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The beginning of the 2017 – 2018 school year is quickly approaching. The first day of the 2017 – 2018 school year for students is Monday, August 14. The schedule for kindergarten is somewhat different with individual student assessments scheduled for August 14 – 16 and the first full day of kindergarten scheduled for Thursday, August 17.
If you are new to the Huber Heights City School district, be sure to register your child as soon as possible and before school begins. Important staffing decisions are made based on the number of students in a particular grade level. If your child is in elementary school, kindergarten through grade six, and you are unsure which school your child should attend, please go to our website, www.huberheightscityschools.org and click on "Departments". Then click on "Transportation". On the right hand side of the page, click on "Elementary Street Roster". This opens a document that lists all the streets in our school district as well as the elementary school children living on each street should attend.
The district's website also contains the 2017 – 2018 school district calendar and information about school fees, registration, and school supplies. Registration hours may vary by building so please contact the individual school for specific registration times. Basic school supply lists can be found at various retailers throughout Huber Heights. Individual teachers may require additional supplies. These teacher specific supply lists will be handed out to students during the first week of school.
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Invisible Enemies DVD
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|Suddenly after finding a pair of glasses a student becomes aware of the spiritual world that is always around us.
Invisible Enemies is a story about a college student named Jackson, who finds a pair of glasses that allows him to see the spiritual world. Through the glasses he discovers how the lives of his friends are influenced toward evil by unseen enemies. Jackson tries to convince his friends that life isn't neutral and that there are unseen realities that are affecting their lives. They think it's absurd. Cindy, Jackson's blind friend, recognized that there are many things that are real that can't be seen. Jackson, in the end, rescues his sister from near disaster by utilizing the power of Jesus Christ.
Cast: Jason Guess, Kellee Robin
Writers: Bill Muir, Jim Hancock, Stephen Bowlby, Stephen Vidano
Producers: Susie Scott, Rick Sieben, Bill Muir
Directors: Stephen Bowlby, Stephen Vidano
38 Minutes, Drama
This DVD is formatted for Region 1 - United States & Canada
Public Performance Rights: Creative Youth Resources
Product Release Date: Monday, November 1, 2004
Produced By: Susie Scott, Ric Sieben, Bill Muir
Directed By: Stephen Vidano, Stephen Bowlby
One of the highest quality Christian films ever produced, this spiritual warfare thriller follows a young man who finds a pair of glasses which allows him to see the demonic world. This motion picture is certainly a wake up call to the serious spiritual battle all around us and has some good insight as to how it all works.
Great production and film.
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Portuguese pulp fiction, sadly, is often just a well-known American or English writer in translation. And a careful skim of O Santo e o mistério de Lisboa turned up no conclusive evidence that Leslie Charteris ever set foot in the city. But check out the prefatory "Warning to the Reader":
For your own interest, prized Reader, check to see that this book still has the white wax tab that seals some of its pages: if so, open it, please, as you would an uncut book, that is, with a knife, or even a simple card, and that way you will avoid tearing the pages. If you find the book unsealed, get rid of it, because this indicates that it has already been read. Protect your health by not handling used books.


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I have never thought that someday, I would be a school teacher.
However, a week later, I told myself to accept my career change positively and accept my fate wholeheartedly. I am beginning to love the job though at one point of my life, I yearned for the job as a university lecturer. Experience taught me that it is not easy to get a place in the public university since the competition was stiff, even with my Masters degree.
A friend of mine always say "there is a blessing in disguise". A year after I failed my interview with UiTM Sarawak, I began to feel that being a university lecturer is not really the job for me. I am not saying this because I failed my interview, but from the information I gathered , the workload in university is heavier than the school and the working hours are not favourable to most lecturers. I was told that the lecturers have to work on Saturday and Sunday and even come at night to give lectures. The research, publications, travelling that they have to do? I guess, only those who have passion for the job will be able to cope with these workloads.
My family (whom are MOSTLY teachers!) encourage me to join secondary school and I have to admit that there are a lot of good things being a school teacher. It is true what many of my friends said about teaching in school. Today,
a. I only work half a day (12.40 pm to 6.20 pm.) from Monday to Friday (and sometimes Saturday);
b. I am getting lots and lots of holidays during school and public holidays. The longest school holiday will be 6 weeks and I will still get paid;
c. With the holidays I will get, I can spend more time with my family.
What can I say? I am happy with my job now. And to all my relatives who are teachers, we will have lots of barbecuing sessions this November! I just can't wait!!


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I hadn't read any of Duras' other books, which made her pomposity a bit grating in this work; she definitely takes herself seriously as a writer. This is a trip down memory lane as a teenager in Saigon, falling in love with a 30ish old Chinese man whose wealthy father forbade him to marry her. This was made into a steamy movie with lots of sex in the 90's. Lots of references to her older brother being a killer, when in reality he was a gambler who squandered her mother's fortune.
15 year old Duras pops on a silk handmedown dress from her mom, some gold high heels, and a man's fedora and attracts the attention of a fellow ferry passenger. He insists on giving her a ride in his limousine back to her boarding school. A torrid affair ensued. She insists that he take her family to expensive restaurants, where they ignore him completely.
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34. _Secale Cornutum._--Mr. CHARLES WALLER has lately published (London
Medical and Physical Journal, April 1826,) several cases illustrative of
the action and efficacy of secale cornutum. We have not room for any of
the cases, and content ourselves with transcribing Mr. W.'s inferences.
These are: "That the secale cornutum is a remedy which is capable of
increasing the force of the uterine contractions in a most remarkable
manner, under certain circumstances; but that the effect is doubtful,
unless there be some degree of action present. In other words, that,
although it will increase the contractions when already present, it will
not always renew them when they are suspended.
"That the effect is more certain if the infusion be of greater strength
than is usually recommended; two drachms of the secale to six ounces of
water being barely sufficient for the purpose.
"That it appears to be a stimulus peculiarly fitted for irritable, and
what are generally termed _nervous_ habits.
"That the fears entertained by some practitioners of its proving
detrimental to the child, are groundless.
"But, although it is in general necessary, not only that there should be
a disposition for labour, but that this process should have actually
commenced, before we can expect the secale cornutum to have any effect
upon the uterus, still one solitary case has indirectly come to my
knowledge (and I will vouch for the authenticity of it,) where this
remedy was given for the purpose of producing abortion in a female,
about the second month of utero-gestation; and this effect was
accomplished in a few hours after its exhibition."
35. _Animal Magnetism._--This strange doctrine begins to acquire
considerable vogue in France, and other European countries, from which
it seemed to have been expelled, by the contempt and ridicule which it
met with, from most of the learned of the latter part of the last
century. ANTHONY MESMER, the great choroegus of the magnetic mummers,
was born in 1733, and excited a vast deal of attention, by the enormous
pretensions which he set forth on the subject of magnetism. MESMER came
from Austria to Paris in 1778. He addressed the Academy of Sciences, and
that of Medicine, but no attention was paid to him, till a commission
was appointed to examine carefully into the merits of the question. This
commission in 1784, so fully exposed the fallacy of MESMER'S theories
and practice, that he soon afterwards quitted Paris, and retired to
England under a feigned name. He subsequently went to Germany, and died
in obscurity, in the year 1815.
In December last, M. HUSSON (for himself, and MM. ADELON, BURDIN, MARC,
and PARISET,) read a report to the Royal Academy of Medicine, on the
question, whether it was fitting for the section to undertake new
researches on animal magnetism, as it had been thought to be
definitively settled by the decisions of 1784. The report concluded
affirmatively, for several reasons; among which the principal seems to
be, that magnetism has at present fallen into the hands of the learned,
whereas it was formerly under the domain only of quacks and the vulgar.
M. HUSSON'S report was discussed at subsequent sittings of the Academy,
for the purpose of ascertaining whether a new commission should be
appointed; and as this topic is certainly one of the greatest novelties
of the day, we shall give some account of the discussions, making free
use of the report of them, contained in the Revue Medicale, Mars. 1826.
M. DESGENETTES, declared against the appointment of a commission,
because he considered the magnetism of the present day, quite as much a
matter of jugglery as that of 1784; and he informs us, that the
publicity given to the report, had already increased the audacity of the
magnetisers, who look on it as an approbation of their art.
M. VIREY, regretted that the report had not spoken in strong terms,
against the ridiculous practices, and shameful jugglery, which disgrace
the cause of magnetism; he wished the committee had announced an
intention, to make only physiological, or psychological researches, on
the influence, which magnetism really appears to exercise on the nervous
system; and gave his voice for the formation of a commission of
M. BALLY, voted against it for several reasons, and among others,
because of the fact announced by all the magnetisers, that the person
who magnetises, acquires a sovereign power over the magnetisee; and he
inferred from this, all the inconvenient and even dangerous consequences
which may result to public morals!--Finally, he voted against it,
because magnetism is ridiculed every where, because it is all darkness
and confusion, and especially, because it being an inexhaustible mine of
empiricism, the section ought not to lay open such a fertile field for
those gentry who live by quackery.
M. ORFILA, (eheu!) defended the propositions of the reporters. It is
opposed, said he, on the three grounds following: 1st. Because the
section has not been invited to the examination now recommended. 2nd.
Because magnetism is nothing but juggling. 3d. Because commissions will
not commonly do any work. The first ground is not correct: M. FOISSAC, a
physician of Paris, has invited our attention to it, and offered to
subject a magnetic somnambulist to its exploration; and very reputable
physicians, members of the Academy, MM. ROSTAN, (the ramollissement man,
is his head soft too?) and GEORGET, have in their recent publications
called the attention of the learned to this subject. Secondly, if there
be any jugglery, in the magnetic phenomena we are told of; it is
nevertheless certain, that the whole of them are not simulated. The
testimony of well taught physicians, ought to be received on this head.
That the phenomena are extraordinary, is no argument; for those of
electricity must have been quite as marvellous, at the period of their
discovery, &c. &c.
M. DOUBLE, blamed the report as being nothing more than an apology for
magnetism, which is tarred with the same stick as that of 1784, and only
modified a little, by the esprit de notre temps, &c. &c. He said he had
made magnetism a special subject of study, and _never saw a phenomenon
produced by it_.----He thinks the commission could only do injury to
science, and compromit the Academy, &c. &c. He would vote against the
appointment, and advised the section to wait until some scientific
memoirs should be sent to it.
M. LAENNEC, agreed with M. DOUBLE, because after studying the subject
for twenty years, he is satisfied, that it is almost nothing but
deception and juggling; although, when he commenced the study, he was
prejudiced in its favour. According to M. LAENNEC, among the magnetic
influences, there are several, attributable to the impressions, which
one individual naturally makes on another in correlation with him; and
he cited a mistake, which he saw committed by a somnambulist woman. She
was magnetised by two persons, one of whom was handsome, but
anaphrodisiac, the other ugly, yet possessing in integrity, the genital
faculties. She received no impression, except from the first individual;
so that the impression which this female had received by the organs of
vision, before the experiment, superseded that, which the pretended
magnetic sense ought to have made on her. He thinks, the academy ought
to _observe_ the magnetisers, but what he has seen, has convinced him,
that nine-tenths of the facts in magnetism are supposititious. The
phenomena effected by magnetism, and the oracles uttered by the
somnambulist, vary with every magnetiser. MESMER excited convulsions;
DESLIN effected crises, such as are seen in diseases. The somnambulists
of Mr. DELEUZE, a learned man, are much better taught than those of
PUYSEGUR, who is ignorant of the sciences, and finally, Mr. LAENNEC has
seen a somnambulist under the direction of a pharmacien, who was quite
distinguished, by the art with which she compounded the medicines, she
recommended. The discussion was now adjourned to the next sitting.
On the 24th of January, it was resumed.
M. CHARDEL, bears witness to a reality of the magnetic phenomena, as he
has witnessed them himself, in a case of what is called somnambulism. He
dares not pronounce on the question of magnetism, as a therapeutical
agent; but is disposed to think it ought, if ever, to be used with great
reserve. Whether it consist of nervous phenomena of a particular order,
or whether it be a product of the imagination, in either case, it
deserves to be studied, &c. &c.
M. RONCHOUX, thought the proposed examination would be impossible; for
the magnetisers assert, that if one of the parties have a will opposed
to that of the magnetiser, no phenomena can be produced. Their confessed
inability to surmount any opposite will, seems to Mr. RONCHOUX, an
invincible obstacle to any exploration to be attempted by a commission.
M. MARC, gave some explanation of the labours undertaken in Germany.
According to the opposition, nothing conclusive can be derived from
these labours; because Germany is the native soil of sects and of
thaumaturgж but, Mr. M. proved by citations, that they are not to be
attributed to excited imaginations, as has been urged, but to the most
celebrated Savans of that country, as for example, OERSTDT, KLAPROTH,
and HUFELAND, to learned bodies, and to governments. The Royal Academy
of Berlin, offered in 1818, a prize of 3300 francs, for an essay on this
The governments of Prussia, Russia, and Denmark, have founded medical
commissions for the examination of it, and subjected its therapeutical
application to certain regulations. He thought, therefore, that the
Academy could follow without compromising its dignity, such good
examples. He added, that the examination was absolutely necessary,
unless they desired that every French practitioner should hereafter
reject the whole subject, and for ever abandon its employment to
jugglers and credulous fools.
M. NACQUART thought, that as magnetic somnambulism is something wholly
independent of organical, physical, or physiological laws; that as the
senses here have no need of organs; as time, space, and intermediate
bodies, wholly disappear; we can avail ourselves of no method of
appreciating magnetical facts, and consequently, the Academy ought not
to trouble their heads about it--a very good joke truly: but M. ITARD
said, that jokes had nothing to do with the question, because they are
meant only for the abuses and extravagancies of magnetism; but we want
to get at the truth, and to eschew the folly. Magnetism, says he, is
either a real or imaginary agent; it ought to be examined. To refuse
this, is to despise the path of experiment, which can alone lead to
truth, &c. &c.
M. RECAMIER, could add nothing to the observations of MM. DESGENETTES,
BALLY, and DOUBLE; but he wished the section to know, that he been a
witness to the magnetic phenomena--he had been present at the oracles of
the marichale of M. DE PUYSEGUR, who was represented as the most lucid
of all possible somnambulists. He had reason to suspect a cheat in this
case, as he was denied the means of dissipating his doubts; and heard
this woman repeat what he had before said to the patient himself. How
ridiculous, moreover, is it, to hear one drachm of glauber's salt
prescribed as a transcendental remedy for phthisis pulmonalis! He also
attended at the Hotel Dieu, at experiments made on one woman and two
men. He saw the woman go to sleep (as was asserted,) at the simple will
of the magnetiser, who for that purpose was concealed in a closet of the
apartment. The only mode adopted, to prove that she was really asleep,
consisted in some slight pinching of her ears, and some noises; yet, in
the recital, these slight impressions have been transformed into most
painful tortures. In the experiments made on the men, he employed a more
powerful proof, which was the application of moxa; and that he did,
because it was indicated by a coxalgia, with which the patient was
affected: it is _a fact_, says he, that the man did not awake, or show
_the slightest sensibility_. Mr. R. believes, therefore, in magnetical
action; but does not think it can ever be available in the practice of
physic. In Germany, said he, where magnetism is so much employed, do
they cure better than elsewhere? And has magnetism been the occasion of
any therapeutical discovery any where? In somnambulism there is only a
disordered sensibility, and not an increase of it; and the pretended
clairvoyance of the somnambulists, has no real existence, &c. &c.
M. GEORGET, cited in proof of the existence of magnetic power, the names
of many physicians, members of the Academy, as MM. ROSTAN and
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On completion, Thar coal energy projects will yield cheap and uninterrupted power supply to many industries particularly the cement, fertilizer and chemical industries. Substantial foreign exchange savings shall accrue, as locally available coal will replace imported oil in industrial usage which would further result in massive foreign exchange reserves, strengthening Pak Rupee. The envisaged projects [some already started and some still in the pipeline] would accelerate economic activity creating thousands of jobs opportunities. And above all it will be a strategic energy resource that would guarantee energy security to Pakistan in decades to come.
by Hafeez R.M.
There would be immence benefits from the project. These can be categories into financial, economic and social as given below:
- Massive investments in profitable ventures would result in fat dividends to the investors.
- Banks and other financial institutions would be able to employ their funds in a secure business.
- Machinery suppliers would get fair prices for sale of their machinery.
- There would be thousand jobs in the mining and power plants being install throughout the area.
- Cheap and uninterrupted power supply would benefit many industries particularly cement, fertilizer and chemical industries.
- It would result in substantial foreign exchange savings as locally available coal will replace imported oil in industrial usage.
- It would result in massive foreign exchange reserves and strengthening of Pak Rupee.
- It would accelerate economic activity thus create job opportunities.
- Congestion caused at the port in handling of imported oil and impact of transportation of oil from port to cities and industrial units would reduce.
- There would be substantial transfer to technology in the mining and power generating sectors.
- It would provide opportunities for future downstream industries in petro-chemical.
- Strategic energy resource that will guarantee energy security to Pakistan in the decades to come
- It would a source of national pride
- It will be a step forward in poverty alleviation and would result in improvement in quality of life in Sindh in general and people living around the plant in particular.
- It would provide job opportunities to people of the area at their door-steps and thus contain shift of population from rural to urban sector.
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it must be a duck". Let us imagine un-interrupted power supply for use in industrial plants and transport system like cars, buses and train. Let us further assume that our people are prosperous, economy flourishing and exports dominating. If so, all the benefits cited above can be realized in our life time. There is certainly a light at the end of the tunnel.
At the same time, we must not forget that:
- The project would require a sizable quantity of water which is difficult to supply from the existing river system. In fact, there is already a chronic shortage of water in Sindh.
- UCG Process is yet on experimental stage and has nowhere been tried on a mass scale.
- The project would require huge capital investments which are hard to come by given the creditability of the present regime.
- Coal is called a "dirty fuel", it is losing its appeal as a cheaper energy source because of its major contribution to global warming.
- We have lignite coal which is very high in moisture and so not going to be a globally traded commodity.
- The coal-based power plant consumes and discharge enormous quantity of waste water which is damaging to landscapes, water supplies, and ecosystems".
- "Coal in a Changing Climate" shows that coal produces large amounts of airborne toxic chemicals, including sulfur dioxide, mercury, nitrous oxides, arsenic and lead.
- The project had a checkered history. There had been "a series of unlikely coincidences and a comedy of errors" which does not auger well for the project.
BUT let us hope that we shall overcome all obstacles and move towards the path of prosperity.
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ReConnected Life
We all have the voices inside. The inner critic, the one who bullies you. How do we make peace and quiet the voices that torture us and put us down, when those voices are parts of us?
This blog post was prompted by a question in the ReConnected Life Community: "I need to break the cycle of negative, self-destructive thoughts I'm getting, that are serving no purpose but make me more upset and exhausted. I can't help but hear my own voice and it hurts." All humans have the inner critic, it's a part of us, a function of our lived experiences and past scripts. The voice is there to protect us; every time it sees us thinking about stepping out of our comfort zone, it warns us of the danger, helping us to make the pre-emptive decision not to risk being rejected, being not good enough, failing. Yet, of course, no-one grows in the comfort zone, and so it's well-meaning intentions actually hurt, more than the words it's saying too.
Watch this little video where I explain more about the inner critic, how to make friends with it, and how to quiet it.
In summary:
Inner critics are strongest when we have strong desires to stay safe.
Often, we try to silence the inner critic, but that can make her scream louder.
There's a trick to quieting her. We have to make friends with her. You see, underneath all the bullying criticism, she's got your best interests at heart. She just goes around it all wrong. For example, my critic loves telling me I'm worthless, not doing enough, not enough. But I recognize she's trying to get me to reject myself to protect me from the pain of others rejecting me. Her logic is flawed, but it comes from a good place.
She's lying. But to protect you.
Step 1: thank her for her advice and opinion. Acknowledge she has your best interests at heart. Tell her you hear her.
Step 2: Tell her that you disagree, there is lots of evidence that counters her opinion. You're going to try something else.
Step 3: Soothe the inner frightened child the inner critic has been bullying. Tell her you love her. Tell her the positives that you told the inner critic. Hold her, take her to that fun place where you used to laugh as a child. Parent her.
I know that this involves having a 3 way conversation in your mind, between the adult you, the child, the critic. But the more often you do it, the quieter the critic becomes, the less she pops up.
Some people like to talk out loud. Some inside their heads. Some write it all down, taking the on the different perspectives of each. If you write down everything the inner critic says, let it out, no censoring. Then, in a different colour, write the counter argument for each of the negative points. You'll see, the critic is lying. But only to protect you. The comfort zone is safe. Every time we try to step out, the critic is on alert trying to protect us. But we can't grow in the comfort zone.
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Class 520 opened there second Montgomery County location in Bethesda on Friday, May 5. The other location is in Rockville. If you don't know what Thai Rolled Ice Cream is, do a search on you tube watch a video or two or three, be mesmerized, then try out this specialty. Essentially, you pick a flavor, they pour some liquid ice cream base on a cold stone, work it for a while, once it approaches freezing, it is put into a think sheet, then rolled and put in a cup. At 520, the journey ends at a fixins bar. I got the strawberry green tea. It is on the expensive side, but worth the experience. They also sell bubble tea in a light bulb shaped glass.


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The RAC automotive body out of the UK has warned that modern car headlights are too bright and, as a result, they are dazzling other drivers, which makes them a liability.
The Telegraph reports that 15 per cent of drivers have suffered a near-miss because of the brightness of some new car headlights. In response to an increasing number of complaints, the Department for Transport has established a United Nations working group to understand why car headlights have become too bright. LED lights are thought to be a cause.
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OPINION6 February 2017
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During the Super Bowl, Brainjuicer live tested the adverts to see which performed the best in its emotional ad testing. Tom Ewing explains what it found.
"You're watching history!" said my American colleague. He was talking about the 51st Super Bowl being the first to go into overtime. I watched bemused as BrainJuicer New York's 'War Room' emptied out and our analysts were glued to the screen. I'm used to the other kind of football: extra time is nothing to make a fuss about, surely.
Even so, he was right. Something rather historical was happening. We were testing all the Super Bowl ads, live, in as close to real time as possible. The technique was BrainJuicer's emotional ad test – which uses emotional response to an ad to predict efficiency and long-term brand growth. The machinery was courtesy of ZappiStore and its Zappi Pro tool, which tested, tagged and analysed everything we could throw at it.
Why were we doing it? The best reason of all – we wanted to see if it would work. Besides, with Snickers showing the first live Super Bowl ad in decades, what better year to try out live testing? (The Snickers ad came 10th, with 4 out of 5 stars on our scale. Not at all bad).
It turned out to be a very interesting year for Super Bowl ads, cementing trends in big event advertising which have been bubbling under for a while. I want to talk about two ads which capture the shift.
The first is our winner, Kia's 'Hero's Journey' (pictured), which came back with a very strong 5-star rating ( 10 minutes after airing, thanks to ZappiStore). The ad stars Saturday Night Live's Melissa McCarthy. It's for a Kia hybrid car, it's big on spectacular effects and it gets its point across by making you laugh.
Now think back a few years to what a hybrid car ad might have been like. The same scenery, maybe – widescreen vistas of jungles and savannahs. But also a plinky piano soundtrack and some sententious voiceover, wringing out a small amount of emotion by making its audience feel virtuous. But now it's 2017 and you've got a comedian falling out of a tree and being chased by a rhino.
'Hero's Journey' wasn't just the best 2017 commercial, it was the most typical. It did what most of our 2017 winners did: it got people feeling good via humour, and it used a familiar celebrity face to do it. This was a year when the most emotional commercials tended to bring the biggest laughs, from Skittles' 'Romance' (teen throws sweets through date's window with unexpected results) to Super Bowl debutante King's Hawaiian's 'Magic Cabinet' (one person's hiding place is another's magic box).
These ads carried on the fine tradition of Doritos from the past several Super Bowls – 30 second skits with a starring role for the product but no particular message to get in the way of the laughs. The ultimate example was surely 'A Man Who Cleans', the ad where cleaning brand Mr Clean's eponymous mascot gets his grind on while doing the floor. It's ridiculous, mind-boggling and the ad that puts the 'ass' in 'brand asset'. It also got 5 Stars.
As for celebrities, as well as McCarthy we had supermodel Miranda Kerr magically appearing for Buick, sports announcer Terry Bradshaw racing from his commentary box to get a shirt cleaned for Tide, and Justin Timberlake showing off some crazy dance moves for BAI. All scored well. Timberlake aside, these celebrities are big US stars but not major global ones, and it felt like this year the priority was pleasing the folks at home, not trying to go viral worldwide.
If humour and celebrities were in, what was 'out'? The big trend of the early 10s was 'sadvertising' – tear-jerking, inspirational mini-sagas telling beautiful stories. And nobody deployed the technique better than Budweiser, scoring 5-Star ads three years in a row with its sentimental trilogy of 'Clydesdale' ads starring horses and puppies.
Budweiser's 2017 effort, "Born The Hard Way", is the second interesting ad this year. Not because it did well – it came in at a high 2-stars. Average overall, but poor for a brand with such Super Bowl pedigree. The ad was beautifully shot, atmospheric, and an inspiring miniature epic depicting brand founder Thomas Busch's journey to America as an immigrant. But it was also a murky ad with a somewhat unclear story, and terribly earnest. Amid the knockabout comedy of so many of this year's ads, it stuck out for the wrong reasons, and felt like a commercial out of time.
The Budweiser ad caused controversy before the game for its apparent topicality – an ad about an immigrant airing a week after the chaos and protest caused by Donald Trump's executive order on immigration. Since Budweiser planned the ad back in May, this was unfair (or giving it too much credit, depending on your point of view).
It got a poor reception mostly because it's a poor ad, not because of a backlash against liberal values. After all, liberal values were alive and well in Audi's feminist ad about equal pay, and in Coke's multilingual version of the national anthem – a version of an ad which tested worse three years earlier. Both these got a very good 4-star rating.
So beware of any early conclusions about advertising in Trump's America. True, there wasn't much overt politics on show, but if the tenor of the advertising reflects anything it's a desire to relax, chill out and have a laugh after a year which was gruelling whichever candidate you supported.
Next year, we'll see if and how advertisers respond to the new political landscape. For now, the trends on show are the culmination of things that have been obvious for a while – the decline of tear-jerking sadvertising from its 2013-14 peak, and the rise of comedy to replace it.
Tom Ewing is senior director at Brainjuicer Labs
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Tom says "The big trend of the early 10s was 'sadvertising' – tear-jerking, inspirational mini-sagas telling beautiful stories. And nobody deployed the technique better than Budweiser, scoring 5-Star ads three years in a row with its sentimental trilogy of 'Clydesdale' ads starring horses and puppies". However, Jorn Socquet, U.S. VP-marketing for A-B InBev, said in a statement to Ad Age (Nov 16th 2015): "Budweiser aired two very different spots in last February's Super Bowl, and we learned that content focused on the quality of our beer was most effective in generating sales. We've done the puppy commercials on the Super Bowl for the last three years and everybody loves them," he said. "They have zero impact on beer sales. Those ads I wouldn't air again because they don't sell beer." So much for Brainjuicer's emotional ad test!!
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Students at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden investigated the performance of a pick-and-place machine using CFD. Pointwise was used to perform a grid refinement study for a static simulation where the nozzle of the machine as well as the distance to the component varied. Additionally, an overset mesh was generated for a 1-DOF dynamic simulation.
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This is the dock at the Isle of Palms Marina. He's either an ice hockey player or he's done this a few times before. Either way, it was a smooth move that I wish I had captured in video... although the photograph does capture a sense of the motion.
This photograph was captured with a DJI Phantom 3 Professional drone, which is super cheap on Amazon these days with the release of the new Mavic Pro right around the corner.


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Tyler The Awesome GuyParticipantJoined:Nov 19th, 2011Topics:Posts:February 5, 2018 at 5:32 pm #1202488156
What do you think are the best songs that were not even nominated in the General Field?Reply
I'm not perfect, but I keep trying.Luan QueirozParticipantJoined:Jun 20th, 2015Topics:Posts:February 5, 2018 at 5:40 pm #1202488159
Adele – Someone Like YouReplyCopy URL
Queen – Bohemian RhapsodyMParticipantJoined:Sep 27th, 2017Topics:Posts:February 5, 2018 at 5:48 pm #1202488164
I'm going to only name snubs which means songs that were submitted but not chosen. If Someone Like You was submitted it would've definitely been nominated. This are not necessarily based on my taste, but only based on whether they deserved a nomination.
Lady Gaga – Bad Romance
Beyoncé – Drunk In Love
Taylor Swift – Trouble
Sam Hunt – Take Your Time
Ed Sheeran – Shape Of You
Tyler The Awesome GuyParticipantJoined:Nov 19th, 2011Topics:Posts:February 5, 2018 at 7:14 pm #1202488187
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Some of the ones I wanted nominated in General Field
"Bohemian Rhapsody" – Queen
"More Than Words" – Extreme
"Whiskey Lullaby" – Brad Paisley & Alison Krauss
"Mirrors" – Justin Timberlake
I will come up with more when I think of them.ReplyCopy URL
I'm not perfect, but I keep trying.GucciBlockedJoined:Oct 11th, 2015Topics:Posts:February 5, 2018 at 8:53 pm #1202488237
Christina Aguilera, "Ain't No Other Man"ReplyCopy URL
Christina Aguilera, "Beautiful"
A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera, "Say Something"
Maroon 5 & Christina Aguilera, "Moves Like Jagger"BenitoDeliciasParticipantJoined:Nov 3rd, 2010Topics:Posts:February 5, 2018 at 9:44 pm #1202488257
From the ones you all mentioned: Bad Romance, Mirrors, Drunk in Love.ReplyCopy URLswiftParticipantJoined:Dec 8th, 2017Topics:Posts:February 6, 2018 at 5:03 am #1202488412
I Knew You Were Trouble – Taylor Swift
Love Story –Taylor Swift
Bad Romance – Lady Gaga
Mirrors – Justin Timberlake
We Found Love – RihannaOzParticipantJoined:Dec 5th, 2015Topics:Posts:February 6, 2018 at 1:05 pm #1202488758
"Say Something" by A Great Big World & Christina AguileraReplyCopy URL
"Dangerous Woman" by Ariana Grande
"Mirrors" by Justin Timberlake
"Never Be Like You" by Flume ft. Kai
"Feel It Still" by Portugal. The MantheexterminatorParticipantJoined:Dec 15th, 2016Topics:Posts:February 7, 2018 at 8:31 am #1202489321
Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven
Derek and the Dominos (Eric Clapton) – Layla
Prince – Purple Rain
Fleetwood Mac – Dreams
Black Sabbath – Iron Man
Screamin' Jay Hawkins – I put a spell on you
Deep Purple – Child in Time
Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
Metallica – One
Megadeth – Symphony of Destruction
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Free Bird
The Who – Baba O'Riley
Pearl Jam – Jeremy
Joan Baez – Diamonds and Rust
Leonard Cohen – Suzanne
Sigur Rós – Hoppípolla
Kiss – Detroit Rock City
Elvis – In the guetto
Ozzy Osbourne – Mama I'm coming home
Soundgarden – Black Hole Sun
Alice In Chains – Rooster
Jethro Tull – Aqualung
Aerosmith – Dream On
AC/DC – Back in Black
Guns n'Roses – November Rain
The Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter
Pink Floyd – Money
Jimi Hendrix – All Along the Watchtower
Blue Öyster Cult – (Don't fear) The Reaper
Steppenwolf – Born to be Wild
The Allman Brothers Band – Jessica
Rush – Tom Sawyer
The Doors – The End
Chris Isaak – Wicked Game
Nina Simone- Sinnerman
Florence + the Machine – No Light, no Light
Van Halen – Jump
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"Beautiful" – For Record of the yearReplyCopy URL
"Toxic" – For Record and Song of the Year
"Since You Been Gone" – For Record and Song of the Year
"Ain't No Other Man" – For Record of the Year
"Soldier of Love" – For Record and Song of the Year
"Bad Romance" For Song and Record of the YearJames Otto Sweet HeartParticipantJoined:Sep 15th, 2011Topics:Posts:February 7, 2018 at 11:13 am #1202489422
"Whiskey Lullaby" – Brad Paisley & Alison Krauss
I second this.
God bless you and Brad and Alison always!!!
Holly (a fan of Alison since 1994)
P.S. "Bridges & Walls" from my late beautiful precious Steve Sanders of the Oak Ridge Boys is at the top of my list.ReplyCopy URL
Go here to check out my most favorite singer James Otto!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiU81KIRZ_QDC95ParticipantJoined:Feb 6th, 2017Topics:Posts:February 7, 2018 at 1:00 pm #1202489489
Christina Aguilera, "Ain't No Other Man"
Christina Aguilera, "Beautiful"
A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera, "Say Something"
Maroon 5 & Christina Aguilera, "Moves Like Jagger"
Was nominated for SOTY.ReplyCopy URLGucciBlockedJoined:Oct 11th, 2015Topics:Posts:February 8, 2018 at 11:11 am #1202490139
Duh! There are two categories songs can be nominated for in the General Field. "Beautiful" was NOT nominated for Record of the Year.
If it's such a big deal, replace "Beautiful" with:ReplyCopy URL
Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya & Pink, "Lady Marmalade"
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When a solution of an equation is substituted to the variables in the equation, it leads to a true statement. Substitute $8$ to $x$ to obtain: $2x+5=x-3 \\2(-8) +5 = -8-3 \\-16+5=-11 \\-11=-11$ Thus, $-8$ is a solution to the given equation. The given statement is true.


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This book is a revised and updated version of the 2010 edition of The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple. It includes everything in the last edition plus a number of new and important references. Veda Prakash, who in 1989 brought us the original data he had collected on the St. Thomas myth and destruction of the Kapaleeswara Temple in Mylapore, continues to share his research materials and Tamil translations. Sita Ram Goel, Koenraad Elst, K.P. Sunil and Ganesh Iyer, Leela Tampi, R.S. Narayanaswami, C.A. Simon, Khushwant Singh, G. Ananthakrishnan, B.R. Haran, G.P. Srinivasan, Rajiv Malhotra, V. Sundaram, S. Muthiah, A. Srivathsan, B.S. Harishankar, C.I. Issac, Sandhya Jain, Swami Tapasyananda of the Sri Ramakrishna Math in Mylapore, and a number of Indian and foreign media organisations who report news without a byline, have all made valuable contributions.
Two important events have taken place since the publication of this book in 2010. One, the eminent archaeologist Dr. R. Nagaswamy has criticised the Pattinam archaeological dig[1] and categorically stated that there is no evidence for St. Thomas's visit to India, and two, a California production company, Dharlin Entertainment, is planning a major motion picture on St. Thomas's alleged stay in Kerala and murder in Mylapore.[2] They may succeed in cinematically perpetuating the blood libel of Thomas's murder by Hindus where the Madras-Mylapore Archdiocese failed in 2008. Added to this is the vast work and expense the Archdiocese has lavished on rebuilding the fake St. Thomas tomb in San Thome Cathedral and on the garish development around the old Portuguese church on St. Thomas Mount.
All this and more has happened in direct response to our books. So, we can say with some certainty that St. Thomas is here in India with us―if not in truth than in fiction and scholarly scandal.
We have traced the legend of St. Thomas in some detail, from its origin in third century Mesopotamia to its commercial and communal manifestation in Chennai today. It is a complicated story with many details and side issues attached, and the reader will have to pay close attention. What was originally an introductory essay to the study of the St. Thomas in India myth and the related issue of the destruction of a great Shiva temple on the Mylapore beach, has taken the shape of a broader investigation into the negative Christian presence in South India today.
Whatever Christian believers in Malabar and their ecclesiastical counterparts in Chennai may say, there is only one original source for the St. Thomas in India legend, the Acts of Thomas. It is a moral fable written by the Gnostic poet Bardesanes at Edessa about 210 CE, and it was brought to South India by Syrian Christian refugees in the fourth century CE. The ancient oral histories produced today by the descendants of these Christian refugees in Kerala, however dear they may be to the faithful, are church and family traditions that have no historical credibility and no bearing on real historical research. The fact that the Indian government and encyclopaedias like Britannica and Wikipedia accept these family tales as Indian history does not make them any more truthful or valid as history. This has to be recognised by Indian government officials and scholars alike if Indian history writing is to be taken seriously.
The first three editions of this book were received by the Indian public with great interest even though they were reviewed in only one newspaper, The Pioneer. This is very gratifying, and the fact that the book is going into a fourth edition is even more welcome. The brown sahibs who control the mainstream media will continue to do their distasteful St. Thomas propaganda and black out the opposing historical view because that is what they are paid to do, but we are sure of the interest and critical intelligence of the Indian reader and are satisfied that the work we set out to do in 1989 has borne fruit.
The irony―and the brown sahibs may take note―is that had the Indian Express published our response to C.A. Simon's malafide Catholic propaganda piece, In Memory of a Slain Saint, in 1989, we would never have bothered following up the St. Thomas in India tale with an investigation. But because we were rudely obstructed, first by the Indian Express editor, then by The Hindu editor, and finally by Chennai's own self-styled historian S. Muthiah, we decided to look deeper into this matter of Indian Thomases―and believe me there is more than one Thomas involved in this history swindle even as there is more than one tomb for him. So the moral of the story is this: don't tell lies for Jesus―or in this case for his twin brother Thomas―and if you must tell lies let the historian reply to the lies so that the matter may die a quiet and noncontroversial death.
The brown sahibs and so-called secularists who make up the Indian media mafia[3] have only themselves to blame for our continued interest in the St. Thomas in India fable and its modern political and wickedly communal manifestation in Tamil Nadu today.
1. The Archaeological Survey of India has found no evidence for Muziris (Muchiri in Tamil) in Kodungallur. But the village of Pattanam seven km south of city has produced some Roman beads and become the focus of Marxist and Christian excavators searching for St. Thomas proofs. Muziris was a known international trading entrepot from the sixth century BCE to the thirteenth century CE when it suddenly disappeared due to natural catastrophe. It may be the same place as the Murachipattanam found in the Ramayana and Mahabharata.
2. Dharlin Entertainment, Inc., Bonsall, California. Website at www.dharlin.com/thomas.html.
3. This writer once had the misfortune of meeting The Hindu editor, N. Ram. He arrived one morning in 1992 on our ashram doorstep with a Muslim friend. He did not identify himself except to say that his name was Ram, and was eager to push forward his companion. Finally, his manner radiating hostility, he asked us our opinion about the demolition of the disputed building called Babri Masjid in Ayodhya earlier in the year. We replied that we did not feel that Muslims had any vested interest or claim in Ayodhya. It was a Hindu pilgrimage town for many centuries and had no religious value to Muslims. The disputed building was a victory monument built by a foreign invader's governor who had wished to subdue and intimidate the local Hindu inhabitants. We wondered how Indian Muslims, the citizens of a free and independent India whose religious rights were protected, could place any value on such a structure? There was a dead silence for a minute after this reply, while Ram glared at us menacingly (his Muslim companion had closed his eyes and sunk down in his chair). "No use talking to you," he growled, and got up and stomped out of the room with his companion in tow.
"Who was that?" I asked the Mataji of the ashram later. "Oh, that was Ram of The Hindu," she said, laughing. "You can be sure of a bad press from now on! You had better find another name to write under. The one Ram knows you by will be on every media black list by tomorrow." And so it has come about. Jai Sri Ram!


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Selima Hill
Selima Hill s a British poet, born on 13 October 1945 in Hampstead) London, England and grew up in rural England and Wales.
She read Moral Sciences at New Hall, Cambridge University (1965-7). She regularly collaborates with artists and has worked on multimedia projects with the Royal Ballet, Welsh National Opera and BBC Bristol. She is a tutor at the Poetry School in London, and has taught creative writing in hospitals and prisons.
Selima Hill won first prize in the 1988 Arvon Foundation/Observer International Poetry Competition for her long poem The Accumulation of Small Acts of Kindness, and her 1997 collection, Violet, was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year), the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award. Her book of poetry, Bunny (2001), a series of poems about a young girl growing up in the 1950s, won the Whitbread Poetry Award. A selected poems: Gloria, was published in 2008.
She was a Fellow at University of Exeter.
Selima Hill lives in Lyme Regis. Her most recent book of poetry is People Who Like Meatballs (2012), shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year).
My Sister's Horse was a winner in the 1994 Book & Pamphlet Competition.
She drives until she can't drive anymore.
And then she drives some more. And then she stops.
She thinks she can't be seen but she can.
I'm watching her reflection in the mirror.
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Then hides it in a box of tennis balls.
But why is she so secretive about it?
And why does she keep asking me for cash?
And why to I keep saying 'Yes of course'
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And why can't I? And where are all my friends?
And why can't they be told our mother died?
She died this afternoon like a lamb.
We left her covered up on her bed,
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My sister's gone all tall like a nail.
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Discussing consent is not as easy as education videos pretend
By LAURA MAKOLANDRA
At the beginning of each school year, the Title IX office holds a session on how partners should consent to sex. They show videos that roleplay how students might have conversations about consent. These videos instruct students to have open conversations about sex and make sure that both partners agree verbally.
Students surveyed about the process of consent in their own sex lives say that their conversations are not as open and explicit as those seen in the videos and demonstrations they're told to watch. The reasons: nervousness and taboos about discussing sex.
"A lot of times consent is talked around because people don't want to seem too eager to have sex in the beginning of a relationship," said a female UMW student. "I think it should become a social norm with people hooking up or in actual relationships."
Students say this is especially an issue when students engage in relationships that are undefined, whether that means hooking up at a party or seeing someone regularly but not exclusively.
"I think it makes people more cautious when they hook up because you hear so many he said/she said stories," said a male UMW student. "It starts to become really hard to tell what's true and what's not. It makes people really cautious about who they decide to pursue as a partner."
A female student was also asked about the issue of discussing consent with a person with whom they have an undefined relationship.
"It all depends on the person and the type of relationship you have with them, but the more you discuss consent the more comfortable you become," said a female UMW student. "I feel like it depends on the precedent you set with the relationship. If you have already jumped in bed with them it makes it hard to go back and set boundaries."
Another issue students face is the way that technology plays into relationships. On dating apps, such as Tinder and Bumble, participants may believe the expectation of sex is implied. As a result, using these sites may discourage students from discussing consent.
Another contributing factor to less conversational openness is that these relationships tend to move faster sexually than those that begin in person.
"Technology can increase and decrease relationships in my opinion," said a male UMW student. "These apps help people meet and get together, but also place a social barrier behind the screen."
These dating apps are meant for introductions and starting relationships, but how many people actually meet up with the person they are messaging? According to many students interviewed, the apps are still not widely used for dating on a college campus.
"I have a Tinder but I don't use it to meet people. Just to make fun of the people I know on there," said a male UMW student. Another male student said, "I have met up with one person from using Tinder, but I kind of already knew the girl before we matched on Tinder."
"I just feel like because we are college students it's more casual to use dating apps. Because it's easy to just talk over a screen than face-to-face using Tinder and Bumble," said a female UMW student.
The University of Mary Washington has a Title IX office to educate and prevent sexual assault on the campus. The history of Title IX offices on college campuses started in 2011 with the Dear Colleague Letter, which states that all universities must have an office to provide students with services, education, prevention and remedies for sexual assault.
"Education through different, creative ways is how we prevent sexual assault on campus," said Tiffany Oldfield, the University of Mary Washington's new Title IX coordinator. She explained the many services provided to students and how students help spread the word about consent.
"Obviously [consent] is advisable to have in healthy relationships where two partners are committed to each other," said Oldfield.
At the end of the day, whether people actually have conversations about consent or not, it does make them think more carefully about having sex.
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A grant of $50,000 from the Pella Rolscreen Foundation will help construct the shelter house. This grant was requested by Pella Corp. Operations in Sioux Center, working in conjunction with Van Meeteren.
The new shelter house is designed to offer a larger, up-to-date climate-controlled space for gatherings as well as arts and recreation classes at the park. Project plans include a paved parking area with connections to the shelter house and recreation trail, all designed to promote accessibility.
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Sunday, September 7, 2008
Game Day...A New Obsession
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Looks like such fun! It makes me wish I lived in a college town!!ReplyDelete
Glad you guys enjoyed your first Clemson game! I've had the privledge of going since I was about 3 years old, but I still get goose bumps when I see the buses pull up outside The Hill!!ReplyDelete
I'm thinking distance is what I'm going to need for one of my friendships as well. We'll see what happens. I hate drama and I was reminded yesterday of how some people just thrive on it. Yucky feeling!
So happy you had a great time in my little town! We do know how to tailgate (although, the whole satelitte TV thing has always made me laugh!) Tailgating even gets competitive up here--people trying to have a "fancier" set-up than their neighbors. Crazy! I'm looking forward to next weekend's game--I don't have to work, so I can actually attend the game! Have a great week!ReplyDelete
like true southern girls... at the game in way too cute sundresses. i am jealous. i never took advantage of the ecu games. we might have to start. those pictures make we have football fever bad. :-)ReplyDelete
You gotta love those tailgates! I didn't make it to yesterday's game... hubby went by himself! Most people we tailgate with hate me because everything has to be just right! I especially love when the weathter cools down a bit!ReplyDelete
I am always amazed at the lenghts that many go when tailgating!! I also don't know how people do it hours on end in this terrible FL heat!! Like sitting in a packed stadium in 90+ degree weather isn't bad enough! All for the love of college football ;)ReplyDelete
Anyway ... glad that you had a good time. Love seeing the darling girls in their cute dresses. We also had a wonderful weekend at UF :)
Looks like a fabulous time! I don't remember wearing dresses to tailgate parties when I was at MSU. Maybe it's a southern thing? :)ReplyDelete
We are going to my husband 25th reunion from the Naval Academy in a few weeks. One of the events is attending the game on Saturday. The class always throws a huge catered tailgate party ~ very impressive. I guess I better go shopping for something new to wear now that I see the bar is set so high! :)
The girls are dolls! It looks like a great time. I can't wait to see what you come up with for the next game/tailgate. ;)ReplyDelete


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A baboon on the loose got up to some serious monkey business in leafy Brooklyn yesterday, creating a mixture of bemusement and disbelief.
Dinah Burke, whose home is at the corner of Nicholson and Rupert streets, said she could not believe her eyes when she saw the animal jumping off the wall into her garden.
"I was sitting in my bedroom and I saw the baboon. It was a big one
and it ran around the garden before jumping over the wall on to my
neighbour's property. I immediately ran and called my mother.
"But it was already too late. We went outside and a number of road
construction workers said they had seen it. It was apparently running fast and jumping over a number of garden walls," said Dinah.
Her mother, Simone, said she was shocked, but also concerned about the safety of the animal. Burke said: "It is worrying to think where it could be now. It may be in the Menlyn or Groenkloof areas or the other surrounding suburbs, but judging from my daughter's story, the poor animal is scared and we are just afraid of what might
happen to it, if it is not captured and put in a place of safety."
Burke said she was also concerned at the increasing prevalence of wild animals in the city. She recalled a Pretoria News report less than two months ago about a lynx captured in the eastern suburbs.
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Students calling for an end to gun violence walked out of school Friday, the 19th anniversary of the school shooting in Columbine, Colorado, an event that marked the start of an era of deadly school rampages.
The walkouts Friday were sparked by Lane Murdock, a 16-year-old at Ridgefield High School in Connecticut, who began an online petition calling for the protest following the February shooting in Parkland, Florida, that left 14 students and three staff members dead. Walkouts are planned at more than 2,000 schools nationally, Murdock said.
Several hundred students in the Washington region left their schools Friday morning and staged a vigil outside the White House to honor the Columbine victims and others killed by gun violence.
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François Nicolas Martinet Engraving of A Bird,
Merle violet du Royaume de Juda,
Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux, 1770-1786.
Dimensions: Frame: 13 inches high x 13 5/8 inches wide.
This hand-colored copper-engraving is from François Nicolas Martinet's classic Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux, 1770-1786. It is signed lower left in the yellow border.
It is #540, Merle violet du Royaume de Juda (Merle purple of the Kingdom of Judah),
The National Gallery of Art has this print in their collection, 1973.26.11. (https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.53838.html)
Over the course of his illustrious career, François Nicolas Martinet (1731-1790?) engraved illustrations of birds for some of the most influential naturalists in 18th-century France, including François Salèrne, Mathurin Brisson, and, above all, Georges Louis Leclerc, le comte de Buffon.
This exceptional, hand-colored engraving is from Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon's work Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux . The work was published in Paris from 1770 to 1786. Francois Nicolas Martinet provided all of the illustrations for the work.
Histoire Naturelle was the most comprehensive and noted ornithological work of the 1700s. It included a broad variety of birds native to Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
Martinet was one of the greatest birds artists of the 18th century. He worked for the French court as an engraver and artist. Martinet's illustrations are accurate and beautifully artistic.
Comte de Buffon was a respected naturalist and scientist. Buffon dared to challenge religious thought decades before Darwin. He suggested the Earth was older than 6,000 years and the common ancestry of apes and humans.
He directed the Jardin des Plantes botanical garden in Paris, which still exists today. His most outstanding achievement came in the field of natural history with the publication of the monumental Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière (17491788) in 36 volumes, for which Martinet created all the bird illustrations which were also published separately in Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux.
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New Waxahachie ISD trustees Kim Kriegel, John Rodgers, and Melissa Starnater were sworn in at the board's regular meeting on Monday, May 14.
"We are excited to welcome these three new members to the board," said Dr. Jeremy Glenn, Waxahachie ISD Superintendent. "With their diverse experience and skills, we know they will come together with the rest of the board to continue to do great things for the students and staff of Waxahachie ISD."
The board approved bids for the renovation of the current Billy Bates Center at Waxahachie High School, which will house Waxahachie High School of Choice/Challenge Academy, along with the district's Curriculum and Instruction department and the Ellis County Teachers Credit Union, starting in August. In addition, the board discussed delivery methods and other construction details related to the new elementary school to be located in the North Grove subdivision.
A staffing plan for the 2018-2019 school year was presented to the trustees by Assistant Superintendent of Leadership and Academics Shelle Blaylock. The district is in very good shape heading into the 2018-2019 school year, with most positions on every campus currently filled, and a strong applicant pool to fill the remaining positions.
"We continue to see strong retention of our teaching staff and other campus and district-level professionals," said Blaylock. "We know that means that our board and administrative team have done a great job of implementing policies that make Waxahachie ISD a great place to work. We are very confident that our remaining positions will be filled by the best of the best."
The board accepted the retirement last night of Ora Frazier, current principal of Turner Prekindergarten Academy, who has been with the district for 30 years. Ms. Frazier has been instrumental in the success of the district's pre-K program, and has worked very hard to implement the full-day pre-K program that was a vital part of the 2014 Long Range Planning Committee's vision. Full-day pre-K will begin in August 2018.
For more information about WISD, please visit www.wisd.org.
Continuing our tradition of "Excellence in Education," the mission of the Waxahachie Independent School District is to develop, through a cooperative effort with the home and community, well-educated, responsible citizens who can excel in a complex world.


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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."
I ran across this quote today and immediately thought of how this relates to Kyudo. One of the things brought up at the autumn Kyudo Alliance seminar this past weekend, was the phrase from the Kyohon, "Kyudo is Life".
On Page 9 of the Kyohon it states:
Kyudo is not simply a way to create well-being and train the body, but a way to bring enhancement and cultivation to your life… we, as practitioners of Kyudo, who are expected to master such virtues as discipline, modesty, gentleness, self-restraint, and reflection through the shooting, can realize these qualities in our own life.
In regard to kai on page 70, the subject is again brought up, stating:
…at the full draw you must wipe away negativity like doubt, anxiety, faint heartedness, fear, and self-depreciation and make the effort to fulfill the spirit with self-control, composure, endurance, and determination, founded on the right belief. This disciplining of oneself in this very precious way is connected to Shasoku-Jinsei-Shooting is Life.
As Blackwell Sensei has said, "Practice as if you are testing…". I take this to mean with sincerity and determination, doing our very best each time we shoot. The Way is in the training.
Hopefully, if we practice faithfully and strive for excellence in our Kyudo, we will bring excellence into our own lives as well and learn the true meaning of "Kyudo is Life".


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Guildford duo The Brothers Grant will be performing here live on Wednesday, December 16 and again on Sunday, December 27, when they'll be joined by a full band.
We're really keen to support up-and-coming musicians from the area and we hope lots of people pop along to see these guys perform. We have heard great things about them!
On each night they will be performing from 8.45pm. Entry to the night is free. Booking is advisable and can be done by calling us on 01483 536222.