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If Labor Day means the end of summer, then Memorial Day must mean the start of summer and I am very behind on the blog! For Memorial Day Weekend, Xavier and I went to Eastern California for some snow hikes. The first day, we started with a warm up hike around some frozen lakes and I tried out snowshoes for the first time. I was a little disappointed with the lack of grippy-ness on inclines in soft snow (many near wipe outs). Otherwise, snowshoeing turned out to be not very different from hiking in boots.
Camping near Twin Lakes. (Post about the wildlife tomorrow.)
We woke up to a little winter wonderland.
The next day we attempted to summit San Joaquin Mountain. The hike normally has amazing views, but the weather that day was pretty rough and there was no visibility. Many factors resulted in us turning around, which could be summed up to: lack of time, lack of equipment, and poor weather conditions. The road to the trailhead was unplowed which lengthened our approach by two miles, cutting into our time. For some reason, we opted not to bring crampons resulting in some dicey moments. From where we turned around we could see where crampons would be needed. Lastly, the weather was terrible. Winds were blowing at 40mph causing me to have visions of me being blown off cornices like a little rag dog (how… fun.) and the last half of the hike visibility was terrible with the wind bringing snow and clouds onto the mountainside.
Xavier tried to get some shots of me looking bada$$, which wasn't possible since I felt so pathetic.
We turned around at the last dry spot, at dead man's pass.
For the last day, we headed to Tahoe for a snow hike up Rubicon Peak. This was a great hike without any need for snowshoes or crampons. There were amazing views of Lake Tahoe and, besides the occasional cross country skier, mostly empty. We followed the cross country ski tracks and paw prints most of the way up. I really enjoyed seeing when the canine bounded off only to quickly return to its companion. 🙂 I love dogs.


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Evenin' losers, degenerate, and malcontents. Here at MH we are a fan of sports of the fantasy type. Some of us enjoy the baseball variety, other enjoy playing Fuck Marry Kill with Grady Sizemore, Evan Longoria and David Wright. We would like to invite all of you to join the 1st Annual Sh!tshow College Bowl Pick Em. Show us, the editors, how much you know about college football. The winner will get um, uh, um, my utmost respect? And please, please, please pick Vanderbilt to beat Boston College with your highest confidence ratings. Please. Feel free to invite your boss, that chick you are stalking, and your secret gay lover. All are welcome.
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What if your boss IS your secret gay lover??
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Also: fuck Sizemore, marry Evan, kill Wright. That's too easy!
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Zambia Mission Fund (ZMF) launched the annual Signature Campaign in November. The goal, said ZMF Board Chairman Klay Bartee, is to raise $250,000 in operational funds for the coming year.
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When Ben discovers "the one who got away" working at a strip club, he decides to take a chance on letting Ian back into his life.
Ben has a decent life - a boyfriend, a good job, and a supportive best friend. He's shaken up when his boyfriend leaves him without warning and to make matters worse it's just before Ben's thirtieth birthday. His best friend takes him to a strip club to get his mind off the break-up. While they're there, they spot one of Ben's exes. The ex who Ben still has feelings for, but Ben had thought Ian had moved far away. It turns out Ian is still interested in Ben, and sorry for his mistakes. Can Ben let go of past hurt and give this relationship another shot?
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I truly enjoyed this short 53-page story about 'the one that got away' re-entering your life again, when and where you least expect it.
Ben's boring boyfriend of 6 months breaks up with him for being "too wild" on the eve of Ben's thirtieth birthday, leaving him in a funk, so his BFF, Sarah, takes him to a 'Magic Mike' type of male strip club to cheer him up.
Anywhooo, the last act of the evening was a cowboy named 'Lance'; however, Lance isn't just a stripper. He's also Ben's ex-boyfriend, Ian.
The story of them reconnecting, explaining why their 2-year relationship ended, then Ben deciding to give Ian another chance was a lot of fun.
There were humorous bits, pretty hot, sexy bits and touching bits, all of which were a lot of fun to read.
(Especially the sexy bits.) ;- )
Yes, I know that the story is only 53 pages, but a one page epilogue to cement their HEA would've been the cherry on the top for this entertaining little tale of a second bite at the apple. Just sayin'.
4 *let-them-eat-cake* stars this time around.
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I found the male strip club scenario a little unrealistic, because, at least in my own (extensive) experience in the US, Canada *and* Mexico, those types of female-centric 'male revue' strip clubs, like the book describes, NEVER allow men in. Ever. Fucking bastards.
A gay male presence would evidently make the hetero 'dick dancers' way too nervous and could be a possible distraction for all of the (many, many MANY) bachelorette party-attending women. *sigh*
Sorry, but if there are feathered boas at a male 'strip club', then chances are that you're *not* at a true gay male strip club.
Those can be some hot, dirty, wicked fun. Trust me, I'm speaking from experience here. ;- )
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The Canadian born saxophonist/composer began his collaboration with these young improvisers some years ago in Copenhagen."These guys understand my music and there are a lot of influences circulating in my world. They are familiar with current trends in popular music and they can bring that forth without disrespecting the rich history and discipline it takes to be a great jazz artist. Their enthusiasm and fearlessness inspires me." says Blake.
In 2001/2002 Kresten, Soren and Jonas Westergaard received grants from the Danish Jazz Federation to live and study in New York City. Within a few months the guys were settled in and began playing together on a regular basis. Their recordings and live performances consist primarily of Blake's music but they also at ease covering the works of Roland Kirk, Sun Ra and Charles Mingus.This documentation - their first recording session made in 2002 - certainly captures the bands strengths in the studio; leaning towards contemporary forms that meet up with free-jazz improvisation. They are world class improvisers and it's interesting to watch them develop", Blake proclaims of his Danish mates. "We've been playing out a lot and the response has been very positive, even ecstatic." And now they are back in Copenhagen and JazzCup! We're looking forward to this extra concert at JazzCup....
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I can't believe we are counting down to the end of 2017 and welcoming in 2018. It is this time of year, when our campus is quiet for a few weeks, and snow is falling all around, that I'm able to reflect on what our students and faculty have accomplished so far during this academic year, and the many wonderful things planned.
Opening day kicked off with a surprise for students - no classes! The first day was a focus on team-building and camaraderie among each grade as new and returning students participated in activities both on and off campus. This experience really highlights GRA's focus for the entire 2017 - 2018 school year - how the relationships formed between students and their teachers affect learning inside, and outside, of the classroom.
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Recent figures released by major publisher Hachette suggest growth in ebook sales hase slowed.
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Im in macau!!!
the sweeeeeeeet new touch screen display outside of the wanchai building, before I got to Macau.
the church sign in Macau. yeah. :)
Okay well that was a pretty big suprise. despite bishop requesting us staying and my best efforts to drop clues to the mission president, God, as always, overrode my selfish notions and put what's best out there. And guess what the outcome is?! I'm in Macau!! I am SO STOKED. Tuesday night at moves calls i went in completely expecting to just stay and then he pulls out Macau. Are you serious? And not only that but I'll be serving the 2nd branch which is English speaking. My mission language has changed, you know where it says you'll be serving in the blablabla language. yeah mine just changed and thats awesome. it should probably now read "simplified english" since i'll be speaking with non-native english speakers mostly. My new companion, sister s, is from the Philippines. I'll mostly be working with Filipinas and other people who have moved to macau to work. Its like stepping into another world. people still speak cantonese mostly, but all the signs are in chinese and... PORTUGUESE (dad don't laugh). but really, i'm pretty excited. i just wished i remembered portuguese since its everywhere. no worries though, im sure i'll pick it up again soon, especially since my mission language is now english. I'll probably work on tagalog as well. eep. maybe i should write spencer for some tips.. seriously though.. on how to work with filipinas, because chinese people are pretty much the polar opposites.
Yeahhhhh. The process of getting here was a little rough though. The plan was for me to stay one extra night in HK and then head over here, because my companion is currently going back for an overnight visa thing (for americans/filipinas? you can only stay 30 days then they kick you out, then you have to come back for like 20 days then they kick you out etc until time is up) But my apartment is in the process of being moved in HK so they just decided last minute for me to just go today. and im companionless. We took an hour long boat ride which made me queasy (sitting next to a man smelling of tobacco and beer... along with the waves) and finally me,and elders N (hk), Y(hk), and L (singapore). It was so weird traveling without a companion. so weird. And then pulling into macau, well its pretty cool. From what i can tell so far, its like this weird mix of east and west, but the thing is-- its like latin west. It reminds me a lot of madrid and of bits and pieces of brazil. but at the same time everyone is chinese. And on top of that, its like the Las Vegas of asia,HUUUUGE casinos and hotels, ive heard its bigger than LV but i donno wikipedia that and let me know. I'd love some history on Macau as well if you get a moment and can send me a letter. like as soon as possible because ill be goin back to HK in a week and a half for mission tour and temple so i could get the letter ;)
On my way in i met these swiss college students who were traveling the world for a couple of weeks.. pretty cool. then they started talking to each other in swiss german and well... i dont remember any german, or maybe i just dont understand swiss german. probably both.
I'm really excited for this new area though. Its definitely going to be a challenge and I'm going to miss sister D a TON but I think its a good transition into the end of my time on my mission. I only have 2 moves left. TWO? I realized also when i got moves calls that i had gotten pretty attached to my area, comp, investigators. A and k were able to see us last minute and I am really going to miss them. I hope they both keep going strong!! A has already started to recognize so many blessings from receiving the gospel, seriously i am learning so much from these people.
So other than that I can't really remember anything from this last week, probably because all i can think about is my new area and new challenges. President was talking about how he wants us to just keep working hard because the priesthood here needs to be strengthened. I know my chinese is going to suffer, but its also a huge blessing because i can be a benefit to these people the most right now this way. I havent even been to our apartment yet because we had to drop the stuff at the church, buy groceries, and then we headed to email. PRETTY SURE i'll sleep well tonight. The other 2 sisters here didn't have any Pday yet either because of a ward activity so we'll probably just go home tonight and crash. yeah a pretty crazy day to say the least.
So to sum it up, goodbye chinese, hello english and tagalog! haha! Hope you all are doing well and i'm really grateful for the prayers and support!
Love you all!
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I have 3 months left in the mission. Its so weird because I don't want to go home, but almost every day I think about it. like how weird it'll be and how much i'll miss hong kong- not like oh i cant wait to get home. but yeah. Its weird. i had a nightmare the other night about having to go back to a singles ward at byu. it was terrible hahahahaha. seriously though I have only 2 transfers left and everyone knows how fast that goes.
This past week was really good. We had the 2nd week with our summer missionary and she did really good. It would be tough to be a 16 year old girl and do missionary work for 2 weeks with 2 white missionaries. Seriously tough. She got pretty exhausted by the end.
Biggest/best story of the week is A. A is the one who prayed to know which church to join then her old classmate from high school facebooked her that night. Well.. there is a rule that they must attend church for 3 sundays before being eligible for baptism and sunday morning came and.. no a. Sister d gave her a call (since i was attending the other ward that day) and she said her daughter couldn't watch their son with a heart condition so she had no way to get to church, but could still get their in time for the baptism. To make a long story short, we ended up having to have our correlator call the mission president and ask him what we should do- then he put it in our hands. Can i say how grateful I am for leaders and bishops stake presidents everyone who has to make decisions in the church? I respect you so much. Because we went aside and prayed and discussed and eventually felt like she should get baptized, but its kind of a big responsibility. So yeah, I'm grateful God has priesthood leaders. seriously. So a shows up for her baptism. The ward likes to give the young men opportunities to do things like perform baptisms, so they had this young man planned to baptize her- his first time. and he's small. Anyways it took 7 tries before she actually was fully immersed-- talk about a stressful baptismal service. He'd also try to get her under by just holding her there longer and i'm pretty sure sister d almost died worrying if a was going to drown. later i'll have to act it out for you. oh dear. But it was really beautiful too because a has really waited a long time for this and she was so happy. SO happy. i didnt bring my camera today so. . yeah i'll send pics later.
Then in other things, I'm doing my 2nd english fast. no english for a whole week. Its KILLING ME. and probably sis. d too. Especially because yesterday some weird stuff came up that i should have dealt with but since i only speak chinese now i didnt know how to deal with it. anyways. its nice to do email. i can use english. haha.
I am really grateful to be a missionary. I was thinking the other day how awesome it is to be here and to have changed and learned this much. The idea of having eternal progression is really exciting but kind of exhausting as well. I'll have to really work at that. I was reading in the D&C manual the other day about becoming someone worthy to go to the celestial kingdom, and there was a quote i really liked.. i think it was l tom perry who said it? i donno. but it was about how there is a marked difference in the person who is conducting their lives in a way as if a citizen of the kingdom of God, and someone who is conducting their lives based upon the standards of the world and whatever everyone else is doing. Then i was thinking about how after going on a mission elder Jay E Jensen talked about keeping the change, and about how elder holland told us that this is the closest thing to real life we're ever going to get. And even so, I still feel like I fail so often at this "real life" of missionary work. Even when there are so many blessings, even when things are so hard you just want to quit for a day and have a vacation, even when you're happy, no matter what the circumstances are, there is always room for improvement, and that is tough. There is no "I've got an A+ already, no need to keep working" in the mission. there is no A+, just improvement. Soooo i guess the point of that was- dont give up, things will always get better if we dont give up. Put that into practice and youre good to go (note taken for myself).
And also, just one side note, I think its really cool how Heavenly Father arranged sis d to be my companion. next week is transfers, and I really hope I dont move. Though if i move, it'll be fine because its what God wants, even if its not what I want. :) I hope you all are doing well. I've got you all in my prayers.
Thank you everyone for your prayers. We missionaries need them! :)
see you in 3 months. bye!
Sis Black
Posted by Rach at 8:03 PM 0 comments
14 July 2011
Well hello everyone.
Today I got to go to the temple!! It was SO AWESOME. I am so grateful that we can go to the temple once per move. yeah...
This week was so busy. We've just started this english summer camp called EEFY (english especially for youth) where we have one hour per day, five days per week, three weeks per session. Its SO MUCH FUN. its like being an efy counselor but just for an hour per day. and we teach english, play games, etc. Our group is called "The Lion's Den" and its the young women from Sha Tin/Ma On Shan/Tai Wai. I love it so much! It takes a lot of time (like yesterday we had to make cupcakes as part of an object lesson, just think about the prep time.. ugh) but it's so fun. we helped one of our investigators with her A-Levels test prep afterwards, and i'll be completely honest, it was nice proof-reading something. Using my brain in a different way I guess. Even though I pull out my random geography facts throughout the day, I am still in need of some additional brain exercises.
Speaking of which, I started studying daniel this week in preparation for THE LIONS DEN. Did you know that Daniel and Lehi were contemporaries??? and they lived in Jerusalem at the same time? (even if just for a couple of years before Lehi left). yeah. That blew my mind. And then i used my old testament manual and sister d and I started to just go into old testament history and kings and empires conquering and blablabla all that stuff. SO INTERESTING. I want to teach seminary someday. However, last friday i also taught a class in english on the history of the book of mormon in connection with biblical history and world events. and this university student (mandarin investigator) wanted to know more about what was going on in the world at the time the book of mormon came about. It was pretty cool but i think perhaps I'll need some more time to figure out how to teach using english if i ever want to teach seminary, become a teacher, professor, etc.
What else happened today-- oh yeah! My MTC group got together for our year in hong kong mark and ate lunch at pizza express which was DELICIOUS. It was so strange just sitting around talking because as missionaries we rarely have time for that. and it was too much fun! We swapped stories and reminisced about the good ol' days of the MTC (which i do kind of miss.. its actually really fun.. hmm maybe i'll become an MTC teacher? i honestly think that'd be one of the best transition-to-real-life jobs after the mission,, just saying). And elder K shared an interesting experience from when he was in international. One day he was at the church in Wanchai, and these two guys came in dressed as missionaries. one had a nametag called "elder dumb" the other was "elder dumber" and to make a long story short, they had spent the entire day pretending to be mormon missionaries except they were doing very inappropriate things, recording them, and then posted them on youtube. It makes me so angry because the work we are trying to do is so important, and is so uplifting and good, and yet there are people who are stupid and rude and immature who would do something like that. Pretty sure they'd been drinking too, but still... theres another reason you shouldn't drink. yeah.
on a happier note, when we went to the temple, the area president was in our session. I think it may be his last session before being released, i think i overheard the temple worker say something to him like that. I was thinking about what must be going through his mind at this time- I mean, overseeing the Asia Area is like 1/2 the worlds population. pretty big task, probably pretty busy. Then i was thinking about after his mission... ok like now. going back to real life? what does that even mean? then i was thinking about my time as a missionary- in a week i only have 3 months left. and three months goes by like the blink of an eye. How do you transition? e. jay e jensen when he came here said that this is the closest to real life we're ever going to get. but how do you maintain that? How do you maintain and still be normal? I guess I'll how when it comes? I'm not going to lie, I'm kind of anxious about the fact that people keep telling me I'm dying soon. But I guess when it comes it comes right?
Other than that, things are going smoothly in general. Our investigator A is getting baptized this coming sunday. We reviewed the restoration with her and her comments were "that's me, i'm exactly like joseph smith.. I searched for 12 years to figure out which church to join and find out what path to take. and God answered my prayers" yeah. people in HK usually don't make that connection. She's teaching me so much about how God works with his children, and how faith and patience and perseverance works.
Sister D and I are doing pretty awesome. She's seriously going to be like 10 times the missionary I am, or at least thats my goal for her haha. I totally think its true what e holland said, the lord's sending his best here, because HK is hard. However I have faith that with the Lord's help we can do SO much... i've seen it.
I was feeling kind of cranky and stressed this week because we just got a summer missionary, but our summer missionary is actually really amazing too. She's got such fire and drive for missionary work. yeah. Helping people come unto christ is probably one of the best things ever.
also i wish I/others realized younger how important example is. because example is probably one of the biggest factors in helping people come unto christ. Sorry to anyone who i've ever offended or any time I haven't been an example of what I believe. But seriously, there's nothing better than the gospel- its what God's given us to be happy. and its so amazing. and it works. and its true, we just have to figure it out for ourselves.
Hope you're all doing well!
love you!
sis black
Posted by Rach at 9:11 PM 0 comments
I've been in Hong Kong 1 Year!
This week wasn't too eventful, just feeling pretty blessed, and at the same time pretty tired. I have been sick for the past few days and just seriously like no energy at all and i threw up monday, but at the same time, i still can get up on time and go to work when i have to, its just i get home with a headache and feel like im going to die. i think it might be caused by fast sunday and then getting sick on monday, maybe some little dehydration, so im drinking lots of water and praying even more. A is doing well, she'll have her baptismal interview tomorrow. she has such great faith! In a society where money=pretty much everything, usually tithing is a major stopping point for investigators. she doesnt have a job so can follow the commandment without paying tithing, but still said if she had a job or ever gets one she'd pay for sure because God has given her so much already. It is a perspective you don't usually see here in HK. There is a lot going on right now as well. Our mission president recieved some revelation about holding an english summer camp fashioned after EFY, but just for an hour per day on weekdays for 3 week sessions. Yeah its going to be so fun! But its a lot of work and starts next monday. we'll be playing group games for the first 30 min using english, then doing english study and learning portions. i was a little apprehensive about it at first but i think it'll really be good!
We also just got a summer missionary. her name is sister L and she just got back from being an exchange student in washington. Her older brother is a missionary in Hong Kong too. :) We should be pretty busy for the next few weeks, which is nice because it also means we'll probably be in air conditioned chapels quite a bit as well. I'm trying to step it up every day in this work, because i've got approximately 100 days left in the mission. only 100 days. thats pretty much ZERO time and such so i want to use it the best i can. President interviewed me last week on thursday before we had dinner at his house and let me know my dying date. I asked him if i'd be moving next move and he said "probably not, there's no reason to.." and bishop m told me at FHE he asked president not to move us out of Tai Wai. soooo... i have great hopes that i'll just stay here for the next 2.5 moves. even better if i get to stay with sister d. I mean, seriously probably no other sister in the mission would be willing to get up 30 min extra early so we can work out longer. seriously. I just hope I can help her as much as i can before my mission ends. Thats another thing i was thinking- I feel like the missionaries coming in are just extra super phenomenal. i don't know how to describe it exactly, but you know how they say like every generation is just a bit better than the one before? well i think that's true. Like when we had 2x the missionaries in this mission we were still baptizing the same. and now with the 8 foundation principles we are helping even more people.
That's one reason why I am so grateful for living prophets, they can receive current revelation, rather than just relying on the past revelations we've gotten. I mean, moses didn't need to reveal that the people in jerusalem needed to repent, but jeremiah did! God speaks to His people in their own time as well as helping us learn from the past. Man i just love learning about the scriptures ps. just saying. I think one of the coolest jobs ever would be a professor of religion. . . too bad that's probably not very feasible, but maybe i'll be lucky enough to be called to be a seminary teacher someday or something. I'd love that.
Other stuff.. not really that much. We had breakfast with k today- sis d and i ate congee and chicken in glutinous rice. it was delicious. I'm loving this not really eating wheat thing too, i think my body is so much healthier because of it. seriously. Also, if you have any requests for HK items to bring home, let me know. I've only got a couple of months left so i'd rather not waste my last pday or two buying stuff, earlier might be better.
Thanks for everything. especially the prayers, and the letters!!
Posted by Rach at 9:08 PM 0 comments
30 June 2011
This week was AMAZING
in the past week sister d have had some major miracles. But mostly I'll just tell you about one. We've really been praying mightily that the lord will help us baptize some more people in the month of July. And at the time we emailed last week, we had zero people with a date. However that has changed. Last week we got a text from the office elders about a member referral, her name is a. Anyways this is her story- A has had contact with the church for quite some time. She's probably in her 50s and she has a friend from gradeschool that is a member. His daughter is actually living with us right now and is also a missionary in HK. So we set up a time to meet with her where she proceeds to tell us that for a long time she's been waiting to join a church, she's wanted to wait until her 26 year old son with a very severe heart problem is ready to join one with her, but last month she finally got up the determination to do it herself. She pretty much spends all of her time taking care of her son. She prays daily and asked God to help her which church to join, and told him that if he gives her a way, she'll take it. So that night Brother Y, her old schoolmate, after a long time of no contact, wrote her on facebook. She wants to get baptized and is so humble and prepared. We've met with her 2x already and are seeing her tomorrow. A is really a huge miracle. i feel like every time we see her she's teaching me more than i'm teaching her.
Sister D and i are still getting along really well. She's another person who is teaching me a lot. I've been trying to learn more about the atonement this past week and how it all works and then we've also had some pretty big challenges these past few weeks (like everyone dropping us...), but every time we are able to pray and rely on our savior and its pretty cool, since he's placed some really good people in our path. If we work hard and keep the spirit, everything works out.
Thats another thing that was really interesting this past weekend- one day we taught a lesson and it was so weird.. for some reason neither of us could figure out, the spirit was totally gone. and we had to work to get it back. i think satan was really trying to get sister d to doubt her ability as a missionary and she was pretty down. However, once we worked it back, the next day we met a and were SO prepared to teach her and she was so prepared to listen, so i think the fact that we had that trial really helped us be better prepared to help someone else come unto christ. Plus strengthened my testimony of the power of the holy ghost . . because if this was all made up nO WAY would we feel that way at the same time... the lesson was fine, it was just normal, but we just felt a lack of the spirit.
Anyways, things in hong kong are going well..
oh and brother A in tai wai ward let us come over for lunch one day and learn from his Thai helper lady how to make some DELICIOUS thai food.
I'm really grateful I am a missionary. There are so many things about life that make so much more sense to me now, especially when i get to teach people who know nothing about God or Jesus Christ or anything. I think it is especially amazing to see the gospel similarities and things that they originally had here, but have over time been changed or distorted, but the underlying truth is the same. God exists and he loves us so much! The Book of Mormon is the word of God, and He'll let anyone know that who is willing to try.
Love you all so much!
Sister Black
Posted by Rach at 9:01 PM 0 comments
23 June 2011
Hello everyone! This week was so good!! We have been pretty busy and its awesome. But not just because we're busy. Yesterday was probably the best day ever--- this week TYPHOON SEASON started!! and we've got a typhoon 3 warning. well thats great because it is windy and rainy and stormy, weather I really like. But usually that means that our investigators are very likely to cancel their appointments or not show up. Rain is apparently a very legitimate excuse to not do things here. Sister D and I have been stepping it up by using our time better- minute by minute. However, we were particularily worried last night for two very important lessons- one with K, and one with the C family. K is anything but your average 18 year old girl, she likes to analyze things and figure them out, she is really searching to find out which religion is true and she knows it will take work but doesnt think she has enough "real intent" or faith yet. She just got back from Taiwan and in the HK airport spent some time talking to this brazilian designer about the bible. and what did this designer tell her, "you need to have more faith." exactly. So K comes to her appointment with enough faith to make it through the rain, and we felt to teach the 10 commandments. Pretty simple, right? Well turns out she unknowingly asked off the sunday after next from work, and after that her schedule will change to evenings so she can come to church. Its just cool because in that lesson so many things came out as far as how God is kind of arranging her life to help her obtain the truth. And I definitely felt the spirit confirming the truth. Life is so difficult sometimes I think because people have so many choices. And it's so hard to know which way to choose, and what is right because so many voices are telling us "this is right" "do this and you'll be happy" "all you need is to believe in jesus" "god doesn't exist believe in yourself" "work hard and earn money and you'll be happy" etc etc etc. There are so many different voices, it makes sense that we would naturally lean towards trusting our own instinct alone. But the cool thing is that what we share as missionaries is a fool-proof way to find it out. Determination to know if its true and willingness to change if it is true, faith in the savior, and an open heart to receive the answer from the holy ghost.
What else happened this week? Our friend R came with us to the M Family's FHE. Have I ever told you about the M family. well... let me tell you. They are wonderful people. Sis. D was saying the other day that sis. M is pretty much for sure going to make it to the celetial kingdom. Brother M is a very busy man. He works in trading and doesnt get home many nights until very late. His calling also takes up a considerable amount of time. And even with all of this, he and his wife have a Family Home Evening every monday night, and welcome anyone we invite to come. Sister M makes dinner and cake for 10 or so people, which probably takes a large chunk of her day. They have a date once per week and go to the temple/dinner. Other days, sis M works in the temple or serves in the temple. I mean, this family is such a great example of one that is dedicated to the lord. They are really blessed in their lives and always put the Lord first. Sister M scheduled us to visit and sing to an old woman this week who can no longer speak. We finished up and afterwards we were going to another appointment. We didnt have a lunch but even without knowing this sister m asked if she could buy us lunch. I mean its a small thing but it was a considerably large blessing because we wouldn't have eaten otherwise. She had no idea but because her first priority in life is to help others, thats just what she does. she doesn't think about it she just does it! I am really going to miss them when i leave, especially because i've been going to their home almost every week for over 6 months now, and I'll probably be leaving this area at the end of july.
Also I realized the other day that I only have 4 months left. FOUR MONTHS IS SO SHORT. thats like a blink of an eye! I hope to really go out with a bang! One of the things that has really helped me keep my drive and desire in this work is through prayer and loving the people. I feel like there are definitely people who i love more and trying to figure out how to get to the point of loving everyone like that. Its pretty cool when i care more about the people I'm teaching, and makes the time go by so fast!
Oh a story-
so the other day we were on the train and like we missionaries do i started talking to these students that were standing next to me. There were these two twin boys and a girl headed home from school. they were really nice. then as we got to talking I mentioned that actually our church has a few differences from other christian churches (because here people generally think that if you believe in a christian church its all the same thing). then this guy who was standing kind of behind me turns around and starts yelling at me "A FEW DIFFERENCES????? A HUUUUGE DIFFERENCE! YOU'RE AN EVIL CHURCH!!,," and starts just going OFF on me and how we're evil. The teenagers were obviously freaked out at that point and of course I'm not going to fight him because contention will immediately drive the spirit away, but i just wish i could make him understand. Or at least have a chance to think about it rather than just re-stating what he's probably heard someone else say. I was talking to sister d afterwards, and we were saying that it kind of almost makes it truer that there is that kind of opposition to our religion. Why target a religion that influences people only for good, helps families, communities, and the world become a better place? Even on a basic doctrinal basis, is there anything that leads people to misery, or whose end results are something bad? of course not. The kind of opposition is ludicrous compared to the actual results the religion has in the lives of its people. In my study and my feelings there is nothing that would lead me to disbelieve the testimony that I've recieved. And that testimony is founded on Jesus Christ, the Book of Mormon, the Bible, and continuing revelation in this day.
Thank you all for the love, support, prayers, letters etc,
Sister Black
Posted by Rach at 8:50 PM 0 comments
june 16 2011
So this week there isn't too much to report, our baptism for this weekend fell through because sis. L (the one that was already in mosiah just a few weeks into hearing the gospel, even though she has zero christian background) feels like she can't pay tithing so doesnt want to do the rest of it since she can't get baptized without being willing to pay tithing. It was pretty rough for me because my feeling was that I had done something wrong. If she had been really building her faith and stuff, she would have made it through this. I committed her over the phone to keep reading and praying even if she doesnt come to church, and she agreed, but doesn't want to meet with us any more.
Sister D and I are doing well, we spent some time this week organizing things since we're dropping a few investigators and now we're just trying to find a way to help the ones we are teaching progress. These past few weeks people have been willing to see us, but haven't really been moving forward with their testimonies or progressing in the commitments they keep.
Sister d and i had an interesting story about scheduling people from this week, i don't know exactly how to describe it and make it as funny as it was, but we had scheduled the aforementioned sister La on saturday at 1pm, and sister La a member of the china hong kong mission presidency's wife was going to fellowship. On thursday we get a call from an unknown number and a sister La tells us she won't be able to make it to saturday's, and so we reschedule her for friday at noon. So assuming this is Investigator La, we then call sister N to fellowship. That night, we are confirming our appointments for the next day, and we have Member La scheduled to fellowship at 5:30 so we confirm.. However the next day, sister La doesn't show up to the appointment at noon. So we call her, and she asks us "isnt the appointment at 530?" we already had lesson with Investigator k and Member La at 530, and we thought this was Investigator La, so we reschedule for 430pm and ask sis N if she can help us later in the day instead. well.. at 430 we return to the church and are sitting there with Sister N and member La. Welllll... so i call that unknown number and a man picks up. President La. his voice is so distinct. . . ANYWAYS we just rescheduled those two wonderful members like five times because we thought it was Investigator la the whole time.
sorry so complicated, but it was pretty funny.
ANyways this is my letter for the week, sorry its so short!
sis black
Posted by Rach at 8:48 PM 0 comments
9 June 2011
Okay so its kind of weird how quick time on the mission is going. I have just over 4 months left... and its WAY too fast. Sis D and I have been so busy this past week and haven't really had much time for anything even studies some days... (which isn't good because e. holland also reminded us to have good studies). We don't live in our area, and our area is huge, so it takes 30 min to 1 hour to even get to our area depending on where we are going, which slowly eats away at our time. We've started to split quite a bit with members (especially saturdays and sundays) and that helps a bit, but still.. a bit of a bother.
In other things, we have met a few really awesome people this week. The other night we had some time when our plans changed, and we were trying to decide whether to stay in and make some calls or go out and go finding. well... naturally we prayed asking for guidance and felt to go out even though it wasn't going to be for very long (like i said, at least 30 min until we're even in our area) so we're riding the train just trying to talk to people and stuff, we'd brought a book of mormon in simplified and one on traditional characters (simplified is what mainlanders read). anyways so we're on the train and this couple is kind of watching us, after the people next to them get off, i go sit down. welllll turns out they dont speak a word of cantonese or understand it. and my mandarin, well its not that great either. I know a few phrases but the only ones i could seem to remember were "i am sister black" and "i know this is true" we kept pointing and trying to talk and communicate and then i showed them the Book of mormon and had the husband start reading the introduction via pointing and gesturing etc. He starts reading, then starts reading 1 nephi, then i show him the pamphlet about moroni's promise, he takes a moment and then we had to go. quickly gave them our number and left. the wife tried to give the book back but then the husband snatched it back. SO funny and so amazing. I have no idea what the effect of that book will be on their lives, but later that night we got a text saying "thank you for the book" It probably would be their only time meeting missionaries in their entire life, and their only opportunity to hear about the Book of Mormon.
I've been talking a lot more about the book of mormon lately, and I've come to realize how INCREDIBLY important that book is. There are so many churches, and its so easy to find out if the book of mormon is true or not. Think about it. . . if you really do your part and read and pray and believe that God will answer you if it is true or not, you'll get an answer. If the book really IS from God, its pretty much the most important thing of all time, because it means that joseph smith really was a prophet and he really did restore Jesus Christ's church. if the book of mormon isnt true however, then really there's no need to read it. BUT... heres the thing, if you dont try reading it and dont try praying, you'll never know if its true or if its not. if its not true, either joseph smith (elementary school education only) is a genius, or its from satan. but pretty sure satan wouldn't give us such good advice. or want us to follow Jesus Christ's example so well. or do so many wonderful things. So my invitation to everyone, whether you've read it or not, is to read moroni ch 10 again or for the first time. think about it. its the very last chapter of the whole book of mormon, and it is amazing. the promise is v.3-5. and if it is true, and you are sincerely wanting to know and willing to act on it if you recieve an answer, God's going to let you know. because he doesnt lie. and he's helped so many people here recieve that answer and most people here don't even really have a christian background. Its amazing. I LOVE LOVE LOVE that book. I'd stake my life on it any day.
I know im a bit passionate about that book, but the thing is, it means everything to me. It has blessed my life so much and my family and millions of people around the world. It helps us recieve guidance, it helps us understand the bible, it helps us come closer to Jesus Christ, helps us find truth, answers some of life's most tricky questions. its just basically the most amazing thing ever.
And once again this morning as im writing this, I am feeling so grateful for people in my life. I was thinking about middle & high school, and my exchange student time in the Netherlands with the Vissers family, going off to college, just how blessed I've been with the people I've met and learned from. I know I've been pretty selfish throughout my life, but it was because I just didnt get it! Sorry if I've ever offended any of you. I am soooo so so so so so grateful for all of the people I've met. so thank you everyone. especially my mom, dad and sisters. This gospel is the best thing ever. It has helped our family SO much I can't even explain it with words. my english these days is terrible but what I'm trying to get out is I am really grateful and I can't say it enough!
so yeah, thats how things are. hope everyone is doing well... thanks for the letters and the prayers!
-sis black
Posted by Rach at 8:44 PM 0 comments


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As he finished the final line and set his writing back on the plinth, he looked at her with triumph, she saw. She knew she was expected to say something, give some response but instead she was silent.
"What did you think?" He finally asked, though the curves of his smile had begun to slowly drop at her hesitation.
She stood. Walked to the precipice and looked out upon the world. She sensed his impatience and his desire to be praised.
"You kill me." She finally said, her tone cold and distant. Her voice had removed itself from his presence, there would be no feeling to it again for him. "One more time you have killed me, and one day I will die from it."
She did not turn back to face him, instead she turned her head to the side so that he might only ever be able to look on one side of her, a side she would armour.
She heard the annoyance in his tone as he rebuffed her words "It isn't about you. The woman in the story isn't you."
She closed her eyes and sighed, let the breeze blow coolly over her. She savored the feeling, wanting it to transport her somewhere else, but knowing she couldn't let it. She had to stay here and face his words. So often she had turned from them. She hadn't wanted to hide from them, but her anger had been so great at them that she had run before she allowed herself to speak in fear of what she might say. Now though, she was beyond anger. In her belly the heat of a biting rage, but her exterior, as she had promised herself after the last time, was cold and detached. Showing the anger would do her no good, he would turn it on her and throw more destructive words at her soul.
"Yes she is me. She is always me. You maim her, abuse her, molest her. You rape her and humiliate her. You kill her. You butcher her. You hide her body, that once contained her soul. You freeze her. All for a story. And the story is not even about her. You created her, gave her life. You did not mould her into a person, you left her blank and empty, and then you filled her up with horror. You created her so that you might destroy her. She is me. She is every woman."
"I don't understand why you are so upset…" He started.
She raised up a hand, with it a barrier. A wall between them, muting his words.
"You create her and destroy her so easily, because to you women are nothing but vessels for men to create, mould, use and destroy. You write pliable women because you know I am not pliable. You kill her because you cannot kill me."
His words were strangled now by the wall so he could not respond. But the protest was writ large upon his face.
"You want me to tell you your story was clever, and it was. That it was funny, and it was. That there were elements of greatness there that you have teased from human nature and committed to your page. But you want me to still find it clever and funny, to praise it, when you then create a woman to kill her. You forget that I am a woman. You forget that we exist and care, you forget we are every woman. When you kill one of us, you kill us all."
He was unable to even whisper a retort despite his attempts.
She closed the fist of her raised hand, and as she did so his hands went to his throat.
"A long time I have been considering this, designing the correct injury for you. I have taken your voice. You will not speak, you will not spin or weave or create any words. You will birth no new stories. Not until you know what it is for you to have killed a woman. Not until you understand and have remorse for her death."
Only breath came from his mouth. His words gone, the wall between them, her armoured side to him, she allowed the breeze to lift her from the precipice. She would allow it to take her somewhere far from his reach.
Her final words to him floating back across the expanse – "I fear I shall never hear you speak again."


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June 2, 2006
By Chris FloydMany observers have compared the methodical murder of 24 innocent civilians by U.S. Marines in the Iraqi town of Haditha -- now confirmed by Pentagon and congressional sources -- to the infamous My Lai massacre in Vietnam, when U.S. troops slaughtered hundreds of civilians in a bloody rampage. But this is a false equation, one that gravely distorts the overall reality of the coalition effort in Iraq.For it is not the small-scale Haditha atrocity that should be compared to My Lai. It is the entire Iraq War itself. The whole operation -- from its inception in high-level mendacity to its execution in blood-soaked arrogance, folly and greed -- is a war crime of almost unfathomable proportions, a My Lai writ large, a My Lai every single day, year after year after year.Details of the Haditha killings are finally emerging after months of official cover-up and heated denunciations of anyone who questioned the shifting, conflicting stories issued by the Pentagon following the November 2005 incident. The horror speaks for itself: A unit of Marines from Kilo Company, thirsting for revenge after a roadside bomb killed a comrade, broke into homes near the blast area and systematically executed the civilians they found there, along with five men who happened to be passing by in a taxi, Time magazine reports.Photos taken afterward by U.S. military intelligence document the carnage. "One portrays an Iraqi mother and young child, kneeling on the floor, as if in prayer," the Sunday Times reports. "They have been shot dead at close range. The pictures show other victims, shot execution-style in the head and chest in their homes." The victims "included a 76-year-old amputee and a four-year-old boy," the Observer reports. "In one house an entire family, including seven children, were attacked with guns and grenades. Only a 13-year-old girl survived." A U.S. government official told the Sunday Times that the attackers had "suffered a total breakdown in morality and leadership."Take special note of that last statement: It may be the first time that a Bush administration spokesman has ever told the truth about the war. There has indeed been a total breakdown in morality and leadership in Iraq; but it's not confined to the Haditha killers. They are just the inevitable end product of the culture of lawlessness, brutality and aggression deliberately manufactured by the White House to serve its predatory geopolitical ambitions and its dirty war-profiteering schemes. This fish has rotted from the head, and the corruption has eaten through the entire body politic. It was bound to find its most extreme manifestations in those whom Bush has armed with lies -- a majority of U.S. soldiers believe that Iraq was involved in Sept. 11, polls show -- and sent off to kill and be killed in an illegal war of aggression based on knowingly false and tricked-up evidence. If atrocity is the foundation of your enterprise, if atrocity is the atmosphere you breathe, why then, you are bound to produce atrocities, over and over, despite the many individual soldiers and honorable officers who struggle against the infected tide.These massacres aren't just momentary outbursts of revenging anger; they're learned behavior. The Marines who killed at Haditha were veterans of the much larger atrocity at Fallujah the year before. There they took part in one of the most savage demolitions of a city since World War II. Eight weeks of relentless bombing was followed by a cut-off of the city's water, electricity and food supplies. More than two-thirds of the residents fled the coming inferno; those who remained were considered fair game in the house-by-house ravaging that followed. Among the Americans' first targets were the city's medical centers, as U.S. officers freely admitted to The New York Times. They were destroyed or shut down, with medical staff killed or imprisoned, to prevent bad publicity about civilian casualties from reaching the outside world, the officers said. Later, an investigation by the U.S.-backed Iraqi government found strong evidence of the use of chemical weapons against the city. Up to 6,000 people were killed in the attack, most of them civilians. The few hundred Fallujah-based insurgents who had been the ostensible target of the assault had escaped long before the onslaught began. Thus there was no real military purpose to the city's destruction, which had been ordered by the White House; it was instead an act of reprisal, a collective punishment against the Iraqi people as a whole, noncombatants included, for the armed resistance to the coalition conquest. The Marines of Kilo Company simply took what they were taught by their eminently respectable superiors in Fallujah and applied it in Haditha.No doubt these lessons are being applied throughout Iraq. In March, we reported here on an eerily similar incident in the Isahaqi region, when 11 civilians, including five children under the age of five, were killed during a house raid by U.S. troops. Photos confirmed the attack and the 11 deaths. Local police said the victims had been shot execution-style, although none of them were connected to the insurgency. Pentagon officials, despite the photographic evidence, would confirm only four civilian deaths: unfortunate collateral damage of a firefight with an al-Qaeda operative, they said. The idea that U.S. troops could execute civilians in cold blood was preposterous, they said.Like Abu Ghraib, Haditha is not an aberration but the emblem of a wider, systemic crime, the natural fruit of an outlaw regime that has made aggressive war, torture, indefinite detention, "extrajudicial killing," rendition and concentration camps official national policy. This moral rot is Bush's true historical legacy.Annotations [Click title to read in full] Revealed: How US Marines Massacred 24 Sunday Times, May 28, 2006 The Shame of Haditha Time, May 28, 2006 Children of Abraham: Death in the Desert (text) Empire Burlesque, March 19, 2006 Children of Abraham: Death in the Desert (flash movie) Empire Burlesque, March 22, 2006 Fresh evidence of 'executions' by rogue US marines in Iraq The Observer, May 28, 2006 Murtha: Scandal May Undermine Iraq Effort Associated Press, May 28, 2006 Military to Report Marines Killed Iraqi Civilians New York Times, May 26, 2006 Iraq Is the Republic of Fear Washington Post, May 28, 2006 Noam Chomsky: America as a Failing State The Independent, May 31, 2006 Iraqis shot 'for wearing shorts' BBC, May 26, 2006 War is Swell: The Bush "War Paradigm's" War on the Constitution Salon.com, June 1, 2006 New Witness Describes Alleged Iraq Atrocity ABC News, May 28, 2006 What May Come of the Haditha Massacre? Karen Kwiatkowski, LewRockwell.com, May 27, 2006 Pentagon Chief 'Wasted Lives in Iraq' The Telegraph Group, May 29, 2006 Fallujah: The Flame of Atrocity Empire Burlesque, Nov. 11, 2005 Ring of Fire: The Fallujah Inferno Empire Burlesque, Nov. 19, 2004 Filter Tips: Muzzling and Massaging the Message of War Empire Burlesque, March 18, 2005 A name that lives in infamy The Guardian, Nov. 10, 2005 I Can Still Smell the Blood' ABC News, May 29, 2006 Iraqi ambassador claims US Marines 'intentionally' killed cousin Agence France Presse, May 31, 2006 U.S. troops kill pregnant woman in Iraq Associated Press, May 31, 2006 Countless My Lais in Iraq Antiwar.com, May 31, 2006 Dark Passage: PNAC's Blueprint for Empire Empire Burlesque, Sept. 20, 2002 Ray McGovern: Bowing to the Police State The Progressive Populist, June 15, 2006 issue


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1) You can see that price held below a falling channel in the 4H chart.
2) Price cracked 0.9200, but ended the week to show there is support here.
3) The 4H RSI has been held below 60.
4) 0.9300-0.9315 is a key pivot area.
Bullish scenario:
A break above 0.9320 should clear the resistance factors, and therefore would suggest bullish continuation. In this scenario, the 0.9375-0.9390 will be the first resistance pivot before traders can be more confident of AUD/USD retesting the 0.9460 high.
Bearish scenario:
A break below 0.9200 however might clear below a rising trendline that comes up from the 0.8655, January and 2014 low. This would first open up the 0.91-0.9115 area, which was a previous resistance that might turn into support. Below that the 0.9050-0.9060 would be a key area for AUD/USD because it would be in the middle of 2014's price range for the pair.
At this point, I would prefer to trade the bullish scenario, and be cautious trading any bearish market unless it has broken below 0.9200 and offers a decent pullback to fade for a very short-term bearish outlook.


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Since this is a pretty small paper, you're not going to have enough space for a massive amount of research. I think 3-4 sources of outside information, combine with your own thoughts and reactions, should be more than enough to get you through 4-6 pages of writing.
But where can you find 3-4 reliable sources of information about your selected topic? Here are some resources and examples:
- The super-inter-information webnet highway, also known as the "internet," is a great place to start. The dubya-dubya-dubya is the Wild West of information, so you have to be careful, but it's especially useful at the beginning of your research when you're just trying to get a basic idea of what's out there. Here are some links:
- Google: Working still on my Emily Dickinson topic, I Googled the term "Emily Dickinson death poetry." You'll notice that most of these links are useless biography pages and collections of poetry. You could check out some of those, but they probably won't help you get a new angle on this specific topic. So, let's try something more specific, like "Emily Dickinson criticism." I liked the look of that third link, and it eventually took me to this page. Which brings up my next point: If you clicked that last link you noticed it was a list of actual books. If you really want to save time and get the most useful, specific information out there, you'll go for the books.
- Library: So, the internet superhighway took me to a list of books. Where can I get these books? Well, try the Salt Lake City Public Library. Let's start with the second book on that webpage from the last bullet: Emily Dickinson: A Collection of Critical Essays. I searched for that title at the SLCPL, and it brought up this page. So, they don't have the exact book I wanted, but look at what they do have. This could be useful. How about a general book for starters, like Emily Dickinson: Modern critical views. Click on that book and you get to this page. Not only does this page tell you where to find the book at the library, it also has a subject heading down below that you can actually click to find all the other books in that heading. On this page, the clickable subject heading is Dickinson, Emily , 1830-1886 — Criticism and Interpretation. This gives you 20 specific books you can find, and now it's time to go to the library. Once there, the smart among you may recognize the genius of the Dewey decimal system as you realize that most of the books on that list are catalogued under 811 D533, so all you have to do is find that shelf on the 4th floor of the library and browse until you find what you need, in my case, an essay about images of death or dying.
- Internet Databases. But what if you don't want to leave the house, or climb 3 flights of stairs at the library? Well, we have one other major source of information, and that is the Pioneer Online Library. This database is just a collection of sources that were once in print, but have now been electronified for your browsing pleasure. Once you're on the main page, the most useful database for this project will probably be the SIRS Knowledge Source. I tried the search "Dickinson death poetry," which brought up more than enough pretty specific stuff to get me started on a small researched essay. Notice that at the top of the page, you can separate your results into newspaper articles, magazine articles, etc.
So that should get you started on the research. Don't forget that Google is a good place to start, but it won't get you very far. Honestly, the easiest and fastest way to conduct this type of research is 20 minutes of browsing at a specific library shelf.
For information on citing these articles and books, click here.
Happy hunting!
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A Beginner's Guide On Buying Gaming Monitor
There is a lot of science and technology involved when you buy a gaming monitor. As a buyer you will encounter terms like refresh rate, resolution, IPS, TN and VA that can leave you feeling perplexed. Read reviews on www.ratedgamergear.com or learn how to build your custom gaming monitor with help from videos on www.in.pcmag.com.
Getting started
If you play FPS (or first-person shooter) games, your display should have clarity and images must be presented in a quick succession. A high refresh rate is recommended for these games, as the images or screens are refreshed at 120 Hz or 120 frames per second. In addition to looking for high refresh rates, look for specifications like response time or input latency.
In video games, input latency is the time taken for the effect to be displayed on the screen when a button is pressed.
Panel-The next aspect you have to think of is the type of panel you might require. Choose from IPS, TN or VA panels that are suited for different applications. There are two versions of VA and IPS (or in-plane switching) like the PVA or Patterned Vertical Alignment and Multi-domain Vertical Alignment (MVA) that have their own set of pros and cons.
Twisted Nematic Panel- This form of technology is the oldest and main highlights are short response time which makes this panel an ideal choice for gaming. TN monitors are known for their brightness and its ability to consume less power when compared to other technologies. TN panels are cheap to produce, which results in low price for the buyers.
IPS- An IPS monitor scores high than others owing to its better color reproduction and viewing angles. These days, you will come across the super-IPS panel at a decent price. When you encounter a sharp angle or a curve, an IPS screen keeps the colors constant.
VA- Recent developments have seen the introduction of MVA and PVA technologies that offer benefits of both TN and IPS panels. An MVA panel is known to provide good viewing angles and emphasis on black color, unlike a TN or IPS screen. Response time for black and white color is low and higher for other tones which can cause Ghosting effect.
G-sync and Freesync- Should you go for a G-Sync monitor or a FreeSync screen? The presence of these technologies reduce tearing and make your games look smoother and clear. Before you choose one of them randomly, remember that G-Sync works well with NVIDIA cards and FreeSync is compatible with AMD. It is not possible to get both in your panel, so weigh all your options before you finalize on them.
This latest technology is only an option for your monitor. Purchasing a G-Sync monitor is expensive as they require authority and permit from NVIDIA. At 144 Hz, these technologies will not make a huge impact on your game as the tearing effect is going to be reduced to that of the refresh rate.
When you buy gaming monitors, take into account factors like refresh rate, monitor panel type and resolution that are interlinked with each other.


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When I preview Il Formaggio in Dreamweaver (F12) I get errors and see the asp code in the left frame.
Errors when attempting to preview using F12:
This happens when you try to preview the page without using the http://localhost/.... url. You must always view asp pages by running them from your web server, F12 in Dreamweaver will not work for an asp page so you must use your browser directly with the localhost url of the site. See "Preview and Test the Site" in the Installation section of the UserGuide.


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Volkl RTM 73 (2013)
Rating: / 5
Price: $600.00
Year: 2013
Level: 2
Gender: Male
Waist Width: 73
Tip/Tail/Waist: 120-73-105
Lengths: 153, 159, 166, 173
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