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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
SOME GUY WHO KILLS PEOPLE (2011) review
Some Guy Who Kills People (2011) (1st viewing) d. Perez, Jack (USA)
Intriguing black comedy starring Kevin Corrigan as a slovenly ice cream parlor employee (recently released from the loony bin) whose former childhood bullies suddenly meet violent ends all around him. The vividly staged murders serve as punctuation marks to scenes of Corrigan dealing with less splattery aspects of life, which include meeting his estranged daughter Ariel Gade, dating quirky-cute Brit Lucy Davis, and attempting to appease caustic mom Karen Black. Barry Bostwick nearly runs away with the flick as a nattering sheriff whose knack for understatement and obsession with the mundane are among the many gems provided by screenwriter Ryan A. Levin. Sweet, quirky and affably enjoyable fare, adjectives not usually ascribed to a flick where limbs and red stuff fly with such abandon.
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Judgement of People´s International Court of Iran Tribunal issued on 5 February 2013
This outstanding feat is the accomplishment of a working group including a number of the families of those who lost their lives in the 1980's executions of political prisoners, as well as some of the surviving political prisoners themselves, along with political activists including workers, students, women's rights activists, children's' rights activists, lawyers and Human rights activists.
Beginning on an international scale in the autumn of 2007, this group, working tirelessly for over five years and with the help of many people living in Iran and outside Iran and the Diaspora collected documents, secured funds for court expenses and myriad other forms of support, was able to bring the state of Iran to judgment, and this prior to the regime's demise or transition. Amassing nearly a hundred witness statements, the guilty verdict here was the first in history achieved not by governments or political organizations but by ordinary people themselves along with internationally recognized judges and prosecutors.
That this judgment was accomplished by expanding the concept of crimes against humanity to include not just individuals but states as well, makes this an achievement not for Iran alone, but for the rest of the world, a general expansion of international customary law. The tribunal and its judgment, however unofficial in its authority, thus becomes a document for potential future struggles. Having, moreover, centered this quest for justice and the means for achieving it in the hands of justice seeking people, this judgment belongs to all those who have suffered grave injustice and pain in the world.
It is to be hoped that both Iranian and other international justice activists will take the next steps toward justice and equality, including the spreading of people's courts to the rest of the world and other actions leading to the international recognition of the rights of people against oppressive states.


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Building the Right Environment to Support AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning
Microsoft spokesman Brandon LeBlanc announced that "Starting at 12:00 a.m. on October 18 in New Zealand (4:00 a.m. October 17 in Redmond, Wash.), Windows 8.1 will begin rolling out worldwide as a free update for consumers on Windows 8 through the Windows Store."
No news yet as to whether Microsoft is planning to release the RTM update early to developers for feedback through MSDN and TechNet subscriptions.
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Be the Change (in the Era of Climate Change)
I've been inspired this year by people and communities taking action to combat the existential threat of climate change. This post is dedicated to the youth, parents, cities, counties and others leading this action. First, the brutal facts.
Accelerating Climate Change
In late 2018, two authoritative reports sounded an alarm about the current state of climate change and what lies ahead in the near future. At the international level, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), issued its Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius (the target approved by 195 nations in the Paris Agreement in order to avert long-lasting, irreversible climate change impacts). We've already increased the global mean temperature by one degree. The report's main conclusion is that limiting global warming to this threshold "would require rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society." At the national level, the Fourth National Climate Assessment was issued validating that the impacts and costs of climate change are already being felt and with dire warnings about future impacts on communities, the economy, water availability, health, ecosystems, agriculture and infrastructure.
It's no exaggeration to say that the future of our world is truly at stake. What we do in the next 11 years is of enormous consequence. To limit warming to 1.5 degrees, we need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030 and be on a path to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.
Change is happening and more is needed. I hope you are inspired by some of the examples below to take further action in your own lives.
Greta Thunberg, a 16-year old Swedish activist, has catalyzed a youth climate movement. Following Greta's example, 1.4 million students in 112 countries participated in school strikes on March 15th. Greta speaks truth to power with a passionate, appropriately serious tone and wisdom beyond her years. Check out her latest speech (at the Brilliant Minds Conference), 8 minutes in length and well worth a listen.
Here in the Bay Area, youth are also taking action. The San Mateo County Office of Education's Environmental Literacy Initiative supports an Environmental Youth Leadership Network. Students from over 30 middle and high schools have been participating and developing community impact projects.
Jim and Sara Soland have started the Parent Climate Pledge after asking themselves what they can do to be effective parents in this age of anthropogenic climate change. They are leading by example by becoming politically active, reducing their own carbon footprint and helping raise their children to be politically and environmentally active. If you are a parent, I encourage you to sign up for their updates and make your own pledge.
Cities and Counties
Cities and counties are also stepping up to be the change. Many cities have adopted Climate Action Plans and some are updating them to reflect the current need for increased climate mitigation. In this opinion piece, A Green New Deal for every Peninsula City, Doug Silverstein challenges cities to adopt expanded green building codes and become climate leaders. Doug is also working with stakeholders in San Mateo County to build a coalition of county-wide organizations to form Green County San Mateo.
In Marin County, Drawdown: Marin is bringing together leaders and stakeholders across the county to develop and implement bold climate solutions in 6 Focus Areas: Renewable Energy, Transportation, Buildings and Infrastructure, Local Food and Waste, Carbon Sequestration and Climate Resilient Communities.
There is plenty we can all do to lower our carbon footprint and get politically involved. Everyone is needed. If you're ready to be further challenged and inspired, Greta Thunberg lays out what we can do."If you regularly fly around the world, eat meat and dairy, and are living a high-carbon lifestyle, that means you have used up countless people's remaining carbon budgets. Carbon budgets that they will need in their everyday life for generations to come. And if that wasn't enough, those whose carbon budgets we are stealing are the ones least responsible and the ones who are going to be affected the most by this crisis. Everyone and everything needs to change. But the bigger your platform, the bigger your responsibility. The bigger your carbon footprint, the bigger your moral duty. To make the change required, we need role models and leaders—people like you."
In hope and partnership,
P.S. For some levity and celebrity voices, check out this 7-minute video (clean version) on loving our planet.


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It's spring-cleaning time, and I've gone through my files and bookshelves to update resources for those who write from personal experience. Here is Part I of my annotated list of resources, including books, journals and websites: Books on How to Write Essays and How To Find Subjects from Your Experience for All Your Writing The … Continue reading
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With Mother's Day approaching, I once again reread two poems by Stanley Plumly that I admire. In "Say Summer/For My Mother," Plumly writes: I could give it back to you, perhaps in a season, say summer. I could give you leaf back, green grass, sky full of rain… And in "Two Moments, for My Mother," … Continue reading
When I was a girl of 10 and already a writer in my own mind, I was frustrated that no one took my writing seriously. I nevertheless decided that I would be a Rhodes Scholar and a winner of a Pulitzer and a Nobel by the time I was 30, at which point I would … Continue reading
In The Heart Aroused: Poetry and Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America, poet David Whyte writes: The core of difficulty at the heart of modern work life is its abstraction from many of the ancient cycles of life that allow the silence and time in which true appreciation and experience can take place. The … Continue reading
Editor's Note: All the poems printed in this article are a collaboration of the two authors, James Bertolino and Anita K. Boyle. "Hard Candy" first appeared in the print journal Cranky, No. 1, 2004 as did James Bertolino's instructional essay on poetic collaboration; "One Day" appeared in StringTown, No.6, 2003 and "On Edge" appeared in … Continue reading


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Appendix B: My Years with General Motors [Part 2]
Purpose: To show students how financial controls are critical to the success of a growing business and how demands from capital appropriations, inventory build-up and earnings management are critical.
by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.
Questions from Reading Selected Chapters
(Each student will be prepared to discuss the answers to each of the following questions in class.)
Chapter 8: the Development of Financial Controls
1. Who originally developed the DuPont Model of emphasizing capital turnover as well as profit margin in calculating ROI?
2. Who initiated the technique of displaying charts of the efficiency of divisional performance at general managers' meetings at DuPont?
3. Who, and in what year, made an effort to apply the principle of ROI in appropriating funds to the operating side of the corporation at General Motors?
4. During the expansion of 1919 three problems emerged that resulted in the crisis of 1920, what were they?
5. What was the financial model that is one fot he chief bases for strategic business decisions?
6. The story of how General Motors survived the crisis of 1920 falls into two parts. What are they?
7. Summarize the four principles that were to be satisfied in appropriations procedures.
8. Under the new proposals could general managers authorize expenditures?
9. How often were reports of construction in progress to be made?
10. Each appropriation request was to receive consideration and analysis from whom before a commitment was made?
11. What would you say about information on appropriations requests?
12. Why was General Motors short of cash in 1920?
13. Initially, what level in the corporation controlled cash?
14. Under the consolidated cash-control system explain how each of the following worked: Depository accounts; minimum and maximum balances; transfer by telegraph; and settlement certificates.
15. The corporation began calculating a month ahead what their cash would be for what time period?
16. What components were considered in the month ahead cash calculation?
17. What did the company do with the excess cash their cash plan generated?
18. What did the Inventory Committee do?
19. General Managers submitted a monthly budget to the Inventory Committee which showed estimated sales for how many months?
20. Inventory levels and inventory turnover changed by how much between Sep. 1920 and Jun 1922?
21. What attitude did the company take toward expectations of increased future sales?
22. Eventually, what became the key and long-term solution to inventory control in the company?
23. The scope of the four-month forecast was eventually enlarged to include what components?
24. The enlarged forecasts were to be in the hands of the V.P. by what date?
25. What was the key element in the forecast?
26. How often were division managers required to report on actual unit production and sales at the factory?
27. At the end of each month division managers had to report to the V.P. what three statistics?
28. Where was the big gap in the information system at headquarters?
29. Beginning in 1922 the division managers had to submit year end estimates of what three statistics for what three conditions?
30. Complete the following sentence: "There will always be some conflict between the _____________ and the ______________, since the ______________ naturally think they can do something about a statistical situation, as they often can."
31. Complete the following sentence: "It is not often that the _____________ of a large corporation himself discovers visible overproduction by a ______________ of the inventory."
32. Complete the following sentence: "The ____________ in this instance was right and the ______________ were wrong. Everywhere the _____________ were excessive."
33. Because of the excessive inventory of 1924 Sloan developed a procedure called the "Monthly Forecast----" of what?
had to be a reconciliation of what two types of people to reconcile production
levels with seasonal peaks in sales?
35. The basic problem of controlling production was determined to eventually involve what two actions?
36. The corporate-wide estimate of sales was based upon what two components?
37. What is the "index volume?"
38. A system of statistical reports to be sent by dealers was worked out in 1924/25. What was in these reports and how often were they sent?
39. What were a "pyramid of demand" and the so-called "saturation point?"
40. The 1923 study failed to gauge accurately the future growth of the market largely because it underestimated the effect of what two important factors on new car sales?
41. Complete the following: "Since considerations of economical _____________ and economical _____________ were thus diametrically opposed, planning and judgment were required to find a _______________________________________."
42. How was the solution to the previously mentioned problem addressed?
43. How did the production schedule respond to the actual trend of retail demand?
44. The objectivity and systematic use of retail demand and production schedules operated as a basic control on what other financial controls?
45. The basic elements of financial control in General Motors are what four items?
46. Explain the concept of "the economic return attainable."
47. Complete the following: "The ________________ thus established were compared with ________________. The heart of financial-control principles lies in such comparisons."
48. What was in Sloan's "little black book" he carried around on his visits to divisions?
49. Uniformity was essential to financial control. How did this affect the accounting practices?
50. Explain the "principle of dual responsibility" for divisional comptrollers.


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Walk/Bike to School Day
All Phillips families are encouraged to get active and Walk/Bike to School on Wednesday, October 2nd. Students who participate may receive a special prize and be greeted by surprise guests!
Multicultural Night 2019
Multicultural Night will be Thursday, September 19 from 6:25-8 pm.
We love to celebrate all the diversity at Phillips and hope you can attend this fun festival of fashion, cultural displays, dance, and food! If you would like to participate by performing in the fashion show, creating a cultural display table, or providing a dish for everyone to sample please sign up using the link below:
Wild West Wonder Run Coming Soon!
Our biggest fundraiser of the year will begin with a Kick Off Pep Rally on Monday, September 23rd. Families will then gather pledges for every lap your student runs (30-35 laps) at the Wonder Run on Friday, October 4th. This year our goal is to earn $35,000 for the Outdoor Learning Center and we need your help! We've asked the experts at Booster to power our fundraiser to make it easier, more profitable, and more fun.
Students will also experience an amazing character theme, MINDSPARK: WILD WEST! Booster's most exciting theme yet combines S.T.E.A.M skills with character building. While they're teaming up with the Mindspark Kids to save Dr. Shock, our students will learn five character traits that will help strengthen themselves and our world.
Donations will go toward the Outdoor Learning Center and the entire two-week experience. Please help our school by getting pledges from family and friends and entering them on FUN.COM. Also all families are invited to come out and cheer on our students at the Wild West Wonder Run 2019. Thank you so much for your support!


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The Mordy Supper Club is perfect for a date. This place is smothered in romance from the exposed brick to the dim lights. You'll feel like you're walking into a European wine cellar as you duck underneath the brick arches holding up the supper club. The supper club advertises itself as "a nostalgic social hub with a homely feeling in a fun and eclectic sanctuary," so expect some hipsters. But this venue is perfect for a weeknight rendezvous over a cocktail or bottle of wine. You can also use it as a relaxed weekend spot where you can enjoy some live music in a casual setting. And, of course, it's perfect for a date or a catchup with an old friend any night of the week. The menu harkens back to the old supper clubs of yesteryear. It fuses bistro classics with modern plates to give you plenty of options. The menu focuses on pizzas, parmas and burgers to bring you casual food in a beautiful setting. It's the kind of place that gives you an intimate atmosphere with an unpretentious menu. There's no need to put on an eminence front in The Mordy. There's always something on at the club. Tapas Tuesdays get you food and drink discounts on small plates. Wednesday nights are for trivia and discounted parmas while there's an open mic on Thursday nights. Live music plays on Friday nights while a DJ pumps beats into the club on Saturday nights. And, of course, there's "Carrie Oakey" on Sunday Nights.
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Preventing Pests in Maywood During Warmer WeatherOnce the weather finally warms up, there's nothing much better than setting up your windows and doors to let in certain fresh air. Unfortunately, it is not necessarily just sunshine coming through our windows, many unwanted visitors as well. Pests like ants, roaches, mosquitos, fleas, and spiders thrive during warmer weather and will often try to find their way into your home. An insect infestation can be both aggravating and, in some cases, detrimental to your health. The good news is there are numerous things you are able to do to guard your house. Check out steps you can take to help keep your house pest free this summer:
Inspect Your HouseThe initial step toward protecting your property from pests is always to shut down any places where they could be in a position to sneak in. Take a moment to inspect window screens for tears, they are common entry points for flies and mosquitos. Additionally you like to make sure that all weather-stripping around doors and windows is within good shape, pests could possibly get make their way in through the littlest of cracks. Insects often make their way to your house via vents and utility pipes, so ensure that around washers, dryers and plumbing are sealed properly. You'll find many different sealants at the local hardware store which can help you create a fruitful barrier within these areas which are impenetrable to insects.
Do Some Spring CleaningClutter provides pests with a perfect place to hide and reproduce. In your yard, remove any piles of leaves or any other debris that may have collected on a lawn. Sweep the awnings around your home periodically, they are popular areas for spider webs and hornets nests. It's important that you stay aware of any areas in your property where water has a tendency to collect, especially through the rainy season. Standing water often becomes house to mosquito larva. Mosquitos are not only aggravating, they are able to carry harmful diseases as well. Make sure you scan your yard frequently for almost any places where water may have collected, such as in pots, bird baths, and pet dishes. In your garage, things like cardboard boxes are popular breeding grounds for roaches, silverfish, as well as other pests. If at all possible, avoid having any cardboard in your garage or storage sheds altogether. Plastic containers are a great alternative and can protect your items from both pests and water damage and mold.
Get Professional Assistance In MaywoodProfessional pest control companies like Agriserve, can help you tackle an infestation of any sort in your home or property. If you're seeing an unusual number of insects, especially if they are in your house, be sure to call an exterminator as soon as possible. It can also be very beneficial to get on a regular fumigation schedule to help you avoid infestations before they happen. A reputable pest control specialist will help you protect your family from harmful insects all year long. They will also ensure that any chemicals being used around your yard and in your house do not cause any harm to non-invasive animals, pets, and children. Contact Us today at 1-800-249-0548 to set up an appointment.
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Weed control is the application of EPA-approved chemicals to kill existing weeds and to prevent new weed growth.
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At Agriserve, we provide gopher control services that will exterminate these unwanted "residents" and leave your property rodent-free.
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We have an ISA Certified Arborist on staff and provide Arborist Reports, Tree Assessments & Inventories, and lawn care programs tailored to your needs.
In addition to bugging you, insects pose serious risks to your quality of life and property – all through the year. Cockroaches, mosquitos and rodents carry various diseases, so it's important to keep them inside their destination. No matter what period it is, they will sneak into your home looking for food, water and a habitat that is comfortable. Keeping them out of your home is not a one-time event – it is a process that is year-round. Our pest control specialists work to deliver solutions – rooted in science ‐ that protect every home. Lucky for You, We Know Our Pests. With award-winning training and advanced technology, your technician will look for conditions that invite pests, tackle current infestations, preventing the life cycle to prevent invaders that are future. With more than 160 hours of training just in the very first year, your technician will know the category and behavior of most house pests so he is able to target his solution against the most common pests such as termites, bed bugs, cockroaches, mosquitos, rodents, and more. When you've got a pest issue or desire to protect your home or business from future invaders, we apply our science-based approach to help determine the root of your condition and implement a solution made expressly for your home. During each visit, you can count on a highly-trained professional to investigate, protect, fortify, keep watch, report, and follow up to keep up our points of service standard. Our service uses a variety of the most advanced technology and methods currently available. This means your individualized plan will help get pests out of your home and help keep them out year 'round. We Investigate We'll inspect your home from top to bottom, inside and out, for current or pest that is potential We Protect We'll treat the perimeter of the appropriate materials to your structure, remove all available spiderwebs and wasp nests, and make use of the safest practices available We Fortify We'll do everything we could to help keep insects out –seal, caulk, plug, and gaps that are secure cracks We Keep Watch We'll treat the interior of your install and home pest monitors in critical areas such as kitchens, baths, energy rooms, and garages We Report We'll always offer a detailed report of services rendered and recommendations to help in keeping your home free of bugs We Follow Up We'll stay in touch between our regularly scheduled visits and respond to virtually any needs that are immediate Pests are active year-around. Which means you need protection year-around. Our custom remedies adapt aided by the season to deal with seasonal pest activity in your area, giving you security throughout the year. We are going to return to re-treat outside your property every season for a total of four treatments, such as the service that is initial. It is all a part of our service. Spring is season that is breeding many pest kinds. We'll make sure you do not have an infestation in development. Summer heat means pest task is high. We'll have your house's perimeter secure. As conditions drop, pests seek someplace warm. We'll make certain your home's barrier is ready. Bugs are going to be looking for all of the heat and dampness they can find. We'll make sure your house is protected. Our residential pest control procedure is simple. Friendly, trained and service that is licensed perform a thorough inspection of your home and yard to discover potential issues. We know where termites, bed bugs, spiders, rodents and other bugs like to live and lurk - so we'll pinpoint these places. Then we'll offer you a fully personalized program to treat and eliminate entry points and nests. Pests are persistent. So our company is, too. Agriserve Pest Control works round the calendar to maintain a pest-free environment. This consists of a thorough inspection of your home and yard to make sure that any newly emerging pests do not re-infest the area. Then we will administer an treatment that is exterior other month to protect your property. Additionally, our service technicians will remove spider that is accessible once they see your house. Do you realize that we additionally provide top-notch turf and ornamental services? Our domestic lawn care program will supply you with the healthy, happy lawn you have yearned for, year in year out, via custom-blended fertilizers, smart weed control, specialist tree and shrub care, and specific maintenance. Any of these services that are residential easily be along with our pest control programs for added savings. Companies are not resistant to numerous associated with presssing issues that bug homeowners. Your home is house to your business, so do not let pests that are uninvited it their home, too. Your center's uniqueness demands a custom-designed management that is pest grounds worry program. So we understand the needs that are nuanced different industries and spaces represent. We will work hard to implement the pest control that is best or grounds care approaches for your particular property. Whether you'll need to oust birds, bed bugs, rodents, termites or other pests – or even to create a welcoming space that is outdoor makes an impression on customers and employees alike – we're your team. We're licensed and certified, employ sustainable practices, use cutting - edge technology and rely on a humane approach.


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Christ – The Tree of Life
"And the Lord God said, behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever: so he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life" – (Gen.3:22,24).
"She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her" – (Prov.3:18).
"As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him" – (Jn.17:2).
"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" – (Rom.6:23).
"To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God" – (Rev.2:7).
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In (Prov.3:18) it says that wisdom is a tree of life – that God's wisdom now offers us the tree of life. If we follow God's wisdom we can have eternal life – the Bible's wisdom points the way. On page after page of God's Word wisdom points unwaveringly and unerringly to Christ. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish but have everlasting life" – (Jn.3:16). In man's fallen, sinful condition, he keeps eating from the tree of worldly knowledge trying to achieve the knowledge of eternal life. Scientists keep studying the genes of man and the DNA and trying to conquer death and live forever. But just about the time man reaches in to eat of the tree of life, God's cherubim with the sword of the Lord will stop them and Jesus Christ will return. The Cherubim are still watching on God's mercy seat looking for the blood of Christ, God's perfect, supreme sacrifice for sin. Absolutely nobody will receive eternal life without forgiveness of sin by the Lord Jesus Christ. O, if Adam would have repented of his sin and said like the prodigal son he was – "Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son." God would surely have forgiven him. But he kept his pride and he died. Jesus Christ is the only way back to the tree of life.
Surely you have seen a diagram of a family tree (A genealogical survey of family descendants). Well God has the most important one in His Bible. It is written in (Luke -8) the family tree and genealogy of the Lord Jesus Christ. "And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son: in thee I am will pleased. And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli" and then was given Christ's genealogy back to Adam – "Which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God" – (vs.38). This covers 4000 years from Adam to Christ and it's the only family tree of genealogy we need – for it is truly the tree of life. Christ is the only tree of life – the only way back to eternal life.
From Adam's tree of sin and death to Jesus' tree of death on the tree-cross and his resurrection three days later to prove that if we're saved by Christ we will have eternal life – the right to eat from the tree of life. From Adam, a son of God, to Jesus Christ the only begotten son of God. One son on a tree brought death upon the human race and one son on a tree, Jesus Christ, brought forgiveness and remission of sins and eternal life to all who believe on him. All who are saved and born again are brought back into God's family tree and will eat of the tree of life and live forever. For the last 2000 years thousands of people have been saved after hearing the gospel of Christ and have become children of God. They have been brought back into God's family tree of life.
We are born again into the family of God - "Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever" – (I Pet.1:23). We become adopted children of God – "For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but ye have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God" – (Rom.8:15,16). And again – "But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons" – (Gal.4:4,5). Yes, born again adopted children of God brought back into God's family tree – into the tree of eternal life.
God adopts evil and wicked children, not good children, showing the marvelous love of God – "As it is written, there is none righteous, no, not one" – (Rom.3:10). He takes us wicked and sinful people and redeems us thorough his beloved son on the cross and places his Holy Spirit in us and gives us the righteousness of Christ and adopts us as his children and makes us heirs of God. We are given all the love and rights of a son. The Holy Spirit is the spirit of adoption who places all the born again children of God in a legal standing before God and in relation to Him. Adoption means to take voluntarily a child of other parents as one's own child. We are all the children of the devil. He is a cruel father as he teaches his children to be wicked as he is. But O' the love of God who redeems us through his Son and we become adopted children of God – born again by the Hoy Spirit.
As my wife was quilting a tree of life comforter, I began to meditate on the tree of life. God's comforter is the Holy Spirit – "But the comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you" – (Jn.14:26). And so the Holy Ghost has taught me this sermon on the tree of life. When we're saved by the Lord Jesus, we receive God's comforter, the Holy Spirit, which comforts us concerning death and assures us of eternal life – "And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life" – (I Jn.2:25). Christ is the tree of life and he gives us his comforter, the Holy Spirit.
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Trust in Christ hanging on the tree and be saved from your sins and hell. He's the tree of life to all who truly believe. "Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed" – (I Pet.2:24). When you've saved you have a royal pedigree – you're in the royal family of the King of kings – the Lord Jesus Christ – the Son of God. And one day we shall be kings and rule on this earth – "And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth" – (Rev.5:10).
"In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bear twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations" – (Rev.22:2). Jesus Christ is life from death. Only He has eternal life and I point you to Him in the hope that you may come and pluck the fruit and eat and live forever. The way to get the fruit is by faith in Jesus Christ. "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God" – (Eph.2:8). Repent of your sins and by faith turn to Christ for forgiveness of sins. Be saved by Christ and be born again by the Holy Spirit. Christ is the tree of life.
Christ – The Tree of Life
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For investors seeking momentum, iShares Russell 2000 Growth ETF (IWO - Free Report) is probably on radar now. The fund just hit a 52-week high and is up more than 25.1% from its 52-week low price of $161.33/share.
But are more gains in store for this ETF? Let's take a quick look at the fund and the near-term outlook on it to get a better idea on where it might be headed:
IWO in Focus
IWO provides exposure to small-cap stocks whose earnings are expected to grow at an above-average rate relative to the market. Holding 1183 stocks, it is well spread across securities with none holding more than 1.11% share. The fund has key holdings in healthcare, information technology, industrials and consumer discretionary. It charges 24 basis points in annual fees (see: all the Small Cap ETFs here).
Why the Move?
The growth space of the small-cap segment has been an area to watch lately given the strength in U.S. dollar, trade tensions and geopolitical worries. These events have shifted investors' focus to small-cap stocks, which are closely tied to the U.S. economy and do not have much exposure to the international market. Additionally the pint-sized stocks are considered safe and better plays if any political issue creeps into the picture. Further, growth stocks tend to outperform in a trending market (a market characterized by a prolonged uptrend).
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Currently, IWO has a Zacks ETF Rank #3 (Hold) with a High risk outlook. Therefore, it is hard to get a handle on its future returns one way or the other. However, many of the segments that make up this ETF have a strong Zacks Industry Rank, so there is definitely some promise for those who want to ride this surging ETF a little further.
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Friday Notebook, November 2: Lookout's push to continuous conditional access
Also: Android Enterprise COPE mode; Parallels RAS 16.5.1; Citrix Workspace updates; and more.
This is our weekly log of desktop virtualization, enterprise mobility, and end user computing news.
Our blog posts
Jack: 10 Observations on my first Jamf Nation User Conference - JNUC 2018. Here are my thoughts on JNUC 2018, including automated MDM enrollment, Jamf Connect, and how Apple could make itself more enterprise friendly.
Kyle: What I learned at Ping Identify 2018. Kyle attended Ping's regional customer event in San Francisco last week, where he learned about their increasing focus on multi-factor authentication, which could then translate into password-less login and zero trust, down the road.
Marius: How DaaS platforms handle cost optimization in the public cloud. The cloud isn't cheap, so enterprises need to keep an eye on resource consumption. Here's how DaaS platforms handle it.
Jack: Catching up with Fleetsmith on new features and DEP security. Fleetsmith announced a couple new Mac management features and talked with me about Apple DEP security issues that have hit the news recently.
Industry news
VMworld Europe is next week. While we won't be there in person, we'll watch out for the EUC Showcase Keynote, which is at 17h00 on Tuesday 6 November in Barcelona. (Find your local time here.) Brian Madden (the person) will be hosting another EUC community event (register here) right afterwards. I spoke at the VMworld US edition of this event, and even though I won't be speaking in Barcelona, it will surely be a fun event, so go and have a beer for me!
VMware Workspace One recently released their support Android Enterprise COPE mode, i.e. work profiles on work-managed devices, and Jason Bayton has published a detailed rundown, including a video comparing it with MobileIron Core.
Also from Jason, check out this very useful guide to mobile threat defence on Android Enterprise. It's a great follow up to the real-word MTD advice that Colm Warner has written for us recently.
Parallels RAS 16.5.1 is out, and it included delegated session management. We covered 16.5 back in July; they're really continuing to go after Citrix customers with a message of lower cost and simpler implementation (as many others are, as well).
Here's what's new in Citrix Workspace for October. The top features that I noticed were new corporate branding options, including mobile app icons and names.
Back in July, our Friday Notebook mentioned Cameyo, a vendor the provides RDSH on Google Cloud GCP. This week, they're announcing availability in the GCP Marketplace.
Via the Android Enterprise blog: Gartner is recognizing that Android security is way better than it used to be. One of the things that Gartner calls out is Android Work profiles, which allow far more speration than the native capabilities in iOS. Bottom line, if your organization still just automatically things Android is not secure, it's time to get with the times.
On the iOS side: iOS 12.1 has another one of those pesky bugs that accidentally reveals bits of data, and this time it's contacts. (Via The Hacker News.) These types of issues seem to crop up every now and then, though at least the scope of the exposed data is fairly limited.
Microsoft is announcing a device-based SKU for Intune.
Lookout and continuous conditional access
Lookout announced new positioning this week—like many parts of the EUC space today, they're framing their mobile threat defense product in the context of zero trust and post-perimeter security. (Press release | blog post.) I like this, because I believe that for as much as we're talking about zero trust and post-perimeter these days, we're still not talking about it enough, and it's the most important result of the cloud and mobility. (Now, if the industry could just agree on a term... other terms that refer to the the same concept include BeyondCorp, conditional access, context-aware access, identity-define security, etc.)
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During the late Fifties and early Sixties Erich Schenkel and Norbert Mylius successfully demolished their scooters in rallye events and race trials. More than two decades later they started to search for them again.
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Custos Erich Schenkel, who sadly passed away in 2002, took care of housing, acquisition and trading of the scooters and microcars of the RRR collection.
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Sometimes decorating can feel like dieting. A never ending cycle of trying and failing and hoping you come out on top…only to find yourself face down in a pan of brownies at midnight swearing you don't care about fitting into your pre-baby jeans. (Just me? Oh, ok…) When you're feeling overwhelmed and out of your element –be it dieting or decorating– the process can be self-defeating even when you give it your best effort.
And it's not all your fault.
No matter how hard you try or much time you spend on Pinterest, you struggle to create a space you love. The problem isn't that you don't know your style…You know what you like when you see it. But every time you bring home that great piece you think will work it suddenly seems sad, lost, and severely disappointing.
Sound familiar?
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Tambon Nong Rong Community
Take a joyful bicycle ride through the community forest that only exists thanks to the villagers' collective efforts. Search the forest for mushrooms, the wet season delicacy, before riding a farm tractor cart to many integrated farms and taste some of Kanchanaburi's secret recipes.
- Learn about Huai Saphan Samakkhi – the forest under the community's care
- Discover Kanchanaburi's greatest source for the famous wild termite mushrooms
- Explore the integrated agricultural garden
- Get up close to the sugar palm trees and learn all about the products derived from them
- Cook and taste the intense local cuisine
2 Days 1 Night Trip
|Day 1
|Arrive at the Tambon Nong Rong Tourism Information Center (Pracharat shop). Welcome visitors, then take the farm tractor cart to Ban Huai Saphan Samakkhi Community Forest Learning Center.
|Help plant some saplings in the community / travel to the community forest to take a walk / help make some souvenirs including rings and wristbands made from wild vines.
|Take the cart to a temple which dates back to the late Ayuthaya period – Wat Khao Cham Seen, climb up a steep path with of over 400 steps to visit the Chao Mae Soi Raya shrine.
|The visitors can choose to watch a demonstration of coconut leaf hat weaving / banana stem or jute flower making / pandan & kiffir leaf wreath.
|Have lunch at the Learning Center.
|Visit agrotourism sites and shop for different products from local groups.
Get to about know sugar palm products, help prepare sweetened palm seeds (August to December) or palm seeds in shaved ice (March to April). Also, take some ingredients back for dinner.
|Watch how to prepare the herbal rice chips.
|Visit the loincloth weaving facility or learn how to prepare deep fried pork skin.
|Experience the joy of cooking your own dinner with unique local recipes.
|Join a discussion and watch some traditional games, songs and dances.
|Day 2
|Almsgiving in front of your village home.
|Ride the tractor cart to 'Pluc Ka Du Park' – Mr. Suwannawit's farm to watch a Thai desserts demonstration.
Learn how to make some wickerwork, especially the kinetic toy snake.
|Have lunch and return to the information center to shop for souvenirs.
|Travel to the Royal Monument of King Naresuan the Great, Tambon Don Chedi, Amphoe Phanom Thuan, Kanchanaburi, then return home.
Time to Visit: All Year round
Note: The guideline itinerary may be subject to change due to local happenings and other factors.
- Community guide fee: THB 30/guest/day
- Farm tractor cart: THB 500/cart/day (bicycle rent THB 20/day)
- Lunch: THB 100/guest/meal
- Refreshments: THB 60/day for 2 breaks and herbal drinks
- Community forest instructor: THB 200
- Instructor for vine weaving: THB 200
- Materials: THB 5/ring and THB 10/wreath
- Instructors for leaf hats: THB 200 each
- Materials: THB 20/hat
- Instructors for jute flowers: THB 200 each
- Materials: THB 10/flower
- Instructors for rice chips: THB 200 each
- Instructors for loincloth: THB 200 each
- Instructors for Thai desserts: THB 200 each
- Materials: THB 500/dessert
- Traditional singers (10 persons): THB 200 each
- Homestay: THB 300/guest for AC & THB 250 for none AC
- Traditional dancer (20 persons): THB 200/male & THB 300/female
- Materials for the dance: THB 300 (depending on the number of performers)
- Total charge for the dance show: THB 4,500
Expenses for a day trip
- For a group of 5: THB 1,000
- For a group of 15: THB 850
- For a group of 30: THB 350
- For 2 Days 1 Night group: THB 850/guest
Tambon Nong Rong Community Tourism Club
Khun Sompon Panto Tel 081-943-2618
Khun Pongsi Sariwong Tel. 087-907-4978
Travel by
Take a train from Bangkok – Namtok
Car Rental
- Thai Smile Car Rent
- Cha Car Rent
- Smile Thai Car Rent
- Kanchanaburi Rental Cars
- Thai Rent Eco Car
Nong Khao Resort (6.6 km. away from the community)
Nong Khao, Tha Mueng, Kanchanaburi 71110
Eurasia Resotel Kanchanaburi (10.5 km. away from the community)
275 Moo. 11, 324 O-Thong – Kanchanaburi Road, Nong Khao, Tha Mueng, Kanchaburi 71110
Sang Chan View Hotel (16 km. away from the community)
170/10 Moo. 8 Pak Prak, Mueng, Kanchanaburi 71000
Tarnsiri Boutique Resort (19.8 km. away from the community)
107 Pak Prak, Mueng, Kanchanaburi 71000
Tarnsiri Boutique Resort-ธารณ์สิริ บูทีค รีสอร์ต กาญจนบุรี
Restaurants/Coffee Shops
Coffee Shops
U&ME COFFEE (12.6 km. away from the community)
Toong Samor, Panom Tuan, Kanchanaburi 71140
U&ME Cafe' Kanchanaburi
Krua Go Dang Restaurant (14.3 km. away from the community)
Panom Tuan, Kanchanaburi 71140
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Major General Milhorn Tours Poplar Island Restoration Work
Major General Jeffrey L. Milhorn, Commanding General, North Atlantic Division, visited Poplar Island yesterday – a restoration project cooperated on by USACE and Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Port Administration.
Poplar Island once covered over 1100 acres and was used as a vacation spot by both President Roosevelt and President Truman, before almost all of it was eroded.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Baltimore District is restoring the remote island habitat with sediment dredged from shipping lanes.
This work is part of Baltimore District's Poplar Island expansion project, which is a partnership with the Maryland Port Administration, to create an additional 575 acres using clean material dredged from the Maryland Chesapeake Bay approach channels to the Port of Baltimore.
Large rocks and sand are being placed to create dikes to outline the expansion cells, allowing dredge material to later be placed within the cell.


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Paratha is my third choice after roti canai and dosa. But as I grew older, I started to love this simple earthy bread. Usually I eat it along with curry or dal but I start to love eating it just plain.
Paratha bread is a type of flatbread usually cooked on a flat steel surface. It is a very common type of bread in India and Pakistan. Paratha is made with simple ingredients but there are many variations that people created over the time. Potato Stuffed Paratha or Aloo Paratha is one of them. Spiced up potato stuffed in the bread then pan fried on a hot pan. Eat it while it's hot and try to withstand the hot potato in your mouth. Muahahaha!!
I have been introduced to aloo paratha by Mister Paya. It is one of his favorite meal. He used to eat it in a Pakistani shop near his workplace. Now that we are not near that place anymore, I started making this for him.
You know what, when you are around the food that you can get easily without having to go through the hassles by making it, appreciate those moments because when you are far away from it, you have got to take a lot of effort to make it. And when you try making it, you are hit with endless failures, it is frustrating… But when you get it, when you taste it, that moment is priceless.
This potato stuffed bread is pretty easy to make and you can play around with different spices. You can even add some cooked meat to it and that's entirely up to you. Go on and have fun with it.
Potato-Stuffed Wholemeal Paratha (makes 6)
Adapted from Pakistani Cooking
- 2 ½ cups of wholemeal flour
- ½ teaspoon of salt
- 1 cup of warm water + 1 tablespoon of water for adjustment
- 2 big potatoes, diced
- 1 medium onion, thinly sliced
- 2 handful of coriander leaves, chopped
- ½ of a green chilli, thinly sliced
- 1 teaspoon of chilli powder
- 1 teaspoon of cumin
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- ½ teaspoon of garam masala
- Oil for pan frying
- Combine wholemeal flour and salt in a big bowl. Mix the flour and salt well. Add in 1 cup of water. Mix and form a dough.
- Knead for about 5 minutes. Use the 1 tablespoon of water to adjust the formation of the dough – not too wet or not too dry and doesn't stick to your hand.
- Put the dough aside for rest. About 1 hour.
- Prepare filling by first boiling the potatoes until soft. Mix onion, coriander leaves, green chilli, chilli powder, cumin, salt and garam masala with the potatoes. Mash it all up and set aside.
- Divide the potato filling to 6 portion.
- When the dough is well rested, divide the dough into 6 pieces.
- Take one piece of the dough and divide into 2. Roll each dough flat.
- Place a portion of the potato filling on one of the flattened dough. Spread the filling evenly. Place the other flattened dough on the filling.
- Using a big round bowl, turn it over and place on the dough. This is for cutting out a perfect circle. Use a knife and run through the edges of the bowl in order to cut out a perfect circle of the paratha. Remove the bowl. Press the edges of the dough to seal the dough.
- In a frying pan, heat up the pan. Put in a thin layer of oil. Turn to medium low heat. Pan fry the paratha on each side. Each side about 5 minutes.


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"It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race." – Robert W. Service
The year 2018 is over, and what is most interesting is how different it was from the previous year 2017. This is a good reminder that every year is different, and 2019 will not necessarily follow the negative and volatile 2018.
When I write or say something like that, I inevitably hear from someone who says "yeah, but it's different this time. Everything has changed because of X, Y, and Z". In my almost 28 years working with clients, the fundamentals of diversification,time horizon, and complementary financial decisions around your portfolio have remained the same. And no, it's not different this time. I've been hearing that for 28 years.


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Friday, June 24, 2011
When Judge Gaines Throws the Book at You, Watch Out!
If you've received a sentence of more than six months from an Atlanta Municipal Court judge, you might want to continue reading.
Attorney Jackie Patterson said his client, Anthony Brooks, was sentenced to 48 months probation last fall by Chief Municipal Court Judge Crystal Gaines on two counts of marijuana possession and two counts of driving with a suspended license. The sentence -- 12 months per count -- exceeds the limit mandated in the city's charter, said Patterson, adding his client is not the only one affected.
"This is happening all the time," said the attorney.
According to Section 4-102, Article 5, punishment for violations may not exceed a fine of $1,000 "or imprisonment for six months." Probation and imprisonment are interchangeable[.]
There is some debate according to the article about the jurisdiction of the court in sentencing, but 48 months, is probably way beyond even arguable power in the Atlanta city municipal court.
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About Fair Factory
We have written down our vision in the Fair Factory Manifesto. This vision has arisen from our many years of experience in developing sustainable agricultural chains in developing countries, which also serve the interest of small farmers. We have discovered that factories – which process the products of farmers – can play a driving role in this. As long as they have a broader mission than simply making a profit and they are willing to talk to all stakeholders about what constitutes a well-balanced collaboration and what is fair within this.Read the manifest


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McDonald Observatory is collaborating with local communities and businesses, including the oil and gas industry, to promote better nighttime lighting, i.e., cost efficiency, improved visibility & safety, and dark skies for the Observatory.
About Light Pollution:
Why Are We Losing the Night Sky? "It's Okay To Be Smart." PBS/YouTube video featuring Joe Hanson (11:29).
Oil and Gas Industry Lighting:
• Railroad Commission of Texas Reminds Operators to Reduce Light Near McDonald Observatory. Notice to Operators, Railroad Commission of Texas (February 2016 & 2019).
• Bill Wren, The Godfather of Dark Skies. West Texas Talk, Marfa Public Radio (August 15, 2019).
• McDonald Observatory Will Promote Dark Skies Awareness with Gift from Apache Corporation. Press Release (July 23, 2019).
• Dark Skies Initiative Video (3:20). Produced by Texan by Nature.
• Recommended Lighting Practices for OILFIELD LIGHTING (2.0 MB PDF).
• Explanatory Video for Recommended Lighting Practices (Video: 38:15).
• McDonald Observatory, Oil and Gas Organizations Collaborate to Protect Night Skies. Press Release (July 9, 2018).
• Presentation to Executive Oil Conference. (Video: 17:25; November 2018).
• Upgraded Rig Lighting Improves Night Time Visibility While Reducing Stray Light and the Threat to Dark Skies in West Texas. Society of Petroleum Engineers (March 2015).
• No Ordinary Camera. McDonald Observatory adopts all sky photometry system developed by the National Park Service.
• Dark Skies Initiative selected by Texan by Nature as a 2018 Conservation Wrangler recipient.
• Single page Dark Skies Initiative flier for the oil and gas industry. (McDonald Observatory and Texan by Nature.)
• LED Lighting for Oil and Gas Facilities. IEEE Xplore (October 2014).
• Oil vs. astronomy: The race to protect the night sky in West Texas. Dallas Morning News (January 2019).
• Texas Collaboration Protects Dark Skies. International Dark-sky Association blog post.
• A Radio Documentary: "Dark Skies, Dark Energies", by Ian Lewis, Marfa Public Radio (27:30; December 2017).
• McDonald Observatory works with energy companies to stop light pollution. My San Antonio (October 2017).
• Oil field flares and lights creeping closer to the famed McDonald Observatory. San Antonio Express News (April 2017).
• When Staying in the Dark is the Brightest Idea. Permian Basin Petroleum Association Magazine (September 2017).
General Resources:
• General Lighting Guidelines. Basic principles for best lighting practices.
• Preserving Texas' Night Skies. Tri-fold brochure suitable for printing. (McDonald Observatory and Texan by Nature.)
• Good and not so good light fixtures compared (PDF).
• An excellent resource is the International Dark-sky Association.
• Resources and activities for teachers and educators: Dark Skies Rangers Program.
• How Dark is Your Sky? AstroBob.
• The Strange Scourge of Light Pollution. YouTube video (10:00).
• Lights at Night from Space. Lighttrends. Map showing nighttime lighting around the world as seen by a satellite using the VIIRS Day/Night Band and allowing measurement of changes in upward radiance in a selected area over time. (Note: Given the spectral sensitivity of the VIIRS Day/Night Band, blue light is underrepresented.)
• Our nights are getting brighter, and Earth is paying the price. National Geographic (April 2019).
• How and Why to Reduce Light Pollution on Your Property. Hello Homstead (January 2019).
• The Vanishing Night: Light Pollution Threatens Ecosystems. The Scientisit (October 2018).
• How the marvel of electric light became a global blight to health. Aeon (August 2018).
What is light pollution?
Light pollution is any adverse effect of artificial light at night, including sky glow, impaired visibility from glare, light trespass, energy waste, and more.
Does it really matter?
YES! Light pollution wastes energy and money, disrupts global wildlife and ecological balance, has been linked to negative consequences in human health, and negatively affects our ability to do astronomy.
Effects of Light Pollution:
• COSTS: Billions of dollars per year in electricity costs are wasted shining light upward at night. These numbers do not include the costs of producing the energy to generate electricity.
• ENERGY CONSUMPTION: Most of the energy required to power all of the wasted light comes from burning fossil fuels, contributing to other types of pollution.
• HEALTH: New studies point to dramatic health consequences from the disruption of the natural human day/night cycle. Unnatural light at night affects hormone production and suppresses the immune system.
• SAFETY: Vision is impaired by "glare" from overly bright light sources, reducing sensitivity to fine details and color perception, especially in elderly people. Brighter lights cause shadows to appear darker.
• THE ENVIRONMENT: Artificial light at night has been shown to disrupt the mating, migration, and hunting behaviors of many different species, and therefore the ecological system as a whole.
• LOSS OF NIGHTTIME SKY: The view of stars and dark night skies is rapidly being lost. Generations are growing up having never seen the Milky Way. Sky glow resulting from artificial lighting dramatically hinders the science of astronomy.
What can I do?
A WIN-WIN SOLUTION to light pollution! By changing outdoor lighting practices, you can prevent light pollution while putting more light where you want it using less electricity. Read on to find out how to make a positive difference.
The Solutions:
EFFECTIVE LIGHTING: We can reclaim vast amounts of energy currently wasted inadvertently into the night sky by poorly designed outdoor lighting. We can do this by using light fixtures that are shielded to reflect light down where it is needed, as well as using the smallest number of lights and lowest wattage bulbs necessary to effectively light an area.
• START WITH YOUR OWN HOME AND BUSINESS: Lead by example in adopting good lighting practices. Put your own house in order first. If everyone would simply keep their own light on their own property, the problems of light pollution would largely disappear.
• SPREAD THE WORD: The solution to light pollution is 90% education and awareness, and 10% hardware. Identify examples of good lighting in your community and show them to your friends and neighbors. Once people see it, they can't un-see it. Once they understand the implications for cost savings and improved visibility, they are far more likely to adopt good lighting practices on their own.
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5 Health Pitfalls to Avoid with Indian Food
Posted on 10th January 2017
In Britain, Indian food is often seen as a treat. Across the country, thousands of curry houses and pubs serve up indulgent recipes, and we Brits love our creamy curries. The problem is, kormas, pasandas and masalas are milder in taste, but heavier in fat. Indian food is generally very healthy. A typical Indian diet includes a wide variety of spices, pulses, vegetables and fruit. Incorporating Indian ingredients and recipes into your diet can come with a number of health benefits – it's a matter of making the right choices. Here are the pitfalls you need to avoid.
1. Many Indian dishes are prepared using ghee (clarified butter), which is very high in saturated fat. Try cooking with sunflower or vegetable oil instead.
2. It's easy to think that bread is fairly healthy, but some kinds, such as peshwari naan, are surprisingly high in fat and sugar. Choose roti (also known as chapatti), which is made with wholemeal flour, as a low-calorie source of fibre.
3. Many people in the Indian subcontinent follow a vegetarian or vegan diet due to their religious beliefs or the regional availability of food. Cutting down on meat – even just once a week – can reduce your saturated fat intake, and there are thousands of delicious fish and vegetable-based Indian dishes to try.
4. Don't forget your fruit. Exotic fruits are one of the great joys of an Indian diet. Enjoy mango, oranges, cantaloupe, pineapple, berries and guava as healthy snacks.
5. Pilau rice has added oil, which means it contains around twice the amount of calories as plain boiled rice. Meanwhile, brown basmati rice is packed with fibre.
We hope this helps with your New Year's Resolution – but if you fancy a bit of a treat, drop by Chakra on Holland Street. Our winter menu is packed with traditional winter warmers with a contemporary twist, perfect for this cold weather! Book your table online or call us on 020 7229 2115.
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Early Warning
ISO 27001: 2013 certified, the main objective of Early Warning service is the timely detection of vulnerabilities potentially able to undermine the provision of Poste Italiane services.
The Early Warning Analysts constantly monitor endogenous and exogenous sources of information, collecting and analyzing the data that come from them, and then classifying them appropriately based on their reliability: all the information are collected in the bulletin distributed to all the interested parties.
In this way it is possible to alert in a very short time the internal interlocutors (constituency), providing the necessary details and suggestions for the vulnerabilities's mitigation.
The Early Warning service enables Poste Italiane to respond promptly to risks that could have an impact on the company's IT and information assets, and to provide a continuously updated knowledge of the global IT security scenario.


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Director: Miguel Marti
Year 2008
Wow! This film is off of its rocker and that's a very good thing indeed. Sexy Killer is an abrasive hybrid of horror goodness brought to us from Spain, that delves into so many sub genres that it creates something totally unique, making for a quite entertainingly monstrous film. The film is centered around a young and beautiful college girl named Barbara, who has a pension for killing anything with a pulse. Barbara is played by the strangely alluring Macarena Gomez, who you might remember in Stuart Gordon's aquatic fright film Dagon. In that film she played an entrancing fish woman named Uxia Cambarro, who vied for the attention of the main character as he struggled to stay alive while fighting off deformed fish people. Check it out, it's one of the best H.P. Lovecraft based films out there and highly entertaining. In Sexy Killer, Macarena is front and center, allowing the audience to revel in her over the top portrayal of this serial killer with great fashion sense.
This movie is so random and kinetic, that it's hard not to be swept up in the moment. The film skips around from flashback, to the future, then to the past, and then into a fantasy world that all plays out by the over imagination of Barbara and her sick mind. This film is so vibrant with personality that it might just make your head spin. It's definitely in a world of its own and one that unabashedly goes all out to separate itself from the rest of the pack. You can never peg which direction the film is going to go, so you learn to just sit back and enjoy the wild ride as we dip from horror to comedy and to basically everything in between. Sexy Killer is a cornucopia of movie tones which is best compared to an out of control child diagnosed with ADD.
I mentioned the fantasy world that Barbara delves into, but I don't think you get the full impact of what this topsy turvy realm is really like. We are given flashbacks of the Sexy Killer's life, all narrated by Barbara herself, telling us how she came to be a serial killer and why she loves doing the things she does so much. It's interesting as all hell and the energy in this exposition is through the roof fantastic. Then we are thrown deep into her most wild thoughts as we're treated to a bizarre musical number that is best described as a Barbie dream house nightmare, filled with bright colors and fake hairdos. You might ask yourself, what the hell am I watching, but if you stick with the silliness you'll find that this movie's charm begins to rub off on you and you can't help but smile at the absurdity of it all.
There is so much going on in this film and so many genres that Sexy Killer touches upon that it can get quite confusing in all of the clutter, but in its madness is the central theme that centers all slashers, a high body count. We are given so many cliches of the slasher genre that you might write it off as a spanish version of the Scary Movie franchise, but that would be a dreadful and false thought, because this film is miles above that tired series of films. Sexy Killer has a heart and soul that propels its material into the stratosphere, never settling to stop the narrative for a stupid joke that takes you out of the film and reminds you that you're sitting and watching a montage of horror movie references. Instead, Sexy Killer relies on its unstoppable and unyielding energy to propel the narrative forward as the story twists and turns, following the shining star of Barbara's explosive ego.
For most of the film, we are lost in Barbara's fantasy world, where we're never sure if it's reality or a fabrication of her warped mind. This colorful reality is over abundant and never spares on the flare of presenting an eye popping scene that fleshes out just how truly masochistic Barbara really is. She stops the proceedings to show us how to properly kill your victim and she does this in a demented infomercial type way. It's wild and unique and never slows down with its abrasive attitude and flamboyant gusto. The tongue and cheek nature of the film is a breath of fresh air, especially when the story becomes playfully dark, biting off the tongue and splitting the cheek with its nonchalant abuse of violent tendencies and its all encompassing revel in its lust for blood.
Oh the beautiful colors. There is never a dull moment in this film. Even when we are stuck in the real world, the look of the film seems to pop with a kaleidoscope lens, refusing to fall into a bland refuse of mediocrity and neglect. There is a life in this film that I've never witnessed before in a horror film, let alone a slasher flick. The only film that has come close in unbridled absurdity is Mary Harron's American Psycho, but that movie only matches the tone of Sexy Killer. Imagine if you will, the over the top nature of American Psycho, but infuse that with the colors of an acid trip and then you would have Sexy Killer. It's really in a league of its own and one that I don't think will ever have company anytime soon. They broke the mold when they created this looney gem.
Now on to the killings, because you can't have a slasher movie without a bunch of dead bodies hitting the floor. In Sexy Killer, we have our fair share of brutal murders, so much so that we even have dead bodies taking out living people as they're thrown out three story windows. Barbara deals death like other people take shits, casually and without concern. She treats it as a natural extension of herself and never thinks twice about morality or consequences. This kind of anti hero would traditionally be wearing a mask and be given little to no back story, but with Barbara's character she straight up tells us her history and the reasoning behind her blood lust. It's a flip side of a totally different coin if you compare her to the Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers of the world. This honesty about the monstrous things that she has done, is quite charming and adds to the overall personality of the film.
Like all good slashers, Barbara likes to play with her intended prey, often setting up elaborate artistically morbid statues formed by the dead bodies of her previous victims, for them to stumble upon. This is the typical M. O. of slasherdom, but Macarena Gomez puts so much energy in her wild eyed killer that she really makes it her own, evoking thoughts that no one else could have pulled off this character with such pizzaz and unfaltering heart. We see shades of Mr. Voorhees in Barbara's killer, as one of the victims hides in a sacred cave that is littered with the bodies of Barbara's latest kills, all posed in provocative and religious poses. It's a great show of respect for the icons that have come before her and a respectful display of admiration for their stupendous work.
The really special parts in this film, happen when Barbara's character speaks to the audience, describing what she is doing and even asking advice on how to execute the final death blow. It's silly and the breaking of the illusion, would in other movies, take you out of the film right away, but for some reason it works in this film and it fits perfectly with the style that has already been presented to us since the opening credits. It's outrageous, whimsical, and down right absurd, but it works on so many levels and is pushed in our face so many times that it becomes second nature and becomes just another added benefit of following this larger then life persona that Barbara carries on her sleeve.
You would think that in a comedy, the violence would be taken down a notch, but when the shit hits the fan in this film, it really hits the fan. Barbara holds back for nothing, plunging a hook into the back of one of her victims and pulling him across the room, leaving a nasty blood trail as his body struggles and flails, in vein for survival. It's gruesome and can shock you after viewing some light hearted scenes and clever dialogue to then be abruptly presented with a visceral image of unapologetic murder. It's a violent contrast and I love it.
Now if this film wasn't unique enough, the filmmakers go for broke and offer a new twist to this wild tale. They decide to throw zombies into the mix, and through a conventional plot in the middle of the film, all of Barbara's previous victims have now been drastically brought into the world of the living and are looking for a little revenge on the person that brought them their untimely death. The movie switches gears and we're suddenly brought back to that special moment in Fred Dekker's Night of the Creeps, when Tom Atkins tells the sorority girls that, "I've got good news and bad news, girls. The good news is that your dates are here. The bad news is their dead."
With the zombies on the loose, we are given some amazingly iconic shots of some zombie goodness that really goes above and beyond the normal comedy undead film. Sexy Killer gives tremendous respect to the concept of the zombie, and this delicate mutual understanding can be closely compared to the loving tributes of Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead. These zombies are scary and viscous as all hell, wanting to do nothing but rip out your throat and call it a death. I was surprised at how authentic the effects were and how truly grotesque the idea is of walking corpses coming to life. They really did an amazing job with the zombie sequences and never used the concept as a comedy crutch, poking fun at the zombie genre, and instead focused on a more loving tribute that held fast to the conventions that make dead films what they are.
Of course we're given a solid butt kicking ending that piles on the gore and blood as our seriously disturbed heroine proceeds to re-kill her victims all over again in fantastically over the top fashion. There's nothing that's as insanely gory as Peter Jackson's zombie opus Dead Alive, but it does impress and leaves a satisfying grin on your face that you're sure not to get ride of long after the credits dissipate in your mind. Sexy Killer is just a well made slasher that adds so many elements to it that it becomes something else entirely. They've combined elements of comedies, love stories, zombie flicks, science fiction fodder, and crammed it all into a nice and unique slasher build, that really makes a name for itself in both presentation and unparalleled energetic fun.


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For our Pro Soccer Kids, soccer is simply a fun sport. We LOVE Soccer! But for us coaches and educators, soccer is a whole lot more. Soccer is a powerful vehicle for sustaining positive changes in a child's overall development. Our goal is to use proper guidance and modeling to aid in the development of … Continued