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Drag Racing: Bike Edition
Drag Racing: Bike Edition Android GameVery Addicting Racing Game with Bikes & Motorcycles - It's a Great time killer!
Drag Racing: Bike Еdition brings the thrill of realistic motorcycle physics to your mobile device with 17 sport bikes, fabulous graphics and more realistic racing gameplay than ever!
Tune your bike and accelerate your way to victory, try to find the right balance between power and grip while staying in your class. Adjust your sprockets to shave off precious milliseconds through 10 levels of bikes and race categories.
In Drag Racing: Bike Еdition there's no 'fuel' that you have to wait for. No 'delivery time' for bikes or upgrades. Еvery vehicle is competitive and there's no 'premium' upgrades. It's all about your skill and dedication.
Drag Racing: Bike Еdition gives you the best free online racing games can offer: there's always an online rival waiting for you. Race any distance from 1/8 to 1/2 mile, win tournaments or test your nerves in wager races. Сomplete daily challenges in order to spin the Wheel of Fortune!
We have a lot of respect for stock bikes, but we also respect your desire to floor it and BURN SOMЕ RUBBЕR! In Drag Racing: Bike Еdition there's dozens of upgrades that will satisfy your need for speed.
Сhoose your paint colors and apply it the way you like, win cool costumes for your rider in special events.
Are you a gearhead or a bike nerd? We have the most realistic physics engine in the genre, meaning that everything works the way it does in real life. Try to find the right balance between power and grip while staying in your class. Go deeper and adjust gear ratios to shave off precious milliseconds. Oh, and don't forget to add in some nitrous oxide to give your ride an extra kick!
It's all about the players, connect with other DRBЕ fanatics who enjoy this cool game:
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Motorcycle Yamaha R Racing Leather Suit For Men
Motorcycle Yamaha R Racing Leather Suit For Men
Motorcycle Yamaha R Racing Leather Suit For Men, Pre-curved sleeves for proper riding position, Dual stitched main seams for excellent tear resistance, Nylon Stitched, Full rcumferential zipper at waist allows the jacket to be removed from pants, Two inside chest pocket. Nylon stitched main seams for excellent tear resistance. Perforated leather on Front. The specifications and conditions of motorcycle racing suits are described below.
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My fandom for all things Karas Kustoms goes all the way back to their first venture into the world of machined pens with the release of the Render K. At the time, there weren't many other options for the Pilot Hi-Tec-C refill, and the straightforward, clean design spoke to me. I was in, and have been a fan of everything Karas has released since.
Their latest pen release, The EDK, is following a bit of a different path to market. There will be no Kickstarter this time. Rather, the EDK will be released initially on Massdrop before rolling into the lineup at Karas Kustoms. I think this is an interesting choice, and a good path to take for the launch of a new product. From a business perspective I'll definitely be paying attention to how it works out.
But we aren't here to talk business, are we? So let's talk pens! The EDK is a well designed pocketable, retractable, metal-bodied every day carry type of pen. The style and shape are pure Karas, and that's a good thing in my book. The model I was sent for review by Massdrop is the Tumbled Aluminum + Tumbled Copper version and it is a real looker. I had only seen pictures of the black aluminum model prior to this, so needless to say I got a silly grin on my face when I opend the box and saw the contents.
The EDK is built around the Schmidt P8126 refill, also commonly know as the Retro 51 refill. Parker style refills also fit, such as the Fisher Space Pen refill. And, as is the case with many machined pens, the refill will determine your buying decision. I love the refill, but it isn't a primary writer for me, like the Pilot Hi-Tec-C in my Render K or Pilot Juice in my Retrakt. It is a primary writer for many though, and a much loved refill, so it will do very well.
The two-tone options for the EDK are something I love. Before getting the aluminum/copper model in, I think my first choice would be one of the aluminum/black aluminum models. Again, just like my Retrakt. Such a killer look in my opinion. They are also available in other single and combo material barrels, including brass.
I had one minor issue with my EDK that may only apply to me and my visual aesthetic. With mine, the tip did not extend out of the pen opening as far as I prefer. The edge of the refill tip cone was flush with the barrel opening. I prefer the flat of the refill body to show just a slight bit - we are talking millimeters here - for a better visual when writing. I fixed that easily with the tiniest piece of double sided tape on the end of the knock. Easy fix, and like I said, a personal preference thing.
Overall, I think the EDK is going to do extremely well for Karas Kustoms. The quality and design are on point and it fits right in with the rest of their product lineup. The EDK just launched on Massdrop, so head over there now and check out all of the options.
(Massdrop provided this pen at no charge to The Pen Addict for review purposes.)


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At the Walnut Creek BART station Monday evening, the women of "Pantsuit Nation" were out in full force to show their support for Hillary Clinton
Dressed in various versions of the Democratic presidential nominees's signature attire, the woman posed for photos with a cardboard Clinton and shared their excitement about the possibility that Clinton would be elected president Tuesday night and break the nation's highest glass ceiling.
"I'm going to have to not cry because it means the world," said Heidi Bailey, an attorney from Pleasant Hill who has a 13-year-old daughter. "It means that everything is possible for everyone."
Many women were crying Tuesday night, but not tears of joy.
Donald Trump won the presidency, ending the chance to break that glass ceiling by the only woman to ever get near it. They had felt her victory was necessary to let America know that its female population won't tolerate a candidate who has made the most sexist, misogynistic comments of any nominee to run for president in recent memory.
All over Facebook and Twitter, women were voicing their disappointment, anger and more. That includes on the Facebook groups where Pantsuit Nation became a social media phenomenon over the past few months and gained more than 3 million followers.
"I'm in shock and panic this morning this morning," wrote a woman in Shaumburg, Illinois.
"As a 14-year-old pro-choice, feminist, pro-BLM LGBTQ ally, and a female I am terrified. There are many days of anger, despair and horror ahead," wrote a teenage girl.
In her concession speech Wednesday morning, Clinton said: "I know we have still not shattered that highest and hardest glass ceiling, but someday, someone will, and hopefully sooner than we might think right now."
Certainly among left-leaning women there was concern that Trump has the opportunity to reshape the Supreme Court in a way that might result in overturning abortion rights.
Many women also said they struggled with what to tell their young daughters on Wednesday morning. Amy Rosenberg, a 51-year-old communications consultant in Palo Alto, told the New York Times she tried to say something uplifting to comfort her 10-year-old daughter: "The good news is, you now have a chance to be the first woman president."
But disappointment about Clinton's loss wasn't uniform across the gender.
"The world has witnessed a miracle," Marie Hembree, a Contra Costa County-based writer and editor wrote on her Facebook page. She said "millions of deplorables" had boycotted Clinton endorsements from leftist publications and support from "one celebrity after another willing to sell their soul to be electing the first female president."
The electorate was 52 percent female. While Clinton won the female vote 54 to 42 percent, Trump trounced her when it came to white, non-college educated women who gave the President-elect 62 percent of their vote to Clinton's 23 percent, according to polls cited by CNN. Clinton fared better among white college-educated women, winning 51 to 45 percent, as well as non-white women.
One of the challenges of the Clinton campaign was that she was "an incredibly polarizing figure," Jennifer Lawless, director of the Women & Politics Institute at American University told CNN. She also represented the establishment that Trump and his supporters vowed to pull down.
For these reasons, she couldn't drum up the same kind of enthusiasm that a gifted orator like Barack Obama did in 2008, Lawless said. In 2012, Obama also managed to bring in more Latino, African-American and voters, ages 18 to 29.
But the women of Pantsuit Nation were plenty inspired.
"I think this is our time. I think we deserve it," said Pat Toth-Smith of Benicia, who had come to the Walnut Creek BART photo event Monday night with her daughter Alia Toth-Smith, 14.
On Wednesday, Pantsuit Nation women across the country wrote of allowing themselves time to mourn, rest and then continue the fight for societal and political change.
"I believe the good that can morph out of our disappointment," wrote a woman from Oakland. "Although our candidate did not win, our ability to rally together over the next four years and become agents of change is, with strong unified voices, just beginning."


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Well, I passed the CAPM today.
I spent five weeks diligently preparing for it, studying about 2-3 hours a night. After hearing horror stories about how difficult the exam really is, I actually think I might've "overstudied" as I found the actual exam to be refreshingly easy.
Anyway, a bit of background info, before applying to get the CAPM, my only experience with project management was a PM course I took at school last semester. The course alone wouldn't have prepared me for the CAPM since it didn't focus a lot of attention on the individual processes.
To prepare for the exam, I used the Insite online course by Velociteach; they've upgraded the course to reflect the 4th edition PMBOK. I paid $99 for the one month course and it's money well spent, I reviewed the course in its entirety twice and did several of their practice exams until I averaged around 90% from their pool of questions. I also used Farndale's PMP and CAPM prep guide (easily found on google) and took the 248 question test. Obviously, I read the PMBOK as well and used notecards to document the processes and various terms.
Lessons Learned:
1. I actually did not bother memorizing the ITTOs. I think more important than rote memorization is understanding the flow of processes. For example, deliverables from Direct and Manage Project Execution become validated in Perform Quality Control, then become accepted in Verify Scope, which in turn serve as an input to Close Project. The data flow diagrams in PMBOK helped a lot in this understanding. Once I had that understanding, there was really no need for me to be able to recite all the ITTOs for each process, as they just came to me intuitively on the exam. You should definitely, however, know all 42 processes and which process groups and knowledge areas they belong to.
2. I found practice exams to be extremely helpful. I think, in terms of difficulty, the practice questions on the Velociteach site were about on par or just slightly more difficult than those on the real exam. Plus they gave explanations to the questions to all their exam questions. The questions from Farndale's guide were very difficult (and he even says so!).
3. The brain dump is an excellent technique. I quickly breezed through the tutorial, and used the remaining 14 minutes to write all 42 processes on table like table 3-1 in PMBOK, and all the EVM/communication channels/PERT calculations. I'm glad I did, as it was easy reference.
4. I completed the first runthrough of the 150 questions in about 50 minutes, after which I took a break and reviewed all 150 questions again. Overall, I finished the exam in about 1:25, so I think the time you're given is quite generous.
5. One thing I found extremely frustrating was that the exam used 3rd edition and 4th edition PMBOK terminologies interchangeably. I'm not sure if this was a mistake, since they had just recently converted to 4th edition, or if it was intentional (since the changes are listed in the appendix and are therefore fair game). Either way, this inconsistency made me livid during the exam, and if you've studied ONLY 4th edition, you're certainly going to get things mixed up. For example, one of the questions mentioned a "Select Sellers" process, which does not exist in 4th edition; it's now part of Conduct Procurements.
At any rate, I wish the best of luck to anyone else taking the CAPM. Hope to get the PMP in a few years.
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After stopping by Canada, the mid-range Sony Xperia M2 is hitting UK carriers. The phone launches on EE today, with prices starting at £19.99 on a 24-month, £18.99 per month 4G plan with 500MB of data. The EE Xperia M2 is available from today online, in-store and via telesales.
The Sony Xperia M2 packs a 4.8-inch qHD (960x540) display, a 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon processor and an 8-megapixel Sony Exmor RS camera, all in a shell that looks a lot like Sony's current flagship phone. For more on the M2, check out our hands-on report from Mobile World Congress.


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The size of Vermont, the Adirondack Park is the largest park in the continental United States, covering one-fifth of New York state's total area. Its "3,000 lakes, 30,000 miles of rivers and streams and more wilderness than anywhere else on the East Coast," writes Abigail Jones, also make up the first constitutionally protected wilderness in the world.
The Adirondacks rely most heavily on tourism, and that is good news for all who want to enjoy its sprawling natural beauty.
William Janeway, executive director of the Adirondack Council points to the region's 160-year history of incredible extremes of wealth and economic challenges, influenced by the likes of railroad magnate J.P, Morgan and other "millionaires" of the day who bought huge amounts of property in upstate New York. The area is still a sought-after destination for the rich and the not so rich among us.


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Cast: James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez, Brandon Scott Valorie Curry, Corbin Reid, Wes Robinson
Director: Adam Wingard
Writer: Simon Barrett
When The Blair Witch Project first came out in 1999, it took the world by storm with its revolutionary found-footage format, authentic low-budget production and dynamic online marketing campaign. I however was seven at the time and didn't get round to watching the film until I was in university, by which time found-footage had become an established genre and the film itself had become quite dated. The Blair Witch Project is thus a film that I admire more than I like. Although it was far too late for me to fall for the movie's student documentary disguise, I was able to appreciate how it captured that realistic effect through its non-expert cinematography and non-professional actors. While I wasn't scared by what occurred, I could understand how effective the format and tone could have been at generating scares back before found-footage became a gimmick. I suppose that, more than anything, was the sequel's fatal weakness: The Blair Witch Project was a film that could only have worked back when it did. To try and do the same thing again two decades later is self-defeating and futile.
20 years after the disappearance of his sister Heather in her pursuit of the Blair Witch, James (James Allen McCune) has discovered new footage that he believes shows what happened to her. Hoping that she might still be alive, he decides to search for her in the woods where she disappeared with his friends Lisa (Callie Hernandez), Peter (Brandon Scott) and Ashley (Corbin Reid). Every second of this search is captured by Lisa as footage for her documentary. In Burkittsville they meet the locals who originally found and uploaded the lost footage, Lane (Wes Robinson) and Talia (Valorie Curry), and agree to let them join their search. Together the party ventures into the woods towards the spot where the footage was unearthed, hoping there might be a clue to point them towards James' sister. It isn't long before they get lost and start encountering the strange sights and sounds that had haunted Heather and her friends all those years ago.
17 years ago when The Blair Witch Project pioneered found-footage as a format, no one had seen anything like it in cinema. It was such a simple format that pretty much anyone who owned a video camera could adopt it, leading to a long line of imitations. It has been used and misused so many times that it has lost much of that rawness and authenticity that had made it so effective in the first place. This time around in the sequel (which I assume is set in a happier, more idyllic world where Book of Shadows doesn't exist), the style they use feels less natural and less genuine. The film is clever in the way it incorporates multiple ways of recording footage (including GoPros, iPads and a drone), but the use of these cameras seems more contrived than before. The actors are also a little more recognisable this time around and their performances are more self-conscious and deliberate. The style and structure the film adopts from The Blair Witch Project just doesn't work as well this time around because it brings too much attention to itself.
Even if the film could have captured the same mood and effect as the original, it still suffers from a lack of restraint that plays an equal part in undermining many of its scares. Whereas the first film built tension through distant yet unsettling sounds, The Blair Witch turns the volume up to eleven. There are too many "Boo!" moments in this film for any real sense of dread and terror to be built. There are some moments that manage to be reasonably scary, one example being a claustrophobic sequence near the end. The movie also manages to convey the same sense of a haunting, ethereal threat by giving the woods a disorienting sense of time that affects the characters. For the most part however the film relies more on shock than it does on horror and is weaker for it.
The Blair Witch Project was a sensation of its time. This is just yet another 90s sequel that wasn't needed, didn't bring anything new, and doesn't merit watching. Even if it could have generated half the hype of its predecessor, the film still doesn't give the viewer anything that they cannot get from watching the original. It does a passable job as far as imitations go, but an imitation is all it is. It is a film that never tries to be its own as it follows the original's example beat-by-beat and builds up to a climax that fails to surprise or astonish. Any scares the film is able to attain are momentary and will not linger with any viewer once the credits roll. What The Blair Witch demonstrates more than anything else is that a phenomenon cannot be created twice, a lesson that Gus Van Sant learnt when he made his shot-for-shot remake of Psycho.


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My August Book Club pick, The Mission Walker, by Edie Littlefield Sundby, is about this:
There you are, you've made it through 79 rounds of chemotherapy and had radical surgeries on your liver and lung performed, and still you're told you have only 3 months to live...
What would you do?
If it were me, I might go on a cruise with my family to celebrate the life I'd had and to say goodbye in a joyful way, while pampering myself at the same time.
That was NOT Edie Littlefield Sundby's reaction. This actually happened to her. Know what she wanted to do? Needed to do? DID do? How about walk 800 miles along the California Mission Trail, averaging 14 miles a day, and stopping at life-giving missions to revive her body and her soul? If that's what you thought, you were correct!
And THEN guess what she did? She wanted to walk MORE. In fact, she yearned to walk the ENTIRE Mission Trail, from it's start in Mexico, you know, the one no one had traversed for over 250 years?!
And so she did, all 800 miles of it,
"For me, walking is a transcendent physical, emotional, and spiritual experience, like dancing. "If I can move, I am not sick." That is my alternate reality. And I believe with all my will in that reality. So when cancer strikes again and again, I walk to stay alive."
So say's Littlefield Sundby about her adventure(s) past, present, and future. Each step is in-step with her faith, determination, and relationship with God.
"The Mission Walker is a marvelous book, a moving meditation on the relationships between courage and faith, endurance and transcendence." Randall Sullivan, Creator, The Miracle Detective, Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN)
"Edie Sundby's account of her amazing trek along the entirety of the California Mission Trail is not only captivating and inspiring but also one heck of an outdoors adventure." Les Standiford, Author
"This powerful story of determination and faith will stay with you forever." Ken Budd Journalist/Author
"… a powerful narrative that takes us through the author's harrowing journeys, inward and outward." JoBeth McDaniel Journalist/Author
"There are parts of this book that I couldn't pull myself away from.... that left me with profound messages. Incredible memoir!!! Incredible woman!!!! 5 Stars" Elyse Walters, #3 Top Reviewer, Goodreads
This story is not about avoiding death. It's about living life.
Take a walk with Edie Littlefield Sundby, read The Mission Walker, to be awed, inspired, and grateful for every new day that the dawn brings to you and each and every step you take toward your future.
In stores August 25th!


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With a dad like Dan Osborne it's no wonder little Teddy is a natural in front of the cameras.
The adorable tot was captured happily singing along to Ed Sheeran and loving the attention from his famous father.
Teddy, who is Dan's son with ex Megan Tomlin, can be seen sipping on a carton of juice and putting his own spin on Ed's hit Sing.
As the music belts out Teddy does a brilliant impression of the flame-haired crooner and makes our hearts melt.
He then puts one hand to his mouth and flashes a sweet smile. Awwww.
Meanwhile, TOWIE star Dan can be heard praising his son from behind the camera, saying: "Clever boy".
The reality star posted the video to Instagram with the caption: "My boy singing to Ed Sheeran is just too cute!!"
We couldn't agree more, Dan.
The hunk, who also has daughter Ella with EastEnders star Jacqueline Jossa, dressed Teddy as a bunny for Easter and we thought he couldn't get any cuter. We were wrong.
Little Ella was also dressed as a bunny in a cute onesie.
The star recently introduced his two children and shared the moment they hugged each other hello online.
While the toddler is smiling happily as he holds onto the newborn, Ella looks a little confused - but we've no doubts she'll grow up to give him a hug back before too long.


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Little spring posies for each place setting.
For dessert we offered a buffet of our favourites. My sister made lemon meringue pies, my sister-in-law the chocolate cake, Will's brother the orange friands and Mel made chocolate cupcakes. My brother made the cake stands using Hunter Valley Ironbark.
Will and my brother brewed four different types of beer. The fancy labels were from Girl in Gear Studio.
My nephews hosted Love Trivia.We said a few words.
Attempted a dance.
Wiggled around some more.
Will's sister rounded up all of our beloved balloons.
And then it was time to go.
Thanks so much for reading! Photos: Tim Coulson


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Ice Cube
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After a long layoff, Ice Cube returned to the road in early-2006, making sure that some tasty KFC was waiting for him backstage at each concert venue. Ice Cube (real name: O'Shea Jackson), who requires a pork-free environment, also needs a fifth of Hennessy, some Big Red chewing gum, Doritos, and a quartet of Bic lighters.
Strangely, unlike many of his rap world peers, Cube does not require promoters to lay in a supply of condoms. (1 page)
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Baltimore's Head of School Lunches Is Transforming the City's Program
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Never mind that a thin stream of water is leaking through a crack in the greenhouse roof. Or that most of the class of 5-year-olds who were brought in to see the plants didn't much like the samples of radish and mustard greens they tasted. It will take a lot more than that to dim Tony Geraci's enthusiasm for his latest project, the 33-acre Great Kids Farm, tucked behind strip malls and fast-food joints in Catonsville, Md.
Just some asbestos removal here and some bathroom renovations there, and "this will be an alternative school that teaches the idea and premises of sustainability," Geraci explained as he bounced through the aqua-walled main building. The new food service director for Baltimore City Public Schools has grand plans: The farm, which began welcoming students this past winter, will serve as an incubator for school gardens throughout the city. This summer, he plans to launch three student-run restaurants that will serve the farm's produce.
"We want to give the kids the experience of the food from farm to fork: where food happens, how it happens, why it happens and how they can make better choices to change the way things work," Geraci said.
That's no small task anywhere, let alone in Baltimore, where the school district has long been in the red and almost 74 percent of the 83,000 students receive free or reduced-price meals. Students call the food "nasty." Three years ago, they marched into a school board meeting to complain that meatloaf stuck stubbornly to their plastic meal trays and milk was sometimes frozen.
If Geraci were a character on "The Wire," he would be heroic, and he would fail. The HBO drama depicted the Baltimore schools as chronically overwhelmed, with staff members who lacked the authority to effect change. Geraci has the will, plus boundless energy and an unorthodox style. He's not only running Baltimore's school food service, he's campaigning for it. Like a politician on the stump, Geraci tells stories that have a message: It's the kids, stupid. Students deserve to eat delicious, healthful meals. And those meals help students learn.
"You cannot have the expectation that a teacher can teach if the kid is hungry or jacked up on sugar," said Geraci, 52. "My job is to put healthy kids in front of teachers so they can teach."
Geraci is the antithesis of the little old lunch lady. He grew up in New Orleans and was, by his own admission, a lousy student. But he loved home economics, a class where he could cook (and meet girls). He grew up, became a chef and moved to New Hampshire. He ran restaurants and for several years was a food broker for Tyson Foods, a job history that gives him the opportunity to point out again and again that "no one knows chicken nuggets better than me."
In 1998, Geraci broke his back in an industrial accident. He spent a year in the hospital and while he was there, decided there was more to life than slinging microwave-ready meals. And so in 2003, he took the job as food service director for Contoocook County, N.H., a district with 11 schools and 5,000 students. Within three years, the district had launched a farm-to-school program in conjunction with the University of New Hampshire, and the 11 schools were serving food cooked from scratch. At the same time, Geraci managed to bring the previously money-losing lunch program into the black.
That success brought him to the attention of the Baltimore school system. "Tony doesn't have an ounce of cynicism about what's possible," said Andrés Alonso, chief executive of the city's schools. "He's new enough that he hasn't been beaten down by compromise or failure."
Nationwide, there have been years of discussion about how to improve school lunches; this summer, the debate heats up again as Congress takes up the reauthorization of child nutrition programs that President Obama has made a centerpiece of his domestic agenda. Over the years, Congress has mandated federal nutrition standards, funded fresh fruit and vegetable programs and debated, but never acted on, banning various "junk foods" from schools. Sustainable-food advocates have called for schools to serve more local food, a tactic they say would not only improve flavor but also help support small farms and renew rural communities.
Geraci's plan is to involve students in food at every step of the process. Take Great Kids Farm. The city had long owned the land, which it used as a nature center, but was set to sell the property. Geraci convinced school officials that a farm was just the place for children to learn about where food comes from. The property had three greenhouses. Since taking it over, the staff has planted a three-acre field of vegetables and a small orchard and brought in pigs, chickens and goats.
Teachers are enthusiastic about the farm. "This was the perfect field trip," said New Song Academy kindergarten teacher Mary Yao, who has planted a small flower garden at her charter school. "We wanted them to go and see a real farm. Otherwise it was just looking at pictures in a book and me telling them what one was like."


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Property owners often overlook the maintenance of gutter and downspout systems. When clogs develop in the system some serious problems can occur, like stains on the exterior of the building or flooding within the walls themselves. Having the gutter and downspout system cleaned and flushed is always a good idea. We also do downspout repair & gutter guard installation.


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Correcting the misconception of a recent newspaper article...
Several weeks ago there was an article in a not-to-be-named newspaper in which I was mentioned in an embarrassing context, and a sentence of mine was inserted into a subject rather different from the one that had been the topic of my interview. What I had really been discussing (or tried to be discussing) was how philosophical monism can help us appreciate inner over outer beauty in people; it was meant to suggest one possible way of how something philosophical can be applied to everyday living. I reproduce more fully in this post the comments I had tried to make in that interview.
Philosophical monism, simply put, is the notion that there is only one level of existence. Combined with ontological materialism, to which I also subscribe, it means that all that exists is matter. This is opposed to dualism, which maintains that there are two levels of existence: the physical – matter – and the metaphysical – soul, immaterial forces (like God, for instance). (There is also a version of monism that is idealist or immaterialist – i.e. that only mind, not matter, exists – championed by George Berkeley and others, but as a fairly empiricist-minded person I consider it untenable and will not deal with it here.)
Dualism was essentially invented by Plato (and taken to even further heights by Descartes); before Plato, philosophers had been occupied mainly with the physical world, and even after him there were some attempts to revive the monist-materialist view of the world, especially by the early Greek stoics. The stoics, most prominently under Chrysippus, who was the third stoic scholarch, maintained that only matter exists, and that things like soul or God, whose existence he did not deny, are therefore material. This is not an absurd position, because we all know how the experiences of our consciousness can be psychosomatic. Further, it means that something like love does not exist separately, as Plato thought, but only insofar as people experience it, for example through certain physical sensations (blushing, palpitations of the heart, warmth, etc.). Love is therefore simply a word that, for convenience's sake, we use as a rubric under which to gather those sensations. So love does exist, in a sense, but is in fact material. Plato's mistake was to begin with the words – "love", "justice", and so on – and then to try to define what they are, whereas the truth is that the words came afterwards, as shorthand descriptions of a whole plethora of divergent phenomena in the physical world. We cannot describe satisfactorily or exhaustively what love is; "love", rather, is the description.
With this in mind, we can say, with Chrysippus and the stoics, that the human being is one thing only, namely body, not body and metaphysical soul. By this means we are able to approach the pre-Platonist Greek attitude that ties the various facets of the human being together, instead of dividing it into parts, which may be mutually antagonistic. Once this has been achieved, any aspect of any one of a person's "Platonist" part will immediately disseminate itself through the whole being, instead of being confined to that part alone. So an individual who has what one would traditionally call an "evil soul" or "bad personality" right away becomes ugly to the eye, too. And someone who engages in the discipline of physical exercise thereby trains what we traditionally call the soul or the personality. And, indeed, it is no coincidence that Aristotle – who in many ways was more typically "Greek" than the proto-Christian Plato – emphasizes in his Politics that the training of the body is a moral goal that must be concomitant with mental training for those who are to lead a state (1332b, 1334b, and 1338b). It is those who emphasize the body alone or those who only study while scoffing at anyone who would deign to exercise, that are more dualist in their general outlook (usually without realizing it).
The pre-Platonist attitude requires a deliberate choice. It does of course not follow as a necessary consequence of philosophical monism, but monism can, I think, make it easier for us to see the deeper underpinnings of that choice. It will no longer be possible to say that someone with a bad personality nonetheless has a beautiful appearance. Rather, that person will be ugly through and through. So once monism has been grasped and applied in this way onto the world, we are less likely to be seduced by the exterior trappings of persons and better able to see their true worth. And an individual will become less divided against him- or herself.


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Lafayette Park is an 11.49 acres (4.65 ha)[2] park in San Francisco, California, United States. Originally created in 1936,[3] it is located in the neighborhood of Pacific Heights between the streets of Washington, Sacramento, Gough, and Laguna. Located on a hill, the park offers views of many areas, including the city's Marina district, Alcatraz Island and the San Francisco Bay, Buena Vista Park, and Twin Peaks. In addition to both open and treed green spaces, the park includes two tennis courts, a children's playground, an off-leash dog area, restroom facilities, and a picnic area.
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Los Angeles - Margot Robbie says working with Will Smith was "everything you can imagine, and more".
The 24-year-old Australian actress stars alongside the Hollywood icon in Focus and admits working with Will fulfilled all of her expectations, even though she didn't known about his role in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
She recalled: "Will is everything you can imagine, and more - but I'd actually never heard of The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air.
"He was... not offended, but maybe a little surprised I didn't know who Jazzy Jeff was. I didn't understand a lot of the references, which of course the crew were all over.
I said his name wrong, I called him Jazzy Jam or something. Will said, 'Are you serious?' I had no idea what he was talking about. I think he thought I was a lost cause."
And Margot - who lives in London and spends lots of her professional time in the US - says she still enjoys her home comforts.
She told ShortList magazine: "I live in London so I get people to bring over Dilmah tea, and Tim Tams, which my housemate assures me are similar to Penguins. We have lots of arguments over what is better, and they're yet to be resolved."
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Two beautiful ladies, fantastic families, stunning weather and a superb location for this wedding. Getting ready at the Glendhu Homestead is a spectacular place full of natural white light, airy, lots of room and not to mention the scenery.
Lisa Morrison and I were the 2 Makeup Artists (Road To Beauty/The Makeup Loft) on site as part of this very special day. This was my first wedding back 'on the tools' since my beautiful Mum had passed away, so to be part of a loving family whilst working was very comforting.
The Mother of The Bride gave me the best hug when I was leaving and it was just a very special moment. The bridesmaids, friends and family all milling around during the mornings preparations were all calm, friendly and special to be around.
From the remainder of the photos taken by Jodie Rainsford, it looks like the rest of the day continued in the same vein...a truly magical day at Glendhu.
Please see below images for full list of vendors who all contributed to Emma and Ellie's day.
PHOTOGRAPHER - Jodie Rainsford
MAKEUP - Lisa Morrison & Deirdre Read (Road to Beauty/The Makeup Loft)
HAIR - Leah and Kylie
STYLING - Rebecca Brosnahan of Fantail
FLORALS - Rebecca Brosnahan of Fantail
CATERING - Raspberry Creek
LOCATION: Glendhu Station
CELEBRANT - Gwen Hendry


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This year my focus in the classroom is building positive relationships. I believe that I have always worked on creating a relatively positive environment for students to feel comfortable sharing their thoughts with me, whether these thoughts were personal or academic in nature. The problem with that last sentence is 'with me'. Yes, it is incredibly important for teachers to get to know their students, build a positive rapport, and care about them as an individual. Towards the end of last year, however, I realized that I have never set an expectation for my students to build relationships with one another. I decided to change that going forward.
The first change was in the works during second semester of last year. No more desks! If I expected students to work together by communicating and collaborating with one another, I needed to have a physical environment that would foster this teamwork. I now have whiteboard tables (which are amazing!), and there will be more blog posts about this resource in the future.
To begin cultivating relationships with and among my students, we first needed to begin with some introductions. As the teacher, I need to provide students with opportunities to learn more about one another. Here are some ways that I fostered this communication in the first week of school:
1. Names
Every other day of class, I have had new groups using the Team Shake app. This app randomly seats students into groups or pairs, based on how you designate the randomizer. Then I ask my students to write their name on the whiteboard table and shake hands with the members of their group. Over the period of two days, I am hoping that they are getting to know each new set of students at an introductory level. (Note: This is also helping me to learn their names much quicker because I myself am a visual learner.)
2. All About Me
This year, I created a new All About Me activity using the website Piktochart. More information on how to create or use infographics can be found here.
What I learned about my students through this exercise:
- Who is strong and who is weak with technology (both Schoology and Notability)
- Who is willing to share easily and who needs time to feel comfortable sharing with me
- Who can follow directions and answer questions appropriately
- Who has internet at home (some students didn't finish and expressed that they wouldn't be able to submit this assignment tonight due to not having internet)
3. Numbers of Significance
This idea I received from my colleague Eleanor Pattie. I demonstrated with an example explaining 3 numbers of significance for myself and then had the students write out their 3 examples. Then, they shared one of these examples with the class. Here is a student example:
What I learned about my students through this exercise:
- Some students are incredibly creative (i.e. 10 - age when received the first pair of Air Jordans; 2 - never like to go first; 10.5 - when I was first inspired to draw)
- Some students have had some really cool life experiences (i.e. played in a championship game in Cooperstown)
- Some students are very honest (i.e. number of suspensions; 9/11 - happened a week before I was born)
- Some students shared personal tragedies
- Lastly, I learned about my students' writing capabilities such as their spelling and grammar
4. Academic Goals
In order for me to be an effective teacher, I need to know my students as both an individual and as a student. Before the school year starts, I look up and pull a lot of data from our Infinite Campus information. As much as this is helpful for me to best meet my students' needs, I'll be honest and say that it is also a bit creepy. Therefore, I gave them a Google Form to answer the following questions:
1) What were your grades last year in math?
2) What school did you go to? (for my freshman classes); Who was your math teacher last year? (for my junior classes)
3) What are your plans after high school?
A. Community College (i.e. Harper, etc.)
B. 4-year College/University
C. Trade School (cosmetology program, nursing program, mechanics program, etc.)
D. Military
E. Other: _________
4) What are your future career goals?
5) What are your math goals for this year? (i.e. getting into the Harper College Algebra course, staying eligible every week for a sport, etc.)
6) What are your overall freshman/junior year academic goals? (i.e. getting a passing score on an AP test, getting into the Harper 103 English course, etc.)
I have looked over these replies and will have one on one meetings with each student over the next couple weeks. During these meetings, I am going to have students fill out the following card, which will be stapled to their portfolios. This way, every time we go over assessments, students will be able to look at their goals and reflect on them. I am still brainstorming ideas of how best to document these student refections, so if you have any ideas, please share!
What I learned about my students through this exercise:
- Which students want to get into the Harper College Algebra Course (These students will need additional skills to pass the placement test to get into the course.)
- Which students may need interventions early on (These students should get into good habits early by being encouraged to come in before school, during lunch or visiting the Mastery Lab regularly for help.)
- Which students should be challenged to try to get into the Harper College Algebra course (Maybe they don't realize that it is an option for them.)- Which students do not have aspirations for schooling following high school (I will need to learn more about these students as to why they do not want to pursue a continued education.)
This biggest component of all these activities was that I want students to be comfortable by allowing for student voice in the classroom. They get to determine what they share with me and what they share with the class. For example, I let them choose their 'favorite' with the class. I could've said that everyone needed to share their favorite color, but instead I wanted to see what my students wanted to share about themselves. I will be documenting more of my encouragement of student voice and building relationships throughout this year's blog posts.


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Hi Alison
I hope you can help me by answering my qustion on your beauty fix show, I love all your shows, but I can never get nail polish to last for more than a day without chipping and peeling off. I use a nail polish remover before I start and a base and top coat, nails inc caviar, I use thin coats and still it peels and chips. I would love to be able to wear a nail polish for longer and it is putting me off even wearing it. I really hope that you can help. Love From Lynn in Scotland.
I just thought I'd stop on by and let you know what's coming up on my Beauty Fix show this Thursday (16th August) at 4pm.
We'll have another fab selection of beauty brands, a brilliant competition (entry details below) AND a live question & answer session on Facebook and Twitter straight after the show.
We'll also of course be featuring my Beauty Fix product of the week, I caught up with Will IT to tell you more…
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In this video we spoke about the Ciate Caviar Manicure Collection, the Shimmer Brick from Bobbi Brown and the Skin Wash from Australian Bodycare.
So as promised we're going to be having another fab competition where you can win a selection of goodies and this week I'm including a full size of the Decleor Experience De L'Age cream, a super size Alpha-H Liquid Gold AND two other mystery products!
All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is answer this question:
What was the first brand I trained in 25 years ago?
A) Decleor
B) Elemis
C) Liz Earle
Hint: This brand is well known for their use of essential oils.
Email your answer to email@example.com with your full name, address, contact number and the subject 'Alison's Beauty Fix comp' for your chance to win. The competition closes at 4.45pm on Thursday 16th August 2012. One correct entry will be randomly selected and announced during Alison's Beauty Fix show.
Make sure you tune in at 4pm on Thursday to see if you are the lucky winner!
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To know: Congress is heading back to Washington, where it will resume some of the same fights that it had last year … A member of the Syrian Parliament who defected to Egypt criticized Arab League monitors who were supposed to help quell the violence in his home country … Rescue operations are continuing on a cruise ship that ran aground off Italy … Wikipedia will go dark for twenty-four hours Wednesday in a protest against a bill under consideration in Congress, the Stop Online Piracy Act.
To read: The Wall Street Journal's Joe Parkinson examines the reaction in Turkey to a comment Rick Perry made during Monday night's Republican Presidential debate, when he (incorrectly) asserted that Turkey's government is controlled by "what many perceive to be Islamic terrorists":
Turkish and U.S. diplomats say they cannot remember a time when cooperation between Ankara and Washington was closer, citing that President Barack Obama called Turkey's prime minister more than any other leader except Britain's Prime Minister in 2011.
In the New York Times, Patricia Leigh Brown writes about Americans living in Mexico who cross the border daily in order to attend schools in the U.S.:
California teenagers start their mornings with crossing guards and school buses. Martha and her friends stand for hours in a human chain of 16,000 at the world's busiest international land border. Cellphones in one hand and notebooks in the other, they wait again to cross on foot, fearing delays that could force them to miss a social studies final, oblivious to hawkers selling breakfast burritos or weary parents holding toddlers in pajamas.
To watch: Bill O'Reilly knows the difference between Ice-T and Ice Cube. Don't tell Nas. (Via Buzzfeed.)


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They say you can't make everyone happy, you are not a pizza. Yes, the Pizza saga has always been popular in our culture. But, every Pizza lover knows how hard it is to find an authentic thin crust pizza in NCR. The same search led to the birth of HARISTO in Dec. 2014. HARISTO is a charming Pizzeria cum Cafe that offers an exquisite range of Italian and Lebanese Cuisines from the surroundings of the Mediterranean. The cute interiors offer you a visit to European street side Pizzeria. Unlike those run of the mill outlets serving you thick refined flour in the name of Pizza, Haristo will take you to a heavenly journey of Authentic Thin Crust Pizzas
From making the dough to baking a pizza, we take utmost care in creating each beauty. We use traditional Stone Ovens, which do justice to the making of a wonderful Pizza. Everything in the menu is hand prepared in our kitchen to give the patrons a wonderful dining / delivery experience.


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The cost of a residency will vary depending on the plan developed, the length of the residency, the artist selected, allowable mileage and per diem (if 50 miles of more from their home to the host site), and quality of the application.
For the minimum residency length of 10 days plus a planning day, the total cost is approximately $4,000, with ArtsPath providing up to 30 percent of the artist fees. For residencies of 15 days, ArtsPath will provide up to 40 percent of the artist fees, and up to 50 percent for residencies of 20 days. Residencies of more than 20 days may be funded over 50 percent, as determined by ArtsPath and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. On a limited basis and with prior approval, ArtsPath is also able to cover supplies up to the same percentage as the artist fees.
The host site can find its match through its own budget, district budget, PTA/PTG/PTO, booster organization, fund-raising event, additional grants (other than the PCA), municipality funding, or private contributions and is responsible for only a percentage of the artist fees and a small 10 percent administrative fee. Once ArtsPath gives final residency approval, the host site administrator will receive a letter of confirmation detailing all costs, and, upon completion of the residency, an invoice for their share of the costs. ArtsPath will handle payment to the artists.
It is simple. The
Residency Request and
Residency Planning Documents are available online, from any ArtsPath artist, or by contacting ArtsPath directly. Those considering a residency are encouraged to submit their Residency Request by June of the preceding year. However, requests may be submitted throughout the year provided funding is available. The request involves a few simple questions, ideas on the artist and discipline you would like to consider, and a signature from a site administrator such as a principal or director to agree that, if the plan is approved and funded by ArtsPath, the site will be able to provide the remainder.
After receiving the request, we will contact you and walk you and the artist through the planning phase of your project. Free technical assistance prior to submitting your request is always available. The funding is for the year beginning September 1 and ending August 31, with notification of funding sent by August 15 or within 30 days if submitted after August 15. Priority will be given to residency requests of 20 days or more.


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The Wedding Scheme Episode 16 / Multi Language subtitles
Kyeolhunui Ggomsoo) is a 2012 South Korean cable television series. The widowed president of a kimchi factory decides to embark on a grand marriage scheme for her four daughters... by having them cohabitate with four eligible bachelors.
So Doo Ryun left her husband 20 years ago to start her own professional life. With her outstanding cooking skills and amicable personality, she became the owner of "In-Law's Kimchee." She made a promise to make sure that her daughters never experience the hardships she went through but all of a sudden the idea of a family slowly started to drift away. Now So Doo Ryun puts a hold on her position as owner/CEO and takes a good look at her daughters. Although they had financial troubles, Doo Ryun remembers that the family was happiest when they all lived together under one roof so she makes a surprise announcement to the entire family, "the kimchee business is failing and we must all move in to a hostel together." Yes, this is all a scheme. A scheme to bring all her daughters together to teach them family values and for them to get married! Doo Ryun even admits other "residents" in the house with the hope that at least one of them will be a new son-in-law. Her plan seems to be running smoothly but will Doo Ryun successfully balance out her life as an eager mother and as a secret CEO?
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Cross Series: #4 Multicam Black Fabric
For the Church going, Multicam loving, patch collecting people. Put it on your hat, a bag, plate carrier, anywhere to remind you God is always with you.
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When Tyshawn Taylor learned he was drafted by the Portland Trail Blazers with the 41st overall pick in Thursday's NBA Draft, he was thrilled to achieve his dream of reaching the NBA.
But his excitement reached another level when the Hoboken native and former star under Bob Hurley at St. Anthony High School in Jersey City found out he had been dealt to the Brooklyn Nets.
"I had no clue," Taylor said on a conference call yesterday. "I thought I was going to Portland. Then, after I got squeezed by my mom for 10 minutes, after she hugged me, I turned around and saw that I was going to Brooklyn and I literally jumped from where I was sitting and ran out of the building.
"I was a little more excited about that."
Taylor spent the past four seasons playing for Kansas, helping lead the Jayhawks to the national championship game this past season alongside No. 5 overall pick Thomas Robinson and under coach Bill Self.
Now Taylor will come to Brooklyn, where the Nets hope he will be backing up point guard Deron Williams, whom Self recruited to Illinois and coached for a year before leaving for Kansas.
"Coach Self told us a lot of stories about Deron Williams," Taylor said. "He told us he was the best guard he ever coached. He's tough, and Coach Self loved coaching him and always talked good about him."
After getting Taylor, Nets general manager Billy King said he and coach Avery Johnson had talked about getting a point guard they could groom for some time. Taylor said he was excited about the prospect of learning from Johnson, a championship-winning point guard as a player, and Williams — assuming he re-signs with the Nets after free agency begins at 12:01 a.m. tomorrow.
"Well, I love the fact that they believe in me," said Taylor, who was a third-team All American and first-team All-Big 12 selection last season as a senior at Kansas, where he graduated earlier this spring with a degree in communications. "I appreciate the fact that they gave me the opportunity, so I'm going to take full advantage.
"I think I'm in a really good situation, behind a really good point guard and coached by a great guard in Coach Johnson, who had his time in the league and was really good at what he did. To be able to sit back and learn from these guys will be a great teaching experience for me, and hopefully prepares me well for this league."


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P: Hey, Mom?
K: Yes?
P: I need a brother.
K, mildly stressed: Hm. That's a pretty tall order.
P: Because Hettie is a sister and Willa is a sister, but I'm the brother, so I don't HAVE a brother.
K: Brothers take some time, Buddy. And there aren't really any guarantees...
P, resigned: I know. I don't want one right now.
<<thoughtful pause>>
...I want one tomorrow. Tomorrow, I want to go to Costco to see if they have brothers, and then we can buy a real boy. To be my brother. OK?
If someone can think of appropriate, noncommittal response to this, please let me know...


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Week 6 completed! This week I explored the Clearing Community, located right in the "Middle" of Chicago; hence the name Midway International Airport. Clearing gets its name from the fact that farm goods from the area were "cleared" or (delivered) through the airport and the rail yards.
This guy told me that back in the 60's there was a lot of racism in the area. He never understood it. He told me that he supported Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and that those were different times. I could tell he was a good Chicagoan. He pretty much recited the mission statement of My Block, My Hood, My City when he said, regardless of if you're from the North Side, South Side, West Side or East Side, we're all Chicagoans.
This isn't a food network show or blog, but trust me, Tony's Kitchen is a great restaurant! If you're flying into Chicago and you land at Midway Airport; don't eat at the Hotels on Cicero Ave. Don't do it. Step outside of your comfort zone. Jump in an Uber. Go visit Tony's Kitchen. Ask for the Tony's Skillet. Below is a picture of mine. I'd already eaten a few bites before I took the picture. I got too excited. mmmmmmm!


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The Edge, a lightweight block device
When I present the new Open vStorage architecture for Fargo, I almost always receive the following Edge question:
What is the Edge and why did you develop it?
What is the Edge about?
The Edge is a lightweight software component which can be installed on a Linux host. It exposes a block device API and connects to the Storage Router across the network (TCP/IP or RDMA). Basically the applications believes it talks to a local block device (the Edge) while the volume actually runs on another host (Storage Router).
Why did we develop the Edge?
The reason why we have developed the Edge is quite simple: componentization. With Open vStorage we are mainly dealing with large, multi-petabyte deployments and having this Edge component gives additional benefits in large environments:
In large environments you want to be able to scale the compute and storage part independently. In case you run Open vStorage hyper-converged, as advised with earlier versions, this isn't possible. This has as consequence that if you need more RAM or CPU to run VMs, you had to also invest in more SSDs. With the Edge you can scale compute and storage independent.
Guaranteed performance
With Eugene the Volume Driver, the high performance distributed block layer, was running on the compute host together with the VMs. This results in the VMs and the Volume Driver fighting for the same CPU and RAM resources. This is a typical issue with hyper-converged solutions. The Edge component avoids this problem as it runs on the compute hosts (and requires only a small amount of resources) and the Volume Drivers runs on dedicated nodes and hence provides a predictable and consistent amount of IOPS to the VMs.
Limit the Impact of Updates
Storage software updates are a (storage) administrator's worst nightmare. In previous Open vStorage versions an update of the Volume Driver required all VMs on that node to be migrated or brought down.With the Edge the Volume Driver can be updated in the background as each Edge/compute host has HA features and can automatically connect to another Volume Driver on request without the need of a VM migration.


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Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden> writes: > Nic Ferrier wrote: > > >> But in the latest CVS build (today at 3pm GMT) it doesn't work > >> (there's just no highlight) > > > > Works here. > > > > Did you try make bootstrap ? > > Yup. > > And you did this Monday or later? (Kim fixed `make bootstrap' some > time Sunday.) I believe I gave a GMT reference on my original email. The timestamp of the email will also tell you what day, but in short, yes: Monday. I noticed that there were more changes checked in to the relevant elisp file so I'm rebuilding again. I'll let the list know what happens. > You mean that after: > > emacs -q > M-x show-paren-mode > (abc) > > you do not see the parentheses highlighted? Er, yes. That's what I mean. -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk
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March 29 2010
A group of British lawmakers will call on Tuesday for a review of the way arms deals to Israel are approved, after the government admitted British equipment was "almost certainly" used during Israel's Operation Cast Lead, British media reported.
The British daily The Guardian quoted a House of Commons report on strategic exports controls, which stated, "it is regrettable that arms exports to Israel were almost certainly used in Operation Cast Lead [the attack on Gaza].
"This is in direct contravention to the UK government's policy that UK arms exports to Israel should not be used in the occupied territories," the report read.
Those MPs making the call for a review said they welcomed the British government's decision to revoke five export licenses for equipment "destined to the Israeli navy," the daily wrote, with lawmakers adding that "broader lessons" must be learned from such a review to "ensure British arms exports to Israel are not used in the occupied territories in the future."
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband told the House of Commons following Israel's devastating assault on the Gaza Strip between December 2008 and January 2009 that left some 1,400 Palestinians dead, that all future arms exports to Israel "will be assessed taking into account the recent conflict," adding that Israeli equipment used during its war on the coastal enclave likely used British-supplied parts such as cockpit displays in US F16 combat aircraft, fire control and radar systems, navigation and engine assemblies for US Apache helicopters, the daily reported.
Additionally, arms sold to Israel included parts for guns and radar in Israeli Sa'ar-class corvettes which took part in the operation, and armored personnel carriers adapted from Centurion tanks sold to Israel in the 1950s.
The government-approved exports to Israel are estimated to be over 27.5 million British pounds for 2008, the House of Common's report said, with various governmental departments approving nearly 4 million British pounds worth of export licenses for weapons and equipments with both military and civil use in the nine months following the attack on Gaza, The Guardian reported.
"Though this suggests a significant drop, the figures show Britain was continuing to sell Israel a wide range of military equipment, including small-arms ammunition and parts for sniper rifles," the daily added.
Approved exports include remote ground-sensors, electronic warfare equipment "components for snipers," "small arms ammunition" and "test equipment for recognition/identification equipment," the report said.
The report further revealed that the British government decided to revoke a number of arms sales' licenses to Sri Lanka, saying it regreted that British arms were sold during the ceasefire periods in the conflict with the Tamil Tiger rebels.
The call for a review on the way the British government approves arms deals with Israel follows their decision to expel an Israeli diplomat over the use of forged UK passports in an alleged Israeli hit of a Hamas leader in Dubai in January.
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Have you ever seen the movie "Funny Farm" with Chevy Chase? He has an Irish Setter named "Yellow Dog" and as soon as he brings him home, the dog runs away. Throughout the film, the dog reappears but will never come to anyone who calls him. Don't let this happen to you. The come/recall command is a vital connection between you and your dog. It is important not only for safety, but for establishing the appropriate hierarchy in your pack structure.
The come command can be mastered with only a few simple exercises. With consistent practice and praise to your dog, your neighbors will be astonished in no time. To ensure your dog WON'T be a "Yellow Dog," follow the below simple tips:
1. Come is ALWAYS a happy place. The come command should always result in praise and affection for your dog. You NEVER want to recall your dog and correct or discipline. Any corrections or discipline should be used when you approach your dog, not on a recall command. A good recall exercise can be achieved on your daily walk; with your dog on the lead, run backwards and command come in the most energetic, enthusiastic voice you can muster. The more tone/pitch/frequency in your voice the better. I want your neighbors to look at you funny due to your heightened excitement. Bottom line, your positive energy will attract your dog to come to you, and will be seen as a happy place.
2. Hide and seek. A dog's best sense is scent, followed by sound, and finally sight. To challenge your dogs' senses and to help he or she register the come command, practice a good old-fashioned game of hide and seek. While your dog is distracted eating or playing with a toy, have you or one of your children run and hide in another room and yell "Come (dog's name)." When your dog seeks you out (via scent and sound) praise your dog with, "Good come." This exercise will teach your dog that they are coming to a happy place when they find you in your hiding spot.
3. Off-leash at your local baseball diamond. A great way to get your dog prepared for off leash obedience as well as mastering the come command is to work them at an enclosed baseball diamond. Find a local ball diamond and arrive early or late in the day to ensure you will be the only ones there. Go prepared with a leash and poop bag to pick up after your dog. Enter the ball diamond and be sure ALL gates are closed behind you. Release your dog from the leash and begin to walk the perimeter of the park. After only a few times of this routine, your dog will begin to follow/come to you. You can also practice running backwards combined with the come command in the ballpark as well. For a local ball diamond near you, visit http://phoenix.gov/parks/parks.html.
4. Practice, practice, practice. Mastering the come/recall command takes time and practice. As I've stated in prior articles there is NO perfect dog, so, remember that if your practicing come/recalls be sure to use the leash until your dog is 70 percent confident of the command. The leash will always reinforce that the dog MUST come to you.
Sometimes the solutions to our problems are right in front of our noses. Don't make the come command any more difficult than it is. Dogs instinctively WANT to follow a leader. With the proper recall techniques — tone of voice, praise, and affection — your dogs days of "cat and mouse, chase me down play" will be a thing of the past. Say NO to "Yellow Dog," and say HELLO to your good dog.
• Mark Siebel is owner of DOGGIE STEPS Dog Training, LLC. He has trained more than 400 Valley dogs, speaks regularly at local schools about the importance of dog safety and ownership, and donates time to youths wanting to learn more about dogs. Siebel is a member of the Arizona Professional Pet Sitters Association and Australian Shepherd Club of Arizona. Contact him at (602) 318-0122 or www.DoggieStepsDogTraining.com.


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In 1976 a group of Cambodians established the Cambodian Association of Illinois (CAI) to respond to the needs of newly arrived Cambodian refugees who fled from atrocities of the Khmer Rouge regime that had taken over the country in 1975. During the next four years, more than two million people died from torture, hard labor, untreated illnesses and injuries, and starvation.
In 2004, the Cambodian American Heritage Museum & the Killing Fields Memorial was established under the auspice of CAI.
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The work we do at the Museum & Memorial has become the core value of the Cambodian community across the U.S.
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Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Psalm 68:19
Happy Thanksgiving!
When I hear those words, I immediately conjure up images of turkeys, pies, and potatoes. I wish my first thoughts were thankful ones. Instead, it's all about the food. It's about food just as Christmas is about presents.
One year I tried to buck the system. I was in my late college years, very idealistic and trying to change the world. I arrived home for Thanksgiving break with a radical offer.
"How about we fast on Thanksgiving day and send the money we would have spent to a missions work?" I eagerly spouted.
Silence. A few eyes rolled.
It was too much. I can't remember the outcome of the day. I believe we skipped breakfast...but we certainly didn't spend the day hungry. I understand now, everyone anticipated the traditional meal and my crazy idea a few days before the big holiday was too much.
Over a decade later, I wish I could do something to make our Thanksgiving day more than a blur of baking and pigging out. The gorging is the appropriate grand opening for the Christmas season, which has become it's own gorging of sorts. Tragedy.
Raising five children has made the burden weigh heavily on my heart. I grasp at any idea to make our holidays more...serene...family focused...Christ-centered.
I would love your ideas--what does your family do to make Thanksgiving special?
Here's one idea I got from church last night, I believe it's a perfect opener to Advent:
A week of Thanksgiving
Day 1
Read the book of Colossians (Everett gasped when we told him to read an ENTIRE book of the Bible, but don't fret, it's only four chapters!). Colossians has at least one reference to thankfulness in each chapter. Jot down thoughts that relate to thankfulness. Pay close attention to:
1:3 We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
1:12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light
2:7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving
3:15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.
4:2 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving


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3 - Join my December Bosque del Apache, New Mexico photo workshop.
4 – Check out my Make Better Bird Photographs blog post, which features tips on sharpening, daylight fill-in flash and links to some educational videos.
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- Claim Form filed in a Claimant Assistance Center: Timely if done in a Claimant Assistance Center before the Center closes on the deadline date. The Claimant Assistance Centers will remain open until midnight prevailing central time (1:00 a.m. eastern time) on June 8, 2015, to accept claim forms and documentation submitted in support of claims. After June 8, 2015, you may continue to visit the Claimant Assistance Centers during normal business hours from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. local time until June 19, 2015, on which date the centers will permanently close to the public.
- Claim Form filed by U.S. Mail: Timely if postmarked on or before the filing deadline date.
- Claim Form filed by personal delivery: Timely if delivered on or before the filing deadline date.
The key word here being should, so in an effort to accommodate as many of you as possible, if your business claim passes our screening process, we will do everything we can, to get your Business Claims in before the deadline.
We strongly suggest that You ALL check the status of your BP Claims by going here, as many claims were dropped during the stay, many of you were refiled, some with your knowledge, but many with out your knowledge, by the Groups handling your claims.
Many were just dropped.
Read the articles below about The Refiles.
Many of you just don`t know, and the best place to go is the check your status page on the Deep Water Horizon Settlement website.
If you are unsure, contact whoever is processing your claims, I strongly suggest you check there first.
However if you did not opt out, and feel you have a bp claim that is viable, and you have checked you status, you may want to file your claim yourself before the 8th.
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Reference: Herjolfnes 79 and London hood no 246
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The Julie Saul Gallery is pleased to announce a group exhibition on the theme of mapping. The show will include historical maps and works by a wide range of contemporary artists working in a variety of mediums including painting, collage, drawing, photography and printmaking.
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The arbitrary yet fixed nature of measurements and scientific systems was a rich source for Marcel Duchamp- and no one who encounters the standard stoppages can help but apply the illogical elegance of that concept to any system we encounter in daily lives.
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