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You are currently browsing the daily archive for September 23, 2008.
A bit morbid, sure, but it's true – we're all going to die someday. And, I don't think that lying in a wood box stuffed with embalming fluid is how I want to make my everlasting impression on the world. But, get cremated and then what? Sit on someone's shelf? Blow with the wind and into some bird's trachea? (Do birds have trachea?) Well, I think I've found my answer – Eternal Reefs. The Sundance channel showed a blurb on this company that creates a memorial (read: concrete reef ball – with your ashes mixed in) that is then used to build artificial reefs underwater. Thus, helping rehabilitate our ocean's ecosystem. Pretty neat, I thought.
I had heard of artificial reefs while in Australia; they created one on the Gold Coast – Narrowneck. The reef was created to heed off beach erosion and improve the surf break (hey, it's Australia, surfing is just as important as beach erosion). I'm not sure if it worked or not, but…A for effort.
Anywho, it's always nice to know we have some options out there.


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I'm really not sure if youngpervs.com and tenniesxxx.com are cop sites or not. Six months ago these sites were joined at swiftwell.com off a Global Crossing feed and a telia.net backbone. Notes from my first site visit are not complimentary but now (for the most part), the girls are young and healthy and both sites share the same source code to set cookies and track your activities. Even some of the girls seem to be the same.
Youngpervs.com has a detailed anti-pornography message and detailed reporting instructions to keep both you and them legal. Since teenies.xxx have moved to easyonlinesolutions.com hosting off a Level 3 feed, the home page guarantee about all models being above 18 at the time the photos were taken is gone. However, when you click a picture to enlarge it, you get the guarantee that the model is 18. You also set a cookie with a new suggestive name like bunnyteens.com, puppykibble.com and youngerbabes.com As usual, the link names are hidden so the user does not know that they are adding more URL's and cookies to their history files.
Now the site names and cache inventory of thumbnail pictures all will work against a defendant to create an image of a child sexual predator or at least a very weird person. It also doesn't inspire my confidence in their independence when the tracking cookies are those "ucj" ones like Americanthumbs.com used.

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Kids, Work and Tisdale Wine
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Evidence of shared bovine viral diarrhea infections between red deer and extensively raised cattle in south-central Spain
New research article published at BMC Veterinary Research.
Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) is a pestivirus that affects cattle production worldwide and that can infect other ungulates such as cervids and even wild boar (Sus scrofa). It is believed that domestic livestock can become infected through contact with wild animals, though it is known that infection can spread among wild animals in the absence of contact with livestock. Little is known about the sharing of BVDV infection between wild and domestic animals in the same habitat, which is important for designing eradication campaigns and preventing outbreaks, especially on hunting estates with high animal densities
Rodriguez-Prieto V., Kukielka D., Rivera B., Martinez-Lopez B., de las Heras AI., Sanchez-Vizcaino JM. y Vicente J.


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What recourse do you have when your heating oil company lets you run out of oil and you come home to find your out and you call and they say well too bad we have no drivers at night. It is cold tonight going to 13 degrees and I have no way to get oil. Who can I call about this? I am going to have frozen pipes by morning.
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Whe I play a singleplayer game, and it last 1 hour maybe few minute more, it appears this message:
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At the same time all the widgets get disable, and I have tried to enable them pressing F11 but I can´t enter to the widget menu.
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As a workaround, open the chat console and type
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After a long and painful season, SixEleven presents you with our fourth consecutive video. STOP...Hammertime! has your old favorites as well as some new faces that only a mother could love.
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|Once again SixEleven in back! After a long and painful season, SixEleven presents you with our fourth consecutive video. STOP...Hammertime! has your old favorites as well as some new faces that only a mother could love. Check it out as we spend time down in beautiful Silverton, CO as well as travel to various places on the west coast, and of course, spend much needed time in our own backyard, Denver! If you are in need of some motivation to get out there and ride, be on the lookout for this fun filled snowboard movie because it's sure to get you off the couch and on your board. Remember, its all about having fun with your friends and enjoying the sport we all love, and that's what this video is all about!
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Just the concept of this album makes my head spin. David Byrne and Fatboy Slim collaborate on a pop opera about the life of Imelda Marcos? The result is as surprising and as interesting as that concept, but not necessarily what one would expect.
Musically, this album doesn't sound much like the previous work of either artist. There are moments that remind the listener of one or the other, but the sound is more straight pop than either normally produces. They have instead created a consistent brand of music which sounds both modern and fitting to the time and setting of the story. Byrne, in his liner notes, says he took inspiration from the club music of the late Seventies and early Eighties (Imelda was apparently quite the club-goer). There is also a tropical feel to many of the tunes which reflects the setting. Still, the music does not sound dated at all. The modernity of the music is a testament to how today's pop has completely absorbed that club music.
The anonymity/universality of the music is increased by the use of a variety of vocalists, mostly female, to sing the songs. These range from Tori Amos and Cyndi Lauper to Sia and Alison Moorer (with Steve Earle and Byrne himself as the two male voices). Interestingly, the singers are matched to the mood of the song, not to individual characters. This works surprisingly well; it heightens the emotional power of the songs without distracting from the story and characters.
In fact, the track that sounds the most out of place is "American Troglodyte," sung by Byrne. It sounds most like a "David Byrne song," not quite fitting with the musical character of the rest of the album. Further, the lyrics reference modern phenomena – the internet, 50 Cent and reality TV – rather than remaining firmly rooted in the Eighties.
The music is subtle and catchy, overall. That may sound like an oxymoron, but it's not. There are popular songs where, after the very first listen, you go "Wow! That's a catchy song!" They implant themselves in your mind immediately. The songs here are not like that. Each tune floats by pleasantly enough on first listen and doesn't make a huge impression but, after a couple more listens, you suddenly find yourself humming one, then another and then another. They have wormed their way in without you even noticing.
Despite the club music inspiration, much of the music is not really danceable. It takes until the middle of the first disc for the beat to really kick in, and it's not until the beginning of Disc 2 (appropriately with a song titled "Dancing Together") that things really get funky. Even after that, many of the songs move at a slower tempo.
The storyline is a complex one. Here Lies Love contrasts Marcos' life with that of her childhood maid, Estrella Cumpas. Cumpas essentially raised Imelda and her siblings; Imelda's mother made a promise to Estrella that her children would care for her in her old age. However, as Imelda rose in power, she ignored Estrella, and she was finally forced to acknowledge Estrella only when Cumpas wrote a book revealing the depth of poverty that Marcos rose from. At that point, Imelda tried to buy Estrella's silence; Estrella refused. The story is told episodically with each song capturing a moment in Imelda's life. It helps that Byrne includes extensive liner notes explaining the action and context of every song.
Byrne uses Imelda's rise to and exercise of power to examine a number of questions. First and foremost is whether power makes people selfish, or is it that the selfish seek power? While Here Lies Love humanizes Imelda Marcos, it also reveals her essential selfishness. Early on, the song "The Rose of Tacloban" shows her dreaming of her future as a rich and beautiful woman, concerned only with herself and her status.
Even so, Marcos never realized the depth of her selfishness through it all; the title comes from the words she wanted inscribed on her grave. She saw herself as the epitome of love for and of the Filipino people, yet, as the story of Estrella Cumpas clearly reveals, she could only love them as a abstraction. She had no love for an actual person, even one who had once been so important to her.
In the end, Imelda can't tell the difference between love and power. This is foreshadowed in her romance with Ferdinand Marcos. He wooed her because he saw her as a stepping stone to power; at first she believed in his love, but quickly adjusted to the role of a political wife.
In a final irony, it is the assassination of their primary political opponent, Nimoy Aquino, on Ferdinand Marcos' orders which precipitates the Marcos' downfall. The irony is that Aquino was Imelda's first love, but he turned her down for a richer girl. At the end, Imelda and Estrella sing/scream "Why don't you love me?" at each other, each unable to understand how much Imelda has changed, and why.
Byrne proposes that Here Lies Love is a theatrical piece which could be presented in a club. I'm not sure the music is consistently danceable enough to pull that off. Here Lies Love, with its' involved story, and many social and philosophical overtones, deserves a closer listen than that. It rewards repeated close listenings, as both the music and the story open up and reveal depths not heard at first.
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Vol. 20, No. 7: Dan Kelly on Clichés
Vogue verbiage
Dan Kelly, a page-one news editor who received the 2007 Lawrence Minard Editor Award at the Gerald Loeb Award ceremonies in June, had some good advice for copy editors in a seminar there. He said:
"One thing we editors are always looking to do is root out industry jargon and clichés. There are a few clichés that are particular to business stories. Cash cow. A company's mantra. Its crown jewel. There's usually a way to say these things that isn't so hackneyed.
"There are also cliché concepts. Welcome to X. Call it X.
"Sometimes near the top of a story, after it has set up some conflict or said what's going on, there comes a graf that begins with the line, 'The stakes could not be higher.' That's not only trite, it's untrue. The stake could be higher. Well, that second point about it not being literally true is pedantic, but there's no denying this line is trite."
Other staffers have other pet peeves, if we may be so trite as to call them that. Not all of these are fatally flawed grammatically, but most are better avoided:
- Tony Robinson asks why fights, disputes and battles are routinely characterized as bitter, "raising the prospect that some other battles are sweet or cordial." Bitter battle ranks with wedded words like flat denial, unmitigated gall, stark contrast and oil-rich Kuwait.
- Mike Miller cringes at: soft-spoken or plain-spoken to denote anyone we basically like, or think readers should like; partner as a verb, prior to instead of before; whopping before a large number (whose size invariably speaks for itself) and nestled in when the setting is somewhere cute and rural.
- Marilyn Chase dislikes icon and iconic used as superlatives, and she suggests that edgy is dulled by overuse.
- Michael Connelly and Jennifer Shaw note the overuse of key to mean important. Jennifer cites a story that used the word six times, including a reference to a key benchmark.
- Barry Newman calls going forward terrible jargon, which it is, as in: "This raises questions about the strategies of the other three going forward."
- Andrew Yurkovsky, a Newswires copy editor, cringes at impacting, transitioning and ramping up as jargon verbs.
- Outside contributor Coke Ellington derides in harm's way, asking rhetorically how long has it been since anyone was simply in danger; gone missing when disappeared or vanished would tell the story; the "redundant" head butt and the pervasive opt for. ("I'm waiting for the four-cylinder Optima to come out with the slogan, 'Opt for the Opt 4,'" he says.)
Appositively disjointed danglers
Even if you don't know a disjointed appositive from a dangling gerund, you should see the illogic in the following examples in a solecistic trend that only seems to worsen with our harping on it:
- Having studied [read: Because he has studied] so closely how changing financial conditions can amplify the impact of Fed-rate increases, the tumult in credit markets could lead Mr. Bernanke to move cautiously on raising rates to damp inflation.
- Established by German immigrants who toiled on the land or on the railroads, Grand Island's population of 42,000 now includes [read: Grand Island has a population that now includes] numbers of Latin American immigrants.
- [Read: Because the company is] Unable to increase capacity or productivity, [its] output has fallen and several mines have closed.
- At nearly four ounces each day, the average person in China eats more pork than in any other nation except Germany. [Read: The average person in China eats nearly four ounces of pork a day, more than in any other nation except Germany.]
- As the son of a professional musician and a teacher, [insert: he found] the songwriting came naturally.
- For or a firm that put the "private" in private equity, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts's planned stock-market listing amounts to a cultural revolution. [Because the listing isn't a firm, this needed reworking.]
Names and nuances
- Proxy fight in the past referred specifically to an effort to purchase or take over a company. But a broadened definition now appears in the stylebook: A proxy fight is a stock-voting battle over corporate governance or corporate control. Typically, organizations or individuals seek proxies from a company's shareholders to back their campaigns for seats on the company's board.
- Blackstone Group LP has added the LP.
- Banco Santander SA is the new name of the Spanish bank Santander Central Hispano SA.
- Travelzoo Inc. reminds us that the z is lowercase.
- Gen. David Petraeus is the commander of the troops in Iraq. His name is misspelled in print more often than we'd like to admit.
- Blu-ray is the accepted spelling of the high-definition disc format that competes with HD-DVD. Use the spelling for text and headlines. And, incidentally, DVD stands for digital videodisc. The stylebook advises that stories with more than a passing reference to DVD should provide the translation. That remains good advice, though it has seldom been heeded.
Heads above the rest
- "Rule of Thumb Hammered: Judging Home Builders By Book Value Can Sting As Write-Downs Mount," by Alex Rothenberg.
- "Murder, She Texted: Wireless Messaging Used to Fight Crime," by Chris Farley, in a tough one-column squeeze.
- "Plaintiff's Loss: A Pair of Pants, And His Suit," by Mike Boone and Brian Hershberg, on a story about a frivolous lawsuit against a dry-cleaning shop.
Quintessential quiz
Find the flubs in these Journal passages:
- A return to democracy without eliminating the existing political establishment would be pointless, he explains in an interview.
- The Edwards are aware that historical statistics indicate that stage-4 breast-cancer patients like Mrs. Edwards have only a 20% chance to survive beyond five years.
- There was a twist: The suggested contribution had risen exponentially to $2.500 from the $500 requested in prior years.
- Boards seeking outside CEOs as corporate saviors often become enamored with a single candidate, then give deals that pay well even if performance suffers.
- The vehicle's enormity only furthers the resemblance to the big British cars.
- In all of those ZIP Codes, subprime mortgages comprised more than half of all home loans made.
- Visitors to Lala Media Inc.'s Lala.com Web site will be able to listen for free on their computers to the digital catalog.
- Someone at a private-equity fund - which are constantly bombarded with information from banks - tips off a friend on a deal in which he has no intention of taking part.
- Rice warned a U.N. tribunal being formed to probe assassinations of Lebanon leaders must be assured safety.
- Steps to modify loans and avert foreclosures has investors clashing.
- In 1976, the average U.S. consumer drank 1.6 gallons of bottled water; last year, they drank 28.3 gallons.
- Diamondbacks fan Don Regole was forbidden from bringing two signs into his home park when the Giants visited.
- Newport Beach, Calif.-based PIMCO is the world's biggest bond fund.
- He is stating an opinion, so we should have said he contends or avers, but definitely not explains, which implies that we accept his opinion as truth.
- The plural of Edwards is Edwardses. (We try to keep up with the Joneses, not the Jones.) And stage-four is the usual adjectival rendering.
- Exponential, like geometric, implies accelerating growth, which isn't indicated with just the two reference points given here. It isn't a synonym for huge.
- Enamored takes the preposition of, not with.
- Enormity denotes wickedness or outrageousness in addition to size. Enormousness should be used to mean great size alone, the stylebook continues to direct.
- Subprime mortgages represented half the home loans. Half the loans comprised subprime mortgages.
- Let's free free of the for.
- A doubly bewitched sentence.
- She warned that the tribunal must be assured. Omitting the conjunction that often causes confusion.
- How can anyone write that, someone asked? How can an editor clear that?
- The they should be he or he or she.
- He was forbidden to bring (or, better, take) the signs in.
- It is Pimco under our rules of capping only the first letter of company names longer than four letters. And why not simplify the awkward construction by making it read: Pimco, based in Newport Beach, Calif., is the world's biggest bond fund.
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When Rima Karaki cut off the mic after her guest, Hani Sibai, an Islamist sheikh, ordered her to "be silent", little did she expect it would become a viral video sensation in Lebanon and around the world.
Supporters online have hailed her for standing up for women's rights against a patriarchal religious establishment that sought to subjugate them. But for Karaki herself, it was a simple question of self-respect.
"Had I not answered, I would have hated myself, and I don't want to hate myself," she told the Guardian in an interview. "When he said shut up, it was no longer possible to shut up because I would be insulting myself and would lose everything."
During the television interview, Karaki, donning a veil at Sibai's request, asked her guest a question about how Islamic State managed to attract Christians to its ranks, after reports emerged that two Christians had joined the militant group. Sibai then launched into a historical monologue that the anchor felt was not relevant to the question.
"I asked him to focus on the current era so we don't lose time," she said. "This caused him to get angry and he thought I was cutting him off, and I tried to calm him down and tell him not to be angry, and that I want to get the most out of your presence in the programme. I told him it's up to you."
Sibai got angrier, telling his host that he could say whatever he wanted, and told her to be silent. When she asked him how a "respectable sheikh could tell an anchor to shut up" and said she was in charge of the show, Sibai said he was respectable regardless of her view and that he considered it dishonourable to be interviewed on her programme.
Karaki stopped the interview after three minutes, saying: "Just one second. Either there is mutual respect or the conversation is over." And she cut off his mic.
"The studio is like a courtroom, someone has to moderate the conversation. The only difference is that it's not in the core of my profession to judge people," Karaki told the Guardian. She said she brought Sibai on to the programme because she believed in constructive dialogue regardless of the individual's background.
"But it's my job to moderate the conversation, and I felt it was my right to say that I was in charge and I decide what the subject is, and that it could not go on this way.
He decided to speak in a disrespectful manner and I had to cut off the interview," she said.
A version of the segment with English subtitles, posted a few days before International Women's Day, has had more than 5m views on YouTube.
Sibai published a letter on his Twitter feed demanding an apology from al-Jadeed, Karaki's TV station. He said the channel was biased because it attempted to portray him as a fundamentalist and a friend of the al-Qaida leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
"As if the friendship of Dr Zawahiri is an insult!" he said in the letter. "But I am proud of it and every Muslim is proud of it! But they mentioned it as slander."
The London-based sheikh said that when he told the anchor to be silent, it was as if "a demon took over her". He said she spoke "deliriously".
According to a 2009 Wikileaks cable, Ashraf Mohsen, then Egypt's co-ordinator for counterterrorism, said Sibai left Egypt for the UK before 1999, when he was convicted in absentia for "terrorism-related offenses".
Sibai's recent sermons suggest he is anti-Isis, but in a recent commentary on the video of the beheading of Coptic Christians, he also said he believed the footage had been fabricated by intelligence agencies.
Karaki said she did not want to blame Sibai's behaviour on sexism, saying she could not discern his intent – only that he was being disrespectful to her.
"I can't go into a person's inner intent, but what I do know is that the tone was very authoritarian, but maybe this is the way he talks, and his overreaction was inexplicable," she said. "I don't know if perhaps if it was a man, he would not have told him to shut up, but I took it as being disrespectful, whether it was with a woman or if he was a sheikh or whatever his background is. To me it has nothing to do with religion, or political line, it has to do with manners and ethics."
She said she felt insulted when the cleric told her to be quiet, and she felt she had a duty to stand up for herself.
Karaki said she had not expected the video of her standing up to Sibai to cause a furore. But it did, bringing her an avalanche of support online and in the local press. She said she believed it had had a positive impact, particularly in patriarchal societies, where she said female journalists faced many more challenges than their male colleagues.
"Some people think men have a birthright to exert control over women, but there are a lot of women now who are breaking this image and a lot of men who support this, although more so for women because we have a patriarchal society," she said. "I don't feel like a hero, I feel like any man or woman with self-respect.
"I don't think any man would accept that his wife gets insulted and doesn't respond, or his mother gets insulted and doesn't respond, or his daughter. He doesn't have to respond on her behalf, too. She can do that. If he gets out of the way, he would be surprised that she can stand up for herself."
Karaki said the positive response to the video gave her hope that these patriarchal tendencies could be controlled, and that women in the media in particular could play a strong role in reversing them.
"The media in our countries focuses on appearance, especially for women," she said. "Men can continue working in the Arab world forever, but most of the time women are judged by their looks.
"I don't want to say that it felt like a vindication, but it maybe gave a good image, that women are capable, because our nations are full of capable women, and I'm the least among them, but the only difference is that I'm lucky to have a platform and a screen," she said. "Our women's dignity is high, and all the difficult times they have gone through are testament to this. They give you this strength."
She singled out in particular the mothers of Lebanese soldiers, who for the past few years had endured the loss of "our men" in battles against extremism. "Great women are those who raise great men," she said.
Karaki criticised what she felt was the hypocrisy of some religious guests demanding that she wear the veil in interviews, but speaking to uncovered journalists outside the studio. She said that as a journalist she treated the story as a priority.
"I object out of respect for the veil, because the veil is not a game we put on or take off according to the whims of some religious men," she said. "God's will is more important than theirs, and they have no right to give themselves that power."
Karaki said she would soon raise the issue of female journalists being pressured to wear the veil in interviews. "But because I respect the veil, it pains me," she said. "I put it on in order to meet them halfway."


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This guide will teach you all about the Systems in MapleStory M. An introduction to the basic UI (Basic UI category to be changed
- 1 Character Info
- 2 Mini Quest Window
- 3 Mini Achievement Window
- 4 Mini Party Window
- 5 D-pad
- 6 Auto-Battle
- 7 Fever Buff
- 8 Attack
- 9 Jump
- 10 Skill Hotkeys
- 11 Item Hotkeys
- 12 EXP Information
- 13 Location Indicator
- 14 14. Chat
- 15 Chat Window
- 16 Chat Presets
- 17 Expanded Chat Window with Channels and Language Options
- 18 Language Menu
- 19 Menu Shortcuts
- 20 Guides
Character Info[edit | edit source]
View your character's name, level, HP/MP, and power. Tapping this area will open the Character Stats page.
Mini Quest Window[edit | edit source]
Check on your current quest information and achievement progress in the Mini Quest Window. Be sure the scroll icon is highlighted. Tapping a specific quest in this menu initiates Auto-Questing.
Mini Achievement Window[edit | edit source]
Check the progress of your achievements as you quest and battle. Be sure the signpost icon is highlighted. Tapping this menu opens the Guide Mission menu.
Mini Party Window[edit | edit source]
Tap [Create] to manage your party, send out invites, and to auto-recruit. Tap [Join] to search for a party and auto-join. Be sure the shaking hands icon is highlighted.
D-pad[edit | edit source]
Use the D-pad to move forward, left, right, up, down, and diagonally (when jumping).
Auto-Battle[edit | edit source]
- Tap [AUTO] to enable Auto-Battle.
- You can check the remaining Auto-Battle time and the time remaining until reset.
Fever Buff[edit | edit source]
- If the gauge is not full, you can purchase a Fever Buff by tapping on the icon.
- If the gauge is full, tap the icon to activate the Fever Buff.
Attack[edit | edit source]
- Tap the attack icon to perform a basic attack (the icon looks like a sword).
Jump[edit | edit source]
- Tap the jump icon to jump.
Skill Hotkeys[edit | edit source]
- Frequently-used skills can be bound to hotkeys.
- A skill assigned to a hotkey can be used manually.
- There are two sets of hotkeys a player can switch between during battle using the hotkey toggle.
Item Hotkeys[edit | edit source]
- HP recovery, MP recovery, and consumables that provide buffs can be bound to item hotkeys.
- There are 3 different sets of item hotkeys.
- The first set features two hotkeys specifically designated for HP and MP potions.
- The second set features two hotkeys specifically designated for your favorite Mount and Chair.
EXP Information[edit | edit source]
- Check your current EXP percentage. The higher the percentage, the closer you are to reaching the next level. The current level cap is level 120.
Location Indicator[edit | edit source]
- Tapping this area opens the Map menu.
- There are two available maps in MapleStory M: The Road Map and the World Map.
- Road Map: Displays information about the city your character is currently in.
- World Map: Displays information about the continent your character is currently on.
14. Chat[edit | edit source]
- Chat is divided into the following channels: [All], [Guild], [Party], [Whisper], and [System].
- All: Check all chat and Megaphone messages here.
- Guild: This option is only active when you're a member of a guild. Chat with other members of your guild.
- Party: Chat with other players in your party.
- Whisper: Chat privately with a person of your choice.
- System: Displays acquired item history and other system messages.
- There are also chat presets that can be used for quick messaging.
- The main chat window also has language options similar to the language settings for the overall game.
Chat Window[edit | edit source]
Chat Presets[edit | edit source]
Expanded Chat Window with Channels and Language Options[edit | edit source]
Language Menu[edit | edit source]
Menu Shortcuts[edit | edit source]
- Quick Menu
- There are 10 icons along the top of the basic UI screen. Each of these is a menu shortcut to frequently accessed parts of the main menu. From left to right: [Guide Missoin], [Event], [Task], [Dungeons], [Shop], [Package], [Cash Shop], [Mail], [Bag], and the Main Menu icon.
- Selecting the Main Menu icon will open up the menu bars along the top and bottom of the screen.
Guides[edit | edit source]
- Accounts and the Application - How to Install and Play the Game • Linking Mobile Accounts to MapleStory M • Unlinking Mobile Accounts from MapleStory M • Deleting a MapleStory M Account • Recovering a MapleStory M Account Scheduled for Deletion • The Options Menu
- Characters - Character Creation • Character Jobs • Character Stat Introduction • Skills • Delete Characters
- Main Menus - System • Main Menu
- System Elements - Map • Fever Buff • Auto Battle • Auto Quest System • Mailbox • Player Ranks
- Pets and Mounts - Pets (Guide) • Pets and Mounts
- Items - Item Types and Ranks
- Mechanics - Potential • Extraction • Lock • Gold Leaf • Jewels
- General Activities - Quests and Achievements • Missions
- Dungeons - Mini Dungeons • Elite Dungeons • Daily Dungeons
- Specific Locations - Storage • Trade Station • Nett's Pyramid • Mu Long Dojo • Star Force Field • Forge
- Community - Friends • Parties


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Popular French fitness blogger Rebecca Burger, 32, was killed in a freak accident at her home when a whipped cream dispenser exploded.
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During the early morning hours of Saturday, Sept. 29, Campus Safety responded to calls made from an off-campus party regarding a non-student individual who was physically and verbally attacking students.
Campus Safety responded and spoke with the individual. According to Mark Welker, Director of Campus Safety, the man was inebriated.
They spoke to him and called the Galesburg Police Department. They then turned their attention to another individual to see if they could get information. Welker says that when they turned back to the man, he was running off the property towards Main Street.
Campus Safety did look at his Illinois identification card, which they said was weathered and hard to read. They are currently working on getting a name and address of the perpetrator.
Nobody at the scene wanted to pursue legal charges at the time, according to Welker.
On Monday, Oct. 1 at 12:08 a.m., Campus Safety responded to a student who saw the perpetrator in the Gizmo. Campus Safety removed the man from campus and asked him not to come back.
Campus Safety did not send an email out to the campus because they determined there was no imminent threat. Welker says they decide whether or not to send an email on a case-by-case basis.
"So we've had several people approach us and other administrators on campus regarding that incident and we really appreciate that," Welker said.
Campus Safety is currently working on confirming the information of the man. They said once they have his name and address they can formally ban him from campus.
Welker and Campus Safety Officer Nathan Kemp described the man as thin and tall, with dark hair. He appears to be in his 20s.
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Gilmer Golf Tees Off Back-to-Back Against SoutheastGHS Golf, Team FYN Sports March 29, 2016
The Gilmer High School golf team played three matches in four days last week, with the Southeast Whitfield Raiders on the schedule in back-to-back fashion.
After traveling to Indian Trace Golf Course in Chatsworth to face the Raiders last Tuesday, GHS hosted the Raiders the following day at Whitepath Golf Course.
At Indian Trace, the Raiders edged out a 189-195 victory in the boys match. Joshua Dobbs led the Bobcats by shooting a 45. Kanyon Smith finished his day with a 49, while J.T. Bosley tallied a 50 for the match.
Tyler Queen recorded a 51 at Indian Trace, while Colin Pflueger registered a 52 and Dylan Stewart finished his round with a 54.
Lady Cats Natalie Watkins and Mallory Kiser both shot a 56 at Indian Trace, while McKenzie Chambers recorded a 60 and Mary Lee Callihan finished her day with a 61.
The match at Whitepath ended with another Southeast Raiders victory, 170-185.
Stewart led the Cats by shooting a 44. Dobbs finished with a 45, while both Queen and Tanner Cantlay compiled a 46. Pflueger shot a 50, while both Bosley and Smith finished the match with a 51.
For the Lady Cats, Macie Chastain and Watkins both shot a 53. Chambers recorded a 55, while Callihan shot a 58 and Kiser finished the course with a 59.
Gilmer then traveled to Fields Ferry Golf Club in Calhoun last Friday, for a tri-match against the hosting Gordon Central and Adairsville.
The Bobcats finished second, as Gordon Central won 183-201-203. Stewart again led the Bobcats by shooting a 47. Dobbs recorded a 49, while Cantlay finished his day with a 50. Queen shot a 52, while Pflueger tallied a 54 and Smith finished his day with a 55.
The Lady Cats finished third, with Gordon Central triumphing 147-159-171. Chastain led Gilmer by shooting a 57. Chambers recorded a 60, while Watkins shot a 62 and Callihan finished the match with a 63.
Gilmer will head to Dawson today, for a tri-match with the Tigers and the Fannin Rebels, before traveling to Towns County Thursday for a match.
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We fly the fuel-efficient 4-seat Robinson R44 helicopter, manufactured by the Robinson Helicopter Company in Torrance, California. The R44 is known for excellent safety and reliability, smooth handling, and superior comfort. The spacious cockpit contains two rows of seats. The 2 by 2 seat configuration provides for one passenger seat in the front next to the pilot, and two passenger seats in the rear of the helicopter. All seats are window seats and the open cabin design allows for unobstructed viewing. Personal belongings can be stored safely in the baggage compartments under each seat. Two-way intercom permits spontaneous communication with your pilot. In every aspect, the R44 is ideally suited to providing you with a comfortable, enjoyable and safe air tour.
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Has anyone else ever noticed that for every word you look up on Google, there is at least one picture of cats? It's kind of impressive really. I don't know when cats became the internet overlords but it happened and I welcome it. This is at least the fourth post that I've put up with pictures of cats – not because that's what I was looking for but because that was one of the pictures that came up in the keyword search. Brilliant.
I love snuggling. Who doesn't? Go ahead, I dare you to be that jerk that says they don't love snuggling. See how far that gets you.
I just want you ThinkGeeks to know that I also Googled "science of snuggling" and this is what came up. Here's the thing guys, it's not that I don't love you. I love each and every one of you…ish… But I'm going to need you to chill out and get out of my brain and my Googlespace. Please. I know David is one of you which makes me about an eighth one of you but I still need you to give me some space sometimes.
In other news, I still love snuggling. David is home for the next handful of days so I'm probably going to snug his whole face off. Why? Cuz that's how I roll yo. David is lying there all unsuspecting right now. Little does he know, his favorite human radiator is about to be so up in his bizznass that he sweats like a … just a thought here… is there any "sweats like a " reference that isn't inappropriate in mixed company? Share?
You may or may not be able to tell I'm slightly scatterbrained tonight. On that note, it's time to force my hotness (literal and otherwise) in David's general direction. He will miss this in a week. I just have to keep reminded him of that. And attempt not to smother him do death with my (very intense) sleep snuggling (and sleep hitting… kicking… walking…).
Cheers to the fuzzy wuzzy goodness that is a good snuggle. Whether it's with friends, family, or an adorable member of the animal kingdom, it all feels so good. Spread the love.
"Happiness is a way station between too little and too much." Channing Pollock
Well I've tried out the "too little" part so help me out here Mr.Moneypenny and set me on the path of "too much" and I'll work on my own dissertation. I'll let you know as soon as I do whether or not I agree with your statement.


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Ah, the trade show. A thinly veiled junket. A free trip to somewhere warm. Where days are spent manning booths inside cavernous, windowless convention centers, making small talk with uninterested visitors. Counting down the hours between expense-account meals.
At least, that's what many people think of when they hear the term. Based on the great experiences we had just this week with our friends at Freightliner Custom Chassis at this year's Work Truck Show, however, we think trade shows can be incredibly valuable for all kinds of organizations. The important first step, of course, is looking at them as key opportunities instead of extensive – and expensive – time wasters. From there, it can be as simple as following these steps.
- Plan ahead. Seems silly to say that, but how often do you truly put together a dedicated, strategic plan around a big trade show or industry conference? This is more than planning which brochures and posters and tchotchkes you want to take with you; it's defining real goals about what you and your team want to accomplish and how a successful event can be defined – and achieved.
- Make some time to meet. Don't just hide out in your own space, waiting for others to come to you. As part of your overall show strategy, identify key customers, thought leaders, members of the media, etc., that you would love to connect with in person. And then ask them to do just that. Send a personalized email and follow up with a phone call, asking for a few minutes to meet and talk.
- Take a hike. Schedule time at least once a day to wander (with purpose) throughout the entire expanse of the convention floor. Stop at other booths or spaces randomly, taking in the experience the way someone would when visiting yours. Scout out competitors, vendors and potential partners. Take note of what you like about particular booth experiences and designs – as well as what you don't like.
- Share your adventures. It's easy to think that trade shows and industry conferences exist in a vacuum – anyone and everyone who matters is already there. And yet rare is the instance where this is the case – there will always be people not attending the event, whether they're industry media, potential or current customers, vendors/suppliers, etc. – this is why it's so important to include them in your communications efforts during the event. Create a mini communications plan for the event, laying out how you'll share what you're up to via your social presence, your website, your media contacts, etc. Give those not there a sense of what they're missing – be their eyes and ears.
By spending a little bit of extra time planning your team's efforts and defining your goals, you can turn your next trade show or industry conference into a more successful and valuable utilization of everyone's time and skills. You'll certainly feel less guilty about expensing that nice steak dinner.


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Veterans Day facts for kids(Redirected from Veterans' Day)
Veterans Day is the American holiday when people who had served in the military during war-time are remembered and are thanked. It is both a federal and a state holiday. The holiday is celebrated on the same day as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day in other countries. These holidays are all November 11. This is the day seen as the end of World War I. The first World War ended on November 11, 1918.
The holiday was first created as Armistice day in 1919 by President Woodrow Wilson. Thirty states made it a state holiday that year. It was made a holiday for the entire country in 1938. On June 1, 1954, the name was changed to Veterans Day.
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The update for Windows 10 April 2019 includes a change that causes some PC games to crash Windows with a blue screen of death. Not all games have resolved the issue, but Microsoft has confirmed that the update will still be released.
Okay, let's be fair here: Most of the affected PC games have fixed the problem and do not freeze your system. But some will know, and we do not know which ones. This change looks like a betrayal of Microsoft's commitment to backward compatibility. It's especially annoying to think that Windows 1
Why Fortnite (and More) Crashed Windows
In the development versions of April 109 of Windows 10 – also known as 19H1: Windows crashes with some of the anti-cheat programs needed by games green screen of death, also known as GSOD. Green screens of death are just like traditional blue screens of death (BSODs) on insider builds. So, you will see a blue screen of death if you encounter this error as soon as the April 2019 update of Windows 10 is stable.
The most popular software affected was BattlEye's anti-cheat software, which was used in Fortnite, causing GSODs and rendering Fortnite unplayable on Windows 10 development builds. Not only was the game not playable – Windows would freeze on the launch of Fortnite Insiders stopped the system and Microsoft introduced an "upgrade block" that prevents Windows Insiders from installing the latest operating system builds with games like Fortnite.
On March 28, Microsoft wrote: "Many games that use anti-cheat software have released bug fixes for the problem that checks PCs for errors (GSOD)." Microsoft also stated that the upgrade block was repealed But wait: Microsoft did not say that all the games fixed the problem.
Microsoft confirms: Some games cause BSODs
Here's the problem: A change at operating system level caused the software to freeze the operating system. However, Microsoft did not fix this at the operating system level, only that game developers are expected to repair their anti-cheat software, so if you're playing a game that has not yet been patched, Windows will suddenly freeze your entire operating system and bring it to a standstill
This is not just our speculation: Microsoft's Brandon LeBlanc, Senior Program Manager for the Windows Insider Program Team, confirmed that affected games will continue to freeze the Windows operating system on Twitter:
The block will be removed as the majority of games affected by this issue has released updates for their games. Most players will not be affected anymore.
– Brandon LeBlanc (@brandonleblanc) April 3, 2019
If not corrected. Much of it is about third parties and I can not speak for them. The team on our side told me a) The majority of the games that would affect this issue have issued a correction and b.) The block has been removed.
– Brandon LeBlanc (@brandonleblanc) April 3, 2019
In other words, the latest software is installed on your Windows 10 PC even if you have an affected game installed. When you play the game, your PC starts with a blue screen. But it's not Microsoft's fault! Microsoft says that third parties are responsible for this and you should consider it for troubleshooting.
Microsoft is clearly stuck between a rock and a hard place. Anti-cheat programs probably did some stupid things with the Windows kernel, and stopping the Windows kernel probably makes Windows 10 better and safer. However, Microsoft knows that this change will break the existing software, and none of this for the player who suddenly decides on a Windows operating system that an update will be automatically installed.
Like Rafael Rivera The Twitter discussion states, "The users do not know that the game is to blame. The shutdown of the system was at Microsoft so far a big no.
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The financial health and quality of the championships experience for student-athletes are two areas the new Division I Competition Oversight Committee wants to focus on in the months ahead.
During its meeting this week in Indianapolis, the committee charged its finance subcommittee with reviewing resource allocation and management in areas that impact the student-athlete experience and long-term financial sustainability in the championships program.
Committee members Monday and Tuesday discussed areas that the financial subcommittee should consider during its review, including concerns on campus about championships travel, and areas for improvement identified by NCAA staff. The subcommittee will ask conferences, student-athletes, coaches, administrators and sport committees for feedback.
"We want to know the priorities and expectations from those groups," said Mitch Barnhart, the chair of the committee and director of athletics at the University of Kentucky. "We have a lot of bright people in the room and have the opportunity to shape what the Division I championships will look like in the next 10-15 years. We will start to get some best practices together from the information gathered from those different constituencies. The financial viability in a changing world is a top priority."
After gathering feedback over the next few months, the Division I Competition Oversight Committee is scheduled to meet Feb. 8-9 in Indianapolis, and the financial subcommittee should be able to start developing its strategies to address its charge.
The committee also referred back to the Division I Softball Committee a proposal to expand the super regional format from two to three days.
Currently, softball super regionals are a two-day, best-of-three-games format. Game one is played on day one, and games two and three (if necessary) are played on day two. The super regional winners advance to the Women's College World Series in Oklahoma City.
Regarding the "if necessary" third game, the Division I Softball Committee believes that contesting a game of this significance 45 minutes after the completion of game two does not provide a good championship experience. Student-athletes are not fresh and at their best under those circumstances, the committee felt.
If the change is made, the annual budget impact could be as high as $118,240. This includes $7,280 in per diem and $7,500 in operational costs for a total of $14,780 per site. Over the past five years, the average number of "if necessary" games per year was 3.2; so the committee identified an annual cost of approximately $50,000 as more realistic.
Other items discussed by the Division I Competition Oversight Committee included:
- Reviewing sports committees to see if any modifications should be made in the future;
- Supporting a proposal to reduce the Division I Women's Gymnastics Championships from a three-day event to a two-day event. The championships event is the only time gymnasts are asked to compete on three consecutive days and the change will reduce missed class time.


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I have just about the worst case of laryngitis I have ever had in my life. And that is a huge bummer since this week is really busy, with the kids' Open Houses for school, back to school shopping, seeing people we haven't seen all summer.. being able to speak coherently would be really helpful and convenient right now. I was trying to talk to Jack's teachers, and he was bright red with embarrassment at my attempt at speaking. Sorry, Jack!!!
But at the same time, these precious little guys have said things that have made ME cringe, or laugh, or want to cry with how cute they are... here are a couple that stand out.
My friend Tricia and her daughter Makenzie took Elisa out today for lunch and a movie- and it was the best thing they could have done. I was able to take a nap with the baby while the boys and their friends played Wii. Elisa was gone for 4 hours, and when she came back she was so excited to tell me what she ate at lunch and how much she liked the movie. She saw Kit Kittredge- she loved it- and then they went to Chilis. Where, she said, she ordered "Mackyrony cheese and cornatthecob" . When she said that, I almost died thinking how much I love that little girl. Corn AT the Cob- I just love her!!!!
And then there was the time when Will was about 3 years old and he asked me, completely seriously, for a " Peanut butter and jelly sandwich, with no peanut butter and no jelly, just ham and cheese, but no cheese....." He looked me dead in the eye and asked for that... thank God he wasn't with friends in a restaurant!!!
Thursday, August 14, 2008
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- Jen said...
A peanut butter and jelly sandwich with no peanut butter and no jelly but with ham and chesse but no cheese...I swear I could hear Will saying that. That might be the funniest thing ever!
- August 15, 2008 at 9:47 AM
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Three great things about S.P.T.A. Said Person of That Ability are the intelligent rapping, the skilful scratching, and the superb production. Better than those is the fact that it's just one person doing all three. Even better still is that J-Live (aka Justice Allah) performs those roles on the album as three separate characters who actually interact with each other: they joke with each other, they lose patience with each other, and they reconcile. Best of all is the fact that it works – and it works brilliantly.
S.P.T.A. (pronounced "Spitta") is essentially a concept album in which the artist is divided into his component parts, and his history, lifestyle and values are aired and examined as a dialogue between the three Justices that we meet on the record.
There are archetypes at work here – it's a discussion between Id, Ego and Superego (Producer, DJ and Rapper respectively) and while Justice the Rapper gets to think out loud about what it all means, he also has to deal with the easily led-astray Justice the DJ and the unreliable Justice the Producer.
The recurring themes for J-Live, after fifteen years in the music business, are ideas of sustainability in a changing industry ("My very first single titled 'Longevity'"), motivation for making art ("The difference between me and you is I know why I do this / If you think this'll make you rich, then you're stupid") and the hubris of hip hop superstardom:
It's like that brand new rapper with instant mass appeal
He caught a break with that big major record deal
Acting like the rest is already history
But the release date remains a mystery…
The personal figures large on this album too. Family, fatherhood and responsibility are examined in the light of the ability to make a career. How do you be good at being a hip hop artist and good at being a human being?
S.P.T.A. is an honest, powerful album that rewards close listening. It's thoughtful, and open in a way that a simple monologue perhaps couldn't be. But it's also a lot of fun: entertaining, funny, and woven together with killer grooves and solid funk. It's not the sound of someone doing some deep searching and beard-stroking, but rather the sound of someone likeable and relatable who's come into some maturity and wisdom and is enjoying sharing it. And that makes it a masterpiece.
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24 Apr LET'S MEET THE WINNERS OF THE COMPETITION #READERSOFTHEFUTURE. Winner of the second place in literature.
Sara Tahiraj, Winner of the second place, with topic "Dear author", Vlora.
I go to the 5th grade, school "Drita e Dijes".
Question: Do you like writing or it happened just by chance?
No it was not by chance. I like to put my thoughts in paper. Writing is and will be always be a reality of my life, of which I will never quit.
Question: What books do you read? Which is the latest book you have read?
Books which I mostly read are mainly the novels. They keep enriching my vocabulary. Te latest book I have read is "Grandpa's Great Escape". I just finished it yesterday.
Question: Which do you like most, Albanian or foreign literature?
I read a lot, and I like mostly the foreign literature. From this literature there are many publications: novels, short stories which I really like. But I like as well dancing and painting.
Question: Have you ever thought of what you will become when you grow up, or it is still too early?
I can't give an exact response concerning my future profession, but for the moment I would like to become a well-known writer. Something that makes me love this profession day by day is the strong feeling to prove living in the word that "I myself" have created, and not in the real world.
Question: Did you expected this prize?
As concerning the prize… yes I did, thanks to my mother who kept encouraging me.
Many thanks t teacher Arbana Rusha Beqiraj, that provided us the short interview of Sara.


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Villa Samuan, Seminyak
Villa Samuan is a unique retreat that combines a serene atmosphere with a sense of proper indulgence. The villa offers a stylish and inspirational setting, backed-up by a team of excellent staff who will make you experience genuine Balinese hospitality. A stay in Villa Samuan will help you rest your mind and soul in an effortless and comfortable manner.
The villa is decorated in a distinctive East-meets-West style. Surrounded by the lush greens of our large garden, you will most likely forget that you are located right in the center of vibrant Seminyak, in a quit residential area a home far from home.
Villa Samuan consists of two separate properties, offering a total of five tastefully decorated bedrooms. The villa can be rented as a whole, but is also suitable for smaller families who wish to rent a two- or three-bedroom combination.
Villa Bali Samuan is situated in the center of Seminyak, a vibrant locality with a cosmopolitan feel. Despite its central location, the direct surroundings of the villa are green and quiet. With its safe and friendly character, Seminyak is the ideal spot for everybody wanting to enjoy a carefree holiday.
An outstanding range of lush restaurants, trendy cafés, chic clubs and exclusive boutiques can be found within a mere five-minute walk, as well as the alluring Oberoi beach.
Villa Bali Samuan derived its name from Pura Samuan Tiga, an extraordinary temple located in Bedulu. Flanked by two rivers and the gorgeous greens of inland Bali, the temple is considered a meeting place for gods and saints. Sacred trees provide shelter from the sun, creating a wonderfully tranquil environment.
This very place served as a main source of inspiration for Villa Bali Samuan and lent the retreat its name. The literal meaning of Samuan – meeting – captures the spirit of the villa, that we consider the perfect place for a get-together with those close to you. The villa's architecture and furnishing are intended to create an atmosphere similar to that of the temple, fit for reflection and tranquility.
Villa Kalih (2 bedrooms)
Villa Kalih is a two-bedroom property, featuring a living room, private kitchen, and a special area reserved for dining and relaxation. You can choose to enjoy your meal inside or outside, according to you own preferences. The first bedroom offers a four-poster bed and an en- suite dressing area, which is connected to the bathroom. The bathroom features a honeymoon bathtub, shower and toilet. The second bedroom has two single beds, a separate dressing area and an en-suite garden view bathroom.
Villa Kalih has a 9-meter long pool, surrounded by an ironwood deck and situated in a fully private coconut-tree garden. For guests who wish to enjoy an on location spa treatment, a portable massage table is provided.
Villa Siki (3 bedrooms)
Villa Siki is a three-bedroom property, featuring a living room, private kitchen, and a special area reserved for dining and relaxation. Whether you wish to enjoy your meal inside or outside, it is your pick. The luxurious master bedroom is connected to the living room and offers a comfortable four-poster bed, as well as an en-suite dressing-area. The dressing area is connected to the bathroom, which features a shower, toilet and wooden bathtub. The second and third bedroom are connected to the bale, an open living area at the backside of the garden. One bedroom has a four-poster bed, while the other features two single beds.
Villa Siki has its own 12-meter long pool with a distinguishing pond-like design. The villa has a special massage area with bathtub and private courtyard, featuring an outdoor shower and massage table. Accompanied by the sound of purling water, our own villa therapist will have you enjoy the spa treatment of your choice. Villa Siki also offers a brand-new entertainment room, equipped with a wide-screen 3D television and comfortable sofa for up to ten people.
Villa Bali Samuan (5 bedrooms)
Villa Bali Samuan is a five-bedroom villa, built on a spacious lot in central Seminyak. The villa consists of two separate properties – Villa Siki and Villa Kalih – offering a total of five tastefully decorated bedrooms. The air-conditioned bedrooms all have en-suite bathrooms and are equipped with flat screen LCD television and DVD player. The two villas are connected by a large private inner court, scattered with coconut trees. Each villa has a pool, set in a wooden deck with luxurious daybeds. Villa Samuan can be rented as a whole, but is also suitable for smaller families who wish to rent a two- or three-bedroom combination. In both cases, you will have all the privacy you need.
Our twelve staff members will make you experience genuine Balinese hospitality by delighting you with the best possible service. Whether you wish to start your day with a good breakfast or need to assemble an adventurous daytrip, our staff is there to meet your wishes. A butler is invisibly present from the early morning until the late evening, but can stay longer upon request. Our chef prepares dinner on an exceptionally high level and is familiar with both the Western and Asian kitchen. The security staff is present from the afternoon until the early morning and is there to secure your safety.
- Complimentary return airport transport on arrival and on departure.
- Welcome drink and refreshment towel upon arrival at the villa.
- Daily serving Breakfast.
- Free mineral drinking water for the duration of stay.
- Housekeeping (morning and evening service).
- Butler 07.00 AM to 11.00 PM.
- Private cook.
- Security afternoon and night.
- Laundry / dry cleaning service (at cost).
- Baby-sitting, in-villa massages, car and driver, and tours are available on request at an extra charge.
- Area: Private villa.
- Pool: Two swimming pools (12×3m and 9×3m).
- Accommodations: 5 air-conditioned bedrooms divided over two villas with ensuite bathroom; Living & Dining Area; Private kitchen in both villas; Entertainment room; Library.
- Entertainment: Flat screen TV; DVD player; HiFi connection for iPhone; iPod or Mp3 player.
- Communication: High speed Wi-Fi Internet access; Excellent cell phone coverage; IDD; Local calls; Landlines telephone.
- Family: Baby bed; High chair is available on request.
- Additional facilities: Safe deposit box; Self-contained power generator.
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Rates, Check-In and Check-Out
- Rates include Airport transfers pick up and drop off, all complimentary and using villa's facilities.
- Rates are subject to 15.5% government tax and service charge.
- Rates are quoted net in US Dollar.
- Maximum person stay in villa is 2 person per room.
- Check in time is after 2 P.M. Early check in depends on villa availability.
- Check out time is 12 P.M.
- Late check out until 18:00 is charged 50% from 1 night rate and after 18:00 consider a full night charge.
- Early check in and late check out are subject to space availability and prior notification is requested.
- Groceries and beverages are charged at cost price plus a negotiable handling fee which is subject to service charge and government tax.
- A Balinese silence day, "Nyepi" March 7th, 2019 from 6 a.m. until 6 a.m. the next morning, no possible to Check In and Check Out.
- Low season (minimum stay 3 nights): The rest of the year.
- High season (minimum stay 5 nights): Chinese New Year; Easter Week; 01 July – 15 September.
- Peak season (minimum stay 7 nights): 20 December – 10 January.


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Hospitals and physicians are putting their cumbersome paper medical records into much more easily accessed and manipulated electronic form. Now you can, too.
An array of products, from computer programs for your desktop to record-keeping software for pocket PCs or Palm devices, allow you to gather, update, and carry your medical information easily in the form of a digital "personal health record." The idea: Having essential health information at your fingertips -- your health history and vital stats, any medications you're taking and the dosages, your allergies, your lab results and even your living will -- helps patients communicate more accurately with their doctors and presumably get better care.
"An individual may be seeing an allergist, a cardiologist, and a radiologist -- sometimes all in the same day," says Eric Pan, an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and a senior scientist at the Center for Information Technology Leadership in Charlestown, Mass. He sees personal health records as a way to make sure all the right information gets to everyone involved in care.
When storing the data at home is what you aim to do, a desktop program or an Internet-based system could be the answer. HealthFrame, for example, is a downloadable product available at rec ordsforliving.com for about $40 that lets users keep track of appointments; input medications and such indicators as blood pressure, weight and cholesterol, which can be graphed and tracked over time; and attach original documents such as doctors' notes and billing receipts.
For $5 a month (or $8 for two people), Internet-based Medikeeper adds several bells and whistles to the standard record-keeping features. You get access to a "MediLibrary" of in-depth information on diseases and conditions, for example, and a toll-free number that health professionals can call to access your health records in an emergency.
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Some Internet-based personal health records support secure e-mail communication so that you can exchange information as needed with your doctor. (Be aware, though, that many doctors are still working out how they'll ask you to pay for e-mail consults.) Kaiser Permanente and Partners Healthcare in Boston are two health-care providers that have created "tethered" Internet-based systems that are integrated with the companies' own electronic medical records, so participants can get much of their information in one place.
If you desire portability, the $50 EMRy Stick plugs into any USB flash drive and lets users create up to 10 different medical profiles -- a boon for large families -- and print summaries of the data. By plugging the drive into their office computers, doctors can update the information for you at each visit, and print copies for their own records. If the stick is lost -- one curse of portability -- the data are password-protected and automatically encrypted.
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As is true with electronic budgeting and bill-paying, it takes some work -- and computer savvy -- to get started. It's up to the patient to gather the data from his or her team of doctors and upload or input the information into the program. The payoff, says William Kupchunas, a rehabilitation nurse manager at the University of Pennsylvania, is that patients become more knowledgeable about and more accountable for their health and their treatment.
Kupchunas recently wrote a paper recommending that health professionals who cooperate with patients wanting to manage their own records use the one-on-one time for some health education.
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an interview with randy bezet
Creating, and continually evaluating an environment of health for yourself, your team, and your church is so important. We've heard many times, healthy things grow. While that is true, it is equally true that toxic things can also grow. Only using growth as a metric of health can be a detriment to the pastor
and church.
Is growth the main factor when determining church health?
When pastors think, "healthy things grow," and their growth is not what they hope for or expect, they can quickly begin to get discouraged. Then they see what other pastors are doing all over social media and discouragement and insecurities can start to creep into your heart. Let's be honest, nobody posts when things are not going so well. They post the victories. This can give you a false sense of reality.
The first question you generally start to ask yourself is, "Why am I not growing like that? Why am I not seeing the same successes?" In the proper context, these questions can be helpful, but we tend to focus strictly on growth and numbers because we are trained to think that growth is the only sign of health. That isn't true at all, because unhealthy things grow too.
Growth should be a by-product of being healthy and not necessarily a sign of
being healthy.
What are the things you look for as signs of health for you and your church and what are the things you have in place to promote a healthy lifestyle for yourself and your team?
You have to be healthy in your soul. Jesus said that whatever comes out of the mouth, it gets its start in the heart. You must guard your heart because it's the wellspring of life. All the issues of life flow out of that. With that said, a healthy soul cannot always easily be identified.
To have a healthy church, you have to have a healthy pastor. To be a healthy pastor, you have to be a healthy person. The metrics for that are hard to define, but we can do our part as leaders and build environments for ourselves, staff, and our leadership team that promotes and celebrates healthy choices and lifestyles. And then each person still has to take personal responsibly and make a choice to be healthy.
First, every pastor needs a place they can go and be completely transparent and honest and not be concerned about being judged. I remember right before I took some time off, I went to my counselor, and I said, "Look, I'm here to dump all this stuff." I just started spewing everything, and I was overturning every rock in my life to share things with him to make sure I was okay. If you don't have a safe and healthy place where you can go, then you're going to internalize those things you shouldn't. As you internalize these things that may be detrimental to your mental or emotional health, it will impact your soul. This is when unhealthy things grow! So you have to have a safe place.
Second, you have to schedule intentional time to rest. Twice a year we have our pastors and leaders go on a three-day spiritual retreat. This is not a vacation. You don't go with other people. You're off by yourself reading or praying. It's a way for you to get away and spend time with God. It's the principle of the Sabbath, its resting.
How do you respond to things that you find are not healthy, and make the appropriate changes?
Health is not a destination. It's a journey. You have to put safeguards in place so that you can have a lifestyle of being healthy. When a dear friend of mine fell into sin, I remember just struggling and asking myself what could I have done differently? Why in the world did this happen to someone so close to me?
I began to have this understanding and revelation that, look, Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, and it was a perfect environment, but they still chose to sin. God is a perfect Father, a perfect leader, a perfect pastor, a perfect shepherd, and yet, the people that he had there still chose to do the
wrong thing.
As good of an environment as we can create for ourselves and our team for health, people still have the freedom to choose, and sometimes, wrong choices are made. As a pastor, you can't take personal responsibility for other people's wrong choices. You can only create environments and encourage them to make the right choices.
Early on in the life of a church, you might not have the resources to get away for a few weeks to rest, or staff to cover your absence on the weekend. Put yourself in the shoes of a new church planter. What is one thing they need to watch out for at the beginning of their journey?
Comparison. It is probably harder now to stay healthy as a young pastor than it was when I started out. Social media is awesome and a great marketing tool, but man, it just kills you in the comparison game.
We take the exceptions and make them the norm. You see some of these church plants, and they had 500 people at their first service, and they're launching campuses a year in. And you're like, "What the heck, man. I'm not doing anything comparable to that." So you feel like you have to manufacture growth and success because you are comparing yourself to what you see others doing.
If you have to manufacture in the flesh, then you have to maintain it in the flesh. If it's birthed in the spirit, then God is the one that is responsible for maintaining the growth.
At ARC, our goal is to plant healthy churches and to connect you with others, so you are not doing ministry alone. You need somebody that you can call on the good days, and they will celebrate with you, and you also need somebody you can call that will encourage you when things are not going so well. You have to have those people in your life because that is what maintains health in your life and gives you a
proper perspective.
I would also say to the pastors that say, "I can't take a weekend off, or the church will suffer." There are a few ways around this as it should never be an excuse. You can always ask somebody to speak for you live or leverage technology and pull a sermon from another church to play that weekend. You must think beyond just one weekend.
Sometimes we only consider "physical rest" and yet we neglect the "mental rest" that might be more important. When you take a Sunday off of preaching, it can provide you a much needed mental rest. When your brain is always running, always processing the next sermon, it can get extremely exhausting. Taking some weekends off from preaching can be a huge win in health for a pastor.
I just came off of sabbatical, and it was very busy. I traveled a lot, did a lot of different activities, had weddings and funerals, celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary, and traveled all over Europe. I was physically busy. But mentally, I closed down the window of the church.
I didn't have that thing running in the background all the time; running staff, solving problems, preparing sermons. I feel so rested and ready to go because I shut down that mental capacity.
My secret to longevity is to keep a good pace. Your church is not going to die because you didn't speak for one weekend.
Jesus died for the church. You don't have to.
What is one of the primary indicators in your experience that a fellow pastor or church leader should look for to assess their health, and what would be your advice for those things?
One primary thing to look for is, has a pastor lost his love for people? It's possible they have been hurt. Pastors can become mad and frustrated at the very people they are looking to reach and disciple. They begin to lose their love for people, and you can see it all over them.
I know for me, when I start prioritizing tasks over people, its an indicator for me I need to check myself.
If I could boil all this down to one thing, the root cause of most of the issues I come across, is a father wound. Many people have father wounds. If it's true in our society, then its true in our churches. Pastors, leaders, church staff, church planters all potentially are carrying this regardless of their calling.
There are three times where we hear God the Father speaking to His Son on earth, and every time he says the same thing, "this is my son, whom I love, and with Him I am well pleased."
The thing that we all desire, deep down is a sense of belonging. This has nothing to do with growth metrics, this is a soul issue of understanding our place as God's children and being secure in that identity. If we can rest in His love, be secure in what He has called us to do, stay in love with Him and His people, health will come.
This creates healthy people, healthy families, healthy pastors, healthy staffs, and at the end of the day healthy churches. When you have healthy people, you have healthy churches, and they will grow.
Randy and Amy Bezet are the Lead Pastors of Bayside Community Church in Bradenton, FL. Bayside Community Church was ARC church plant No. 5. and Randy now serves on the ARC Lead Team. He has a vision to reach people for Christ, raise them to become followers of Christ, and release them to live their God-given purpose. To learn more visit mybayside.church.