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It's Time For AIPAC To Register As A Foreign Agent – The Forward
By M.J. Rosenberg
March 05, 2018
"Not only was AIPAC making it hard for the United States to restrain the Israeli government, but it was also weakening forces inside Israel that were trying to do so. The Israeli peace camp needed the United States on its side, but thanks to AIPAC, the United States could not help our natural Israeli allies. Of course, when Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was actively seeking peace and an end to the occupation, that was the moment AIPAC chose to separate itself from Israel, resulting in Rabin's blistering exhortation that it get the hell out of his way. By the time of his death, Kenen was thoroughly alienated from the organization.
Now is the time to undo Kenen's mistake. It is time to require AIPAC to register as what it is: a foreign agent. It will still be able to advocate for Israel, but as an Israeli lobby, which admits to getting its marching orders from the Israeli government. What it would not be able to do is direct campaign money to politicians. Let's see how many vice presidents, senators and representatives show up at its conferences then. Let's see how many of its Israel-right-or-wrong resolutions pass the House 435-0. Let's see if presidents are still afraid to say what they think about the occupation and the denial of democratic rights to Palestinians."
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Who wrote the Balfour Declaration and why: The World War I Connection
By Alison Weir
October 24, 2017
"While Americans today are aware of many of these facts, few know that Zionism appears to have been one of those factors. [Zionism was a political movement to create a Jewish state in Palestine. When this movement began, in the late 1800s, the population of Palestine was 96 percent Muslim and Christian. The large majority of Jews around the world were not Zionists.]
Diverse documentary evidence shows that Zionists pushed for the U.S. to enter the war on Britain's side as part of a deal to gain British support for their colonization of Palestine.
From the very beginning of their movement, Zionists realized that if they were to succeed in their goal of creating a Jewish state on land that was already inhabited by non-Jews, they needed backing from one of the "great powers."[vii] They tried the Ottoman Empire, which controlled Palestine at the time, but were turned down (although they were told that Jews could settle throughout other parts of the Ottoman empire and become Turkish citizens).[viii]"
"In 1917 British Foreign Minister Lord Balfour issued a letter to Zionist leader Lord Rothschild. Known as the Balfour Declaration, this letter promised that Britain would "view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" and "use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object."
The letter then qualified this somewhat by stating that it should be "clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine." The "non-Jewish communities" were 92 percent of Palestine's population at that time,[xiii] vigorous Zionist immigration efforts having slightly expanded the percentage of Jews living in Palestine by then.
The letter, while officially signed by British Foreign Minister Lord Balfour, had been in process for two years and had gone through a number of edits by British and American Zionists and British officials.[xiv] As Zionist leader Nahum Sokolow later wrote, "[e]very idea born in London was tested by the Zionist Organization in America, and every suggestion in America received the most careful attention in London."[xv]
Sokolow wrote that British Zionists were helped, "above all, by American Zionists. Between London, New York, and Washington there was constant communication, either by telegraph, or by personal visit, and as a result there was perfect unity among the Zionists of both hemispheres." Sokolow particularly praised "the beneficent personal influence of the Honourable Louis D. Brandeis, Judge of the Supreme Court."[xvi]
The final version of the Declaration was actually written by Leopold Amery, a British official who, it came out later, was a secret and fervent Zionist.[xvii]"
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It seems that your congressman, Ted Lieu, and many other US Congress people know where their funding and support fodder $$$ comes from; they are on their hands and knees with their heads down in the Pro-Israel Pac contribution feeding troughs.
Check the link below to see the Pro-Israel contributions to our so-called US Congress people and more…. and Ted Lieu is on that list:
It is clearly obvious as to why this Palestinian runner was banned and rejected from obtaining a US visa. The zionists who are entrenched in the US Embassy in Israel and US State Dept did NOT want AlQadi, the Palestinian runner, to run in Chicago and other major American cities marathons; especially, when he is carrying the Palestinian flag and wearing red, black, green and white clothing. If this Palestinian were given a chance to run in Chicago, then he and others will have multiple chances and opportunities to run in other major US marathons and the end result will be Americans will get a chance to see Palestinian flags, Palestinian runners … Palestinian legitimacy. The zionists wanted to nip it in the bud!!!
Its all about damage control for their beloved apartheid Israel!
The US Zionist MSM goal & agenda … No positive or fair coverage for the Palestinians.
Huckabee is just a stooge for Zionism & the Zionist MSM! His Zionist handlers use him to promote Israel's propaganda for American viewer's consumption.
I just wonder who pays for his trips and who stuffs his deep pockets?
Top Ten Reasons East Jerusalem does not belong to Jewish-Israelis
By Juan Cole | Mar. 23, 2010 |
"Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the American Israel Public Affairs Council on Monday that "Jerusalem is not a settlement." He continued that the historical connection between the Jewish people and the land of Israel cannot be denied. He added that neither could the historical connection between the Jewish people and Jerusalem. He insisted, "The Jewish people were building Jerusalem 3,000 years ago and the Jewish people are building Jerusalem today." He said, "Jerusalem is not a settlement. It is our capital." He told his applauding audience of 7500 that he was simply following the policies of all Israeli governments since the 1967 conquest of Jerusalem in the Six Day War.
Netanyahu mixed together Romantic-nationalist cliches with a series of historically false assertions. But even more important was everything he left out of the history, and his citation of his warped and inaccurate history instead of considering laws, rights or common human decency toward others not of his ethnic group.
So here are the reasons that Netanyahu is profoundly wrong, and East Jerusalem does not belong to him.
1. In international law, East Jerusalem is occupied territory, as are the parts of the West Bank that Israel unilaterally annexed to its district of Jerusalem. The Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 and the Hague Regulations of 1907 forbid occupying powers to alter the lifeways of civilians who are occupied, and forbid the settling of people from the occupiers' country in the occupied territory. Israel's expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in East Jerusalem, its usurpation of Palestinian property there, and its settling of Israelis on Palestinian land are all gross violations of international law. Israeli claims that they are not occupying Palestinians because the Palestinians have no state are cruel and tautological. Israeli claims that they are building on empty territory are laughable. My back yard is empty, but that does not give Netanyahu the right to put up an apartment complex on it.
2. Israeli governments have not in fact been united or consistent about what to do with East Jerusalem and the West Bank, contrary to what Netanyahu says. The Galili Plan for settlements in the West Bank was adopted only in 1973. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin gave undertakings as part of the Oslo Peace Process to withdraw from Palestinian territory and grant Palestinians a state, promises for which he was assassinated by the Israeli far right (elements of which are now supporting Netanyahu's government). As late as 2000, then Prime Minister Ehud Barak claims that he gave oral assurances that Palestinians could have almost all of the West Bank and could have some arrangement by which East Jerusalem could be its capital. Netanyahu tried to give the impression that far rightwing Likud policy on East Jerusalem and the West Bank has been shared by all previous Israeli governments, but this is simply not true.
3. Romantic nationalism imagines a "people" as eternal and as having an eternal connection with a specific piece of land. This way of thinking is fantastic and mythological. Peoples are formed and change and sometimes cease to be, though they might have descendants who abandoned that religion or ethnicity or language. Human beings have moved all around and are not directly tied to any territory in an exclusive way, since many groups have lived on most pieces of land. Jerusalem was not founded by Jews, i.e. adherents of the Jewish religion. It was founded between 3000 BCE and 2600 BCE by a West Semitic people or possibly the Canaanites, the common ancestors of Palestinians, Lebanese, many Syrians and Jordanians, and many Jews. But when it was founded Jews did not exist.
4. Jerusalem was founded in honor of the ancient god Shalem. It does not mean City of Peace but rather 'built-up place of Shalem."
5. The "Jewish people" were not building Jerusalem 3000 years ago, i.e. 1000 BCE. First of all, it is not clear when exactly Judaism as a religion centered on the worship of the one God took firm form. It appears to have been a late development since no evidence of worship of anything but ordinary Canaanite deities has been found in archeological sites through 1000 BCE. There was no invasion of geographical Palestine from Egypt by former slaves in the 1200s BCE. The pyramids had been built much earlier and had not used slave labor. The chronicle of the events of the reign of Ramses II on the wall in Luxor does not know about any major slave revolts or flights by same into the Sinai peninsula. Egyptian sources never heard of Moses or the 10 plagues & etc. Jews and Judaism emerged from a certain social class of Canaanites over a period of centuries inside Palestine. (See Daniel Lazare's Harper's article on the archeological disproof of the Bible, preserved at this website (I am not endorsing the web site).
6. Jerusalem not only was not being built by the likely then non-existent "Jewish people" in 1000 BCE, but Jerusalem probably was not even inhabited at that point in history. Jerusalem appears to have been abandoned between 1000 BCE and 900 BCE, the traditional dates for the united kingdom under David and Solomon. So Jerusalem was not 'the city of David,' since there was no city when he is said to have lived. No sign of magnificent palaces or great states has been found in the archeology of this period, and the Assyrian tablets, which recorded even minor events throughout the Middle East, such as the actions of Arab queens, don't know about any great kingdom of David and Solomon in geographical Palestine.
7. Since archeology does not show the existence of a Jewish kingdom or kingdoms in the so-called First Temple Period, it is not clear when exactly the Jewish people would have ruled Jerusalem except for the Hasmonean Kingdom. The Assyrians conquered Jerusalem in 722. The Babylonians took it in 597 and ruled it until they were themselves conquered in 539 BCE by the Achaemenids of ancient Iran, who ruled Jerusalem until Alexander the Great took the Levant in the 330s BCE. Alexander's descendants, the Ptolemies ruled Jerusalem until 198 when Alexander's other descendants, the Seleucids, took the city. With the Maccabean Revolt in 168 BCE, the Jewish Hasmonean kingdom did rule Jerusalem until 37 BCE, though Antigonus II Mattathias, the last Hasmonean, only took over Jerusalem with the help of the Parthian dynasty in 40 BCE. Herod ruled 37 BCE until the Romans conquered what they called Palestine in 6 CE (CE= 'Common Era' or what Christians call AD). The Romans and then the Eastern Roman Empire of Byzantium ruled Jerusalem from 6 CE until 614 CE when the Iranian Sasanian Empire Conquered it, ruling until 629 CE when the Byzantines took it back.
The Muslims conquered Jerusalem in 638 and ruled it until 1099 when the Crusaders conquered it. The Crusaders killed or expelled Jews and Muslims from the city. The Muslims under Saladin took it back in 1187 CE and allowed Jews to return, and Muslims ruled it until the end of World War I, or altogether for about 1192 years.
Adherents of Judaism did not found Jerusalem. It existed for perhaps 2700 years before anything we might recognize as Judaism arose. Jewish rule may have been no longer than 170 years or so, i.e., the kingdom of the Hasmoneans.
8. Therefore if historical building of Jerusalem and historical connection with Jerusalem establishes sovereignty over it as Netanyahu claims, here are the groups that have the greatest claim to the city:
A. The Muslims, who ruled it and built it over 1191 years.
B. The Egyptians, who ruled it as a vassal state for several hundred years in the second millennium BCE.
C. The Italians, who ruled it about 444 years until the fall of the Roman Empire in 450 CE.
D. The Iranians, who ruled it for 205 years under the Achaemenids, for three years under the Parthians (insofar as the last Hasmonean was actually their vassal), and for 15 years under the Sasanids.
E. The Greeks, who ruled it for over 160 years if we count the Ptolemys and Seleucids as Greek. If we count them as Egyptians and Syrians, that would increase the Egyptian claim and introduce a Syrian one.
F. The successor states to the Byzantines, which could be either Greece or Turkey, who ruled it 188 years, though if we consider the heir to be Greece and add in the time the Hellenistic Greek dynasties ruled it, that would give Greece nearly 350 years as ruler of Jerusalem.
G. There is an Iraqi claim to Jerusalem based on the Assyrian and Babylonian conquests, as well as perhaps the rule of the Ayyubids (Saladin's dynasty), who were Kurds from Iraq.
9. Of course, Jews are historically connected to Jerusalem by the Temple, whenever that connection is dated to. But that link mostly was pursued when Jews were not in political control of the city, under Iranian, Greek and Roman rule. It cannot therefore be deployed to make a demand for political control of the whole city.
10. The Jews of Jerusalem and the rest of Palestine did not for the most part leave after the failure of the Bar Kochba revolt against the Romans in 136 CE. They continued to live there and to farm in Palestine under Roman rule and then Byzantine. They gradually converted to Christianity. After 638 CE all but 10 percent gradually converted to Islam. The present-day Palestinians are the descendants of the ancient Jews and have every right to live where their ancestors have lived for centuries."
And just maybe Dersh is planning to be with his friends Jeff Epstein and "slick willy" on the Lolita Express Plane to far and more interesting places….
And Obama's administration had it share of zionists….neo-cons ….! His first cabinet pick was Rahm Emmanuel… chief of staff….


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FOCUS-NBC Internet company launched, stock drops (Adds closing stock price) By Steve James NEW YORK, Nov 30 (Reuters) - The NBC television network onTuesday launched its first publicly traded Internet company,NBC Internet Inc. , but Wall Street showed littleenthusiasm and the share price slid from the opening bell. In its first day of trading on the Nasdaq exchange, theNBCI stock closed at $76, down $12.50 from its initial offeringprice of $88.50. One analyst who specializes in initial public offerings, orIPOs, said the decline may have been because the new companyhad not been publicized much beforehand and investors didn'treally know what it was. "Maybe it was seen as having no short-term future, and inthis business you either hit the ground running or a steamroller is rolling over you," said David Menlow, ofIPOfinancial.com in Millburn, N.J. NBC Internet was formed by combining the Snap.com Internetportal, the community services and direct electronic-commercecompany XOOM.com Inc. , and select Internet propertiesof NBC, which is known as the Peacock Network. At a news conference at NBC headquarters in the RockefellerCenter, NBCI unveiled the flagship Web service, Snap(http://www.snap.com), which provides Internet search anddirectory, community, shopping, e-commerce, multimedia andentertainment services across all bandwidths. It said theservice is a place for consumers to find and buy virtuallyanything on the Internet. NBC, a unit of General Electric Co. , is the largestequity holder in NBC Internet, with a 47.3 percent stake.Former stockholders of XOOM.com Inc. own 38.8 percent, and CNETInc. , a former co-parent of Snap.com, holds 13.8percent. "For the first time, investors will be able to purchase apiece of the Peacock," NBC President and Chief Executive Officer Bob Wright told reporters in the Saturday Night Livestudio. "For 75 years, this has been a network of firsts -- thefirst U.S. network, the first coast-to-coast broadcasts, thefirst color broadcasts, the first stereo. Now we are the firstto launch a stand-alone publicly traded Internet company." Noting that estimates showed total electronic commercebusiness in the United States would exceed $1 trillion in twoyears, Wright, who will also become chairman of NBCI, said theintroduction of the Internet company was a way to takeadvantage by "turning users into buyers. Chris Kitze, co-founder of XOOM.com in 1996 and CEO ofNBCI, told reporters the new entity combined the sellingdynamism of XOOM with the ability of Snap.com to bring TVviewers to the Internet portal. "We are leveraging the power of the Peacock to bringviewers into the Internet and become buyers," he said. Demonstrating how he could buy a pair of diamond earringson the new site, Kitze said NBCI was not, however, in thebusiness of "stocking warehouses and shipping. "We are not filling the orders; (rather) we send itdirectly to our merchant partners." Edmond Sanctis, NBCI President and Chief Operating Officer,showed that the new Internet site would also satisfy consumers'need for broadband entertainment. "Internet users are looking for content that walks andtalks," he said, clicking on the screen to bring up a broadcastof a vintage Saturday Night Live sketch featuring Gilda Radnorand Bill Murray. "We are further leveraging our parentage as a leadingentertainment network," Sanctis said. NBC Internet has agreed to buy $405 million in NBC networkand cable advertising over the next four years and the Internetcompany will promote its services on Clear ChannelCommunications Inc.'s more than 425 radio stations. The promotions will be integrated on the stations' Internetsites. Kitze said NBCI had agreed to pay $20 million over threeyears to Clear Channel. ((New York Equities Desk, (212) 859-1700))
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Pretty in Pastel for Kate & Russell
One of the biggest trends at the moment is what we call the "festival" look and it opens the door (or should that be gate) to a whole world of colour, fun and fabulousness!
The beauty is that you can mix and match a whole heap of colours and textiles without the worry of anything clashing or picking a single colour that won't work for your bridesmaids.
It also means you can save money...honestly!
Well you can shop around - but in your items from different places where you get the best deal. As long as you stick to the same palette you'll be onto a winner.
Kate & Russell did just this - and while we provided the chair covers and pretty multi coloured sashes in mint, yellow, pink, lavender and blue - they found some amazing honeycomb balls, pinwheels, bunting and mini suitcases online and in bargain shops around the Wirral to add some extra colour to the day.
There was also a distinct vintage feel to the room with the addition of old books, vintage table cloths and the couple picked a traditional afternoon tea to serve to their guests in vintage china teacups.
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Although online pricing partially uses traditional methods inherent in the real market, it has its own characteristics in the electronic market. The traditional physical products pricing model relying marginal cost is not always applicable to information products, as they have virtually zero marginal cost. The assignment of the development costs of the first copies of the electronic product to fixed costs is forcing the company to build pricing payment of fees for the use of all the subsequent copies. Availability of information on the market makes the price information open to both consumers and competitors. Individual offer of goods and services in accordance with the specific needs of customers enables individual pricing. A variation of lease or license-based fee on the electronic market is one of the most profitable pricing monetisation models in the web. According to HTP Digital, a savvy digital marketing Manchester agency specialising in promotion and strategy development, switching to subscription-based licensing helped to press for up to 24% increase in revenue in 7 huge businesses. The company sells the right to use a product created by it once, (e.g. online database) and the price of such product in this case is not based on the marginal costs or the overall cost of its creation, but depends on the total number of subscribers, although each of them may use the product in different ways.
The aspects influencing pricing models
The decrease in the prices of goods on the Internet can be influenced by various factors. Sales agents (e.g. a digital platform) enable customers to know and compare the prices of many sellers. Knowing this, sellers tend not to fall out of the price range of the market. Duty free zones reduce differences in prices (especially this fact is true for the US, where in different states different tax rates are utilised).
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In addition to the factors reducing prices on the electronic market, there are factors contributing to their increase.
Costs of the distribution channel in the electronic market are similar to the costs of firms involved in trade directories. Most sellers tend to cover their costs by customers' funds, but inform them about it only when an order for goods is placed. Thus, there can be a need in paying fees to companies that provide on their websites a link to the website of the company. These payments may constitute 7-15% of sales; of course, the expenses for marketing and advertising can be substantial.


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Just a quick note ... I've been reading Adam Fraser's book "The Third Space". It has been really powerful for me in transitioning and tackling my different roles in life. Just wanted to say thanks for the intro to the book & the concept.
It led to an interesting meeting... we have been holding these free workshops to market our training - focusing on how to build culture in a company/team which is something that completely fascinates me and we've worked hard on. On Friday, after 6 months of being invited, Jenny Ashton from Wiley Publishing came along. She walked in, introduced herself to me and looked down on the lectern to see "The Third Space" that I had with me. Jenny immediately told me that this was one book that she regrets not publishing - a lovely feedback for Adam.
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Reported the Tribune: "For the first time, members of OneWheaton, the recently formed group of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender alumni, and allies of that community, met near the Wheaton campus to enjoy a concert from Christian singer Jennifer Knapp [a Christian singer who says she is now a lesbian] and lead a discussion about being gay and Christian." The evening featured a panel of four openly homosexual Wheaton alumni who "answered questions from the audience and shared personal testimony about what it was like to struggle with questions about self-identity at a college where students sign a covenant that condemns homosexual behavior," reported the Tribune.
One of the four, 1989 alumna Ruth Wardschenk, who brought her daughter and lesbian partner to the event, assured those attending: "If you identify as GLBT and Christian, you do not have to choose. You can have a partner or a spouse, you can have a family, you can have a church community."
José Vilanova, one of the organizers of the alternative "gay" homecoming, told Time magazine that when he graduated from Wheaton in 1989, he never planned on returning. "Being Latino, poor, and gay was this spectacular triple threat of wrongness," he recalled. "I had zero reason to go back." But with homosexuality being normalized everywhere else, Vilanova decided to join the homosexual activists who are trying to force their alma mater to accept it as well, bringing his partner with him to crash Wheaton's homecoming.
"OneWheaton's highly visible presence on campus puts the college in a difficult position," noted Time. "On the one hand, Wheaton students can still get kicked out for being openly and unrepentantly gay…. But at the same time, the college recognizes gay and lesbian alumni as part of the Wheaton family and has a history of embracing those society has marginalized."
That "family" relationship was what Wheaton College President Phillip Ryken was focusing on in an e-mail message shortly before the school's homecoming. "Members of any family have areas of agreement and disagreement," he told the college community. "This is true of Wheaton College's relationship to OneWheaton, a group comprised of alumni but not affiliated with the College. As I have shared in an earlier campus communication, the College agrees with OneWheaton's stated desire to 'affirm the full humanity and dignity of every human being, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity.' "
Nevertheless, Ryken continued, "We also remain committed to the Bible's teaching on sexual morality, which has anchored the church throughout its history and is described in our Community Covenant."
In opposition to that historical teaching, OneWheaton has boldly declared: "We do not believe there is anything wrong with being gay. We are joining the conversation at Wheaton to show students that they have the option to live without shame and self-hatred."
As reported by The New American, that "conversation" between Wheaton and homosexual activists actually began back in 2006 when SoulForce, an organization of "Christian homosexuals," descended upon the college to "dialogue" with students, professors, and administrators. During an event at the school's gymnasium, an audience of 1,500 looked on "as the pro-homosexual group confronted the school's administration concerning its scriptural stand against homosexuality," reported The New American. SoulForce's spokesman at the event, Jacob Reitan, told the crowd: "It is unacceptable for an institution of higher education with a reputation like Wheaton's to suggest that a student could not, after study, thought, and prayer, come to the conclusion that homosexuality is not a sin without risking expulsion."
As Ryken demonstrated, that historic and scriptural foundation is the standard to which Wheaton intends to hold its students and faculty. Shortly after OneWheaton made its presence known on campus, Ryken circulated an e-mail epistle to all students, faculty, and staff, emphasizing that the college remained "committed to following Christ as faithful disciples, which entails conforming our lives to God's truth revealed in the Scriptures, and specifically to a biblically-based stance on sexual ethics." He added that part of the responsibility of the school's leadership was to "seek to prepare our students to maintain fidelity with the historic stance of the Church on these issues."
He also pointed out in his e-mail that the school's Community Covenant included the call "to pursue holiness in every aspect of our thought and behavior (2 Cor. 7:1; 1 Thess. 4:7; Heb. 12:14; 1 Pet. 1:15-16)," and embraced the scriptural condemnation of "sexual immorality, such as the use of pornography (Matt. 5:27-28), pre-marital sex, adultery, homosexual behavior, and all other sexual relations outside the bounds of marriage between a man and woman (Rom. 1:21-27; 1 Cor. 6:9-10; Gen. 2:24; Eph. 5:31)."
Such a reasoned (and inspired) explanation appears to have had no impact on the members of OneWheaton, who continue to insist that the lifestyle they embrace and promote is perfectly compatible with the Christian faith — and who continue to encourage deviance from that Christian standard among Wheaton students who find themselves struggling with their sexuality.
In a recent open letter addressed to "Wheaton Students," the members of OneWheaton appeared to offer a hearty invitation to students confused about their sexuality to launch themselves into homosexual behavior, assuring them that "your sexual identity is not a tragic sign of the sinful nature of the world. You are not tragic. Your desire for companionship, intimacy and love is not shameful. It is to be affirmed and celebrated just as you are to be affirmed and celebrated."
It remains to be seen whether Wheaton officials will continue to tolerate such counsel from an alumni fringe group that flies directly in the face of the school's Community Covenant — as well as both Scripture and church tradition.
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First, a note: this week's blog entry is a day late. I would like to have some sort of lofty or admirable reason for this. I would like to blame someone, perhaps the government or the terrorists. Really, I just totally and completely forgot that yesterday was Friday. I forgot to write my blog – which is ironic, given the title of this week's change.
I realize that this may seem like a strange "change" for someone who's supposed to be a writer. The truth is, though, with all my various and sundry health problems – not to mention my attitude problems – I haven't been doing a lot of writing lately. And I miss it. Or, I suppose, I miss having written. Mostly, I feel guilty. I miss feeling like I'm being a productive person, someone with a skill set to offer up. It's given my self-worth quite a ding.
My freelance landscape is barren, at least through the holidays, and I seem to have conveniently forgotten about that novel I'm supposed to be revising. (Maybe if I forget about it, it'll go away?) Part of the reason I continue with this blog – even though it seriously interferes with my TV-watching and general faffing about – is because sometimes it's the only time during the week that I actually sit down and write. It's the very least amount of discipline I can muster up. You're welcome.
In fact, it's this notion of "discipline" that keeps haunting me. Virtually everything you read about how successful writers go about writing revolves around this elusive trait. All of us who have aspirations to accomplish something literary – even a tiny something –have the daunting habits of our triumphant predecessors hanging over us.
There's Hemingway and his 500 words a day rule (or 600, depending who you ask.) Stephen King says he writes 2,000 words a day when he's working on a book. Some authors rise at 4 am and write for six hours straight each day. Others take to their desks at 10 pm and peck away well into the wee hours.
It's a lot of friggin' discipline. And, as I've mentioned, I don't really have any.
Wait. That's not true. At some point I will have to try to change my proclivity for making hyperbolic self-deprecation statements about myself. I clearly have some discipline. I generally get this blog written on time (except for weeks like, say, this one). I've completed two drafts of a screen play, countless articles and short stories. I've hammered out the first draft of a novel and I'm never, ever late with freelance assignments.
So I guess the truth is that I feel as though I don't have nearly enough discipline. I'm rarely a daily writer, unless on a major deadline – and that feels like a massive failure to me. I've got all these ideas of what kind of writer I'm supposed to be and what that looks like, but the disconnect between my thoughts and actions is tremendous.
Thus, I decided to take one week to try to be disciplined at writing. I should note that I hated this idea from the outcome. I resented it. But, to be frank, I'm simply running out of ideas here. If I didn't tackle this, I was just gonna have to think of another one. And that seemed like a fate worse than, well, writing.
To try to ease the process, I kept the rules pretty generous: I aimed for a mere half hour of writing each day and didn't define exactly what kind of writing I would work on. The result? SPOILER ALERT: pretty sad.
I would like to make a case for leniency, good people of the jury, as I once again felt like doody much of the week. It's becoming very tedious and difficult to undertake these changes when I have the energy of a…a…I dunno…something with very little energy.
I keep trying to bear in mind the fact that I'm comparing myself and my writing output to people who aren't faced with the same obstacles. Maybe it isn't fair or realistic to expect someone with chronic pain to produce at the same level as "normal" folk. But then there's friggin' Laura Hillenbrand, who didn't let her debilitating chronic fatigue syndrome stop her from researching and writing the best-selling Seabiscuit. From her bed. Damn, there's always one over-achiever in any crowd, making the rest of us look bad.
My week started off slowly. I didn't even make close to half an hour the first couple of days. In fact, what I did couldn't even be billed as writing. It was more like jotting – a couple of ideas, here and there, my half-assed way of doing something that barely fit the bill.
Then I started really stretching the definition. On day three, I sat down and spent a solid hour writing…thank you notes for my birthday gifts. What? If that doesn't require both creativity and discipline, I don't know what does.
Day five? Emails. You read that right. I plonked myself down at the computer and pounded out a few long, newsy missives to people I owed correspondence.
Day six? Nothing! I was exhausted from all those friggin' emails. I wrote…a grocery list. It was highly creative, plot-driven, with fully realized characters.
Which brought me to Day Seven and this. This blog. This ol' thing. This weekly commitment that keeps me writing. And I sat for a couple of hours, hammering this out. I felt some pleasure at the ease with which some sentences flowed, and frustration at those that refused to piece themselves together properly.
Week #41 finito!
My negative self-talk is eager to dismiss this week's progress (or lack thereof) as further proof of my laziness, but when I put on my Hat of Fair and Just Assessment, I think it's really just me doing what I can right now – and, to be perfectly honest, what I want to. I don't want to sit down and write for four hours a day right now. More than that, I couldn't. I couldn't physically pull it off.
In other words, it is what it is. So rather than judging it as being wrong or a failure or yet another thing that requires change, I think right now I just need to accept it. Stop judging myself for it. Stop comparing myself to what other people are doing. Now if I could pull that off, it'd be some real change to write about.
This means, of course, I have to accept everything that goes with being a wildly unproductive writer: diminished odds of being a best-selling author of international acclaim. At least, not anytime soon. There was a time when that realization would have completely devastated me, when I was so focused on outcome and producing that it would have been completely unacceptable.
However, something's happened over the last few years – and during this project in particular – where I've become increasingly comfortable with my life just as it is. Not just comfortable, but content. If I don't make the New York Times Book Review in this lifetime, I'll be okay. I'll still write something, somehow, even if I don't currently know what that will look like.
It doesn't have to mean that I'm not an ambitious person. I still have my eyes on the prize. It's just that, right now, the prize is trying to stay sane, finding a way to live with and manage my pain, and keeping my relationships alive and my marriage healthy. If that isn't the mark of a productive, goal-oriented person, I don't know what is.


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Welcome to a new world of learning! This book is a practical introduction to the use of roleplaying games in education. Roleplaying games are a great tool for provoking reflection, learning and critical thinking. Within this book, you'll find all you need to get started using this method. Included are four ready-to-play larps, several short articles highlighting different uses of roleplaying games in educational spheres and a multitude of methods and exercises to improve your games. If you are a teacher, activist in an NGO or a larper interested in using roleplaying games for education and reflection, this is the book for you. Let's play the learning game!
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text: July 1, 2015 Elisabeth Donnelly Imagine what it's like to spend 20 years in a small brick room, with one window that looks into an empty hall, knowing that you are going to die. Denied anything approaching what we call life, you're marooned in a brick-walled purgatory, with one twin bed, one toilet, and one sink. Your only friend: a bodiless voice through the vents. Some days people shuffle away, chained at their hands and their ankles, through the doors, towards certain death. — I wrote nicely about Rectify last year.


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The Midmar weekend took place over the weekend of th 9th of February and the annual Midmar tour was on the calender. The boys headed to KZN for water polo and swimming fixtures on the thursday and friday, and for the Midmar 1600m swim on the sunday.
The 'B' Team swimmers attended the St Henry's Gala on friday afternoon where they competed against various 'A' teams. The results as follows:
The 'A' team attended the annual Westville Gala where the amount of spirit and talent is overwhelming. Unfortunately we did not have our strongest team and this makes a huge difference in relay races. However, our boys went out and swam their hardest, and some excellent times were recorded. The results as follows:
Well done to all the boys for completing the 40th Midmar mile.
Brandon Isemonger finished 15th out of roughly 1400 swimmers in his event (14-30 men) and completed the fasted time out of the St Benedict's team. This is a great achievement and a very good swim.


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I want to be good.
I thought I made myself sweet so
when my disgraceful drawl says
I don't buy ground beef,
it reminds me too much of human brains
it's a thesis and tender, so
when my fingers close around your cute throat you think it's routine.
We coexist, and I want to be good juxtaposed
I remember you stood up to take off your pants
and fell off the bed, I remember
I don't like you anymore. Remember:
it's bored of, not bored with.
I want this to work. You can tie me up,
or I can tie you up, I heard loss of power
is power, someone said that.
Someone else said that only power is real power.
Whatever works, I guess I just want to be good with you
but honestly I've never made sense of my body
in conjunction with yours.
I don't know where to put my trash.
If I had five hundred dollars I'd buy a skateboard
with a Basquiat print on it and ride it so the colors came off.
In theory I don't want a gun to my head but empathetically
peace is a scam. The guy waiting in line
for pizza tells me I'm inherently gentle because:
women have umbilical chords, they're literally
attached to their young.
You have been good from the start but I
am a trash baby. My daddy picked me up from the dump.
When you said self-love I was sure you meant jerk off.
You say learn to love yourself and I wonder
if you will practice what you preach and learn to love me too.
You're going to make me come I say it
to an empty room and I think,
I am good at this at least.
Aja Moore is a writer currently working to complete her undergraduate degree. This is her first published poem.


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Students 5th grade and older (and their parents!) and all other Adults are invited to this special Passover Seder Meal!
Sunday, March 19, 10:00 a.m.
Fellowship Hall
No registration required!
During this event, we'll walk our students and families (5th grade through high school) through a traditional Passover Seder meal. We'll reenact a portion of the Jewish Passover meal, explaining the Old Testament origins of Passover, while looking to the feast's relevance for Christ followers today.
Our liturgical leader will be Paul Klassen, a messianic rabbi and Executive Director of Hope for Israel.
Parents are strongly recommended to attend with their children, as this will be an impactful meal to experience together. (Sunday School for students 5th grade through high school will cancelled this day).
Questions? Contact Tracie Meadows or Tom Barila


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Forget Millennials. How Will Churches Reach Generation Z?
For the last decade, church experts have been wrestling over the best ways to reach and retain "millennials," which is a phrase the describes individuals born from the early 1980s through the mid-1990s. Data shows that many millennials leave the church during their college years, and some never return. The fastest growing religious identifier among this generation is "spiritual but not religious." But as millennials age, get married, and start families, they are no longer the only "young people" that churches must consider. A new cohort has risen: "Generation Z" or individuals born between the mid-1990s and early 2000s. Generation Z diverges from millennials in many ways and presents unique challenges and opportunities for churches who hope to capture their attention.
For this reason, I decided to speak with Pastor James Emery White about his new book, "Meet Generation Z: Understanding and Reaching the New Post-Christian World." Here we discuss what sets these young people apart from their elders and what he believes it means for modern ministry, evangelism, and apologetics.


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CBU WORK STUDY BURSARY PROGRAM – Molecular Biology Lab. Assistant – SU014
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Job/Project Description: Molecular Biology Lab Assistant
Student Qualifications: Ideally, an upper year Science student who has completed at least Biol 3121. Second option, a highly motivated Science student with at least Biol 2101.
Tasks: Routine laboratory tasks such as but not limited to washing and cleaning glassware, maintenance and updating Safety Data Sheets, preparation of solutions, sterilization of media and supplies, some experimentation, etc. Assist in manipulation and analysis of DNA sequences using various software packages. Assist in document searches from CBU library and Novanet system
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Technologists Have Standards: What the Internet Can Teach Us About Making Elections Better
BY Nick Judd | Thursday, December 13 2012
Black Americans were statistically more likely to wait longer to vote in 2012, according to preliminary results released on Monday by the Pew Center on the States' 2012 Survey of the Performance of American Elections. So were the rich, the poor, and people in Florida (who waited on average 50 minutes), Maryland (more than 30 minutes on average), and South Carolina and Virginia (more than 25 minutes). Full results have yet to be published.
These details, revealed and dissected by elections officials and state secretaries of state at a two-day Pew Center on the States event in Washington, D.C. earlier this week, reveal that the experience of voting in America is inconsistent from state to state or even from county to county. Somehow, the votes get from voting machines in each polling place, to county elections officials, to state elections administrators, and comprise the results of state and federal elections — but the people involved in this process say it's sometimes surprising that the American system is as well-regarded as it is. Elections officials in attendance at the Pew event called for reforms to American elections because, as Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan observed, voting in one can be a wildly different experience for people in different counties or even different states.
Technologists might find this situation vaguely familiar. There's another system that asks large numbers of independent actors to all pass interchangeable atomic units of data back and forth in the service of rapid and accurate communication: The Internet.
The United States has 3,007 counties, 16 boroughs in Alaska, 11 census areas in Alaska, 64 parishes in Louisiana, 42 independent cities and the District of Columbia. That doesn't count 78 municipalities in Puerto Rico, two districts in the U.S. Virgin Islands, nine election districts in Guam, 17 districts in the Northern Mariana Islands and five districts in American Samoa. Each of these is responsible for administering elections in accordance with the particular laws of whichever state or territory in which it happens to reside. The states, in turn, have a few basic federal rules by which they abide. But the election infrastructure is unevenly distributed and the experience of voting is very inconsistent.
People in urban areas wait to vote longer than others. Some states have "no-fault" early voting, meaning anyone can cast their ballot ahead of Election Day for no particular reason, and others do not. Some have voter registration deadlines while other states allow residents to register and vote all on the same day. Washington and Oregon are vote-by-mail states, while in states with electronic voting machines, people asked to show up and vote in person waited on average five to seven minutes longer to vote than people in states without those machines. There are those long voting lines in certain states but not others. And while there are basic federal guidelines concerning valid forms of ID to prove a voter's identity, specific rules on voter ID vary, famously, from state to state.
"Lack of uniformity in laws and application of laws [are undermining the elections process]," Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, a Democrat, said Tuesday during a conversation with another outgoing secretary of state, Sam Reed, Republican of Washington.
Meanwhile, the secretaries of state agreed, members of political parties constantly jockey for an advantage by seeking to influence election law in their favor. From the stage, several secretaries of state — including Ohio's Jon Husted, who was the subject of much controversy and party to eight separate proceedings before the federal courts this year — argued that they were impartial parties just trying to balance ballot access with election integrity.
"My best piece of advice is if you want to find that balance in running a good controversy-free election: Don't become secretary of state in a swing state," Husted told the Pew event on Monday.
"Frankly, it is politics that stands in the way of achieving that balance, not policy," he said later during his remarks.
During questions from the audience, Obama for America's national field director, Jeremy Bird, argued that Husted was less an impartial arbitrator and more a partisan. OfA sued Husted and the State of Ohio this year for moving the deadline for in-person early voting to the Friday before the election rather than on Election Day. OfA won a preliminary injunction in the case and had it upheld in federal appellate court, but the case is still ongoing. Husted says he moved the deadline in response to laws passed by the (Republican-controlled) state legislature, including one that passed with bipartisan consensus. The issue there is that the bipartisan bill, HB 224, was designed to apply technical fixes to a previous bill that set one early-voting deadline for civilian voters and another deadline for military and overseas voters. It was still on the books even though the bill it amended had been repealed. Bird and Husted seemed to agree that top-down attempts to impose elections rules this year resulted in acrimony, chaos, and vigorous working of the refs — they only disagreed on which people were pushing for an unfair advantage.
That American elections working this way yield valid results is, to borrow a word from Carnahan, a "miracle."
The current system doesn't just create headaches for voters, it creates headaches for elections officials, too: Voters can too easily mess up a voter registration form or show up to the wrong polling place. Provisional ballots make more work for poll workers as well as put a voter's franchise at risk. So elections administrators are also looking for a better way.
Here and there people are starting to think up possible solutions. The non-profit start-up TurboVote, for example, just received a $150,000 grant from the Rita Allen Foundation to design a back-end system that officials could use to process voter registrations online. TurboVote allows users to fill out a registration form online, which is then mailed to users to sign and send along to elections officials in a pre-addressed, stamped envelope. They also send text and email reminders prompting users to finish the registration process. The new idea is to develop a mechanism by which this information goes straight into the databases of elections officials. In theory, this saves time, increases the quality of voter registration data, and means the only important thing for the voter to do is send along a copy of his or her signature on the registration form.
"They would keep the data on hold until the signature arrives," said Seth Flaxman, TurboVote's co-founder, in a phone interview.
"Really we're focused on cities and towns," Flaxman said.
The Rita Allen grant is to design the process through which this would work, not design the look and feel of existing software, so all of this still in the concept phase.
But the idea itself is interesting. Flaxman told me that any software they build to create an interface for elections officials would be open-source. The way the information is arranged and structured would also be open-source, free for anyone to pick up, adapt and improve upon. Flaxman hopes that TurboVote, which also received funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation this year, would sustain the effort by providing installation and support to elections officials. But if other counties wanted to build their own systems based on a shared standard way of managing voter data, they would be interoperable. And it is easier for someone in a county bureaucracy to pitch adopting a standard that has been shown to work elsewhere than it is to suggest a change to election law.
This is the same theory that has led major cities around the country to adopt a shared standard, called Open311, for managing non-emergency incident reports. This is a way of working derived from the technology world. It is the way of working that built the Internet: A come-one-come-all process in which anyone who could find their way to the conversation and had the technological knowledge necessary to participate could help decide, and anyone who did not like a standard could opt for a different one instead. Rather than methods decided by fiat, methods are decided by what works for the largest group of people — still problematic, but, one could argue, less so than a top-down decision determined by arguments between the Husteds and Birds of the world.
Asking counties and states to adopt uniform election laws is, if this year is any indication, unrealistic. And it would be facile to suggest that there's a single technology solution for more than 3,100 separate but related problems, each complex and unique. Vote-by-mail has its own problems, and security experts found vulnerabilities in Washington's effort to register voters on Facebook.
But if the problem is one of finding a way for many independent entities to pass the same kinds of information back and forth efficiently, or to create a similar end-user experience for people interacting with many different organizations, then that's a conversation about approaching elections around bottom-up standards instead of top-down laws — and technologists know a thing or two about that.


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Major developers and owners count on James E. Davies ("Jed") to help them with their development, use and ownership of real property. Over the past ten years, Jed has also successfully defended owners, managers, developers, and general contractors in actions alleging defective workmanship, including structural failures, building envelope/curtain wall failures, and mechanical system failures in large-scale residential and commercial properties in New York City and elsewhere.
Jed has established a reputation as a leading defender of construction and environmental claims. His practice encompasses the contractual and common law rights of all parties involved in construction and the use of real property including developers, contractors, design professionals, equipment and material suppliers and end users of the construction such as condominium and cooperative apartment owners.
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- Jed successfully defended the owner of Bianca Jagger's Park Avenue rental apartment, obtaining a dismissal of claims that mold in her apartment caused her to suffer a myriad of injuries. Bianca Jagger v. Katz Park Avenue Corp., 33 Misc.3d 139(A) (App. Term, 1st Dep't 2011)
- Jed also won summary judgment in favor of the sponsor of a luxury Park Avenue condominium in a case where the court found that the unit owner failed to submit sufficient evidence to support its multi-million dollar property damage and lost market value claim. Kerusa Co. LLC v. W10Z/515 Real Estate Limited Partnership, 50 A.D.3d 503 (1st Dep't 2008)
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True crime author Ann Rule's two sons allegedly coerced their bestselling mother out of $100,000, authorities say, according to the Huffington Post. The report says that one son even "demanded money while she 'cowered in her wheelchair.'" Michael and Andrew Rule have been charged with domestic violence crimes in Ann's home of King County, Washington.
84-year-old Rule, who has written 30 New York Times bestsellers, including The Stranger Beside Me, about serial killer Ted Bundy, has suffered ill health since October of 2013, when she broke her hip in a fall. According to documents the Huffington Post received from the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office, Rule is "on oxygen at all times," is prone to bouts of "extreme confusion," and is "vulnerable to undue influence." The author is "unable to perform many activities of daily living without assistance."
On March 2, Rule's son-in-law, Glen Scorr, reported to the prosecutor's office that he suspected Rule was
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There are a number of promotional gifts available. There are different items which you can customize as you like Thus you can pick any suitable thing for your business which can be used as the promotional item. Among a number of different things, here are some popular ones which are widely used for the promotion.
Pens are one of the widely used promotional things. Though you might think that these are cheap but these are highly useful thus these are very effective. These are affordable for almost all large and small businesses. This is why the pens are widely used. Moreover, it is used as a great marketing ideas because it comes in use again and again so one which has it will come across the name of your company again and again.
Shirts are also commonly used for the advertising. The shirts are customized for this purpose. Mostly, the white shirts are ordered to be manufactured and then on those white shirts, the logo of company and slogan is printed. Then the shirts are distributed among different people. To make the shirts more affective and attractive, different colors might be used in order to catch the eye of the people looking onto it.
Caps are also customized in order to use these for the marketing purposes. Whenever a person wears a cap and walk into a market, people look onto it. Thus when the logo of a company and slogan is added into it, it ultimately serves as a promotional item. These are also widely given promotional gifts.
Cosmetic box is an item which is loved by teenager girls as well as women. These boxes are used for the marketing purposes. Mostly, a company which is manufacturing the clothes of women, they give these kinds of promotional items to their regular customers in order to catch their regular visit.
The water bottles are also used as the promotional items. The attractive and well looking water bottles are used for this purpose. Not only the water bottles but the mugs are also customized for the marketing of a business. These are considered as some valuable gifts in the market which are used for the marketing and establishing of a business.
The above are some common things which are used for the marketing strategies. These things are extremely helpful for the marketing of a company. There is no doubt that these things will increase your sale as more and more people will take interest your company. In a survey, it is reported that the companies which adopts the technique of promotional gifts tend to have a large sale.


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A video showing SAPS (SA Police Service) officers firing rubber bullets at protesting Rhodes University students and arresting them has caused outrage directed at police.
A male student, who was confronted by officers while crossing the road and addressing students, is then held down on the floor and dragged on his back towards two police vehicles.
Watch the video below:
To all the students, thank you. You're fighting for our children, the future. You are heroes and we're behind you.#Rhodes #UJ #Fees2017— Lerato Mogashwa (@LeratoMogash) September 28, 2016
funny how same ppl who condemned police action at Marikana today defending them when its still the exact #policebrutality. #Rhodes— Mhlengie Bhengu (@jnr_lucifer) September 28, 2016
Various universities across the country have suspended their academic programmes in response to ongoing protests.
The students are protesting against Education Minister, Blade Nzimande's decision to leave universities to decide on a fee increment not exceeding 8%. The students are demanding free education for all.
Students who qualify for NSFAS funding and the 'missing middle' (from households earning less than R600 000 net) will be exempt from the increase.
In what is seen as a violent response to students, South Africans have lamented the poor training of police officers in managing crowds at protests.
Listen to the interview below:
It's a right that is enshrined in the Constitution to protest and to picket, but police are not trained to deal with situations of this nature.— Andries Nkome, attorney


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Br. Minalben - UK 2017
Having Br. Minalben here in London is a true blessing and a great opportunity for all to strive inwardly, understand, introspect, immerse and be happy. Scroll down to see the various events held. We will upload the video and audio swadhyays here for you to watch again.
Swadhyay Recordings:
Video: Scroll down to watch them below.
Audio: You can download these from our Google folder using this link. You don't need a google or gmail account for this and the downloads are free.
Shibir - Distinguishing Truths
It is an amazing experience to come together in Satsang and strive on this spiritual journey together. Br. Minalben's presence, wisdom and smile was just amazing. She made such a deep subject so accessible, practical and applicable to all of us in our daily lives.
The weekend was uplifting, energising and eye opening. As we strive to move from gati to pragati, contemplating deeply on the 7 lakshan or defining characteristics of the soul are key in removing this delusion and immersing in the self. Br. Minalben's topic for the weekend was Letter 438 from Shrimad Rajchandra Vachanamrut in which Krupaludev writes a verse from Banarasidasji Maharaj Saheb in which he describes 7 defining characteristics or Lakhshans of the Soul.
Minalben described each characteristic using the guiadance of both Param Pujya Bapuji and Bhaishree's explanations on this letter. She broke each characteristic into 3 key points of contemplation, how we can practically apply these contemplations in our daily lives and what benefits we get from their contemplation.
Shibir participants got the opportunity to meet Minalben in small intimate workshops throughout the weekend where she gave guidance on meditation, answered questions, clarified misunderstandings and gave us individual boosts of inspiration to strive forward.
Mumukshus completed 3 meditations each day as well as silent reflection and introspection.
The atmosphere was silent, yet vibrant, energising and immersing, joyous, awakening and so much more. As mumukshus we felt like a family seekers collectively supporting each other and inspiring one another on this tremendous journey. So wonderful.
Shibir Swadhyay Video Recordings
Satguru Sant ane Satpurushno Mahtmya - Swadhyay Video Recordings
During the week Br. Minalben has been taking quotes or suvakyo of Param Pujya Bapuji. Br. Rasikbhai has expanded and reflected on these quotes in his book Satguru, Sant ane Satpurushono Mahtmya.
Oshwal Association UK - North West Area
Oshwal Association UK (OAUK) North West Area hosted Br. Minalben at their Ekta Centre in Kingsbury. With a full hall seating almost 300 people Minalben was greeted with a warm and inviting audience. Following some mesmerising bhakti by Paarul, Minalben took her swadhyay on the subject of 'Vinay' or Respect - taking her starting point from Bhagwan Mahavir's last sermon the Uttradhyan Sutra.


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ERIC is a great resource. It contains citations and links to published journal articles, and to informally published or self-archived work. If the item has an EJ accession number and doesn't have a DOI treat it like a journal in print.
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Research Report
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How to Market Your Photography Brand: The Ultimate Guide
Planning on marketing your photography brand? Looking for some professional assistance? Look no further and take advantage of our helpful guide for beginners!
Learning how to market your photography brand is extremely important in today's business environment. It is about understanding and accepting the message you are sending to your audience and all of your potential customers.
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About Marketing 101: How Marketing 101 Can Impact Your Business
If marketing has posed a lot of obstacles to you and you have been struggling to move ahead since then, take a look at this experiment:
- Try and imagine yourself in a different business, for instance, a fashion designer.
- Think for some time about the fashion world and imagine the whole thing at once – the apparel, the runway, the mass-produced products, and etc.
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- Analyze the moment when someone sees your products, picks it out or tries it on. You need to get into your clientele's mind and what could possibly attract them about your clothing.
- Dig in deep and analyze your client's mindset, for example, what did they eat for lunch today or what kind of music are they into, what they are wearing today, how do they shop for a new piece of clothing, and etc.
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- Community Outreach – We recommend you to join a community. You can meet popular photographers, you can share your content, and make as much buzz as possible for your photography brand.
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Thursday Night/Friday Morning (9/6): Extensive PAX Prime Breakdown
After going to almost all the Bioware panels at PAX, reading every gaming news source interview and podcast, and bothering one of the devs with my own question…why not? I'll be breaking down info from PAX Prime in the most easy-to-listen video I can think of.
Tuesday (9/10): Personal thoughts on Inquisition
A candid take on Inquisition and the latest news thus far. Stepping back from the hype and excitement of Inquisition news in order to look at the grand scope of how this game is shaping up so far and how to look forward at the progression of next-gen RPGs.
Thursday (9/12): Perfect Save #11
According to the comments, I'm apparently a ditz. I can't help I play DA2 with the excitement of a Bengal tiger…high off tranquilizers and incapable of procuring a stable thought.
So, on with the show!
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A few larkspur showed up in one of my wildflower beds this year. They were volunteers left over from some I had planted several years ago. These make such perfect spring and Easter time flowers because of the little bunny face in the petals..
Can you see the little bunny face?
The purple are more difficult to find in the pictures. They are easy to spot when you hold the flower, but I had a hard time capturing their little faces.
So happy Pink Saturday and happy bunny larkspur day. It has been a beautiful spring in central Texas. Every breeze is heavy with the perfume of blooming shrubs. The butterflies and bees are having a holiday in the hedge along the driveway.
I have a butterfly book, but I have not taken time to identify the many different varieties.
The wild purple sand verbena in the meadow draw lots of these black beauties.
The verbena are just about bloomed out. Like the bluebonnets, they are busy making seeds for next year's show. I love spring. It's difficult to make myself take care of indoor chores while the world is so beautiful. I am reminded of that poem by Edna St, Vincent Millay, God's World in which she says," Lord, I fear thou hast made the world too beautiful this year." She was talking about the fall, but it's the phrase that comes to mind when I step outside with my coffee each morning. Isn't that a lovely thought for this Pink Saturday? Now go say "Hello" to Beverly at How Sweet the Sound and then make the rounds of springtime pinks.


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