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Part of the Fluid Power Society's 1994 Annual Meeting and Leadership Workshop involved a presentation by Ray Hanley, vice president of certification for FPS. Ray opened his program by explaining how he got started in fluid power shortly after World War II. He worked on oilfield equipment around Pittsburgh and became responsible for hydraulics when his predecessor took on another position. Ray was appointed the "hydraulics expert" mainly because he had done "a little work in pneumatics." He may have been reluctant to accept such a sink-or-swim proposition, especially because he viewed his position at the time as a sort of interim job and certainly not as a career. But with the thousands of former Gls looking for work, he figured he'd better seize the opportunity — at least until something better came along.
After awhile, Ray developed a genuine interest in fluid power- or as he put it, got hooked. He has been actively involved in fluid power ever since and is a real success story.
One reason for Ray's success has been his self-motivated efforts at obtaining the right training and education. He identified areas in which he needed greater knowledge and gained the necessary training. But not everyone in fluid power is self-motivated like Ray. Some people working on equipment think they know what they are doing, but they don't. These people are dangerous, because they are unaware of their own ignorance, which causes them to repeatedly make the same mistakes rather than learn from them. This not only gives fluid power a bad name but has actually been responsible for deaths, either through ignorance or negligence.
Ray explained that requiring an employee to be a certified mechanic, technician, or specialist provides at least some measure of an individual's competence. To protect themselves, employers may require prospective employees to become certified before they can be hired or work on any fluid power equipment. Some may even require current employees to get certified or get a new job. After all, how would it look to a jury in a liability case if an accident or oversight might not have happened if employees had been certified?
In general, this required certification is good for fluid power because it provides a means for weeding out incompetent people — or at least motivates them to educate themselves enough to become certified. I just find it ironic that Ray Hanley, of all people, is pushing certification as a requirement to work on fluid power equipment. If certification had been required when Ray first got started, he might've thought, "Hey, this is just an interim job. Why should I go through the trouble of getting certified? I'm outta here." We may have lost a valuable member of our industry before we he ever got hooked. Thank goodness that didn't happen.


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There are three ways you can contribute to CWSA Stellenbosch:
- Become a volunteer
Our volunteers are involved with child welfare at management and service levels; serving on social work committees or marketing and fundraising committees, early childhood development committees; special programmes, projects and service delivery.
- Donate time, clothes and other materials
Please contact us if you'd like to donate any of the following resources:
- Clothes
- Food
- Stationery
- Household items
- Books
- Old computers
- Any other items you no longer use
- Support us financially
Adopt a child through a monthly debit order:
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P.O. Box 4068
Idas Valley, 7690
All donations to Child Welfare SA are needed and we thank you for your support.
Account name: Child Welfare South Africa Stellenbosch
Bank: ABSA Bank, Stellenbosch
Branch code: 632005
Account number: 1018211021
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If you give more than R100 per annum, you will receive a Section 18A tax certificate enabling you to claim a deduction from personal or corporate taxable income. Tax certificates will be issued at the end of the financial year unless requested earlier.
Donor deductibility applies to cash donations, bequests and donations in kind. When you submit the receipt with your annual income tax return, you can get up to a maximum deduction of 10% of your annual taxable income or R1000 (whichever is greater). To read more about PBO and Section 18A criteria, log on to the SARS website.
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What does Socio-economic Development mean?
It is a monetary (money you donated or value of goods and services) or non monetary (time) contribution with the specific objective of facilitating sustainable access to the economy for black beneficiaries.
By donating to Child Welfare Stellenbosch you can claim the full value of your contribution for BEE points. We will supply you with the necessary documentation to provide your rating and verification agent in order to claim the points.
There are various ways that you can contribute to the work of our organisation and gain SED points:
Donations and Financial grants
Contribute financially to the organization and our programmes.
Settling Directs Costs of the organisation
Settling certain expenses on behalf of the organisation. This can include Telkom and internet costs, salaries of social workers, transport costs, maintenance etc.
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You can provide services to us at a discounted rate or free of charge. Mentor and share your experience with women in the industry.
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As part of team buildings, you can let staff members assist us with maintenance on schools or with other projects that we might have.
Sponsoring equipment and other goods
You can assist by sponsoring new or used computer and IT equipment or collecting used clothing that we can distribute to the needy.
We will be happy to meet with you to discuss our involvement in the community, the work that we do and the needs that our organisation has. Kindly contact us should you wish to become a sponsor or partner.

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Questions from the audience
In relation to antidepressants for anxiety in teens/children, once they are on them is it feasible that they will be able to come off them?
There are two phases of treating depression in adolescents, the response phase and then the maintenance phase. The response phase is getting the teenager well. Once a person has improved on antidepressants they have had a response. The maintenance phase is keeping the teen well. For one episode of depression the maintenance phase is between 6 to 12 months depending on the side effects. If the person has more than one episode of depression then it is longer, and the timelines are less clear. When the person has been well for a while, during a quiet time, like school holidays it is worth gradually reducing the dose and seeing if they (1) need to remain on the antidepressant at all, and (2) if they can manage on a lower dose.
In addition, if teen doesn't respond to the antidepressant, that is, it doesn't resolve the symptoms that were targeted, the teen may come off the antidepressant or switch to another antidepressant.
Also note, there is much more evidence that antidepressants are a helpful treatment of teens rather than children.
What were the two books regarding anxious children you mentioned in your talk?
You and Your Anxious Child by Anne Marie Albano
Helping Your Anxious Child by Ronald Rapee
I have a popular, emotionally intelligent & socially engaged boy so he is not shy or introverted. Right now at age 11, he is starting to worry about what he is going to do with his life and that he isn't smart enough. He is having trouble sleeping & getting tummy aches. How can I help him besides just assure him?
While it is hard to make specific comments about a child without having met with the child and family and completing an assessment, a few general thoughts come to mind.
It is important to listen to your child and provide empathic responses. Show that you can see that worries are bothering him. This type of validation can be containing for children. There may be other fears underlying those that are currently being expressed and if they feeling safe and able to express himself, you may learn more and therefore be able to help more.
It is important to emphasise that it is normal to be unsure about one's career choice during adolescence and particularly at 11 years. Focus on the importance of searching and exploring interests, rather than having a career determined in late childhood.
Boys can be a competitive bunch, so competition about who performed the best on a test or in a term isn't unusual. However, being smart isn't the only thing. Persistence and determination, which some have called 'grit' plays a very important role in achievement and being productive. Angela Duckworth's writing in this area might be of interest https://angeladuckworth.com/
Sleep difficulties and tummy aches may be symptoms of anxiety. If these persist consult your GP for advice or referral. It is better to get onto learning strategies to cope with stress or anxiety and its symptoms earlier rather than later.
What strategies can children/parents use to cover the move from school to school? (especially from small primary to large secondary)
Changing schools is a time of increased stress for most kids and teens. Expressing that it is normal to feel some anxiety or unsettled feelings when starting at a new school may be helpful. Also pointing out that this anxiety tends to settle down in time is helpful.
Children may need more rest or downtime during transition to a new school, so it is important to take this into account when scheduling extra-curricular activities. Around transition time, make sure you are a bit more available for your child too, providing them with opportunities to tell you about how school is progressing and what is on their mind. Be aware of the homework demands and ensure your child has the time and space to complete his/her tasks.
Support the development of new friendships by supporting social activities, e.g. having friends over or going to the movies, playing sport on the weekend.
If you are concerned, contact your child's teacher earlier rather than later, to see if any issues need to be addressed. Connecting with other parents can also be helpful to gauge how your child is progressing compared to others.
Why does there appear to be so many more kids suffering from anxiety? Does the research support that this is the case?
In 2015, the Australian Government released the Second Australian Child & Adolescent Survey on Mental Health & Wellbeing. This survey found that 6.9% of Australian children and teens experienced one or more anxiety disorder in the past 12 months. Many more would experience anxiety to a lesser level that may have a lesser impact on their lives. Unfortunately, the prior national survey did not assess anxiety disorders, so we don't have any good data to show any kind of change in child and adolescent anxiety.
However, there is some evidence to suggest from these national surveys that rates of mental health problems have increased slightly. It is not entirely clear why, but many theories exist. While some stigma still certainly exists around mental health, reductions in stigma are thought to be associated with increased reporting of mental health problems. Beyond this, changes to our social structure are also thought to play a role in increasing risk of mental illness.
I think OCD should be put down as an anxiety disorder for kids/teens. I think it is one parents should be aware of as well as eating disorders.
This is an interesting nosological (classification of diseases) point! Obsessive Compulsive Disorder was thought of as an anxiety disorder up until 2013. It now sits in a new grouping of disorders called Obsessive and Related Disorders that includes hoarding disorder and skin picking disorder. I, too, think that it is an important disorder for parents to know about. I would have liked to have spoken about it but was limited by time. Eating disorders are also important for parents to be aware of, particularly in young women, while not forgetting that young men can also affected. Being aware of the warning signs of both these disorders is important. The Butterfly Foundation is a good source of Australian information about eating disorders https://thebutterflyfoundation.org.au/
How do we encourage optimistic thinking in the elderly?
According to eminent psychologist Martin Seligman, optimism can be learned. This can be achieved by modifying our responses to daily stressors and hassles and modifying how we respond to such adversity. Seligman wrote a book on this topic called Learned Optimism. It might be a useful resource.


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The summer holidays are dragging on and Harry Potter can't wait for the start of the school year. It is his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and there are spells to be learnt and (unluckily) Potions and Divination lessons to be attended. But Harry can't know that the atmosphere is darkening around him, and his worst enemy is preparing a fate that it seems will be inescapable ...With characteristic wit, fast-paced humour and marvellous emotional depth, J.K. Rowling has proved herself yet again to be a master story-teller.
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Cinco de Mayo set the stage for Seis de Mayo; another contest weekend, this time offering up 4 state QSO parties (7QP, NEQP, INQP & DEQP) all front-ended by the Italian ARI Dx contest.
Several weekends ago running multiple QSO parties (MIQP, NDQP, ONQP) required separate record entries in the N1MM contest log database using a coordinated manual switching
between them.
For this weekend's events, the designers of N1MM/+ offered us a special designator: IN7QPNE.
This entry allows logging INQP, 7QP & NEQP contests using one log. Because all county entries
include the state code, it is relatively easy to sort out each contest's QSOs.
The QSO party organizers for these three GiGs have taken it one step further, allowing entrants
to send in the combined contest log and having their Log Checking Robot (LCR) software select
out the QSOs appropriate to their particular QSO Party.
In addition to running 5 contest GiGs,
I took the opportunity to test-drive
a number of unique hardware configurations, beginning with a customized antenna switch box.
This enabled the 2nd antenna (Antenna B) to be switched in as a receiving antenna (RX-Ant), as antenna B on
the FT-1000mp, or in parallel with
Antenna A.
Antenna A was a Comet CH-250 generic Vertical on a flagpole mast. Evidently the mast has slipped
a few feet in height since its original installation, with a side-effect that (according to the MFJ-259 analyzer) it is longer properly/natively resonant on 7.0 Mhz.
While the FT-1000mp can tune just about anything,
that doesn't necessarily alter the resonant characteristics
of the antenna itself. Antenna B was a Sloppy-Sloper Cobra dipole. It neither qualifies as a dipole or an inverted Vee, being nearer to a sloper than anything else;
hence a "Sloppy Sloper".
Because the 1000mp's auto-tuner is a top performing design, most of the time it was able to tune either antenna separately or in combination; sometimes by tuning a single antenna first, bringing the tuner memories more in range
for then tuning both together.
Having the switch box easily accessible at the
operating position allowed rapid operator switching between Antenna A / B / BOTH, keeping an eye on the S-meter and my ears on the audio level. Because signal levels were often horrible, the eDSP played a big role in copying the weak ones; altho a few got away nonetheless.
Despite the favorable Space-WX predictions, remember that predictions are just THAT; the real world is usually much WORSE.
For this weekend, poor signal levels plagued the operation throughout, making SSB copy quite difficult at
best in many cases.
Keeping an active hand on the coax switch allowed quick-switching the antennas looking for the correct
position for each individual signal.
With the front-end in good order, throughout the weekend I spent time working with the audio signals for both receivers (VFO-A & VFO-B).
While the FT-1000mp is equipped with an AWEsome eDSP facility, it works ONLY with the MAIN-Rx (VFO-A).
With only a 2.4khz filter in the SUB-Rx (VFO-B), it is literally wide-open (by comparison to VFO-A).
In one sense, for S & P operations it is a good idea to run somewhat more wide-open.
However being able to "shape" the audio when needed can make all the difference.
By way of an integrated set of audio splitter cables I was able to "insert" an old MFJ
752-C "Signal Enhancer" in the SUB-Rx audio path destined for the right ear.
After the contest I inserted a JPS NIR-12 DSP unit between the 752-C and the right ear, giving two kinds of signal processing on the SUB-Rx. Because I love to knob-twiddle during contests (relieving boredom during the slow periods), with these units sitting atop the transceiver, I am once again
a happy twiddler.
For SO2-V (Single-OP 2 VFO's) operation the audio mix settings are such that both RX's appear in both ears, with the MAIN-Rx more pronounced in the left ear and the SUB-Rx more pronounced in the right.
Additionally the Heil PRO headset
sports a phasing toggle switch as well.
As a result, the 752-C's controls often caused the SUB-Rx's signal to "shift" more toward the left ear; or should
I say, away from the right ear.
Operating-wise this was a typical cinco-de-contest: 2 events with win possibilities (7QP & NEQP)
and 3 ho-hummers (INQP, DEQP & the Italian ARI Dx Contest).
My 1st encounter with the ARI contest was back in 2011 running dual-OP with N6KI.
We misread the rules from which it seemed that we were turning away more
stations than we were working - OOOPS! That year we heard HUNDREDs of ARI contest
signals. Since then, from the bay area I only hear a dozen or so stations and manage to
barely work HALF of them. Regardless of the QSO count, I ALWAYS submit a log.
For the 2017 ARI contest I heard but a few callers and ended up working only 2.
While I saw 20-meter RTTY spots for the ARI GiG, I heard virtually none of them.
I copied II3W briefly but was unable to maintain consistent copy long enough to
effect a 2-way QSO - Bummer Dewd!
WQ6X made numerous "CQ ARI Test" calls on CW but with no response.
Because of marginal antenna height @ W7AYT, it is almost a miracle hearing (much less
working) European stations from Contra Costa county; even by way of the N-E polar path.
From time to time I put out a call for
7QP and was even spotted many
times throughout the weekend.
This year DEQP put a WHOPPing 2 QSOs in the WQ6X DEQP contest log.
It would seem to me that when there is
a propagation path to New England,
it should also include Delaware.
Therefore, my not hearing Delaware stations was more a LACK OF PARTICIPATION than
an indictment of my equipment layout, antenna configuration, propagation or operating skill.
It's not easy to enjoy a competitive activity when the other side of the competition fails to join in.
For INQP I have the same complaint; a whole 8 QSOs made it into the WQ6X INQP log.
Plenty of W9 stations (with decent signals) were heard, yet virtually NONE were operating from Indiana; much less participating in the INQP. We WANT to play in YOUR QSO party, but cannot
do so if there are no target (in this case Indiana) stations available to work.
For me, the main focus for this contest weekend was the 7QP Gig (in an attempt to reprise last year's 1st-place win) followed by the NEQP QSO party.
Because I am used to running the NEQP Gig with the NX6T crew (making use of K3 radios, ACOM 2000 amplifiers and yagi's @ 70'),
NEQP from the East Bay is quite a "culture shock"; this year producing only 34 QSOs on CW & SSB; the DEQP only delivered up 2.
What surprised me the MOST about NEQP was the not-insignificant number of stations engaged in self-spotting. While technically not a violation of the NEQP rules, virtually ALL other radiosport contests FORBID spotting oneself; even having "a friend" spot you is considered tacky.
Another beef I have with NEQP is the number on non-1 callsigns not indicating /1 or a signing
with a county designator (Ex: WQ6X/1 -or- WQ6X/MERNH). On SSB, one BOZO (N1CC) led
us to believe he was a legitimate W1 station when in fact he was in Texas.
While he only operated 7QP this year, his callsign confused a LoT of stations.
To reduce confusion he should have signed N1CC/5 or N1CC/TX
(when calling CQ for 7QP I signed as WQ6X/Ca).
Instead he berated many stations (myself included) for needing what he called "elmer assistance" because he did not sign indicating Texas (he even wrote up his berating us in the N1CC 3830Scores.Com submission). Eventually he called for the 7th area only.
A proper call would have ALWAYS included "CQ 7QP - this is N1CC in Texas QRZ"
or "CQ 7th call area - this is N1CC in Texas QRZ"; something like that.
The 7QP QSO party was again overall a top-notch operation.
With only 18 hours to make it all happen, everything needs to go right, @ 6AM as well as
the ending at midnight. While there were several county-line operations (and even a couple of
state-line operations), I completely missed out on the tri-county operations (if there were any).
Based on the 3830Scores.Com filings for the 7QP contest, it would seem that WQ6X took a 2nd place, to none other than N1CC - AmaZing! At least thanks to Pandora there was continuous electronic music in the background; altho occasionally the music and CW got confused together.
Did YOU work any of the state QSO parties or the ARI DX contest?
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Addendum for June 7th
Thanks to more sophisticated log checking, thus far WQ6X has
received two operating award certificates; for 7QP and INQP.
The INQP award is proof that it pays to ALWAYS submit a log.
The INQP award is proof that it pays to ALWAYS submit a log.


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Improving Leadership Development: The Time to Act Is Now
Brandon Hall Group research shows that top-quality talent is immensely challenging to source externally; 55 percent of organizations told us they were struggling with a talent shortage, and 64 percent indicated their greatest talent challenge was attracting talent.
For this reason, organizations are focused on growing internal talent to meet business needs, and, therefore, leadership development is a clear and continuing talent priority year over year. Nonetheless, 36 percent of organizations say their leadership development practices are still below average or poor, according to our 2015 State of Leadership Development Study of more than 500 organizations from 34 countries and 31 industries.
Half of organizations said their leaders are not skilled to effectively lead their organizations today, and a startling 71 percent said their leaders are not ready to lead their organizations into the future. Finally, 25 percent of organizations said they had a ready and willing successor identified for 1 out of 10 critical leader positions.
Organizations are not only struggling with shortages of talented leaders. Today's influx of Millennial leaders is creating a second and pressing challenge for organizations everywhere. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that Millennials already form 34 percent of the U.S. workforce; by 2020, the number will be 46 percent of the global workforce. Currently, 15 percent of Millennials are already in management roles, and more than half (53 percent) of Millennials aspire to become the leader or most senior executive within their current, or another, organization.
With their aggressive goals for movement and promotion come urgent needs and requirements for organizations to accelerate leadership development for Millennials. As digital natives, they expect instant access to information and knowledge, continuous learning and development experiences, constant attention, rapid progression, and perpetual feedback. The organizations with the most success in developing Millennial leaders will not be constrained by "how things used to be done." The Millennials already have started shaping a new world of work and leadership development and will continue to do so for years to come. Irrespective of the long-term aims and ambitions of any organization, the ability to effectively develop Millennial leaders —starting now—will be a vital step to achieving it.
To gain insights about the details and influences of today's workplace and workforce challenges on leadership development, we analyzed our survey results and interviewed several CEOs, Chief Talent Officers, and other senior business leaders, as well as HR and Talent leaders. Four contemporary transformations underscore an organization's ability to implement Level 4 leadership development, which we define as optimized leadership capacity that can transform and sustain business success.
Our LD research also validated two long-standing and standard practices influencing organizations' ability to transform leadership development:
- Definition of leadership requirements before designing leadership development solutions
- Clarity about practices that yield the most effective leadership development
While core leadership development training programs are not necessarily being eliminated, by themselves, they are just not enough to create leadership development that makes a business difference. The ongoing transformation of our workforces and workplaces are fervently influencing today's leadership development decisions and actions.
Understanding the Leadership Development Critical Calls to Action
Our research revealed at least four critical calls to action to improve the business impact of leadership development.
1. Understand the New Leadership Workforce Demographics. Our workforce has changed and more change is around the corner. With 10,000 or more Baby Boomers retiring each day, only 16 percent of today's workforces are Gen Xers. Therefore, the majority of our workforces today are Millennials (Gen Yers), and by 2020, data shows that nearly half of all U.S. workers will be in this group.
Two-thirds of Millennials admit they are disenchanted at work and already looking for a new job. It costs employers, on average, $20,000 to replace every Millennial who leaves. Of those who stay, an overwhelming 91 percent say they plan to stay in their current jobs fewer than three years. The challenge is here—and in full blaze: The emerging workforce has new expectations about organizational investment and the approach to their learning, leader development, and career moves.
2. Accelerate Development of Millennial Leaders. Some 84 percent of organizations anticipate a shortfall in the minimum number of qualified leaders over the next five years. One-quarter of organizations said less than 10 percent of all critical leader positions have one ready and willing successor. Over the next one to two years, organizations say the top priorities for leadership development are closing leader skill gaps (58 percent) and closing critical leader gaps across all leader levels (43 percent).
With Millennials occupying 15 percent of management positions today and that number expected to more than double in fewer than 10 years—combined with the impending retirement of Baby Boomers—employers will continue to face leadership gaps, and big ones if imminent action is not taken. Fast-tracking Millennial leader development—starting now—is the burning need in organizations everywhere to close both current and anticipated leader opportunity and performance gaps.
3. Institutionalize "Just For Me, Just What I Need, Just When I Need It" Leader Learning. Today's leaders—at all levels—and particularly Millennial leaders, demand a lifelong learning experience supported by on-demand and easily searchable micro-content shaped and prescribed for their specific learning and knowledge needs.
The true focus of development, regardless of generation or leader level, should be on encouraging the learners to question and explore, to experience and innovate—not on forcing them to consume a canon of pre-designed training modules comprising a fixed curriculum delivered as a one-way transfer bound by the classroom's time and place.
However, 56 percent of organizations still depend largely on formal classroom training. The time has come to rethink and transform your leader development delivery strategy. While Brandon Hall Group's research data points to ongoing effectiveness of the classroom experience in leadership development, it alone is no longer enough—for any organization anywhere.
4. Use Predictive Leadership Analytics. Some 89 percent of organizations said using predictive analytics to anticipate "what if" leadership requirements is important or very important, yet only 7 percent of organizations have fully adopted predictive capability. By and large, organizations are not applying predictive analytics to their organization's biggest asset—its leaders.
Leadership analytics helps organizations with real-time, statistically sound, real-time decision-making regarding "what if" leadership scenarios and forward-looking leadership requirements. Leadership analytics helps organizations plan for, and mitigate, leadership gaps—opportunity and performance—before they disrupt business performance. Level 4 organizations invest in predictive leadership analytics because they not only enable the measurement of the business impact of leadership and leadership development decisions, but also help optimize and prescribe future leadership development investments.
Laci Loew is VP and principal analyst for Talent Management and Leadership Development at Brandon Hall Group, a human capital management (HCM) research and advisory services firm that provides insights around key performance areas, including Learning and Development, Talent Management, Leadership Development, Talent Acquisition, and Workforce Management.


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Volunteers who like work on community tools should get in touch with firstname.lastname@example.com
Currently we have a team that changes it's composition based on the topics being addressed in the code sprints we do.
Team Sprints for 2015
Code Sprints for 2014
Select: I want to donate, where can I do this?
Answer Page: Link T3A or Paypal
Select: Where can I meet the TYPO3 folks face 2 face?
Answer Page: Link -> Snowboard Tour, T3CON, T3DD, General Assembly->T3A Membership.
Select: I found a security issue in TYPO3 or an extension. What should I do?
Answer Page: Contact security team: link to team page, email email@example.com
As a new "concept" for motivating and having more progress in the t3o-team, we would like to try and introduce remote developer days. It's basically similar to a sprint but only one evening.
The idea behind is to have people more motivated to work, as we work together like a sprint, but this is different as it is meant to be done remotely, but we will be together in the online channels.
The next T3O Remote developer evenings will be: not planned currently
Dates in past:
- Friday 29.8.14 18:00-23:00
- Saturday 20.9.14 18:00-23:00
- Friday 7.11.14 18:00 - 23:00
- Friday 5.12.14 18:00 - 23:00
Dates in future: http://doodle.com/6ktiruytd5xivf7k
So the suggestion is:
- On the given dates and time
- Login to Freenode channel t3o-remote
- Start working on a ticket, if you have questions etc. feel free to connect to contact anyone available.
- In this situation, as we don't have the physically kanban board, it's important to follow the processes of a task.
As the Dev-Days are meant for work-with-whatever-you-think-is-fun-to-do concept. You can pick up any tickets you like, we will not have a prioritised board or anything like that. We would like you to get the great feeling of the community, working together and to achieve a shared goal, and of course having fun at the same time.
If you meet in smaller groups or how ever you would like to organise it's really not important.
If more questions feel free to contact me: tomasnorre(at)gmail[dot]com
Last code sprint - Code Sprint Frankfurt August 29 - September 1, 2013
- Ben van 't Ende
- Christian Zenker
- Thomas Löffler
- Tomas Norre Mikkelsen
- Kay Strobach
- Christian Händel
- Olivier Dobberkau
- Roland Schenke
- Sven Burkert
- Peter Förger
Most important topics - priorities
- Integrate certification in typo3.org
- Integrate family of products
- Modify homepage to reflect changes in the TYPO3 project
- Enhanced user management
- Integration of RabbitMQ (TER Upload, documentation rendering, search index, etc.)
- Re-installing newsletter
- Integration of Buzz
- content changes like the proposed swimming lane concept
- commenting concept / userfeedback
- vacancies on https://typo3.org/participate/
- Sven will create the listing and details page for certified integrators and perhaps finish the new snippets extension.
TER is a special subject and need to be dealt with in a way so we are sure we see some progress here. We need to realise that TER is our platform where the community can engage and participate.
Thomas says:
- Main topic is to fix the bugs with uploading extensions and other stuff - Maybe give a link to a wiki page with an overview and a guide how to upload an extension - Look at features which can be done at the weekend (depends on developers and time)
- ...and a guide on how to upload an extension ← will do the writing if somebody tells me how it's accomplished Deployment Christian will take of deploying the changes. Master Tolleiv will instruct him.


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The Francis Marion University men's and women's basketball teams begin their Peach Belt Conference schedules on Saturday (Dec. 1) at home against the University of North Georgia in the Smith University Center. The women will tip-off at 1:30 p.m., with the men to follow at 3:30 p.m.
Admission is $8 for adults, $5 for students, and FMU students are admitted free. The contest will also be streamed live online courtesy of the Patriot Sports Network.
On the women's side, the Patriots (2-1) are coming off of a loss to the University of Mount Olive on Tuesday, during which senior Shaunice Fulmore poured in a career-high 34 points. The reigning PBC Player of the Week, Fulmore is averaging 26.7 points per game, which leads the conference and ranks third nationally in NCAA Division II.
Graduate student forward Briana Burgins recorded a double-double in Tuesday's contest, posting season highs in points (25) and rebounds (13). The High Point, N.C., native ranks fourth in the Peach Belt in scoring (16.7 ppg) and third in rebounding (9.3 rpg).
The Nighthawks (5-1) come in ranked 16th nationally, and knocked off Clark Atlanta University 87-55 on Wednesday. Three players are averaging double-figures points for UNG, led by senior Amber Skidgel (16.0 ppg) and sophomore Julianne Sutton (15.7 ppg), who rank fifth and sixth, respectively, in the PBC in scoring. North Georgia also boasts the second-best defense in the conference, yielding 58.8 points per game.
Saturday will be the 23rd all-time meeting between Francis Marion and North Georgia in women's basketball, with the Nighthawks owning a 13-9 lead in the series. As the defending PBC regular-season and tournament champion, UNG was the top pick in the Peach Belt Coaches' Pre-season Poll, while the Patriots were picked to finish fourth.
The men's tilt will feature FMU's top-ranked offense (94.3 ppg), against a UNG defense which is allowing 67.4 points per game, the second-best mark in the conference. Francis Marion is 3-1, and won 80-72 at Shaw University in its last outing on Nov. 20 to run its winning streak to
three straight. Senior forward Brandon Parker leads the Patriots with 20.5 points per contest, which ranks second in the Peach Belt.
Senior guard Ryan Davis and freshman forward Kailex Stephens are each averaging 15.5 points per game for FMU. Stephens leads the squad in rebounding with 7.8 per contest, which is seventh-best in the PBC and tops amongst the league's freshmen.
Since dropping its opener, North Georgia has won four straight, including a 104-80 victory over the University of West Georgia its last time out. The Nighthawks are led by senior Shawn Hopkins, who tops the conference with a scoring average of 20.8 ppg. Junior Lanre Olatunji's 8.8 rebounds per game rank third in the Peach Belt.
Saturday's meeting will be the 22nd all-time between Francis Marion and North Georgia in men's basketball, with the Nighthawks holding an 11-10 edge in the series. The Patriots won all three meetings last season, including an 83-54 victory in the quarterfinals of the Peach Belt Conference Tournament.


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Me to We Artisan's 2015 Holiday Preview
By Harija
Fashion with a mission!! In a few months the stress of Holiday shopping will create a panic in people's life, but instead of spending hours shopping; give your love one the chance of making a difference with the help of Me to We.
On Tuesday July 21, 2015 – the Me to We Artisans event for their launch of the 2015 Holiday Collection Preview was awesome. The event took place at Verity located in the heart of downtown Toronto on Queens.
For those who don't about Me to We Artisans:
Hand-crafted by more than 1000 Mamas in Kenya, Me to We Artisans gives two gifts in one: with the purchase of each product, a life-changing gift – from school supplies to clean water to medicine – is given to a child or family in a Free The Children community.
Me to We is part of Free The Children
Free The Children founders Craig and Marc Kielburger launched Me to We, a ground-breaking social enterprise, because they believe that people need better choices for a better world.
Me to We offers socially conscious and environmentally-friendly clothes and accessories, as well as life-changing international volunteer trips, leadership training programs and materials, a speakers bureau, and books which address issues of positive social change.
The collection features varies of trends and themes for the Holidays season from Santa Claus to Ugly Christmas Sweaters. In this year's Holiday Collection, Me to We Artisans is excited to showcase Atelier, a line of high-end jewellery and handbags supporting women's empowerment. The best part of purchasing a product from Me to We is that with every purchase of a hand-made Me to We would help make a change. For instance with the purchase of Atelier's product, a girl in Kenya will receive the gift of education, that will help her with the tools to create a brighter future. Every piece is also handcrafted by a female artisan in Kenya, empowering her to earn a sustainable income and support her family.
Other than the Nine West brand, the upcoming collection features a series of unique gift sets that ranges from $30 to $50. Also, Me to We has launched a great new sets of RAFIKIS, that are simple, elegant and can be worn in form (such as bracelets, anklets to necklaces). Rafikis each has a unique means and would helps a child for their bright future. This year, they have launched classical bags, long and chunky trendy necklaces that tells the story of creators' homeland.
Overall, this year Me To We has brought more meaning to Holidays, rather than spending money of gifts that will end up in the closets; this year buy your loved ones a gif that can bright a change.
Huge thanks to Me To We for hosting this amazing event and thanks for inviting Fashion Weekly Magazine for the preview of the upcoming 2015 Holiday Collection.


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Common Symptoms Of An Allergic Reaction
Allergies are something that many parents worry about during the weaning stage. We wonder if we'll introduce a food our baby is allergic to, and we're advised to avoid common allergens in the first foods we offer. Yet, the risk of an allergy showing doesn't stop once your child moves on to regular family food.
While allergies to most non-risk foods are relatively uncommon, they do show up occasionally, and your child will constantly be introduced to new foods as they grow. In theory, good eaters will always be trying new tastes and ingredients, even into adulthood. As they grow, and they are exposed to new things, the risks of a dangerous allergy become lower, but it's still a good idea to be aware of the symptoms of an allergy so that you know what to look for. You should also remember that food isn't the only thing that your child could be allergic too. Chemicals, air partials, and nature itself also cause problems. It's also important to note that while most of these symptoms can be treated or managed at home, you should visit an emergency care center in the event of a severe or unusual reaction.
A Rash
Babies and young children get rashes for a variety of reasons. It's their bodies way to letting us know that something is wrong before they are able to communicate their needs. But, an allergy rash is usually different. It may present as hives which are swollen, itchy, red patches of skin. These shouldn't accompany a fever like a rash with an illness.
Eczema is also common in children. While this isn't always the result of an allergy, it can be. So, if your child has eczema keep an eye on their diet and the products that come into contact with their skin to try and spot patterns.
Difficulty Breathing
An allergic reaction to food can sometimes cause a swollen tongue or throat which can in extreme cases cause breathing difficulties.
However, it's usually an allergy to dust (asthma) that presents most frequently as wheezing and difficulty breathing. Encourage your child to take deep, and calm breaths and get them to a doctor if you suspect an asthma attack.
Sneezing, Coughing and Runny Eyes
Hay fever is another common allergy in both adults and children. This can cause runny eyes and nose, a sore throat and cough and feelings of congestion. These symptoms can easily be mistaken for a common cold.
Stomach Upset
Along with a rash and a sore, swollen tongue, a stomach upset is one of the most common symptoms of a food allergy. This can set in hours, or even days after the allergen has been consumed and, in some cases, only a tiny quantity needs to have been digested for symptoms to present. If your child is getting frequent stomach aches, try removing foods from their diet one at a time to spot the cause, or speak to your doctor about allergy testing.
If your child displays more severe symptoms such as a sudden drop in blood pressure, fainting, turning blue or chest pain, call 911 immediately as they may be suffering from anaphylaxis.


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The newspaper tycoon Moses Annenberg spent months at a time on a ranch in Beulah, Wyo. But he enjoyed it for only a few years in the 1930s before he was sent to prison for tax evasion.
The property sprawled across thousands of acres studded with trout ponds, which Mr. Annenberg and his son, Walter, used as a retreat with guests. (His wife and six daughters preferred Manhattan.) Mr. Annenberg called it Ranch A, as if he were raising cattle branded with A's there (which he wasn't), and filled it with cowboy-theme furniture.
He hired the young woodworker Thomas Molesworth, who turned gnarled branches into capital A's to ornament the ranch's dressers and bedsteads. Leather fringe dangled from the lampshades. Elk horns sprouted from the picture frames, coyote heads held light fixtures, and silhouettes of mining tools were emblazoned on the green leather tabletops.
The commission was auspicious for Molesworth; he went on to attract clients including Rockefellers and Coca-Cola heirs, and his workshop in Cody, Wyo., thrived for 30 more years. The Annenbergs lost Ranch A to the federal government in the tax dispute, and it went through a series of owners. (It is now a government-owned education center, with only scraps of Molesworth carvings in sight.)
On Sept. 25, Christie's in New York will offer three dozen pieces from the site. Estimates range from $2,000 for a cherry-branch lamp to $50,000 for a fire screen with metal silhouettes of an Indian family gathered around a campfire in the shape of an A.
"It's definitely a masculine aesthetic," Carolyn Pastel, a 20th-century decorative arts specialist at Christie's, said during a recent preview. Tables, headboards and chairs are trimmed in huge Douglas fir burls, and even the upholstery tacks are oversized. The deep seats and long arms on the sofa and chairs would accommodate the gangliest of cowboys and gentleman ranchers.
Last year the unnamed consignor took part of the collection to an appraisal day for the PBS series "Antiques Roadshow" in Rapid City, S.D. Her family had acquired them at a sheriff's auction in the late 1950s. The appraiser, John Sollo, said that some recent leafy and plaid upholstery fabrics instead of the original leather might detract from the value. But for Molesworth fans, he added, "The more burled it is, the more money it's worth."
Tattered vintage textiles do clearly boost Molesworth values. Last year, at Brian Lebel's Old West Auction in Denver, a 1930s Molesworth club chair with bulging cracks in the leather sold for $25,000 (almost four times the high estimate). Also last year, at Christie's in New York, stuffing was spilling out of leather cushions on a 1940s Molesworth sofa that brought $50,000. (The high estimate was $7,000.)
The last substantial display of Molesworth in New York was also at Christie's. In 1995, the company sold the 1930s contents of a Colorado lodge built by a New York stockbroker. The curtains there were made from beaded pony skins; gunfighters were carved along the tables; and iron jack rabbits proffered ashtrays.
The Annenberg commission, despite the tycoon's brief ownership, has stayed partly intact. About 90 pieces belong to the Wyoming State Museum in Cheyenne, including a bar carved with bears, a gun cabinet decorated with a taxidermied bobcat head and a trash-can holder with deer-hoof feet. Also in Cheyenne, the Historic Governors' Mansion contains a 1950s office full of Molesworth; the lampshades are lambskin, and the needlepoint upholstery has images of the Indian paintbrush, the spiky state flower.
Molesworth's variety of motifs, materials and forms steadily attracts new collectors, as do the expansive upholstered seats. "Once you sit in a club chair," Mr. Lebel said in a phone interview, "you don't want to get out."
On traditional Japanese robes, cords around the waist were threaded through netsuke, carvings made of ivory, wood, metal, horn, ceramic, coral, stone and nuts. The netsuke depict animals, humans and deities, and collectors sometimes vie for the creepier forms.
Dr. James A. Rose, a Maryland physician who died in 2011 at 80, spent decades seeking netsuke (pronounced NET-skay) with "unique twists including physical anomalies and the macabre," according to the catalog for a Sept. 17 auction of about 100 pieces from the Rose collection, at Bonhams in New York.
Estimates range from $600 for a wooden eggplant attacked by a cricket to $35,000 for a snarling, scaly ivory unicorn. Dr. Rose also favored skeletons, ghosts, fungi, toads, snakes, rats and mollusks. One of his clams is half-open to reveal a tiny carved scene of courtiers lounging at a castle.
"The clam is dreaming of bigger and better things," Jeff Olson, a specialist in Japanese art at Bonhams, said during a preview of the Rose lots.
Established collections, kept intact, are the subject of two new books. "Manju: Netsuke From the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum" documents works bequeathed to the Ashmolean in Oxford by the British historian Monica Barnett. She focused on, among other subjects, tiger hunters, witches and vegetables.
"Ghosts and Spirits From the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art: Felix Tikotin: A Life Devoted to Japanese Art" (Amsterdam University Press/University of Chicago Press) explains how the German dealer and collector Felix Tikotin amassed his collection, starting in the early 1900s. During World War II, he hid the valuables in a basement in The Hague, and his collection survives in a museum he founded in Israel. In the new book, netsuke represent demon masks, mythical beings riding fish, and exorcists.
Other arduously assembled netsuke groups have been broken up recently. Bonhams in London has dispersed the widely published holdings of Adrienne Barbanson and Harriet Szechenyi. Quinn's Auction Galleries in Falls Church, Va., has sold netsuke from the Virginia collectors Helen and Jack Mang, including carvings depicting kitchen utensils, skulls, rusty coins and a wasp's nest.
Prices are typically in the four and five figures. While some areas of the Japanese art market have been flagging, "this one is thriving," Mr. Olson said.
Edmund de Waal's best-selling book, "The Hare With Amber Eyes," has helped draw attention to the field. He researched how his Austrian ancestors' 264 netsuke narrowly survived Nazi seizure during World War II.
"This is a relatively small community that is now growing," Jeffrey Klotz, chairman of the New York chapter of the International Netsuke Society, said in a phone interview. In the repertory of shapes on the market, he added, "there is no end to the variety."


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Email: Michael Anthony Alberta @gmail.com Phone: 1-786-505-4172The definition of who or what is Michael Anthony Alberta varies by the tradition and aims of those following him. His central characteristic is to challenge notions of originality. TRIGGER WARNING: DISTURBING TO DENIALISTS. Although the use of certain programs ensure his blog will not get penalized for plagiarism, such work is a problem-solving activity not a demonstration of anything new under the sun.
™ is centered around cyclically violating immoral geopolitical and religious laws to bring about a perpetual ✱ (Messiah) in order to refine our collective character enough to the point where we become one with ⬢ (God). Thus, ™'s earliest origins pre-date everything we will ever know, forming the primordial blueprint for all philosophies, sects, sciences, arts, and political systems.
Those who practice the beliefs of ™ have followed and unfollowed all the prophets of every religion, plateauing with 16-Century Lurianic Kabbalah; as this dispensation, by all accounts, currently trends to a state of pure monotheism.
Lacking a teacher or knowledge of Hebrew, he sourced Earth's most exhaustive and up-to-date encyclopedia, Wikipedia. These unorthodox studies come from on over a decade of revisiting related Wikipedia pages; as they integrate the associative "Talmudic" powers of the net with the united brainpower of its millions of contributors, approaching the ideal global "flashback."
Since it is edited and produced by such a large swarm of people, Wikipedia allows us to remix the information presented; because of this, periodically revisiting the pages where the data was initially extracted is indispensable to his method. It is vital to see what sticks as time goes by- as new evidence is presented such opinions change and pages get edited.
Mike essentially modified the practice of pilpul "pepper," for a conceptual extrapolation of the Dead Sea Scrolls optimized for search engines in somewhat of a chronological order. He did this to reconcile its Qumranic content through keywords and explain the differences between the Masoretic text under the confines of Google's algorithms.
This caused his frame of reference to be threatened and he suffered from a breakdown in the balance of his control and release mechanisms. The permeability of Michael Anthony Alberta's boundaries being disrupted manifested itself with an antinomian edge.
However, he does not engage in falsehood. ™ is designed to go from theory to common practice. Some use such methods to impress others with sophisticated analysis, rather than express a genuine love of wisdom and respect for our culture. More importantly, they don't apply appropriate standards for evidence to present their so-called facts of presupposed conclusions.
Michael Anthony Alberta has long blurred distinctions between invented and borrowed work because writing situations are, in essence, problem-solving situations in 1 way or another. In truth, everything read should always be treated this way since "composition" is often highly intertextual. Plagiarism is not a single concept; it's dependent upon the cultural conventions in a given situation.
The emphasis on originality is useless because rhetorical purposes can be brought up in context by either original or quoted content without a hierarchy between the 2. The ability to effectively contribute to our discourse is what makes "his work" valuable, not its originality. It is more than the systematic replacement of like terms and is closer to an artistic collage. On the Internet, there are many united projects where users interact only by modifying local parts of their shared virtual environment. Wikipedia is simply the best example at this time.
Michael Anthony Alberta's intent is to form a break-away minion willing to redeem the Shekhinah by challenging all unethical religious values that have attached themselves to politics and religion. ™'s goal is to unite all monotheistic faiths under a ✱ centered around Virgin Queens (belonging to haplogroup HV1b2 ) who are artificially inseminated with male heirs (belonging to haplogroup E-L29). We do this in hopes of generating the Moshiach, as outlined within the Torah.
Currently, ™ sees the Shekhinah as a reproduction of individual universes due to differences. Purportedly, a process analogous to natural biological selection applies at the grandest of scales. The term "queen" is applied to any dominant reproductive female in a colony of a eusocial species, not just honey bees but all females of ™. Virgin queens are a crucial mechanism of evolution at ™; the change in the heritable traits characteristic of a population over generations.
If ⬢ played a formative role in the structuring of the cosmos, then the cosmos would be a direct manifestation of it. Intuitively, ⬢ would not have been able to separate itself from conception, and therefore our created realm would, in fact, be part of ⬢'s body. 'For in the image, אֱלֹהִ֔ים made humans'" (Genesis 9:6).
The distribution of matter in each Universe is a fractal along a wide variety of scales. The Shekhinah relates with how black holes have a role in Cosmological Natural Selection. Supposedly, every collapsing black hole gives birth to a new world on the "other side," whose parameters may be little different than those of a universe where a black hole 1st collapsed. Each universe thus gives rise to as many new universes as it has black holes.
™'s feminine concept of conception includes reproduction and mutation of universes, and so is formally analogous to models of population biology; explaining Genesis 1:27 as "male and female" instead of "man and woman." We are talking about sexual intercourse on high, a chemical wedding if you will. Down to the atomic level, "queens" are developed by "workers" to become sexually mature for such a divine marriage.
The "queen" is the mother of ™ (the entire hive). Evidence of common descent of living beings has been discovered in a variety of disciplines over many decades, demonstrating that all life comes from a single relative, ⬢. Can the Shekhinah form an integral part of evidence on which evolutionary theory rests? She sure shows that evolution does occur. She explains how and why life changes over time.
There's only 1 queen in a hive, us males follow and fiercely protect her. It appears that our universe follows similar eternal, or indefinite, self-sustaining cycles- each endless series of oscillations starting with a big bang and finishing with a resurrection; in the interim, a universe expands before gravity causes it to cave in on itself through the Shekhinah. This is why the blogs bi-directional posts are meant to be read boustrophedonically (from the first to the last or vise versa).
The virgin fights to the queen's death, until only she remains. She proposes that all life must constantly adapt, evolve, and reproduce not only to proliferate, but mainly to survive while pitted against ever-evolving opposing forces in a constantly changing environment. Intuitively, this is why ™'s males marry only Jewish virgins and widows of priests (Ezekiel 44:22). ™ is an empirical concept, based on evidence, its elusive nature does create a barrier to traditional experimental research.
™'s feminine aspect of creation details how (at the highest level) quasars play a role in cosmological natural selection by remixing matter affecting the distribution of universes. Plausibly, the resulting population of worlds can be represented as a distribution of a scene of parameters where the length of the scene is proportional to the numbers of black holes that a universe with those parameters will have. The study of Shekhinah through the lense of a fitness scene in population biology displays how the population is dominated by worlds whose blueprints drive black holes to a local peak in the scene.
To all appearances, string theory is another understanding of ⬢. 1 of the most important discoveries of string theory is that we inhabit a 10-Sephiroth (dimensional) universe. Of these 10 Sephiroths, evidently 3 are the common Sephiroths of space, while the remaining 7 became compacted during the process of conception. As a result, are we unable to perceive the full 10-Sephiroth glory without the redemption of Shekhinah?
Allegedly, during the very early universe – the 1st instance of cosmic time (Planck epoch), our current laws of physics didn't apply; emergence went down in stages of cosmological natural selection. The 4 known fundamental interactions or forces – 1st gravity, and later the strong, weak and electromagnetic interactions; most likely Michael Anthony Alberta was not the 1st, of 4 immaterial realms that came into being after the contraction of ⬢. The "Name" in "Master of the Name" is the most transcendent 4-Letter Name of ⬢. Another parallel is drawn between the 4 letters of the 4-Letter Word and the 4 realms: the י is associated with Atziluth, the 1st ה with Beri'ah, the ו with Yetzirah, and final ה with Assiah.
™'s notion of a scene of parameters in physics intends on carrying on tradition by treating self-interest as the foundation of morality. There's an evolutionary argument based on the likelihood for egoism to evolve under the pressures of universal law. Specifically, the parental care from cosmological natural selection. Our hedonistic parent's ultimate desire is for comfort and the avoidance of discomfort; a belief that caring for us (it's relatives) is instrumental to that. Perhaps this is why Mike's Hebrew name translates as "the comforter."
Michael Anthony Alberta is an Italian American Baal Teshuvah from Miami Beach. He's someone who transgresses Jewish law knowingly to complete a process of introspection; a "return" to ⬢.
Becoming such a Baal Teshuvah started off with his desire to become a Hasidic Rabbi- working exclusively with Jewish prisoners. Since ⬢'s redemption and resurrection of conception "goes down" in the lowest realm, he feels it is his job to place himself where impurity currently reigns. In the process, he found Mosaic Law to represent a personal starting-point.
Does Mosaic Law have room for varying perspectives? In summarizing the fundamental principles of what he considers to be a Baal Teshuvah, they're not as detailed as many other laws because they're guiding universal principles that apply in every circumstance at some capacity. They don't specify the consequences for breaking them. They must be worked out to see how they apply at this very moment.
As such, we're obligated to interpret the Dead Sea Scrolls for ourselves, and this interpretation will create separate commandments for each of us. Anyhow, our Rabbis have arrived at a general consensus. After thousands of years analysing such content, who is Mike to contest. Reasonably, the consensus is that Halakhic devotion is the only way for Jews to reclaim those sparks lost in impurity.
However, Mike feels as though all religious practices (regardless of the denomination) must discontinue certain unethical rituals, like using animal products that came from something being murdered.
Michael Anthony Alberta was born in 82' (35). He grew up inside Temple Ner Tamid- where he spent his formative years living; his Mom, the Rabbis' secretary. This was not the best neighborhood and, at a very young age, he was exposed to gang banging and drug dealing. Despite this, he always maintained a Jewish identity, as unorthodox as is at times.
He strives to stay as rational, unbiased and objective as possible. You won't catch him declaring himself Elijah to proclaim the arrival of ✱. He, clearly, has his own strategy toward Mosaic redemption as do we all.
Anyway his Mom remarried, and he moved to Surfside where he had his Bar Mitzvah at The Shul on 96th St. He since managed to get himself in trouble with the law a few more times. Mike traveled the world, he had the penthouses, the fast cars, etc. but none of that matters to him anymore.
He tried making Aliyah. Even though most of his Mom's relatives has been living there for decades, he was denied due to his history of trafficking drugs. He then went to his local Rabbi (Kat"z of the kohen Tzadok) and started volunteering time again. However, he had to start making money, so he's back in a South Beach studio apartment- rectifying the sparks of transcendence concealed in this lowly place.
Evidently, the word for sin possesses a silent letter Aleph at the end. This represents, the concealed spark of transcendence within sin itself, that is revealed to every Baal Teshuvah like Mike. The process of a Baal Teshuva can be divided into 2 distinct tiers. In the 1st half, we separate from this realm. We attempt to create our own identities. This is why we tend to be destructive growing up; expressed commonly as hatred at our parents- thus our creator.
In our mid-thirties outlooks shift from emphasis on materialism to immateriality. In the 2nd half of our lives, we reunite with ⬢. This is when it is safe to study the deeper teachings of ™ as far as Mike's concerned. Only after we, once again, become part of the united can this information be interpreted correctly. This is when we start giving Tzedakah rather than taking it.
He said "When I was young, I rarely said I feel uncomfortable or I feel hurt. This is because I was yet to rejoin ⬢. As I searched for my true self, I realized that this form of a Baal Teshuva is a necessity for me to be whole." To redeem these concealed sparks, even the most orthodox Rabbis descend into the lowest levels for the sake of sinners.
It seems as though everything has channels relating with ⬢, the activation of which comforts us in the physical realm; Kashrut relates to the way such sparks, interact with various beings. These sparks are released whenever we manipulate any object for food; however, not all creatures are capable of discharging such sparks. Is all life imbued with signs that reveal the release of these sparks, and if so are the symptoms expressed in our categorization of what is "ritually clean"?
It appears that Kashrut is derived from Leviticus and Deuteronomy, a long debate alone. The Dead Sea Scrolls prohibits "seething the kid (goat, sheep, calf) in its mother's milk" but ⬢ does not provide a reason. Their details and practical application, withal, were set down in the oral law (eventually codified in the Mishnah and Talmud) and elaborated later. Since we are all part of ⬢, ⬢ is, indirectly, responsible for everything "anything" does.
™'s facility of studying Talmud is through intense ingenious disquisition. ™ finds living cruelty-free to be consistent with worshiping ⬢. The mass production/consumption of animal products contradict many of our teachings, gravely harming everything around us.
Evidently, Adam and Eve did not eat meat in the Garden of Eden. Genesis 1:29 states "And ⬢ says: I gave you every seed on the planet, and every tree that has seed-yielding herb and fruit—to you, it shall be for food." In other words, ⬢'s original plan was for us to be vegan, and ⬢ only later gave us permission to eat meat in a covenant with Noah (Genesis 9:1–17) as a temporary fix because of our weak nature. It is time to go back from where we once came if you ask me. Many became vegan as reported by Daniel 1:8-16. Michael Anthony Alberta included.


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I have killed many a plant. (Most of them succulents - which are supposed to be an easy plant, aren't they?!) But I have found a few house plants that are low maintenance enough for us to have a thriving relationship. If you too are a serial plant killer, here are 3 easy indoor plants that have stood the test of time living with a forgetful plant mom. They are low light & require little watering. I'll even throw in one bonus plant you may have underestimated!
PLANT #1 : Big Bertha the Dieffenbachia 'Tropic Snow'
I've had Big Bertha for over a year, sitting both right here by the window & closer to the center of our house further from windows, and it has thrived with both levels of light. Occasionally a big leaf will wilt and I will peel it off and then new growth follows quickly! (I may need to move it to a bigger pot soon...) I water it about once a week or when it starts to look a little sad. (Sad is a technical term.)
Knoxville peeps, I got this beauty from Stanley's Greenhouse, as well as the next plant on my little list!
PLANT #2 : Happy Plant (Mr. Happy for short) the Golden Pothos
You might see this plant at the store in a pot with a little thingamabob (I'm clearly no expert folks) in the middle for it to grow around because it is a creeping plant. But as you see here, I've just let it grow around my salad bowls. (ha!) This plant actually gets almost no light, being up in the corner with no window facing it directly. When it wants water it tells me by getting completely droopy, like you would maybe even assume it's dead, but then I water it and 12 hours later. BOOM! Back to life! Happy Plant has also been with us for over a year, too!
PLANT #3 : Charlie the Cupid Peperomia
This guy needs to find a more permanent location, but my husband gets nervous about holes in the wall ever since we remodeled the house. (All new sheet rock.) Let's peer pressure him! Hehe. This one gets some window light from our small kitchen window & I water him when the soil feels dry.
BONUS PLANT #4: Fake Plants Rule the World!
Nothing is as low maintenance as a fake plant, friends! I've bought a lot of mine at Marshall's actually and they've added nice little pops of green around my house. I find that succulents are one of the better fake plants to buy because succulents naturally have a waxier texture & look so it's harder to tell fake from real. I typically use them in places where people are less likely to touch them & they are a little further from sight. (What is it with us when we see a plant & we have to touch it to find out if it's real??) You can get way better quality ones that people would never know are fake for a higher price, but if you're on a budget, stick to Marshall's & Home Goods to add some happy green around your home!
Half of the plants in this photo are real & half are fake. Tricky trickyyy.
I hope this blog was helpful! Would love to see you brighten up your home (& purify your air, whoop) with some happy house plants of your own!
xoxo, the serial plant killer / wanna-be plant lady
If you're local, check out Stanley's Greenhouse to buy your local plants! To find your perfect plant by lighting, color, & perks use this "plant finder" from Costa Farms.


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Episode 9: Vic Gigliotti
This week Vic gets real and raw about the highs and lows behind his fitness apparel brand Muscle Republic and their mission to make their Republic family look good on the outside but most importantly feel good on the inside. You can feel Vic's passion as he talks about his own journey in both business and fitness which lit a fire inside him, inspiring him to become the best version of himself so he share that positivity and support others on their neverending fitness journey and instill value into every part of the business; from the clothing, customer service and all communication including spreading their message through their social media platforms.
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The opening to a speech is often overlooked - yet it is so important because it is the first impression that the audience has of you and your presentation.
The two fellows on my right were the greeters at a middle eastern restaurant. They served as perfect examples of what the opening of your presentation should do.
Think of your presentation opening as the store-front or lobby of a retail shop.
The opening of your presentation should do these three things:
- Grab Attention
- Build Rapport
- Set Direction
When we entered this restaurant these two greeters grabbed our attention with their colourful costumes and contrasting size.
They built rapport with their smiles, bowing and gestures of welcome.
They set the direction for the experience that we could expect from this restaurant with their welcoming presentation. We knew that we were in for an exotic experience that would go beyond good food.
That's what the opening to your presentation needs to do - every time you speak.
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Here are some very important reasons why getTerms() shouldn't be added as a method to Query: Query objects are seen by Lucene users as reusable objects. Eg they could be used as routing queries which are run repeatedly to classify incoming documents. They are are re-usable across multiple indexes and index versions ie they hold no state about specific indexes. Thats the current contract. If you decided to slap a method called getTerms() on a query which returns expansions of multi-terms that is adding state which effectively ties the Query instance to a particular index and a particular snapshot of that index's content, rendering the query unreusable. It is useful to think of Queries in two forms: 1) High-level, reusable, index-and index-version independent objects (returned by QueryParser) 2) Targetted queries associated with a particular version of an index, used briefly then discarded. Now. Type 2 ("targetted") is the query returned by query.rewrite(reader) and was until recently used exclusively by the search process and subsequently thrown away. The new highlighting code also requires the use of "targetted queries" but it is not possible to get hold of the targetted query that is the by-product of the search. This is why the caller is expected to create a "targetted" query by calling rewrite THEN calling the search and highlight functions with this version. These query types are important distinctions to preserve and the getTerms() proposal doesn't respect these subtle differences in query usage. Cheers Mark PS >>I looked at your code quickly, can you confirm that the following scenario is what >>happens when you run a search with MultiTermQuery? Not true any more. I think you're looking at outdated code. See my recent post which described how I ripped out the rewrite calls in the latest highlighter and made it the caller's responsibility: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=lucene-dev&m=106507977317157&w=2 As for "prohibited" - note the highlighter takes a "prohibited" parameter too. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com
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My comments on the "Seven Theories" post at LawfareI would like to thank @selectedwisdom and @nadabakos for drawing my attention to this post at Lawfare.
I think the authors have done a fantastic job of sorting through the various possibilities, and I think they deserve a great deal of recognition for their work.
I do wish to point out that the piece does not adequately address the manner in which Trump continues to deny associations with Russia, while simultaneously refusing to criticize Pres Putin and amplifying the propaganda from known RIS sources.
I am just saying that if it walks, talks and quacks like RIS penetration, it is probably a well you know...
I am all for giving someone the benefit of the doubt, but how many suspects in an interrogation room will swear on the heads of their unborn children that
1) They had no idea they were spying,
2) They are mentally ill, or
3) Its all a conspiracy...
And while we are on the topic, speaking nostalgically ofcourse
1) How many Korean kids were shot out of hand just because their parents might be communists during the war?
2) How many random civilians were killed in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki? I am sure some of them were good people but we didn't exactly sort out the "bad hombres" there....
3) Didn't it used to be that "if it runs... it's VC"?
4) And who can forget the Blackwater rule of shooting first and never bothering to ask any questions after?
So against that backdrop - I ask all the folks in the USIC - given that there is a precedent and yes I fully realize there is a lot of scrutiny here more so than there ever was a Mai Lai.... and we generally don't take chances with things like this...
And the fact that we know the KGB blames the USIC for the suffering of the Russian people, and wants to do to the US what it claims the USIC did to RU....
If I may borrow from the words of Chapter 1 of the Sacred Song.
"What is the hesitation O Arjuna?"


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Brown's Compounding was busting at the seams in their Parker, CO location when they contacted Kestrel regarding their expansion project. Kestrel worked closely with the Brown's and the General Contractor to quickly develop and permit construction drawings that would give Brown's the expansion they needed but also provide state-of-the-art lab and clean room facilities for the manufacturing of their products. A retail center was also included to allow customers to interact in a softer environment when picking up products or prescriptions.
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Few people have heard of this gaseous element even though it makes up a sizeable portion of the atmosphere. Well, 1% to be sure but that's still much more common than much more familiar gases like hydrogen or helium.
Because of its electron shell configuration, argon is unable to form chemical bonds, and thus molecules, with any other element except perhaps under extreme conditions never found in nature. This characteristic is exploited commercially whenever there arises the need to protect any type of chemicals from oxidizing. This being a gas, of course, limits the possibilities to only those situations where argon and the material to be protected can be contained. In this capacity it features prominently throughout Luciteria's ampule offerings where except for the sale of other gas elements any reactive ampule is filled with argon to keep the sample from reacting with anything else.


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It's that time of year again! One week to go and the kids are going stir crazy - part excitement, part anticipation, part anxiety. So what can you do to keep yourself in check, accomplish everything you need to accomplish, and tame the wild ones?
1. Start with a list of to dos.
2. Get the routine going.
3. Ensure you have personal time to unwind and recharge.
4. Emotionally prepare the kids for the start back.
5. Visualize how you want September 6th to go. Affirm to yourself that with its challenges it is another day in a new year that will ultimately turn out well.


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Kaizer Chiefs' high turnover of players acquired and released within a year for the past two seasons raises some serious questions about the club's signing policy' ex-Amakhosi striking ace Pollen Ndlanya has said.
Chiefs on Tuesday night announced they were releasing seven players.
Three – Mitchell Katsvairo who will be sent on loan; Enocent Mkhabela' who has been on loan and will stay at Platinum Stars' and Lewis Macha – were among Amakhosi's signings trumpeted at the beginning of the past season.
Siyanda Xulu has been released after two seasons where he played six league games.
Chiefs tried to release the centreback at the end of 2015-16' but no clubs were willing to match the exorbitant salary he was on at Amakhosi.
At the end of last season Chiefs cleared out 16 players.
Among them were four who had been signed at the start of 2015-16.
Ndlanya was scathing of how this reflects on the signing policy of the Soweto giants' who have not won a trophy in Steve Komphela's two seasons as coach and finished fifth and fourth in the PSL.
"I guess for Chiefs it's high time now to get players of quality' to spend a lot of money' to invest in players and the future of the team'" the former Bafana Bafana striker said.
"Chiefs are a big team. In terms of supporters you compare them to the Barcelonas and Real Madrids.
"So you need to have quality players. Look at Mamelodi Sundowns.
"They've invested in their squad. Keagan Dolly from Ajax with a lot of money. And what's the result? They are African champions.
"It doesn't make sense if you buy a cheaper player. If you buy from the street' in two months' time that player will give you problems again.
"For me' if you buy a player and then say you're releasing him' it's one step forward and two steps back.
"It's a problem when you buy players and release them within a year. It means that you didn't do your homework.
"I don't mind spending a lot on two players if you know they will deliver. For example' if they buy Khama Billiat.
"Billiat is a quality player. Everyone looks at that kind of player. Can you imagine that kind of player goes to Kaizer Chiefs?
"The squad' the supporters' the football becomes interesting. You're buying Cristiano Ronaldo. And also you make the team popular. It's good business.
"And it sends a message to the squad too. You're saying we mean business this year.
"As much as you want to invest in development' you need to preserve the dignity of the team.
"Because Chiefs are a big team and need to win by all cost.
"I always tell people that there is a player for Chiefs' a player for Pirates' a player for AmaZulu' a player for Platinum Stars.
"Chiefs are a big team – they need quality players."
Chiefs' turnover does not just apply only to their players' but technical staff too.
Assistant coach John Paintsil has been replaced after just a year – having joined Chiefs with no coaching experience straight from being a player for Maritzburg United – by ex-Amakhosi centreback Patrick Mabedi.
Ndlanya said at least Mabedi – who joins from coaching First Division Cape Town All Stars – should be a solid choice to assist Komphela.
"But I believe that an assistant-coach mustn't be a ball-boy.
"You need to be involved' share ideas'" Ndlanya said. – TMG Digital/TMG Sport


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Dr. Bronner's Donates $150,000 in Matching Funds to Support Signature Drive Last night it was my honor to join Tom and Sheri Eckert, experienced Portland-based therapists who are the chief petitioners for Oregon's statewide ballot initiative to legalize psilocybin-assisted therapy, as they welcomed famed mycologist Paul Stamets and special guests for an event at the Newmark Theatre in Portland. At the event, they announced the launch of a signature drive for the Oregon Psilocybin Service Initiative (PSI 2020), and I... Continue Reading
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Dr. Bronner's is Matching Donations to Amazon Watch this Month For the last couple of weeks, the news has been full of stories about fires in the Amazon rainforest. Record numbers of fires have been lit this year, numbering over 70,000—an 84% increase over last year. Industrial agriculture in the Amazon, which includes cattle ranching along with vast monoculture soy and palm plantations, has been driving new deforestation in the region. Similarly, mining and logging activities contribute to the destruction... Continue Reading
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I nominated Vertile Foundation this year to be a part of Dr. Bronner's Employee Contribution Program, which allows us to nominate organizations that we think deserve more attention. Once five organizations have been selected, they are presented by each of the five employees who nominated those organizations at our quarterly staff meeting. Every one of Dr. Bronner's 200+ employees decides which organization they want to direct funds to, and the company donates $100 on each employee's behalf to the organization... Continue Reading
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It's a moment every yogi can relate to… There you are—45 minutes into your favorite class. Your teacher's new sequence feels like it was designed specifically for you as the playlist moves you gracefully into deeper states of consciousness. Breath by breath, you ride the waves of each inhale and exhale like some kind of mystical yoga dolphin. "I… am the dolphin," you think to yourself, "yes, I am the dolphin." This is that yoga bliss you've heard about. You... Continue Reading
Coconut Mango Ceviche (Vegan)
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I have always worked hard to maintain my reputation as a 'dirtbagger'—a term used reverentially in the climbing community to describe someone who rejects societal norms for shelter and cleanliness, someone who scrounges for scraps and sleeps in the dirt—all so they can climb as much as possible. Truth is, I've never been willing to completely sacrifice personal hygiene while climbing or backpacking. Maybe it's because I'm afraid of what would happen if I went full animal—would I suddenly become... Continue Reading
Return of The Plant: The Promise of Hemp
Hemp History Week is celebrating 10 years as the U.S.'s largest educational campaign about hemp, supported by grassroots organizers, leaders from the industry, farmers and hemp advocates. Hemp History Week was started by the Hemp Industries Association and pioneering hemp businesses like Dr. Bronner's, Nutiva and Manitoba Harvest as a way of raising awareness around hemp and fighting for regulation that would allow for its farming and production. There is much to celebrate: this past January, the Farm Bill that... Continue Reading
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Finding the Balance If you're a hiker or camper, then you likely already have a love affair with trail mix. It's easy to carry and it provides both fast-acting and long-lasting energy right when you need it. If you're like us, you're as likely to consume handfuls of the stuff in the course of a regular workday as you are out on the trail. A store-bought mix can be expensive and over-salted, preserved with ingredients you would rather avoid. Making... Continue Reading
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The Righteous Way to Grow Cannabis Most everything we consume, including all our food, clothes and plant medicines like cannabis, are agricultural products. How we farm and produce these products determines what one-third of the earth's surface and much of its population looks like. Pesticide- and herbicide-dependent chemical-industrial agriculture has created massive plantations and growing operations that destroy topsoil, pollute our water sources, displace rural communities, and destroy the livelihoods of small family farmers. Industrial ag has been a social... Continue Reading
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"Journey to Pavitramenthe highlights that Dr. Bronner's is not just a brand name, it is a healing company. It not only walks its talk, it dances it, combining the highest regenerative agricultural practices with the fairest, kindest, social practices. I do not know of a company that does more per dollar for the earth and its people than Dr. Bronner's," – Paul Hawken, founder of Project Drawdown. We can stop being part of the problem, we can be part of the... Continue Reading


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