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This page collects pages on the situation in the USA. Often this is also about fighting neoliberalism which the rest of the world seems to be adopting from the US. (RSS, Search)
The very long article The Crisis of Election Security in the New York Times is just a very long "please don't introduce electronic voting" for me. In Switzerland, we have an initiative coming up where people try to stop this terrible blight on democracy.
Paper is best!
Paper is not without issues, of course. A systematic approach to study electoral fraud by Lucas Leemann and Daniel Bochsler investigates ways to cheat and uses Switzerland as an example!
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The best explanation for the rise of Trump: Unnecessariat.
The Unnecessariat is not like the Proletariat of old, the people who worked hard, nor the Precariat, the people who feared for their jobs but worked. The Unnecessariat are the rest of us. No job, no hope, no future. I remember seeing the first glimpse of that as I watched the movie Winter's Bones (2010). White trash and Meth.
I also like the long arc the Unnecessariat story takes. Gay men dying of AIDS. The economy is not coming back. You can practically hear Bruce Springsteen singing about the post-industrial landscape. Politics for the rich. New tech gadgets for the rich. Tesla! Mars! iPad! For the rich… The rest are simply – unnecessary. No matter who they vote for. But if they vote Trump, at least we'll all go down in flames.
Hello, Hofer, Petry, Le Pen, Orbán. Blocher.
So much posting today. I am alone at home, with a cold. It's sad, really.
Comments on 2016-05-26 Proletariat, Precariat, Unnecessariat
Erkältet? Aber nicht alleine! lese jeden Satz und denke ähnlich.
– Chris 2016-05-28 12:54 UTC
I'm sorry, another link post. If you're a regular reader, you might wonder what this is. A bookmark? In way, yes. I find that I regularly search my blog for stuff I only half remember. I've used Google Bookmarks in the past to save links, but as it turns out, I hardly ever use it to find links. The few times I've tried, I failed. So now I'm trying to use the blog. And I try to update these posts with more links and summaries. 2016-02-15 With Regards from Russia has grown in recent weeks, for example.
Anyway, cryptography:
Why Are We Fighting the Crypto Wars Again? "American companies are worried that foreign customers might regard their products as direct conduits to American authorities." Definitely! For the moment, Apple and Google are not too bad, but we think about it every time we put something on the American cloud. Dropbox? iCloud? Google Drive? We always joke about the NSA reading our stuff and nobody laughs.
Mass surveillance silences minority opinions, according to study:
Elizabeth Stoycheff, lead researcher of the study and assistant professor at Wayne State University, is disturbed by her findings.
"So many people I've talked with say they don't care about online surveillance because they don't break any laws and don't have anything to hide. And I find these rationales deeply troubling," she said.
She said that participants who shared the "nothing to hide" belief, those who tended to support mass surveillance as necessary for national security, were the most likely to silence their minority opinions.
"The fact that the 'nothing to hide' individuals experience a significant chilling effect speaks to how online privacy is much bigger than the mere lawfulness of one's actions. It's about a fundamental human right to have control over one's self-presentation and image, in private, and now, in search histories and metadata," she said.
I cannot stress this enough. This has happened to me, too. I avoided posting things online; I've had arguments with my wife regarding things I wanted to post online. She said something along the lines of "you're simply stupid if you want to go ahead with it in times like these." I argued that "if we're censuring ourselves then there's no point in fighting for our rights – the bad guys have already won!"
But then again, you learn how to control yourselves when talking to border police and other people of authority. The stakes never seem high enough. Miss a flight? Surely you jest. Is this Facebook post really necessary? Of course not. And thus, quietly, our world changes.
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Why do so many people from Europe want Bernie Sanders to be the President of the United States? An answer on Quora by Ian Jackson, @grownmangrumble.
How Fox News and the Right-Wing Media Machine Made My Dad Crazy, by Jen Senko.
Tags: USA
I haven't written much about politics in years. I just read the newspaper and cringe. Sometimes I feel like I should "share" links – but with whom? Nobody on Facebook seems interested because it's friends and family and coworkers and students from many years ago. Nobody on Google+ seems interested because most of the people I know there are there for the gaming with the exception of a small number of information sources, in other words, information just flows in one direction. Nobody on Twitter seems interested because I'm mostly following journalists and politicians and when I finally realized this, I figured there was no point in sharing anything because they don't read what I'm sharing. Information just flows in one direction.
Luckily for me – unluckily for you, perhaps – this blog not only serves as a platform to share information, it also serves as my externalized memory. Which is why I'm trying to push myself to post interesting links here instead of on so-called "social" media – gated communities that will one day be replaced by something else, taking all the information down with them.
I really need to find links to sources outside of Google+ since the inevitable sunsetting of G+ will drag down all those links as well.
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Hi Alex,
I am interested in politics and welcome such posts, for one. By the way, I just read an article in The Guardian that you might find interesting, Mindless terrorists? The truth about Isis is much worse by Scott Atran.
– Enzo 2015-11-16 11:33 UTC
An interesting read! I hadn't heard of Management of Savagery. Definitely something to remember for the next war, when we're ready to bomb a foreign country. Wikipedia mentions "the value of provoking military responses from superpowers in order to recruit and train guerilla fighters" and I'm thinking this is the strategy all revolutions have been following since the French revolution. Expose the hypocrisy of the ruling elite by provoking them into acts of violence and use this to radicalize and recruit.
Yikes! I just googled for these keywords (expose radicalize recruit revolution) and stumbled upon Selected Literature on (i) Radicalization and Recruitment, (ii) De-Radicalization and Dis-Engagement, and (iii) Counter-Radicalization and Countering Violent Extremism. Using the same keywords and adding a country quickly leads to articles explaining this phenomenon and the dynamic of revolutionary movements. In my case, I just read The making of the Russian Revolution.
Sadly, I have no answers.
– Alex Schroeder 2015-11-16 12:18 UTC
The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to allow same-sex marriage in the United States has led to think about the situation in Switzerland and about the role of a constitution.
In Switzerland, a popular initiative can add amendments to the constitution, but we have no constitutional court to enforce these. All the constitution does is say that parliament ought to pass laws to make it real. Then parliament can't agree on a law, these amendments linger for many years, decades even. I've heard it said that this construction was made on purpose. Why have a court to make these decisions if you can simply vote in a different parliament. The idea is that you just add more democracy, I guess.
I just think it's interesting that there are alternative thoughts on this and some do not require undemocratic elections for life of powerful people.
When comparing a high court of justices for life and an inactive parliament, I think the inactive parliament has more democratic potential because in a few years, I can vote for a new parliament. So, for the moment: not much different. As a political institution: it's better if you can change your vote.
And yes, of course a democracy usually goes hand in hand with the rule of law, a constitution that protects minorities, and many other institutional and cultural norms. You can vote in Russia, in Iran, in the USA, and still you'll find powerful forces affecting your freedoms: existing legislation preventing the establishment of a viable alternative, financial incentives preventing the growth of viable alternatives, existing institutions preventing the implementation of meaningful change. Voting alone is not enough.
Note that as far as the US goes, I think what makes it impossible for me to be very enthusiastic about decisions of the supreme court I happen to like or the election of presidents I like is that I know full well that the voters that disagree with me are still there, they still make up about half of the population, we won but we didn't convince. So yes, as far as I am concerned, Love Wins and Thanks Obama Unironically and all that. But the others are still there. The US system of legal and cultural norms, of financial pressures, of all the things that are not about the actual voting, made it impossible to reach out and make those positive steps together. After the fight is before the fight. No matter who wins, the other side is determined to fight harder next time. None of the news that reaches me across the Atlantic gives me hope regarding any sort of healing. Perhaps this is part of our Zeitgeist for the moment. Or perhaps it has always been thus and I've just grown older, and more tired.
Also note that same-sex couples still don't get the exact same rights and protections in Switzerland.
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I've seen a few posts in my Google+ stream happy with the 18 years a revenge porn guy got. They linked to news items like this Revenge Porn" Defendant Sentenced to 18 Years, "Kevin Bollaert was found guilty of posting sexually explicit photos of women online to extort them."
I'm happy revenge porn guy gets punished. Fuck him! But, as I live in a country where a life sentence means 25 years (17 years if you behave well in prison), 18 years seems incredibly harsh. Well, at least he's "eligible for parole after 10 years" as reported by the same news article.
I'm unaware of a similar case here in Switzerland. I'll have to ask my wife. She's the expert when it comes to crime and punishment in the family.
I looked at a few of the Facebook comments below the article and saw a few comments regarding revenge porn guys inadequate expression of remorse. I'm always suspicious when the punishment depends on the punished showing adequate remorse or some other reaction that depends on their social graces. If they have none, if the convicted are emotionally stunted, do they deserve harsher punishment?
I just looked at Art. 156 of the Swiss Criminal Code.
- Any person who, with a view to securing an unlawful gain for himself or for another, induces another person by using violence or the threat of seriously detrimental consequences to behave in such a way that he or another sustains financial loss is liable to a custodial sentence not exceeding five years or to a monetary penalty.
- If the offender acts for commercial gain, or if he repeatedly commits the offence against the same person, he is liable to a custodial sentence of from one to ten years.
- If the offender uses violence against another or if he threatens another with an immediate danger to life and limb, a penalty in accordance with Article 140 hereof is imposed.
- If the offender threatens to endanger the life and limb of a large number of persons or to cause serious damage to property in which there is a substantial public interest, he is liable to a custodial sentence of not less than one year.
I'm not sure what would happen if a person is convicted of multiple cases of extortion. I'm guessing that in Switzerland, Kevin Bollaert would have gotten ten years at most, eligible for parole after ⅔ of that.
What about the ex-husbands and ex-boyfriends, I wonder. Somebody sent those pictures to revenge porn sites. Shouldn't they all get punished as well? It may not be extortion but I'm sure it's something. Maybe Art. 177 is appropriate?
- Any person who attacks the honour of another verbally, in writing, in pictures, through gestures or through acts of aggression is liable on complaint to a monetary penalty not exceeding 90 daily penalty units.
- If the insulted party has directly provoked the insult by improper behaviour, the court may dispense with imposing a penalty on the offender.
- If there is an immediate response to the insult by way of a retaliatory insult or act of aggression, the court may dispense with imposing a penalty on either or both offenders.
A "daily penalty unit" depends on the punished's personal finances and can go up to $3000, as seen in Art. 34 of the Swiss Criminal Code.
Monetary penalty
- Unless the law provides otherwise, a monetary penalty amounts to a maximum of 360 daily penalty units. The court decides on the number according to the culpability of the offender.
- A daily penalty unit amounts to a maximum of 3000 francs. The court decides on the value of the daily penalty unit according to the personal and financial circumstances of the offender at the time of conviction, and in particular according to his income and capital, living expenses, any maintenance or support obligations and the minimum subsistence level.
- The authorities of the Confederation, the cantons and the communes shall provide the information required to determine the daily penalty unit.
- The number and value of the daily penalty units must be stated in the judgment.
Tags: Punishment USA Switzerland
Recently, Jürgen Hubert shared a link to a Foreign Policy post and said on Google+ that while the German system wasn't perfect, at least it worked.
Some people commented and said they agreed. I wrote that from what I heared Germans in Switzerland say, many like it here as well. I love the Swiss system. And the weird thing is: the Swiss Federal Constitution of 1848 "was influenced by the ideas of the constitution of the United States of America and the French Revolution." (Emphasis mine.)
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I wholly support efforts by Lawrence Lessig: Rootstrikes.
I just finished listening to the latest bunch of episodes about the American Revolution and the drafting of the United States Constitution, and the List of amendments to the United States Constitution, at the Revolutions Podcast. Excellent material if you're into podcasts at all.
When I read the FP article, I felt disappointed because of its shallow analysis. What about Exportweltmeister and the price the Germans paid, stagnating wages? What about the discussions of the 5% hurdle after recent elections? What about the historic justifications for the Senate in order to convince smaller entities to join the federation? These can be an important issue in heterogeneous federation like Switzerland (there was a time when each canton had its own currency)—and possibly also of interest for nations after a civil war (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lebanon, Syria) or countries where so many regions strive for more autonomy and the state is always in fear of breaking apart (Spain, Italy). So yes, the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany is great. But the US has its United States Bill of Rights, and a Constitutional Court, and that's great. In contrast, Switzerland allows its citizens to easily amend the constitution, but there is no constitutional court, so sometimes issues linger for years before appropriate laws get passed! So it would seem to me that the US has all the tools it needs. I suspect it has mostly a broken process. Something needs reform, but I'm not sure that the German system is a good place to start looking.
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The United States of America are trying to nail their feet to the ground when it comes to the Internet. And knowing their power and influence, and their spying and blackmailing, I wouldn't be surprised if their ideas start spreading elsewhere. That's the unfortunate reality of life on the Internet: I feel like I need to pay $10/month to the EFF and $10/month to the FSF in order for them to fight for their rights such that their problems don't spread to where I live. Globalising the fight for our right!
If you don't know what I'm talking about, here are two recommended and entertaining videos to explain it all.
If you're American, you can tell them how you feel. Or, according to FCC Establishes New Inbox for Open Internet Comments, you can send them email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Here's what I sent, even though I am not an American:
Dear FCC,
Net neutrality, the principle that Internet service providers (ISPs) treat all data that travels over their networks equally, is important to me because without it users have fewer options. ISPs should not be the gate keepers to what we do on the Internet. As it stands, there is also precious little competition between providers. If I don't like my service provider, what am I going to do? I cannot take my business elsewhere.
A pay-to-play Internet worries me because new services cannot compete. There is no such thing as a video startup with slow download speeds. We're automatically favoring existing businesses and making life hard for future entrepreneurs and startups. And we gain nothing in return!
The Internet has the unique ability to make all of us authors. We can read and write, share and consume. By making a fast service more expensive, we'll be limiting good quality to commercial ventures. We also want non-commercial projects to succeed. We want to download free software, for example. We want to watch our own videos, hosted on our own servers. We don't want an Internet Apartheid. That is not the "freedom" I want.
Help us make the Internet into the thing almost all of us want, not into the Internet the ISPs want.
Alex Schroeder
I recommend you all subscribe to Bruce Schneier's Crypto-Gram newsletter if you aren't subscribed to his blog. Today's Crypto-Gram, for example, has this excellent passage:
Not only is ubiquitous surveillance ineffective, it is extraordinarily costly. I don't mean just the budgets, which will continue to skyrocket. Or the diplomatic costs, as country after country learns of our surveillance programs against their citizens. I'm also talking about the cost to our society. It breaks so much of what our society has built. It breaks our political systems, as Congress is unable to provide any meaningful oversight and citizens are kept in the dark about what government does. It breaks our legal systems, as laws are ignored or reinterpreted, and people are unable to challenge government actions in court. It breaks our commercial systems, as US computer products and services are no longer trusted worldwide. It breaks our technical systems, as the very protocols of the Internet become untrusted. And it breaks our social systems; the loss of privacy, freedom, and liberty is much more damaging to our society than the occasional act of random violence. – Bruce Schneier, How the NSA Threatens National Security
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Human Trafficking
This webpage is a tool to help educate educators and other Florida citizens on how to spot human trafficking and how to report it. Trafficking victims are subjected to force, fraud or coercion for the purpose of sexual exploitation or forced labor. Knowing the signs of human trafficking and knowing how to report it may actually save a life or free someone from modern day slavery.
Did you know?
Florida is third in the nation for reported human trafficking cases.
What is Child Human Trafficking?
Human Trafficking, under both federal and Florida law, is defined as the transporting, soliciting, recruiting, harboring, providing or obtaining of another person for transport; for the purposes of forced labor, domestic servitude or sexual exploitation using force, fraud and/or coercion. Human trafficking is modern slavery.
There are approximately 30 million people enslaved throughout the world with 2.5 million located right here in the United States.
- Many of these victims are lured with false promises of financial or emotional security; instead, they are forced or coerced into commercial sex (prostitution), domestic servitude or other types of forced labor.
- Any minor under the age of 18 who is induced to perform a commercial sex act is a victim of human trafficking according to U.S. law, regardless of whether there is force, fraud or coercion. Increasingly, criminal organizations, such as gangs, are luring children from local schools into commercial sexual exploitation or trafficking.
- According to the U.S. Department of Justice, every two minutes a child is trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation in the United States.
Training Materials
- Human Trafficking Awareness for Educators Training - National Human Trafficking Resources Center
- Human Trafficking Awareness Training - Department of Homeland Security/Blue Campaign
- Human Trafficking Awareness Lunch and Learn - 4th Annual, January 17, 2018
- Safe and Healthy Schools Preventing Child Trafficking Webinar
- Archived Presentation
- FDOE Human Trafficking Month Presentation (WMV, 3GB) - The Department of Homeland Security, Resident Agent in Charge Ralph Bradley - Recorded during Human Trafficking Awareness Month 2016
How to Report
Children and adults can be victims of human trafficking. "If you see something, say something."
- BeFree Textline Text "BeFree" (233733)
- Florida Abuse Hotline - 1-806-96-ABUSE (1-800-962-2873)
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- National Center for Missing & Exploited Children CyberTipline
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- 2017 Youth Experiences Survey Report (PDF)
- Awareness Combats Trafficking ACT App
- Florida Department of Education (FDOE) Human Trafficking Fact Sheet for Schools (PDF)
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- FDOE Child Human Trafficking chapter
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- National Human Trafficking Resource Center
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- Sex Trafficking and LGBTQ Youth
- Statewide Council on Human Trafficking Annual Report
- Staying Safe: Tips for LGBTQ Youth
- Student Human Trafficking Awareness PSA (Hillsborough County)
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Paarl, South Africa Clinical Trials
A listing of Paarl, South Africa clinical trials actively recruiting patients volunteers.
Found (8) clinical trials
Effect of Dalcetrapib vs Placebo on CV Risk in a Genetically Defined Population With a Recent ACS
This is an event driven study to reach statistical power given all other assumptions. Subjects will visit the clinic 1 month after randomization and at regular intervals thereafter. Additionally, for any subject prematurely discontinuing study medication, assessments will be conducted every 6 months for the collection of study endpoints. Those ...
A Study of Tofacitinib in Patients With Ulcerative Colitis in Stable Remission
This study is a follow up study for subjects with Ulcerative Colitis (UC) in stable remission designed to evaluate flexible dosing of CP-690,550.
Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of Relamorelin in Patients With Diabetic Gastroparesis Study 02
This study will evaluate the safety and efficacy of Relamorelin compared to placebo in patients with diabetic gastroparesis. Patients will report daily severity scores of their diabetic gastroparesis symptoms.
Open-Label Extension of RPC1063 as Therapy for Moderate to Severe Ulcerative Colitis
The trial is an open label extension study. Eligible patients from the RPC01-3101 and RPC01-202 trials will have the option to enroll in this trial to receive study medication for up to 5 years or until marketed approval
A Study of the Efficacy and Safety of Etrolizumab Treatment in Maintenance of Disease Remission in Ulcerative Colitis (UC) Participants Who Are Naive to Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) Inhibitors
This Phase III, randomized, double-blind, parallel-grouped, placebo-controlled, multicenter study will investigate the efficacy and safety of etrolizumab in maintenance of remission in participants with moderately to severely active UC who are naive to TNF inhibitors and refractory to or intolerant of prior immunosuppressant and/or corticosteroid treatment.
A Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Pimodivir in Combination With the Standard-of-Care Treatment in Adolescent Adult and Elderly Non-Hospitalized Participants With Influenza A Infection Who Are at Risk of Developing Complications
This double-blind (neither researchers nor participants know what treatment participant is receiving) study will evaluate efficacy/safety of pimodivir in combination with SOC treatment versus placebo in combination with SOC treatment in adolescent (13 to 17 years), adult (18 to 65 years), and elderly (greater than [>] 65 but less than ...
Study to Evaluate Safety and Antiviral Activity of Doses of JNJ-53718678 in Children (>=28 Days to <=3 Years) With Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection
JNJ-53718678 is an investigational respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) specific fusion inhibitor and is under development for the treatment of RSV infection, which results in an upper and/or lower respiratory tract illness. The primary hypothesis of this study is that JNJ-53718678 has antiviral activity against RSV (that is, results in a ...
Safety and Efficacy of Exenatide as Monotherapy and Adjunctive Therapy to Oral Antidiabetic Agents in Adolescents With Type 2 Diabetes
The primary objective of this study is to test the hypothesis that glycemic control, as measured by change in hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) from baseline to endpoint, with exenatide is superior to that of placebo after 28 weeks of treatment in adolescent patients with type 2 diabetes who are nave to ...
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Reunited and It Feels so Good
This weekend my good friend/ Sister Aniece and her Fiancé Carla came to visit with their dog tyler.
I know what you're thinking, "Dréa speant A whole weekend with people.
I did. And I was Happy to do so. In fact I'm planning to have a girl's weekend with my best friend Jennifer Really soon.
Here is the thing; as much as I Revel in my hermit-dom, I actually do like "some" people.
And I enjoy spending time with them. Not all the time! But sometimes… like once or twice every year or maybe like every three months.
I love to get together with them and share good food and conversation. Catch up on what's been going on in their lives. Gossip as we are apt to do. Maybe do a little shopping and site seeing, or just split a bottle of wine or a bucket of margaritas.
Yeah, I said a bucket… a really, really Big bucket.
WE laugh and sometimes shed a tear or two. We connect to each other spiritual and reaffirm what words can't really say.
"I love you."
"I honor you"
"I trust you"
"I appreciate you"
There is a balm, much like the one in Gilead, in being with my soul sisters.
Jennifer, Tawania, aniece.
There is a safty in being in the protective
Circle of my brothers
Corey, Jhonathan, Gary, chris.
I am very rarely that close people (particularly females.)
That is a uniqueness to that bond.
Being with the people who know me best and understand… truly understand my need to be separate but together.
To be exactly who I am at all times.
To be silent and moody, loud and juvenile.
Judgemental and unconditional..
A hard ass and a push over.
To have the love and support of people who knew me before I became "ME".
Who understand the woman beneath the showmanship.
It is so good to be able to touch that point of pure energy and love.
To be grounded to the circle of life and covered in the peace of just being.
To sit in the darkness under the watchful eye of the late spring moon and count fireflies and shooting stars.
To reconnect, to recharge. To reunite.
To strengthen a bond forged in love and time.
And now I'm done and I can spend some time absorbing it all.
Being all by myself with the sweet smell of rain washed earth.
I spent the weekend Loving and being loved.
Being reminded that I am not alone.
And being happy not only for myself, but for aniece and Carla and their life and family.
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My neighbors here in Olas Altas are really in the Christmas spirit. They have decorated almost every inch of their house with lights, inflatable Christmas characters and recorded music to sing along to. People pass by on foot and car to stop and take a look as it is really pretty amazing. And of course the children are in awe!! It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas all around Mazatlan. Happy Holidays All.
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NEED to buy 225/75 15 tires..... read please to help
Looking for a Neon or Neon part(s), but don't see what your looking for in the For Sale forum? Tell everyone here and maybe someone has what your looking for, or knows where you can get it.
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NEED to buy 225/75 15 tires..... read please to help
So I get to town which is only a once a year event and I turn the corner at the airport and see my daughter jumping up and down with my Aunt and Uncle standing behind her..... but my mom isn't there. So I ask where she is. Turns out she had car problems. After taking the car (Jeep Wrangler actually) to the shop, she needs new tires..... so I'm looking for someone with a decent set of used tires that they'd be willing to sell for a good price. I'm military and honestly, being home broke me as I didn't have time to plan for this trip. Anyone got anything at all? Anyone know of anything? I already checked tirerack.... cheapest they had was about 210 shipped plus installation and such...
Not sure where your at but I'm a Manager for Tire Discounter in Lawrencrburg. Call me, I may be able to help.
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As fate would have it.... I'm in Bright, my mom is in Batesville. I don't know how much help you can give, but hell its worth a shot. I know its a sap story, but just gotta see what I can get done for her. I could tell ya the whole story bout why she don't have no money.... but I don't think I could stand to sit here and type it. Thanks for the help and expect a call tomorrow.
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A group of people who gather at random locations to drive scaled down vehicles by means of remote control. These Remote Controlled (RC) cars and trucks are meant for light abuse and misuse, but "Trilordy" takes them to their limits and sometime beyond. The end result is often damaged cars and trucks, with an average of 1-2 of these vehicles being burned or intentionally damaged after the vehicle has been deemed...undriveable.
by Jackhole 101 July 24, 2003
A Nitro R/C club that abuses lil trucks,cars, and buggys they will someday rule the world, and will not let anyone step in there way. If someone has feelings for R/Cs they shall be raped with insalts after insalts
by Nitr0us! July 22, 2003
Death to all things controlled by radio wave emitting devices, especially those powered by a nitromethane blend fuel. Prefered items include pruducts by Traxxas, HPI racing, and various aftermarket companies
When the traxxas employees found a pile of dust in their sample engine box, they agreed someone had had a trilordy moment
by Deuce-Nukem July 23, 2003


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(Denver, Colo. - March 19, 2007) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Northern Cheyenne Tribe and six electric utility companies operating in Montana have reached an agreement to resolve alleged excess emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) from the coal-fired Colstrip Power Plant near Colstrip, Mont. A consent decree was lodged today with the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana. A notice of settlement will be published in the Federal Register, which will begin a 30-day public comment period.
"This settlement will significantly reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides from this plant and greatly improve visibility on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Southeastern Montana.," said Granta Nakayama, Assistant Administrator for EPA's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. "We are committed to ensuring compliance with the Clean Air Act so that the environmental and public health benefits expected from the Act are achieved."
Emissions of NOx can cause the formation of haze, which reduces visibility. The companies estimate that achieving the reductions they've agreed to will cost approximately $29 million.
"This settlement will ultimately result in one of the largest reductions of NOx emissions ever realized in this region. This is a great example of what we can accomplish when a Tribe, federal agencies and electric utility companies all work together toward a common goal," said Robert E. Roberts, EPA's Region 8 Administrator.
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text: The KJV New Testament Greek Lexicon Strong's Number: 1527 Browse Lexicon Original WordWord Originei|ß kaqÅ ei|ßfrom (1520) repeated with (2596) insertedTransliterated WordTDNT EntryHeis kath heisNonePhonetic SpellingParts of Speechhice kath hice Definition one after another King James Word Usage - Total: 2one by one 2 KJV Verse Count Mark1John1Total2Greek lexicon based on Thayer's and Smith's Bible Dictionary plus others; this is keyed to the large Kittel and the "Theological Dictionary of the New Testament." These files are public domain.Bibliography InformationThayer and Smith. "Greek Lexicon entry for Heis kath heis". "The KJV New Testament Greek Lexicon". .


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SUZEE DELIGHT is LIVE!
Took longer than I planned, but THE SELLING OF SUZEE DELIGHT: Tales From The Longview Episode 2, is now live and available here. … Continue reading →
Took longer than I planned, but THE SELLING OF SUZEE DELIGHT: Tales From The Longview Episode 2, is now live and available here. … Continue reading →
All rightee. Deep breath for me, here. Just got finished putting THE SELLING OF SUZEE DELIGHT, Tales from The Longview: Episode 2, up on Amazon. It should go live tomorrow at some point, and when it does, I'll send out notices. I love this story. I cannot believe how much I love this story. It kept shifting and changing on … Continue reading →
The story wrapped (in what I'm considering the final version) at 29,706 words. 9706 words over what I'd planned, or one third of another story. However, this episode turned out to be far more important to the overall series than I'd anticipated—I got into a couple things in it I wasn't expecting to see in detail until around Episode 5. … Continue reading →
I've been corresponding back and forth with a student of mine for a while now, and think you'll find the story of how she hit print inspiring—and amazing. So I'd like to introduce you to Lauren Orbison, author of Tortellini [link goes to her site], and her tell you this story herself. Lauren garnered serious interest from a couple of … Continue reading →
I did my first editor's revision. Added a bunch of words to the story. In the first revision, I nailed the ending, but screwed up one big character issue while fixing a problem from the first revision. Am doing the second editor's revision today. After that, assuming Matt's third read of the story gets me a green light, the story … Continue reading →
This is old news by now, and I wasn't even going to mention it, except I realize that a lot of my readers know the story, know that the bastard never paid for his crimes against my two older kids in spite of confessing much of what he did to them, and that these readers and friends would probably appreciate … Continue reading →
Worked six hours on type-in revision today. I'm 60% of the way through the type-in, and as usual, the story is getting longer. Today, even after some big cuts, I ended up with a 522-word net gain, and a word count of 24,728. I have some big cuts in the last third, but also MOST of my write-ins, so tomorrow's … Continue reading →
Over the last two days, I've done 10,000-ish words per day on the write-in revision for Suzee Delight. I'm VERY happy with the way it turned out. I'll do type-in tomorrow. Getting close to being able to take it live. … Continue reading →
I debated posting this. It might not seem like it, but in a lot of areas, I'm a very private person. And this story starts with a cancer scare, and switches gears bizarrely, and that isn't something I'd generally talk about——but the fact is, no matter who you are, this post could help you and prevent a lot of pain … Continue reading →


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An enzyme associated with neural injury increased significantly in patients with diabetes and with diabetic neuropathy, suggesting potential as a biomarker for peripheral neuropathy in diabetic patients, investigators reported.
Levels of serum neuron-specific enolase (NSE) in diabetic patients differed slightly but significantly (P=0.037) from those of nondiabetic patients. An even greater difference existed between diabetic patients with neuropathy and those without (P<0.001).
The association of NSE to diabetic neuropathy was independent of glycemic state, age, sex, and kidney function, Li Jianbo, MD, PhD, of Nanjing Medical University in China, and colleagues reported online in Diabetes Care.
"We have observed for the first time that serum NSE levels are elevated in diabetes and are related to diabetic neuropathy," the authors concluded. "This may provide a potential blood marker for diabetic neuropathy. If future studies confirm our results, an increase in serum NSE as an indicator of diabetic neuropathy would aid timely prediction, diagnosis, and treatment of the diabetic population."
Several diagnostic tools have been developed for diabetic neuropathy, but a biomarker specific to neural damage is not among them. NSE recently emerged as a promising biomarker candidate.
NSE is a highly soluble intracellular enzyme normally located in the cytoplasm in neuroendocrine cells; it catalyzes the conversion of 2-phosphoglycerate into phosphoenolpyruvate. NSE is released into cerebrospinal fluid and blood following tissue injury.
Few studies have examined the relationship between NSE and diabetic peripheral neuropathy, the authors noted in their introduction. To address the issue, Jianbo and colleagues prospectively enrolled patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes and healthy controls into a cross-sectional study.
Diabetes status was based on World Health Organization diagnostic criteria. An experienced physician performed a neuropathy assessment of all study participants, using age-related reference values. Patients with hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia, or ketonuria were excluded or the conditions were corrected prior to the neuropathy assessment.
Investigators used American Diabetes Association recommendations to classify diabetic neuropathy, which was assessed by means of a standardized test protocol. They defined stage 0 as no evidence of neuropathy, stage 1 as two or more asymptomatic abnormalities, stage 2 as two or more symptomatic abnormalities, and stage 3 as disabling neuropathy.
The final analysis comprised 568 participants, consisting of 136 healthy volunteers, 218 diabetic patients without neuropathy, and 214 diabetic patients with neuropathy.
As compared with diabetic patients without neuropathy, those with neuropathy had a higher fasting glucose level (305 versus 286 mg/dL, P=0.032), higher glycosylated hemoglobin (7.5% versus 6.8%, P=0.006), longer duration of diabetes (7.2 versus 5.9 years, P<0.001), and higher incidence of diabetic retinopathy (18.5% versus 10.2%, P=0.024). Other baseline characteristics did not differ significantly between the two groups of diabetic patients.
Diabetic patients had a mean NSE value of 9.1 mcg/L compared with 8.7 mcg/L. Diabetic patients with neuropathy had a mean NSE level of 10.8 mcg/L. Serum NSE levels increased with neuropathy stage 3 as compared with stage 0 (P=0.004 to P=0.000). Moreover, NSE levels correlated significantly with neuropathy stage (P<0.001).
Using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis, Jianbo and colleagues found that the optimal cut to distinguish patients with diabetic neuropathy from those without was 10.10 µg/L, which was associated with a sensitivity of 66.3%, specificity of 72.5%, and maximal area under the curve of 0.73 (P<0.001).
The authors cited several potential limitations of the results, including possible influence of ethnicity, the small difference in NSE values between diabetic patients without neuropathy and the control group, and the relatively low sensitivity of the NSE value identified by ROC analysis. The low test sensitivity might limit the clinical and research utility of the test, they acknowledged.
The study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China.
The authors reported no disclosures.
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New ISU Nutrition and Wellness Research Center Open House planned for Nov. 9
AMES, Iowa -- Nutrition and wellness affects everyone's health. And on Friday, Nov. 9, everyone is welcome to visit Iowa State University's new Nutrition and Wellness Research Center (NWRC) -- located in Building 6 of ISU's Research Park on North Loop Drive, just off of Highway 30 -- for an open house from 3-7 p.m.
Starting at 5 p.m., prominent speakers will discuss the importance of nutrition and wellness. They include Iowa's Lt. Gov. Patty Judge; ISU President Gregory Geoffroy; Cheryl Achterberg, dean, Iowa State College of Human Sciences; Mike Tramontina, director, Iowa Department of Economic Development; Zoraida DeFreitas, vice president of research and development, Kemin Health; Michael Budnik, executive vice president of sales, marketing and business development, Proliant Health and Biologicals; and Diane Birt, ISU distinguished professor of food science and human nutrition and interim director of the Nutrition and Wellness Research Center.
Throughout the open house, center faculty will provide tours of the metabolic kitchen, dining areas, conference rooms, laboratories, and exercise assessment facilities. There will also be student demonstrations of exercise techniques and healthy eating strategies, and displays related to health and wellness research.
Officials hope to stimulate interest in developing partnerships with area business and industry for future research initiatives at the center through the open house.
"We want to let the community know about this facility and make them aware that we're not another fitness center," said Birt, a member of the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Science. "This is a center designed to foster consumer and clinical research related to nutrition and wellness. We welcome proposals for partnerships from area business and industry."
Administered jointly by the College of Human Sciences and the Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development at Iowa State University, the Nutrition and Wellness Research Center was created to enhance human health and promote the development of food-related industries in Iowa. It is designed to "link" food research to the health of consumers and help move food-related innovations in plant, animal, microbial and food sciences to commercialization. As the NWRC develops, organizers plan to also study factors such as physical activity, which interacts with nutrition to determine wellness.
It is the state's first facility focused on testing foods and food-products for their impact on human wellness and prevention of chronic diseases.
"We do studies in healthy people and look at indicators in them that may correlate to them remaining healthy," Birt said. "We don't study people who have diseases in this center."
The facility will enhance existing research being conducted on campus, specifically from the Center for Crops Utilization Research, Center for Designing Food for Nutrition, and the Center for Research on Botanical Dietary Supplements. Officials are also working with statewide partners that include the other Regent's institutions, established corporations such as Kemin and Proliant, start-up businesses, hospitals and clinics, and commodity sponsors.
"We also hope to collaborate with Iowa State's planned New Century Farm in the areas of functional foods and nutriceuticals," said Birt.
A grant of $700,000 from the Iowa Department of Economic Development through the Biosciences Alliance initiated development of the NWRC. Officials plan to make it self-sustaining by bringing in funds from grants, indirect cost recovery on grants, and fee-for-service activities.
Current research being conducted through the center includes ISU investigators Carola Grebitus, Helen Jensen, Jutta Roosen and Joseph Sebranek studying consumer willingness to pay for ground beef when it has different shelf life and colors. Professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition Suzanne Hendrich is also working with an Iowa-based company to develop new markets for a new dietary fiber.
Additional information on the Nutrition and Wellness Research Center is available through its Web site at http://www.nwrc.iastate.edu/.
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Iowa State University's new Nutrition and Wellness Research Center (NWRC) -- located in Building 6 of ISU's Research Park on North Loop Drive, just off of Highway 30 -- will conduct an open house on Friday, Nov. 9, from 3-7 p.m. Starting at 5 p.m. that day, prominent speakers -- include Iowa Lt. Gov. Patty Judge and ISU President Gregory Geoffroy -- will discuss the importance of nutrition and wellness.
"We want to let the community know about this facility and make them aware that we're not another fitness center. This is a center designed to foster consumer and clinical research related to nutrition and wellness. We welcome proposals for partnerships from area business and industry."
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At Trinity Lutheran Church here in North Omaha, we are blessed with the opportunity to assist a Presbyterian Church in the USA ministry called Crossroads Connections Prison Ministry.
We are transportation sponsors – taking incarcerated men and women to worship once a week (at a Presbyterian Church building) and sharing a meal with them before they return. This gives these folks a chance to share worship time and a meal with their families, as well as with us.
Whenever a fifth Sunday in a month rolls around, the service is at Trinity's building. Trinity partners with St. Paul's Lutheran Church in nearby Millard to host these events. It was their turn to lead worship, and ours to cook. We grilled out and had a great evening.
As we were finishing the meal, one of the prisoners handed his plate to a Trinity volunteer washing dishes.
"You always serve us on real plates here," he said. "Why do you do that?"
Our volunteer thought a moment – and this is where I saw the living presence of God – and replied: "Well – if I invited you to my house for dinner, I'd serve you on real plates. We've invited you to God's house for dinner – why would it be any different."
We are indeed blessed to stand in God's house, share a meal, and know that the Spirit of God blows in our midst.
Pastor John


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Journal of the Adventist Theological Society (JATS) is a refereed (double-blind peer-reviewed) scholarly journal, translated intermittently into German, Spanish, and Russian. JATS is sent to every member of the Evangelical Theological Society where it is read by nearly 2000 non-Adventist evangelical scholars.
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Fake Snow ? The Conspiracy Facts.
New studies: 'Conspiracy theorists' sane; government dupes crazy, hostile
In short, the new study by Wood and Douglas suggests that the negative stereotype of the conspiracy theorist – a hostile fanatic wedded to the truth of his own fringe theory – accurately describes the people who defend the official account of 9/11, not those who dispute it."
The most recent study was published on July 8th by psychologists Michael J. Wood and Karen M. Douglas of the University of Kent (UK). Entitled "What about Building 7? A social psychological study of online discussion of 9/11 conspiracy theories," the study compared "conspiracist" (pro-conspiracy theory) and "conventionalist" (anti-conspiracy) comments at news websites.
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Here are supporting articles and/or Videos to this *So Called* Conspiracy.
Corporate Meteorologists Desperately Trying To Hide Truth About Chemtrails and Fake Snow
Source: chemtrailsplanet
The agenda for Big Oil to use chemtrails and environmental weapons to warm the arctic is becoming more obvious.
We note the record warm temperatures in Alaska while record winter storms in North America cause "snow" (and something else) to fall in the south. While arctic ice retreats to allow access to drilling by Big Oil we find antarctic ice is increasing.
Contrary to pervasive media propaganda about the "dangers" of Global Warming, many historical documents reveal that proposals to warm the arctic for access to oil drilling have been considered as good ideas for nearly 70 years prior to the 1960′s.
Your key to unlocking the MATRIX of CLIMATE CHANGE disinformation is in the article: 1966 NASA Documents Reveal Mission of Military and Federal Agencies to Modify the Climate
Main Stream Media And Their Paid Liar "Scientists" Are Desperately Trying To Hide The Truth About Climate Engineering
Dane Wigington geoengineeringwatch.org
The artificially nucleated snow storms have finally raised the attention of the public. As we expected, main stream media has responded to the explosion of public awakening with a steady stream of disinformation. They attempt to back up the disinformation with "scientists" who are all too willing to lie for the empire. None of the mainstream media stories bother to mention any credible science terms in their "stories". That could lead people to solid information and that is the last thing the power brokers want. Main stream media of course fails to mention science terms like "climate engineering", "geoengineering" , "stratospheric aerosol geoengineering" (SAG), "solar radiation management" (SRM), "stratospheric aerosol injection" (SAI), etc.
Don't Miss Jeff Rense Interview With Dane Wigington (Featured Video) above.
NOTE: The use of chemtrails as environmental weapons to manipulate natural resources is not the type of geoengineering to mitigate "global warming" envisioned by geoengineers, David Keith and Ken Caldeira. We must stop confusing the use of chemtrails as precisely equal to geoengineering. they two different operations – both based on misleading data. If not, we will have two (2) aerosol and pollution spraying operations. (1) Tropospheric Chemtrails to warm the climate and (2) Stratospheric Aerosols to cool the climate created by chemtrails.
The patents below should be examined, important points in them are already highlighted to make reviewing easier. Please review the data below, get up to speed on the gravity of what we face. Our future depends on having a critical mass of the population that is clear on the truth. A critical mass that is not swayed by the constant stream of lies put out by the so called "experts" who are paid to hide the the truth at any cost. The power structure can not afford to have the American public wake up and they will do anything they can to keep this from happening. They control the media, they control the message, and they think they control the definition of "truth", but they do not. Please take the time to look and learn. If you know you are standing on solid ground you won't be swayed by illusion and lies. D.W.
"Artificial Ice Nucleation For Weather Modification", Patents
"WEATHER MODIFICATION METHOD" (Artificial ice nucleation for weather modification)
"FREEZING NUCLEANT" (Artificial ice nucleation for weather modification)
"GENERATION OF ICE NUCLEATING CRYSTALS" (Artificial ice nucleation for weather modification)
Snow storms are being completely engineered, period. The article links below will provide further details for those that want to truly get their arms around the now total weather modification on planet Earth.
Geoengineered Storms Wreaking Havoc Around The Globe
The Snowmen, Turning Warmth Into Winter, (part 1)
The Snowmen, Turning Warmth Into Winter (part 2)
So let's continue shall we…
Mystery of Fake Snow Polymers Explained by Spangler Science
Fake snow has been commercially manufactured for years by adding water to a volume of tiny hydrophilic polymers that absorb vast amounts of H2O to produce fake, powdery snow.
Complete story of Axle Annie: http://youtu.be/QQslNwpXYMM
The consistency of polymer snow makes it a candidate for spraying by chemtrails jets. Released over the storm, the fake snow polymers soak up all the moisture in the upper atmosphere then fall to earth disguised as real snow.
The characteristics of artificial snow expressed in several videos of "fake snow" associated with the winter the January, 2014 winter storm match that of a product called "Insta-Snow" marketed by Steve Spangler Science.
- Difficult to compress
- Reluctance to release water under applied heat
- Odor of burnt plastic (polymer)
The military, weather modification version of fake snow, however, may contain more than polymers. It would be easy enough to hide bio-toxins to the fake snow in order to entice a naive population to come within close contact of an engineered virus or the silent Morgellons organism.
Curious coincidence lies in the inspiration for polymer snow marketing contained in a children's book written by Robin Pulver and illustrated by Tedd Arnold called "AXLE ANNIE".
Continue reading about "AXLE ANNIE"
Still not convinced ? Be sure to watch this video till the end.


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The Rise of the Tenth
Chamic Empire
The rise of the Chamic Empire is a relatively recent phenomenon. From the fortress city of Ghealdaneth, armies owing their allegiance to the nameless (and, some claim, eternal) Emperor issue forth to expand the his influence.
Founded by Armonius Cham nearly 150 years ago, and bearing his name to this day, the Chamic Empire places great value on order, obedience and dedication to doing one's duty. Its core philosophy is attractive in its simplicity; for a plan (and by extension, an empire) to be successful, all that is necessary is rigid, unthinking acceptance of one's role. There is no need for a lowly foot soldier to understand a general's battle plan, provided they do all that is asked of them by that plan.
This philosophy underpins every aspect of the Chamic Empire. The Chamic bureaucracy is incredibly simple, and incredibly successful. It has allowed them to claim vast swathes of the southern coast in a relatively short space of time.
The fortress city of Ghealdaneth is the seat of the The Chamic Emperor, and the headquarters of the various key elements of the Chamic government. Sitting at the mouth of the Greywater River, where it flows into south-eastern edge of the Sea of Fallen Stars, it is a mighty testament to the values of order and obedience.
The Hunters
As a militaristic society, the powers that be in the Empire place great value on the military capabilities of those who wield arcane powers. Hence, the Hunters.
Wielders of arcane powers themselves, the Hunters exist to find, recruit and, if necessary, neutralise, mages who managed to grow to adulthood without being found by recruiters. To be a Hunter is a great honour, for they are trusted with nearly limitless authority in executing their task. However, Hunters are seldom welcome, for, like the rest of the Chamic Empire, they perform their duties without remorse, confident in the knowledge that they fulfil a necessary, if occasionally distasteful, duty.


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Dances of Universal Peace - Bernie Heideman is a certified dance leader, mentor, and certified Laughter Yoga leader living in rural Western Colorado. His lifelong passion is bringing vocal music, movement, and laughter to groups.
Dances of Universal Peace - Rasullah has been teaching the dances since 1987 and has created many new dances especially from the Hindu and Celtic spiritual traditions.
Mindfulness & Dances of Universal Peace - Daren Messenger leads DUP, has a particularly deep connection to Sufism, the Aramaic Lords Prayer and Buddhist mindfulness and concentration practices.
Sharing the Dances is one of the greatest joys in my life. I lead Dance days and retreats mostly in and around Newcastle upon Tyne where I live with my partner and in Sheffield (my former home town).
Dances of Universal Peace - Dominic Ashmole is a certified leader of the Dances of Universal Peace who has offered dance events in Scotland since 2009 and taught at dance camps in the UK since 2012.
Mo'unisa (Vitalija) is a certified DUP leader and mentor-in-training in DUPUK. She was a founder member of the Latvian Dances of Universal Peace Network.
Dances of Universal Peace - Jilani worked for many years as a musician and music teacher, and now she loves to share the beautiful healing potential of the Dances, including the Aramaic work of Saadi Neil Douglas-Klotz, both at home and abroad.
Dances of Universal Peace - Glen is from England and his spiritual background is in Sufism and Advaita Vedanta. The dances are a tool for the transmission of blessing that open the heart to qualities of love and reconnect dancers to the natural state of pure awareness beyond thought.
Harmonic Temple - An essential element of Dances of Universal Peace Camps in this country for the last twenty years, Harmonic Temple involves singing short 4-part harmony songs and chants based on mantras and sacred phrases from different spiritual traditions
Sacred Sight Singing & Scratch Chamber Orchestra - Dee Jarlett has been a Unicorn Voice Camp teacher since the inception of the camp and Judith Rieser is a Music Therapist, piano teacher and accompanist.
Sacred Sight Singing - Sarah is a Natural Voice teacher with twelve years' experience and many camps under her belt. She is particularly inspired by sacred singing of all kinds and the strong connection it creates between singers.
Scratch Choir - I co-run our lovely Circle of Song community choir in Stroud. My singing life started with church choir as a sprog, and moved on to the London Boy Singers until my voice broke.
Ceilidh - Kate is a voice teacher and singer, based in the North East of Scotland, affiliated to The Findhorn Foundation International Spiritual Community and Eco-Village.
Taize - I am inspired by the wonderful ability that singing together has to build community and well-being.
Circle Dance - Rosa has been teaching Circle Dance since the early '80s, and runs dance events in Shropshire with "her" band Bellamonda.
Circle Dance - I have been dancing since 1977, my most influential teachers were Keith Armstrong and Colin Harrison, both of whom learnt directly from Bernard Vosien.
Devotional Singing & Circle Dance Band - I lead the Circle Dance band, which is open to musicians who feel confident to learn traditional tunes, either by ear or with music, ready to accompany the evening circle dance. I also co-lead with Chrissie O'Keeffe sessions of devotional singing, where we offer authentic chants from many Indian traditions.
Devotional Singing - Chrissie has been playing guitar & singing at kirtans & satsangs in the West country for over 30 years, including Santosa Yoga camps. She has been at Unicorn Camp for the last several years and loves it!
Devotional Singing - I love the way that devotional singing and the Dances can open a door in our hearts, connecting us to each other and to the streams of blessing that they bring.
Yoga - Ty Lynne was first introduced to yoga by lovely Elizabeth while living in the Thai jungle in 1990s and has completed teacher trainings with Sivananda Yoga UK and Devon School of Yoga.
Drumming & Firenight - Since founding his Sunshine Drumming Company in 1994, the percussionist Mike McElya has been winning a great reputation for his charismatic blend of instruction, inspiration, team-building and entertainment.
Family Constellations - UKCP registered Gestalt Psychotherapist and Family Constellations Practitioner, Barbara has been involved with constellation work since the Founder, Bert Hellinger was first invited to England in the mid 90s.
Earthsongs - Over the years Rebecca has led International Women's Day workshops and has co-taught with her husband Bruce at Unicorn Voice Camp, Sacred Arts Camp and day/weekend workshops around the country.
Circle Dance - Bruce Knight runs a weekly circle dance group and a 100-strong community choir in leafy Warwickshire.
Creative Arts for Children - I specialize in teaching creative arts, including music, drama and painting. From the beginning I have used the Dances as an integral part of my daily teaching to enhance community and for exploring spiritual ideas.
Our camps are alcohol and drug free creating a safe environment.
There is music, song, fireside chat and laughter but no late night noise or amplified music.


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These pictures were composed through the viewfinder of my DSLR which has the ability to split the screen in 9 sections. I have used either one of the sections to composed the pictures, or a group of these sections. The camera was set to programme and auto-ISO, so it took its own exposure decisions, but the lenses were focused manually (all of them manual lenses). Here is the final selection.
The top 2 pictures were taken using the bottom right hand side of the frame for composition, while the remaining 4 were shot using the central sections of the viewfinder. All the pictures include elements that I would normally crop out or leave out of the frame. In some cases these elements work out unexpectedly well with the main subject of the image, creating some counterbalance or providing context, like the lamp in the top left picture (main subject was woman walking between columns) or the wings of the building on the last picture on the bottom right.


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Mrs. Anna Cavanaugh Ellen, age 100, of Rockford passed away on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010. She was a 1927 graduate of Rockford High School and member of the Golden "R" Club. Anna was also the oldest living member of Our Lady of Consolation Catholic Church.
Family was important to her, and she was delighted to have her children close to her. Besides being a farmer's wife and mother to her children, her home was always open for one more. For 35 years she worked for Wolverine World Wide, worked as a secretary at Our Lady of Consolation Church for Fr. Paul Milanowski, and later worked for Molesta Floral. She also volunteered at North Kent Service Center and at Gleaners.
Her devotion to her family was unconditional. She welcomed her daughters' husbands as sons of her own.
Anna is survived by her loving daughters and their husbands, Sally and John Norton of Greenville, and Nancy and Scott Hobart of Rockford; grandchildren, Larry and Judy Norton, John and Amy Norton, Lynn and Rick Peters, Marcie and Darrel Demorest, Mark Norton, Connie and Bob Szymczak, and Amy and Jeff Haney; 10 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren with another one on the way; nieces and nephews; and an adopted son by love, Harvey Hulett. She was preceded in death by her husbands, John "Jack" Cavanaugh and Russell Ellen; her great-grandson, Nicholas John; her brothers, John DeBoer and Garret DeBoer; and her sister, Tina Morman.
The mass of Christian burial for Mrs. Ellen was offered on Monday at 11:00 a.m. at Our Lady of Consolation Church with the Rev. Tony Russo presiding. Interment was in Assumption Cemetery. The Rosary for Anna was prayed at the funeral home on Sunday at 4:00 p.m. Those planning an expression of sympathy are asked to consider Our Lady of Consolation Catholic Church.
Arrangements were made by Pederson Funeral Home, Rockford.


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Michael joined The Open University in July 2013 is currently a Senior Lecturer in Management and Director of Masters and MBA Programmes. Prior to joining the OU, he was part of the academic team that launched Coventry University London Campus in October 2010. His varied roles there included academic coordination of the BA Global business, BA Global marketing (top-ups) and MBA oil and gas management. Between 2007 and 2009 he held teaching posts in international business at Nottingham Trent and Sheffield Hallam universities. Michael studied in Cameroon (BSc Economics), Sweden (MSc Economics, MA Leadership in International Management and MA in STS) before completing a PhD at University of Nottingham.
Professional memberships
Michael's research has a particular focus on linkages between entrepreneurship and development. His most recent publications include women as vectors of social entrepreneurship, informal microfinance institutions and development-led tourism entrepreneurship and impact investing and inclusive business development in Africa. Michael also has a long-standing interest in the study of how global partnerships and initiatives shape local practices in developing countries. He has examined the implementation of global initiatives/strategies in a variety of settings, including tourism development, petroleum local content and access to HIV/AIDS and malaria medication. Recent publications include how international oil and gas companies respond to local content policies in petroleum-producing developing countries. His work has been published in leading journals such as Tourism Management, Annals of Tourism Research, Social Science & Medicine, Health Policy & Planning, Energy Policy and Strategic Change: Briefings in Entrepreneurial Finance.
I am currently supervising two PhD students:
Andres Morales Pachon, on community development enterprises: Buen vivir and social solidarity economy in Colombia
Richmond Lamptey, on impact investing and SME development in Ghana
Michael has more than 11 years' experience of teaching and learning in higher education. He was a member of a team of Open University Business School academics producing a new undergraduate degree specialism Innovation and Enterprise, where he was Module Team Chair of B327 Creating Futures: Sustainable Enterprise and Innovation, a new 30 point module currently being designed and Module Team Member of B205 Exploring Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a new 60 point module currently in production (first presentation October 2016). He also Chaired of B325 Managing across Organisational and Cultural Boundaries, a module currently in presentation. Michael has previously chaired B322 Investigating Entrepreneurial Opportunities and served as a member of B847 Management Beyond the Mainstream (MBA elective) presentation team.
Michael supervises and examines research students working in the fields of impact financing, entrepreneurship and development. He is also an external examiner for business and management modules at School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham. He is co-author of a book chapter: (with Donal O'Neill), Using complex behavioral simulations to enrich students' learning experiences on a conventional MBA (2015).
Michael is Co-investigator with Dr Albert Kimbu (PI – University of Surrey) on a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant project, Women as Vectors of Social Entrepreneurship in Hospitality & Tourism (May 2014 - October 2015). The main aim of the project is to explore the nature, motivations and extent to which women entrepreneurs in hospitality and tourism related sectors use their businesses as platforms for engagement in various forms of social entrepreneurship leading to value (co)creation, economic and community development in emerging tourism destinations of Sub-Saharan Africa such as Cameroon. Findings from the project will be presented at a half day academic workshop at School of Hospitality and Tourism, University of Surrey (24 September 2015) and a practitioner workshop at American Language Centre in Douala, Cameroon (7 September 2015).
Michael is developing an engaged research project (with Rob Paton, Alex Korda and Albert Kimbu) on impact investing and inclusive business development in African countries. He co-organised a Roundtable Discussion at Strathmore Business School in Nairobi, Kenya (July 2014) on the policy implications of impact investing in Kenya. This research has also been presented at the International Development Seminar Series, IKD-OU. (15 October 2014) and featured as Guest Editorial, International Development @ The Open University monthly newsletter (February 2015). Michael has been an academic adviser on the Open University Entrepreneurship Competition and sits on the judging panel.


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Tel Megiddo lies in the heart of the Jezreel Valley, Israel, at the hub international roads between Egypt and Syria. In this abridged version of a piece from Near Eastern Archaeology, Adams and his colleagues discuss one of the most recent important finds at Megiddo, the 'Great Temple' of the fourth millennium BCE, and the community of its builders.
By: Matthew J. Adams, Jonathan David, Robert S. Homsher, and Margaret E. Cohen
Tel Megiddo lies in the heart of the Jezreel Valley, at the hub of international roads between Egypt and Syria. Its local importance in all periods of the Bronze and Iron Ages cannot be overstated but while major excavations have taken place at well-known sites like Megiddo, Jezreel, and Taanach, the valley itself has received little archaeological and historical attention. The Jezreel Valley Regional Project (JVRP) is designed to focus attention at the regional level through long-term, multidisciplinary survey and excavation.
The JVRP has focused four seasons of excavation on the Early Bronze Age I (ca. 3300–3000 BCE) site of Tel Megiddo East. This settlement was home to the community responsible for building the recently excavated Great Temple complex at Tel Megiddo, on of the largest such structures in the Levant. Together, the town and temple are providing new evidence for the precursors of urban societies of the EB II–III (ca. 3000–2500 BCE).
The Great Temple of Megiddo
As a result of the extensive excavations by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago during the 1920s and 1930s, Tel Megiddo is recognized as an important site from the Early Bronze through Iron Age. The 1935–1939 campaigns focused on an enormous 5000 m2 excavation area on the eastern side of the tell, Area BB (figs. 1, 3). The result was the identification of the complete stratigraphy of the site through 20 major strata, and one of the largest exposures of Early Bronze Age levels at a major site in the southern Levant. Among the discoveries was a 120 square meter temple of Stratum XIX (our Level J-3), dating to the EB IB. Architecturally similar to a Chalcolithic cultic building found at Ein Gedi near the Dead Sea, the temple featured an altar and four basalt slabs placed along the long axis of the sanctuary. Work was cut short by the onset of World War II.
When the Tel Aviv University Megiddo Expedition began work at Megiddo in 1992, the deep cut provided an unprecedented opportunity to revisit the Early Bronze Age using modern techniques.Through 2010, the Megiddo Expedition conducted extensive excavations in this area (now called Area J, figs. 1, 4) in order to refine the EB stratigraphy.
The most surprising result was the discovery of the Great Temple in Level J-4, a monumental shrine dating to the latest phase of the EB IB (ca. 3000 BCE). This enormous building was a rectangular sanctuary some 47.5 by 22 meters in dimension (a so-called 'broadroom') with two rear corridors stacked with the bone refuse from animal sacrifices (figs. 4–5). The main sanctuary was entered through a basalt-paved doorway in the northern wall, opposite a mudbrick and stone altar. A row of twelve column bases was located along the longitudinal axis of the sanctuary flanked by two rows of round and rectangular 1-ton basalt slabs. At 1100 square meters, the sheer size of the building is impressive and unprecedented. It was built to replace the similarly-styled but much smaller temple of Level J-3. But more impressive than the size of the temple is the precision of the craftsmanship, the scale of the labor, and the underlying organization of the society.
The temple was designed to exacting standards. It was laid out on a well-planned grid using a standard unit of measurement (a cubit of 52.5 centimeters) arranged in modules of six cubits. These determined the layout of the building and the placement of the cultic furniture. The structure was planned as an asymmetrical structure of two wings, each measuring seven modules by seven modules, and containing six column bases, six basalt tables, and a corridor. The geometric center of the temple is exactly at the center of the altar. Significant intellectual effort, complementing the manual effort, was invested in the design of this building.
But the manual effort was immense. Some 1100 cubic metersof stone were in the foundations alone, and we estimated another volume of 2200 cubic meters of mudbricks were used in the construction. The mudbricks would have required around 58,000 kilograms of straw temper, grown on more than 100 hectares, or 250 acres.
In addition to material resources, unskilled workers were required to transport materials along with skilled specialists who could quarry and cut stone, manufacture bricks, build walls, and sculpt basalt. These laborers carried out the detailed plans of a meticulous architect (or architects) who designed the temple employing innovative geometry. Behind the practical architectural design were priests who established the rules for the physical space and its sacred activities. These priests also determined and implemented the rituals for decommissioning the earlier temple and dedicating the new Great Temple.
Such an effort would have required an administrative entity to negotiate between participants, organize materials, calculate material needs, and compensate suppliers and workers. Finally, sizable agriculture and pastoral resources were necessary simply to feed the participants. This task too was immense.
While the Great Temple provides dramatic new evidence for the emergence of a well-organized society in the Jezreel Valley ca. 3000 BCE, the nature of its social and political organization remains unclear. In order to understand how this society functioned, the JVRP investigated the settlement responsible for its construction.
EB Megiddo: Two Sites
Tel Megiddo is only one within a larger cluster of archaeological sites, ranging in date from the Neolithic Period through modern times, within a mile of the main tell. Surveys identified a large area east of the tell with high concentrations of Early Bronze Age IB pottery, and architectural remains and remote sensing data helped to build a picture of a significant EB I settlement (figs. 3, 8). The eastern portion has been considered a separate archaeological site, known as Tel Megiddo East (TME).
The Settlement of the Great Temple Builders
Since 2010 the JVRP has investigated Tel Megiddo East to understand the social and political context of the Great Temple. These have included geophysical studies, paleoenvironmental studies, and trial excavations.
The settlement at TME was centered on a bedrock outcrop approximately 450 meters east of Tel Megiddo (figs. 3, 8). The boundaries of the site are not yet clear, but excavations suggest a maximum area of approximately 8 hectares (20 acres). These excavations demonstrated that the settlement itself was not contiguous with the cultic acropolis at Tel Megiddo. No settlement existed in the ca. 250 meters between the wadi and the rocky ascent below the Great Temple; rather, this area was a marshland, unsuitable for habitation but a great resource for flocks of sheep, goats, cattle, and pigs attested from the excavations.
Unfortunately, the extent of the EB I on the main tell remains hidden beneath later material. The types of occupation there (cultic? domestic? administrative?) are open to speculation but it seems probable that EB IB Tel Megiddo was approximately 4 hectares and consisted primarily of a cultic compound and cemetery.Greater Megiddo was thus a dual site consisting of a cultic acropolis at Tel Megiddo and the settlement at TME. With a combined size of approximately 12 hectares (ca. 30 acres, not including the marsh that separated them), EB IB Megiddo is among the largest known Early Bronze Age sites in the southern Levant, dwarfed only by later EB II-III Bet Yerah and Yarmuth.
The excavations at TME have revealed nearly 600 square meters of the settlement. Although parts of the site, particularly on the western slopes, have been greatly disturbed, our most recent season (2013) indicated that the central portion is in good condition. Four major architectural phases have so far been revealed, all dating to the EB IB, roughly parallel the four phases of the EB IB on Tel Megiddo (Levels J-2–4). The latest phase is contemporary with the Great Temple (ca. 3000 BCE).
The settlement rests on very uneven and difficult to build on limestone outcroppings (figs. 9–10). It is not surprising that the earliest architectural remains are located at the base of this bedrock (beneath Building C). Little could be discerned about the layout of the early settlement but it was unplanned and irregular. That some walls continued to be rebuilt into the latest phases suggests continuity.
Other changes indicate significant developments in the mind of the community. The latest occupational phase (Phase 6, figs. 9–12), contemporary with the Great Temple, reveals a new effort to form the uneven bedrock into usable space. Well-built terraces and foundation walls among the sharp bedrock allowed the settlement to expand upslope. This not only demonstrates significant effort but also strategic engineering and site planning, especially since at least one of the new buildings ("A") was particularly large.
This partially excavated building (figs. 9; 11) is especially intriguing. It is at least 25 meters north to south and 15 meters east to west, approximately seven times larger than an average house. Two flat basalt slabs, apparently column bases, remained in situ. Despite its poor preservation, we reconstruct a large interior space defined by evenly spaced columns on basalt slabs, perhaps serving a public function.Building "A" appears to be a well-planned structure designed according to the same principles as the Great Temple.
The discoveries from the final phase at TME are significant contributions to understanding the society that built the Great Temple. First, Building A shows that the development of large-scale public architecture was present in the broader community. Second, the use of the cubit in the temple and Tel Megiddo East shows standardization was pervasive. Finally, the TME Phase 6 buildings and the fragments of others were laid out in an organized grid-like fashion despite the difficulties of constructing on jagged bedrock. This last demonstrates that a general plan existed for at least part of the site.
The results of just a few seasons at TME have demonstrated that it parallels the pattern observed on the acropolis. At both sites, substantial activity and construction suggest a prosperous mid-to-late EB IB society, culminating in the Great Temple phase, which featured monumental architecture, standardization of measurements in public and private buildings both on the acropolis and in the settlement, and planning over broad spaces. Sophisticated engineering is also indicated by the terraces supporting settlement expansion onto rough terrain and the monumental feat of constructing the temple itself.
The Jezreel Valley in the Late Fourth Millennium
Tel Megiddo and Tel Megiddo East reveal a community undergoing significant developments, including the ability to construct an unprecedented cultic complex. The resources necessary for these endeavors suggests access to a sizable hinterland, including building materials, food, and especially humans willing (or forced) to participate in the project.
Data from previous surveys and excavations suggest that Megiddo was part of a valley-wide phenomenon. Settlement patterns and site-size estimates suggest a dramatic population boom in the EB IB. The Megiddo Hinterland Survey in the 1990s identified more than 45 settlement sites, the most for any period before the Iron Age, with an average size over 2 hectares. Based on these figures alone, the EB IB seems to have been one of the most prosperous periods in the history of the region. The impression is of a well-integrated regional network, in which Megiddo played a central role related to its elaborate cult complex. The next project for the JVRP is a survey of the Jezreel Valley to place developments at Megiddo in a more detailed regional setting.
Epilogue: The Fall of EB I Megiddo
Despite development of unprecedented communities and monumental structures that left their mark on Megiddo and the valley, the EB I collapsed. More than half of the sites in the valley were abandoned, and nearly every surviving site was significantly reduced in size. The reasons for this, and for the emergence of new fortified towns, remain unclear. Similar changes in the in transition from EB I–II have been identified all over the southern Levant. The Jordan Valley Regional Project and Tel Megiddo expedition will be back in the field in 2014 working to address these mysteries.
Matthew J. Adams is the incoming Dorot Director of the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem. Jonathan David is Assistant Professor of Classics at Gettysburg College. Robert S. Homsher is a lecturer in the Anthropology Department at San Francisco State University. Margaret E. Cohen teaches in the Religion Department at Lycoming College.[1] The authors wish to thank field supervisors Fadi Abu Zidan, Enno Brun, Roy Liran, Maayan Shemer, Ariel Vered, and Omar Zidan for their invaluable help in the field. They are also indebted to Heeli Shechter and Erin Rice (Obsidian), Lena Brailovsky, Omry Barzilai, Hamudi Khalaily, and Ofer Marder (lithic assemblages in the field), Avi Gopher and Ran Barkai team (research of the flint assemblages), Fanny Bocquentin (physical anthropology), Nuha Agha (zooarchaeology), Dvory Namdar (residue analysis), Sorin Hermon (3D scanning), Sonia Itkis (magnetometry) and to Rivka Mishayev and Mendel Kahan (plans and sections). Thanks are also due to Yossi Yaakobi (administration), IAA northern district archaeologists and workers from Kfar Manda, Nazareth, Iblin, Shefaram, and Tiberias.
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Exercise (Djibouti) 2012 is a new commission by John Gerrard, which is presented by Modern Art Oxford as a large-scale installation in a disused power station in Oxford, UK.
Further developing Gerrard's realtime portraits of physical locations, the work harnesses advanced simulation and motion capture technologies to create a temporal collage in which disciplined athletic bodies perform a perpetual militarised exercise of strategic capability and intent. Exercise (Djibouti) 2012 extends themes that the artist has explored in other recent commissions, including Infinite Freedom Exercise (near Abadan, Iran) for Manchester International Festival and Live Fire Exercise (Djibouti), a collaboration with choreographer Wayne McGregor for The Royal Ballet.
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