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Crown Square at Matlock was the terminus of the Cable Tramway and the Tram Shelter. The cable tramway ran from Crown Square up Matlock Bank. The shelter was donated to the town by Robert Wildgoose in 1899. The central part of the shelter now stands in Hall Leys Park.
The engine house stood at the top of the hill on the corner of Rutland Street and Wellington Street. In 1890 John Smith of MAtlock suggested the idea of a cable tramway and a company was formed with George Newnes ( who founded the publishing company) mainly financing the venture. George Newnes was born at The Manse, Glenorchy Chapel in Cromford where his father was the minister. The tramway opened in 1893 and in 1898 he gave it to the Urban district Council. It finally closed in 1927.
The fare for the upward journey was double that for traveling down - it was 2d up and 1d down - this is the name of an informative book by M J Arkle entitled 'Tuppence Up, Penny Down'. 'The Matlock Steep-Gradient Tramway' is a reprint of a 1893 publication which also gives a wealth of detail.
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Maxine Waters Promises Reparations To Black Supremacy Parasites – Her Constituents
Maxine Waters was babbling in her usual confused, incoherent manner at a small gathering of parasites when one of them advanced the idea of race-based wealth redistribution…
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There isn't anything that's more divisive than someone taking something from another person by force. Democrats are all about doing exactly that, through the power of an authoritarian government. Hussein Obama and Eric Holder fomented racial tensions in the final two years of that sham administration and, unless Jeff Sessions gets off his good for nothing behind, they're coming in back in a few short months. [[VIDEO BELOW]]
As Maxine Waters has demonstrated over the past months and declares in this event, that looks more like an occupy sit-in than a rally, she'll do anything to take what others have in the name of social justice communism, with her race-based black supremacist society as the goal.
Clearly in search of a basis for support, Waters accuses President Trump of being a bully looking for the biggest gun and of fueling an arms race. Repairing our military after 8 years of Obama and sequestration is not an act of aggression but one of necessity for survival.
She promises the group of stupid people, her constituents, who came to hear and are satisfied with pretty words and promises made without any basis in reality, their version of the moon, with the code words of black supremacy, "peace and justice."
One global parasite asks Waters to support his organization and the global push for payments to blacks for things that may or may not have happened to others in the past, reparations.
Now that "Congressman Conyers is no longer there," he's looking for another racist with a big mouth and a chip on the shoulder to match, a true communist to seize the wealth of others and redistribute it to him and those like him, based upon their skin color. Noting that Waters has a relationship with the millennials, he axes her to sponsor legislation to take from others and give to themselves.
Naturally, Waters is anxious to put her ugly mug and big mouth behind such an effort. She tells the small gathering, invoking the same little finger circles that fellow commie Bernie Sanders uses, that "in order to get where we need to go," they're going to have to make progress in 2018 towards taking back the House and Senate.
No campaign ad or Republican stump speech could more clearly stress the importance of making sure that doesn't happen. Reparations and a fabricated impeachment are two good reasons to not only make sure the Democrats never return to power, but to lock the criminal offenders up and if there are any left in government after that, kick them back to their districts and states.
As for the establishment subversives in the GOP, it would be interesting to see what kind of cover they would attempt to hide behind if there were no Democrats driving the uniparty issues. They'd surely start up the progressive wing of the GOP and orders would be issued.
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What You Should Know for a Graduate Job in Insurance
Working in insurance mostly involves protecting an individual or organisation against any potential financial risks. The insurance industry can be divided into different categories of life insurance which includes term life insurance, disability income insurance and superannuation investment packages; general insurance which covers liability insurance including automotive insurance, public liability, business insurance and workers compensation as well as property insurance such as home owner insurance, travel insurance and motor vehicle protection; and health insurance. Many companies specialise in only one type of insurance, however companies are starting to adopt and offer multiple insurances as well as financial services.
Requirements of the degree vary according to the employer. Employers often have a preference of someone in a numerate (e.g. maths or engineering), or business or management degree, however most roles in insurance which include broking, product management and claims management are open to graduates of all degrees.
A few personal skills that are required in the insurance industry include1:
- Ability to react quickly
- Strong customer service and communication skills
- Attentive to details and policy terms
- Analytical skills
- Empathetic to customer and clients concerns or losses
- Highly organised
- Understanding of insurance policies and limits of coverage
What to Expect
Graduates are able to choose from an array of job titles in the insurance industry with the main graduate job roles including2:
- Graduate underwriter You will be responsible in deciding whether to grant a policy to a potential client, if conditions should be attached and how much the client should pay in premiums. Underwriters and actuaries work closely together to negotiate with insurance brokers
- Claims management trainee This job would involve you to handle and progress matters when claims are made on a policy and to deal with the claimant and assess whether it is valid. You can expect duties such as arranging any tasks to be competed and loss adjusting activities
- Trainee loss adjuster Involves activities such as assessing the extent of loss sustained by the policy holder, checking if the claim is valid as well as investigating how the loss was caused if the case of disputed claims. Independent from the insurance company, loss adjusters would mostly be working for specialist practices and within the insurance company, the tasks of a loss adjuster duties would be completed by claims managers
- Business development, business finance and sales graduate roles These roles vary, however all of them involve tasks in promoting services to potential clients, identifying and pursuing new business opportunities, and making sure that the business' financial level is successful
- Graduate insurance broker Insurance brokers typically work at an insurance brokerage, helping clients in selecting and obtaining the best insurance products from insurance companies for the best premiums
- Trainee actuary Duties would include completing financial forecasts and managing funds
- Graduate product manager Product managers create, test and launch new insurance products to various markets. Typical tasks include completing sales forecasting and ensuring the products abide the requirements of the regulator
- Operations management You will be responsible for managing and motivation customer service departments
- Support functions Support functions include technology specialists, risk managers, and marketing and HR professionals
Graduate jobs are not only limited to the titles listed above. The insurance industry has a huge range of job roles that you can apply for and vary according to the employers.
A full time job in the insurance industry could earn you a median base salary of $68,500 with the upper quartile $89,500 and the lower quartile of $54,000 per annum3. The type of employers that hire graduates include:
- Insurance companies Using the method of a price-comparison website or an insurance broker, provide insurance products and services to clients
- Retail banks/supermarkets Offer insurance services, particularly personal insurance and increasingly becoming competition to traditional insurance companies
- Insurance brokers Independent brokers between the insurance company and the customer who help clients obtain the best insurance products for their needs and have expanded their functions over the past years
- Specialist consultancies Specialist consultancies carry out a small number of insurance functions (e.g. handling claims). You can also find loss adjusters and specialist actuarial consultancies who specialise in life assurance and pensions
Leading employers including AAMI, AMP Limited, Allianz, Australian Super, Insurance Australia (AIG), QBE Insurance, UniSuper, Sunsuper and many more.
1 Open Universities Australia, Insurance and Superannuation Industry careers, 2015
2 Targetjobs, Insurance: graduate area of work, 2015
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You have to respect Iron Maiden for retaining their stadium status in the year 2010, when so many of their contemporaries have been forced to down scale their tours. But as always, this comes with a price tag and while they have attained a strong, younger following, Maiden's creative decisions have often times disappointed a long time fan.
"Brave New World" in 2000 was a very strong comeback-effort that especially in light of the albums that followed has risen to a much higher status that what it was originally when released. They followed it with the "Dance Of Death", which was a huge disappointment featuring mostly second rate material. "A Matter Of Life And Death" in 2006 was a marginal improvement but still plagued by overdrawn arrangements, unnecessary progressive overtones and uneven song writing. Four years have passed since then and Maiden among other things had completed massively successful "Somewhere Back In Time" world tour that saw them revisiting classic "Powerslave"-set and songs. One would hope this had a positive creative influence on the band and would focus them on writing catchier, more to the point material. Or simply good heavy metal songs.
"The Final Frontier's" 76-minute length is already a sign to worry about. But bravely we delve deeper into the record and wade through it track by track.
The Final Frontier
The intro is unbelievable. To say it's bad is a massive understatement. Adrian Smith probably demoed it really quickly and as a joke. His mouth must have dropped when Steve Harris decided to put it out and even open the bloody record with it. Over four minutes of digital noise ending with Bruce Dickinson's corny vocals. It sounds like a demo from Dickinson's solo album "Skunkworks" or any of its mediocre b-sides. Come to think of it, even the b-sides were better. I cannot tell you much about it, since I immediately edited it out and burned a copy of the record without it. So I only listened to it once. Once was enough.
Title track follows with intro guitar riff ripping off Kiss' "Magic Touch". However, this one is pretty solid opener. A basic rocker with quite simple riffs and solos, the chorus is repeated a bit too many times as usual with latter day Maiden but overall "The Final Frontier" is a promising start. Better than the opening tracks from two previous albums at least.
El Dorado
The first single. It opens with crash-ending which is interesting at least. The verses have Bruce Dickinson singing in talking-style, it points to his solo stuff and just as before I don't like this in context of Maiden. From "Dance Of Death" onwards Dickinson has inserted his own style into the songs, which more or less take over the song from Maiden. This wouldn't be a problem but when the song structure and arrangement is Iron Maiden, Bruce's vocals clash with it badly. On "El Dorado" this isn't as distracting as on some other tracks from the past, although when we get to chorus it raises a smile. A more than little rip off from Bruce's "Darkside Of Aquarius" appears here.
The best part of the song comes at roughly 3:30 onwards all the way through the guitar solos. A classic Maiden arrangement that is familiar but still sounds good! Also solos by the three amigos are all great, the bass part by Harris infectious and I've grown to like the guitar riff which introduces another round of verses. The ending is perfect too. This has definitely grown on me since the first listen, the song is about 1-2 minutes too long and like I said I dislike Dickinson's vocals and melodies on verses. Otherwise this one's a solid number.
Mother Of Mercy
Musically we're back into more traditional sounding Maiden. Slow beginning, a relatively short and nice build-up, some power chords and a semi-decent riff. The verse is somewhat boring, Bruce sings "I'm A Soldier Of War!" at the climax but the build-up doesn't entirely work. You wait for the fast part but it never comes, same case on a lot tracks on this album. You have the two fast rockers but all the rest are almost all either mid-tempo or straight slow tunes. There are not any tempo changes on "Mother Of Mercy" either – not any major ones.
Then we're onto chorus. Oh dear. The melody is nice actually but Bruce sings it WAY too high. It sounds like he's killing the cat. He just cannot pull off a song like this anymore. I doubt they will play this live, after few listens the chorus starts to irritate me and since rest of the song isn't anything special, this loses out to first two tracks in my ranking.
Coming Home
Fans have compared this to previous records "Out Of The Shadows". "Coming Home" is clearly a Bruce Dickinson composition, so they are not totally wrong. Actually this one is a better track, but not much. The only thing memorable is the chorus which has a good melody line. Unfortunately everything else is very average. There's no slow, acoustic beginning as the song takes on a more power ballad type of feeling. Regardless, you struggle to remember the arrangement afterwards. The chorus is ok though and is left ringing in your ear for a while.
The Alchemist
The fast rip roarer written by Janick Gers. People have compared this one to "Man On The Edge" – don't quite get it though. There are some familiar elements but even more so to tracks like "The Mercenary" and "New Frontier." The song has some tasteful guitar melodies and chorus isn't half bad. Too bad it is the one song on the album that suffers greatly from the lifeless and dry production. Whereas a song like "The Mercenary" has crunching guitars, "The Alchemist" feels like it was recorded inside a plastic can. Thus the song is robbed of all its power. If producer Kevin Shirley had done his job, this would be the top track here. As it is, it loses to couple of other ones herein. The basic track is still a very solid, melodic up-tempo number.
Isle Of Avalon
Ok it's time to go progressive. This tune sounds a lot like any number of songs from "A Matter Of Life And Death" – vocal melodies remind me of "These Colours Don't Run" or "Brighter Than A Thousand Suns". Also the arrangement is very close to previous Maiden record. And the chorus seems to be stolen from somewhere AMOLAD. I didn't bother to check it out. The solo section soon follows and we are totally into old Yes territory. Adrian Smith's lead work is the most progressive I've ever heard of him and what seems like several minutes are spent in the jamming zone. I don't like it much, Maiden isn't Yes, they are supposed to be a heavy metal band.
The best thing this time around is the last 20 seconds that sound like classic Maiden. Power chord ending ala "Rime Of The Ancient Mariner" or "Hallowed Be Thy Name." Well, rest of "Isle Of Avalon" has some good stuff on it too but they should have removed half of the song (9 minutes, too long as usual) and leave out the middle prog jamming completely. Still cannot help feeling this one stinks of a somewhat mediocre song.
Iron Maiden goes Jethro Tull. Yep even more than the previous track we are back in the progressive land of the 1970's. Uriah Heep, ELP and so forth. Although most of the riffs and solos come in courtesy of Adrian Smith, I suspect it's Steve Harris pulling most of the strings here. Along with obvious prog-parts, "Starblind" borrows heavily from Maiden's own "Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son" and "Infinite Dreams" in particular. Swaying keyboards, the pompous arrangement, a massive chorus…Yes, we're definitely in the SSOASS-territory as the song progresses.
The opening guitar riff is decent enough but the one at 4-minute mark is a huge let-down. Instead of crunching metal riff, Smith cranks out more Jethro Tull-dirge. I do like some of the progressive bands and Uriah Heep in particular are a great band, but come on…the chorus returns and off we go until the end. I have a hard time dealing with this number. On the other hand it's not bad, the chorus is semi-nice and if you try to forget this is Iron Maiden, the song itself is epic enough. But somehow it leaves me totally cold, they try hard to get the Seventh Son-drama going but the emotion just isn't there.
The Talisman
A first and only completely acoustic intro begins and we get more Uriah Heep- influence thrown in. This one could have been written by Ken Hensley instead of Janick Gers. Bruce sings over acoustic refrain softly and again we have shades of David Byron. It sounds good but unfortunately the thing is stretched out for much too long. This is Maiden's original sin; the intro could and should have been cut before the 40-second mark. Instead it goes on for over 2 minutes and gets tedious to listen to.
Intro is quickly forgotten as the album's greatest guitar riff begins. Thumbs up Janick! Unlike Smith's prog warbling on "Starblind" and "Isle Of Avalon" this is definitely heavy metal guitar and for once, production works as well. The song structure is close to "A Matter Of Life And Death" again, but this time more akin to songs like "The Longest Day" where no progressive touch can be found. The chorus is the best on the whole album, it's a far cry from "Wasted Years" but the bar has been dropped so I guess this is a as good as it gets. And it is good, no doubt about it. This is my contender for the best song on the album and definitely the best of the more epic tracks. If only they had cut 3 minutes out of it, it would have been perfect.
The Man Who Would Be King
Dave Murray's contribution to the record begins with slow, ballad-influenced mood as we are used to by now. Keyboards and guitars support this part nicely and for once lasting roughly 1:30 this intro isn't overlong (although I suppose it too could have been shorter). The fast part kicks in with VERY familiar rhythm. Maiden rip themselves off like there's no tomorrow. I like the arrangement simply because it is the first (and only) fast paced one on all the epic tracks – but to be fair it is too old, used on several Maiden songs before.
The build-up on to verses – unlike the one on "Mother Of Mercy" – works better here. Too bad the chorus is a let-down and after the first round the song starts to go around in circles, never going anywhere. Dave's solo ranks as the worst guitar playing on the whole album, just pointless doodling with awful progressive (seriously, this is too much already) sounds. Whatever atmosphere the early part of the song created, it's now lost and gone. The first 3 minutes are ok, but rest 6 just unfinished crap, I'm sorry.
When The Wild Wind Blows
Fans have been going nuts with this track, claiming it is Iron Maiden's greatest epic number. It's been compared to "Alexander The Great" and other immortal album closers. So expectations were certainly sky high.
What is immediately clear is that another "Alexander" this is not. The song has maybe 2-3 minutes of really good stuff in it but actually lasts – you guessed it – 11 minutes! It's the one solely Steve Harris-credited number and it's obvious he's suffering from the mammoth-disease once again. This one has grown on me the most after the first listen; the intro is straight out of "The X-Factor" and "Virtual XI" songbook, very similar to "The Clansman" for example. Bruce starts singing and the melodies have the same essence. The intro theme is too long; 2 minutes could have been clipped out. Second theme is much better and we move into "Dance Of Death" influenced guitar melodies. Solos are boring again, there's no idea in any of them. The third theme is easily the best melody on the whole record, Dickinson sings with lower register which sounds menacing and very refreshing after overdoing on the screams earlier. After Gers' mediocre solo and more DOD-melodies we go back to first theme. They have added wind sounds at the beginning and the end thus you get extra one minute length into it. Yes, they have this thing down very well.
This song has the best vocal melodies on the album and the middle riffing is probably the high point. However, they should have cut at least 4 minutes out of it and add a fast part after the mid-riffs. The song seems to demand it, yet it never comes. I still quite like this song even as it is; it loses to "The Talisman" but beats the other epics easily.
Overall impression
This album definitely needs several spins, after first listen I thought it was the worst crap Maiden has ever released. After grudgingly going through it over and over again, some songs do start to grow on you. "The Talisman" and "When The Wild Wind Blows" are solid epic numbers, "The Alchemist" is a solid rocker and "The Final Frontier" is ok. The worst song is "The Man Who Would Be King" which is mostly just useless. All the rest have some good parts, but also some totally forgettable stuff that merely raises them to ok status. And that intro (especially as it is stuck into same track with "The Final Frontier") tends to ruin any listening experience from the start.
As you can tell from many of the individual song comments, at least 20 minutes should have been cut to make the songs tighter and more focused. On some of the tunes there seems to be 10 verses and Dickinson tries hard to sing as many words within one sentence as he can. This doesn't sound very good, it's forced and songs aren't allowed to breathe (and end) naturally. Again quantity doesn't equal quality. There should be someone behind the mixing desk putting a stop to it saying a point has been made, now cut the song. The production is another problem; generally I find it to be more lifeless and hollow than on any of the previous Maiden albums. Some fans might love it, but I simply don't think it's heavy enough.
At the end of day "The Final Frontier" does beat "Dance Of Death." While DOD had only 2 or 3 good songs and several tunes as bad or even worse than "The Man Who Would Be King", TFF is more solid, if really unspectacular album. Meanwhile I still prefer "A Matter Of Life And Death" over TFF. None of the songs on TFF are as good as "For The Greater Good Of God" or "The Longest Day". All other Dickinson-fronted records are miles ahead of this one. I don't know what to make of this, for any other band I'd put this in the shelf as average prog metal offering. However, Maiden with their classic albums and even "Brave New World" set the bar so high, this one still remains a big disappointment. If they ever record another album, more realistic goal would be to just top this one. And for me personally, that would be enough. While they continue to be incredibly successful it's obvious as a recording band, their golden days are far behind.
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United States District Court, D. Montana, Great Falls Division
April 20, 2018
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff,v.PAIGE LARANN DEMARCE, Defendant.
Johnston, United States Magistrate Judge
United States accused Ms. Demarce of violating her conditions
of supervised release by 1) possessing a controlled
substance, 2) using a controlled substance, 3) failing to
report for substance abuse testing, 4) failing to participate
in substance abuse treatment, and 5) failing to pay
restitution. She admitted to violations 1 through 4, but
denied violation 5. Her supervised release should be revoked.
She should be sentenced to five months in custody, with
twenty-eight months of supervised release to follow. Ms.
Demarce should spend the first two months of her supervised
release in a treatment facility as determined by the
Probation Office.
On June
9, 2016, United States District Court Judge Brian Morris
sentence Ms. Demarce to seven days in custody, with
thirty-six months of supervised release to follow, and $31,
836.37 in restitution, after Ms. Demarce pleaded guilty to
Theft/Embezzlement/Misapplication by a Bank Officer. (Doc.
September 25, 2016, the United States Probation Office filed
a Report on Offender Under Supervision notifying the Court
that Ms. Demarce failed to comply with substance abuse
testing and treatment and used a prohibited substance on two
occasions. (Doc. 82). The Court allowed her to continue her
supervised release.
December 14, 2016, the Probation Office filed a Request for
Modifying the Conditions or Term of Supervision to address
her continued refusal to comply with substance abuse testing
by extending her monitoring program for two months. (Doc.
83). Ms. Demarce did not object, but failed to secure a
phone, and therefore the Probation Office was unable to
implement the modification.
January 9, 2017, the United States Probation Office filed a
Petition for Warrant for Offender Under Supervision due to
Ms. Demarce's refusal to comply with substance abuse
testing and treatment, as well as her failure to pay
restitution. (Doc. 84). Ms. Demarce was sentenced to three
months in custody, with thirty- three months of supervised
release to follow.
On July
27, 2017, the United States Probation Office filed a Petition
for Warrant for Offender Under Supervision. The petition
alleged that on May 9, 2017, Mr. Demarce supplied a positive
urine sample for opiates and methamphetamine, and admitted
both verbally and in writing to using both methamphetamine
and pain medication without a prescription. The petition
further alleged that Ms Demarce failed to report for
substance abuse testing on May 12, 18, and 31, 2017, and June
8, 14 and 26, 2017. The petition also alleged that Ms.
Demarce failed to report for substance abuse treatment on May
25, 2017 and June 8, 2017. Finally, the petition alleged that
as of the writing of the petition on July 27, 2017, there was
no record of Ms. Demarce making any restitution payments
while on supervision, and that the balance as of filing of
the petition was $31, 586.37. (Doc. 109). Judge Morris issued
a warrant for her arrest based on the allegations in the
petition. (Doc. 110).
Demarce was arrested on March 3, 2018. Ms. Demarce appeared
before the undersigned on March 12, 2018, in Great Falls,
Montana. Federal Defender Evangelo Arvanetes accompanied her.
Assistant United States Attorney Jared Cobell represented the
United States.
Demarce said she had read the petition and understood the
allegations. She waived the preliminary hearing, and the
parties consented to proceed immediately with the revocation
hearing before the undersigned.
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I sleep soundly when hubby is at home. That is to say, I don't sleep until he comes home. So, when he's out with colleagues after office hours I can't bring myself to sleep until he's on the bed with me.
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January, the month of transitions and new beginnings, sets the tone with some of the most interesting festivals. And the chill in the air at this time adds that perfect dash of magic and masti to its veritable smorgasbord. Take a look at some of the events and celebrations that lie just round the corner.
International Yoga Festival
Where: Pondicherry
When: Jan 4 – 7
As the rippling waters of the Bay of Bengal add magic to the salubrious climate of Puducherry, the positivity of this beach town gets further enhanced, with seasoned and new yoga practitioners from across the world touching down at Subhalakshmi Mahal to participate in the International Yoga Festival. Kick started in 1993, the four-day festival offers classes of asanas, meditation, lecture-demonstrations, workshops, yogic dance-and-drama sessions and even the perfect yogic cuisine that helps cleanse the body naturally. Don't forget to get yourself registered; it can be done online.
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Rann Utsav
Where: Gujarat
When: Jan 1 – Feb 20
The surreal salt plains of the Rann of Kutch spring to life with a thousand hues during this cultural extravaganza organized at the Tent City that's set up over an area of 5,00,000 sq mts close to the Dhordo village. Shutterbugs will enjoy shooting the beautifully caparisoned camels, women dressed in their multi-hued attires, men sporting colorful turbans, cultural performances, variety of cuisines and handicrafts that the state is famous for, together with being part of animal-cart rides, spa and meditation sessions, gaming areas, dirt biking and para motoring activities. Let your itinerary also include a full-moon night when the combo of dance, music and the mesmerizing white desert landscape in the moonlight looks magical.
National Street Food Festival
Where: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Delhi
When: Jan 12 – 14
This one's for the true gourmets who also enjoy the myriad tastes and varieties of street food that India offers. And they will tell you that gol gappe, bhel puri, pao bhaji, tikki, dahi bhalla etc. taste best when eaten from roadside stalls. Celebrating this genre of food, the National Street Food Festival would feature over 500 best street food vendors who will offer lip-smacking food, snacks, meals and desserts that no one will be able to resist.
Where: All over North India
When: Jan 13
One of the most joyous festivals of Punjab, Lohri, is traditionally believed to mark the end of the severe winter season. And in the pinds (villages), the rabi crop that stands looking glorious gives farmers good reasons for celebration and cheer. Come evening and everyone gathers around the sacred bonfire enjoying its crackling sounds and warmth. Soon, to the sounds of the dhol, it's time for the boisterous bhangra and gidda dances with everyone joining in step. The Lohri following the birth of a baby or a wedding in the family becomes extra special and is celebrated with a grand feast.
Pongal Festival
Where: Tamil Nadu
When: Jan 14-17
Celebrated over four days as a form of thanksgiving for a good harvest, devotees pray asking for blessings in the coming season as well. The celebrations include dancing around a bonfire that is believed to burn away all evil, cooking of a sweet made of rice and milk that is offered to the Sun God, worship of the household cattle in which new bells are tied around their necks and then, after their aarti, they are offered sweets. The last day of Pongal sees special prayers being performed for brothers and their families.
International Kite Festival
Where: Ahmedabad
When: Jan 7 – 15
Although celebrated in many regions across the country, the skies in the city of Ahmedabad- also known as the kite capital of Gujarat- seem to come ablaze with colour as kites of all shapes and hues bob up and down as those flying them enjoy tangling and untangling the line strings. Visitors from across the world come here to enjoy not just the festival's myriad hues but also walking down the fascinating Patang Bazaar that remains open 24X7. Another must-do in the city: a visit to the Kite Museum that houses a massive collection of unique kites from across the world.
Basant Panchami
Where: All over North India
When: Jan 22
It's a day when Saraswati, the Goddess of learning, arts and music, is worshipped. Little children are encouraged to write their first letters of the alphabet and start singing or dancing lessons on this day. For many, it's the Hindu Valentine's Day too- when Kamadev, the deity of love is invoked by sending flowers to one's spouse or the loved one. While Goddess Saraswati is also dressed in yellow, a lot of people too like to don outfits in shades of this hue and eat rice of this colour to emulate the mustard (sarson) flower fields that are in full bloom.
Jaipur Literature Festival
Where: Jaipur, Rajasthan
When: Jan 25 – 29
Touted as one the greatest literary shows on Earth, the Jaipur lit fest brings in litterateurs and book lovers from across the world onto a single venue. It's a great time to interact with authors about their latest work, hear them talk on a variety of interesting subjects and participate in discussions with them too. This year, the JLF's list of participating authors includes names such as Pico Iyer, Patrick French, Zakir Hussain, Nasreen Munni Kabir, Marina Warner, Dan Jones, among many others.
Republic Day
Where: Delhi, all state capitals
When: Jan 26
As the day dawns, many an Indian heart swells up with pride, for it was on this date in 1950 that the country's Constitution came into effect. All eyes are focused on the majestic Rajpath, the beautiful long pathway in Lutyens' Delhi, that unveils a spectacular parade, showcasing not just the country's defence capability but also its amazing cultural heritage and diversity. It's also a day when the Prime Minister lays a floral wreath at the Amar Jawan Jyoti in honour of the martyred soldiers at India Gate.
Jaisalmer Desert Festival
Where: Jaisalmer, Rajasthan
When: Jan 29 – 31
Organized against the backdrop of the sprawling 12th century sandstone fort, the festival unveils some of the most fascinating cultural slices of Rajasthan. Starting with a fun-filled procession that features the naats and fire-dancers, among others, it also offers activities such as camel polo, races and even a beauty contest of the humped beasts. There's an enjoyable tug-of-war between the village and urban folk, turban-tying for men and sari-tying for women competitions- all of which are any lensman's delight. During evenings, the picturesque Sam sand dunes turn on the magic, and as you enjoy the warmth of bonfires, folk musicians and dancers keep you mesmerized with their traditional performances.
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I have Multi-Store Magento Website, that is managed by only One Admin
in one of its store website,
when i click on product name, it redirects me to 404 page.
what can be the problem ?
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I have Multi-Store Magento Website, that is managed by only One Admin
in one of its store website,
when i click on product name, it redirects me to 404 page.
what can be the problem ?
Where are you viewing the product from?
If you've hard coded the display of a specific product, then perhaps you can see it to click because you've hard coded it in the template, but when you click it, the respective catalogue URL rewrite does not exist - and so 404s.
Check the product is viewable via a non rewritten URL. Eg.
Replace XXX with the entity id of the product (not the sku!)
If that doesn't work, then the product isn't either
If it does work, then you just need to rebuild your catalogue URL rewrites index.
Also try accessing it via the bootstrap just to rule out web server rewrites
If that works, check your web server config for rewrites.
Follow these steps until the problem is solved or you reach the end of the list.
You're using multi-store, do you have a discrete
MAGE_RUN_CODE or
MAGE_RUN_TYPE per store?
Do you have these being set correctly when accessing your store? If you're able to successfully get the home page but not product pages check for redirect's or changes to the domain that may impact the run codes.
Ways to set these:
Directly in your
index.php, e.g. a case statement based on
HTTP_HOST or domain name - passing them directly to
Mage::run($mageRunCode, $mageRunType);.
In your Apache virtualhost (or similar) per domain using
In your .htaccess (if Apache) with some regex e.g.
SetEnvIf Host .*example.* MAGE_RUN_CODE=example
With all of these options you need to make sure your logic in 1. or 3. includes the range of domains/hosts for each store. In 2. Check your the domains Apache is listening on to make sure it covers all that Magento is serving/redirecting on.
If this isn't the issue, assuming you're using Apache, it often helps to temporarily set your LogLevel to something more verbose like
debug to see exactly what's going on at the server level before Magento gets involved.
base_url of www.example.com. So you hit example.com, the store displays and it works but all the generated URLs are www.example.com, so they'll result in a 404.
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A Spy's Worth
I knew the rot had started years ago, when a bloke from our secret services took me for lunch and asked me if I would like to serve my country. He didn't say which organisation he was working for. I knew what he was and I'd read enough James Bond and John Le Carre to have a rough idea what his organisation got up to. I also knew that whatever it was they wanted me to do would hurt and a salary was never discussed. I said no thanks, and thanks for the free lunch. I never heard from him again.
When I was working at the BBC, it became a badge of honour to have a Christmas Tree stamped on your personal file. This was the responsibility of a Security Service officer who worked undercover in a secret office in the basement and who was responsible for identifying potential subversives in the organisation and then stamping their files with the Christmas Tree. Trouble was, everyone knew who he was, what he did and where he worked, which rather spoilt the great game. It was all a bit dusty and class ridden, and a long way from James Bond. But this sad, lonely character was the real thing. He was a spy.
Now we learn that present day British spies are often not prepared to go the extra mile because of low morale and even lower pay. 'Going the extra mile' is an interesting term, which I guess must mean risking your life, which is why I didn't even discuss a pay scale at that lunch. The gambling, limitless expense accounts, fast cars and fast women have always been an Ian Fleming fiction. If you want that lifestyle, work in Silicon Valley, or for Sixty Minutes.
No, the reward of serving in Her Majesty's Secret Service has never been about pay, benefits, pensions or even free membership of the Gym -- but always about being part of a prestigious, mysterious and elite agency. In fact, the pay is not good. Budding James Bonds only earn forty thousand dollars a year. With more experience -- presumably after they've killed a few people -- the salary can hit 60k.
Believe me, if that man at that lunch had wanted me to jump into the East River from a bone crunching height or battle with a sinking elevator in Venice, he'd have had to pay me a great deal more than that.
The name's Bates, Simon Bates, for CBS News in London.


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If you open up Outlook and it gives you the Outlook error 0X80070021 that means the PST file is corrupt. It needs to be repaired. The location of the file depends on the operating system you are running on and the version of Outlook you are using. Moreover, hardware failures are a common cause for the error code 0X80070021. Another reason for this error code is the failure of data storage.
In addition, in some business houses, there are possibilities that the network server contains your PST file. You can try to access the file through the client computer. However, it slows down the system. Therefore, if you are one of those Outlook users who is frequently confronting the error code, then you can have a look at the rest of the article for the effective fixes to this error code.
Easy Ways to Resolve Outlook Error 0X80070021
This Outlook error 0X80070021 stops you from sending or receiving emails. Hence, you need to fix the issue or you will not able to access your Outlook account. Whatever reasons be responsible for the error code, you need to fix the issue at the earliest possible.
Fix 1: Repair Corrupt PST Files in your MS Outlook
Mainly, the Outlook error code 0X80070021 occurs due to corrupt PST files. Hence, you need to repair the PST files to get rid of this situation. For the Windows user, they can find the PST file using the path C:\Documnets and Settings\%Username%\LocalSettings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\Outlook.pst. After locating the PST file, remove it. You can also use a repair tool to repair the PST file.
Fix 2: Using Task Manager
With the help of the Task Manager, you can fix the issue. To perform the action, go through the following section.
- At first, press the Ctrl+Alt+Delete key to launch the Task Manager option. From the Task Manager option, select the Processes tab and search for the Outlook process application and click on it.
- Lastly, select the End task option to complete the process.
Fix 3: Restore Point
Restoring your system to the point when Outlook was working fine might resolve your issue. Hence, you need to make use of System Restore to get your computer back to an earlier state.
- Firstly, you need to log into your system as an Administrator option. After that, click the Start button and then select All Programs Option.
- Then, move to the Windows Accessories option and then move to the System Tools option.
- From the System Tools section, choose System Restore option. After that, select the Restore my computer to an earlier time option.
- Thereafter, a confirmation window will pop-up on the system screen. Click Next to confirm and restart the system when the restoration process completes.
Fix 4: Remove Indexing Tool
Removing the indexing tool might help you to solve the issue. To remove the indexing tool, at first, you need to launch Outlook and move to the Tools from the Menu option. After that, select the Trust Center window. From the left panel of the window, choose Add-Ins and then you will find a button which helps you to manage COM Add-Ins. You need to select the COM Add-Ins from the drop-down menu that will appear on the system screen. To proceed further press the Go option. After that, you will find the Search Email Indexer and highlight it. Next, click on the Remove option to delete it. When the process gets finished, close the Outlook tab and reopen it to check for the Outlook error code 0X80070021.
Fixing Outlook error 0X80070021 requires that you apply the correct fixes that are mentioned above. Hopefully, after going through the article and applying the fixes, you can resolve the error in no time.


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Just a reminder, that's 7 metres of sea level rise if the Greenland ice sheet goes. The Petermann glacier is actually floating ice, but loss of these ice barriers allows the main on-land glaciers and the ice shelf itself to increase their outflow rates into the ocean.
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It's been more 24 hours since I sent payment via Western Union and followed up via email with photos verifying the transfer.
My email following payment hasn't even been acknowledged. Not a great way to build confidence in a first time customer.
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Adjacent to TechWorks Campus, the museum is an educational experience for global visitors, tracing the history of tractor and engine development here in Waterloo, the role of Deere employees in the innovation & production of these products and the impact they have on the Cedar Valley & agricultural marketplace. To learn more, visit the museum's website.
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Hours of Operation:
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Sunday Noon - 4:00 p.m.
Holiday Hours:
Closed: New Year's Day, Easter, Thanksgiving,
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Closed early at 3 p.m.: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,
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Trainer Gregg Sacco's Mind Control worked 5 furlongs at Monmouth Park on Oct. 26, his final workout before the Breeders' Cup Juvenile on Nov. 2 Asbury Park Press
The $2 million Breeders' Cup Sentient Jet Juvenile is shaping up as a classic confrontation between the best from the East and the best from West, featuring two of the country's top trainers.
On one side is the Bob Baffert-trained Game Winner, incredibly impressive in his three career starts at Del Mar and Santa Anita. And on the other is the Chad Brown-trained Complexity, who romped at Belmont Park in his last start.
The mile-and-1/16 test will be run on Nov. 2 at Churchill Downs.
The 35th renewal of the Breeders' Cup, featuring 14 races over two days, beginning on Nov. 2, with $30 million in purses, will be televised on NBC and NBC Sports Network.
Here's a look at the field for the 2018 Breeders' Cup Juvenile, including post positions, morning line odds and information on each entrant:
9. Game Winner 8/5
Trainer: Bob Baffert
Jockey: Joel Rosario
The only multiple Grade 1 winner in the field; Coming off victory in the Grade 1 American Pharoah Stakes at Santa Anita on Sept. 29.
6. Complexity 5/2
Trainer: Chad Brown
Jockey: Jose Ortiz
Impressive wire-to-wire winner in the Grade 1 Champagne Stakes at Belmont Park on Oct. 6, going a mile in 1:34.63.
11. of Honor 5-1
Trainer: Shug McGaughey
Jockey: John Velazquez
Ran a solid second behind Complexity in the Grade 1 Champagne Stakes on Oct. 6, after breaking maiden at Saratoga.
12. Gunmetal Gray 10-1
Trainer: Jerry Hollendorfer
Jockey: Flavien Prat
Second in the Grade 1 American Pharoah Stakes to Game Winner on Sept. 29 at Santa Anita.
8. Standard Deviation 12-1
Trainer: Chad Brown
Jockey: Javier Castellano
Ran third in the Grade 1 Breeders' Futurity at Keeneland on Oct. 6; Broke maiden at Saratoga on Aug. 18.
7. Mind Control 20-1
Trainer: Gregg Sacco
Jockey: Irad Ortiz, Jr.
Won the Grade 1 Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga On Sept. 3; Scratched from the Grade 1 Breeders' Futurity on Oct. 6 due to a fever.14.
14. Signalman 20-1
Trainer: Ken McPeek
Jockey: Brian Hernandez, Jr.
Closed for second in the Grade 1 Breeders' Futurity at Keeneland on Oct. 6; Broke maiden at Saratoga on Sept. 1, on second asking.
5. Well Defined 20-1
Trainer: Kathleen O'Connell
Jockey: Kike Smith
Won the FTBOA Florida Sire In Reality Stakes at Gulfstream on Sept. 29.
4. Tight Ten 30-1
Trainer: Steve Asmussen
Jockey: Ricardo Santana, Jr.
Runner-up in the Grade 2 Saratoga Special and Grade 3 Iroquios Stakes at Churchill Downs on Sept. 15 in last two starts.
10. Knicks Go 30-1
Trainer: Ben Colebrook
Jockey: Albin Jimenez
Won the Grade 1 Breeders' Futurity at Keeneland on Oct. 6 by 5 1/4-lengths, at odds of 70-1.
2. Mr. Money 30-1
Trainer: Bret Calhoun
Jockey: Gabriel Saez
Broke maiden at Churchill Downs on Sept. 28 on third try.
3. Dueling 30-1
Trainer: Jerry Hollendorfer
Jockey: Manny Franco
Broke maiden on third asking at Santa Anita on Sept. 28.
13. Topper T 30-1
Trainer: Ray Tracy, Jr.
Jockey: Tyler Gaffalione
Second in the Shakopee Juvenile Stakes at Canterbury Park on Sept. 15; Won the Iowa Cradle Stakes at Prairie Meadows on Aug. 11.


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Helping Kids With Mental Health Conditions
by Stefanie Hoffman
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Why we like it
This Amana AGR6603SFS gas range (MSRP $799) has a 5.0 cubic-foot oven that bakes, roasts, and broils insanely evenly, even without convection. That's almost unheard of in a range this affordable(available at Home Depot for $719.10). However, its rangetop leaves something to be desired. None of the burners can effectively reach high or low temperatures, and it struggles to boil water in a reasonable amount of time, making this range great for bakers but lackluster for home cooks.
- Produced extremely evenly-baked cookies and cake, and a near-perfectly roasted pork loin.
- Bake assist presets make preheating a snap.
- 5.0 cubic-foot oven preheats in just over 6 minutes.
- Weak broiler that barely browned a tray of toast.
- Unimpressive high and low temperatures on the range.
Bake Assist—Preset temperature settings at 375º, 400º, 425º F. Just select a temperature and press start.
Warm hold—Keeps the oven at 145ºF to 190ºF to keep dishes warm until you're ready to eat.
Sealed burners—Simplifies cleanup easy by keeping spills from dripping beneath the cooktop.
Temp Assure—Evenly distributes heat through the entire oven to help food cook evenly.
Self clean—Automatically cleans in two to four hours.
What user reviews say
This range scores 4.5/5 stars on Home Depot. Owners love its easy-to-read digital temperature controls and that the oven heats evenly. One reviewer swears that there are "not enough words to describe how awesome this stove is," and 94% of customers would recommend buying the range.
What we found
We also put the AGR6603SFS through the same battery of tests we use on every range we evaluate to see how well it performed.
We checked high and low temperatures for each of the burners, examined how evenly it heated a pan, baked cakes and cookies, roasted a pork loin, and broiled a tray of toast to serve as a heat map of hot and cool spots in the oven. We scored the food on a scale of 10 compared to the rest of the ovens and ranges we've tested this year.
Oven results
6:18 to 350º F. This is a very fast preheat time for an oven of this size.
This Amana baked some of the most even cookies we've ever seen, with a near-perfect score of 9.8/10 compared to other ranges we've tested. They're slightly unevenly baked on the bottom, but not nearly enough to matter to an average cookie-eater. This bodes well for avid bakers.
9.9/10 for consistency compared to other ranges we've tested—one of our best cake scores in recent testing.
9.99/10 for consistency compared to other ranges we've tested—perhaps our most even pork roast to date.
9.84/10 compared to other ranges we've tested. While this toast scored high on evenness, it can hardly be called toast. The fact that this tray of bread sat under the Amana's fully-preheated broiler for 3 minutes and barely browned speaks to the power—or lack thereof—in this broiler.
Range results
Twelve to thirteen minutes on average, but as fast as about eight minutes on the front left burner. This is a fairly low score compared to our other ranges.
The surface of a pan hit 483ºF on the right front burner, other burners got between 377º-475º F. This is a mediocre score, certainly not great compared to other ranges we've tested.
A pan reached 130ºF on the right rear burner, other burners hovered between 164º-172º F. This is a very unimpressive score compared to the other ranges we've tested.
Should you buy it?
Probably not. Though its oven is stellar, the cooktop scored very poorly, and that's an important half of the range to ignore. Additionally, the only thing that sets this Amana apart from this Whirlpool range is its Bake Assist temperature presets. Otherwise, the Whirlpool version is cheaper and is essentially the same 5.0 cu ft. gas range, with basically the same burners, made in the same factory in Tulsa, OK, and based on the exact same design. If you're sold on this model, buy whichever is on sale.
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As we have seen with recent events such as Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Ike, and most recently Superstorm Sandy, coastal flood damage can be disproportionately large compared to wind damage.
See the recent RMS infographic on hurricanes, which highlights the risk of storm surge.
Following the flooding in Manhattan and along the New Jersey shores, Sandy highlighted the need for comprehensive, high-resolution coastal flood modeling solutions. Sandy also provided deeper insights into flood coverage terms and assumptions across various lines of business throughout the insurance industry.
With the anniversary of Superstorm Sandy (October 29) approaching, RMS identified which coastal cities may be hit with a major coastal flood event.
Using RiskLink 13.0, the latest version of our North Atlantic Hurricane model suite, RMS calculated the 100-year return period (RP) surge loss contribution (%) for 12 coastal central business districts, which ranged from Galveston to New York City.
Baltimore and Biloxi are at highest risk, driven by 100-year RP surge contributions of 61% and 51%, respectively, across all lines of business.
Believe it or not, cities like Miami and the Outer Banks in North Carolina exhibited some of the lowest risk against a major surge event, with 100-year RP contributions of 5% each.
Consistent across all high-risk cities:
- Located in fairly low-lying areas at or below sea level
- Close to shallow-sloping sea beds
These characteristics, among others like wind intensity and angle of landfall, effectively allow for surge to gradually build throughout an approaching storm and impact nearby coastal regions with little or no resistance.
In RiskLink 13.0, the RMS view of coastal flood risk remains up-to-date. With the core hazard modeling methodology in place since 2011, RMS has integrated the latest science, data, and industry development into the high-resolution (as high as 180 meters along coastlines and within regions of high exposure densities), hydrodynamic storm surge model from DHI known as MIKE 21.
The inclusion of these updates effectively reduces the uncertainty associated with surge hazard and loss, and ensures that the RMS coastal flood model continues to be the only credible model for quantifying surge risk accurately.
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With these advancements and over 30,000 stochastic events that impact the U.S. comes a deeper insight into when and where the next major coastal flood event could occur. For instance, Superstorm Sandy surge losses contributed to 65% of total insured losses.
In RiskLink 13.0, there are over 3,000 stochastic events that do the same, which translates to an annual likelihood of about 10% across all U.S. hurricane states, based on long-term hurricane frequencies. This annual likelihood nearly triples in the Northeast (29%) and doubles in the Gulf (17%), the two regions at highest risk of experiencing the next Sandy-like event.
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The Fifth Sunday after the Pentecost, Year A
[Texts: Genesis 24:34-38, 42-49, 58-67; Psalm 45:10-17; Romans 7:15-25; Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30]
"The Yoke's on Us"
Sunday, 09 July 2017
Please pray with me:
O Lord, take my lips and speak through them;
Take our minds and think through them;
Take our hearts and set them on fire with love for Thee. Amen.
I had a conversation last Sunday morning with a man whom I barely knew at all. In fact, I'm pretty sure I had only officially met him once before this exchange.
I knelt on the floor beside the pew where he was sitting, and we chatted for what was probably no more than ten minutes. I don't even remember all of what was said—mainly just small talk, you know?
I do remember saying that I was looking forward to getting to know him better now that my fiancée and I had made the decision to join the parish that he and his wife attend. I told him, "I hope you and I will get to be friends. You seem pretty cool."
"I'd like that," he replied with a bit of a smile. "I know you mean so much to [my wife], and any friend of hers is a friend of mine."
"Sounds good. We should definitely hang out sometime. I gotta go sing now, though," I said, gesturing toward the choir loft, where my choir director was getting everyone warmed up and handing out copies of "There is a Balm in Gilead". I would have been perfectly happy to sit and chat with my new friend all day, but duty called, and he understood.
"Catch you later, Matt," I told him. "Y'all have a happy Fourth."
"You too," he said. He gave me a hug before I dashed up to the chancel to join the rest of the choir.
Later that week—on Thursday—I ended up spending several hours at his house.
But I wasn't there to hang out with Matt.
I had come—bearing a box of chocolate chip cookies, a Hallmark card, and a little pink mason jar full of flowers—to console his widow.
Early Wednesday morning, Matt had gone out for a jog. He collapsed on the sidewalk in front of his neighbor's house and had a massive heart attack.
His death sent a shock wave of grief through the community—the faculty and students at the school where he taught, our parish, and most of all, his beloved wife, with whom he had celebrated his twenty-first wedding anniversary just a month earlier.
As I sat in the choir loft during his beautiful memorial service, I couldn't help staring at that pew where he had been sitting just six days earlier, making small talk with me about his Fourth of July plans at his parents' lake house. It had been less than a week, and here I was, at his funeral, choking back tears as I helped to sing him home.
He was forty-five years old.
Life is short. The time that we have with one another is precious. We never know when we might be seeing someone smile or hearing them say our name for the last time.
Jesus lived His life with a profound awareness that His time on Earth would be brief, and tried to impress on His disciples—many of whom would later be martyred—that they should do the same.
He taught them to preach, teach, heal, and evangelize. He instilled in them a willingness to suffer for their faith. He also taught them a lot—both by word and example—about relationships.
Today, we hear Jesus talking about relationships using an illustration that drew on His carpentry background.
You may recall that His stepfather, St. Joseph, was a carpenter by profession. So, around the time Jesus became a teenager, Joseph would have taken Him on as an apprentice. Since Jesus didn't start His preaching ministry until roughly age thirty, I think it's safe to say He definitely knew His way around His dad's shop by then, having spent more than half His life learning the tricks of the trade.
First-century Nazareth wasn't exactly a booming metropolis—it was kind of out in the boonies, really. Because of that, a lot of the people Jesus grew up around would have been farmers. Back then, before they invented all the heavy machinery we have now, farmers used draft animals like oxen to help them do necessary tasks on the farm.
In order to attach oxen to a plow or another piece of farm equipment, you need a yoke. A yoke is a large, heavy wooden implement shaped a bit like a sideways uppercase letter "B". One yoke, or several of them, would be attached to a harness, which would then be anchored onto the plow. A farmer would need one yoke for every two oxen, plus plenty of spares in case one broke.
Living out in the country near so many farms, and being the stepson of the local carpenter, Jesus had probably helped make a ridiculous number of yokes by the time He began preaching—I'm sure it was one of the most common requests they got at the shop.
All that is to say, Jesus is speaking both theologically and as a carpenter when He says, "Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy-laden, and I shall give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for My yoke is easy and My burden is light."
You may know—particularly if you're my age or a little bit older, and grew up with the Oregon Trail video games—that a yoke doesn't just attach an ox to whatever it's pulling. It attaches two oxen to each other, and to whatever they're pulling.
This way, the farmer could guide them and keep them under control, but the full burden of the work wasn't on just one ox—two of them (or sometimes a whole team of them) would share the burden by being yoked together, combining their strength and dividing the weight of the work between them.
A yoke enabled multiple oxen to do what would be impossible for one ox singlehandedly.
Think about that.
We live in a world that vastly over-emphasizes independence while grossly de-valuing compassion and community.
We tell children as young as two or three, "I'm so proud of you—you did it all by yourself!"
We grow up hearing self-sufficiency lauded as a virtue and admitting we need help denounced as a character flaw.
Then, when we encounter heavy, heavy burdens—grief, addiction, mental illness, disability, family turmoil, poverty, divorce, fear, and tough decisions, just to name a few—we hear that voice in the back of our head saying:
"Do it yourself."
"This is your problem."
"You got yourself into this situation; you have to get yourself out of it."
"Figure it out."
But in today's Gospel lesson, we hear another voice, one with a very different message.
"Take My yoke upon you," Jesus says to the crowd who had gathered to hear Him teach—and to us as well. "My yoke is easy, and My burden is light."
The burdens we bear in this life aren't always easy or light. Sometimes they are absolutely suffocating. Jesus does not promise a life free of burdens or difficulty.
And, no, unfortunately, being a Christian does not change that.
My friend—the one whose husband, Matt, just died of a heart attack last week—is probably the kindest, gentlest, and most sincerely Christlike person I have ever known, and yet she now finds herself suddenly, senselessly widowed at the age of forty-three.
Jesus once said that the rain falls and the sun shines on the righteous and the unrighteous alike, and that's the truth.
What happens to us is not determined by our faith. The suffering we experience is not doled out based on whether or not we know the words to the Nicene Creed or can name all of the Apostles. Jewish, Muslim, Catholic, Protestant, atheist, Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster… it doesn't matter.
Regardless of who we are or what we believe or how we live, sooner or later, most of us will find ourselves trembling under the weight of a load we cannot bear alone.
Life is short. Our bodies and our hearts are fragile. Our time on earth is sometimes painful—sometimes unimaginably painful. But none of the pain we absorb during our lives is ours to carry alone.
Just as we do not come to the table alone, we are not sent out into the world alone. Just as we kneel side by side to share in Christ's death as we share the bread and the cup, we go forth side by side, yoked together, to proclaim with our words and our lives the truth of His resurrection.
And this is where our faith does matter—where Christ, the yoke-building Carpenter, does matter.
As Christians, not only do we have a harness that tethers us to God, allowing Him to guide and direct us like a farmer overseeing a team of oxen, we also have a yoke tethering us to one another, so that we might share the burdens and the labor and the weight of our mortal lives among all of us, making possible what would be impossible for any one of us.
One of my favorite hymns puts it like this:
Mortals, join the mighty chorus which the morning stars began.
God above is reigning o'er us; brother-love binds man to man.
Ever singing, march we onward, victors in the midst of strife;
Joyful music leads us Sunward in the triumph-song of life.
My brothers and sisters, we are bound to one another by the love of God and the fellowship which we are called to share as we bear our burdens here below. We are brought together at the rail to share, not only individually but collectively, in the Passion of Christ—the suffering of the One who died so that we might all one day rise with Him.
When we participate in the Mass, we participate in that unthinkable agony, knowing that one day, we will participate in the unthinkable joy of the resurrection, and of eternal life, never to be separated from God or one another again.
We confess by our presence with one another at the table that as we bear one another's burdens together here during our time on Earth, we will be raised together—with my friend Matt and with all God's faithful people—on the last day, and will share in that new Heaven and new Earth where sorrow and tears will be no more.
In the meantime, each week, we are told: "The Body and Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ keep you in everlasting life."
And to that, we say, "Amen."
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The Best Keratin Hair Products for Curly Hair
Frizz is the enemy on many occasions for curly girls. By employing the proper keratin hair products in your routine you can keep your strands smooth.
Every curly-headed gal knows the struggle with frizz — it can make or break our hairstyle. What's a girl to do these days when she wants to rock a hairstyle without any fuzziness at all, and especially when you decide to go straight for special occasions. Keratin hair products are often overlooked and misunderstood. Not all products infused with keratin straighten out your curls. Instead, there are many that smooth the hair cuticle, keeping frizz at bay. Read on to discover the some of our favorite keratin hair products that you can use on your curly hair.
Keratin Hair Products for Curly Hair
If you don't already know, most of our hair is made up of keratin proteins which keeps hair strengthened. Over time hair loses keratin through various methods of styling (more on this later), and this, dear curlfriend, is what provokes frizz. Using keratin hair care products help smooth and fill in the empty slots of the hair strands where the protein is absent. And not to be confused with a keratin hair treatment, these products below don't temporarily straighten your natural hair texture. On its own, keratin doesn't change the texture of your hair, but rather help with smoothening.
Use a Keratin Infused Wash and Care System
First, things first. To get the best results from a keratin hair product, it's best to use a system that targets frizz —that's infused with keratin— from start-to-finish. We like TREsemmé Keratin Smooth Keratin Infusing Shampoo and TREsemmé Keratin Smooth Keratin Infusing Conditioner. This hair care system is infused with keratin, leaves hair sleek and shiny while getting rid of frizz. The shampoo is formulated with lower sulfates—probably music to the ears of many curl friends who prefer to use less sulfates on their hair as they feel it can be drying— and gives hair a gentle cleanse. The conditioner, also infused with keratin, nourishes and leaves hair smooth, sleek and manageable.
Keratin Hair Products for Color-Treated Curls
As mentioned above, depletion of keratin can occur through various methods of styling. This includes color treatments. As awesome as your dye (or bleach) job looks against your curlicues, the cons of having color treated hair includes the constant upkeep. Mainly, hair color fades from frequent washing and is prone to dryness and damage due to the raised cuticle of the hair from the coloring process, which later results in frizz. Add a shampoo like Suave Professionals Keratin Infusion Smoothing Shampoo into your regimen which is formulated with lower sulfates, gently cleanses and revitalizes color-treated hair.
Extend the Life of Straight Hairstyles
Wearing curly hair in a straightened hairstyle can be a hit or a miss. Sometimes you get lucky if t he weather permits (ahh, don't you love low humidity days?), and well, other times you don't. You know the drill, you put all of your time and effort to flat iron your hair, everything looks so good in the mirror, but once you head on out, frizz takes over—ugh! Keep things smooth by locking hair in place with keratin hair products designed for styling. First, protect hair from the damaging effects of heat styling tools and eliminate frizz with TREsemmé Keratin Smooth Flat Iron Smoothing Spray. After heat styling use TREsemmé Keratin Smooth Keratin Smoothing Serum to control frizz and flyaways. This serum is a lightweight formula and it won't weigh the hair down so no need to worry about your hairstyle feeling stuffy. To seal the deal and lock your straight style in place use TREsemmé Keratin Smooth Hairspray.
Have you tried any of these keratin hair care products on your curly hair?