powerplay.
In the last game at the Oval, they made 51 runs from five overs and at the Lord's, they plundered 58.
"It has been good in the last two games. It's important not to look for 60 runs in five overs.
"You look at 40 runs as a benchmark. If you have explosive power, the last three overs can really make a difference.
"You can even get 50 runs. But it's important not to aim too high," Dhoni said.
Image: MS Dhoni
'I am not a very good fielder'
There was a feeling that with so much on his plate, Dhoni was better off in giving the keeping responsibility to Parthiv Patel.
"I am not a very good fielder.
"I love fielding on the boundary. But you can't lead the side from there.
"So that option (of letting Patel keep) is not there right now."
Image: MS Dhoni
'It's important to get the most out of every game'
Dhoni said it would be India's aim to win the final game at Cardiff on Friday.
"Every game is important. Every game is an international game.
"It's important to get the most out of it.
"It wouldn't be bad to get a victory finally in the whole of series."
Image: MS Dhoni
'It becomes difficult when senior players are available'
England will be visiting India next month and after the encouraging show by a few youngsters, speculation is rife about the seniors retaining their spots.
"Quite a few players would be fit by then. We then may not have a very good fielding side. But then grounds in India are small and there is not much opportunity for batters to take singles or twos.
"You have to see which all players are available. It becomes difficult when senior players are available.
"It's tough for the youngsters but (this tour) has been a good grooming period for them. When the time comes, they could be around for 5-10 years."
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After the excessive amounts of pork I ate yesterday I was in need of a light, meat free dinner. I decided on balsamic glazed tofu with white beans and kale.
I used the dry fry method for cooking the tofu then deglazed the pan with a mixture of balsamic, thyme, garlic, salt and pepper. For the beans and greens I cooked some red onion in a pan then added a big bunch of kale, salt, pepper and some of the balsamic mixture. After the kale cooked down for a few minutes I added the white beans just until they were heated through. I tend to use tofu only in asian dishes, this was a nice change.


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Worlds Update
RENO, Nev. — The best pro riders from around the globe took to the waters of Sparks Marina today for their opening-rounds of competition for the Rockstar WWA Wakeboard World Championships, presented by Supra.
Among the world's best riders were Dallas Friday and Andrew Adkison, both of whom advanced to tomorrow's contest and are looking to capture back-to-back world titles.
Friday, 20, emerged on the professional wakeboarding scene at an early age and has since proven to be the most accomplished female rider in the history of the sport. The 2004 ESPN ESPY winner has claimed five consecutive national titles, four X Games gold medals and countless victories on the Pro Wakeboard Tour, and she is seeking her fourth straight world title.
Should Orlando native Friday capture the win at Worlds, she will tie Andrea Gayton's record of four for the most consecutive world championship wins and become the first American rider to do so.
Adkison, 25, is a fifth-year pro rider and has established himself as one of the sport's premier athletes. In his five-year career, Adkison has won two world championships and two WWA World Series Japan titles, has captured the top spot at the 2006 Wake Games and was named Rookie of the Year in 2002.
If the Tennessee native wins the 2007 championships, he will tie Shaun Murray's record for the most world championship titles in the pro men's division.
Both Friday and Adkison will take to the water tomorrow for the fourth and final day of competition.
The Pro Wakeskate Division met today for their semifinals. Reed Hansen (Groveland, FL), 17, continues to show why he is the current U.S. national wakeskate champion, as he again led his division with a score of 68.33.
The Boys Division hit the water today for their semifinals with Harley Clifford (Medowie, Australia), 13, pacing the division on the day with a score of 73.33.
Noah Flegel (Lighthouse Point, FL), 9, led the Jr. Boys Division today during the semifinal round of competition with a score of 54.44.
To catch all the wakeboarding action from home, tune in to Fuel TV on Mondays at 9:30 p.m. For exact air dates, go to www.kingofwake.com.
Fuel TV is a 24/7 action-sports lifestyle network for wakeboarding, skateboarding, snowboarding, surfing, BMX and freestyle motocross. A unit of Fox Cable Networks, Fuel TV was launched July 1, 2003, and is seen in 24 million U.S. homes. To subscribe to Fuel TV, call 877-4-FUEL-TV. For program times and other information, visit fuel.tv.


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Each year, 800,000 children go missing. Albany County District Attorney's office joined the National Child Identification Program (NCIP). The NCIP allows children, beginning at age four, to be fingerprinted with the identification information being maintained by parent.
This past year, the office distributed over 30,000 kits and posters throughout Albany County Costs of the kits were underwritten by fundraising efforts undertaken District Attorney Soares's office and did not incur any taxpayers expenditures.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — At its prime, the space shuttle Endeavour cruised around the Earth at 17,500 mph, faster than a speeding bullet.
In retirement, it's crawling along at a sluggish 2 mph, a pace that rush-hour commuters can sympathize with.
Endeavour's 12-mile road trip kicked off shortly before midnight Thursday as it moved from its Los Angeles International Airport hangar en route to the California Science Center, its ultimate destination, said Benjamin Scheier of the center.
The space craft was escorted by a security entourage as it moved across the tarmac but was briefly delayed after a minor problem developed with its trailer, Los Angeles police Sgt. Rudy Lopez said. The problem was quickly repaired and Scheier said it reached the street shortly after 2 a.m. PDT Friday.
The immense black-and-white spacecraft, its sides weathered by millions of miles in space and two dozen re-entries, crawled slowly through the streets of the Westchester neighborhood on a 160-wheeled carrier.
Hundreds of people waiting in the predawn darkness snapped photos and gaped as it inched by with its tail towering over streetlights and its wings spanning the roadway.
"I'm speechless. It's like a once-in-a-lifetime chance," one man told KABC-TV.
"I grew up with the space program," another said. "I remember when Columbia blew up when I was a child in school and I was fortunate last summer to go to the last shuttle launch in Florida, so it's really exciting for me to be here and watch it go through the streets."
The shuttle made stop-and-go progress, with some halts to check its balance on its 160-wheeled carrier and to prune trees in its path as it rolled past strip malls, storefronts, apartment buildings and front lawns.
"It's still a work in progress," Scheier said.
The shuttle was to travel three miles and then stop in a private lot for a nine-hour layover as crews deal with power lines father ahead on the route.
Ushering a shuttle through an urban core is a logistical challenge that took almost a year to plan. Guarded by a security detail reminiscent of a presidential visit, police enforced rolling street and sidewalk closures as early as Thursday night in some locations and discouraged spectators from swarming side streets.
The behemoth transport has caused headaches for shopkeepers along the route who counted on cheering crowds jamming the curbs to boost business.
In the days leading up to Endeavour's move, the owners of Randy's Donuts sold shuttle-shaped pastries emblazoned with the NASA logo and even hung a shuttle replica inside the giant doughnut hole sign visible from the busy Interstate 405.
Co-owner Larry Weintraub planned to watch the shuttle creep by the roadside sign, which has been featured in several movies. But the store, which serves up sweets 24-7, will be closed Friday night.
"I'm still excited, but I'm disappointed that people aren't going to be able to stand in the streets and shout 'Yay,'" he said.
Saturday is typically the busiest day for James Fugate, who co-owns Eso Won Books in South Los Angeles. But with Endeavour expected to shuffle through, Fugate braced for a ho-hum day in sales.
"We don't close because we're slow. That's when you pull out a book to read," he said.
The baby of the shuttle fleet, Endeavour replaced Challenger, which exploded during liftoff in 1986, killing seven astronauts. It thundered off the launch pad 25 times, orbited Earth nearly 4,700 times and racked up 123 million miles.
Last month, it wowed throngs with a dizzying aerial loop, soaring over the state Capitol, Golden Gate Bridge, Hollywood Sign and other California landmarks while strapped to the back of a modified 747 before finally landing at LAX.
The last leg of Endeavour's retirement journey skips the tourist attractions and instead, winds through blue-collar communities in southern Los Angeles County. While viewing will be severely curtailed due to sidewalk shutdowns, crowds are still expected.
Moving the 170,000-pound Endeavour requires a specialized 160-wheel carrier typically used to haul oil rigs, bridges and heavy equipment. The wheels can spin in any direction, allowing the shuttle to zigzag past obstacles. An operator walks alongside, controlling the movements via joystick. Several spotters along the wings are on the lookout for hazards.
To make room for the five-story-tall shuttle and its 78-foot wingspan, some 400 trees were chopped down, cable and telephone lines were raised, and steel plates were laid down to protect the streets and underground utilities.
Endeavour will mostly travel on wide boulevards with some boasting as many lanes as a freeway. While there have been advance preparations, there is remaining work to be done during the move, including de-energizing power lines. Southern California Edison warned of outages in the suburb of Inglewood.
One of the trickiest parts involves trundling through a narrow residential street with apartment buildings on both sides. With Endeavour's wings expected to intrude into driveways, residents have been told to stay indoors until the shuttle passes.
The route was selected after ruling out other options. Dismantling the shuttle would have ruined the delicate heat tiles. Helicoptering it to its destination was not feasible. Neither was crossing on freeways since the shuttle is too big to fit through the underpasses. The cost of transporting it cross-town was estimated at over $10 million.
As complex as the latest endeavor is, Southern California is no stranger to moving heavy things.
In 1946, Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" aircraft was built in sections and hauled from Culver City to Long Beach, 30 miles away. In 1984, an old United Airlines DC-8, with its wings and tail disassembled, was towed from Long Beach to the science center.
Earlier this year, a two-story-tall chunk of granite was hauled 105 miles from a rock quarry to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.


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We've got a new maid called Chrysanthemum
Who said 'I have just come from Grantham, m'm.
I lost my last place
In the sorest disgrace,
Cuz I snored through the national anthem, m'm.'
There was a young lady from Powys
Who asked of her lover "Just howys
It possible for you
To perform as you do?"
Quoth he "An amalgam of ability and prowys."
The limerick's callous and crude,
It's morals distressingly lewd.
It's not worth the reading
By persons of breeding;
It's designed for us vulgar and rude!
An actor, in furious rage,
Muttered this to an actress on stage,
"When I'd fallen for you,
I had thought forty-two
Was meant for your bust, not your age!"
"My girlfriend wants me to ski,"
Said the flabby young cellist, "But Gee!
With Leopold Stokowski,
Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky,
That's quite enough skiing for me.
A baritone star of Havana
Slipped horribly on a banana.
He was sick for a year
Then resumed his career
As a promising lyric soprano.
A blonde woodwind player named June
Arrived at rehearsal too soon.
A man in the band
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"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us," (Heb 12:1 AV)
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The first thing to investigate is the nature of sin, in particular from where sin comes form, or indeed what is sin.
What is sin?In this modern age the concept of sin is hardly known, even in many churches, this is because the notion of God is hardly believed and also the prevalent thought of the importance of man in the scheme of things precludes any such possibility. Besides if God were to exist He would be such a nice fellow to not contradict man, let alone condemn him for anything, rebellious man states. Unbelievers say:"But I do not believe in God so this is not applicable to me" what a shallow statement, God is the Creator of all that exists, even unbelievers and they too are under God's Law, whether they accept it or not.
Deluded man so believes, but Scripture quite clearly negates this notion and tells us what sin is:
"Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law." (1Jo 3:4)
Now we know what sin is, but who has sinned? Also on this, Scripture leaves us in no doubts:
There so plainly stated again "all have sinned" ALL means that nobody is excluded.
To that we must also add the penalty of sin:
So, in a nutshell, this is the progression of sin: God has imposed on us His Just Law, whosoever goes against this Law commits sin (ALL of us do), receiving the just deserve thereof, i. e. death.
From Where does Sin comes from?Scripture gives inkling when sin first appeared in the creation of God: The Bible teaches us
The origin of sin is a problem that has occupied theologians in all ages, without any resolution, notwithstanding many of their highfaluting theories. Their main argument is: "God did not create Sin, God created everything good; He is not the Author of sin. Moral beings were without sin when created. Satan was created a sinless and perfect being."
Well, OK, but from whence does sin come from then? The facts of the matter are that nobody knows, indeed all of our knowledge comes from God, if He does not reveal, then we will never know.
However we can reason a little logically and consider that since God created all things, there in nothing created that God did not give life to it, NOTHING in God's creation can occur without God giving conscious energy to it to exists, this clearly means that if He gives that life force He must also will it to be so. If something were to enter into God's creation outside Himself, then God will come short of His major attributes; Omnipotence, Omniscience and Omnipresence, and thus He would not be God anymore, by definition.
Have a look at this interesting passage:
Now if someone were to send an emissary to lie to someone else so to convince this latter one to do an action that will cause his death, would not a modern court condemn the original instigator?
Then consider this:
The truth of the matter is that no human does know where sin comes from and will never know if God does not reveal, but logic tells us that it cannot be outside the affairs of God otherwise God would not be the Almighty Sovereign God, by definition. We must be content with what Scripture tells us:
What rights has God to impose the concept of sin on us?
Every unbeliever says, indeed even many believer these days: "We know of sin only because God decided to impose on us the Law, a good God would not do that, I do not want this Law, for it is set up for me to fail and be condemned for this Law infringes on my free will and doesn't not let me do what I really want to do." A survey was carried out with many university professors that were reported to believe in the religion of Evolution, when confronted many confessed not to really believe in it but they must carry on the pretence of it, for the acceptance of God would limit their sexual life inclinations, they said. This position is very common in our days.
Well then, what right Has God to impose His Law on human beings?? Simply, He has the right of creation, and maintenance and possession. We are in existence only because He willed us into being and also He keeps us in life:
So, those who inveigh against God's impositions are rebels without a cause deserving every bit of Hell they get.
Why we sin?The oft-mentioned excuse: "the devil made me do it" certainly cannot be used here. We sin wilfully and often we even enjoy it.
This is a difficulty that every saint must wrestles with all his life. I am saying "every saint" for unbelievers could not care less even if they have a notion of what sin is. Every saint must be confronted with this conscience pain, we see that even the most devoted servant of Christ, Paul of Tarsus, was lamenting in Romans:
The reason as to why we sin is found in the sinful nature we inherited from Adam:
Another grand man of God, Augustine of Hippo, in his painful Confessions he laments: "Non Posse Non Peccare" (I am not able not to sin). He has suffered this troublesome situation and proposed 4 states of man possibilities in relation to sin:
able to sin, able not to sin (posse peccare, posse non peccare) the state of man in innocence, before the Fall
not able not to sin (non posse non peccare); the second the state of the natural man after the Fall
able not to sin (posse non peccare) the third the state of the regenerate man
unable to sin (non posse peccare) the fourth the glorified man.
Pre-Fall Man
Post-Fall Man
Reborn Man
Glorified Man
able to sin
able to not sin
unable to not sin
unable to sin
This of course involves the concept of "free will". Well does man have free will? Men are so rebellious that they will fight till their green tongues fall off, in insisting that they are the Captain of their Souls and that they have absolute free will? But, do They?
What is the meaning of free will to these proponents? That they must be free to do whatever they want without limits. Well that is impossible, if one wants to have sex with the wife next door but if the husband is waiting with the shotgun it cannot be done even if one wants to. And so with practically every situation in life, one is limited or stopped by physical reasons and by circumstances continually, thus in practically every case one is not free to get what he wants, e.g. his freedom is limited in a way or another and not totally free to get what he wants.
In theological terms free will is normally defined as the ability to choose equally between what is good and what is evil without any encumbrances and his will is free because it is not forced or compelled from without.
However, man's will is determined by his own moral inclinations. So ungenerated man cannot be said to be free because he will ALWAYS choose to do what is evil (in God's eyes), because his motives are never pure, and never to glorify God. He has no other inclination so he cannot ever choose what is good (in God's eyes) as Scripture states
Looking at the table above we see that before the Fall, man was able to choose to do either good or evil, his heart, and so his inclination and disposition, being innocent and not tainted by sin. But Adam's state was mutable and when Satan tempted Eve, and then Eve tempted him, he wilfully chose to sin against God by eating the forbidden fruit and so fell from the estate of innocence.
By the completed works of Christ on the cross the elect reborn man has been enabled by the Grace of God to choose good or evil, as in the beginning
Whilst in the Glorified state man will always choose to do good because his heart's inclination is always to glorify God; (O LORD, How long? How long?).
So with reference to "free will" as proposed by its proponent we can say that it is false, for man has NEVER total free will, to be sure man has a will but never totally free as intended by them, ONLY God has true free will.
So puny man should answer these simple questions before claiming "Free Will" for himself:
Did you freely choose to be born?
Did you freely choose to be born man or woman?
Did you freely choose in which nation to be born?
Did you freely choose to be born black or white?
Did you freely choose to be intelligent or dumb?
Did you freely choose to be part of your family?
Did you freely choose the life you have?
Did you freely choose to be healthy or sick?
Did you freely choose in which way and when you shall die?
Did you freely choose to be saved? This is a good one for the proponent of free will, but look at these verses:
"No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day." (Joh 6:44)
"And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father." (Joh 6:65)
Seems that before claiming "free will" for himself man should claim "free rebellion".
With Augustine we agree that:
The children of God are actuated by His Spirit to do whatever is to be done
They are drawn by Him, out of an unwilling state to be made willing
Since the fall it is owing only to the grace of God that man draws near to Him
It is owing only to the same grace that God does not withdraw or recede from him
We know that no good thing which is our own can be found in our will
By the magnitude of the first sin, we lost the freedom of the will to believe in God and live holy lives
Therefore "it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs"—not because we ought not to will and to run, but because God effects both the willing and the running.
Can we totally stop sinning whilst on this earth?I must and will confess that so far I have been unable to stop sinning altogether. I will admit that I am well aware of sinning and at times do go on, regardless of the pangs of conscience. My old nature is not completely dead, I fear. "O my Lord, do have pity of this miserable soul."
I have heard claims by men that they are able not to sin, well, my looking into their lives has always disproved that claim and moreover in my over 60 years of life I have never seen a totally sinless man, even in televangelists. I am just wondering what reference they are using to determine their life as sinless.
I am therefore convinced that it is not likely in this life that anybody can truly be sinless (besides Christ). This does not mean I cease to fight against sin; I do and will continue to do so till my last breath on this earth, for I hate sin, but as Paul said:
If the devil confronts me with a long list of my sins I will respond: "Yes, it is true they are mine, but you are wrong for the list is longer than that, nevertheless I live by Faith in Him who has crucified my every sin on the cross by His sacrifice and He is continually interceding for me with His Holy blood in front of the Mercy Seat in Heaven".
Therefore I firmly stake my salvation in the finished works of Christ and Him crucified, and testify with a loud voice that God has enable me to confess with my mouth:


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Here are my first trimester bump pictures! My goal was to take one every week, but as you can see, there is a big lag from 8-14 weeks. Let's just say, I wasn't feeling or looking my best during that time and taking a picture was the last thing I wanted to do. My belly also didn't really grow much until this last week, at week 14.
Andrez and I laughed looking at the three of these pictures because I was feeling great and so optimistic at week 6. I thought that pregnancy wasn't so bad and didn't know what anyone meant by morning sickness or feeling awful. Then it hit, slowly at first and in waves, and by weeks 7 & 8, I was miserable. Week 8's picture is a forced smile and was probably taken right before or right after throwing up for the second or third time that morning. That's why we laughed because I was feeling so awful but wanted to get my picture in. Obviously, I stopped caring about the pictures, journaling, and pretty much everything except for laying on the couch and sleeping for the next 6+ weeks.
At week 14, which was last Thursday, I felt much better and now the picture taking will commence each week until I'm holding our sweet little baby! Now that the misery is slowly going away, I am really enjoying my growing baby and belly and can't wait to share this journey with you all!


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You might have noticed a new box on the left hand side of the blog right under the name and what the blog is about. Right above the box it says Becoming... and in the left top corner, it says BookBuzzr. There's also a bright yellow/orange box that says "Read Free Sample" which I hope you will click on and read. It's an interesting display of my latest release, Becoming...
I'm not pitching the book at this point (though I might add that you can order it via my website for FREE SHIPPING through February 9th). I want to focus on that little box and the "look inside" feature that it offers. If you've read any of my blog or converse with me in the world of FaceBook or Twitter, then you know I've been throwing myself into learning about marketing and social marketing in particular. One of my Twitter connections led me to the website BookBuzzr.com. I was skeptical because of this one simple word: FREE. Now that word shouldn't scare a person but we all know free usually isn't. Just like with my free shipping, you still have to buy the book to get the free shipping. I guess I could ship you an empty box and then the shipping really would be free though it wouldn't serve either of us very well and I don't want to do that so don't ask me to. Still, I was intrigued by what I saw in my hopping around on the BookBuzzr.com site and I'd like to briefly share that experience with you (Brief from me? Yeah, right!).
According to the The Story page of the BookBuzzr.com site, that little box is an (and this is a direct quote) "embeddable book-widget that's shareable across multiple social networks. And with book-pages that look and act like pages from a real book." I personally liked the widget and decided to try it out on Becoming... although I'm truly thinking toward the marketing end of A Marriage of Necessity and how it will look as a widget :) Anyway, I decided to give it a test run. It was actually fairly easy to use. Of course, being a self-published author and doing my own formatting and POD publishing submissions, I have direct access to my pdf files. The site does, however, give you a link to an easy pdf converter. I may try it even though I don't have to since OpenOffice has a one-click converter for the inside of the books and I already discussed in a previous post how I use PhotoShop to convert my covers to pdf.
The upload was simple. They do ask some questions along the way that go toward building your profile. All pretty simple. I liked the fact that I got to pick the pages that went into the widget and did not have to choose pages that were all right together. They also provide you with a marketing checklist and suggest that you follow at least some of the listed suggestions to create a base level of presence on the Internet. I've done a few though not all.
All-in-all I'm intrigued by this little tool they call a book-widget. I'm going to create them for the other books I've written as well as for a couple I've published for others and we'll see where we go with it. In the meantime, make sure you click on that "Read Free Sample". At the very least, it will automatically post something about my book on Twitter :)


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Their romantic journey is skillfully intertwined with those of beloved couples Anna and Étienne and Lola and Cricket, whose paths are destined to collide in a sweeping finale certain to please fans old and new.
Why I'm waiting: Because I just jumped on the S. Perkins bandwagon and ERMAGAWD WHY DIDNT I READ THESE BOOKS BEFORE NOW?!?! If you haven't read them, you need to, and this is coming from someone who hardly ever reads contemps. They are hilarious and super swoony and I NEEDS MORE! Can it just be August already?!


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I wrote very often about labels, a very good way to catch the eye of a potential buyer on an overcrowded wine shelf. Closures could also be a very important clue, if I believe a recent article in Wines & Vines. The article's author highlights three points:
I won't get into the technical details between foil, aluminium and polylam because I'm more interested by the marketing strategy but I must say I was impressed by all the thoughts wineries put in the subject. A bottle carries the entire image of the wine and the winery: colors and material are part of the process. I was working a few months ago on the launch of a French pink wine in the US. We wondered about the color of the foil: should it be pink like the wine or almond green to complement the color scheme of the label? After many testings between us and a panel of drinkers, we decided on the almond green, very unusual and eye-catching.
An other type of closure not mentioned in the Wines & Vines article is colored wax: it is very eye-catching but, of course, rather costly and should be limited to very high-end wines.


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Our Twitter chats benefited so much from what I learned by watching and occasionally participating in various edu Twitter chats over the past couple of years, and I would LOVE to get ideas and advice from people who participate in virtual book clubs about what has worked best for them!
Those Twitter chats grew out of a phone conversation that Rob Reynolds (NextThought guru, and formerly of OU), Stacy Zemke (OU OER goddess) and I had back in February... we had fun talking on the phone together, but we realized it would obviously be even more fun — and useful! — to get more people in on the conversation, and sure enough, some people from OU participated, and some other people joined in too, which was just great: by making the conversation open and online, we managed to get some people together who come from different parts of OU, and also some people who are not at OU but who were interested in the topics at hand.
So, when I was thinking about how fun it would be to read Flow together with Rob and Stacy and any/all the folks I know online who would be interested in doing that together, I got the idea of proposing an "online book club" that might even be sponsored by our Center for Teaching Excellence. They offer all kinds of great face-to-face workshops, but so far they have not done anything with online workshops that are asynchronous, taking advantage of different kinds of online spaces to connect and share. If CTE would sponsor the book club so that the OU participants could maybe get the cost of the book covered (Flow for Kindle, for example, is $9.95), that would be really cool... but of course even without such sponsorship, we could make it work! So, I'm going to just brainstorm here some of the cool things I would like to see happen as a result of this.
Here are some thoughts in no particular order:
1. Read/re-read some COOL BOOKS about learning, education, communication, etc.! I know I would get so much more out of reading books together with others. Some of the books I have read in recent years that had a big impact on me and which are of general education interest would be Csikszentmihalyi's Flow, Daniel Pink's Drive, Gleick's The Information (AMAZING book, IMO; I loved that one), etc. And then of course there are all the books I have on my book list that I have NOT read and which a book club would prod me to read, plus I would benefit from other people's suggestions about what to read.
2. Have a chance to talk ABOUT READING with people. This is something I am increasingly obsessed with as I work on my classes: I am very happy with how the writing components of my classes work, but the reading components need so much improvement. What do we do when we read? How do we read? Why do we read? It would be so great to make this both a book club and a meta-book-club about reading itself.
3. Support DISTRIBUTED CONVERSATIONS that happen via blogs and other online spaces. I have been so happy with the results from curating a #Rhizo15 blog feed (more about that) — it took so little time and has resulted in a fantastic source of stuff for me to read and explore every single day! So, I know feel really confident about using Inoreader as a way to consolidate and re-share blogs and also Twitter and Google+ content so that conversations can take place across spaces. Given the size of #Rhizo15 (there 62 feeds now), I haven't been collecting the comment feeds for the blogs also, but it is do-able of course (I follow comment feeds for my students' blogs), so I know we could build a really cool distributed network of blogs, comments and additional online presence, just with simple use of Inoreader, nothing fancy required.
4. Support faculty in building ONLINE PRESENCE. For those distributed conversations to take place, faculty need some online presence: a blog, Twitter, Google+, something that lends itself to crossplatform connections (Facebook does not do that very well). I've found it very easy to get my students up and running with blogs on the first day of my online courses, and so I am confident we could get faculty up and running too, especially with the opportunities provided by create.ou.edu which allows them to own their own domain online if they want to do that.
5. Integrate book chats into our TWITTER CHAT schedule. I am hoping that we could carry on with our OpenTeachingOU Twitter chats, and once every two week seems a good schedule for that, in which case it would be easy to fold in some book chats into the mix over the course of the semester. I am thinking the book chats would not be 100% focused on the book itself, but instead would be a chat topic INSPIRED by the book, which would go in whatever directions it goes in, but which would be of interest to anyone reading the book for the book club.
Week 2: Chat topic whatever
Week 4: Chat topic INSPIRED by Book 1
Week 6: Chat topic whatever
Week 8: Chat topic INSPIRED by Book 2
Week 10: Chat topic whatever
Week 12: Chat topic INSPIRED by Book 3
Week 14: Chat topic whatever
The idea is that people would participate in the Virtual Book Club whatever way they want with the book club: blogs, Twitter, Google+, other online sharing... and for people who want something synchronous, there would be these Twitter chats, along with support for people getting started who might never have done a Twitter chat before.
So, I am curious what people think... people who do book clubs online... people who have been participating in our Twitter chats... OU people whoever you might be! What are good strategies for virtual book clubs? What really exciting/useful books would you recommend?
Update: Thanks to a rhizo15 connection, I have found this VERY idea-filled post from Laura Gogia: A Gathering Together: My #TJC15 Connected Learning Experience.
I'm going to try to write up a proposal for CTE next week sometime (since I'll be out of town May 11-15), so any ideas, suggestions, etc. would be much appreciated! The success of our Twitter chats was so encouraging... so I am being so bold as to hope for more. :-)


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The 2013 AOPA Aviation Summit will be held October 10-12 in Fort Worth, Texas.
Sitting down with Adam Smith
In 2012, AOPA founded the Center to Advance the Pilot Community, or CAPComm, to reverse the shrinking pilot population. This group has taken over all of AOPA's initiatives that deal with flight training. Adam Smith, formerly of EAA, was tapped to run the new group. We sat down with Smith to discuss CAPComm and its plans.
What is CAPComm? It gathers all of AOPA's initiatives to first halt and then turn around the decline in the pilot population we've experienced over the past 30 years. CAPComm is not a short-term fix or marketing program. It's a serious structural change for serious problems.
What sort of major programs will CAPComm be working on? We have three primary initiatives in the first year: flight training, flying clubs, and what I'm calling pilot activation. We will continue the work of the Flight Training Initiative to get after the poor completion rate. We hope to grow the number of flying clubs in this country, and we are going to try to increase the retention rate of aviation.
What part do flying clubs play in this? We want to take them from being part of a subculture to the mainstream of aviation. The concept should be on par with owning or renting. A compelling mix of affordability and community. And we know where there is community, there is stickiness.
What are your goals for flying clubs? We want to increase the number of flying clubs from 650 today to 1,000 in five years. We will create 2,600 new pilots per year with that initiative if successful.
What is pilot activation? Success is not only bringing new people into aviation, but also how well you keep them. Any business that serves customers has a lapsed customer base. We think there are 500,000 lapsed pilots in the United States. They've gone through the trouble to get a certificate but then they stop flying. Over five years we hope to improve the retention rate by 1 percent. That's a total of 5,000 people who rejoin aviation.
What do you see as the easiest and most difficult of these initiatives? Flying clubs are easiest. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. I'm challenged by flight training. Some people aren't on board. There is so much variation in flight training, from the individual instructor with no airplane to the big flight training academy.
Tyler Hoppe of Cocoa, Florida, joined AOPA AV8RS because he wanted to share his passion of flight with other like-minded teens. "In this town, I'm seriously like the only kid who loves aviation," he says.
Hoppe says he plans to pursue aviation as both a career and hobby. He is looking at possible careers as an air traffic controller or A&P mechanic.
AOPA AV8RS is about introducing our teen members to the many career opportunities in aviation and aerospace. It's about providing them with resources to pursue their dream of becoming a professional pilot, an aerospace engineer, air traffic controller, airport manager, or aircraft mechanic.
AOPA AV8RS is also about community. It's about playing a key part in our association as our future leaders. It's about belonging to a community of pilots and aviation enthusiasts that's nearly 400,000 strong. And it's about exchanging ideas, dreams, interests, experiences—and more—with other AOPA AV8RS across the country thanks to social media and a very active community.
Support a teen with an interest in aviation. Encourage him or her to enroll in an AOPA AV8RS membership, free to teens ages 14 through 18.
Not out of the wood$ yet
As state budgets begin to recover and even states like California—which didn't float off into the ocean from financial ruin after all as some had prognosticated—are looking at possible surpluses, AOPA will seize on this thawed climate to go after some new proactive measures this year, including securing more steady and stable state funding for GA airports and facilities. However, legislators have snapped us back to reality with the introduction of legislation to again try and repeal vital tax exemptions for GA. While the financial crisis exacerbated the vigor with which certain legislators singled out GA as a juicy target for revenue from the "wealthy" this misperception of GA persists. And, evidently, we will continue to see legislation such as the recently filed Massachusetts H.D.353, seeking to repeal the sales and use tax exemption for GA aircraft in the state. We're still a target, recession or not. So as the state legislative sessions carry on, we will work as hard in defending beneficial GA laws already "on the books" as we will in pursuing new measures—because they all matter as we work to defend the future of GA.
The good
Starting with the good news first, as state budgets have improved, so has AOPA's ability to pursue more proactive fiscal legislative initiatives. Michigan H.B.4025 was positive for GA in the state because it captured a larger, dedicated share of GA tax revenue to reinvest back into aeronautics, and—just as significantly—changed the conversation among officials from
insisting on increasing GA taxation to raise revenue to instead focusing on better, more effective allocation of existing revenue.
The bad
Just two years ago, on the eve of AOPA's summit in Hartford, Connecticut, a drastic budget shortfall led even the well-intentioned and historically GA-friendly Connecticut legislature to consider significant taxes on GA in a desperate bid to raise revenue. Connecticut H.B.6387—which would have established a hefty new personal property tax on all GA aircraft in the state—came into play as a vital revenue piece as part of Gov. Dannel Malloy's first budget upon taking office. Had it not been defeated, even single-engine piston owners were facing several thousand dollars in new annual personal property taxes.
The ugly
Although a few years have passed since its introduction, the infamous Illinois H.B.451 still serves as the epitome of "ugly" GA legislation that arose out of the confluence of the recession and the escalation of attacks on GA shortly after the "big three" auto executives made headlines. Illinois H.B.451 would have imposed an additional 5-percent luxury tax (on top of the state's general 7.5-percent sales tax) on a list of luxury items including fur coats, fine jewelry, and…a Cessna 182. The bill classified all GA aircraft as luxury items and, if not defeated, would have slapped a $7,000-plus tax bill on the 182—and thousands more on GA aircraft in the state.
AOPA's Airport Support Network volunteers play a critical role in protecting their airports. They also play an important role in helping AOPA staff develop the association's positions on a wide range of federal and state aviation policies.
AOPA calls on ASN volunteers to weigh in on state aviation system plans, federal and state actions that would affect access to backcountry airstrips or seaplane landing sites, and FAA advisory circulars. AOPA also has gathered volunteer experiences to help the FAA learn about the effects on airports of energy-producing facilities, and to encourage dramatic revision of the residential through-the-fence policy. AOPA staff are able to take those experiences and shape policy positions grounded in real-world aviation.
Recently, the FAA invited AOPA to participate in the second phase of its ASSET study, which attempts to categorize all federally funded GA airports in order to better tell their stories to the nation. Since the first round of the ASSET study left some 400 airports uncategorized, AOPA will be calling on volunteers at nearly half of those airports to help explain their role to the FAA.
AOPA's ASN volunteers think beyond their own airport's fence to help their association effectively engage in aviation policy making at every level.
Want to see how you can help at your airport and beyond? Visit the website to learn how.
By Warren Silberman, D.O.
AOPA Pilot Protection Services
When you develop a medical condition, take care of yourself and do what your physicians recommend. When you have time, start learning all you can about what I call the "aeromedical" aspects of your condition. Visit the AOPA Medical Certification website and see if your condition is listed there. You also should visit the FAA website and see what you can learn.
If the condition you developed resulted in a hospitalization, you need to obtain the admission history and physical examination; the hospital discharge summary; any pertinent X-ray/scan reports; operative reports, if you had surgery; and pathology reports, if any tissue(s) were removed. Check with AOPA to see if the FAA has a mandatory recovery or grounding period. You then need to collect the documents, evaluations, and testing that you will need to present to the FAA to demonstrate your current status. Anything current cannot be more than 90 days old when you mail your case to the FAA. Depending on the condition, these tests/evaluations can be performed toward the end of the grounding period.
Whatever testing you need to obtain should be done exactly as the FAA requests it. If your physician suggests a different test than the FAA wants, or he/she wants to perform it a different way, check with the FAA first. Failure to follow the FAA's suggestion may well result in a denial—and the need to repeat the testing as the FAA desired.
Make copies of everything you send to the FAA. It is wise to send a short cover letter that explains what happened to you and that you are providing these records/tests. Tell the FAA what class medical certificate you desire.
The FAA will not review a case unless you have a current aviation medical examination on file. The medical examination can be for any class. If you have a second class medical certificate that, because of its age, has lapsed to third class, this is still OK—you still have what is considered an active examination.
Dr. Warren Silberman is the former manager of FAA Aerospace Medical Certification and a doctor of osteopathic medicine.
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It was August, and Loretta and Michael decided on a short vacation in Chicago. At their hotel, Loretta was coming downstairs into the lobby. She held on to the banister, but she slipped on the last three stairs, and fell awkwardly. The pain was excruciating. Loretta knew she had broken something and it was bad.
Loretta was taken to a local hospital. X-rays showed she had broken her femur—one of the largest and strongest bones in the body—and needed immediate surgery.
Michael called AOPA Emergency Assistance Plus (EA+). The EA+ medical support team checked on Loretta's condition and the treatment she was receiving. It was decided that it would be best for them to fly home so she could recuperate there. The healing would take several weeks, if not months.
"Having EA+ was wonderful. EA+ made all the arrangements to get us home," said Loretta. EA+ paid for the tickets and made sure there was a wheelchair waiting at every stop. And EA+ called Michael every day to ask how Loretta was doing.
Loretta was certain that without AOPA EA+, they would have had a lot more aggravation. There were plans to be made to get home; reservations to be canceled, others to make; tickets to buy. Loretta was convinced that EA+ got better seats for them on the flight home than if they had to book themselves. Plus, she had the comforting sense they were being looked after.
If you ask Loretta whether everyone should get EA+, she answers, "Definitely. We've already recommended it to customers and friends. You don't want to be without it."
Learn more about the Emergency Assistance Plus Program.
Imagine you had to pay for every touch and go, every flight plan filed, every landing made. Sounds like a nightmare, doesn't it? What if general aviation as we know it ceased to exist? What if GA in the United States began to crumble and emulate GA in Europe? Wake up and end the nightmare by supporting the AOPA Foundation mission.
As a tax-exempt charitable organization, the AOPA Foundation works to improve aviation safety through the Air Safety Institute, preserve community airports, and encourage learning to fly for career and personal benefit—all in the interest of ensuring the future of GA in America.
The AOPA Foundation provides a variety of unique philanthropic opportunities for individuals to support enthusiasm while safeguarding general aviation's future in a way that meets their needs. For as little as $10 a month, you can join the AOPA Foundation's Monthly Giving Program and be at the forefront by keeping pilots safe while safeguarding the future of GA. As a participant in the monthly giving program, you will have the satisfaction of knowing that each month, you are making a contribution to support the freedoms pilots hold dear. It's easy to budget and you can change your pledge amount or cancel at any time.
The charitable IRA rollover provision was enacted in 2006 as part of the Pension Protection Act and was extended with the recently signed American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012. The measure allows individuals age 70 and one-half or older to donate up to $100,000 from their individual retirement accounts to public charities such as the AOPA Foundation without having to count the qualified charitable distribution (QCD) as taxable income. If you are looking for a way to give back to general aviation, consider satisfying your 2013 IRA required minimum distribution by donating to the AOPA Foundation. If you or your advisor would like to receive IRA gift information, please contact Stephanie Kenyon at 301-695-2088 or email [email protected].
Air Safety Institute report examines research on older pilots
There's no denying it: The pilot population is growing older. It's a shift that poses real challenges for the industry, and raises important questions about GA safety. And eventually the question arises whether you should be flying the same way you did when you were younger. How much does aging impact pilot performance? Does it affect certain skills more than others? And what's the bottom-line impact on safety?
If you're young at heart but concerned about the effect of aging on your flying ability and safety, examine the Air Safety Institute's new report, Aging and the General Aviation Pilot: Research and Recommendations . The study looks to the past 20 years' worth of scientific research on older pilots for answers. Based on a review of more than 30 published studies, the report summarizes both the overall impact of age, and effective ways pilots can minimize or delay any negative effects.
One of the key research insights reveals that different pilots experience the aging process very differently. In some respects this is an oversimplification, but it also reflects a basic truth we see around us in our daily lives: There is chronological age, and there is "true age"—and the two do not always correspond.
In the Air Safety Institute's latest Real Pilot Story, Vancouver native Bryan Webster recounts a wild flight as a passenger in a Cessna 150—one that had him go from normal to unconscious in an inverted, flooded cockpit in 15 seconds flat. He also shares some of the extensive knowledge he's amassed while training more than 5,000 people in water egress techniques. Hear the rest of the story, and find out what should be on your mind before your next overwater flight.
Produced with the generous support of the COPA Flight Safety Foundation and Donner Canadian Foundation.
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By Janet C. Bressler
President, AOPA Insurance Services
We all purchase insurance with the hope we'll never have to use it because of an aircraft accident. But if a misjudgment, mechanical problem, or old-fashioned bad luck should come your way and result in a broken aircraft (at best) or injured people (at worst), there are some immediate basics to always keep in mind:
When reporting an incident, this list of quick questions will cover what's needed to begin the claim process:
Who: Names and contact information for everyone involved (pilots, passengers, aircraft owners, FBOs), anyone injured, and any witnesses.
What: Aircraft details (registration number, year/make/model), vehicle details (VIN number, description).
Where: Location of the accident and location of the aircraft if it was necessary to remove it from the scene.
When: Date and time of accident.
Why: Details of the accident including description of damage to your aircraft and any other property damage, and general condition of any injured parties.
How: How should the claims adjuster contact you? Provide multiple phone numbers, if possible, with the primary indicated and an email.
A great way to gather information in today's world is by taking photos with your phone. Capture pictures of the scene, aircraft damage, vehicle plates, anything related to the accident or incident. Your insurance broker is there to assist you throughout the claim process, so my last piece of advice is to make good use of that resource to get back into the air as quickly as possible.
Janet C. Bressler is a private pilot and aviation insurance professional.
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With all the government talk about the fiscal cliff and looming budget problems, have there been any changes that may affect aircraft owners for the 2012 tax year? Read more in this month's Answers for Pilots.


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How To Navigate The Holiday Buffet Without Gaining Weight
Studies show the average American gains between one and five pounds over the holidays. It may not be the end of the world, but it still doesn't make it any easier getting back into healthy habits in January. Before you swear off holiday meals, simply consider how you're filling your plate. We've rounded up the nutritional value of a dozen holiday foods, from seasonal candy to main dishes, that will allow you to indulge in the things you want, and fill the rest of your plate with healthier options.
Eat: Shrimp cocktail
Ten shrimp with cocktail sauce only has 120 calories and less than a gram of fat.
Avoid: Mixed nuts
One cup of mixed nuts has a shocking 814 calories and 70 grams of fat.
Eat: Candy Canes
One candy cane has 60 calories and no fat—and will take you much longer to eat than most holiday candy.
Avoid: Peanut Brittle
One ounce of peanut brittle has 138 calories and 5 grams of fat.
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Drink: Champagne or light beer
The average flute of bubbly has 80 calories and no fat, while a bottle of light beer has just over 100 calories and no fat.
Avoid: Eggnog and creamy martinis
If you must partake, limit it to one serving: eggnog has an average of 344 calories and 19 grams of fat per glass! Dessert cocktails like chocolate martinis pack around 400 calories and 20 grams of fat.
Photo:Jeff Kauck
Eat: Roasted vegetables
A cup of root vegetables—sweet potatoes, brussel sprouts, carrots, beets—prepared with canola oil and salt only has around 100 calories and 4.5 grams of fat.
Avoid: Mashed potatoes
A cup of mashed potatoes made with whole milk and margarine has, on average, 237 calories and 9 grams of fat.
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Eat: Honey-glazed ham
Eight ounces of honey-glazed ham has about 400 calories, but only packs 2.6 grams of fat.
Avoid: Prime rib
The same portion of prime rib can have 570 calories and a whopping 45 grams of fat.
Eat: Pumpkin pie
A slice of homemade pumpkin pie has about 300 calories and 14 grams of fat.
Avoid: Pecan Pie
The same size slice of pecan pie has 500 calories and 27 grams of fat.


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MNA Amir Khadir says he is still not going to support controversial bill
The day after a long meeting with the mayor of Quebec over a controversial provincial bill, the head of Quebec Solidaire, Amir Khadir, says he will veto the bill even though it will have further debate.
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So my mailbox is blowing up with emails asking about my Cannabis Herb Thesis that I mentioned on last weeks interview on Getting High on Anthropology .
This E-book has my entire thesis broken down by body system with a detailed Cannabis Monograph.
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But enough of that: I've been invited to participate in "Catholic Carnival" for "Sunday Snippets" (thank you RAnn!!) and I've been asked to introduce myself today.
:D <<wave>>
I'm a Christian Catholic wife of one and mother of six, four here and two that went on ahead of me. I'm currently surrounded by the comforting familiarity of sauce splatters on the stove and the resident preschooler attempting to catch stray pantry moths with my brassiere.
My immediate preferred location, tonight, would be a dark beach, watching the meteor shower with my BFF's. In general, I would prefer silence or polyphonic music, being in nature, with a good book. Or a good friend, a good cup of coffee, and a good conversation.
Instead, I was just handed a successful potty by a proud toddler. Just now. Just like the Clorox commercial.
Don't believe me?
Back from using Simple Green on that (because I'm such a rebel and so counter-cultural and crunchy organic granola momma, at least during the times I'm not feeding them chips and Gatorade)...
Besides being a professional potty sanitizer and diaper changer, I also am an (extremely) part-time reporter and photographer for the diocesan paper. I did photograph a pastor installation this morning though, so I feel very careerish today. I would love to be a paid blogger for the diocese... I was (pretty much) offered a full-time job as staff writer just last week, which includes the blogger/social media position I mentioned.
But my skills as potty sanitizer and diaper changer are even more in demand. Thus, I turned it down. Regretfully. Very.
But I said no for a good reason: to say yes to something else. Because I think my Mom Job, which includes the potty/diaper skill set mentioned above, is the most important job in the universe. Yep, I get a complete power trip out of rocking the cradle and ruling the world. Plus I'm helping guide immortal souls and forming young minds and future generations and stuff like that.
And I'm embarking on my newest endeavor this fall: putting "homeschooler" as a feather in my maternal cap-of-all-trades. And I wouldn't pass that opportunity up for anything.
HowEVer, if anything comes up that also allows me to do the world's most important job of Mom, like a stay-at-home, work from home writing position, one that would allow me to write a paragraph, change a diaper, then write another paragraph? Oh I'd be happy to apply...
But for now, I'm being required away from my daily gratis blogging and into my medical pretend-professional role: Googling remedies for food poisoning. Poor hubby was attacked by some old pesto, and he's taking it like a man. I'm going heavy on the Tums and light on the "told you so's." (Because I did... it's my job to recognize bad food.) And to notice unclothed toddlers covered in peanut butter and cracker crumbs, ready to wipe a sticky face on my clean knees...
Don't believe me?
Gonna silence my inner contemplative and get back on the job/life/vocation I'm being called to... also must attend to toddler's demand for "JEWS!!"
She's thirsty.
"And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones...
amen I say to you, he shall not lose his reward." Matthew 10:42


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'Tis the season to be jolly...Fa la la la la la la la la... Can you believe that Christmas is in 8 days time? So exciting! I therefore decided to share with you my December wishlist, or as you may also call it, the list of things that I would love to see underneath the Christmas tree.
BGD Polka Dot Denim Shirt - Urban Outfitters / I'm Really a Mermaid Gold Necklace - I Love Crafty / Cat Collar Charm Clips - Jewellery by Jaymie /
Kitten Leggings - Abandon Ship Apparel / Whiskey Tee - Batoko / Over the Knee Socks - Ebay / Adonis2 Heavy Cut Out Boots - Topshop
What's on your Christmas wishlist? I don't want to be greedy, but I can't choose any favourites from this wishlist. I love them all just the same. Everything is super lovely and so me.
So, Dear Santa, make me a happy girl and please give me everything I have on my Christmas wishlist! :)


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Select Nano: new franchisees, new services
The Select Nano franchise company found a national franchisee for Latvia in May. The company has announced that the first outlet is to be set up in Liepaja with a second following towards the end of the year in the capital city, Riga.
Furthermore, the network has extended the range of services offered at its head office in the German city of Fulda and now offers individual chromium plating work, for example on helmets or mirrors, and designs. Using a special film transfer process, Select Nano says it can now also redesign car interiors, cockpits and instrument panels to fulfil individual wishes.
Select Nano improves vehicle surfaces using nanotechnology. The outer surface is prepared and then improved thanks to nanotechnology so that it stays clean for a longer period of time. According to Select Nano, the new surface is easier to clean and is better protected against environmental influences such as changing weather conditions and bird droppings.
Select Nano currently has eight businesses in Germany, Hungary and Sweden. In order to be able to further expand it is on the look-out for licensees in Europe, Russia, Turkey and the Ukraine as well as for master franchisees in the USA, the UAE and North Africa.
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Promoting Awareness
Living World
Delhi Biodiversity Foundation
Yamuna Biodiversity Park
Aravalli Biodiversity Park
Yamuna Biodiversity Park
Aerial View of YBP
Emerging as the capital's most visited public place and prominent center for learning and understanding the environment, the Yamuna Biodiverstity Park has become a home for biologically rich wetlands, grassland communities, a wide variety of fruit yielding species and an abundance of medicinal herbs. The Park also comprises a native flora and fauna which used to exist a 100 years ago and then became extinct locally. It further, acts as a natural conservation site for specific group of endangered plants. The Yamuna Biodiversity Park is presently spread over an area of approximately 457 acres near Wazirabad village
on the flat alluvial plains of the Yamuna
and can be approached:
Entrance to YBP
(i) from East Delhi through Bhajanpura,
(ii) from South and Central Delhi through ISBT, and
(iii) from North Delhi through Burari. The Biodiversity Park is 15 kms north-east of Connaught Place, and 4 kms north of ISBT.
The park features two major zones - the visitor zone and the nature reserve zone.
Domesticated Biodiversity Zone
The front portion of the Yamuna Biodiversity Park, a 220m southward and 140m northward stretch from the main entry gate with 20-30m width is demarcated as Domesticated Biodiversity Zone. Enclosed by a hedge of poplar, it features plants like
Ailanthus, Butea
that have a continuous seasonal interest due to their long flower production throughout the season. The outer iron fencing is embraced by multi-coloured climbers like
with the same theme of continual luxury.
Resting Point
Located at the main entrance, at the southward end, are three snack bars, a drinking water facilities and three resting places covered with the vines of
Argyreia nervosa, Jasminum sambac
Petrogea volubilis
. Just past the entry pocket and to the right is a "Welcome Rock facet" representing the origin of the Ganga and Yamuna and their convergence at Allahabad. A trail further leads to the
Bambusetum, the Nature interpretation Centre, the Conservatory of fruit yielding species, the Migratory duck's
the Nature Reserve area
A View of NIC
Nature interpretation Centre is a beautiful classical building with elegant lighting, a red carpet floor, attractive interior designs, panels depicting various biodiversity levels, touch screens, and visual-aids that provide an insight into the basic concepts of biodiversity.
On the left, the landscaping provides two shallow valleys representing rangelands
Welcome Rock Facet
10 mounds
representing different ecosystems present from the foothills of the Himalayas (Siwaliks) through the Yamuna basin, till the point of confluence of the Yamuna and Ganga. The first rangeland i.e. Rangeland 1, corresponds to an exclusive
Sporobolus diander
dominance while the second one i.e. Rangeland 2 showcases a mixture of native tropical grasses such as
Dichanthium, Chrysopogon, Vetiveria,
. These two rangelands are bordered by a serpentine trail. The first loop of the trail connects Rangeland 1 with
Herbal garden, sacred grove
and Rangeland 2 while the other loop leads to the
butterfly conservatory
and amphitheatre.
Visitor Area Trail
The amphitheatre is an open auditorium, the herbal garden offers a collection of about 450 plant species with healing properties.
On this loop trail one sometimes comes across bouncing hares and has a chance to watch red-wattled lapwings and other grassland birds. The exit of the Butterfly Conservatory on the west side leads to Sacred Grove and the Gene Bank of Petro- and Oil-yielding and other plants through the Bamboo Bridge from which one can enjoy a view of the resident ducks' wetland and a wide variety of fishes.
Surrounding the valley are the
Ten Mounds
which illustrate the different forest ecosystems in its miniature form found all along the Yamuna River Basin. The composition of forests, as in nature, consists of three to four layers: a tree canopy that supports climbers and provides shade for the middle storey tree layer and shrub layer which in turn protect the ground-cover of herbs and grasses. Plantation on these mounds is designed on the basis of the structure and composition of the forest ecosystem found in its natural environment. These ecosystems are:
Subtropical mixed evergreen forest ecosystem
Top canopy -
Toona ciliata, Dalbergia latifolia, Mitragyna parvifolia, Syzygium cumini
Middle storey -
Trewia nudiflora, Artocarpus lakoocha, Cinnamomum camphora,
Shrub layer-
Dillenia indica, Coffea benghalensis, Murraya paniculata, Bauhinia malabarica,
Herbs and Grasses-
Barleria cristata, Flemingia bracteata, Desmodium triflorum
Vigna capensis, Combretum decandrum, Vitis paniculatum
Moist tropical deciduous forest ecosystem with Teak as a dominant species
Top Canopy-
Tectona grandis, Pterocarpus marsupium, Diospyros melanoxylon,
Middle storey-
Buchanania lanzan, Albizia lebbeck, Bauhinia variegata
Shrub layer-
Flemingia rugosus, Vitex negundo, Nyctanthus arbortristris, Zizyphus mauritiana
Herbs and grasses-
Desmodium triflorum, Crotolaria juncea, Bothriochloa pertusa,
Pueraria phaseoloides, Asparagus racemosus
Tropical dry decuduous forest ecosystem with Sal as a dominant species
Top canopy –
Shorea robusta, Diospros melanoxylon, Putranjiva roxburghii,
Middle storey –
Erythrina indica, Cassia fistula, Albizia sp., Sterculia urens
Shrub layer –
Carissa spinarum, Zizyphus oenoplea, Nyctanthus arbortristris
Herbs & Grasses –
Chloris, Eragrostis, Fimbristylis ferruginea, Indigofera tinctoria,
Climbers –
Smilax zeylanica, , Clittoria turnatea, Marsidenia, Cocculus hirsutus
Tropical Dry Deciduous forest with Teak as a dominant species
Top Canopy –
Tectona grandis, Butea monosperma, Sterculia urens, Terminalia chebula,
Middle storey –
Emblica officinalis, Bauhina variegata, Cochlospermum religiosum
Shrub layer –
Gardenia turgida, Randia dumetorum, Grewia asiatica
Herbs & Grasses –
Barleria prionitis, Bothriochloa pertusa, Dicanthium Hetropogo
– Abrus pulchellus, Cocculus hirsutus
Tropical thorn forest
Top Canopy-
Acacia sp., Prosopis cineraria, Anogeissus pendula
Zizyphus mauritiana, Maytenus emarginatus, Wrightia
Herbs and Grasses-
Vicovestata, Vico auriculata, Desmostachya bipinnata,
Valletia, Leptochloa fusca, Tinospora cordifolia
Scrub jungle
Top Canopy-
Acacia catechu, A. senegal, A. leucophloea
Euphorbia neriifolia, Cassia auriculata, Maetenus emarginatus
Tephrosia purpurea, Justicia simplex, Cyperus rotundus, Eragrostis tenella
Climbers –
Cocculus laurifolius, Rhynchosia minima
About YBP
Fruit Conservatory
Herbal Garden
Butterfly Conservatory
Sacred Grove
Nature Education
Nature Reserve Zone


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COGAN Geotechnical Analysis Industry Needs Survey
The COGAN (Competency in Geotechnical Analysis) European project launched its Industry Needs Survey in 2013 and as project coordinator, NAFEMS, is pleased to announce the survey was completed by more than 600 geotechnical analysts.
COGAN aims improve competency in geotechnical analysis and will achieve this by preparing a framework for defining and recording numerical analysis skills in geotechnical engineering. The project will also produce e-Learning modules in key technical areas. The high level of participation by industry in the COGAN survey will help ensure that these project outcomes meet the needs of geotechnical analysts.
The results of the survey are currently being considered and evaluated by the project partners and will be used to shape the project deliverables.
To keep up-to-date on the project and the deliverables as they are developed, please visit www.cogan.eu.com.
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