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It might seem a little strange to be making a post about gravy. But we all know how gravy ends up on everything on the table, especially during special days like Thanksgiving. If you're confused on what type of gravy to make, these recipes can give you a creative nudge in the right direction!
1. Soprano's Sunday Italian Gravy
Go old school Italian with this slow-simmered recipe for real Sunday "gravy" (that's pasta sauce to non-Italians). Tony Soprano would be proud!
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2. Vegetarian Gravy
The best vegetarian gravy recipe with fresh mushrooms, garlic, and onion. Packed full with flavour and simple to make. You don't have to be a vegetarian to enjoy this delicious mushroom gravy recipe!
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3. KFC Style Gravy
This is a delicious gravy you'll absolutely love and enjoy with family and friends. It comes out very tasty and flavourful. What's more, it's absolutely easy to make!
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4. Pork Onion Gravy
Easy Pork Onion Gravy, a simple homemade gravy recipe that takes minutes to make. Great on all your favorite comfort foods. Perfect for the holidays too. Serve on your favorite dinner, pour a refreshing glass of iced tea & you're set to make great family memories around the table.
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5. Keto Gravy
Sometimes, the most important part to a roast beef, or roast pork, is to have some gravy, or shall we say keto gravy. This recipe was made with roasts in mind. If you live with others who regularly make normal gravy, then this keto substitute will be your saving grace.
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6. Country Bacon Gravy
Country Bacon Gravy is a simple milk gravy recipe made with bacon grease. If you love biscuits and gravy for breakfast, you'll love this bacon gravy! Take this recipe over the top by using a high quality, applewood smoked, uncured bacon!
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7. Easy Mushroom Gravy
This Easy Mushroom Gravy is quick and simple. It is delicious on top of steaks, mashed potatoes or even meatloaf! We like it on top of perfectly cooked steaks, creamy mashed potatoes and old-fashioned meatloaf. Another favourite is to use a big fluffy pumpkin roll or piece of bread to wipe up any remaining trace of this liquid gold!
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8. Popeye Cajun Gravy
Here's a great stay at home copycat Popeye's Cajun Gravy recipe. Tastes awesome with chicken or mashed potatoes. And don't forget the biscuits!
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9. Southern Style Peppered Gravy
This chicken pepper gravy recipe is the perfect gravy for chicken dishes of all kinds. Roast chicken, fried chicken, mashed potatoes and more It's a true southern style cream gravy that is the basis of so many traditional southern recipes.
From: CountryRecipeBook
10. Caramelized Onion Gravy
You might be a vegetarian, that doesn't mean you should miss out on gravy come Thanksgiving. Even if that means showing up at the door cradling your own gravy boat full of Caramelized Onion Gravy! Fact is, it's easy to make a vegetarian gravy that everyone loves!
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11. Country Sausage Gravy
This easy to make sausage gravy recipe is perfect for your next homemade breakfast of biscuits and gravy. Does it get any better for a delicious country style breakfast? You don't have to travel to a crowded restaurant on a Saturday or Sunday morning to enjoy biscuits and gravy. With this easy recipe, you'll be making the best biscuits and gravy you've ever had!
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12. Easy Turkey Gravy
While Thanksgiving is a wonderful time of the year, we can all relate to the day-of stress, when things aren't going quite according to schedule and you're holding onto your quickly-vanishing sanity by the skin of your teeth. That's why we've got an easy-peasy gravy recipe to lighten your load and make the meal production a little less crazy regardless of whether you're using turkey drippings or not!
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13. Vegan Mushroom Gravy
Our all-time favourite gravy! We've made this recipe so many times, devouring it with such intensity you'd think we hadn't eaten in days! Mashed potatoes and gravy has always been one of my favourite foods but this one is extra special. Enjoy!
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14. Classic Southern Style Gravy
So, just about everybody knows that people in the south consider gravy to be a vital part of the food pyramid, right? Country gravy, also known as cream gravy, goes on chicken fried steaks, chicken fried chicken, biscuits and such. Brown gravy goes on pot roast, roast chicken, turkey and stuff like that. Any kind of gravy goes on mashed potatoes.
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15. Perfect Homemade Gravy
Some might venture to say that the gravy is the most important thing on the table because somehow it ends up on everything on your plate. That's why you need it to be good. And holiday meals are definitely a time to do it the right way; homemade. This recipe will ensure you have amazingly perfect gravy every time!
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16. Roasted Garlic Gravy
This is the last gravy recipe you will ever need and this statement is for everyone. It's easily adapted to people on gluten-free, dairy-free, or even vegan diets. Simple enough and easy enough, this gravy starts with a basic vegetable stock bu the real secret to its success is in roasted garlic.
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17. Creamy White Pepper Gravy
Just three ingredients (I don't count salt and pepper) is all it takes to make the thickest, creamiest, smoothest, most delicious white gravy. Three ingredients. And they're staple ingredients… butter, flour, and milk. I'd be willing to bet that you have those in your kitchen right now!
18. Easy Brown Gravy
Making your own gravy brown gravy is just as quick as packaged, but so much better for you! After you taste your own gravy you might not go back. Here is a recipe to add a little but of flavour to your already yummy potatoes or rice. Great with any beef dish as well!
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Here is the article in question: There is no Obedience in the Trinity. In it, Fr. Ryan Erlenbush asserts multiple serious errors on Jesus and on the Trinity, namely:
1. The claim that in God, there is only one will and one intellect, and that each of the Three Persons does not have, in any sense, their own will, but only the one will of God.
2. The claim that in Jesus, the divine will and divine intellect are not specifically of the Second Person of the Trinity, but solely of the One Nature.
3. The claim that the Son is not obedient to the Father, and the Spirit is not obedient to the Father and the Son.
4. The claim that, when Scripture speaks of the obedience of the Son to the Father, it is only the human nature of the Son that is obedient to the Father.
It would be hard to find any post, written by any Catholic priest, anywhere on the internet, that presents so many grave doctrinal errors, on such an important matter of faith, in so few paragraphs. Let's consider each error in turn.
1. Is there only one will and one intellect in God?
If there were only one will and one intellect in God, then in what sense would there be three Persons?
"CCC 255 The divine persons are relative to one another. Because it does not divide the divine unity, the real distinction of the persons from one another resides solely in the relationships which relate them to one another"
Catholic teaching is that the three Persons have a relationship with one another. That relationship is what distinguishes one Person from another. But without a will and intellect which is, in some sense, of each Person, there can be no relationship. A person without a will or intellect is not a person. If God has only one will and one intellect, then He would be only one Person.
In order for each of the three Persons to love the other Persons, there must be, in some sense, three wills and three intellects — three intellects, because one cannot love what one does not know (knowledge is of the intellect), and three wills because love is a choice of the will. You can't have a relationship with another person, unless each of you has will and intellect of your own. Your relationship with one another is based on a choice of the will to love what you know to be good in the other person. If you don't teach have will and intellect of your own, you don't have a relationship.
But should we say, then, that the Godhead, that is, the Divine Nature, has no will or intellect that is of the Nature? No, of course not. For how can God be truly God if He has no intellect and no will? God is all-knowing, so the Divine Nature must have intellect. God loves and God freely chooses, so the Divine Nature must have will.
But how can the Divine Nature have its own intellect and will, and yet each Person has its own intellect and will? We cannot propose four intellects and four wills, for then we would have four Persons.
The only solution then, to this apparent contradiction, is that the will of God is three yet one, and the intellect of God is three yet one. Any other position either destroys the Threeness of God (as is the case in Fr. Erlenbush's claims), or destroys the Oneness of God.
Does this solution imply that there are four wills in God, one for each Person and one for the Divine Nature? Not at all. For God is not four things: person, person, person, nature. The three Persons are the one Nature; the one Nature is the Three Persons. Therefore, the three wills are the one will, and vice versa, and the same for intellect.
Proof that this position is correct is found in passages of Scripture, which speak specifically of the will of the Father, as distinguished from the will of God (i.e. of the Divine Nature).
Jesus repeatedly speaks of the will of the Father:
{7:21} Not all who say to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the kingdom of heaven. But whoever does the will of my Father, who is in heaven, the same shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.
{12:50} For anyone who does the will of my Father, who is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother."
{4:34} Jesus said to them: "My food is to do the will of the One who sent me, so that I may perfect his work.
Jesus speaks of his own will, and the will of the Father who sent him:
{5:30} I am not able to do anything of myself. As I hear, so do I judge. And my judgment is just. For I do not seek my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
{6:38} For I descended from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
{6:39} Yet this is the will of the Father who sent me: that I should lose nothing out of all that he has given to me, but that I should raise them up on the last day.
{6:40} So then, this is the will of my Father who sent me: that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day."
Jesus tells us that the Father has His own will. We should believe our Lord. He cannot lie, and He is all-knowing.
And we cannot say that Jesus, in speaking of his own will, is solely speaking of his human will, since he says: "I descended from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me." The "I" who descended from Heaven is not the human nature of Jesus — which did not preexist in Heaven before the conception/incarnation. The Logos (the Second Person of the Trinity) descended from Heaven, not to do his own will, the will of the Logos, but to do the will of the Father. And this assertion by Jesus about himself as the Logos (the Word of the Father, that is, the Son of the Father) implies the obedience, in some sense, of the Logos to the Father.
From the Mass: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, by the will of the Father and the work of the Holy Spirit your death brought life to the world…." Thus, the will of the Father is of the Person of the Father.
The Holy Spirit also has his own will, a will which is of the Third Person:
[1 Cor]
{12:11} But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one according to his will.
We should believe what Sacred Scripture teaches, in the words of Saint Paul above — that the Spirit has his own will.
Pope Saint John Paul II: "All believers in Christ, therefore, following the example of the Apostles, must fervently strive to conform their thinking and action to the will of the Holy Spirit…." [Dominum et Vivificantem 62]
But Sacred Scripture also speaks of the will of God, and so we cannot conclude that only the Persons have will, and not the Divine Nature:
{3:35} For whoever has done the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister and mother."
{5:17} For this reason, do not choose to be imprudent. Instead, understand what is the will of God.
Then we also have the example from the private theology of Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), in his book "Behold, the Pierced One":
"the human will [of Jesus] is completely one with the will of the Logos. United with the latter, it has become a pure Yes to the will of the Father." [p. 40]
"Jesus' human will assimilates itself to the will of the Son." [p. 41]
"what unites the two wills is the Yes of Christ's human will to the divine will of the Logos." [p. 92]
The writings of theologian Joseph Ratzinger are not an act of the Magisterium, but also certainly not heretical. He offers the sound theological opinion, in accord with my previous citations from Sacred Scripture and the Magisterium, that the individual Persons of the Trinity have their own will — though I would add that in God, there are not four wills, nor merely three distinct wills, but one will that is three, and three wills that are one.
2. It is true that in Jesus, the Divine will and Divine intellect are not specifically of the Second Person of the Trinity, but solely of the One Nature?
3. Is it true that only the human nature of the Son that is obedient to the Father?
The claim that Jesus is only obedient to the Father in his human nature, and the claim that Jesus has no divine will which is of his divine person, but only the one will of God — claims made Fr. Erlenbush — are grave theological errors. First, these claims make a mockery of the dogma that the Second Person of the Trinity became man. For if the will and intellect that became man can only be attributed to the Divine Nature, and not in any sense to the Second Person in particular, then God became man, but it would then seem that the Son specifically did not.
Second, if the assertions in Sacred Scripture about the will of Jesus (e.g. that Jesus does the will of the Father) can only be said of his human nature, and not of the one Person, then the two natures of Jesus are divided — thus contradicting the dogma of the hypostatic union. For example:
{5:8} And although, certainly, he is the Son of God, he learned obedience by the things that he suffered.
Is Jesus the Son of God only in his human nature? No, of course not. Yet to attribute his obedience only to his human nature is to divide the two natures, as if they were not of one Person. And if there is only one will and one intellect in God, then even if we propose that Jesus was obedient only in his human nature, he would then be obedient only to the Divine Nature, not specifically to the Father — as Sacred Scripture and Jesus himself clearly teach.
Therefore, when God became man as Jesus Christ, the Second Person (Logos) took on a human nature, and therefore has two wills, the human will and the will of the Logos, and two intellects.
If the Father has no will or intellect of his own, then how can the Father send the Son? And if the Son also has no will of his own, other than his human will, how can the Father and the Son send the Spirit. And what can the Spirit do, in the Church, if he has no will of his own? Without a will and intellect which pertains to each Person, the Three Persons are not true Persons. If only the Divine Nature has will and intellect, then the Trinity is a mere illusion.
But if we instead hold that the Father and the Son and the Spirit each have will and intellect, and necessarily also that these three wills and intellects are indeed one in the Divine Nature, then the previously cited teachings of Sacred Scripture and the Magisterium on the will of God make perfect sense. The Father wills to send the Son. The Son, as the Second Person, does the will of the Father, since the Son proceeds only from the Father. All that the Son is, in his Person, is from the Father. And the same can be said of the Spirit, proceeding from the Father and Son, and doing the will of the Father and Son.
4. Is there obedience in the Trinity?
Yes, there is a type of obedience in the Trinity, but it is not worldly obedience, by which one person or will is subjugated to another, as if one were less than the other. The obedience found in the Trinity is based on procession: the Father does not proceed, so He is not obedient. The Son proceeds only from the Father, so He is obedient only to the Father. The Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son, equally, as from one principle, so He is obedient to the Father and the Son.
Thus, the Son is eternally obedient to the Father, and the Spirit is eternally obedient to the Father and the Son — though not as if any one of the three were less than infinite perfect God. For each Person fully possesses the one Divine Nature, and each is fully God — though it is one God only, not three gods.
Thus, the opinion of Fr. Erlenbush on this subject include multiple grave doctrinal errors, and that opinion is neither magisterial teaching, nor sound Catholic theology.
Ronald L. Conte Jr.
Roman Catholic theologian and translator of the Catholic Public Domain Version of the Bible.
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The Woodward Dream Cruise is this weekend, and we're expecting perfect Michigan summer weather for the 23rd running of the massive day-long automotive event (and even if the weather sucks, you can bet the nation's first concrete paved highway is going to packed with cruisers anyway). North of a million people show up. It's a bona fide phenomenon -- and, as we found when we covered the very first Dream Cruise back in 1995, it was a hit right from the start.
From the cruise's official website: "In August 1995, Nelson House and a group of volunteers looked to relive and re-create the nostalgic heydays of the '50s and '60s, when youth, music and Motor City steel roamed Woodward Avenue, America's first highway. That year, 250,000 people participated -- nearly 10 times the number expected. The rest, as they say, is history."
Why did it take off so quickly? It could be that the event came along at just the right time; the people who remembered cruising Woodward in the 1960s and early 1970s were, by the mid-1990s, at the point in their lives where they could afford to indulge in some automotive nostalgia -- and to buy the cars they really wanted when they were hooptie-driving kids. But the event's widespread appeal has always been tied to its accessibility. There's no approval process for cars; now as then, you run what you brung. (And if that means the newer cars outnumber the classic muscle machines, well, so what?)
As J.P. Vettraino found during his visit to the cruise, its instant popularity meant that Woodward was basically a parking lot -- not the place to do stoplight racing even if the cops weren't ready and waiting to issue citations. In the two-plus decades since, the traffic situation hasn't improved. We wouldn't want it any other way.
Read our coverage of the inaugural Dream Cruise below.
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Andy Bell Receives Maureen C. Grady Award for Special AchievementJune 8, 2017
Clark State Community College Board of Trustees member Andy Bell, was named the recipient of the Maureen C. Grady Award for Special Achievement by the Ohio Association of Community Colleges.
"Andy Bell serves as an outstanding example of how a board member can make an impact upon his/her community college," said Dr. Jo Alice Blondin, president of Clark State. "The Board, Foundation, staff, faculty and students are profoundly grateful to him."
First presented to its namesake in 1994, the Maureen C. Grady Award for Special Achievement recognizes the extraordinary leadership and contributions of those trustees who receive this award. Serving as an example for all trustees to emulate, Grady dedicated much of her life to furthering the mission of community colleges in Ohio and throughout the nation.
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Bell's involvement with Clark State began with the Foundation Board in 2000. He served for the maximum nine years, including two terms as Chair. During this time, he also served as Chair of two capital campaigns. Because of his extraordinary service on the Foundation Board, he was appointed by the Governor to the Clark State Board of Trustees in 2006, and served multiple terms as both Chair and Vice Chair. He is the only person to have served as Chair of both the College Board and the Foundation Board. He has also attended many state Trustee conferences through the Ohio Association of Community Colleges.
"Clark State is one of my favorite outside activities," Bell said in a past statement. "I believe in the mission of Clark State and what we do for our students. It's exciting times for community colleges because they are really coming into their own with partnerships with high schools and four-year colleges. The value of community colleges is at an all-time high."
While serving on the Clark State Foundation Board, Andy was instrumental in developing the Champion City Scholars program to identify and prepare 40 low-income 8th-graders each year to become the first in their families to go to college. Andy himself served as a mentor to a group of Scholars to encourage and support them every step of the way.
Andy has developed important partnerships with other educational organizations. As a member of the Board of the Global Impact STEM Academy, he helped to create a partnership that encourages its students to attend Clark State. While on the Board of Directors of Wittenberg University, he helped support a unique Bachelor of Nursing program with academic classes at the university, and technical classes and clinicals through Clark State.
Andy served as Chair of the College's major gifts campaign, which raised $12 million on a $7 million goal, resulting in the construction of the Sara T. Landess Technology and Learning Center. Shortly after that campaign was completed, the College received a $1 million matching grant from the Kresge Foundation to construct an arts and conference center. The gift had to be matched with new money, all or nothing. Andy and his campaign team secured an additional $4 million, and the Hollenbeck Bayley Creative Arts and Conference Center was constructed adjacent to the College's performing arts center.
In recognition of their years of generous gifts and time, the Board of Trustees named the Andy and Cathy Bell Student Success Center. Earlier this year, his outstanding support and service to Clark State for nearly two decades earned him the Champion of Clark State Community College Award, only the second time it has ever been presented.


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The Grande Halle de la Villette, the former Villette Cattle Market, has been a listed historical monument since 1979. It was built between 1865 and 1867. In 1985, the Great Hall at La Villette was transformed into a convention center and showcase theater for cultural events, with a refurbishment being completed in 2007.
Since 1993, the Foundation for the Grande Halle de La Villette and La Villette Park has run the center and its cultural programs.
During your trip to Paris, France Hotel Guide can offer you a range of hotels in the neighborhood around the Grande Halle de La Villette, including traditional hotels, charming hotels and budget hotels.
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Reclaim the Lanes
Reclaim the Lanes
Projects Dates: February - May 2016
Funder: ESRC Knowledge Exchange Secondments Programme
School Contact: Dr David Webb (Co-investigator)
Partner(s): CHAT Trust; Greening Wingrove; Digital Civics at Newcastle University
The project started by working with residents of an area surrounding a back lane in the Arthur's Hill area of Newcastle, most of whom are Slovakian in origin and had previously had very limited dialogue with either the council or Greening Wingrove, the local community partnership project. The project encouraged local teenagers who had been developing their musical skills at the CHAT Trust to perform as part of a series of street parties in the back lane.
Dr Webb will continue this work, using the CHAT Trust's sound and film recording equipment together with new technologies designed by Digital Civics, to engage with the local Slovakian community using Facebook, by producing music videos and through focus groups.
The results of this work will be produced as short films and shown in the back lane to bring the community together and to encourage debate on how local services might be adapted to meet their needs.
Reclaim the Lanes contributes to a broader interest across the School in alternative forms of practice and co-operative and user-led forms of direct environmental action and will strengthen existing links with the CHAT Trust and Greening Wingrove Community Co-operative.
End of Project Report
The Reclaim the Lanes final report is available to download: Advocacy through environmental change: developing a critical praxis (PDF: 1.6 MB).
Co-operative Neighbourhoods: working together
This participatory workshop was organised by Dr David Webb with the CHAT Trust and Greening Wingrove in January 2017 to investigate how communities can be activated in service delivery and debate whether digital technology can help in collaborative working.
You can read a blogpost about the day, which includes the participant's presentations, on our School blog. One participant, Annabel Davidson Knight from Collaborate, also wrote a post about the event which can be read on the Collaborate blog.
Reclaim the Lanes film
You can watch a film montage of the project below.
A longer film exploring reflections on the process of creating Reclaim the Lanes with participants is also available to watch via our Youtube channel.


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Expressions of my life - An evolution of art.
Where do I begin, story tellers must think the same thing silently as they choose their words carefully as to truly reflex their thoughts. As do I tonight 11p pst. I've a feeling my sleep patterns are shifting again, regardless tonight let's look at the thing that's been evolving today whilst the world spun.
first a little music for the soul and for those on their was to work, a little bus stop entertainment. This time let's start with the close up and finish big, shall we?
Then possibly some written words pulled from a much larger piece I wrote a while ago.
Tread lightly on this summers breeze
In the dark of your heart
For it will consume all that you are
Leaving you but like a shell
Cast away by the sea
Eaten and plucked whole
Then we come to a pausing point, so let's take a look…
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Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/715765091926064
Kuutsemäe location: https://www.google.ee/maps…
It is a two-day event that is held on 3 different courses in Kuutsemäe, Valgjärve and Meegaste. You play 1 round on each course. It is a non-PDGA event and the focus is on promoting discgolf in Estonia. It is a promotional event where we would like to invite Finnish players and the Estonian top flight. Teemu Nissinen and Silver Lätt are coming! What are Your plans?
Date: 3.-4. June
Location: 224km from Tallinn in Kuutsemäe Ski Resort
Conditions: 3 courses, 270 players, non-PDGA promotional event.
3 courses, 3 rounds, 1 round per course - Kuutsemäe, Valgjärve (Euro Tour event course), Meegaste. All located in the same area (approximately 30km drive). Two rounds are played on Saturday, one on Sunday.
Registration starts: 2 January @ Skoorin
Entery fee: € 20.
4 Categories: MPO (900+ PDGA), MA3 (Under 900), Masters, FPO
MPO will have cash payout to 3 top places (expected: 750€, 500€, 250€ + presents from sponsors - last year we had a GT Mountain-bike + different kind of other prizes), places 4-6 will get presents from sponsors. Focus is on fun and promotion. Not raitings but just a good training and chill!
Also we will have lots of prizes for MA3, Masters and FPO. Hope to get a cash payout for every group.
Accomodation is in Kuutsemäe. We will have good packages for players. Courses are ready on the 1st of June. Players will arrive on 1st or on 2nd June to practice.
Kuutsemäe CDG aftermovie this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUddzVm ... e=youtu.be
1. june - arrival, training session, chillout
2. june - training session, chillout
3. june - 2 rounds + players party
4. june - 1 round + tournament ceremony
If you are interested in participating, let me know. Thanks!
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Latitude64° Festival 2017 @ Otepää, Estonia (3.-4. June)
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Use an SSH Tunnel to Safely Browse the Internet While on the Go
It's a common scenario: you're on the road – in an airport, at a hotel, at a coffee shop, at a hacker con – any number of locations and you need access to the Internet. There is generally WiFi at all of these locations. Some charge, some are free, but nearly all of them are insecure. Most people are at least somewhat aware of the insecurities of using a public wireless network to do sensitive things like online banking, checking their email, playing Farmville on Facebook and other important things. The recent release of tools such as Firesheep has finally brought some real-world impact to what security geeks have been saying forever: don't do important things on insecure wireless networks or you're gonna get rocked.
So what do you do when you're on the road and need to access critical web-based services? If your company has VPN access in place, then use that. Otherwise do what we do. Use a dynamic SSH tunnel to pipe all your traffic securely out of the wireless network and safely to its destination.
All you need in order to rig this up is SSH access to a Linux server somewhere on the interwebs and a few minutes to configure your browser.
First establish an SSH connection to your server using this string
ssh [email protected] -p 22 -D8080
Where user is the username of your account on the remote box, host is the hostname or IP address of your server, -p is the port it listens on (22/tcp by default) and -D8080 is the port you're opening the dynamic tunnel on.
This opens up a local SOCKS proxy on your machine that you can then pass any program that supports SOCKS proxying through. In this case we're gonna toss Firefox through it.
Now open up the proxy settings of your browser. In Firefox navigate to Edit>Preferences>Advanced>Network>Settings. From there check the 'Manual proxy configurations' radio button and enter 'localhost' for SOCKS Host and '8080' for Port, like below
Now visit a site like ipgoat.com (my favorite IP checking site) to verify that your browser is actually being passed thru the tunnel. The IP should show up as the server you've connected thru, not the IP of the wireless network you're connected to.
That's it. If you've set things up properly you can now surf fairly securely without fear of being trivially hijacked by some random script kiddie with too much time on their hands.
A few additional things you can do to make it easier and safer:
Install the Multiproxy Switch add-on to make switching between tunneled and non-tunneled modes with a few clicks.
Tunnel your DNS queries thru the tunnel as well to prevent DNS hijacking attacks. To do this type 'about:config' into the browser bar of Firefox. Then type 'dns' into the filter bar and set the 'network.proxy.socks_remote_dns' value to true.
I use this technique all the time when on insecure, unfamiliar, or hostile networks. I've survived browsing the Internet from the Defcon network which is considered to be the Worlds Most Hostile Network (having a patched and locked down box is obviously required here as well).


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Exhibitions and Projects > 2017 Visit to a Small Planet
Visit to a Small Planet, May 5 - July 20 2017
Juliette Art Museum at the Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, Charleston, WV
Juliette Art Museum at the Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, Charleston, WV
This installation uses formal art techniques combined with a sense of hand-made science fiction. The aesthetic histories of Cubism, Theater Artaud, architectural design, protest art, and 1950's science fiction b-movies were used as inspiration to build the work. My motivation behind the piece was to communicate with the children of this coal-mining area about renewable energy. The installation is built primarily with recycled material, and everything here will ultimately be recycled or reused in some form. Click on thumbnails to enlarge.
2017 Visit to a Small Planet
The large central structure is designed to represent an other-planetary world in which the residents of a beautiful landscape, not unlike West Virginia's, are spiritually connected to the land and water and use renewable energy technology. The paintings, videos and smaller sculptures represent other aspects of this imaginary world.


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This Leica model 12540 Tri-Elmar-M 28mm/35mm/50mm f4 lens hood is in mint like new condition. Made to fit the 2nd version (Cat No. 11625) Tri-Elmar-M 28mm/35mm/50mm three in one lens. A vented reversible lens hood. In mint like new condition.


text: New SafeRest Bed Bug Video Gives the Scoop on the Bed Bug Problem and How Bed Bug Proof Mattress Encasements Can Help MM Novato Uncategorized You've probably been hearing about the bed bug problem more and more in the news lately, and that's because the infestation issue is growing. More and more homes and even hotels are having issue with these horrid little creatures that dine on blood and that can make sleeping in your home a nightmare. Fortunately, you do have some options when it comes to dealing with the problem. One of the first things that you are going to want to do when you are looking for ways to deal with the bed bug issue is probably get more information about mattress encasements. A great video to watch is the new video from SafeRest. The company has been in the business of dealing with bed bugs for some time now, and they've developed encasements for mattresses, box springs, and pillows. These encasements help to ensure that the bedbugs are not able to enter the mattresses, box spring, or the pillows, and that they are not able to escape once you have the encasements in place. They have special zippers and bed bug proof cloth to make sure that the bugs can't get into the item. Bugs that are already in the mattress or box spring can't get out. This traps them and eventually kills by starving them. When you have a bed bug infestation, you want to find ways of dealing with it that are simple and effective, and that can help to ensure that you do not continue to have a problem with a long lasting infestation. Encasements from SafeRest are a great option that can make a real difference fast. They're easy to use and machine washable. The new video from SafeRest shows viewers about the benefits and advantages of the encasements as well as how simple they are to use, and anyone on the fence about buying should definitely check out the video. SafeRest Bed Bug Proof Mattress, Box Spring and Pillow Encasement Video MM Novato MM Novato [email protected] Administrator Bed Bug Blog


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Following in the footsteps of The Lion King and the Ice Age and Madagascar movies, South African computer-animated comedy-adventure Khumba: A Zebra's Tale dispatches another bunch of cute talking animals on a life-changing quest. This time the hero is an outcast half-striped zebra, who hopes to earn his missing stripes by finding a magical pool and naturally has a pair of oddball travelling companions on his journey – a motherly wildebeest (Loretta Devine) and a garrulous camp ostrich (Richard E Grant, irritating). The animation is vibrant and the voice cast impressive – Liam Neeson purrs menacingly as the leopard villain, Catherine Tate's sheep is engagingly bonkers, and Steve Buscemi and Laurence Fishburne put in appearances, too. So it's a great shame that the animators and actors are let down by the meandering plot and trite dialogue.
Certificate U. Runtime 85 mins. Director Anthony Silverston.
Released on Blu-ray & DVD on Monday 28th July by Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment.
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John 18:1-19:42
Now we are in darkness. We began our journey yesterday, with God forgiving us, washing us, serving us, and feeding us. We were reminded that God knows the darkness we are walking into, and that God will bring us into the light. But today, we are face-to-face with Christ's death, confronted with the implication that we, too, have participated in the dark deeds that have brought us all to this moment. In the prayers we will soon utter, and in the solemn reproaches, we will hear the myriad of ways in which we have not followed Jesus' command to love one another, we have not taken up our cross, and we have not given our lives for others. And we will hear that because of things we have done and left undone, we "have prepared a cross for our Savior." We will be like this sanctuary, and like Jesus on the cross––stripped bare before our God, with nothing to hide behind. We stare our own death in the face.
But today is not the end of our journey. We do not end in tragedy. Today, as final as it feels, as final as death feels, is only the middle. The end is still to come, and we do not pretend we don't know what it is. We do know. And because of the end that is coming, we call this day Good.
We call Christ's death, and all death, good because in death, in the darkness caused by us, we see that God's power to create new life is stronger than our power to bring about death. The story of Creation itself is a story that moves from life and celebration to death and tragedy and onwards, by the power of God, to new life and new celebration. And we call today Good because God is present now, too. In the "now"of the disobedience in the Garden of Eden, in the "now" of Golgotha two thousand years ago, and in the "now" of 2018, God is not overcome by the death we bring. Rather, God takes it, and transforms death itself into new life, and uses it to bring about goodness and light.
In the English language, "Good" used to be synonymous with "God," although they don't actually have the same root. Good-bye is the shortened version of "God-be-with-ye." Today, Good Friday, is God's Friday. It is not our Friday, though we have brought it about. It belongs to God, and so we turn to God in the midst of it. We call Christ's death good because God is in the midst of it, and is present in it, and shows God's power in it.
Because this day is good, because it is God's, we, too, can be present in it, in Christ's death and our own, in the darkness of this day and in the darkness in our lives. We can be present in suffering, because God's presence is healing. We can be present in guilt, because God's power is forgiveness. We can be present in grief, because God's power is the new life of Christ, shared with us. We lean on God to bring us through this good day, and all the days to come. We entrust ourselves, our lives, and those we love to the goodness of God, until God brings us to Easter.
And so we call today Good. We call today God's. Thanks be to God. Amen.


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After making my daily offerings today and while enjoying the sunlight, I started thinking about the recent Helios rite and the subsequent two-week planetary challenge and how the results from them are manifesting.
More specifically, I was thinking about how some of the goals I had for the Helios rite were connected to each other, even though I didn't realize it at the time.
Some of them are more obviously connected than others, but most of them rely on the development of the same skills and the application of them in what looks like totally different ways, but is essentially the same way underneath; it just looks different.
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In the Apology, Socrates is on trial for corrupting the youth and being an atheist. These allegations against him require that he puts up a defense against his accusers. In his defense, Socrates argues that being sentenced to death for the purported crimes is a possibility. During his defense as outlined in Apology, Socrates explores death as a way of constructing the nature of this concept. This paper represents Socrates consistent view on death in the Apology.
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Death Is Good
Socrates stood for his ideals and values during his defense even in the face of imminent death. Socrates would not sacrifice his integrity even in death showing that he did not fear death. Socrates approaches the subject of death by arguing that such destruction cannot be caused by those accusers, rather by,`` the envy and detraction of the world, which has been the death of many good men… there is no danger of my being the last of them''(p.35). It seems that the norms and values upheld by the society result in the unjust death of otherwise good people. Socrates argues that the possibility of death will not influence the arguments he will make in his defense. By this, Socrates is implying that he cannot sacrifice his ideals in trepidation of death. He contends that, `` a man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought to only consider whether in doing anything he doing right or wrong'' (p.39). Hence, Socrates considers death as an honorable act in upholding the truth and avoiding evil. Socrates has a firm belief about the responsibility of searching for the truth as charged on him by God. Thus, giving up on this responsibility for the fear of death would be a wrong action on his part. He affirms this position by asserting that, `` if when… God orders me to fulfill the philosophers mission of searching into myself and other men, I were to desert my post through fear of death… that would indeed be strange, and I might justly be arraigned in court for denying the existence of the gods''(p.40). Seemingly, Socrates shows willingness to face death so as to uphold the truth, by not denouncing what he has said or done in his life.
During the trial, Socrates suggests that he does not fear death as he does not have knowledge about what is involved in death. As he contends, ``for the fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretence of knowing the unknown…'' (p.40). Here, he alludes to the fact that death is a mystery thing that cannot be easily understood but need not to be feared. He perceives that choosing to go against his ideals for fear of death may lead to evil and prefers death for through this some good may be realized. Moreover, he contends a death sentence would hurt the prosecutors and city more than him. This arises from the assertion that a death sentence would go against God's mission for Socrates, which is a great wrong. Therefore, his arguments for being released are not due to selfish reasons, rather for the realization of good in the entire state. In this case, good is about Socrates teaching philosophy to the people in the state to ensure that they uphold virtues. Socrates provides an account about a situation where he risked death by choosing to do what is right without considering the outcome of his actions. He recollects that later on, others viewed his actions favorably, although, they had previously believed that he had acted wrongly. Therefore, he admonishes people for failing to uphold their honor and integrity for fear of death.Want an expert to write a paper for you Talk to an operator now
Possibilities in Death
In various instances in the Apology, Socrates does not consider death as a bad thing. In fact, he uses various arguments to justify the goodness of death. Socrates begins an in-depth discussion of death by suggesting that, ``and let us also reflect upon how good a reason there is to hope that death is a good thing'' (p.51). In considering death, Socrates views it as unconscious state. Therefore, if death is unconscious, Socrates considers this as sleeping without dreams, `` now if you suppose that there is no consciousness, but a sleep like the sleep of him who is undisturbed even by dreams, death will be unspeakable gain'' (p.51). Socrates seems to prefer death rather than going against his philosophical ideals by assuming that it would only be a single night as he says that,``…I say that to die is gain; for eternity is then only a single night''(p.52). Hence, he has no fear facing such a possibility, if decided upon by the court. Hence, as death is a dreamless sleep, it is a good thing for an individual. Socrates seemed to justify the goodness of death as it did not have pain that is existent in real life. Therefore, he sees that death as unconscious state that would enable him escape the unjust world. However, an eternity of unconsciousness is not a good thing, since individuals cannot derive pleasure from waking up from sleep that has dreams. In addition, the analogy that death is a dreamless single night is faulty, as one cannot wake up from it making it a bad experience.
Socrates considers another possibility in death that is passage into a different but conscious life. Socrates viewed death as a good thing as it would enable him to join departed wise individuals and ask them questions about truth and wisdom, without fear of unjust judgment. Socrates is ready to embrace death as it would free him from worldly unrighteousness into a world where righteousness is valued by dead wise individuals. In fact, he affirms this by suggesting that, ``but I see clearly that the time had arrived for me to die and be released from trouble'' (p.52). Furthermore, he does not fear death due to the immortality it will bring him allowing him to continue with his work of searching for the truth. However, his view of death in his trial denies the possibility of suffering after death. Therefore, he fails to consider other possible destinations for the soul upon death. Additionally, Socrates seems to conclude that death is good, which contradicts his assertion about lacking knowledge on the concept. Thus, by making such assumptions about death in the Apology, Socrates proves himself wrong about his knowledge on the concept of death. In the end, Socrates is quick to point out that, ``…and we go our ways-I to die, and you to live. Which is better, God only knows'' (p.53). In this case, Socrates admits his limitations about his wisdom and acknowledges that a higher power possesses all the knowledge about death.
In Apology, Socrates has a consistent view about death. In his analysis, he considers death as a good thing. In the beginning, he would face death for his ideals, if it became necessary. During the trial, Socrates considers death as a mystery that individuals should not fear. He goes on to argue that death is not evil as considered by people in the society; rather, it is a good thing. Specifically, death would enable him to uphold the truth and righteousness instead of sacrificing his virtues and ideals. Socrates view about death reflects the value of defending virtues instead of sacrificing beliefs for the fear of the outcomes, including death .This perception of death corresponds to his wisdom as he is able to examine death and its meaning to him. Hence, through reason, Socrates has beliefs that he understands the concept of death. He uses truth to develop a broader understanding and meaning of death. In his search for wisdom and truth, Socrates persisted even in death. This represents his philosophy about wisdom and truth.
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Free-Fire Zone
Friday, November 12, 2004
Looking back
Now that the election is behind us, and we've all had a chance to catch our breath, a few parting thoughts:
1. The election was about the war on terror, economic issues and trust in George Bush from more than half the voters. Columnist Charles Krauthammer pretty much demolishes the idea that the results turned on moral values. Many on the left, of course, are going around today complaining that the "religious right" has hijacked the country, which I suppose means gay couples are going to be rounded up and thrown in jail. But if you ask many Bush voters what they mean by "moral issues," they are likely to tell you they think the nation has been hijacked by a "progressive" elite who don't care that public entertainment has become a sewer, that there don't seem to be any ethical standards anymore. They woke up one morning, and the rules had all changed, but nobody asked them for their opinion or vote. That's what elections are all about -- which set of ideas rule the nation; we each pick our set and work for our candidate.
2. There is a lot of anger and bewilderment out there among the left, and until this fizzles out, people in that camp frankly aren't going to be good for much of anything. Until they finally get it -- that they have lost touch with average Americans and need to examine their approach -- they're just going to flounder in impotent rage. They need to get over it, so they can perform the function that's left for them as the loyal opposition. Their honest critiques are needed, their imformed dissent, their passionately offered ideas (rather than mere whining that the current administration "has it wrong"). Maybe this sounds harsh, but I speak from experience. This is the kind of getting over it I had to go through when Bill Clinton won a second term.
3. Finally, a plea to the winning Republicans. Don't get too arrogant. Listen to those opposition ideas -- you might learn a thing or two occasionally. And don't drown out the voices of dissent on your own side. I know from my years on an editorial page that people who argue about ideas tend to build themselves an echo chamber in which our own voices get louder and louder; it gets harder and harder to hear opinions voiced by people outside the chamber. If you don't make a little room for disagreement, for the vetting of opinion that a healthy argument can bring, then the crazies on your side will take over, and you will lose next time.
Thanks to all who put up with my rantings and ravings for the last few months. Free-Fire is going to shut down for now, but we might just see you again some time as our mutual search for truth continues.
Bye for now,
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