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How many bowls of thin-noodle soup, costing NT$15 each, must one sell to accumulate savings of more than NT$1 million (US$33,000)?
That question was answered by noodle vendor Yeh Cheng-feng (葉成豐), who sells his wares at a traditional market behind Chaotien Temple in Beigang (北港) Township, Yunlin County.
Yeh made a name for himself after he made a NT$1 million donation to the local fire department toward the purchase of a new ambulance.
The money was initially meant to support his mother in her old age, but Yeh decided to contribute to a larger cause by helping his community purchase the means to better respond to medical emergencies.
Yeh took over the food stand from his mother. The family has been selling its highly popular thin-noodle soup for more than 45 years.
His mother sold snack food and ready-to-eat dishes from a three-wheel cart at the market. Among her offerings were Taiwanese-style glutinous oily rice, taro balls, fried rice noodles and bitter-gourd meatballs.
As her in-laws became older and had difficulty chewing food, Yeh's mother decided to make thin-noodle soup in a pasty consistency for them, a treat that became a local favorite.
The family's thin-noodle soup has been sold for half a century, and its price has remained fixed at NT$15 for three decades.
Yeh took up the family business, adding his own special recipe. Yeh uses thin noodles as the main ingredient, embellishing them with braised egg whites, marinated minced pork and soup stock from slowly stewing hog bones. In his estimation, only a profit of about NT$3 is usually made from each bowl. Now, amid rising commodity prices, a bowl will yield a profit of only NT$1 at the most.
The 50-year-old Yeh has to rely on sales of side dishes, but still the margin is getting thinner. Therefore, when he made his donation of NT$1 million, people were astonished, because he had to sell several hundreds of thousands of bowls of soup to raise the money.
Yeh had polio in his youth, but the disability did not defeat him. The noodle vendor always faces life with a smile and optimism.
He believes the sea goddess Matsu (媽祖) has brought fortune to his family so that his mother could raise four children. To repay her blessing, he often makes anonymous donations to charities.
Yeh also sustained injuries in two accidents in which the fire department intervened to help him, which contributed to his decision to help the local fire department purchase the new vehicle.
Yeh first consulted his mother, who agreed he should donate all the savings accrued over the years from selling their noodle soup.


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Following our recent introduction to Quicksilver, we have rounded up a list of ten fantastic plugins to extend functionality and allow you to achieve more with the utility. All the plugins are completely free, and can be installed through Quicksilver itself.
They range from actions for manipulating images through to interacting with the terminal or changing your screen resolution. Prepare to find a bunch of useful new functionality, all accessible right from your keyboard!
Flickr Upload
As you would expect, this plugin facilitates the uploading of photos (or a folder of photos) to your Flickr account. It's also possible to add tags to the image before starting the upload. Be sure to configure your Flickr account in the application preferences first.
Extra Scripts
Extra Scripts is a phenomenal pack of additional commands you can use in Quicksilver, allowing you to interact with your Mac in new ways. It's probably my favourite additional plugin, as it adds so much extra functionality.
They include logout/shut down/restart, displaying your current IP address, emptying the trash, ejecting a disk, adjusting the volume, or toggling the currently selected audio input/output.
File Tagging
File Tagging provides actions to modify tags for selected file or folder. Depending upon how organized you are, this can be a great way to associate keywords with a particular file and facilitate easier Spotlight searching. The plugin can add or remove tags, along with initiating a search.
All tags created by the File Tagging plugin are prefixed by @. When searching for tags, however, you do not need to enter the @ prefix.
Shelf Module
The Shelf plugin acts as a temporary storage location for files (or anything!), displaying items in a stack format with the newest on top. You are able to put an item on the shelf, or display a list of all the files currently contained within it.
It's worth noting that if you plan on maintaining a particularly large stack, you may notice a few problems with memory usage.
This plugin allows you to search your music by artist, album, genre, playlist, track name, or all of the above. It can skip to the next or previous track, pause, change playlists, or even queue up tracks in the party shuffle.
It offers a faster alternative to using the iTunes window, and can also usefully be coupled with keyboard triggers or mouse triggers to offer greater flexibility.
Image Manipulation
One of the most powerful plugins, Image Manipulation gives you the ability to scale images and alter their format. Here is a quick example of the syntax to use:
Use the "scale image" action and give it text in the form:
"SCALE_INFO [as FORMAT_INFO]"
SCALE_INFO: "[fit] WIDTH [x HEIGHT]"
FORMAT_INFO: "JPG/PNG/GIF/TIFF [low/med*/hi*] [prog(ressive)] [inter(laced)]"
"fit 640×480 as jpg high progressive" – creates an image that will fit within a 640×480 rectangle
"50% as interlaced png" – creates a png with dimensions half of the original
I'm particularly fond of the common-sense language used to invoke the action, and it can be a real time-saver when used on multiple images at once.
The Display plugin will help to reduce the number of times you find yourself firing up System Preferences, making it easy to change screen resolution, color depth and refresh rate right from the keyboard.
It's capable of handling multiple displays, and I find it particularly useful when wanting to quickly test how a website would display at a different screen resolution.
File Attributes
This slightly more technical plugin allows you to adjust the properties of a particular file. This includes locking and unlocking, making a file visible or invisible, setting a comment, or adding a label.
It's far quicker than locating a file and invoking the "Get Info" command to adjust properties manually, though I would welcome a way to also alter the permissions settings on a file.
The Terminal plugin provides a simple way to interact with the shell directly through Quicksilver. You can navigate to a directory, execute a script, run a text command, or show the manual page for a particular command.
With most actions you have the choice of executing directly within Quicksilver, or through opening a new Terminal window.
Screen Capture Actions
Screen Capture Actions offers a quick interface to the default screenshot utility bundled with OS X. It essentially mimics the default Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts (command-shift-3 and command-shift-4 by default) for capturing screen shots.
Once a capture has been taken, the command window will reappear with the captured image automatically selected as the direct object in the first pane. You can capture the whole screen, a specified region, or a single window.
Name Your Favorites!
These are my favorites, but I'm interested to hear how you use Quicksilver. Which plugins couldn't you live without? Also, feel free to let us know any topics that you would like to see covered in a future Quicksilver tutorial.

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As part of its long-term policy to ensure political and social harmony, enhance economic growth and alleviate poverty, Government of Uganda embarked on a far reaching program of decentralization reform. The reform initiative, as introduced in 1993 was an outcome of a review of the erstwhile resistance council system and related statutory instruments, borne out of the desire to make local governments effective centers of decision making and public service delivery.
Objectives of the Decentralization Policy:
The primary objectives of this policy are to:
- Transfer real power to local governments and, thus, reduce the work load on remote and under-resourced central officials;
- Bring political and administrative control over services to actual delivery points, thereby improving accountability and effectiveness, and promoting people's feelings of ownership of programmes executed in their respective local governments;
- Free local managers from central constraints and, among other things, allow them to develop organizational structures tailored to local circumstances;
- Improve financial accountability and responsibility by establishing a clear link between payment of taxes and provision of taxes; and
- Improve the capacities of the Councils to plan, finance and manage the delivery of services to their respective constituents.
- To promote Local Economic Development (LED) in order to enhance peoples' incomes.
Overview of the Ministry
The Ministry of Local Government is in charge of coordinating the implementation of the decentralization policy. The paragraphs below highlight the vision, mission, mandate and functions of the Ministry.
The vision of the Ministry is to have democratic and accountable local governments capable of delivering efficient and sustainable services to the people, thereby bringing about socio-economic transformation in the country.
Our mission is to co-ordinate and support local governments in a bid to provide efficient and sustainable services, improve the welfare of the people and eradicate poverty.
The mandate is to guide, harmonize, mentor and advocate for all local governments in support of the vision of government to bring about socio-economic transformation of the country.
Functions of the Ministry
- Building capacity (human and physical) in the Local Governments for efficient service delivery to the population.
- Ensuring that Local Governments comply with the statutory requirements and adhere to national policies and standards.
- Ensuring that Local Governments are transparent and accountable to the people in the use of public resources so that development takes place.
- Facilitating the implementation of the decentralisation policy and enhancing democratic governance in the country through developing and reviewing systems, structures, statutory instruments and guidelines on local governance.
- Providing technical assistance and backstopping to the Local Governments in Information and Communication Technology (ICT), development planning and management, among others.


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There is a good article on how and why Julian's arrest may actually be a great thing. https://powderedwigsociety.com/assange-arrest/"Who…Continue
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Dear Donald Trump,
You have made the comments that you want to create Tariffs to balance out the trade deficit with China,
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During this especially contested election, a lot of people are talking about people "wasting" or "throwing away" votes. However, many people who say this do not have a complete grasp of the full mathematical picture – or worse, they are only mentioning the part that supports their position. First let's define what a "wasted" vote is.
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Don't we want a constitutionalist in office?
Gary Johnson has been a consistent advocate for limited, efficient government and personal liberty. An outspoken pro-Constitution libertarian, Johnson opposes American involvement in foreign conflicts with no clear U.S. interest. He opposes the failed multi-billion dollar war on drugs and demands greater transparency at the Federal Reserve. Johnson advocates cutting federal spending dramatically to achieve a balanced budget and make…Continue
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Thanks Dave! I don't get on here much. Hope to meet up with all of you one of these days.


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CHICAGO -- Teachers working for the Acero Schools network in Chicago could be the first charter school teachers to go on strike.
The strike deadline is Tuesday. The teachers have been in negotiations and asking for higher pay, smaller class sizes and a shorter school year.
The Chicago Teachers Union, which is representing the teachers, asked for an audit of the charter network's finances. They say they received it Monday morning.
A strike would affect 500 teachers, counselors and office workers, serving 7,500 students at 15 schools.
Teachers also want their schools to be off limits to ICE agents, making them sanctuary locations.
Parents can check for updates on the Chicago Teachers Union website.


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Note: we count birthdays starting at 1, meaning that our first birthday is the end of our first year. I turn 46 today, thus today is the last day of my 46th year. That sounds depressing, because as of this minute I am MORE than 46 years old, but there it is.
Today I get to start clicking the menu item under "Age" that reads "46-55".
I am watching the World Cup (where the US had best beat the Belch), and I am older than every player on every roster of every nation.
My youngest child is Gabriel Maxwell, and he is 5. His playmates' parents are almost all at least a decade younger than I am. Our children's friends have parents our age who have no young children, or parents who have young children who aren't our age. Not both (with a couple of happy exceptions).
I was in the studio today with Elizabeth Smart, who became famous twelve years ago when she was kidnapped from her home. I was 34. I had gone to college before she was born.
So I'm old. Getting older, which has uncomfortable bits. But it beats the alternative. I've written sad, contemplative posts about aging, and this is not doing to be one of those.
Because people, I feel absolutely fantastic.
Physically, emotionally, you name it, I feel better than I have in years. In some ways, yes, I feel the encroaching time, but overall, baby, I feel like a kid. So here, if you'll indulge me in using my own mistakes as cautionary examples, are some things I haven't learned yet, in 46 years.
1. How to keep my mouth shut. I'm better at this than I was, but still, I ought to be so much better. I wear my heart on my sleeve, which doesn't bother me much as it appears my heart is good, but it isn't perfect and boy, my life would be simpler if I would learn to just shut the bleep up for a second once in a while.
2. How to just let it go when there's nothing I can do. This isn't strictly true – I do know how – but it's close enough. I'll give you an example. A couple weeks ago I got the amazing opportunity to spend a few days on an oceanography trip with some of my students. I've been reading Horatio Hornblower and Aubrey/Maturin novels for twenty years, and hankering for a chance to ride a sailing ship. It was every bit as great as I thought it would be. Except I brought something with me – a loan I needed to close and that meant (at the time) business life and death. We got terrible news just as I passed out of electronic range, and I carried that with me for two days. Some wonderful ladies helped me keep my head, and in the end it was okay. I had a good trip, enjoyed myself for the most part. But it could have and should have been so much better. There was nothing I could do. What was the point in worrying? I tried to convince myself that I was preparing, considering options, that sort of thing, but I knew better. It's a thing I really wish to learn.
3. How to believe in myself. When I got home, we dealt with the problem. It didn't kill us (it was, confessedly, close). But that happens all the time. I have great people to help me, and great support at home, and we always find a way through. Why don't I trust that?
4. How to remain optimistic when things are bad. Corollary to #3 above. Things do get bad, when you're a risk-taker, which I am. I actually like that, probably mostly subconsciously, and it provides spice in a life that satisfies me. But I get down when things are bad, and miss opportunities that could be exploited. Worse yet, it makes my wife sad, which is unacceptable. And, as mentioned, things do get better, and we always come out well. My wife and I are not going to be split by anything outside our relationship, so whatever comes, we can deal with it. I should remember that.
The US is going to lose. Good test of #4.
5. Why water is exothermic. Good thing it is, though, or the oceans would freeze solid.
6. Why the US cannot develop a true, world-class striker in soccer.
7. Where Amelia Earhart died. I'd sure love to know, though. She was some woman.
8. Where this is all going. None of my plans for my life – with very few exceptions – have come to fruition. I had ideas, I had "goals", if you want to call them that. They haven't been realized. No, what I've ended up with so far is far BETTER than what I planned to get. In every area of my life, I have something deeper and richer than what I had planned and aimed for. How that happens, I'm not sure.
I guess whatever success I've had in that arena comes from the degree to which I've been able to make progress on the stuff above. That has to be encouraging.
New chapters being written as I type this. This is going to be an interesting year. Follow along, will you?


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Retro Gaming Collections – Steve Bauman and his Family have an amazing collection!
A recent find of the website http://colexions.com/ drew me to a collection created by a Retro Gamer and his family. Colexions is described as "A SOCIAL NETWORK FOR VIDEO GAME & TOY COLLECTORS & ENTHUSIASTS" and it didn't fail to deliver us a rather magnificent collection from the very helpful Steve Bauman.
We had a chat and found his amazing Retro Gaming Collection is perfect for you lot to pour over.
TGS: Hi Steve, Thanks for agreeing to let us pour over your amazing collection. To get us started can you tell us how many systems you own, console & handheld?
SB: Atari Pong
Atari 2600 x3
Atari 5200
Coleco Vision w/expansions
Sega Genesis x2
Sega Saturn
Sega Dreamcast
Game Cube
Virtual Boy
Sega Nomad
PSP Go
PS Vita
GB Pocket
DS Lite
GB Color
Sega Game Gear x2
PS1 x2
PS3 x2
XBOX 360 x3
Sega Master System
Coleco Gemini (Atari)
TGS: Wow, that's an amazing shelf! We are very jealous! How many games do you own (at a guess)?
SB: We just broke the 1700 mark as of 2-1-13 which includes carts, disk and DL (XBLA/psn/wii) I keep track of my inventory on my phone with a really good app keeps me from buying duplicates.
TGS: How many years have you been collecting?
SB: On and off for about the last 6 years but really hitting it hard for the last 10 months
TGS: Geographical location?
SB: For now we live in Bean Town, also known as Boston Ma. It's actually Foxboro, home of the NE Pats. Thats the town I'm in but since this is a UK site I know you will all have heard of Boston
TGS: Interesting fact about you / your collection?
SB: No real interesting facts, but my sons also collect with me. My oldest is 19 youngest is 5 and my wife helps sometimes even tho she hates video games
TGS: What is your earliest gaming memory?
SB: My uncle John bringing home Pong back in like 1979. I still remember them hooking it up and playing (or more fighting over) it with my cousins.
TGS: How have you built this collection and do you have any tips to would-be collectors on how to pursue this as a hobby themselves?
SB: Mostly yard sales/thrift stores and flea markets. I budget myself if I only have 12 bucks in my pocket and I spend it at the first sale I'm all done. I also wait for sales like; buy 2 get 1 free and stuff like that. My son works at a game store he gets all the newer stuff. I look for what ever deals I can if I feel it's over priced ill walk away. Now this is just my opinion but I hate eBay and some online sites why does everything have to be so overpriced or everyone thinks their copy of super Mario Bros 3 is rare. I'll buy off Craig's list if the price is right. Don't mean to offend anyone but just my feeling on the subject.
TGS: What is your most treasured retro gaming item and why?
SB: I really like my Colecovision collection due to the fact was the first console we ever owned as a kid
TGS: Is there anything you wish you had in your extensive collection which you do not have?
SB: YES the 2000 plus games we owned about 6 years ago I took into the game store I was part of (wicked long story) also I'm a big FF fan so would like to own all versions of every FF game made.
TGS: What would you say was the best bargain you have ever picked up?
SB: I've pick up lots of stuff free, its all dependant on who you know! My best friend Pat gave me the Sega Nomad and the Virtual Boy a few months ago which he picked up off of eBay and all my Colecovision collection my parents gave me back in 2007, it was stuff they were getting at yard sales and flea markets.
TGS: It's time for the TGS burning building question:
Your house is on fire, you have time to run in and grab as much as you can physically carry in both arms (No bags allowed!); what do you grab? (Doesn't just have to be gaming related)
SB: I have to say my family, I can always start the gaming collection over as I did once already! Without them my collection sucks.
10 quick fire questions:
1) Favourite System: Atari 5200
2) Favourite Sports Game: I don't like sports games, but if any i'll play hockey as we are a big hockey family
3) Favourite Multi-Player Game: COD
4) Favourite Beat 'em up: I like any that involve leveling and armor lol
5) Mario or Sonic: Mario
6) Favourite HandHeld: Sega Nomad
7) The worst game in your collection: Any sports game I have, a lot of them which I call filler, you know they're the 10 cent games to add bulk to collection not quality
8) Favourite arcade game: Mortal Kombat
9) Game spent most time on: KOA Reckoning or World of Warcraft
10) Finally – and probably the hardest – Favourite EVER game: Final Fantasy VII as it was the first Rpg I completed
TGS: Last thing, do you have anything else you would like to talk about? (Feel free to plug at this point if you'd like)
SB: My son Sean has a huge part in this collection, for a 19-year-old his knowledge of retro games is great. Most people his age don't look past ps2 or Xbox but he loves all games, so our collecting is a family thing. My youngest Ryan love skylanders so that's his collection. Like I said earlier my lovely wife Frances hates video games but Is always willing to help out .
Thanks for chatting to us Steve. Its been a pleasure getting a chance to look at your collection and I hope you enjoy seeing it on the internet! 🙂
We have another article coming featuring Steve. Keep your eyes peeled!


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Two sales just crossed the Sedo sales wire, XINJIANG.COM For $55K and MSG.Me For $25K.
MSG.me was owned by StartNow International Limited of Great Britain.
I'm going to say the buyer was the owner of message.me, although the domain is still in escrow at Sedo.com
Message.me just sold at Sedo in June for $20K.
Message.me is a partially developed site which is also showing as Sedo as owner at the moment.
Here is what Message.me says on their site:
""What is message.me?
message.me allows you to get urgent or time sensitive messages pushed to you without you having to share your mobile number. By creating a message.me link, you create a way for people to send messages directly to you while keeping your mobile number completely private.
How would you use message.me?
Use message.me in your email signature and give people the option of pushing urgent messages to you. Add message.me to your online store and let your customers text you directly. Add message.me links to your Craigslist postings by providing a message.me contact option instead of email. For more information on how to use message.me links, click here.
Your username allows you to log in and manage all of your links, and also lets you personalize your links by including your username in the url.
message.me links are the web-based keys that allow people to message you. Once you have connected your mobile with message.me, you'll get a url that links directly to you and replaces the need to publish your mobile number online.
Link names
By adding names to your message.me links, you can create unique labels for the various links you publish. For example, if you're selling your bike on Craigslist, you can name a message.me link "bike" so that all messages triggered from that link will include the label "#bike" as a reference.
Embed codes
Using the embed code rather than a link, you can embed an html message.me button on your website or blog.
Take it mobile
Whenever you click on a message.me link or button and start a new conversation, the respondent has the option to transfer the conversation from a web-based conversation to a mobile conversation. Even after a conversation is taken mobile, mobile numbers are never revealed.
Expire links
At any point, you can choose to expire any of your additional links. When a link is expired, you'll no longer receive messages from the link. If someone clicks an expired link, we'll inform them that the link is no longer active and cannot deliver messages.
Stopping a conversation
To end a conversation, send the message "stop" at any time. Once the message is delivered, both parties will be informed that the conversation has ended and messages will no longer be delivered."
XINJIANG.COM was owned by Abstract Holdings International LTD and is now registered to "houzhaobo" with no address or other information.
The domain does not currently resolve.
Xinjiang (XUAR) is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, located in the northwest of the country.
It is the largest Chinese administrative division and spans over 1.6 million km2.
Xinjiang borders Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, has abundant oil reserves and is China's largest natural gas-producing region.


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Could be 20 but we like the number 19.
Jordan is a kingdom of peace between places in conflict,we travel all the way hitch hicking and doing free camping without any problem. we were invited to spend the night at the house of the 80% of the people who picked us up.
the photo before was taken by a Nabatean temple of 2000 years, near where we set up our tent, in Wadi rum. the Nabateans were the civilization that left the heritage of the modern arabic writing but despite this there is no much information about them.
Roman amphitheater of Amman. was created on 2nd century a.c. and has 6000 seats when the name of the city was Philadelphia under the roman empire.
Going out from Wadi Rum, we started to walk from the small village within the reserve area and 20 minutes later a car stopped for us and took us to Aqaba where we had to take the boat back to Egypt. the red stuff on the backpack is our blanket.
floating on the dead sea. is actually a salt lake that is in the lowest place of the world comparing with the sea level. due it high density because its salt, is possible floating easily without effort. we had to do it…
Vandalism in petra. is sad to pay the high price of the ticket entry to petra (50 dinars something like u$ 70) and find this graffitis on a 2000 years facade, a world heritage.
the beduins in Wadi Rum are nomads that has different tribes. when the borders were set, the tribes were divided between Jordan and saudi Arabia. some of them live on tourism some other still on their live cattle and camels.
the monastery in Petra, one of the 7 wonders of the world made by the man. is an entire city made on the rocks although some archeologist says that most of the great facades are tombs.
Temple of Hercules in Amman. the capital of jordan is one of the oldest cities in the world and you can realize easily as you will see roman, byzantine and umayyad remains.
Red sand red baby, at Wadi rum, just 50 km away from the Saudi Arabian- Jordan border.
Beduin forces officers in Petra, they are considered the heirs of this place that's why you can see a strong beduin presence all over the place. some of them still use the traditional wearing some others not.
Our beduin friend Yoma picked us up on the way to Wadi Musa, where Petra is, and invited us for a tea despite he did not speak any english at all. he lived in a tent at the mountains taking care of his cattle. this is a good example about that sometimes does not matter which language you speak if you have something to say.
To put a picture of a camel is a must if you been in the middle east. this one was in Wadi Musa.
You can see the marks of the bullets of the treasures hunters of early 20 century on the facades at Petra. there was a myth that said there was a treasure inside the facades somewhere in the pink city.
The hand of hercules, Amman.
A beduin woman comes to work every day for sell souvenirs to tourist from the village near Petra. the impact of Siria conflict is visible in the few tourists you can see here today and is affecting its economy.
Despite they are in the picture, the main transport at Petra are donkeys and horses, nowadays camels are sold for eat its meat. sad.
On the way to…
These are not just stones on the ground,there is the mosque of the beduin family where we spend one night. always pointing to Mecca, on that way 50 km from here Saudi Arabia.
Our friend Salem was a truck driver who was out of duty and drove us from the dead sea to Madaba. He has 2 wives , yes 2. even the islamics laws allow until 4 but he said that 2 is enough.


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Republicans wrestle with immigration for good reason. They are between a rock and a hard place.
Since a ringing defeat in the November 2012 general election, Republicans have made a priority of luring Hispanic voters. Leaders claim they feel confident. They argue that once the party puts immigration reform behind them, the ethnic group will be open to the GOPs conservative message.
But experts on Hispanic demographics caution that merely capitulating on immigration reform -- even with Florida U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio shining a light on the wound and standing by with a Band-Aid -- isn't going to stop GOP bleeding. The party can't jump on the reform bill bandwagon, sit back and wait for minorities to come shelter under the Republican tent.
The fact is, information from the latest U.S. Census tells us that immigrants generally, and Hispanic immigrants specifically -- even first-generation Hispanic-Americans -- are going to lean to the left naturally, no matter what the Republicans do.
The underlying demographics make this a population thats a tough sell for the Republican message, says Steven A. Camarota, research director at theCenter for Immigration Studies, who crunched demographic numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Camarota told the Washington Examiner, for example, that nationwide, onein five households headed by U.S.-born Hispanics is in poverty, compared with 10 percent of non-Hispanics. Hispanicsare only half as likely to be self-employed, and 50 percent of their households with children are single-mother homes, compared with 29 percent across the rest of the population.
Gary M. Segura, a political scientist at Stanford University and a principal in the polling firm Latino Decisions, believes Republicans putting away the immigration issue will definitely help them, but the GOP still will have a steep hill to climb to win hearts and minds and votes.
"It turns out that Latinos (Hispanics) are systematically to the left of whites on an entire array of economic-policy matters," Segura said.
He said that while its true Hispanics are more conservative on abortion -- about 38 percent identify themselves as pro-choice, versus about 48 percent of all Americans -- thats not an overwhelming difference. On gay marriage, Hispanics are becoming increasingly supportive.
And, even though they may be more religiously observant, they are overwhelmingly opposed to mixing religion and politics. That means social conservatism may not translate to the ballot box. Indeed, said Segura, family values rarely rate highly when Hispanics are asked what voting issues are important to them.
Chair of the Democratic National Committee Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida tweeted last week that Texas doesn't scare her, even though Lone Star State voters recently elected tea party favorite Ted Cruz to the U.S. Senate. Dont count on results like that from the traditionally conservative state for much longer, Wasserman Schultz predicts.
In a confident tweet Wednesday to Battleground Texas, a fledgling Democratic organization, she said this: @BGTX Congrats on #GameOnFortWorth! Only a matter of time and hard work until #TX is #blue! #countdowntoblue #teameffort.
The tweet echoed Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitanos chirpy assertion a few days earlier that her home state of Arizona, a traditional, conservative stronghold, will move to the left in the coming years, mostly because of an influx of immigrants.
Online commenters on Wasserman Schultzs tweet pointed to the same immigration effect taking hold in Texas, just as it did in the Golden State. Posted one, California used to be a strong red state -- remember Gov. Ronald Reagan? Then millions of Mexicans arrived and the liberals took over the schools.
Marco Rubio, perhaps the most critical member of the U.S. Senate's "Gang of Eight," the bipartisan group spearheading the reform package,no doubt is aware of all these things. He is also aware of the weight on his shoulders. Here was a statement he released Easter Sunday:
Im encouraged by reports of an agreement between business groups and unions on the issue of guest workers. However, reports that the bipartisan group of eight senators have agreed on a legislative proposal are premature.
We have made substantial progress, and I believe we will be able to agree on a legislative proposal that modernizes our legal immigration system, improves border security and enforcement, and allows those here illegally to earn the chance to one day apply for permanent residency contingent upon certain triggers being met. However, that legislation will only be a starting point.
We will need a healthy public debate that includes committee hearings and the opportunity for other senators to improve our legislation with their own amendments. Eight senators from seven states have worked on this bill to serve as a starting point for discussion about fixing our broken immigration system. But arriving at a final product will require it to be properly submitted for the American peoples consideration, through the other 92 senators from 43 states that werent part of this initial drafting process. In order to succeed, this process cannot be rushed or done in secret.
Alfonso Aguilar, a Bush administration official who is now the executive director of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, can't fault Wasserman Schultz's reasoning and paints a grim picture if the GOP doesn't do a better job connecting with America's immigrant -- particularly, Hispanic -- population. And immigration reform is the place to start.
You either engage (Hispanics), or you become an irrelevant party and movement, he said. We already cannot win California and New York. If we continue like this, its [next] going to be Florida, Texas, Arizona. Thats it -- Republicans will never win another national election.
In the upcoming immigration reform vote, the Republicans not only have to lead the way, they have to be seen to lead the way.
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Glastonbury organisers are already taking measures to combat the muddy conditions at the Festival.
They have brought in tonnes of straw and bark to place on the ground in a bid to combat the boggy conditions.
A week of wet weather has saturated the 1,100-acre site and turned large areas into a huge bog with mud up to eight inches deep.
Revellers were woken in the early hours of yesterday morning by torrential rain beating down on their tents.
To improve conditions underfoot, workmen in tractors have been laying tonnes of straw and bark on the ground.
Some visitors were doing their best to have fun in Britain's biggest mudbath - and teenage reveller Tom Wilder ensured the cheers started early at Glastonbury.
The 17-year-old's giant puddle slide was becoming the festival's first cult hit with a day to spare before the main acts take to the Pyramid Stage.
Egged on by his mates, student Tom, from Kent, performed headlong dives on demand to cheer up arrivals trudging through the sodden 900-acre site.
Countless efforts left him caked in mud from head to toe, with dairy farm sludge stuck in the braces on his teeth.
But he declared with a grin: "If I run out of clothes, I'll just do it naked."
His dives received roars of approval from hundreds of onlookers along with the group of friends he was camping with.
Best friend Callum Burgess, also 17, said: "I'm supposed to share a tent with him but he can sleep outside. Look at the state of him."
Crowds are continuing to swell at Pilton - despite a second day of torrential rain in the morning.
Every inch of Worthy Farm is becoming a sticky quagmire as the remainder of the 170,000-plus revellers pitch up their tents.
Claire Austin, of MeteoGroup, the weather division of the Press Association, said the best weather will not arrive until Sunday.
More than half of the ticket-holders for the sold-out event will have squelched their way to the site by tonight.
The first of the main acts take to the Pyramid Stage tomorrow.
Campers hauling their bags and beers along the slippery thoroughfares were told to pitch tents on hills after some were flooded.
This year's event sees U2, Coldplay and Beyonce headline and the arrival of a new medieval bullring - Campo Pequeno.
Among a host of theatrical events at the site will be Glastonbury's own version of La Tomatina.
Other new elements for this year include The Spirit of 71 stage, with acts that played at the festival 40 years ago.
Beyonce, who fell in love with the Somerset festival after watching husband Jay-Z perform three years ago, is believed to have cleared her diary to party in Pilton over three days.
Rapper Jay-Z is even money with bookmakers Ladbrokes to join his wife on stage this Sunday.


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So this is my mini-survey - who's started running ASE1 yet? Anyone out there? No real reason for asking other than vanity, but I'm curious who's taken the plunge. I imagine that a lot of people are holding off til they have a few more levels in hand, but I'm curious all the same. Leave a comment and let me know!
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I have it, but I've already begun my own megadungeon. I will likely be stealing from yours to supplement my own lack of imagination.ReplyDelete
I've really enjoyed reading it, but I am indeed holding off running it till a couple more levels are available. Don't keep us in suspense, man!ReplyDelete
Session one killed off half the party, and that was just part of the intro hook! I think that ASE1 will keep my players plenty busy for the foreseeable future. If they end up delving deeper, I guess I'll have to wing it &/or scrape some material from here. Good stuff!ReplyDelete
I gave it a shot, using the Labyrinth Lords rules, but my players are used to Pathfinder and the high mortality rate shocked them.ReplyDelete
I might give it another try at some point, perhaps after ASE2 is released.
@Aplus - A perfectly reasonable useReplyDelete
@Paul - It's coming, I'm a lazy slug but my players keep going deeper, so I have to keep up. Probably towards the end of this year or maybe January.
@Anthony, @Dirk - The news of fatalities warms my heart!
- AnonymousAugust 30, 2011 at 8:46 PM
I haven't ran it yet - no regular gaming group - but I hope to. (Normally I'd be all about just making my own - and I will eventually - but I was very impressed with the ideas in yours.) I read it all and am very impressed with it as a read and with what I think would be a great play experience. Also, as a side note, I'm one of the ten people who bought it at Gen Con this year that you mentioned in a previous post. I was very happy to get a copy: as soon as I picked up my badge I rushed to the OSR booth with your module as the top intended purchase on a very short list.ReplyDelete
(Anomalous Subsurface Environment, Vornheim, Red Tide, Random Esoteric Creature Generator, Dungeon Alphabet - all either purchased at Gen Con or online shortly thereafter if they weren't available at Gen Con)
Thanks for the great module!
- AnonymousAugust 30, 2011 at 8:49 PM
Oh, and sorry about the screwed up handle on that last comment - AIM never seems to want me to post on any of these sites.ReplyDelete
c0a6ce18-85c7-11e0-96aa-000bcdcb5194 AKA Danny
Ran a couple sessions before scheduling conflicts tore my group to hell for the summer.ReplyDelete
Terry and Phil got sacrificed early.
All player deaths resulted from radiation, even after one of them was all "o hay yellowcake". Only a couple survivors.
Still pretty much my favorite product in the OSR. The tables & background stuff have added quite a bit to those one-off games I can scrape together lately. Gonna give the whole thing another shot when I can get a hold of levels 2 & 3!
Not only did they lose a party member early on, they then traded his dead body to some of the broken down robots in one area (to use for replacement parts) for the promise of help in fighting some of the robots in another area.ReplyDelete
The player who had been playing the dead character complained loudly about such treatment, so after the robots had filleted out all the good parts, the party scraped what was left into a bag for a proper burial later. :P
I have a campaign using ASE1 starting pretty soon. I'm going to let the players find out in game that this is not a cookie cutter fantasy setting (though I have dropped a couple of hints).ReplyDelete
BTW the ASE setting rocks. I loved reading it so much it motivated me to get off my duff and get a group together so we could play it. Besides being filled with tons of cool ideas it's laugh out loud funny.
(*Spoiler Alert* - The wizard who flies around in a giant head with laser beam eyes - genius! Reminds me of that weird Boorman film Zardoz. If memory serves that had a giant flying head in it too.)
I am holding off tell a few more levels are made. I love it thou so can not wait.ReplyDelete


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As moms, the pressure to appear as if we have it all together can feel insurmountable. Many of us pretend we are loving life and enjoying our kids at every possible moment. But secretly, we are overwhelmed, anxious, and some of us are knee-deep in the dark waters of postpartum depression.
In recent years, many brave mothers have come forward about their most heartbreaking parenting challenges. And we desperately need to keep sharing about them, as the outcome of talking openly can literally be life-saving.
Last fall, Kara Kovlakas tragically succumbed to a mental illness she'd been secretly suffering from for years. She had struggled with anxiety long before she had her two children, and her condition only worsened with each birth. A few months after her second child was born, she felt helpless and overcome with the pain of her condition.
So, on the morning of October 13, 2016 — just one day before her 33rd birthday — the Connecticut mother of two took her own life.
The news came as a complete shock to those closest to her, especially when they found out that Kovlakas had planned out her suicide.
While a trusted few knew Kovlakas had felt crippled by her anxiety and the severe postpartum depression that accompanied it, the rest of the world saw her as an enthusiastic, loving woman who regularly uplifted everyone around her.
"On the outside, Kara was a beautiful, outgoing, and energetic mom," Kovlakas' older sister Lauren Shrage tells Babble. "She wasn't lying in bed all day miserable — she was up and active, doing fun things with her kids … She was always dancing through life with an energy and light that was contagious."
On the inside, it was a much different story.
"She was terrified she wasn't good enough – her self-confidence was extremely low. She was seeing doctors and [was] prescribed medication for anxiety," Shrage explains. "We knew she was struggling and my family had banded together to support her, but we had no idea to the extent she was suffering."
Since her sister's death, Shrage is still trying to pick up the pieces and take stock of her own life. The two sisters were inseparable, talking almost every day and enjoying ongoing Sunday night dinners with their families.
"Kara was my best friend. I don't know how I will move on without her," Shrage says. "But I am trying to get up each day and remember to be happy — I have a lot to be thankful for. Never take one second for granted. Life is so precious and short."
In addition to her own family, Kovlakas leaves behind a close-knit group of six sisters, all who are trying to turn their grief into something positive. Their efforts have resulted in Light for Kara, an advocacy website that Shrage is hoping will help other families who are seeking support and information. The site contains educational links about postpartum depression and suicide, along with a scholarship fund for Kovlakas' daughter Aydan and son Ari. The family will also be donating a portion of the fund to Malta House, a Norwalk women's shelter that helps new mothers in need.
The biggest goal for Shrage is spreading awareness to transform the way society views mental illness, especially in new parents. She also wants to ease the shame so many mothers feel, causing them to think struggling in silence is their best option.
"We hope that by sharing Kara's story, other moms will have the courage to reach out and get help," Shrage says. "We also hope to educate dads and other family members on how to be more aware of the signs of PPD. There is a real disconnect between gynecologists, pediatricians, and maternity hospital staff, where I think they could do a much better job educating parents and families on the warning signs of PPD."
And while they continue their work to honor Kovlakas' memory, the sisters are also doing everything possible to support her children as they grow up in a world without their mom.
"As a family, it is our job now to help her husband take care of her children," Shrage notes on the Light for Kara website. "To make sure they know how much their Mom loved them. To share our memories of her and keep her alive in the only way we have. We need to figure out how to live the rest of our lives without her."


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D&D Beyond teamed up with The Role Initiative at PAX East last weekend, and together we helped people create and print out characters to play in dozens of D&D Adventurers League games. Practically our entire team was there, from web developers to graphic designers. Lauren Urban, our community manager, and I flew down from Seattle to put boots on the ground and join our team to help out in person! While there, though, I noticed that a lot of people were asking the same questions: "How do I make a character that's Adventurers League legal?"
It's a good question. Characters in the D&D Adventurers League have a few specific restrictions on how they can be built, both to keep the game more accessible to newcomers and to prevent people from creating exceptionally unbalanced characters. The Adventurers League makes these restrictions and other AL-specific rules clear in their Players Guide, which is updated every season. Still, the D&D Beyond team thinks it should be easier to make characters that are AL-legal without any hassle. That's why our short-term plans include creating Adventurers League character validation, which will allow you to easily create AL-legal characters without memorizing the specific rules.
This is no secret; it's been on our public Feature Roadmap for the past few months, and it's one of the next projects our developers are going to tackle—right after they finish projects like the Mobile Character Sheet beta, and the Encounter Builder. I'm not a developer, so I can't say exactly how this feature will look when it's all set up, but I'm confident that it will make it easier than ever to make an AL-legal character. Next time I'm at PAX Unplugged, I hope I'll be able to just flick a switch and turn off all AL-illegal options for new players, rather than running down a list of things that they're not allowed to do when building their characters.
In the meantime, though, I want to show you how to make an Adventurers League-legal character on D&D Beyond. If you're new to AL, this guide will walk you step-by-step through the character creation process, and explain the AL-specific character creation rules, too. While some of these rules can be broken with special permission granted by the administrators in the form of certificates (or "certs") for completing special in-game objectives, a player starting completely fresh must follow these guidelines. The following advice is up to date as of Season 8 of the D&D Adventurers League.
Begin at 1st Level
The D&D Adventurers League covers all levels of play, ranging from tier 1 (levels 1 through 4) to tier 4 (levels 17 through 20). However, new characters must begin at 1st level. Your Adventurers League experience will see your character grow from a dime-a-dozen adventurer into a truly fearsome warrior of the Realms. You don't have to start your character over with every new storyline season, though. If you started at 1st level in Chult (Season 7) and rose to 6th level during that time, then you could take that character to Waterdeep (Season 8) and continue adventuring without a hitch.
Player's Handbook +1
The most important rule in the D&D Adventurers League is this: when building a character, you can only choose your race, class, feats, and starting spells from the Player's Handbook and one other source. These sources are:
- Elemental Evil Player's Companion
- Sword Coast Adventurers Guide
- Volo's Guide to Monsters
- Xanathar's Guide to Everything and The Tortle Package (these two sources are counted as a single source)
- Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
There are a few notable exceptions to this rule, such as backgrounds, which are all available for use regardless of source. As far as spells are concerned, your starting spells and all spells gained through leveling up are restricted to the spells found in the Player's Handbook and your +1. Wizard characters can get around this rule by scribing spells found on spell scrolls into their spellbook (see "Your Spellbook").
If you want more information on the PHB +1 rule, check out this Aid Another article.
Restricted Races and Classes
The first rule some people bump into is related to their choice of race and class. This is an offshoot of the PHB +1 rule, but it's worth calling out on its own: there are just some races and classes that you can't play in the D&D Adventurers League, at least not without special permission. Unfortunately, some of these races and classes are available for free in D&D Beyond, and some of the people who I helped build characters this weekend were confused by it.
Let's set the record straight; these are all the races and classes you can't in Adventurers League games, and why:
- Aarakocra (Elemental Evil Player's Companion). Unfortunately, the high-flying bird-people known as aarakocra aren't legal for AL play because of their flying speed. While magic items and spells that grant characters flight like winged boots and fly are AL-legal, races that grant characters flight are considered overpowered, and have thus been banned from AL play. This is because most low-level adventures can be trivialized by a party of all-flying (or even mostly-flying) characters, and players looking to game the system can easily do so by playing flying races.
- Variant Tiefling: Winged Tiefling (Sword Coast Adventurers Guide). Just like the aarakocra, winged tieflings have the ability to fly at 1st level. They can't be played for all the reasons listed above.
- Eladrin (Variant; Dungeon Master's Guide). Not to be confused with the eladrin presented in Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes, the eladrin presented as an example of how to create a subrace in the Dungeon Master's Guide is not AL-legal. This version of the eladrin subrace is listed as "Eladrin (Variant)" in D&D Beyond.
- Aasimar (Variant; Dungeon Master's Guide). Likewise, while the version of the aasimar race presented in Volo's Guide to Monsters is AL-legal, the aasimar variant used in the Dungeon Master's Guide as an example of how to create a race isn't available for AL play. This version of the aasimar race is listed as "Aasimar (Variant)" in D&D Beyond.
- Death Cleric (Dungeon Master's Guide). The Death domain is a cleric subclass presented in the Dungeon Master's Guide as an option for villains and evil characters. It is, however, not AL-legal, since the Dungeon Master's Guide isn't a permitted "+1" book.
- Oathbreaker Paladin (Dungeon Master's Guide). Just like all other player options presented in the Dungeon Master's Guide, the Oathbreaker paladin subclass is not allowed in Adventurers League games.
While some other races and classes may be restricted based on which book you chose as your "+1," these are the only totally restricted options.
No Rolling for Ability Scores
The now-iconic "roll 4d6, drop the lowest" method of choosing ability scores isn't allowed in D&D Adventurers League. In fact, rolling for stats is verboten, period! You have two options for generating your ability scores in AL games. The first is Point Buy, in which all of your ability scores start at 8 and you spend points to raise your scores to their starting value. The second is Array, in which you allocate six predetermined scores to your six abilities.
These standardized ability score generation methods are in place to keep characters roughly balanced against one another. It also helps characters travel between different DMs without hassle. If someone shows up to your table with an 18 in every stat, who you are to say that they didn't get lucky and legitimately rolled them?
Picking Feats and Spells
The trickiest part of following the PHB +1 rule is when you choose your feats and spells. Unfortunately, D&D Beyond currently doesn't have an option to restrict feats and spells by source in the character builder or the digital character sheet. That means that, when you go into your character sheet to choose your spells, you are presented with a list of all spells that your character can take—regardless of source. Since there are four books with spells in them—Player's Handbook, Elemental Evil Player's Companion, Sword Coast Adventurers Guide, and Xanathar's Guide to Everything—that means that you're always going to be presented with spells that could break the PHB +1 rule.
If you're choosing your spells at 1st level and don't know which spells are legal when you're picking them in the digital character sheet, your best option is to go to the Game Rules drop-down menu on the top of the page, and then next to the Spells header click on "View All." This will bring you to the Spells menu. Then, click on "Show Advanced Filters" and click on the "Source" bar at the very bottom of the filters list. When you click on this bar, it will bring up a list of all official D&D books. Then, select the Player's Handbook and your +1 book to determine which spells are available to you.
If you want to use filters super stylishly, you can also go up to the "Spell Level" filter and choose "1st level" to only have the list show you 1st-level spells.
Voila, a Character!
Keep these rules in mind while building your character, and you should have an AL-legal character no problem. If you need simpler advice for new players, I have three quick guidelines that helped me when new players at PAX East asked me for advice:
- Don't pick races with a flying speed (like aarakocra)
- Use Point Buy or the Array to choose your ability scores
- Make sure all your spells come from the Player's Handbook and only one other book
These simplified rules worked because most of the new players I met at PAX only had access to the free content, which is exclusively from the Player's Handbook and the Elemental Evil Player's Companion, so there was no chance of breaking the PHB +1 rule. Also, by clicking on the "Quick Build" option in the character creation tool, they were able to have reasonably powerful characters ready to play in just minutes; and since Quick Build uses only resources from the Player's Handbook, the results are guaranteed not to break the PHB +1 rule, too.
What characters have you played in the D&D Adventurers League? Share stories of their exploits with us in the comments below!
James Haeck is the lead writer for D&D Beyond, the co-author of Waterdeep: Dragon Heist and the Critical Role Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting, the DM of Worlds Apart, and a freelance writer for Wizards of the Coast, the D&D Adventurers League, and Kobold Press. He lives in Seattle, Washington with his partner Hannah and their feline adventurers Mei and Marzipan. You can usually find him wasting time on Twitter at @jamesjhaeck.


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You know the 19th infomercial in a row, selling some product you know isn't as good as this guy is telling you it is? Or maybe it's the 100th excuse from a teenager caught doing something wrong . . . or maybe it's your pastor. YIKES!
So here goes . . .look out toes.
I was just at youth camp for a week, and one of the things that really hit me was something really basic that the speaker said. In order to be an ambassador for Christ you have to do some things BEFORE you can tell people about Jesus.
Your heart must truly be broken for lost people. Is your heart so hardened to the lost that you don't really even care if they spend eternity in hell? It's easy to get calloused to those around us who continue to benefit at our expense or seem to get everything they want while we go without. But these people (lost people) don't have Jesus, isn't that enough to break your heart anymore? Pray for the lost with a broken heart.
You must truly love and/or serve others. "Yeah, yeah, I hear what you are saying, but LOOK at what you are doing!!"
If you don't show God's love to other people, how will they know. This means loving people who are hard to love or even mean. Jesus commands us to love, I have said this before, but this story really brought it home to me.
Afshin Ziafat talked about a Muslim teenager who, with a bunch of his friends, would throw rocks at the Christian women who were carrying jugs of water on their shoulders. One time in particular this boy nailed the jug a woman was carrying and it shattered. When he turned to run he slipped and fell which cut up his leg. He couldn't run and the Christian woman was closing in on him so he held up his arms to defend himself . . . only to find that she was helping him. This one act of kindness when he didn't deserve it stuck with him and years later when some Christians were witnessing to him, he remembered her love and kindness and was converted. Love and serve others, even if they don't deserve it.
You must tell your story . . . not just the dusty old story about how once upon a time you walked down the aisle at your church and got baptized, but the fresh new stories about what Jesus is doing in your life today, yesterday, last week. If He's not giving you new stories maybe it's because He misses you. Tell people what God is doing in your life NOW.
FOURThen . . . . you can tell the story about Jesus. You have to do these other things first, or why would anyone listen to you. Tell people about Jesus.
Pretty good, huh?
The other thing is this, not all of us are called to be youth pastors or evangelists. If we were no one's accounting would ever get done. But my friends and the people I come in contact with are different from the people you know and meet. This is how the word about Jesus is spread. Your friends wouldn't listen to me tell them about Jesus, any more than my friends would listen to you tell them about Jesus. That's how it works. . . so bloom where you are planted. Don't sit around complaining that you aren't a pastor or you haven't written a Christian book, talk to the people you know and find out where they are going to spend eternity. It's up to each of us as an ambassador for Jesus to work in our own field. Kind of like we are undercover agents for Jesus, cleverly disguised as accountants or computer programmers or doctors or lawyers.
People don't want to hear it, if you are not living it. If you don't show them love, why would they listen to you talk about the God of love?
Here's a couple of black and white shots from camp. Hope you like them.


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You can write advertising headlines in many ways. A good heading should arouse curiosity, and encourage people either to read further or take action. It is very effective when the headings are the summaries of information to be conveyed in Ads. Every day we compose many headings from twitter tweets to emails, we use heading everywhere. Therefore, it is always a better way to learn from brands who could pull the show using their Ad headlines.
Here are a few Best Advertising Headlines and the lesson that we ought to learn from them
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The best part of this advertising headline is whoever wrote it understood the significance of "specific" in Headings. Now if you remove the word "these" in the headline and read it, it might not grab your attention as it did before. Headings should contain specific words that provide direction such as, How, these, which of these, when, where etc. Use specific details like days, hours, minutes etc in the headings. For example, compare the impact of the sentence," We will help you make more money" to "We will help you may the rent".
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Doctors prove two out of three women can have more beautiful skin in 14 days.
Even though this headline seems to be, it is one of the best advertising headlines because it is thought provoking and personal advantages are promised to the viewers. Ideally, an Ad's headline should be small, but don't worry if you're Ads heading is long, you can still make it compelling by emphasizing on the personal advantages to the users. Design Ads that have a personal advantage, it should be presented such that when viewer reads, it appears as though he sees his own name in the advertising headline.
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People love to get news; the best part of the headline of this Ad is that it is rephrased to sound like exciting news. People get curious when they read such phrases; they will not only want to know but also will feel the need to know more. An important note: the product or service doesn't have to be newly created to be advertised this way. You can make even the most common product sound special by rephrasing it to appear like news to the audience.
Become a Blogger in 60 days.
The best part of this headline is, it is direct, and it provides a benefit and takes a commanding posture simultaneously. It is not conventional. It is directional but in an acceptable way. Clear and directional heading sound more appealing. This heading can also be written as "How to become a blogger in 60 days". Most how to questions appeals to the users and puts forth a need to improve. The secret is to focus on the needs and wants, and promise to fulfill the needs and wants.
For more best advertising headlines refer to- http://www.infomarketingblog.com/100-good-advertising-headlines-victor-schwab/
No matter what strategy you follow, make sure to take your time to come up with best advertising headlines. Brainstorm amongst the team. Know your target audients. Know their needs, wants and desires. Sometimes it helps to unclog your mind when you write down all the mandatory terms that should be there in your Ad and then put yourself in the shows of the viewers and see what could draw attention to your Ad, Which Ad headline did you think was most appealing?


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So I have an app that works fine in dev mode, dynamically loading. All of the files I created, ~140 of them, are in a requires array somewhere in the app, so there are no warnings about lazy loading.
When I ran sencha app build production, it completed fine and created an all-classes file. When I load the generated html file in the production folder in my browser, it throws about 7 404 errors. It appears it is still trying to lazy load my classes. Here is an example:
When I do a search in the all-classes.js file, my FH.view.MyTabPanel file is defined and included in there. The same for the other 5 classes it tries to dynamically load and throws a 404 error on. What am I doing wrong when building or in setup?Code:http://dev.localsite/js/desktop/build/FH/production/FH/view/MyTabPanel.js?_dc=1360625855681 404 (Not Found)
I basically did this:
ran "sencha -sdk <path to 4.1.1> generate app FH ."
removed the current app folder
put the app folder I had already built in the same location as the default generated one
ran "sencha app build production" //No errors or warnings here
loaded http://dev.localsite/js/desktop/buil...ion/index.html in browser
got 404 errors
Not sure if the docs are out of date, or something incorrect is happening, but I see references to an app.json file in the docs, but that isn't being generated on my end. Did a search for that file name as soon as did generate app.
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