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For those of you who have been keeping up with the Cooking Goal I set for myself this year, last week marked the end of the journey. I set out at the beginning of this year to wean myself off of the convenience of frozen, pre-packaged and "just add boiling water" foods. College was behind me, and it was time to grow into a mature culinary expert. I figured that with 52 weeks in a year, I could find time each week to make a new recipe and add to my repertoire. After adjusting the goal to make 52 recipes this year, I pushed onward to the finish line.
When I started cooking, I quickly realized that I was under-equipped for the task. And yet, it was a little bit fun trying to "MacGuyver" together solutions in the middle of preparing a recipe. Needless to say, the bi-weekly "20% off one item" coupon from Bed, Bath & Beyond that arrived in the mail was used almost immediately each time it arrived. But as I progressed, I found that I reached a point where I was anticipating what I would need. Or, in the case of the KitchenAid standing mixer, something that I thought would be really cool to have.
An unintended benefit of cooking ended up being the dinner parties. When I found that most recipes made 8 servings, and I really didn't want to eat something for 8 straight days, the solution became obvious. I've always felt that food is the great uniting medium. There's nothing better than gathering around the kitchen table with some home cooked meal and just talking. Talking without our mouths full of food, that is. Through inviting people over to my apartment for dinner, I really got a chance to know them better than I already did. I'm OK at large social functions, but I find that the intimate, small group get-togethers are far more meaningful when everyone isn't trying to socialize with everyone else.
Then it happened. I started getting really ambitious. About 13 weeks in, I found a spring-form pan at a local thrift store. I thought to myself, "Hey, a spring-form pan! I know what I can make with that!" And that's when the New York Cheesecake appeared. By that time, I had figured out that cooking wasn't anything more difficult than civil engineering. I mean, you start with your raw building materials; process them through cutting, heating and mixing; form the materials together; and bake for 30 minutes at 350°. Voila! Instant building . . . I mean dinner. I figured that with some of the recipes, I wouldn't know how difficult they were until I tried making them for myself. Surprisingly enough, I think every complicated recipe I made ended up turning out. The irony is that some of the simplest recipes (like cookies and Jell-O) were complete failures. Now that I have found myself capable of these complex culinary creations, they've lost some of their mysticism. I always thought, "Oh, that's such a difficult recipe, I could never make something like that." And then I did. Of course, one wonders if the difficult recipes are worth it, but when you take the first bite and your only reaction is to sigh in ecstasy, you know it was all worth it.
Of the 52 things that I made this year (well . . . 53, but those chocolate chip cookies were after I made the final recipe), I found that they fell into two distinct categories: main dishes and desserts. There were a few that didn't fit in those categories, but they were in the minority. I think the reason for this dichotomy of recipes was due to the fact that I usually had small groups of people eating the finished product. If I was cooking for a bigger crowd, or making more elaborate, multi-course meals, I probably would have delved into the side dishes and vegetables, but as it was, I stuck to the important stuff. I also found that I ended up making more recipes from the family cookbook, than from the America's Test Kitchen cookbook. I figured that if I had eaten it before, I knew how it should turn out, and thus would be able to tell if I succeeded or failed with a recipe. And yet, the America's Test Kitchen cookbook was useful to learn some of the tricks and techniques to make recipes better.
Probably my proudest moments of the year, with the exceptions of successfully pulling off recipes like New York Cheesecake, Harvest Pie, and Chicken Cordon Bleu, was the fact that I started making my own recipes. Well, more accurately, my own variations on recipes. About 2/3 of my way through the goal, I realized something. Some of the recipes I made ended up being very similar to each other. These ended up contributing to the two "fusion recipes" which were recipes that I had combined from two similar recipes. The greatest success of the fusion recipes was my Baked Italian. It took the greatest attributes of both recipes and fused them together in one ultimate dish. Now, Pork Chops and Texas Potatoes still needs a little work, but I think that I have a good baseline to develop from.
OK, now it's time for the mushy, gooey part. No, not the undercooked chocolate cake. With as much time as I spent in the kitchen this year, and the chances I had to create social gatherings, as well as participate in them with my food, I began to do some thinking. What makes a meal "home cooked"? Is it merely a meal that isn't store-bought? Is it a meal that could be classified as "comfort food"? Is it a warm meal? I felt that none of those questions gave a good sense of what "home cooked" really meant. I think this is one of those transitions that silently take place as we grow older.
When you're growing up, you've always got mom's cooking, and it's that cooking that you would classify as "home cooking". And yet, when does your own cooking become "home cooking"? Does it reach that stage when you're married? When you have kids of your own? When they deem your cooking as "home cooking?" After much thought on the subject, I think I may have arrived at an answer: "home cooking" is food that is lovingly prepared that you share with those whom you love. With the rushed society that we live in today, wouldn't an occasional home cooked meal help relieve the stress of our lives? How often do we go about the process of living, without letting those who we really care about know how we feel about them? The dinner may be burnt, or the dessert a sloppy mess, but with love, the true meaning of the meal gets across.
All right, that's enough philosophizing for now. Below is a list of the recipes that I made this year. After the name of each recipe, there are two markings. Within the brackets [], is which cookbook I made the recipe from: W = The Weilert Family Cookbook, 2nd Edition / A = The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook / F= Fusion recipe / X = No cookbook was used. In parentheses () is the type of the recipe that I cooked: M = Main Dish / D = Dessert / B= Breakfast / O = Other (these are the side dishes, and other recipes I couldn't easily categorize).
1. Quick Tomato Sauce [A] (M)
2. Bavarian Potato Chowder [W] (M)
3. Zucchini Garden Chowder [W] (M)
4. Creamy Stovetop Mac 'n' Cheese [A] (M)
5. Cheese Omelet [A] (B)
6. Italian Sausage Soup [W] (M)
7. Chicken Pizzaiola [A] (M)
8. Banana Bread [A] (O)
9. Scrambled Eggs [A] (B)
10. Chocolate Dream Dessert [W] (D)
11. Sugar Cookies [A] (D)
12. Casserole Italian [W] (M)
13. New York Cheesecake [A] (D)
14. Crispy Chicken Parmesan [A] (M)
15. Bavarian Apple Torte [W] (D)
16. Pork Chops & Potatoes [W] (M)
17. Kuchen [W] (B)
18. Chicken Enchiladas [W] (M)
19. Potluck Pan Rolls [W] (O)
20. Lasagna Casserole [W] (M)
21. Texas Potatoes [W] (O)
22. Hungarian Goulash [W] (M)
23. Emergency Chocolate Cake [A] (D)
24. Lemonade Drop Cookies [W] (D)
25. Fiesta Casserole [A] (M)
26. Fried Eggs [A] (B)
27. Baked Ziti with Tomatoes and Mozzarella [A] (M)
28. Cherry Cheese Packet [W] (B)
29. Deviled Steak Cubes [X] (M)
30. Country Apple Cranberry Dessert [W] (D)
31. Chocolate Sheet Cake [W] (D)
32. Strawberry and Cream Squares [W] (D)
33. Baked Italian [F] (M)
34. Baked Macaroni and Cheese [A] (M)
35. French Toast Casserole [W] (B)
36. Lemon Bars [W] (D)
37. Beef Tortilla Casserole [A] (M)
38. Chicken and Rice Casserole [X] (M)
39. Monkey Brains [W] (D)
40. All American Meatloaf [A] (M)
41. One Dish Breakfast [W] (B)
42. Pork Chops & Texas Potatoes [F] (M)
43. Rhubarb Cobbler [W] (D)
44. Chili [X] (M)
45. Tenderloin Parmigana [W] (M)
46. Easy Day Casserole [X] (M)
47. Taco Soup [X] (M)
48. Cranberry Cake [W] (D)
49. Harvest Pie [W] (D)
50. "Great Pumpkin" Cookies [W] (D)
51. Cinnamon Apple Salad [W] (O)
52. Chicken Cordon Bleu [A] (M)
So, after a year's worth of cooking, I've met my goal. A reasonable goal with a reasonable challenge. I've learned a lot, not only about cooking and baking, but about myself as well. I've found a few recipes that I've already come to love and have made multiple times (Fiesta Casserole, Taco Soup, Easy Day Casserole, etc.). There's nothing more to say at this point but, Bon Apetit!


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It's free to pre-order S8 and Samsung encourages you to pre-register with minimum details. Thus, a lot of people who pre-register aren't really going to buy one.
Savor, 13 Apr 2017And the Chinese.. And everyone outside North America will get Exynos with better optimization ... moreThe problem about the edge screen is SO over-rated. I bet you never use one on a daily basis.
I never had trouble typing, playing games, or holding the phone on my GS6E. There's no usability troubles when using an edge screen. I just use it as normally as I would use any flat screen device. And bonus: It's far more sexy looking. We who uses the edge screen never sacrifice usability for the sake of aesthetics, as it was never a problem in the first place. As far as I can tell, the GS8 curve screen is even better. The only downside of my GS6E is the quiet speaker. I mean seriously, that mono speaker is super quiet. I have to cup my hand while listening to music.
AnonD-660969, 13 Apr 2017And I see haters, haters everywhere
"Wow, it's a Samsung article. I must hate it and destro... moreThe "amazing" features include a screen that is used only had the time, a screen that actually manages to be smaller than much smaller screen on 16:9 content despite how huge it makes the device to be. A screen that is 25% more power hungry (as per the displaymate review), that sucks at VR (despite Samsung pushing it) due to the pentile arrangement.
Or should I love the battery? That remained the same despite the most power hungry component of the phone (by far; screen is 70% of total power consumptuon) got 25% more power hungry. I as soo happy that bettery life git downgraded. I love it when they ask for more yet give less.
And what about the RAM situation and the lag situation. Oooh zI loved how ram hungry the Samsung UI was on S7 Edge, so I asked myself what do we need to the neXT gen? Let us not attempt to fix the issue by paying $20 more and add 6GB instead of 4GB. Let's put that mid range stuff, people are happy when mistreated.
Last but not least, toe SoC. As the name suggests (8895 from 8890) the performance gain is imperceptible. Just how our users want it lest they be confused if we're to ake the mistake like we did between S6 and S7 where we added 40-50% more raw performance. No this time we keep it at a cool 10% ... in good days. People love when they pretty much keep the same performance.
I mean what's not to love about this phone?
It has Bluetooth 5 (!!!), Bixby !!!! , face recognition that a photo can fool . I mean we all need gimmicks , not things like *actually* bigger screen, more battery and visibly better perofrmance that survives in the long run.
It's an excellent phone. Let's conveniently forget that S7 edge probably has better battery bigger screen (since all is usable), useful fingertip sensor and can be found for half the price. I mean 8 > 7 ... clearly it's the better phone.
I'm exciteeeeed! I can barely contain myself.
B for Bed Laffin, 13 Apr 2017Dude! Seriously what's your beef against S8? Did some one you know died from the Note 7 explo... moreYeah, when they start to make good and unique phones again. Not just bigger screens and smaller batteries that blows.
Anonymous, 13 Apr 2017Lucky Koreans having the 6 GB RAM option.And the Chinese.. And everyone outside North America will get Exynos with better optimization while Samsung dumps the Snapdragon on Americans with a big middle finger.
I don't care about these "sales." I didn't care for the S4 and iPhone 6. Both sold record numbers for their product line. Typing on a bezel-less or curved display is still a joke. Will never give in into this annoying trend. Will never sacrifice usability for the sake of aesthetics.
Speaking of aesthetics, glass rears after being smudged feels slimey or sticky. Such an overrated design. The Samsung flagships since 2015 just aren't catered for practical users. I like my matte plastic finish or aluminum rear. Only need to clean it once a week or two. Not everyday.
Enjoy typing on my trusty LG G5. Even playing games like classic Sonic 1 and 2 is enjoyable on it thanks to being flat. No curved display to bother me. These edge phones are catered to delusional hipsters and poseurs who will sacrifice ergonomics for aesthetics.
Can't wait for this hipsters' trend to finally go away like pogs did. Glass rears, bezel-less, and curved display all equal useless.
S4, 13 Apr 2017I was laughing when watching korea drama....for 1 hour drama,all the actors using S8 for about... moreIt should imply Koreans' love and support for their home country and for their giant exporters especially one of the industry's tycoon and conglomerate, Samsung
[deleted post]Dude! Seriously what's your beef against S8?
Did some one you know died from the Note 7 explosion / something?
I don't like the S8 but can you like stop the Blow up jokes?
Anonymous, 13 Apr 2017I see fanboys, fanboys everywhere.
'Cause it's very useful to only use the center part of t... moreAnd I see haters, haters everywhere
"Wow, it's a Samsung article. I must hate it and destroy the comment section with my hate rant."
"Wow, someone is praising Samsung. They MUST be a fanboy"
"Wow. someone is liking the GS8, they must be paid by Samsung"
"Wow. I must tell everyone that thing that I hate on the GS8 while completely ignore all the amazing features and stuff on the GS8."
I was laughing when watching korea drama....for 1 hour drama,all the actors using S8 for about 5 mins , heavily advertising on S8...
I see fanboys, fanboys everywhere.
'Cause it's very useful to only use the center part of the screen (the rest is black bars in either movies or games)... and have your phone look like a remote control (very beautiful too!)
S8 will sell a lot without much competition until the next iphones arrive Sep/Oct, that's when Note 8 will join the fight.
If they keep this up ! Sammy would reach at about 4+ millions units by the end of the month
IF they are no sudden fiasco that would spark the S8 ( Not joking )
[deleted post]hahahaha.. lol
Zenodroid, 13 Apr 2017I had a life with s7 and earlier models. But they started to blow up ppl bc they don't know ho... moreMy j7 2016 and my s7 edge has no problem at all. :)
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On Nov. 2, by coincidence the liturgical day on which Catholics remember the dead, The Washington Post, following a practice begun in 2003, printed full- page the "Faces of the Fallen," 45 portraits of the American soldiers and Marines who died in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan between February and April. Their ages range from 19 to 48; more than half were in their 20s. Eleven were killed by makeshift bombs and three by suicide bombers.
The journalistic tradition begun by Life magazine during the Vietnam War and now shared by The New York Times and public television, of asking the public to look the combat dead in the face, is a fleeting wake-up call. Not just nameless foreigners but our next-door neighbors are dying for a cause few understand and fewer feel one way or another. Now come two books full of frontline blood, battles and the human costs of combat.
Ben Anderson, a British documentary maker and war correspondent, spent 13 months in Afghanistan over the course of five years, six with the British army, the rest in two-month stints with three battalions of U.S. marines. His thirst for combat seems unquenchable, perhaps because he knows that the best war journalism comes from those who experience the shock of battle and live to tell about it. The best are also moralists. They seldom preach, but they know moral ambiguity—or sin—when they see it and tell the world.
On the day Anderson arrived in Helmand Province, the British dropped a 500-pound bomb on a building from which Taliban were firing. The bomb killed 30 fighters and 25 civilians, including nine women and three children who had been hiding in a small room. A few days later he attended a meeting of the local elders who raged against the bombings. One man, almost in tears, had lost four brothers; another lost 20 family members. An officer delivered a box of cash, $2,000 in compensation for each family member lost. One Afghan told Anderson that a jet bombed his house and killed eight "martyrs." When the children helping him dig in the debris got frightened and tried to run away, the plane shot them one by one.
The deaths of civilians is a steady theme in Anderson's book, along with the fearsome improvised explosive devices; the incompetence of the Afghan soldiers, who often resemble a heavily armed, badly dressed version of the Keystone Kops—on drugs. Many were exceptionally brave, but the desertion rate was 20 percent, sometimes rising to 60 percent for those deployed in Helmand.
Anderson records the voices of the U.S. troops: "I love this stuff, this is what I re-enlisted for. Four deployments now. You can't keep me down." Another: "Our families don't know what's going on.... America's not at war, America's at the mall. No one cares. It's 'what's up with Paris Hilton now?'"
Anderson focuses on kindly, idealistic First Lt. Aaron MacLean. His men have just fired rockets into a house sheltering three families, killing four and wounding seven. Shaken, the lieutenant has read widely about the war and feels obliged to save the Afghans from "these theocratic fascists." "War is a curse," he says, but "it's not the worse thing out there."
Yes, says Anderson, his experience has provided evidence for pacifism; but he remains convinced that some things are black and white, and that the Taliban "are just evil." The final chapters recount the battle for Sangin, once occupied by the British, now by the Taliban, a battle won at great human cost with the destruction of homes and a mosque. Anderson asks the commander, Capt. Matthew Peterson, what he would say to those who refer to Afghanistan as America's longest war. Peterson replies, "So what?" If it takes another 10, if that's the cost of success, then "Who cares how long it takes?"
If No Worse Enemy reads like a reporter's notebook, Dakota Meyer's Into the Fire is structured as a memoir, as told to Bing West, assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration and author of military best sellers. Meyer, a 21-year-old farm boy—whose mother had handed him over to a former husband, who became his foster parent—joined the Marines because he liked to shoot and fight and also, at 17, did not know what to do with his life. Playing high school football he had picked up three concussions and was "bored with academics."
Meyer bought quickly into the Marine Corps concept of four-man teamship. In sniper school he learned that another human being is like a math problem, a life or death contest where your target is scheming to kill you. His motto, tattooed on his chest read, Vestri nex est meus vita, or "Your death is my life." A staph infection from a spider bite crippled his fingers and resulted in six months of therapy and a daily reliance on a bottle-and-a-half of Kentucky bourbon.
His sergeant helped him shape up, knock off the bourbon and volunteer for Afghanistan as an advisor. He learned the official counterinsurgency strategy: give Afghans security and project money and build relationships with local officials. But both American and Afghan soldiers warned them: Never assume the villagers are on your side. They have a saying: You can rent an Afghan but you can never buy one. Meyer was friendly with the Afghan children, hoping that maybe someday kids would remember that some Americans were kind to them—though "you don't help out because you expect something in return." He hung out with the "Askars" (Afghan soldiers) and, with the help of Hafez, his team's interpreter, they talked for hours about his Kentucky farm.
The book's momentum builds toward the battle for Ganjgal, a terraced mountain village above a river bed a few miles away that was an infiltration corridor from next-door Pakistan. Meyer, who desperately wanted to qualify for a Combat Action Ribbon, was furious because the other three members of his team—Lt. Johnson, Gunnery Sgt. Kenefick and Hospitalman James "Doc" Layton—and the combined expedition of Americans ostensibly led by Afghans were going in without him. Meyer was an assigned "advisor" and considered too headstrong to be trusted in combat. Nevertheless Meyer and a colleague determined that if the planned attack went awry, they would rush to the rescue.
In fact the enemy is waiting, the mission surrounded on three sides. By 5:30 a.m. machine gun fire is pouring in. They call for artillery and air support, which is denied lest civilians be hurt. The villagers support the Taliban. At 6:00 a.m. Meyer, though denied permission, loads a truck with a machine gun and other weapons and drives into the fight. He collects the dead, rescues many wounded, one with his legs blown off, and drives them to safety. He kills as many Taliban as he can, then returns several times in a fruitless search for his team buddies, who are trapped in a house. In the end he finds his beloved friends, their corpses piled one upon the other. "I never believed it would end like this," he writes. He personally puts them into their bags. It is what they would have done for him.
Months later, discharged, Meyer undergoes therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder and returns to the bourbon and a construction job. In despair because he "screwed up big time" by failing to rescue his brothers, he takes his Glock out of his car's glove compartment and presses it to his head. But someone has removed the bullets.
In August the phone rings. It is President Barack Obama inviting him to the White House to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor. In an epilogue, Bing West concludes that this is a story about "grit," the "invincibility of the American warrior." He is wrong. It is about much more than that.


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i guess got lucky with my first born. she is calm. she stays by my side. she listens. she is respectful. she makes friends easily and she rarely throws fits.
i feel like i have her pretty well figured out.
this afternoon, we were playing and talking. she was cutting hearts out of paper that i had folded and drawn the lines on for her. she made a daddy, mommy, and sissy hearts. all with sweet little happy faces. meanwhile, i was wasting time on facebook and i didn't even notice it.
but then, i went to get a drink. i passed the bathroom and there it was...
just like little white feathers. all across the bathroom floor and in front of the living room mirror.
i called for her. expecting the worst. expecting this:
and what?
she looked normal.
just a few more layers around the front. shaping her square little face. i guess my trim the other night wasn't exactly what she wanted and i guess she didn't quite get the whole only-mommy-cuts-your-hair-talk we had.
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Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
Volume 2007, Article ID 79169, 6 pages
Time-Resolved Analysis of a Highly Sensitive Förster Resonance Energy Transfer Immunoassay Using Terbium Complexes as Donors and Quantum Dots as Acceptors
1Physikalische Chemie, Institut für Chemie und Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Photonik, Universität Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 24-25, Potsdam-Golm 14476, Germany
2Laboratoire de Chimie Moléculaire, Ecole Européenne de Chimie, Polymères, Matériaux (ECPM), UMR 7509 CNRS, 25 rue Becquerel, 67087 Strasbourg Cedex, France
Received 2 April 2007; Accepted 16 July 2007
Academic Editor: Marek Osinski
Copyright © 2007 Niko Hildebrandt et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
CdSe/ZnS core/shell quantum dots (QDs) are used as efficient Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) acceptors in a time-resolved immunoassays with Tb complexes as donors providing a long-lived luminescence decay. A detailed decay time analysis of the FRET process is presented. QD FRET sensitization is evidenced by a more than 1000-fold increase of the QD luminescence decay time reaching ca. 0.5 milliseconds, the same value to which the Tb donor decay time is quenched due to FRET to the QD acceptors. The FRET system has an extremely large Förster radius of approx. 100 Å and more than 70% FRET efficiency with a mean donor-acceptor distance of ca. 84 Å, confirming the applied biotin-streptavidin binding system. Time-resolved measurement allows for suppression of short-lived emission due to background fluorescence and directly excited QDs. By this means a detection limit of 18 attomol QDs within the immunoassay is accomplished, an improvement of more than two orders of magnitude compared to commercial systems.


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AUCKLAND, 04 NOVEMBER 2015 (OFC) --- Thousands of fans gathered around the streets of Ba, Fiji on Saturday as the Ba Football Club celebrated their 80th year of existence, along with their 2015 Inter District Championship victory.
The Ba Town Council and Chamber of Commerce jointly organised the celebration, which included a street parade, speeches by special guests and the launch of a Ba Football Association book celebrating their history.
Organising committee chairperson Anil Amin says the IDC success – which saw Ba beat Nadi 2-0 in the final in October – capped off a big year for football in the district.
"This victory adds flavour to the 80th anniversary celebrations for Ba Football Club," Amin says.
"On top of that we had the Ba U-12 team win the Inter Primary Championship and Xavier College win the zonal event, so the district has achieved a lot of success this year."
Meanwhile Ba Football Association secretary Iliyaz Khan also took time to pay tribute to the players and team officials responsible for winning Ba's 24th IDC title.
"I would like to thank my president, board members, my players and officials for working tirelessly towards the IDC," Khan says.
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I have been absent.
Many things are happening behind the scenes here.
A couple of paintings are nearly finished,
and for those of you who follow on face book will already know,
I have got myself a very little (emphasise on the little) studio.
I will be picking up my paint brush down at Wimbledon Art Studios
as of next month.
Which leaves a quandary.
They have open studios twice a year, (May and November)
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The Burdekin Queensland Week Family Fun and Fitness Expo on Sunday will turn the normally peaceful Anzac Park in Ayr into a centre of activity.
Burdekin Shire Council Economic and Community Development Manager Tony Vaccaro said there would be more than 30 different health, fitness and wellbeing stalls for people to visit at the Expo.
"The Ayr State School markets also have moved to Anzac Park on Sunday and the Burdekin Cruisers Car Club will have a display which will really add to the family atmosphere of the day," he said.
"There will be lots of free entertainment for children including face-painting, a merry-go-round, jumping castle, rockwall climbing and zorb balls.
"We also have a full come-and-try program running for the duration of the event where people will have access to 17 different activities like family games, kindergym, boxing, tae-kwon-do and fitness classes.
"The Townsville Crocs will be there and hosting a free-throw competition and Captain Active will be on hand to show families how much fun they can have being active."
Mr Vaccaro said many of the sport, recreational and fitness stallholders were offering event-exclusive specials, deals and competitions.
"This would be a great opportunity to try something new and also save some money," he said. "If you are looking to ease into a fitness program you can nominate to join the 2014 10,000 Steps Community Challenge or even if you are thinking of starting a new fitness regime why not have a free mini health check which includes blood pressure and BMI testing."
The Burdekin Queensland Week Family Fun and Fitness Expo will run from 9am until 1pm at Anzac Park, Ayr, on Sunday June 1. The Queensland Government provided $5500 to the Burdekin Shire Council for the Queensland Week activities.


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Metal-Based Drugs
Volume 8, Issue 6, Pages 307-313
Silacyclic Derivatives of Heteroaromatic Sulfides as Selective Cholesterol Level Lowering and Vasodilating Agents
Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, 21 Aizkraukles street, Riga LV-1006, Latvia
Received 9 January 2002; Accepted 15 January 2002
Copyright © 2002 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Silacyclic derivatives of heteroaromatic sulfides have been prepared by using phase transfer catalytic (PTC) system thiol / silacyclopropyl iodide / solid / 18-crown-6 / toluene. The target sulfides were isolated in yields up to 70 %. The S-derivatives of N-methylimidazolyl, benzoxazolyl and 1,3,4-triazolyl thiols selectively lowered the low density lipoprotein (LDL) level in mice with the high cholesterol diet in nutrition.


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Denver's approval of a ballot measure to legalize adult possession of small amounts of marijuana isn't really going to decriminalize the drug in our city, but it sends a simple message to federal and state authorities: it wouldn't be reefer to madness to finally debate and resolve the issue.
In the meantime, local police will enforce state laws against possession of marijuana.
One of the seeming ironies of Election Day was that while buttoned-down Denver was approving the marijuana measure, voters in laid back Telluride narrowly defeated a proposal to make marijuana possession the town marshal's lowest law-enforcement priority.
The Post urged a "no" vote on Denver's Initiative 100 because we worry marijuana can be an entry level to harder drugs, and anyway, until federal and state marijuana laws are amended, local legalization is futile. And we were put off by the proponents' misleading campaign pitch – marijuana as a way to reduce domestic violence.
The Post supports ending the 70-year-old federal ban on marijuana and instead strictly regulating and taxing its sale. We think scarce public resources could be put to better use fighting violent crime or treating substance abuse. But that can't happen unless federal laws are relaxed to allow states to regulate marijuana as they see fit.
Seattle, Oakland and a few college towns already have passed laws making marijuana possession the lowest law-enforcement priority. Oakland citizens also voted to require the city to develop a plan to license and tax the sale, use and cultivation of marijuana.
The war on drugs has been as dismal a failure as Prohibition, which banned alcohol from 1920 to 1933 but didn't keep Americans from drinking and only increased disrespect for the law. That's not to say we don't have some concerns about the effects of marijuana use. We wouldn't want someone who had just lit up to get behind the wheel of a vehicle any more than somebody who's had too much to drink.
Initiative aside, lighting up on a Denver street corner could be costly: Colorado state law makes possession of an ounce or less a Class 2 petty offense, punishable by a fine of up to $100.
Mason Tvert, executive director of initiative proponents Safer Alternatives for Enjoyable Recreation, says the group will work for a statewide marijuana initiative. Alas, as long as federal law bans marijuana, that, too, would be just another telegram to Washington. The message in all this is that it is time for American society to tackle this issue and change the laws at the federal and state levels to better reflect police priorities and contemporary reality.


text: Searching for inspiration on 'Calm'; the majority of images were actually of sea's and relaxing beaches (perhaps my boat idea wasn't that original and creative as I first thought). But I then wanted to see what other people may have done in terms of calm/relaxed/chilled texts. After looking for "Calm Text" I saw a lot of the "Keep Calm and Drink Tea" Posters. They began to annoy me actually as there were so many of them and no examples of "Calm Text". This actually inspired this humorous and ironic poster. It actually does the complete opposite of the word Calm but in a funny way:


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I must admit that I have shopped once at Lush Cosmetics with my young daughters while at the local mall. The workers spent their time behind the counter watching little girls running around sticking their hands in all of the grimy looking samples placed at various stations around the store. My kids kept insisting I stick my hands in every sample jar and try their products. Frankly, the products looked very unappealing and dirty, and had it not been for my teenage daughters dragging me into their store, I would never have gone into it in the first place. When these companies inject their radical, anti-national security political views into my shopping experience, it gives me the perfect excuse to never shop there again. It also gives me the perfect excuse to tell my friends and neighbors to never shop there. Either you're for the protection of our nation, or you're not. Lush appears to NOT be with us, and that's the great thing about America…we can also choose to NOT shop in their stores. America first…catch the wave.
Cosmetics brand Lush, popular among young girls and hipsters for their "bath bombs," is launching a new anti-President Trump hair care product.
According to Cosmopolitan, Lush announced plans to release a hair treatment called "Yuge," a play on the way Trump pronounces the word "huge," alongside an "orange faced, tiny-handed man" at their 2017 Lush Summit.
The "Yuge" product is reportedly a hot oil treatment that will "add volume and softness to your hair." Cosmopolitan notes the product is not currently available as it is being tested on humans in the U.K. (Lush opposes animal testing).
Lush's homepage features a page opposing Trump's policies titled: "All Are Welcome. Always". The title of their article is somewhat ironic given that they are basically telling who they support while creating a product that bashes President Trump and the MAJORITY of Americans who agree with his stance on immigration.
Trending: GOP SENATORS Propose Bills To STOP PAY For Members Of Congress…Force Congress To STAY IN D.C. Until Government Shutdown Ends
Here is an excerpt from the article that appears on Lush's homepage:
The United States is in the midst of a trying political and social time that is being felt throughout North America and the world. Intolerance, hostility, racism and fear have been pushed to the forefront and emotions are running high. Because of this divisiveness, it's now more important than ever to stand up for inclusivity, compassion and respect for all people.
Lush has always been, and will always be, a safe space for everyone—regardless of immigration status, gender, race, age, sexual orientation, religion or political affiliation. We love and encourage individuality, and our employees and customers are as diverse as the products we create. That's what makes the Lush community so special.
Lush's "Welcome Refugees" statement encourages people to share the hashtags #refugeeswelcome and #nobannowall and to visit the website for the International Rescue Committee to "take action."
Lush's political stances haven't always been explicit through statements on their website. This Valentine's Day, Lush featured photos of same-sex couples in baths throughout their website.


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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: AGO, gen y, geny, microactions, microcredit, microfinance
I attended Toronto's first Ignite event on Tuesday, and had to chance to connect with other individuals who are also very interested in the microphilanthropy / microfinance space—including Renjie Butalid of SiG Waterloo, Karim Harji of Social Capital Partners and founder of Social Finance, Ramy Nassar of Engineers Without Borders, and entrepreneur and socially-minded dude Joseph Fung. Of several great conversations we had, I particularly enjoyed one about the effectiveness of microactions, a topic that's always interesting because it can be fairly controversial.
I obviously personally believe that microactions do make a difference (otherwise Charity CHAMPS wouldn't be here) and in general most of the people I know agree with me (although there's bias there since I have a tendency to talk to microphilanthropy organizations). Usually the discussions I see and read about are on microcredit and the question of whether it has any long term positive effects (the latest article I read from The Economist quoted studies finding no short term poverty reduction results, but microcredit does positively impact the lives of entrepreneurs).
On Wednesday, however, an interesting line of discussion emerged postulating that the younger generations do less good than the older generations—and microactions might just encourage this behaviour by giving a deceiving sense of how much good is being done.
This idea gave me a lot to think about, as I had not heard it before. Some of the assertions made to support this argument were that:
- Baby boomers grew up with a tradition of doing good—for example giving 10% of one's income to charity, no questions asked. The younger generation doesn't have this tradition.
- The activist culture of the 60's and 70's was far stronger than anything today
- The sizable donations the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) depends upon are becoming scarcer and scarcer.
- Younger generations are less religious than older generations, and give less through religious institutions.
There were, of course, some solid arguments against the proposition, too—some of which follow. But first a quick digression.
Microphilanthropy Predates Colour TV
It would be easy to think that microphilanthropy is a modern phenomena given all the excitement about it these days, but in fact it is not at all. In 1938—fittingly just a short while after the passing of ultra-wealthy philanthropist John D. Rockefeller—microphilanthropy was born in relative anonymity.
A relatively unknown man by the name of Ron Gilreath started an organization whose mission was to fight polio, the most dreaded illness of the 20th century. His effort began with a newspaper appeal asking everyone in the nation to contribute 10 cents to fight polio. Over the next 17 years, this initiative became hugely successful, and contributed to the research funds of Jonas Salk, the creator of the first successful polio vaccine. This organization came to be known as the March of Dimes, emphasizing the national and public nature of the effort, and contrasting it from the private foundations of wealthy families, such as the Rockefellers.
The March of Dimes was the first notable example of microphilanthropy and it introduced amazing new dynamics to the world of good. Because it let new demographics participate in important efforts, younger, poorer, and less trusting people became included in the force of good. It also had a much more inclusive and sweeping effect on society, as a much greater percentage of the population could be touched by the warming glow of doing good. Just as smiling is contagious, so microphilanthropy sweeps a group of strangers with one small gesture.
Changing Demographics
So back to microactions encouaging a distorted sense of goodness amongst youth. Anecdotally I can see there being some justification for this, although I'd like to see some statistics. However, even if previous generations did have a stronger sense of moral obligation to give, it seems much more likely that without the existence and accessibility of microactions, youth would probably not give at all, rather than "step it up" and go for "the full 10%". Microactions are paving an on-ramp for youth to get back onto the goodness highway, not a side-road to nowhere for meandering in oblivion.
Changing Concerns
Another reason it may seem like people don't give as much now as they used to is that people give to different things than they used to. Giving in the past was more religious and more local. Now that people are more global in their experiences and access to information, it is harder for the local girl guides and art gallery in Toronto to compete with millions of children in Africa with no drinking water, tragedies of Sri Lankan homes lost in a tsunami, or the inhumane slaughter of dolphins in Taiji, Japan. We have to be careful not to assume that just because those who used to be the recipients of goodwill may not be receiving the same support there is less support being given overall.
Paradox of Choice
The local supermarket isn't the only place where there is more choice than ever these days. The rise of sites like Charity Navigator, GuideStar, and even my old project Eye On Development, are a response to the growth in the number of organizations who are trying to bid for your "goodness" dollars or hours. These sites seek to help the bewildered population figure out where exactly they should be investing their precious resources. The younger generation is more accustomed to instant access to expert and peer opinions as provided by RottenTomatoes.com, Edmunds.com, Amazon ratings, and eBay feedback. Much like I can't decide what to order when faced with a long, delicious menu, without such guidance, people can choose to do nothing at all because they can't decide which action is best to take. Along similar lines, there is a greater desire for transparency and metrics in not-for-profit organizations, just as there has been in the for-profit world. Efficiency rates are important enough that many organizations advertise them front and centre on their websites when soliciting donations. Perhaps youth are donating less, but they may be ensuring that what they donate goes farther than their parents.
Time Will Tell
In the end, I think much of this will have to play out over the coming decades. The affect that microphilanthropy and microactions have on this generation of givers may be best evaluated when you can compare them to the baby boomers, namely when they are also in their 50s and 60s. I'm pretty sure that whatever the result it will be better than if microactions were not possible. What do you think?
Filed under: General Charity Musings, Microphilanthropy | Tags: bluebin.org, free stuff, freecycle.org, recycle
As a former eBay employee, my first approach to getting rid of things I don't want is selling. I've sold all sorts of things on on eBay, and for bigger items that are hard or expensive to ship, I've used Kijiji or Craigslist. As great as those sites are however, there have always been 2 things limiting me from using them more: 1) it's very time consuming to make a posting (you need to do price comparisons, upload photos, write detailed descriptions, etc.), and 2) I always think that I can probably do more "good" by giving the items away to charity instead.
Well this month I have come across 2 sites that solve both those problems by being focused solely on the giving and receiving of free stuff for the purposes of doing good – both by diverting from landfills and by helping people in the local community who can use certain items.
- Freecycle.org – this organization has grown tremendously since its inception in 2003 and now has over 7M users worldwide. The interesting thing about FreeCycle is that it's nothing super high-tech. It uses Yahoo Groups to bring together people in local communities, and "postings" are essentially emails to the group list. You can post both wanted and offer ads easily, with many ads being only one line long, so it's really easy to list. What I like most about it is that by browsing the wanted ads I can basically offer things to people who are in need.
- Bluebin.org – this site was just launched this month, and while they don't have the huge user base that Freecycle has just yet, it shows great promise. The site is more "web 2.0", with a very easy and intuitive to use interface that does allow photos that you can't do with FreeCycle, and a Twitter account for you to follow. Since they are new, they are looking for feedback for improvements and new features, so this would be a great way for you to get involved with a new microphilanthropy site.
And of course, if you're actually looking for stuff, this is a great way to find things for free. A quick browse of FreeCycle right now gives you things from kid's playhouses to shirts, fans, and even top soil! Try it out!
Filed under: General Charity Musings, Microphilanthropy | Tags: 12for12k, charity water, tipjoy, tweet-a-thon, tweetmyride, twestival, twitter fundrasing, twollars
Fundraising with Twitter has been getting a lot of press recently, with a lot of articles citing some novel ideas as well as success stories. For example:
- Twitter's Twestival raised over $250k for charity just this past February
- 12for12k ran a Tweet-a-thon on March 19, and raised over $15k for Share our Strength by offering donors chances to win some great prizes for every $12 donated
- The Vancouver based Tweetmyride Charity Foundation is looking to raise $1M through their Twitter campaign, which encourages users to donate to 10 charities and then Tweet about the donations
- The Salvation Army recently launched the Kettle campaign to raise $10k
I had mentioned before that Tipjoy is a great tool to use if you're looking to run your own campaign on Twitter. But if you're looking for something slightly more fun, try out Twollars. Twollars is Twitter's "currency of appreciation" – everybody on Twitter automatically starts off with 50 Twollars to give away. To see your balance, just go to http://twollars.com/your_twitter_username. You can give your Twollars to anybody you appreciate by just Tweeting (see Twollars FAQ for examples). If you give your Twollars to Charities who have Twollar accounts, the Twollars can be converted to real dollars by businesses who want to raise their social responsibility profile.
The idea may sound a little too flippant to work for very serious fundraisers, but so far Charity Water has already garnered $1500 from it. There are also no transaction costs involved so Twollars does not take any cut of the fundraised money.
So go get your Twollars and use them wisely!
Filed under: General Charity Musings, Microphilanthropy | Tags: diy fundraising, firstgiving, fundable, fundraising webpage, giveforward, givemeaning, givezooks, how to fundraise, mycause, online fundraising
Since writing the last article on DIY fundraising I've come across a plethora of other sites that help you to do fundraising, whether it's for a specific charity, project, or your next door neighbour who's in need of some help. Generally all the sites let you create a webpage of content, and help you market to potential donors, and of course, take donations. The sites charge differing fees as a percentage of your total donations, so make sure you know what the fees are before you plunge in. Other things to check include: what payment methods the site accepts from donors (PayPal and credit cards are common), what currencies are accepted, and how the site lets you withdraw the donated money.
Here are the sites, in no particular order:
- Fundable – Fundable's differentiating factor is that money is collected only if the goal is reached. So donors don't have to worry that they've given to a project that might not get enough money to be completed, and fundraisers won't be in a situation where they only have 50% of their goal achieved and don't know what to do with the money. While it's free to set up the fundraising page and to receive pledges, Fundable charges a 10% fee if the goal is reached and transactions take place. With Fundable you can fundraise for anything you want.
- Firstgiving – Firstgiving is good if you want to fundraise for 501 (c) non-profits (the non-profits are vetted with GuideStar). They charge a 7.5% fee, and has helped raise $102M for 28k nonprofits.
- GiveForward – GiveForward, like Fundable, lets you fundraise for anything you want, but if you're a non-profit, they'll require identification, and regardless of who you are they'll be vetting your project to make sure you're not fraudulent. From a donor's perspective I can definitely appreciate that, because there are a lot of deserving projects that aren't tied to non-profits, but but there's always the risk of fraud if you're allowing everybody to ask for money. The GiveForward charge is 3%, and as part of their due-diligence, they send out cheques to fundraisers for donated dollars, and uses the time for the cheque to arrive to ensure that the reciepient is legit. Interest earned on fundraised money that has not been issued out as a cheque goes towards non-profit projects posted on GiveForward.org.
- GiveMeaning – GiveMeaning is free! Yes, no transactions charges for creating your page, as GiveMeaning uses donors and advertising dollars to cover all the costs, including the credit card processing costs. There is a caveat, however, and that is that they require to you gain 100 votes from the community for your project (which can be almost anything) before activating the page to receive money. This guarantees that there is at least some support for what you're doing.
- Givezooks! – all the other sites listed above allow you to create a fundraising page, but once that's done, there are limited marketing tools for you to get the word out there about your project. Of course the existing donor community on the site itself will see your page, and you can email out links or do your own marketing. But with Givezooks!, all of that is marketing can be right at your fingertips, if you're a nonprofit organization. Givezooks! is fully integrated with the main social networking sites, has email marketing wired in, and even lets you create custom thank yous and gives you an analytics dashboard. With all this functionality there is a price, and while I couldn't find the costs on the main site, there are sample costs posted here; it's essentially a flat fee from $99 – $399 a month, depending on your organization's size. Because it is a flat fee, the more you raise, the more economical it becomes.
- MyCause – MyCause allows you to fundraise for any registered charity, sporting, community, religious, political or social group, and charges 6.5% plus bank fees. Since MyCause is based in Australia, all donations are made in AUD. This month (August 2009) they are raising money for 247 different charities based on the projects that users have created.
If you've tried out any of the above sites and have positive or negative experiences to share, I'd love to hear them!
And if you have a few spare dollars, check out these sites – there are some amazing projects that can use your spare change.


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Meri Awaaz is one of the new shows which has created its name in a very short period of time as compared to the other long running soaps on the same channel.
Normally every new soap faces difficulties in enticing viewers initially. But here the credit goes to the creative heads of Meri Awaaz who have poured all their energies in making the show an instant hit.
The story has enough twists and turns. Like noone thought that Raj will launch Ria instead of Sudha his lady love. Ashima Bhalla has no doubt portrayed her character beautifully along with Karan Grover, the earlier lead in Saarthi.
I really like Karan as Raj who has displayed his acting abilities and people really like his passionate, loving yet jumpy character in the show. A soapy and frothy combination of sentiments that sometimes it becomes difficult to distinguish between feelings as they are so interconnected like love and selfishness as in the case of Ria (Saumya tandon).
Meri Awaaz doesn't have hundreds of characters in it but the producers have proven that even with a small starcast one can make things happen.
I wish all the best to the show and hope that in the coming weeks there will be many more exciting twists and turns which will entertain the fans.
By Zeenish Khan


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Following the Voice of Your Conscience and The Importance of Courage
(This was a personal reflection which I wrote in 1994 in preparing a talk for my P&G associates)
There will be several turning points in all our lives – and in fact we may have to reach this most important turning point many times. It is the point at which we make the decision: "I will live by my conscience from this time forward to the best of my ability. I will not allow any voice, social mirror, scripting, even my own rationalizing to speak more clearly to me than the voice of conscience and, whatever the consequence, I will follow it."
As Emerson said: "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles."
Of all the principles that guide us, the two most essential to peace of mind are contribution – making a valuable difference – and conscience – being trustworthy – to oneself and to others.
We know that our Company will only be as strong as the intelligence, judgment and character of our employees.
Our people … our values … our principles … they are the one competitive advantage that cannot be duplicated. Technology can be copied, capital can be bought, and strategies can be gleaned from what we do and from what others write. But values … principles … these cannot be copied and picked up. They flow from the heritage and character of the people who have been with and are with the Company today … the way we work together and the expectations we have of one another.
It is most difficult and often most important for you to hold your ground when you are most alone. Only conviction, strength of character and courage will let you do this. But there will be times in your life when it will be all important. Times when we must hold to our own convictions, not being swayed by others, even those of great repute.
It is useful to remind ourselves how often people of high reputation can get things wrong. Opinions about Stalin written in the years 1929-34, when he was in the process of liquidating ten million Russians as part of the collectivization of agriculture and farms, bear out the point. H.G. Wells said he had "never met a man more candid, fair and honest…no one is afraid of him and everybody trusts him." Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury, described him as leading "his people down new and unfamiliar avenues of democracy."
The American Ambassador, Josephine Davies, reported him as having "insisted on the liberalization of the constitution. His brown eyes, exceedingly wise and gentle; a child would like to sit on his lap and a dog would sidle up to him." Emile Ludwig, the famous popular biographer, found him to be a man "to whose care I would readily confide the education of my children."
No matter who says what, no matter how small the group that supports your point of view, never fail to follow the voice of your conscience.JEP Journal – 1994 – Principles of Life_022012


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Here's a selection of pics from the B and C walks on Thursday, 1 February, a glorious day. Though it was the first day of spring, there was a chill in the air, but everyone wrapped up warm and enjoyed the sunshine.
The first three pictures are from the B walk in the Comeraghs. Thanks to Michael Daly for these. And the second set of three is from the C walk in Ardmore. Thanks to Eibhlin Power for these. It's great to have such dedicated photographers in the club.


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4 in custody in US gas factory attack in France
A French prosecutor says four people are in custody in an investigation into a beheading and an explosion at a U.S.-owned gas factory in southeastern France Friday. Police are still searching buildings for evidence.
Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins said the attacker was known to factory personnel because he came in regularly for deliveries. The attacker entered the factory grounds in a utility truck, then crashed the vehicle into a hangar at the site, prompting an explosion.
Molins says a knife and a decapitated body were found near the crashed truck and the body's head was found hanging on a gate. The head was surrounded by two flags carrying Islamic declarations.
Molins said the attacker, his wife, sister and another suspect are in custody. He said investigators are trying to determine whether there are accomplices.
Terror attacks also happened in Kuwait and Tunisia. The White House released a statement condemning all three attacks. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said in part, "our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of these heinous attacks, their loved ones, and the people of all three countries."
The U.S. Embassy in Paris is warning American citizens to be vigilant. It released a statement urging Americans to report suspicious activities and stay away from any security incidents.
It also noted that French authorities have increased the terrorism alert level in recent months since attacks in January in Paris left 17 victims and three Islamic attackers dead, so there are more troops and police in the streets than in previous years.


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Extra Curricular
Sacred Heart College seeks to provide opportunities to develop the full potential of all our pupils. The activities provide the pupils with the opportunities to:
- Promote confidence and development of friendship
- Develop self esteem and self discipline
- Develop a sense of responsibility
- Develop skills in leadership, team building and communication
Participation in sporting activities is encouraged. These activities require commitment from the boys and girls who remain after school and often from parents who may have to collect them. The activities are character building, educational and fun.
The Extra Curricular activities programme includes;
- Athletics
- Badminton
- Basketball
- Boxercise
- Cross Country Running
- Dance
- Gaelic Football for boys & girls
- Golf
- Hurling
- Netball
- Orienteering
- Volleyball
- Soccer
- Swimming
- Tennis
- Art Club
- Choir
- Drama Club
- Film Club
- ICT Club
- English as an Additional Language
- Library - themed activities
- Public Speaking
- Traditional Group
- Young Enterprise


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I call this meeting to order. Good morning, everyone. We're going to get into it right off the bat.
As we know, we have to finish off routine motions. We have only an hour this morning. We should try to get this wrapped up so we can get upstairs. The briefing documents are available in the committee room, and it gives us a chance to go through them before we actually have the briefing from the Auditor General and the environment commissioner.
Also, the environment commissioner is available to come back to the committee on Tuesday morning, so I'd suggest that we have him for an hour and then maybe do an hour of future business so that we can get our schedule lined up. Is everybody in agreement with that for Tuesday? Good.
When we left on Tuesday we were talking about reduced quorum, and I think we're back to the motion that was adopted by the committee at the 39th Parliament. Can I have somebody move a motion onto the floor to talk about reduced quorum?
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McDonald's has finally yielded to its one beforehand unfulfilled requests, the all-day breakfast. This of course means if anyone does not feel like a McChicken or Big Mac at lunch, they can always call upon the taste powers of sausage McMuffin with egg and sausage burritos. So does it actually bring a boon to consumers? Answer is mostly yes. For late risers, they wouldn't have to bear the disappointment of missing the breakfast train and forced to hop the lunch airways. For others who simply prefer breakfast meals at later times, their hitherto branded as weird fancies, perhaps rightly so, have now finally been catered to. And finally, for those clawing at every chance of a calorie cut, this may well be their sharp edge. Breakfast items on average brim with fewer calories by percentage than lunch menu items and the like and hence offer an all-day McDonald's fat cut scheme.


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A California-based startup called Paradromics recently revealed a project that seeks to develop high-speed "brain-modems," which could restore sight, hearing, speech and movement through the power of data transmission.
The Neural Input-Output Bus (NIOB) comprises a tiny chip laden with 50,000 ultra-thin microwires, each linking to 3-5 individual neurons for reading and stimulating the brain, writes Seeker.
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There are so many games to choose from, so many quarters to be spent. People clearly have their favorites. I'm just curious why….
Skeeball: you, your nine balls and the lane. A game of skill, arguably influenced by lane selection and general ambient distraction. Prizes vary by score and you can trade up.
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TORONTO, ON – Today, Canada Basketball announced the full coach and staff line-up for the Women's High Performance 2015 competitive season. First-class coaches and staff from across the country will lead Canada's National Teams in international competitions on home-soil and around the world this summer.
"Coaching is the backbone of growing the game and developing our elite athletes and we're very fortunate to have such a tremendous group of coaches leading our women's national teams this season," said Denise Dignard, Director of Women's High Performance. "We are privileged to work with top-tier Canadian coaches, technical leadership and support staff, who provide world-class expertise and support to all our women's high performance programming. This year's staffs are from all across Canada and are all so tremendously passionate about representing Canada and committed to developing athletes for our senior program toward podium success."
"With an exciting competitive season, all of our teams are looking forward to showcasing their talents to the world."
In 2015, a total of 14 coaches and 22 technical and support staff will lead the four national squads in five competitions on four continents.
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The Senior Women's National Team will be led by head coach, Lisa Thomaidis (University of Saskatchewan) along with assistant coaches Bev Smith, Shawnee Harle and Steve Baur, and 11 staff covering performance analysis, sports science, sport medicine and team management roles.
Entering her third year as the Senior Women's National Team head coach, Thomaidis and her staff have led Canada to historic performances at the 2013 FIBA Americas by earning a silver medal and at the 2014 FIBA World Championships by finishing 5th – the best finish for the Women's Team in 28 years when Canada won bronze in 1986 worlds.
Along with her success on the international level, Thomaidis has led her University of Saskatchewan team to the 2015 CIS Women's Final 8 as the 4th-ranked team in the country. The senior squad looks forward to a successful summer at the 2015 Pan Am Games (July 16-20) and FIBA Americas Championships for Women (August 9-16) – both on home soil in Toronto and Edmonton, respectively.
Fabian McKenzie (Cape Breton University) has been selected as the head coach for the Development Women's National Team for the fourth consecutive year. Both Michele Belanger (University of Toronto) and Jeff Speedy (University of New Brunswick) will be returning as assistants and Ryan Thorne (McGill University) will be joining a national team staff for his first season. Outside of international play, Ryan Thorne as head coach at McGill University has led the McGill Martlets to the 2015 CIS Women's Final 8 as a 3-seed.
After a successful summer of development and winning the Williams Jones Cup in 2014, the Development National Team looks forward to continuing their excellent work developing senior prospects and to successful performances leading up to and at the 2015 FISU Universiade in Gwangju, South Korea from July 3-12.
Under head coach Rich Chambers (Terry Fox Secondary School), the Junior Women's National Team finished 2nd at the 2014 FIBA Americas U18 Championships in Colorado Springs and have qualified for the FIBA U19 World Championships for the sixth-consecutive time.
Assistant coaches, Scott Edwards (University of Alberta) and Scott Reeves (Thompson Rivers University), have earned success at the CIS levels as Reeves was named 2014-15 Coach of the Year for Canada West and Edwards has led the University of Alberta to the 2015 CIS National Championships as a 5-seed. In his final season as a Junior National Team head coach, Chambers looks forward to guiding this year's young junior prospects and hopes to be victorious at 2015 FIBA U19 World Championships for Women, held in Russia from July 16-26.
The Cadette Women's National Team head coach is Carly Clarke (Ryerson University), accompanied by co-head coach, Jodi Gram (Bill Crothers Secondary School) and assistant coach, Dani Sinclair (University of Victoria) who will be in her first year with a Cadette team and second season with a national team.
In her fifth year as Cadette National Team head coach, Clarke has seen success beyond the international level as her Ryerson Rams have qualified for the CIS Final 8 as the 7th-ranked team nationwide, which is a first in their university program's history.
This past summer, the Cadette Women's National Team finished 6th at the 2014 FIBA U17 World Championships for Women. In 2015, the team will participate in the 2015 FIBA Americas U16 Championships for Women in Mexico from June 23-28.
Other coaches with national team experience and who have led their teams to the 2015 CIS Nationals include Deb Huband (University British Columbia- xxx seed), Linda Marquis (Laval University-host and yyy seed), and Chantal Vallee (Windsor University – 1-seed).
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Given the consumer driven nature of today 's economy , combined with the awesome power that the World Wide Web has to make and destroy businesses in the blink of an eye , there are companies that have entered a new level of business activity by utilizing the power of clever marketing and an online presence . One of most well known is the Government Employees Insurance Company , or GEICO . In this various facets of GEICO 's business will be presented to better [banner_entry_middle]
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In the beginning of the GEICO organization , the company was owned and operated by Leo Goodwin , a gentleman who sought in the early 1930s to provide a level of financial stability for those serving in military service and working for the government . Ultimately , the company grew to serve the general public . For many years , the organization remained privately owned , with a CEO and COO leading the company . In 1996 , while still retaining the usual corporate structure , GEICO became a publicly owned company when it was purchased by Berkshire Hathaway , the multi-billion dollar conglomerate led by investor Warren Buffett (Government Employees Insurance Company , 2006
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While GEICO has retained a traditional distribution system in some respects-retaining local offices of independent agents , the company has also revolutionized the insurance business by allowing customers to purchase coverage via the Internet 24 hours a day , combined with a live customer service telephone line which is also available 24 hours a day What this does for the company is allow it to capture the business of the customer at the exact moment that they desire a purchase . This also gives them less time to change their minds or choose another insurance carrier
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To the average consumer , due to GEICO 's tremendous amount of advertising and online presence , the company is best known as a carrier of automobile insurance , and indeed , has built the core of its business in auto insurance . However , in addition to auto insurance , GEICO offers customers insurance products for their motorcycles , all-terrain vehicles (ATV 's , boats , homes , apartments and mobile homes . Personal umbrella protection and life insurance are also available (Government Employees Insurance Company , 2006
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Taking into account that competitors and critics of GEICO may be stretching the truth in to justify their dislike of the company the underwriting criteria that GEICO employs have come under fire in recent years , mostly due to the accusation that the main underwriting criterion that GEICO uses is the credit rating of their potential customers , which in effect qualifies them for policies not based upon their risk as an insured party , but rather on their financial position and the ability to pay premiums
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The Center for Homo Superior Research and Medical Care was an institution established within North American in order to help and treat Mutants with dangerous conditions. At some point after the Weapon X Program disappeared, Mister Sinister in his guise as Doctor Robert Windsor relocated to the Center where he became the facility's head. There, he masqueraded under the guise of a benevolent Human doctor that sought to treat Mutants whilst actually using them as part of his experiments in breeding the perfect Mutant. At his side was Scalphunter and one of The Children namely the first of their kind who went by the name of Hans. Whilst hidden from the world at large, Megacorp learnt of Essex's new operation and Mr Tomes under the direction of the head of the company, Michael Grand bought the services of Sabretooth to apprehend Mister Sinister.
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At the time, Essex as Windsor was treating Louis Dodson - a young Mutant boy with the power over ice with this ability causing the very air he breathed to freeze. Sensing that the child had the potential of becoming one of the most powerful Mutants on the planet, Doctor Robert Windsor convinced the parents to let the child "die" rather then be forced to live in a containment vessel to keep the air heated which would eventually not be able to work. By forcing the parents to abandon the child, Essex desired the boy to live up to his full potential without the parents intefering in his plans. As such, he ordered Scalphunter to prepare the tent so that they could take Louis Dodson with them. By this point, Creed arrived and was ready to battle Mister Sinister in order to apprehend him for his employers. But Essex simply dispatched Hans to deal with Sabretooth and ordered his creation to take the battle outside so that the conflict would not damage the sensitive medical equipment within the laboratory.
This opportunity allowed Essex along with Scalphunter to escape to one of Mister Sinister's secret strongholds whilst he abandoned his identity as Windsor at the Center.
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What a horrible existence. What a horrible life.
Why would a loving God create worms? I can completely understand the need and function worms perform. They are a necessity. But why this horrific choice between drowning and monstrous hunters?
...but I guess this isn't really an important theological question, is it? After all, they're only worms, right?
I can remember when the Tsunami hit India in 2004.
We never really ever got an accurate body count but they estimated somewhere around 200,000 people were lost. Swept away. Whole and entire islands, simply gone.
...How can a loving God allow these things to happen? Most especially if we believe nothing in this world happens without God's permission or direction.
Please don't think I am making light of these horrific events. But they seem to put the blight of the common everyday worm to shame. But you see, the theological problem with worms is the exact same theological problem we face and question.
I partially believe the problem lies in the fact that we presume God plays favourites towards us humans. Not only that, but we presume God must absolutely be anthropomorphic. "He" is a god of us human beings.
I realize these thoughts and views are difficult. But this is the same God who has created worms as well as humans... the same God who loves us both.
The theological problem of worms is our theological problem.
I believe – at least in part – the answer to these problems lies within out anthropomorphic views (or maybe insistence) of God's nature. Maybe even our belief that God must be personal. Or even a 'person' as we understand the term. (Maybe God is significantly more akin to the idea of what the Tao is?)
To me, I have only come across 3 possible explanations. Atheism, Deism, or Gnosticism. Little else would seem to explain this theological problem of worms.


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Other Names: Healer in Dreams, Serpentlord, Ophidian Physician, Hospitlar, Dreamwalker
Domains: Good, Healing, Rune, Scalykind, Water
Subdomains: Redemption, Restoration, Rivers, Wards, Venom
Favored Weapon: Quarterstaff
There are a great many tales of the Dreamwalker Asklepios visiting the wounded who rest at his temples or burn an offering of his favored incense overnight. He is a tall, thin god with no beard. Dressed in simple, blood-spattered robes of white, he walks with a great staff whose head has a pair of feathered wings sprouting from it. Hooded, little of the gods face above the chin is visible, but the twinkling eyes are sign enough for the faithful. With a knowledge of the body, its growth, decay, diseases, and cures, Asklepios heals the wounded with a touch and grants rest and respite to the wounded. Always with him are an entourage of serpents, his favored creatures. It is said that a serpent of Asklepios has a venom that, rather than harming, heals the wounded when bitten, and each serpent specializes in treating a separate malady.
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