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A global alliance of nearly 30 companies has been formed to advance products and technologies that reduce and eliminate plastic waste in the environment, especially in the ocean.
The Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW) has committed over $1 billion USD with the goal of investing $1.5 billion USD over the next five years to help end plastic waste in the environment. New technologies and products will be developed and brought to scale that will minimize and manage plastic waste. This also includes the promotion products for used plastics by helping to enable a circular economy.
The following companies are the founding members of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste: BASF, Berry Global, Braskem, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, Clariant, Covestro, CP Group, Dow, DSM, ExxonMobil, Formosa Plastics Corporation USA, Henkel, LyondellBasell, Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings, Mitsui Chemicals, Nova Chemicals, OxyChem, PolyOne, Procter & Gamble, Reliance Industries, SABIC, Sasol, Shell, Suez, SCG Chemicals, Sumitomo Chemical, Total, Veolia and Versalis (Eni).
The alliance is a not-for-profit organization that includes companies from across the global plastics and consumer goods value chain: chemical and plastic manufacturers, consumer goods companies, retailers, converters, and waste management companies.
The alliance will work with governments, intergovernmental organizations, academia, non-government organizations and civil society to invest in joint projects to eliminate plastic waste from the environment.
Research by the Ocean Conservancy shows that plastics in the ocean predominantly originate from litter on land. Most of the plastic waste is spread through rivers and can be traced back to 10 major rivers around the world, mainly in Asia and Africa. Many of these rivers flow through densely populated areas which have a lack of adequate waste collection and recycling infrastructure, leading to significant waste leakage. The AEPW will initiate actions where they are most needed. This will include projects that contribute to solutions in four key areas:
- Infrastructure development to collect and manage waste and increase recycling;
- Innovation to advance and scale up new technologies that make recycling and recovering plastics easier and create value from post-use plastics;
- Education and engagement of governments, businesses, and communities to mobilize action; and
- Clean-up of concentrated areas of plastic waste in the environment, particularly the major conduits of waste, such as rivers, that carry land-based waste to the ocean.
David Taylor, CEO at Procter & Gamble, and APEW chairman, said: "Everyone agrees that plastic waste does not belong in our oceans or anywhere in the environment. This is a complex and serious global challenge that calls for swift action and strong leadership. This new alliance is the most comprehensive effort to date to end plastic waste in the environment."
In October last year, suppliers from across the labels and packaging supply chain signed up to the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment, a global initiative to combat plastic waste and pollution.


text: On Friday 01 February 2008, Tres Seaver wrote: > > I typed four more paragraphs full of markety stuff here but deleted them. > > It's not useful. If no one else thinks it's a good idea, I'm not going > > to push either. > > I would favor the following for a roadmap going forward: > > - No more tarball releases, period. Nobody should expect to get > another one, or even anything other than a "critical security fix" > 3.4.1 tarball. The path for maintenance going forward is going > to be to release individual eggs with bugfixes, new features, etc. You can only do this, if you have a migration story. We do not have one yet. We do not even have a recommended way of doing eggs-based development. Right now you can use zopeproject or build your own setup. Various recipes provide multiple ways of doing that. > - Somebody *might* release a meta-egg which would serve the same > purpose as the current Zope3 tarball release: it would pull in all > the other eggs from the KGS needed to get a "ZMI" up and running. > That egg should *not* be called "Zope3": it might be called > "z3c.zmi", or some such. There might even be multiple such packages > (e.g., one which configures one or more of the example application). This does not fulfill the same use cases as the tar ball release. Look at the story we have for the tar ball. Install it, create an instance, develop using the instance. The meta-egg does not fulfill that story. > - We should fix up our "smoke test" story so that we can do large-scale > integration tests of something resembling the current tarball > release: this is probably just a buildout, which pulls in all the > eggs in the KGS, runs all their unit and functional tests in the > integrated environment, and perhaps runs some additional functional > / system tests. Note that I am not proposing to release this beast: > it exists primarily to enable testing. I do this already all the time. How else would I know whether the KGS is stable? svn co svn+ssh://svn.zope.org/repos/main/zope.release/branches/3.4 release cd release py24 bootstrap.py ./bin/buildout -N ./bin/generate-buildout cd test py24 ../bootstrap.py ./bin/buildout ./bin/test -vpc1 > - Outside applications such as SchoolTool, which currently depend > on a released 'zope3", should begin to move their dependencies to > the "meta-egg"-based scheme outlined above: in fact, they are > probably good candidates for defining such a meta-egg. Well, ST is already eggified. But they still need a release, so the Ubuntu guys will take the initiative to create the packages. Also, before this can be done, you got to document the process. > - Deployments which need non-egg-based packaging will need to figure > out how to use the dependency information in the target meta-egg to > stitch together their own packages. Well, zc.sourcerelease is the recipe we want. But it also needs work to get it going. Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter Web Software Design, Development and Training Google me. "Zope Stephan Richter"

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Lucky Colors For 2020 Based On Your Chinese Zodiac
The New Chinese Year starts on January 25 of 2020 and, astrologically, this is the year of the Metal Rat. This year is associated with ups and downs in every aspect of life.
Feng Shui experts claim that 2020 is going to be a balanced year if we refer to the relation between the five cosmic elements of the Chinese zodiac.
What is the lucky color of 2020?
In terms of clothing, the lucky colors of 2020 are purple, blue, gray, and white. To increase luck, wear metal accessories. The lucky numbers of 2020 are 7, 3, and 2.
The lucky gem of this year is the diamond.
Health and luck depend on the colors we use to decorate the living room, a room that is extremely used in the house. In Feng Shui, the colors that are present in the living room can influence our lives and can change our fortune.
The colors used to decorate the living room need to be chosen by their significance.
To increase the chances of success, for the living room it is recommended to use colors that signify all five elements, which bring five types of luck: fire – fame, water – success in career, wood – money, metal – mentors, earth – love, relationships.
The Feng Shui experts recommend us to subtly add the five elements in the living room, without disturbing the modern or classical design.
For example, the living room walls can be painted in white, the couches can be gray, and the other elements can be displayed through an abstract painting containing colors such as turquoise, purple, and cream. If we don't like paintings, we can use vases, small pillows, and decorative items in many colors symbolizing the five elements.
What is the color for New Year 2020?
2020 is the Year of the Metal Feng Shui element, so to be in harmony with the energy of the year it is recommended to wear these colors: white, blue, green, and charcoal gray.
Also, to attract luck on the New Year's Eve, you need to have a clean house and to decorate it with red, yellow or orange flowers, to wear something red and new, and to have in your pocket or wallet 6 or 9 golden coins.
Read: 🔥 Your 2020 Resolution, Based on Your Zodiac Sign, Guaranteed to Make 2020 your Best Year!
Lucky Colors Based On Your Chinese Zodiac in 2020
The colors of this year and the symbol-colors for Metal: white, silver, and gold. You should not neglect the colors of the Water element such as blue, green or black. Wear them all, especially the lucky color of your astrological sign:
- Rat – red, yellow
- Ox – pink
- Tiger – gray
- Rabbit – pink, yellow
- Dragon – red, ruby, gray
- Snake – light yellow
- Horse – white and silver
- Goat – gray
- Monkey – yellow and bright pink
- Rooster – pink and blue
- Dog – yellow
- Pig – bright red and yellow
Color Significance
The clothing we wear every day, the jewelry, the footwear, and other accessories, the flowers we keep in the house and also the decor items, the curtains, and the bedding should combine these colors.
Blue represents the water element. This is associated with honesty, inspiration, blessing, and communication. It encourages contemplation and meditation, and it stimulates creativity. It is the representation of harmony and calm, and it is used to eliminate the states of mental tension.
Also, those who chose to wear jewelry with blue stones (or the Eye of Horus) as a talisman will be protected against any troubles and negative energies that could ruin their plans.
According to the Feng Shui principles, blue can be used best in the south-eastern area, which is associated with prosperity and wealth. Blue should be avoided on the ceiling and roof because it is considered that water, once it reaches the maximal point, starts to flow downwards and to destroy everything in its path.
You can use this color in the bathroom and office. Due to this color, children who study in a room where blue is predominant have high performances, as proven by many studies.
Blue color can be used to paint the walls, as furniture parts, paintings, and accessories. If you want to use it in the matrimonial bedroom or the child's bedroom, you can adopt a marine theme. Blue facilitates restful sleep and it attracts a peaceful state of mind.
By wearing lucky colors and talismans, this year you will surely manage to avoid negative events, and additionally, you will look great by elegantly accessorizing your outfit.
Green attracts peace, joy, and understanding, and it is associated with rejuvenation. The Feng Shui experts recommend it in the children's bedroom, in the living room, kitchen, and bathroom. Also, it can be used at the office because it attracts prosperity.
In the children's bedroom, you can use light bluish shades that will create a perfect atmosphere for relaxation or a lighter green that will enliven the room. Regardless of the chosen shade, you can use it for the curtains that could have a floral pattern, the bed-linens, green shelves, and stools, as a wardrobe with green doors or you can paint one or all the walls in this color or you can decorate them with some joyful printed wallpaper.
Because green is a color of prosperity, the room where it fits best is the kitchen.
White. The best colors for the house are ivory and white because they are the most proper for the optical nerve and they symbolize light, the heart of the people. At the same time, white furniture is a symbol of hope.
Also, a light-colored wood or a burlywood color is indicated because it can easily stimulate inspiration, wisdom, and focus on studies. Strident colors or a very wide chromatic variety is not recommended to impede the occurrence of some negative influences such as:
Home Decorating Colors
The colors of 2020 in terms of home decor will be inspired by the sea. Therefore, blue is the center of attention, but also the green shades.
Choosing the ocean to define the colors of this year is referring to having a fluidity of colors, depth, and complexity. After all, the ocean doesn't have a single blue color, but also shades of green and calm tones. This pallet of peaceful colors is associated with regaining the calm during the times of fast changes that we've mentioned earlier.
Other sea-inspired shades include sandy white, deep black and oxygenated, colder green. Overall, this is a pallet inspired by nature and it is so varied that no one will feel restricted to a single color choice.
In conclusion, the colors of the year can be used for different material and products, starting from clothes for women and men, accessories, casual or sports bags or interior design items.
Color harmony and mixing schemes progress to display stronger contrasts: turquoise with gray or bright orange.


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Make a statement in your home with this wall mounted ceramic deer head. Branches are not included, so create your own unique display using twigs from the yard, dried floral, cotton bolls… change the antlers out, or spruce them up for seasonal fun! 15″W x 12″H x 12.5″D.


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Telemedicine Modifier and Place of Service Codes
We understand telemedicine billing can be difficult and confusing sometimes. Each state has specific regulations for telehealth and the requirements for billing and coding differ by payer.
The Rules Engine offers preferred modifier recommendations when a recommendation is available. The introduction of Modifier 95 by AMA in 2017 has made it easier to determine what codes may be appended with a Modifier 95, these codes are identified by a star icon in the CPT codebook. We recommend that you refer to the payer's policies prior to submitting a claim.
During the Covid-19 PHE: Billing a POS 02 may result in a reduced payment or denied claims due to current insurance system limitations. Billing a typical place of service will ensure providers receive the same reimbursement as they typically get for a face-to-face visit. Please contact your payers to ensure you are billing correctly.
Below are the most common synchronous telemedicine indicators.
- 1
GT Modifier:
- The GT modifier is used to indicate a service was rendered via synchronous (audio and video) telecommunication.
- In 2018, CMS replaced the GT modifier with POS 02. However, this does not mean that the GT modifier is no longer recognized. Some private payers still recognize and prefer the GT modifier.
- Depending on the payer policy, Modifier GT is only for use with those services provided via synchronous telemedicine for which modifier 95 cannot be used.
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Modifier 95:
- Modifier 95 is used to indicate services were rendered via synchronous telemedicine service rendered via a real-time interactive audio and video telecommunication system.
- There is a new star icon in CPT that identifies the codes that modifier 95 can be appended to as well as a new Appendix P, CPT Codes That May Be Used for Synchronous Telemedicine Services.
- It is important to note that Medicare does not recognize modifier 95. As with the GT modifier, not all payers recognize modifier 95.
Place of Service 02:
- According to CMS, POS 02 is defined as "the location where health services and health-related services are provided or received, through a telecommunication system."
- As stated in the GT modifier section, CMS has replaced the GT modifier with POS 02. POS 02 can be used when billing CMS claims for synchronous telemedicine visits.
- Other payers may require the use of POS 02, please refer to the payer's policy.


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Low Finance
I've been watching Prof Kaul's finance class - I'm still listening as I write. It's a bit embarassing listening to him slowly and painfully explaining compound interest. It's a bit like having stumbled into a kindergarden class by mistake. The problems, however, are not quite trivial (for me). So I'm probably in the right class.


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We have qualified technicians and over 40 years of combined experience in this field.
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Our highly qualified personnel will be able to repair any issues our clients could have. We have 40 years of combined electrical experience from wiring a residence to changing a light bulb. We are qualified to run all your data cabling and testing. All installations and repairs on residential, commercial and industrial electrical systems.
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There's a new partnership to advance medical isotope production to treat prostate cancer being created at Bruce Power.
Bruce Power alongside partners Kinectrics and Framatome will work on cultivating Lutetium – 177.
Lutetium-177 is used in Targeted Radionuclide Therapy to treat cancers like neuroendocrine tumours and prostate cancer. Medical-grade Lutetium is used to destroy cancer cells while leaving healthy cells unaffected.
Bruce Power is also a source of Cobalt-60 used for the sterilization of medical equipment around the world as well as a specialized form of cancer treatment called the Gamma Knife.
The partnership will focus on achieving production in 2022 following regulatory and other approvals.
In a press release Bruce Power provides some facts about how Lutetium works.
"An Isotope Production System on a Bruce Power unit can be used to turn targets into medical isotopes through a process referred to as irradiation."
Lutetium-177 is made by irradiating a stable isotope, Ytterbium-176. The Ytterbium-176 is sealed in special containers and placed in the reactor for about two weeks and then it is sent for processing and distribution to health care facilities. Each container may contain enough Lutetium-177 isotope for about 200 patient treatments.
"This is a very exciting day as we mark the beginning of a new partnership that sets the groundwork for the production of an isotope that treats prostate cancer," said Mike Rencheck, Bruce Power's President and CEO. "We want to ensure Canada remains at the forefront of global isotope development and production. Today's announcement is a big step forward."
This new partnership, in conjunction with Bruce Power's Life Extension program, helps to create a framework for isotope production until 2064, which is the expected life of the Bruce Power site following its Life Extension Program launched in 2016.
"An average of 11 men die from prostate cancer every day. We're working with our partners to change that statistic, developing innovative radioisotope treatments," says Peter Coleridge, President and CEO, Prostate Cancer Canada. "Radioisotopes play a crucial role from diagnosis to treating advanced forms of the disease for which there is no cure. That's why we're excited about new treatments in the pipeline that are giving men and their families hope for the future. Together, we can save and improve more lives."


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september is already here – i can't believe how quickly this summer has passed. i've been so looking forward to this autumn with my cookbook coming out, after almost a year of waiting. and soon moving yet again – maybe to berlin this time, who knows ? can't wait either way !
as usual – here are my hopes and inspirations for the month :
– i hope we can sort out this whole berlin business this month. it would be so good to know that we've got a plan when october comes, whatever that plan may look like.
don't get me wrong though, coming back to stockholm has really been so good for us. and i got nothing but love for stockholm for taking care of us so generously. if berlin won't happen and we'll stay in scandinavia for a while longer, i won't cry a single tear. this is a great city to be in. i'm just ready for new adventures.
– i really really really hope my cookbook will be published in english. or any other language for that matter. i feel so bad every time i have to answer – no it's only available in swedish for now. maybe forever. come on cookbook gods out there, make a translation happen !
– have you ever seen that show so you think you can dance ? i used to watch it every summer before i moved to london, but we didn't have a tv in london so i forgot about it. anyway, recently i've been in such a mood to take up dancing, so i just started watching it again. and oh man. i r e a l l y want to start dancing now. as soon as we know where we're moving to, i'm looking up some dance studios. and i don't even want to choose a dance style to learn, i want to try all of them !
it would be so good for my body to get some serious dances moves going on too, since i spend all days in front of a screen. i can't wait, i just want to get going !
– is there anything more inspiring than collaboration ? i'm lucky enough to be in a community where competition is almost non-existing. since most of us vegans want the same thing – to simply spread the vegan love – we're all on the same side. we help each other out, and promote each other like crazy, not caring who's got the biggest blog or whatever.
and when collaborating – i grow. i learn, i get inspired, i get motivated to work hard. just from being around others in my community. instead of sabotaging our competition, we should all focus on supporting each other. there's plenty of room for all of us.
wishing you a splendid september
love // jenny
some other inspirations in the photos :
– new swedish vegan cookbook välkommen till vegoriket (welcome to vegoland) by my brilliant friend mattias kristiansson. yep, we both came out with our cookbooks at almost the exact same time.
not competitor – colleague.
– being vegan in germany seems hella nice. here's a spread from one of quite many german vegan magazines welt vegan. i'm looking at the lovely photos, trying to understand it as best i can ^^


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Lynn McGuire
Series)" by Jack L Knapp
Book number five of a six book space opera series. I read the well
printed and bound POD (print on demand) trade paperback self published
by the author. I am reading book six now. I have no idea if a book
seven will be published as the author is working on two other series, an
alternate universe series and an ESP series.
Wow, great story series. An older engineer buys a bunch of Nikola
Tesla's journals in an old chest and spots a design for an "electric
impeller" that was never built. He built a working version of the
electric impeller after many restarts and has a electric propulsion
device. The series is about the usage of the electric impellers to
build space ships, a Moon base, a Mars base, and various peoples and
countries trying to steal the design. And aliens.
This book is specifically about New Frontiers, Inc. completing the move
to Mars with hundreds of thousands of employees / settlers and their
space ship manufacturing facilities. Earth has grown too over populated
and too political. And the Flickers have established a colony on Mars
also. And the Flickers are not quite as pacifistic as they seem to be.
BTW, this is not the first time that a story has been written similar to
this. Many stories have "magical" engines for space drives. A very
similar book is John Varley's most excellent _Red Thunder_ which uses
the magical squeezer drive. The reason why I like these stories so much
is that it is not just the new drive device, it is also the design and
work to build the various containers around the new device. And the
resulting societal changes from the revolutionary technological changes.
My rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (11 reviews)


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Ice Dancing, Free Dance
The Ice Dancing event concluded with an interesting Free Dance competition at a high level. Isabelle Delobel/Olivier Schoenfelder of France claimed the gold medal and the title. Canadians Tessa Virtue/Scott Moir took the silver and Russia's Jana Khokhlova/Sergei Novitski captured the bronze. All three medalists stood on the World podium for the first time in their career.
Isabelle Delobel/ Schoenfelder delivered a beautiful performance of their "The Piano" Free Dance. The French completed a rotational lift in a low position, a intricate yet flowing footwork, a serpentine lift with changes of position and a curve-rotational lift. They received a level four for the steps and lifts and a level three for their spin to collect 104.96 points (53.57 element score/51.39 program component score), surpassing their previous personal best of 101.96 points from three years ago. They were ranked second in the Free Dance but remained in first place overall with 212.94 points.
"It is more than just being happy. It was a long way for us. It is our first medal at Worlds and it's the gold medal, so this is just amazing", Delobel said. "We did a great job. We focused on our technical elements but also skated with passion and emotion which gave us points for the presentation". Her partner added: "For us, a dream has come true. We had a strong competition and tried to stay focused to the end. It is a long time I've skated with Isabelle and it is a long and a good story. It makes us experienced and we have confidence in each other, we know each other's reaction. It's not easy every day, but in the end it's positive", he explained, referring to the fact that the couple has been skating together for 18 years.
Virtue/Moir gave an inspiring performance of "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg". They opened their romantic program with excellent twizzles followed by a curve-rotational lift and a combination spin. Their steps were difficult but looked effortless. The 2008 Four Continents Champions scored a new personal best of 105.26 points (54.69/50.59) and won the Free Dance by just 0.32 points. Overall they moved up from third to second at 208.80 points.
Khokhlova/Novitski's dynamic performance to "Night on Bald Mountain" and "In the Hall of the Mountain King" was highlighted by their spectacular lifts and a dance spin with many changes of positions. Their side by side midline footwork was smooth and right on the music, but Novitski briefly slipped during the circular step sequence. The couple was awarded a level four for all elements except for the two step sequences that were graded a level three. The European bronze medalists earned 99.29 points (50.66/48.63) which added up to a total of 203.26 points.


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Life along the way: DENYING DINAH
March 18, 2013 at 11:26 am 3 comments
Sarah Bessey, Rachel Held Evans and others have been speaking up on the issue of sexual abuse in the aftermath of recent news stories. In my own small way I want to add my voice and encourage others to break the silence.In 2007, when I was working on the Genesis to Job series of Bible quilt block patterns, I followed my heart's prompting and tackled the story of Dinah with the "Aunt Dinah" block. Knowing that this message might cause some controversy, I brought my first draft to one of my former pastors for his input. His reponse: "Well, Kim, it's sound Biblical teaching, but I don't think it's relevant to church women. There might be one or two who come from a rough background who might relate, but most church ladies don't think about things like this."
A pastor for upwards of 50 years thinking "good church ladies don't know anything about rape!"
Within minutes of publishing the pattern, my inbox began to fill with heart breaking emails. Later, as we travelled Western Canada with Patchwork and Song, I learned to brace myself whenever I saw a woman standing off to the side after my presentation, waiting for the crowd to disburse. More women than I can count would approach me hesitantly saying "I have never told anyone but…I am Dinah" or "my sister (daughter, mother, friend) is Dinah." These 'good church ladies' knew all about rape, but they held their pain in their hearts, afraid of the consequences of telling their stories. It was safe to tell me: I was travelling through and would not be around to betray their shame. Then and now, my counsel is a heartfelt:
My friends, my sisters, find courage: it's time to speak up!
Here's the text of my original message. Over the next day or two, I'll give you the pattern again with a challenge to use it to make a quilt for a Dinah in your life – friend, sister, yourself or someone in a local women's shelter.
UPDATE: the Aunt Dinah pattern is now available HERE
Bible Block: Aunt Dinah
Now Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land…
…Then God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel and live there, and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau."
Genesis 34:1 and 35:1
That's the beginning and ending of Dinah's story in Genesis 34. It's a passage we seldom hear. Not surprising: it's a sordid tale of rape, manipulation and violent revenge. When we do consider it, there's a temptation to make this a love story featuring Dinah and Shechem. It's not romance: it's violation. There is nothing to suggest that Dinah was a willing participant. There's no upside to this story, no pat solution.
Neither is there anything that suggests that Jacob's way of dealing with sexual sin is appropriate: giving his daughter in marriage to her rapist as a way of cementing political alliance is yet one more example of Jacob's conniving nature. Simeon and Levi have a different response: they twist God's holy rite of circumcision into revenge, and the bloodbath that results is truly horrific. Overshadowed by the machinations of her family, Dinah is mentioned in passing: the two brothers "took Dinah from Shechem's house." Scripture doesn't tell us what happened to her. It's likely she would have remained unmarried: as a "fallen" woman, her prospects for marriage were not good. Perhaps she stayed in Simeon or Levi's family, the maiden aunt in the background of the family life; helping with the children and the household, but never having a family or home of her own.
Why should we even consider this ugly story today? Haven't we moved past revenge or political manipulation as a way of dealing with sexual sin? True, we don't condone violent revenge and we don't try to turn a sexual violation to advantage. But, each one of us knows [or is] a Dinah. We've never really figured out what to do with that knowledge: when we emphasize purity and chastity, we unwittingly condemn women who already feel impure and devalued. If we minimize the pain, exhorting wounded women to "forgive and forget," we shame those who cannot forget into keeping silent. The results are all around us: self-mutilation, eating disorders, promiscuity, substance abuse. If we would have strong families, emotionally healthy women [and men] and lasting marriages, the church must find a way to help men and women deal with the consequences of sexual sin and move toward restoration.
Did you notice the crucial omission in Genesis 34? There is absolutely no mention of God. In Jacob's time, and in the 21st century, when God is discounted in our plans and our response to sin, there is no healthy resolution. Genesis 35 offers a starting point to deal courageously with the Dinahs among us: turn back to Him, put away the things which separate us from His guidance, purify ourselves and allow Him to restore us. It is not easy; there are no quick solutions, but healing begins by speaking up and out in the presence of our loving God and in the company of believers determined to walk through the mess together.
We have the promise: And we know that God causes ALL THINGS [including our confessed and repented sin and the sin of those who harmed us] to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
Romans 8:28
Entry filed under: Kim Graham's Quilter's Neighbourhood, Life along the way, Patterns. Tags: Aunt Dinah, Bible Block quilts, christianity, Dinah, rape, sexual abuse.
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I am a Dinah and my story of substance abuse, sexual sin, failed marriages all begin with the silence and shame of that abuse. My life was rescued from the pit by my Lord and Savior Jesus. You are right Kim, without God there is no hope, only despair. Jesus brought life and light to me.
Amazing, Kim. Thank you for sharing this and for speaking up.
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Posted by Rebeca Romero on 4th Nov 2016
Top 5 alternative markets you must visit this xmas!
The School Yard Market
The School Yard Market can be found every Saturday at London Fields Primary School. It behind Broadway Market and next to Netil Market. It has grown from strength to strength in recent years and is now a buzzing creative hole. Traders sell inventions, crafty creations, artistic wonders, fashion and food. The School Yard is a great place to shop and hang. Anyone visiting Broadway Market and Netil Market in Hackney, should definitely swing past this great little market.
Every Saturday: 9am – 5:30pm
Netil Market in London Fields
Next door to Netil House and home to permanent traders every day of the week, plus market day on Saturdays where you'll find tasty food sellers, vintage stalls, and designer-makers selling their wares. With regular traders and rotating weekly stalls you can expect to find a broad selection of vendors to satisfy your every desire. The list of stalls includes vintage homewares, jewellery designers, illustrators, original artwork, vintage clothing, niche accessory, terrariums, jewellery and clothing labels as well as gorgeous food stalls and a heated dining area.
Situated moments from London fields at the top of Broadway Market.
Chatsworth Road market
Chatsworth Road market has a long heritage and is located on one of London's longest high streets.It's a short walk from Millfields Park, the River Lee, Lee Valley Park and Hackney Marshes and a short bike ride from the Olympic Park. There's even a National Trust property nearby at Sutton House. Chatsworth Road Traders and Residents Association (CRTRA) and The Council brought the market back to life in 2011 and it takes place every Sunday.The market has more than 50 active traders offering a strong selection of food, both street food and staples to complement those already on the street. In addition, there are a number of handmade and unique products that make great gifts.
Hackney Flea Market
An eclectic selection of over 30 hand-picked vintage stall holders, all selling an amazing mix of salvaged, one-of-a–kind, lost and found objects, and handmade items.
Items for sale will include, Vintage Clothes, 20th Century Furniture, Records, Glass & Ceramics, Jet Set Junk, Handcrafted Jewellery, Salvaged French Homeware, Antique Luggage, Curiosities & Collectables, Textiles, Kitschenalia, Trench Art, Reclaimed Industrial Fixtures, Mid Century Danish Decor, Atomic Era Electricals & Handmade Goods, and the unexpected.
Fount Market
A lovely selection of food art and crafts waiting for you every Saturday from Nov 5th till December 17th , taking place in Fount London's courtyard expect good vibes and great gift options. The East End Prints shop will be running as usual showcasing our beautiful print and card collection. Open 10-5pm. Free Entry!
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Fishburne Military School (VA) Announces Monthly Cadet Awards
Cadet Hunter Jennings '15 (Riva, Maryland), was named Cadet of the Month. Cadet Blake J. Justen '15, (Mentor, Ohio), earned Officer of the Month. Cadet Staff Sergeant James D. Kelley '16, (London, Kentucky) was named as NCO of the Month. Recipients of these Cadet awards are nominated by their peers from within each company and then selected by an Honor Board of Cadet Officers…Read More: Click here
Inside Fishburne PG Basketball: Caissons get under way in 2014-2015 season
This week marks the debut of Inside Fishburne PG Basketball with FMS coach Ed Huckaby and Augusta Free Press editor Chris Graham. The first show of the 2014-2015 season features an interview with Devenir Duruisseau, a 6'9″, 240-pound forward from Los Angeles who has committed to the University of Washington.Read More: Click here
Fishburne Military School XC on to VIS State Meet
Several Caisson runners continued the trend of setting new PR's for the season: Marsh (-0:45); Kelley (-0:08); Wren-Russ (-0:06); and Kinnard (-1:31). The Caissons return to action on Friday, November 7th at 3:00 pm at the Virginia Independent School State Cross Country Championship at Woodberry Forrest.Read More: Click here
Fishburne postgrad basketball improves to 2-0 with 114-88 win over Virginia Tech JV team
The Virginia Tech JV team hung around for a while with success at the free-throw line, but the Fishburne Military School postgrad basketball team pulled away in the second half to post a 114-88 win on Sunday in Waynesboro, Va.Read More: Click here
Fishburne postgrad basketball opens with 125-87 win over Rio Grande
A 19-4 run to close out the first half gave Fishburne separation, and the Caissons coasted from there in posting a 125-87 victory over Rio Grande Valley in the postgraduate team's season opener Friday night in Waynesboro, Va.Read More: Click here
Fishburne postgrad basketball in preseason Top 10
The Fishburne Military School postgraduate basketball team begins the 2014-2015 season ranked in the NextUp Recruits national top 10.Read More: Click here
Fishburne PG alum Quincy Taylor named team co-captain at Longwood
Seniors Tyler Akers and Quincy Taylor, redshirt junior Lotanna Nwogbo and sophomore Damarion Geter will captain the 2014-15 Longwood men's basketball team, head coach Jayson Gee announced Thursday.Read More: Click here
Fishburne postgrad basketball opens 2014-2015 season Friday night
The Fishburne Military School postgrad basketball team has made back-to-back appearances at the National Prep Championships. The 2014-2015 Caissons are aiming to bring home the program's first national title.Read More: Click here
Fishburne Military School's (VA) Cross Country Wins Big
At their home course at Coyner Springs Park in Waynesboro, the mighty Caissons of Fishburne Military School (VA) rolled to a first place finish. Fishburne scored 29 points, beating conference foes Eastern Mennonite (49 points), Blue Ridge School (51), and Virginia Episcopal School (DNS).Read More: Click here
Fishburne Military School Raiders Find New Ways to Win
Fishburne Military School's (VA) JROTC Raiders team is working toward earning a third-straight invitation to 4th Brigade's "Best of the Best" competition. Last Saturday was another strong performance from the FMS raiders. Although many of the A team members were absent from the meet for a variety of reasons, the Raiders once again showed that they have the depth to compete.Read More: Click here


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Lithuania's Valančiūnas had a phenomenal 24 points and 14 rebounds but even with Kyle Lowry's improbable three-pointer from his own half of the court to take the game to overtime, Dwayne Wade again proved the difference.
The Heat star stripped the ball from the Raptors DeMar DeRozan with seconds left and sank a three-point shot to seal the victory for Miami 102-96. Wade had 24 points, four assists and six rebounds, hitting 3 for 3 from three point range.
Toronto coach Dwane Casey said: "Game 1, you've got to be on point. You can't have some of the mistakes that we made, turning it over. We'd get stops and lose it back, not rotate quick enough in some of the situations."
The Raptors go-to men failed to fire with DeRozan shooting just over 40% from the field for 22 points and All-star guard Kyle Lowry hitting just 23% for seven points.
Valančiūnas was Toronto's top scorer and added three blocks and two steals to his dominance in the paint, but still couldn't stop the Heat outrebounding Toronto 52 to 41.


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The Mister and I made a supreme sacrifice yesterday: We took our two sons and our "third son," Chase, to SplashTown, a local water park.
We had promised our sons a water park trip before the end of summer and were almost running out of time—our older boy returns to UTSA this weekend, while high school starts for the younger one Monday. Unfortunately, they figured out our apparently ineffective stall tactics, so off to SplashTown we traveled.
Even though it's been around since before our sons were born, we'd never been to SplashTown. We ended up being very impressed with the park—although not nearly as big as the better-known Schlitterbahn, it was clean, and there weren't as many people with too-many tattoos and too-little bathing suits on too-big bodies.
Although it was nice being surrounded by cool water, there was no masking the fact that it was 104 degrees in Houston. Too few clouds in the sky added to our misery when we were out of the water. Oh, how the Mister and I were longing for air conditioning after an hour or so!
While the three boys went on every ride, which included the Stingray Racer (a six-lane octopus racer), Tornado, and Big Spin, the Mister and I enjoyed the lazy river (which was too slow-moving even for a big chicken like me), the wave pool, and the blue lagoon activity pool . . . which was for little kids. Just my speed! It was fun watching the tykes splashing about while we sat on submerged benches with water spraying over our heads.
I brought my Olympus Stylus Tough 6000 waterproof camera to document our memories. When I look at the photos, I'll always be reminded of how much fun the boys had. On the way home, they blah-blah-blathered on and on about the rides. It sounded like almost everything they tried, they liked.
Somehow, though, they managed to avoid the blue lagoon and being embarrassed by their parents among the toddlers.


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American Transpersonal Psychologist, Author, Editor, Public Speaker, Founder and Editor Brain/Mind Bulletin
Marilyn Ferguson
American Transpersonal Psychologist, Author, Editor, Public Speaker, Founder and Editor Brain/Mind Bulletin
Author Quotes
The old paradigm saw evolution as a steady climb up a ladder, whereas Gould and others liken it to a branching out of various limbs of a tree. For instance, anthropologists have discovered in recent years that at one time there were at least three coexisting hominids?creatures that had evolved beyond the ape. Earlier it was believed that these different specimens formed a sequence. Now it is known that one "descendant" was living at the same time as its presumed ancestors. Several different lineages split from the parent stock, the lower primates. Some survived and continued to evolve, while others disappeared. The large-brained Homo appeared quite suddenly.
While outlining a not-yet-titled book about the emerging social alternatives, I thought again about the peculiar form of this movement; its atypical leadership, the patient intensity of its adherents, their unlikely successes. It suddenly struck me that in their sharing of strategies, their linkage, and their recognition of each other by subtle signals, the participants were not merely cooperating with one another. They were in collusion. It -- this movement -- is a conspiracy! ? There are legions of conspirators. They are in corporations, universities, and hospitals, on the faculties of public schools, in factories and doctors? offices, in state and federal agencies, on city councils, and the White House staff, in state legislatures, in volunteer organizations, in virtually all arenas of policy making in the country.
The opening up of a new paradigm is humbling and exhilarating; we were not so much wrong as partial, as if we had been seeing with a single eye. It is not more knowledge, but a new knowing.
You can break through old limits, past inertia and fear, to levels of fulfillment that once seemed impossible? to richness of choice, freedom, human closeness. You can be more productive, confident, comfortable with insecurity. Problems can be experienced as challenges, a chance for renewal, rather than stress. Habitual defensiveness and worry can fall away. It can all be otherwise.
The Paradigm Shift. New perspectives give birth to new historic ages. Humankind has had many dramatic revolutions of understanding --great leaps sudden liberation from old limit. We discovered the uses of fire and the wheel, language and writing... Each of these discoveries is properly described as a 'paradigm shift,' a term introduced by Thomas Kuhn, a science historian and philosopher, in his landmark 1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Kuhn's ideas are enormously helpful, not only because they help us understand how a new perspective remerges but also how and why such new views are invariably resisted for a time.
You can only have a new society, visionaries have said, if you change the education of the younger generation. Yet the new society itself is the necessary force for change in education. It's like the old dilemma: you can't get a job without experience, but you can't get experience because no one will give you a job.
The power of self-knowledge. Until technology freed us from the struggle to survive, few had the time or opportunity to look within, to explore the psyche. Self-knowledge leads to a profound change in the individual's definition of power. As the ego diminishes, so does the need to dominate, to win. Not engaging in power games becomes a kind of natural power. There is a liberation of the energy formerly channeled into anxious competition: the power of letting go
The power of women is the powder keg of our time. As women enlarge their influence in policymaking and government, their yin perspective will push out the boundaries of the old yang paradigm. Women are neurologically more flexible than men, and they have had cultural permission to be more intuitive, sensitive, feeling. Their natural milieu has been complexity, change, nurturance, affiliation, a more fluid sense of time. The shift from militant feminism is evident in recent statements like that of Patricia Mische in a monograph, Women and Power. Instead of asking for a piece of the pie men have had all along, she said, 'we should be trying to create quite another pie.' Human affairs will not be advanced by the assimilation of more and more women into a literally man-made world. Rather, women and men together can create a new future. Women have been torn between their fear of powerlessness on the one hand and a fear of the capacity for destruction on the other: 'We tend to block out both fears?the one because powerlessness is too painful to confront, the other because we associate power with evil drives.'
The radical center of spiritual experience seems to be knowing without doctrine ... the teacher does not impart knowledge but technique. This is the 'transmission of knowledge by direct experience.' Doctrine on the other hand, is second-hand knowledge, a danger.
The brain's neural interference patterns, its mathematical processes, may be identical to the primary state of the universe. That is to say, our mental processes are in effect, made of the same stuff as the organizing principle.
There are legions of conspirators. They are in corporations, universities and hospitals, on the faculties of public schools, in factories and doctors' offices, in state and federal agencies, on city councils and the White House staff, in state legislatures, in volunteer organizations, in virtually all arenas of policy-making in the country.... They have coalesced into small groups in every town and institution.
The central idea was always the same: Only through a new mind can humanity remake itself, and the potential for such a new mind is natural.
There emerges a new and different social consciousness, expressed by one man in terms of hunger and starvation:
The creative process requires chaos before form emerges.
Throughout history there were (people who) believed that people might someday transcend narrow "normal" consciousness and reverse the brutality and alienation of the human condition.
The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued. Our pathology is our opportunity.
Throughout history virtually all efforts to remake society began by altering it's outward form and organization. It was assumed that a rational social structure could produce harmony by a system of rewards, punishments, manipulations of power. But the periodic attempts to achieve a just society by political experiments seem to have been thwarted by human contrariness ? and now what?
The excesses of some of those involved in the psycho-technologies ?the extravagant claims of hucksters and true believers, the tyranny of some purported teachers and gurus?antagonize public opinion. A wide and deep social phenomenon is misunderstood by the magnifying of the sensational, the trivial, the least representative.
Vocation is a curious blend of the voluntary and the involuntary?choice and surrender. People remark that they feel strongly drawn in a particular direction or to certain tasks, and simultaneously convinced that they were somehow "supposed" to take just those steps. A poet and artist, M.C. Richards, said 'Life lies always at some frontier, making sorties into the unknown. Its path leads always further into truth. We cannot call it trackless waste, because as the path appears it seems to have lain there awaiting the steps.
The inability of conventional education to teach basic skills and the failure to foster self-esteem are part of the same deep mismanagement and misperception? Only a new perspective can generate a new curriculum, new levels of adjustment. Just as political parties are peripheral to the change in the distribution of power, so the schools are not the first arena for change in learning.
Vocation is the process of making one's way toward something. It is a direction more than a goal? a housewife who later became a filmmaker, said, 'I felt as if I'd been called to serve on somebody's plan for mankind? cooperation with events rather than controlling them or suffering them, much as an aikido master augments his strength by aligning himself with existing forces, even those in opposition.
The intense intellectual and spiritual sharing of the Aquarian conspiracy, the joint expeditions into new territory, the pooling of the wealth, create the kind of mutual inspiration John Gowan described. The almost sexual interplay of ideas, yin and yang, old and new, East and West, results in a kind of collective synthesis: a creative community, hospitable to risk and imagination.
We are not liberated until we liberate others. So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.
The more significant the question, the less likely there will be an unequivocal answer? Acknowledging our uncertainty encourages us to experiment, and we are transformed by our experiments. We are free not to know the answer, we are free to change our position, we are free not to have a position. And we learn to reframe our problems ? Once we discover the power of challenging the assumptions in our old questions, we can foster our own paradigm shifts? Here, as in many other instances, the discoveries are linked. An appreciation of process makes uncertainty bearable. A sense of freedom requires uncertainty, because we must be free to change, modify, assimilate new information as we go along. Uncertainty is the necessary companion of all explorers? Paradoxically, if we give up the need for certainty in terms of control and fixed answers, we are compensated by a different kind of certainty?a direction, not a fact. We begin to trust intuition, whole-brain knowing, what scientist-philosopher Michael Polanyi called 'tacit knowing.' As we become attuned to the inner signals, they seem stronger? Intuition becomes a trusted partner in everyday life, available to guide even minor decisions, generating an ever more pervasive sense of flow and rightness.
We cannot make somebody else's contribution to the ongoing shaping of history. Nor can anyone else make ours. Each of us is here for a purpose; each life has significance and meaning. This meaning?whatever it is?cannot be realized if we abdicate our powers? The values that have been labeled feminine?compassion, cooperation, patience?are very badly needed in giving birth to and nurturing a new era in human history.


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ACWA Emirates was awarded the contract to Upgrade the existing STP at Shaybah Residential and Industrial Complex for Saudi Aramco.
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Extract from The Crow Eaters: A journey through South Australia by Ben Stubbs
A beginning
O 'Arcadian Adelaide,' may you improve – may
your people prosper, and be happy, in order that
they may remain in their own Village, and inflict
themselves less on the outside world.
Thistle Anderson, Arcadian Adelaide (1905)
South Australia often sits happily on the periphery of Australian understanding – out of sight and out of mind. Outsiders are often aware that the settlers here weren't convicts, that eight bodies were found in barrels in a Snowtown bank vault and that the wine is nice, though for a state that is larger in area than all but 30 countries in the world – nearly twice the size of Spain and three times larger than Italy – it is confounding that so many of South Australia's other stories remain on the edges.
The idea that South Australia is a place not worth one's time goes back to the early 20th century. Thistle Anderson was a local poet, actor and satirist when she wrote a 40-page pamphlet, Arcadian Adelaide, to shine a light on the dullness of South Australia. She remarked that in 1905 the world was in the tumultuous grip of a Russian revolution, the Russo-Japanese war which claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, the Moroccan crisis which pre-empted the First World War, and the discovery of Einstein's Theory of Relativity, yet the only notable occurrence in Adelaide, according to the state's yearbook, was the opening of South Australia's first kindergarten. Thistle was the nom de plume of Mrs Herbert Fisher of North Adelaide, who had had enough of the nothingness of the 'City of Churches'. So this educated woman, originally from Scotland, took the genteel city to task for its inability to shift the status quo, to get some blood pumping in its veins. She chastised Adelaide and wrote that it was a place only 'remarkable for drunks' and plain women, yet she also apologised to the broader public for the poor quality of the state's wine at the time. Thistle wondered if the main industry in Adelaide was 'child-bearing', though she was also curious whether the 'Almighty Himself would approve of the perpetuation of some of the Village family-trees' in Adelaide's suburbs that were becoming alarmingly inbred. She thought the best thing about Adelaide was that 'you could buy a ticket to Melbourne at the railway station' to get out as quickly as you could.
Thistle lit something of a fire under the backsides of the previously polite Adelaideans. She was scorned from all sides; critics told her to 'quit books for babies' and that a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, especially for a woman. The broadside Thistle launched at the South Australian public also brought widespread praise for her wit and 'sledge-hammer like force' in waking up people. Shortly after her pamphlet's release, Thistle left Adelaide for San Francisco and she never returned, though what her writing did was to get people from within South Australia and around the country to take notice of Adelaide, to talk about the state, to defend the city and to offer their own stories and experiences to show it as something more than a dull capital of booze and large families.
South Australia has once again become buried in hysteria and rhetoric. It is time to explore the state that looks like an apologetic frown on the southern edge of the Australian mainland to see what it is like beyond the clichés and the media scorn for wind energy, unemployment and out-of-touch politicians.
South Australia has become an enigma. It is either the butt of jokes or it's treated as some tourism utopia of wine and wildlife, as seen with recent articles from The New York Times and Lonely Planet naming the state as one of the best places in the world to visit. What is there here beyond these broad strokes? There's a big space of grey in the middle of its nearly one million square kilometres.
With the ease of travel it is little wonder that South Australia, and South Australians are often overlooked. You can be in a yurt on the Mongolian steppe within two days if you really want to be; you could be slurping gelato on the Amalfi Coast with minimal fuss by the weekend; or you could even be in Bali before breakfast tomorrow.
Despite this ease, the notion of travel is changing. An era of looking closer is approaching, where travelers will begin to look around them and below them, rather than always afar. With the precariousness of Donald Trump's administration forcing even the most placid and mainstream travellers to re-think their need to go abroad, the time to look beneath our toes is upon us.
Ben Stubbs' book The Crow Eaters: A journey through South Australia will be published by NewSouth in August 2019.


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U of M Named Platinum Bicycle Friendly University by League of American Bicyclists
Last week, the League of American Bicyclists recognized the University of Minnesota with a Platinum Bicycle Friendly University (BFU) award, joining more than 100 visionary colleges and universities from across the country.
"The University of Minnesota is thrilled and honored to receive this award," said Steve Sanders, Parking and Transportation Services' alternative transportation manager. "Moving up from our previous Gold designation to Platinum status is exciting for us. Our biking community grows annually and we do our best to respond in kind and to serve their needs. Our population really takes advantage of our amenities, including our on-campus bike center and ZAP! programs."
This award program provides a clear roadmap to building a Bicycle Friendly University and the application has become a rigorous and educational tool. The four levels of the award – platinum, gold, silver and bronze – provide a clear incentive for universities to continuously improve.
With the announcement of 49 new and renewing BFUs today from 31 states, the U of M is part of a cutting-edge group of colleges and universities across the United States transforming their campuses and the communities around them. There are now 127 BFUs in 42 states and Washington, D.C.
"In its fourth year, we've seen the Bicycle Friendly University program reach an exciting level of growth and momentum, as more and more campuses support bicycling in new and innovative ways," said Amelia Neptune, the League's Bicycle Friendly University program manager. "From bike storage inside dorm rooms to bicycle-powered music festivals, we applaud this round of BFUs for raising the standard of what a bicycle-friendly campus looks like."
The University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus is the third largest traffic generator in Minnesota. The U of M's Parking and Transportation Services department is committed to establishing, maintaining and improving a comprehensive transportation system that reduces congestion, eases accessibility and enhances a friendly university community.
To learn more about the free BFU program and see the full list of winners, visit the League online at www.bikeleague.org/university.
About the Bicycle Friendly America Program
The Bicycle Friendly CommunitySM, Bicycle Friendly StateSM, Bicycle Friendly BusinessSM and Bicycle Friendly University programs are generously supported by program partner Trek Bicycle. To learn more about building a Bicycle Friendly America, visit www.bikeleague.org/BFA
The League of American Bicyclists is leading the movement to create a Bicycle Friendly America for everyone. As leaders, our commitment is to listen and learn, define standards and share best practices to engage diverse communities and build a powerful, unified voice for change.


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Our Challenge In Holy Week
In Luke's passion narrative, Jesus gives back love in return for hate and healing in return for violence. We are called to do likewise, says Andy Drozdziak.
Reading the passion narrative from Luke's Gospel, a theme develops in some of the characters presented to us. Many of the key players in order the story start well, with the best of intentions, but unfortunately fall short.
Pontius Pilate, for example, speaks as a man of integrity and a fair-minded leader when assessing Jesus' case: "I can find no case against him," he reasons. "I will let him go."
The people of Jerusalem, too, welcome their king into the holy city. Laying their garments before Jesus as a sign of welcome, they hail their Messiah by waving palms and praising God with loud voice.
We may also admire Peter's dedication to Jesus and his kingdom. "I am ready to go to prison and to death for you," he says. A noble promise.
Stories Of Human Weakness
Unfortunately, the characters above do not follow through on these initial good intentions; Pilate relents under pressure to crucify the innocent Jesus; Peter denies three times he knows Jesus, whilst the joyful, welcoming sounds of the Palm Sunday crowd soon give way to hateful cries of "Crucify him! Crucify him!"
Listening to these stories of human weakness, I recognise my own unfaithfulness. My own optimistic promises to family and friends often come to nothing and I leave people, especially those I love, feeling hurt and frustrated.
Personally, I can recognise a religiosity, legalism and rigidity within me, the opposite of the kindness, compassion and grace Jesus displays. I need God's grace to soften my heart. The Biblical stories are, indeed, our own stories.
Stories Of Hope
In the midst of these stories of broken promises, we see stories of hope, such as the women who accompany Jesus and remain faithful to him. Peter, meanwhile, will go on to repent of his unfaithfulness and lead the early Church in inspirational ways. Ultimately, we are given the example of Jesus, the Son of Man, our icon and Saviour. He is the perfect example of how to be truly and fully human.
In spite of immense pressure, physical and spiritual pain, Jesus remains faithful to the Father's will and to serving. Pope Francis strives to imitate Jesus' example of service as he washes the feet of people from various disadvantaged groups, such as refugees and prisoners, each year on Maundy Thursday.
In the face of human brutality, shown by Peter cutting off a Roman soldier's ear, Jesus shows compassion, healing the man's ear; in the face of hatred and murderous cries, Jesus offers salvation to the repentant thief: "Today you will be with me in paradise."
Jesus refuses to give back hate for hate. By the power of the Spirit, Jesus gives back love for hate, light for darkness and life for death.
Becoming More Like Jesus
The following points may help us delve deeper into the mystery of becoming more like Jesus and imitating his love for the world.
- Pray for a fresh outpouring of God's Spirit. Jesus lived by the power of the Holy Spirit, trusting in the power sent by His Father.
- With which of the people in the passion narrative do I identify? Why?
- In my sufferings, when I am mistreated, misunderstood and rejected, how do I respond? Can I be the voice and face of compassion, when all around me screams "Revenge! Revenge!"?
- When I am encouraged to grasp for power, to be a celebrity or a superstar, can I, like Jesus, pick up the towel and serve my brothers and sisters in humility?
- Bring your struggles, anger, resistance and frustration to the cross of Christ and ask the Holy Spirit to transform them into grace, peace, patience and kindness. Ask to become Christ for others and for the world.
GK Chesterton once said, "Jesus does not want admirers, but followers." Using these questions reflectively, let us remember that each of us is called to imitate Jesus.
Come, Holy Spirit, help us to follow Jesus faithfully through his cross to the resurrection. May our lives bring light and life to the world. Amen


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Since the rise of BIM, the interest in the Revit platform is strongly increasing. After all, the platform offers a lot of insight into the 3D model and the information contained in it. But don't be mistaken: this doesn't mean that modelling in Revit is the same as modelling in BIM.
BIM is all about cooperation and information. And especially in the installation sector, this is difficult to achieve with Revit alone. When MEP engineers only use Revit for designing installations without input from other parties and sources, a lot of manual work is required. Just think of building families, adding information to systems and components and performing calculations. Therefore, there is need for more than just Revit.
The growing range of apps, BIM content and add-ins that support the MEP engineer meets this need. By letting Revit work together with various applications and sources of information, engineers quickly model with the right information.
MEP specific solutions
Programmes such as Stabicad for Revit offer solutions specific to the MEP engineer. Thanks to the extensive symbol libraries and templates for the various disciplines, engineers start working directly with the right templates and symbols that correspond to local norms and standards.
Engineers can also easily switch from generic to specific solutions. In this way, they quickly provide the right information to the model for each phase of the project. Other useful solutions for MEP engineers are:
- Integrated calculations: With intelligent calculation modules for the various disciplines, MEP engineers calculate their systems directly in the BIM model, according to local standards.
- MEPcontent. Europe's largest BIM library with 500,000+ 3D articles and several apps with manufacturer-specific content.
- StabiBASE: Essential for managing project settings such as preferred node solutions, annotating electrical elements, colors and securing corporate standards.
In addition, cooperation in BIM projects is no longer reserved for the Revit Modelleur. Thanks to the new export function in Stabicad for AutoCAD, it is even possible to export systems to IFC with NL-SfB encoding even as an AutoCAD modeller!
It's clear that the range of possibilities for MEP engineers is increasing. And with it, the BIM workflow is becoming more and more mature.
Laurens Duijm, support engineer at Stabiplan


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Do you have any "Irish Vikings" in your family tree? Have you ever taken a walk on "The Viking Meadow"? That is the translation for Wicklow Town on the east coast of Ireland. The town also gives County Wicklow it's name. So what is all this about Vikings? Do read on…. Céad Míle Fáilte – […]Continue reading
Have you ever visited an Irish Castle? Nowadays, some are mountains of ivy-covered rubble – while others are beautifully restored houses and museums. But, all of these castles and tower-houses have a history – and that history is usually intertwined with the history and genealogy of different Irish families. Just this morning, I took the […]Continue reading


text: Dragon Pendant bone carving, We are offering a Beautifully carved Bone Dragon Guardian. Hand Carved from Water Buffalo Bone. This carving Measures 3" long with the Sterling Silver Bail. X Curved 1-3/8" wide. Deeply carved it weighs 19 grams. Sanded and Polished Smooth on the back side. The Color is WHITE. ~~~ ~~~ ACCEPTED PAYMENTS: CASH, CHECK, POSTAL MONEY ORDER, Visa, Master Card, Paypal , I will email you with payment address to send checks or Money Orders, Cash. Free Shipping in U.S. ~ USPS first class. Questions ~ Please Email Eric at email@example.com or Call 330- 434 -1010 Agestribalarts Gallery 194 Myrtle Place Akron Ohio, 44303 USA ~~~~~~~~ Dragon The Greek word drakon comes from a verb meaning "to see," to "look at," and more remotely "to watch" and "to flash." The symbol of the Dragon occurs, amazingly, all around the world. It is to be found in old Europe, among the Celts, in China, and as Quetzalcoatl, the "Winged Serpent" among the Aztecs of the New World. In China, the Dragon symbolizes both the spirit world, and the union of Heaven and Earth. They believed that as it soared through the Heavens (or the Otherworld) It is believed that dragons had the gift of vision, wisdom, and prophecy and were considered to be the guardians of all knowledge and wisdom. The Celtic dragons were revered as gods and believed to bring Earthly and Heavenly forces together. Celts believed dragons guarded the gate to both the Heavens and the Underworld.


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In honor of this year's E3, Nintendo has officially announced a crap ton of new content coming at us for SUPER SMASH BROS. on Wii U and 3DS. But let's face facts, what you really want to know if is there are any new characters added to the already huge roster. Why yes, yes there are some new fighters. The most notable addition is Ryu from Capcom's legendary STREET FIGHTER series. This is such an awesome addition I can hardly keep my pee in! One of gamings most popular brawlers joins the fight alongside Mario, Link, Samus, Sonic, Megaman, and the 40+ other characters already included. Phew! We also get Lucas from the EARTHBOUND series and Roy from the FIRE EMBLEM series! The cherry on top!? We can get access to all these characters, an exclusive STREET FIGHTER themed stage, and a wide variety of other additional content starting TODAY! The servers are probably going bananas right now! Go join the madness if you own either the Wii U or 3DS version now!
For a complete rundown of all the additional content including characters, costumes, stages, new features and more check out the comprehensive video straight from Nintendo below! It's a good day to be a fan of video games. Stay tuned because there is sure to be more big announcements coming our way this week during all there E3 insanity!


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Urban Radar's Weekend Soundtrack: What we're listening to this weekend
A mix of the old and new, established and unsigned. Released every Friday to help you soundtrack your weekend with only the best tunes.
1. Kehlani – Nunya
Kehlani and Dom Kennedy pair up on Kehlani's recent track Nunya – a consistent bass-heavy track with chill beats and smooth soulful vocals. The winter-wonderful visuals that accompany the track compliments the crisp tone of the single and shows the maturity of Kehlani as an artist – a track you should definitely be chilling to this weekend!
2. Alex Dutty – Emoji
Choosing the avoid the stereotypical 'guns, drugs, money and hoes' content, Alex Dutty delivers brutally candid and relatable accounts of his deprived childhood. Dropping his newest single Emoji featuring Black Rose only a few days ago, the track is one to watch.
3. Kojo Funds ft.Raye – Check
Taking it back to last year, we thought we'd include Kojo Funds' track Check this weekend because who doesn't love the acoustic sampling of 7 Days taken from the smooth RnB and garage king Craig David. The overlapping of Kojo Funds' undeniable rap and Raye's crisp, soulful vocals make Check a track guaranteed to provide your weekend good vibes.
4. 21 Savage ft. J Cole – A lot
An artist whose name has been press popular over recent months has released his latest track A Lot – a track that you'll have playing in your head this weekend long after the record has stopped playing. With a catchy consistent beat and a background of soulful vocals the track has a layering depth that you'll want to play over and over.


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Was Amber Rose ditching her trademark short blonde haircut for some long strands when she posted pictures of her in a red long hair?
Well, the mother-of-one knows how to draw attention to her looks and perhaps that was just a prank to get her 5.9 million followers on Instagram talking.
After trying on a long red wig for a new selfie on Saturday, April 18 with the caption: ''You like?'', Amber has returned to being the bald headed model we all love to see.
Just maybe Amber didn't get the number of likes she was seeking for because by Sunday April 19, she was back to her short blonde 'do.
"MILFin," she captioned a bathroom selfie.
...We must admit Amber is fantastic is short haircut!


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Peter and Paul Fortress – Peter's Dream
Peter and Paul Cathedral
The bell tower was delivered from Holland in 1720 and played the song Since the Glory every hour and God save the Tsar ever noon until 1917. In 1952, a new clock was installed that played the Soviet hymn four times a day.
The Mint
Peter and Paul Fortress Prison
Revolution at the Fortress
Statues at the Peter and Paul Fortress
Other Facts
Tips for Visiting
Changing of the guards takes place on Saturdays at 12 in the summer months.
In addition to the fortress, cathedral, prison and mint, there are other exhibitions in the Fortress you can visit:
– History of the Fortress
-History of St. Petersburg/Petrograd 1703-1918
-Museum of Cosmonauts
-History of the Bell Tower of the Peter and Paul Cathedral
-Collection of Porcelain and Glassware from the 18th-21stC
-Collection of Furniture from the 18th-20thC
The Fortress grounds are open from 6am – 21pm. The ticket office is open 10-6pm everyday except Tuesday. On Tuesday the ticket office closes at 5pm. Last admission is sold an hour before the ticket office closes.
Exhibitions are closed on Wednesdays.
For more on St. Petersburg's must-see sights, continue reading about the Church on Spilled Blood. Follow SAFS on Facebook and Instagram for city updates and other historical tidbits.


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These photos were taken Sunday at Enegren Brewing Company in Moorpark, CA and Lab Brewing Company in Agoura Hills, CA. A few days ago I was at El Segundo Brewing Company and was introduced to Joe Nascenzi, one of the owners of Enegren Brewing Co., a microbrewery in Moorpark, CA. After talking with him for a while, and hearing what kind of beers they were brewing over there, I knew that I had to head out there with Tanya. While I am a definite hophead, Tanya is more into saisons, porters and stouts. When Joe told me about their oatmeal stout and chili pepper saison, I promised to pay them a visit.
While one microbrewery is frequently like the others, with the only difference being the taste and variations of the beers they brew, Enegren Brewing is definitely different than any other I have visited. Brew Captain Chris Enegren studied mechanical engineering at Loyola Marymount University and when he graduated from brewing in his kitchen he put this knowledge to work in designing a proprietary brewing system unlike any I have ever seen. Complete with a computerized command center, their brewing system is entirely automated. It is a very cool system to check out, and they produce a quality product. When we got there Sunday they were in the process of building a new refrigeration unit as they had moved their larger one to a unit next door. In other words, they are expanding, with the hopes of beginning to bottle beers in the near future. Continue reading
At the end of 2011 I made a decision that GotBaddog.com would dedicate much of my content to promoting local businesses and non-profits. When Tanya was looking for something for us to do on New Year's Eve, she discovered the Lady Of Magic at the Redondo Beach Castle was having a New Year's Eve party that was also a fundraiser, with a portion of the proceeds going to the Midnight Mission, a homeless shelter in downtown Los Angeles. It was then that we had the pleasure of meeting Sisuepahn Phila, the "Lady of Magic."
Sisuepahn is a world renowned and world class magician, and I am not talking about doing sleight of hand card tricks or something like that. She has performed at the Magic Castle in Hollywood and has been featured on Penn and Teller, on the Discovery Channel and on an A & E special, "Backstage from the Magic Castle." She is also known as, "The Entertainer to the Stars." What drew me to her was her Magic 4 Orphans which benefits more than 2,000 children both locally and those living in five orphanages in Laos. I have photographed a few events at the Redondo Beach Castle, including her magic shows which are pretty amazing. Many times I have looked through my photos afterwards and still could not figure out how the heck she changed into five different outfits without ever leaving the stage. She is really good.
Anyway, this Monday, December 31, 2012 she is hosting another New Year's Eve party. If you are looking for something to do for New Year's Eve that is fun and also helps others in the process, I suggest considering coming out to the Redondo Beach Castle. There will be live music, a DJ, dancing, and lots of really good magic. Continue reading
A few weeks ago several of my siblings came into town to attend a function that was honoring my dad and a few others that attend his church. One of my brothers asked me if I was going to continue writing about life with Rheumatoid Arthritis or not. Apparently he had enjoyed reading my perspective. I explained to him that while I was continuing to do as I had promised as far as bringing awareness of RA and of the Rheumatoid Patient Foundation, I was doing it primarily by donating watermarks on some of my photos to the Rheumatoid Patient Foundation. The reason for this was that living with a person that had RA was not always a pleasant experience and I was not always ready to deal with the strife that might result if I wrote my thoughts for the world to see. Little did I know that some might interpret my lack of writing a an indication that all was well, apparently there are people in my own family that seem to think that we use Tanya's disease as an excuse to get out of doing things. Tanya frequently discusses on her blog how strangers do not seem to understand RA, how they will offer home remedies that their grandmother used for her arthritis, or how if people cannot see the effects of the disease, it must not exist. I begrudgingly accepted this as reality, but I was saddened when I discovered that this extended to my own family. As a result, I have decided to talk a little about the last year.
In October of 2011 Tanya moved in with me and I learned what living with Rheumatoid Autoimmune Disease (RAD), also known as Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) was really like. Tanya and I carried on a long distance relationship for more than four years, so I thought I had a pretty good grasp on things as far as RA was concerned; I was wrong. When we were 2,000 miles apart I did not see RAD on a daily basis; I could only go by the comments Tanya might make when we spoke on Skype or ICQ. Considering we lived so far apart we saw each other a lot but Tanya is pretty good about not complaining, so for the most part, I only heard about problems when they were severe. Because Tanya wanted to spend time with me, she would suffer in silence and I really did not know how bad it was. Continue reading


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Hey Guys,
Cleaning out some of the stuff I don't think I'll get around to build... Ever...
This is first post, others (Winged Things, Diff. Scales, Etc...) shall follow.
1/48 Scale Armor & Accessories
All are in orig. box (shrink wrap removed) but parts bags unopened.
Jerry Can Set #32510
$7 Single / $6 Group
WWII German Infantry on Maneuvers #32530
$10 Single / $9 Group
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M4A1 (76)w Medium Tank # 84801
$15 Single / $12 Group
Russian KV-2 Tank #84816
$15 Single / $12 Group
Russian T34/85 Tank (Full Interior) #84809
$18 Single / $15 Group
Single is buy one item, Group is buy mo than one.
Take the whole bunch: $50
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Hey Mike,
Yeah - went to your gmail last night about this time.
But everything listed is still available.
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But everything listed is still available.


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Gewel Room 6 (Self-Catering Unit)
Comfortable Double bed. En-suite bathroom: Shower, hand-basin, toilet. TV in room. This room is a part of the "new" side of the old house. Room 5 and 6, have a door between them which only unlock for family and group bookings. Room 6 is one of our self-catering rooms and have a door from outside.)