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Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Marginal Tax Rates, How Do They Work?
It's sorta funny that conservatives are pretending to not understand because for years they've pitched tax cuts for rich people by trying to convince people that the reason that doing taxes is a pain in the ass is because of progressive taxation. You know, the flat tax will make it easy! Because the hard thing about doing your taxes is that turbotax can't calculate what you owe easily once you put in all the numbers.
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I was extremely impressed by how rugged the French Alps was. In 2003, Lisa & I toured the Austrian and Swiss alps, in some cases riding the same roads, but France was so much harder. On some days we struggled to ride 80km, and it would turn out that in those 80km, we'd climbed nearly 3000m. For the same reasons, however, the network of roads in the French Alps makes for excellent choice in routes and roads, which makes the area worth a repeated visit. I can certainly understand why Jobst returns year after year to ride the same areas.
I didn't like Italy this time any more than I liked it in the previous trip. As Werner said, "As long as you're in the mountains, the Italians are OK, but once you're in the valleys..." It is very telling the Mike had no trouble whatsoever on the high alpine passes in France only to crash on a 100m hill in Italy with reckless, speeding Italian drivers. I will endeavour to stay as much away from the Italian plains from now on. Actually, I see no reason to visit Italy on a bike tour except to visit the Dolomites and the Italian Alps. If what I saw was typical Italian driving behavior, I can't imagine the rest of Italy as being worth visiting, no matter how pretty it is. I was also surprised to discover that Italy was more expensive than France.
As the cost estimates given in the trip report reflect: anybody who tries to tell you that Europe is an expensive place to visit is probably trying to prevent American tourists from driving the prices up. If you're bicycle touring, Europe is just as cheap as any place in America I've visited. The drivers are certainly more pleasant. There is also no reason to spend $200-$400 a day on a tour organizer if you are willing to carry your own lugguage: accomodations were plentiful --- except for the one day on Grosse Scheideegg, we always found accomodations where we wanted to stay, and we had plenty of flexibility to come and go as we pleased. Whenever we couldn't find a convenient restaurant for lunch, we always found a bakery or a grocery store instead. Do try to eat at the local restaurants and stay at hotels owned by families. They are good value, for one thing, and help prevent the Americanization of Europe. Do bring plenty of Endurolytes and nutrition bars, though, since bike shops are opened at inconvenient hours if you're touring, and even when they are open they don't seem to stock these staples of cycling fare.

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As a parent you can try your best to teach your children safe behaviors, but it is ultimately up to your children to actually practice those safe behaviors. Teenagers and young adults can be especially prone to challenging rules, testing boundaries and choosing fun over safety.
Drinking and driving is a serious mistake for anyone to make, especially those who are underage. If your child is caught drinking and driving, there are three levels of charges that he or she could receive depending on his or her blood alcohol concentration (BAC).


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Night's Surrender, Amanda Ashley
Night's Surrender, Amanda Ashley
Review from Jeannie Zelos book reviews
Genre: Romance, Sci Fi & Fantasy
I tried the last one in this group and didn't really get on with it, but it's a popular series and I wondered if maybe it was just that book, rather than the actual series that was the issue for me. I'm always looking for a fantasy/paranormal string of novels I've not yet read so was hoping…but after trying this one I realise that no, sadly this just isn't a series for me.
Its a personal issue, the novels are well written and very readable, its just that I couldn't get engaged with the plots or characters. Its a genuine case of "its me not you " as it's clear this series has many devoted followers. I did enjoy the story a bit more than the last one so its a three this time from me, and a decision to pass on this series.
Stars: Three, a good read but didn't really bring me "into" the story.
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Malaga Tapas Tour
Spanish Tortilla, meats and anchovies, are just some of the Malaga delicacies that you can enjoy on this 1.5-hour tapas tour. Leaving the Cervantes Theatre, you will walk through the centre of the city visiting 2 recognized restaurants and you can accompany your tapas with 2 drinks. The final point varies according to the last stop of the tour.
- Visit 2 local and renowned restaurants in Malaga.
- Enjoy 2 drinks with the option to choose between wine, sangria, beer or soft drink.
- Taste Spanish omelette, Boqueron, meats and seafood.
Monday, Wednesday and Friday
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You will leave from the Teatro Cervantes at 8:00 PM and then immerse yourself in the flavours of the culinary culture of Málaga. In this tapa tour you can visit 2 renowned restaurants and taste anchovies, the typical Spanish omelette, fresh meat and seafood, with this 1.5-hour tapas tour.
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Evaluation e-Learning programme in Development Evaluation
UNICEF and IOCE have announced an introductory e-Learning programme on Development Evaluation. The e-Learning programme is free and open to all interested people as a student may attend virtually from their personal or work computer anywhere in the world.
The course includes online lectures, requested reading material, and simple multiple-choice tests. Participants also have the opportunity to engage in an online discussion forum. At the end of each course, if 80% of the answers on the multiple-choice test are correct, participants will be able to print out a certificate of "virtual" attendance.
The courses will be opened twice in 2015: from 19 January 2015 – 18 May 2015, and from 26 May 2015 – 17 September 2015. These new e-Learning courses have been developed as a pilot. The lectures are the edited versions of recorded webinars. The aim is to further improve the courses based upon the feedback received by participants.
This e-Learning programme comprises an introductory class with fixed courses to follow.
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- Equity-Focused and Gender-Responsive Evaluations
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The courses have independent units from which a student can a create their own course. This is done by selecting the ten units (out of the courses available) that are the most relevant to your work.
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Leale Solutions and Entre Computer Services announce a strategic partnership to develop an advanced solutions group to meet growing client demand.
The advanced solutions group will develop strategies and solutions to advance client capabilities in strategic technology service offerings. These offerings are to include Microsoft SharePoint and Business Intelligence areas. The parallels of quality customer service and excellence in technology implementations as well as steady and growing client demand have culminated in an ideal paring for both companies. "It is with great pleasure that we announce a strategic partnership with Entre Computer Services. Their integrity and quality are known industry wide. Through our strategic partnership, collectively we can work hand in hand to create advanced service offerings to exceed our client's expectations" said Daniel Santamaria, CEO of Leale Solutions.
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American Storyteller (h2so4 13)
"Viewed from a certain distance, the great, simple outlines which define the storyteller stand out in him, or rather, they become visible in him, just as in a rock a human head or an animal's body may appear to an observer at the proper distance and angle of vision."
--Walter Benjamin, "The Storyteller," (83) *
True enough. And to see these outlines takes more than the prescribed distance of five feet from the television. You need to be looking up, and into the vast. I watched the Academy Awards this year for the first time in years, three plus hours dedicated to trying to get a gander at Kevin Spacey's marvelous skin. When glimpsed, it did not disappoint. Bronzed and supple under the lights, it suggested on Magnavox as it does writ large a new Calvin Klein phenomenon, some great virile weave of silk. Still, Spacey looked small in his black tie and his moisturizer, in his manicured nails and his shiny shoes, and ergo the great outlines that define him as the everyman to our every perversity failed to materialize.
He still needs the big screen. Spacey comes into his own when he rises onto the scene, all voice and vision on the crest of those great king-of-the-world, God-delivered-to-you dolly shots (The Ref, American Beauty), or convening the crowd, face lighted like the devil, and framed by The Great Seal of the Great State of California (The Usual Suspects). In those moments he embodies the sit down and listen! of the anointed storyteller.
And boy, were we looking for a storyteller at the close of our American Century! Casting a twenty-first century eye over the late-nineties return of the voiceover (Election, The Opposite of Sex, not to mention our featured attractions, Suspects and Beauty), it seems that we were thirsting for narrative and hindsight. This was accompanied by the return of suburban America to a big screen near you. Think, in no particular order, of Happiness, The Ice Storm, Pleasantville, Arlington Road, The Truman Show--etc. Though we tried an odd number of character actors in the role (honorable mention going to Tobey McGuire in The Ice Storm and Pleasantville), no one had quite the charisma to summon a storyteller of Walter Benjamin's proportions, that combination of Odysseus and insurance salesman, who could reach into us through our wars, cars, fitness centers and e-coli outbreaks, to recuperate experience-who might draw us, ëmurricans of all shapes and stripes, to a collective experience of, I blush to write it, wisdom.
So he got it. He did it for us. Rising up from of the waves of Long Island Sound (The Ref), the San Pedro Harbor (Suspects), or gazing down from the clouds at the November streets of suburbia (Beauty), he trawled his nets for those simple and animal outlines, visions of us complete with our SUV's and our trash, shimmering, unusually beautiful for all our joylessness ("Carolyn, when did you get so--joyless?"), for our patina of oil, lip gloss and sea.
"An orientation towards practical interests is characteristic of many born storytellers." (86)
As it happens, Spacey plays both salesmen (The Ref, Glengarry Glen Ross, Beauty), and Odysseus (Suspects). He thus fits the archaic bills of the peddler and the ur-storyteller from way back (Nikolai Leskov, Benjamin's storyteller, worked in international business). But he is also very good at being a movie star, a characteristic which has been most pronounced, ironically, during his stints on the stage. See the interviews he gave during the runs of The Iceman Cometh in NY and London for example (W, July 1998, gives a good taste) or even the careful wording of the introduction to Spaceyland, his official fan site on the web, which provides links to interviews (such as the W piece). Http://www.spacey.com is "the only website endorsed by Mr. Spacey and his management." From all of this derives his mastery of the modern medium of storytelling, which climaxed in American Beauty, as was memorialized on Oscar night.
But in Beauty, "storytelling" tipped over into what Benjamin might call "information." This may have marked the outer limit of what Spacey is going to mean for us. Let me see if I can explain.
"Experience which is passed on from mouth to mouth is the source from which all storytellers have drawn." (84)
Benjamin viewed storytelling as having died out with the rise of the novel, a medium which "neither comes from oral tradition nor goes into it" (87), and which displaced public listening with private acts of reading. But sitting in a movie theater together brings narrative back into the domain of shared experience, and a reasonable representation of mouth-to-mouth storytelling is the mouth-to-eye phenomenon of the close-up.
I think we'd all agree that Spacey has mastered that shot, but it is possible to go further, and to point out that any Kevin Spacey film with a producer, a marketing department, or a director, that is, any Kevin Spacey film, makes use of a sequence I'll call "the Kevin." Technically, it is no great shakes (except, perhaps, as it is executed in Suspects). Lloyd and Caroline, Verbal and Kujan, Lester and Carolyn--fill-in your favorite characters, then apply Film 101: A conversation dies down, the music starts up, and the camera closes in on Spacey's face, which begins to register emotion, thusly:
Sorrow (a.k.a. hurt, disappointment): furrowed brow extends into grimace, grimace deepens into the eyes, close in on the eyes, as they burn cold, or dull themselves to blank.
Triumph (a.k.a. vengeance is mine): the movement of emotion is less insistently inward. The face relaxes, lines smooth away from lip and brow, the eyes come to rest as they gaze into the middle distance, in an expression of complete serenity.
Two notes on this:
a) "The Kevin" can be abbreviated. When Verbal is revealed to have been the shooter of Saul in Suspects, for example, the sheer unreadability of Spacey's expression becomes legible as triumph only retroactively.
b) Sometimes "the Kevin" is followed by a fetching sort of kittenishness that really should have set Dave Kujan wise in The Usual Suspects. Two or three medium-long takes. That's all for "the Kevin." But it delivers the goods, that infrared wave of eros, thanatos, pathos and dignity by which "a simple, active man becomes a saint apparently in the most natural way in the world" (86). The gap between saint (Beauty) and the "devil himself" (Suspects) narrows via "the Kevin." This is why I'd choose it as the image for Benjamin's indeterminate "animal," that force that occupies the storyteller's great and simple outlines. "The Kevin" gets some quality on the move, and allows it to shift, restlessly, forward to the eyes, back into the depths of the face. People argue over the exact epicenter of the action in a Kevin close-up: is it the eyes, the mouth, the forehead? I have already tipped my hand on my view of the role of the skin, i.e., the whole mobile field through which something bigger than the man himself finally settles back on its haunches, just out of intelligibility, equal parts dignity, vulnerability and unsentimental sex. In "the Kevin," the storyteller takes a seat within Spacey's face. And the picture, whatever movie it is (have you seen The Ref?), moves on.
"It is no longer intelligence that comes from afar, but the information which supplies a handle for what is nearest that gets the readiest hearing. " (89)
That question of parts, as in, "what part of his face performs the magic?" leads to another point: Why do we try to break this stuff down? The nature of the storyteller is to be greater than the sum of his parts, to be the vessel for intelligences distant both spatially and in time. Spacey comes to us moment by moment through close-ups and set speeches--the flick of the wrist, the breaking-point rant. But to read him back in the same fragmentary way gets us precisely nowhere (see the usually-divine Sarah Vowell's "Kevin Spacey's Je Ne Sais Quoi" for example--Salon, July 1998).
The difference between actor as assemblage-of-parts and actor as storyteller can be set up in terms of the distinction between storytelling and information. Storytelling, according to Benjamin, "does not aim to convey the pure essence of the thing, like information or a report" (91). E-Z narrative film uses close-ups to deliver information--a character is happy, is sad, is speaking, is dead. In contrast, "the Kevin" delivers a living vessel, entire. We don't just get Spacey's eyes and his mouth. The entire head conveys the vision of a transformation taking place (back to the skin, to the role played by creases and shadow. Think also of his hairline, how it changes and what that means, from Verbal Kint's widow's peak to Lester Burnham's coif). Right there, at that moment, within any of his characters, Lloyd Chasseur, Jack Vincennes, Chris Sabian, your-name-here, experience becomes narrative, sinks "into the life of the storyteller," as Benjamin describes it, "in order to bring it out of him again" (91).
This formula is followed gospel fashion in The Usual Suspects, of course. Verbal Kint gazes calmly over Hedaya's office ("a man who finds his way about in the world without getting too deeply involved with it" (Benjamin 86)), drawing the silky stuff that Dave Kujan wants to hear from the wanted signs, the coffee cups and a cigarette box that surround him: "He is the man who could let the wick of his life be consumed completely by the gentle flame of his story" (Benjamin 108-9).
Actually, the mythic properties of the storyteller are overdetermined in Suspects: "Kint" is a Hungarian word for "talk," according to Chris McQuarrie and Bryan Singer, so Verbal is Mr. Talk Talk. Moreover, Verbal and his alter ego Keyser fold into the master story of western civilization, since Turkey, Keyser's ostensible wellspring, was formerly Troy. Thus Keyser/Verbal begins to look a lot like Odysseus, spinning out the hospitality of the Phaiakians in the long final hours before he finally heads for home.
Beauty starts out on the same tack, though it pumps things to eleven. As in Suspects, Spacey is situated as storyteller through his mastery of the narrative, though his control in Beauty is more absolute, since the camera doesn't undermine his description of events there as it does occasionally in Suspects. His position is reinforced through the story's framing within voice-overs, and via those angel's-view establishing shots. It is also wired invisibly by the legacy of Verbal Kint and Keyser Soze. In the aftermath of Suspects, it is hard not to set the Spacey default to mythic/fantastic, even if what follows is something like Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (a film baroque without extenuation, whereas I think Beauty receives a little extra license, given our profound collective desire to receive one last blown-out American rose before the millennium).
So Beauty begins in the vein of Suspects. But it is further infused with the epic by its dedication to themes of death. If in Suspects Verbal/Keyser is formed in the mold of Odysseus (Benjamin would say Scheherazade)--that is, if he spins his story against death--Beauty taps that aspect of the storyteller in which he looks out over life from the threshold of its completion: "it is granted to him to reach back to a whole lifetime--his gift is his ability to relate his life" (108). This is literalized as Lester tells the whole film from the perspective of his death, the two minutes it takes to die stretched to two plus hours.
Fair enough, as a conceit. The movie could have made it on that, but the point is flogged to death in the dialogue, in those innocent clunkers, issuing from the mouths of babes (Janie's "have you ever known anybody who died?" comes to mind).
"The most extraordinary things, the marvelous things, are related with the greatest accuracy, but the psychological connection of the events is not forced-thus the narrative achieves an amplitude that information lacks." (89)
When I suggest that Beauty tipped the balance from storytelling to information, my opinion is based on that insistent quality, that greedy urgency by which it calls attention to its epic characteristics: This movie is about death! Beauty is real! See? The bird is dead. And it's beautiful. Get it? What else might be beautiful, or dead?
In the wash of so much explanation, Spacey may be forgiven if his storyteller properties wane a little. The nuances of the tale he might have told (a story about masculinity? a story about salvation? a vision of our fallible fathers? wisdom?) are immediately subject to "verification." "Information, however, lays prompt claim to verifiability" (89). "The Kevin" sequence is replaced by video- contemplation of self-explanatory objects-the dead pigeon, the plastic bag--while Spacey himself becomes the object of standard male-lead close-ups. Something of a waste (even if I do appreciate my enhanced working knowledge of his legs and chest). Unable to follow through in good faith with the requirements of the mythic, Beauty is ultimately a story for the information age.
Well, let's not get overly elegiac here. It's a good movie, for all its self-indulgence. And along with everything else he said on the subject, Benjamin also pointed out that "the art of storytelling has been dying out for a long time" (87). Moreover, isn't a narrative of the degradation of story to information ultimately one of the big ones of our fin-de et commencement-de-siècle? If the Academy took Beauty, its producers, writer, director, and actors as the image of USA 1999, that seems like an all right assessment to have made at the edge of the millennium, especially since we seem to have survived both it and our various adolescences (it was, though, a fairly masculine lineup, no? That's another essay).
But it was also all the better that the Oscars are delivered to America via the small screen, and that Spacey appeared as your average elegant guy, size medium, in a tux-a winning actor, and nothing greater. Now the question yawns open: whither the storyteller? Is it Spacey still who will recapture those outlines, his greater force? Such qualities are ephemeral, and while I love the man, I am thinking, No. Then again, the greatest trick the storyteller has ever played is convincing the world that he no longer exists.
* All cites from Walter Benjamin, "The Storyteller," Illuminations: Essays and Reflections. Ed. Hannah Arendt. NY: Schocken. 1968.


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2020 Women's Olympic Qualifiers : Lionesses Fail To Impress
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Even though they qualified for the third round of the competition, the Indomitable Lionesses were unable to give the usual performance that is known of them.
The Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroon qualified for the third round of the 2020 Women's Olympic Games qualifying tournament. They drew 0-0 with Ethiopia on Tuesday, September 3, 2019 at the Yaounde Omnisports Stadium. The draw gave the Lionesses a ticket to the third round of the 2020 qualifying competition. The Lionesses qualified for the next round of the competition having scored one away goal in Ethiopia.
Even though they qualified for the third round of the competition they were just a mere shadow of themselves. The Cameroonians dominated the game with quality and good play style but the Ethiopians proved tough. The Indomitable Lionesses were able to continue with their domination in the second half but failed to produce killer chances. Despite some positive replacements made by Alain Djeumfa the Lionesses found it difficult to break through the defence wall of the Ethiopians. The Ethiopians had a fortified defence wall made up of five vigilant defenders and were able to ward off any onslaught from the Cameroonians. The performance of the Lionesses on Tuesday lives much to be desired. The Lionesses had the potentials but they lacked good finishing which is an age old problem facing the team. The technical bench will need to work on that aspect as they prepare to face the DR Congo next month.
Alain Djeumfa in a press conference after the match said what was essential was to qualify. He said the team will continue to prepare hard for the next game. He said the objective of the team is to qualify for the Olympic Games. The professional players joined the team only a few days to the game. Consequently, the players did not have enough time to play together as a team. Apart from that, local players lack play time giving the situation of the national women's championship in the country. However, the Cameroon football governing body is working hard to improve on the situation of women's football in the country.
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At first blush, however, one would have supposed that classical forms of negative theology would hardly commend themselves to the 'democratic' temperament of post-modern philosophy, if only for the reason that
9 See Jacques Derrida, 'How to Avoid Speaking: Denials', in Sanford Budick and Wolfgang Iser (eds.), Language of the Unsayable: The Play of Negativity in Literature and Literary Theory, New York: Columbia University Press, 1989, pp. 1-50.
11 Which you might say it is not, that it is intended ironically, as a reductio ad absurdum of any attempt to construct such a general logic of 'difference'. As we shall see, for Derrida, the statement 'Tout autre est tout autre' has a principally ethical force - see pp. 166-8 below. But no ethics, however rhetorically appealing, can provide excuses for bad logic; nor can appeals to 'irony'.
hierarchy is ineradicable from the earliest classical formulations of negative theology; they are born twins in their first incarnations. And if not the first, then certainly the most influential of those incarnations in Western Christian thought must be that found in the pseudo-Denys' Mystical Theology. For the pseudo-Denys a hierarchy is a differentiated structure of differences. Thus, in the fourth and fifth chapters of that work he describes a hierarchy of differentiated denials - denials, that is, of all the names of God. Those names, to use a later, medieval, metaphor, form a ladder, ascending from the lowest 'perceptual' names - 'God is a rock, is immense, is light, is darkness ...' - derived as metaphors from material objects - to the very highest, 'proper' or 'conceptual' names of God: 'God is wise and wisdom, good and goodness, beautiful and beauty, exists and existence'. All these names the pseudo-Denys negates one by one as he progresses up the scale of language until at the end of the work the last word is that all words are left behind in the silence of the apophatic. This ascending hierarchy of negations is, however, systematic, is governed by a general theological principle and is regulated by a mechanism. It has a grammar.
As to the general theological principle, the pseudo-Denys has already said earlier in Mystical Theology12 what he had emphasised in Divine Names,13 that all these descriptions denied are legitimate names of God, and yield the possibilities of true and of false statements about God. Hence, these fourth and fifth chapters of his Mystical Theology are, in the first instance, expositions of an intrinsically hierarchical affirmative theology. Moreover, the foundation of this affirmativeness lies in God's being the Creator of all things. It is God's being the cause of all which justifies God's being described by the names of all the things he has caused, even if what they mean as thus predicated of God must fall infinitely short of what God is; nor is there any sign, anywhere in the Corpus Dionysiacum, that Denys anticipates a problem of consistency between an epistemo-logically realist affirmative theology and a thoroughgoing apophaticism.
Indeed, it is probably one of the chief arguments of Divine Names that if we are not to be misled in our theological language, we not only may but must use as many different ways of describing God as possible:14 as he himself says, if we gain something in how we think of God by describing her as a 'king in majesty', then we ought to remember that she can appear to behave towards us in a manner so irritable and arbitrary that we may as appropriately describe her, in the manner of the Psalmist, as
12 Pseudo-Denys, Mystical Theology, 1033B; Complete Works, p. 139.
13 Pseudo-Denys, Divine Names 593C-D; Complete Works, p. 54.
14 Divine Names 596A; Complete Works, p. 54.
behaving like a soldier maddened by an excess of wine.15 Theological language, for the pseudo-Denys, consists not in a restraint, but in a clamour of metaphor and description, for negative theology is, essentially, a surplus, not a deficit, of description; you talk your way into silence by way of an excessus embarrassed at its increasing complexity of differentiation. Hence, if we must also deny all that we affirm, this does not, for the pseudo-Denys, imply any privileging of the negative description or metaphor over the affirmative. For those denials and negations are themselves forms of speech; hence, if the divine reality transcends all our speech, then, as he says in the concluding words of Mystical Theology, 'the cause of all ... is' indeed, '... beyond every assertion'; but it is also, and by the same token, 'beyond every denial'.16 You can no more 'capture' God in denials than you can capture God in affirmations.
The point of the serial negations of the last two chapters of that work, therefore, is not to demonstrate that negative language is somehow superior to affirmative in the mind's ascent to God; rather it is to demonstrate that our language leads us to the reality of God when, by a process simultaneously of affirming and denying all things of God, by, as it were in one breath, both affirming what God is and denying, as he puts it, 'that there is any kind of thing that God is',17 we step off the very boundary of language itself, beyond every assertion and every denial, into the 'negation of the negation' and the 'brilliant darkness'18 of God. But even here we should note that this 'negation of the negation' entails neither that some ultimate affirmation gains grip, nor that some ultimate negation does so. The 'negation of the negation' is precisely the refusal of ultimacy to both the affirmative and the negative, to both similarity and difference. In this sense the theology of the pseudo-Denys is neither an 'apophaticism' nor a 'cataphaticism'. It is the entirely 'unclosed', 'unresolved', tension between both. It is within that tension that, for the pseudo-Denys, all theological language is situated; it is situated, in a certain sense, within indeterminacy.
So much for the theological principle of his apophaticism - which is necessarily at the same time the general principle of his cataphaticism. As for the mechanism which governs this stepwise ascent of affirmation and denial, we may observe how that mechanism is itself a paradoxical conjunction of opposites: the ascent is, as I have said, an ordered hierarchical progression from denials of the lower to denials of the higher names, and yet at every stage on this ascent we encounter the same phenomenon of language slipping and sliding unstably, as the signifying name first appears
15 Ps. 78:65. See Mystical Theology 1048B; Complete Works, p. 141.
16 Mystical Theology 1048B; Complete Works, p. 141.
17 Divine Names 817D; Complete Works, p. 98.
18 Mystical Theology 997B; Complete Works, p. 135.
to get a purchase, and then loses grip, on the signified it designates. We may say legitimately, because the Bible says it, that 'God is a rock' and as we say the words they appear to offer a stable hold on the signified, God: we have said, Denys supposes, something true of God, albeit by metaphor, and something of the divine reliability is thereby disclosed. But just as we have let some weight hang from the grip of this word 'rock' on the being of God, the grip slips: God is not, of course, 'lifeless', as rocks are, and we also have to say, since the Bible tells us we must, that God is love and must be possessed of intellect and will, and so enjoys the highest form of life of which we know. Hence, in order to retain its grip on the signified, the signifier has to shift a step up the ladder of ascent, there itself to be further destabilised. For God is not 'intelligence' or 'will' either, and the signified again wriggles away from the hook of the signifier and shifts and slides away, never to be impaled finally on any descriptive hook we can devise, even that of existence. For in affirming that 'God exists', what we say of God differs infinitely more from what we affirm when we say that 'Peter exists' than does 'Peter exists' from 'Peter does not exist'. For the difference between Peter's existing and Peter's not existing is a created difference, and so finite. Whereas the difference between God's existing and Peter's existing is between an uncreated and a created existence, and so is infinite.19 Hence, any understanding we have of the distinction between existence and non-existence fails of God, which is why the pseudo-Denys can say that the Cause of all 'falls neither within the predicate of nonbeing nor of being'.20 Mysteriously, the pseudo-Denys insists that we must deny of God that she is 'divinity';21 more mysteriously still the signified eludes the hold even, as we have seen, of 'similarity and difference';22 mysteriously, that is, until we are forced to discover just why God cannot be different from, nor therefore similar to, anything at all, at any rate in any of the ways in which we can conceive of similarity and difference; or else God would be just another, different, thing. Just so, for the pseudo-Denys: for 'there is no kind of thing', he says, 'which God is'.23 Therefore, there is nothing we can say which fully circumscribes what God is, and, which is more to the point, there can be no language of similarity and difference left with which to describe God's difference. In short, for the pseudo-Denys, only the otherness of God could be 'totally' other, and that otherness of God is, perforce, indescribable - God's 'otherness' is to be beyond 'otherness'. Hence, as to 'this'
19 See pp. 178-9 below for Thomas's discussion of this point.
20 Mystical Theology 1048A; Complete Works, p. 141
21 Mystical Theology 1048A; Complete Works, p. 141.
22 Mystical Theology 1048A; Complete Works, p. 141.
23 Divine Names 817D; Complete Works, p. 98.
difference between God and creatures, we cannot even describe it as a difference, the difference, of which we can give an account.
For the pseudo-Denys, then, we are justified in making true affirmative statements about God, because if God is the Creator of all things, all things must in some way reveal, in what they are, the nature of their origin. That is his concession, as we might put it, to 'foundationalism'. But creatures do not all reveal the same things about God, or in the same way, or to the same extent. For this reason, it is correct to say that, for the pseudo-Denys, there is a 'grammar' of talk about God, a grammar which governs equally its cataphatic and the apophatic 'phases'. For even if we do not have a proper 'concept' of God (there being no kind of thing which God is for there to be a concept of), we have a use for the name 'God', a use which is governed by determinable rules of correct and incorrect speech. In fact, it is clear that, for the pseudo-Denys, that grammar is complex and differentiated, governing, that is to say, different logics of grounding in truth, different logics of consistency, and above all, different logics of negation, negation being the foundation of all logic, and so of 'difference'. These 'logics' are determined by the order of creation in so far as creation is an order and scale of revelation, a hierarchy, for as some things are 'nearer' to God in their natures, and others 'further' from God, so their likeness to God is more or less 'similar'. Of course, all the names of God fall short of what God is: you can even say that God is equally 'other' than all these names, though they are not equally 'other' than God.24 But because there is a hierarchy of affirmations, there is a corresponding hierarchy of denials.
For, in general, what you are doing in negating predicates of God depends on the logical standing of the predicates you are negating, and four logical types of negation - and so of 'difference' - seem to be theologically at play. First, at the level of metaphor, and so at the 'lowest' level of our discourse about God, we affirm and deny of God what is proper to material creation: 'God is a rock', 'God is a lion'. Obviously 'God is a lion' negates the force of 'God is a rock' to the extent that a rock is lifeless and a lion alive. Hence, one metaphor is negated by its metaphorically negative counterpart. But even metaphors which cancel each other in one respect are with consistency affirmed of one and the same thing in another, for there is no inconsistency in saying that God has the stability of a rock and the fierce energy of a lion. In any case, a negative metaphor, as 'no man is an island', negates an affirmative, such as 'some men are
24 See Divine Names 680B; Complete Works, p. 68. This paradox is not entirely incoherent.
All numbers fall short of infinity infinitely. Even so, 4 is larger than 2, and 5 than 4.
Created differences are not eliminated by their all falling infinitely short of their uncreated cause.
islands', but is for all its negativity, still a metaphor. Consequently, the relations of affirmation to negation within the metaphorical differ from those between a metaphor, whether affirmative or negative, and its negation as a metaphor.
For, secondly, the negation of metaphor simply consists in a recognition of its literal falsehood: 'It is not the case that God is a rock', which is simply a way of acknowledging that 'God is a rock' is a metaphor. But then again, at a third level, a literal affirmation entails the negation of its literal contradictory, for eadem est scientia oppositorum.25 Hence, you may legitimately say that 'God exists', which is in no way a metaphor, and is no more than to say the contrary of what the atheist says; and you may legitimately say that 'God is good', which entails the falsehood of 'God is evil'. In either case, the first, being true, excludes the truth of the second. And all these three relations of affirmation and negation are straightforwardly 'Aristotelian'; they are negations governed by the laws of classical logic.
But as to a fourth level of negation, that which the pseudo-Denys calls 'denial by transcendence', this is the 'negation of the negation', as when he says that the Cause of all 'falls neither within the predicate of nonbeing nor of being'. And it is clear that the pseudo-Denys' apophatic negations are of this last kind. For in the sense in which it is correctly said that 'God is not good', it is not now entailed that God is evil; in the sense in which God is said, correctly, not to be 'a being', 'not-being' equally fails of God. What is being negated, therefore, is that any creaturely understanding of the difference between good and evil, between being and non-being, finally holds its grip on God. The 'negation of the negation' is ultimately the negation of that hierarchy which structures the oppositions of affirmation and negation which lead up to it. For that hierarchy is a structure of differentiation, an articulation of a scale of negations; whereas the 'negation of the negation' places God beyond hierarchy itself, for to say that God is 'beyond both similarity and difference' is to say that God is not different by virtue of any of the differences on the scale, but that God is, ultimately, off the scale itself. But how do such denials - the double negation - achieve this?
It is sometimes said that they do so by 'going beyond' Aristotelian logic.26 And this is in one way true, and in another way distinctly misleading. For in so far as what is meant by saying that the 'apophatic denials' reach out to some space 'beyond' the realm in which the principle of contradiction holds is that here, when talking about God, we
25 Or rather, as Aquinas used to quote Aristotle's remark in De interpretation 6 17a 31-33.
26 For example, by Colm Luibheid; see Pseudo-Dionysius: The Complete Works, p. 136, note 6.
may happily say contradictory things without 'Aristotelian' scruple, this clearly misrepresents the pseudo-Denys's view. For it is, on the contrary, because two propositions which formally contradict each other could not both be true of God - in other words precisely because here, too, Aristotelian logic does hold - that we know our language to be failing of God. The 'negation of the negation' is not the abandonment of logic's hold on language. On the contrary, it is precisely because logic does retain its hold on language that the negation of the negation is the abandonment of language as such. Hence, for the pseudo-Denys there is no such thing as 'apophatic language'. If it is apophatic, then it is beyond language. If it is within language, then it is obedient to the laws of 'Aristotelian logic'. It is only 'beyond speech', therefore, that, for the pseudo-Denys, indeterminacy rules. In the meantime, and leading up to that point, there is a hierarchical differentiation and structure within negativity, and so within 'otherness', a hierarchy which is intrinsic to the statement of his apophaticism.
If we are to understand the theology of the pseudo-Denys we have to admit this hierarchy of negation and difference, and the consequent hierarchical ontology which underpins it. And such an admission will not be so readily conceded in some quarters today; for it is commonly supposed that if we are today to gain profit from the theology of the pseudo-Denys for our own theological purposes, it will have to be at the cost of his clearly 'pre-modern' hierarchicalism, for which (it is thought) any contemporary ontology can find no place. For no contemporary ontology concedes the pseudo-Denys's scale of being, descending, as I put it elsewhere,27 like a laval flow from the pure fire of its origin down through the slopes of the volcano, hardening and cooling as it flows away from its source. Contemporary philosophies permit no conceptions which correspond with the pseudo-Denys's Platonic notion of 'degrees of reality' such that some things 'realise more' of what it is to exist than other things do, still less ofthe Christianised Platonic notion that the existence which creatures 'more or less' realise consists in their degree of participation in the divine existence. Hence, Christian theologies today, even those claiming much influence from the antique and medieval traditions of negative theology, may feel that they know what they can and what they cannot take from those sources: negative theology they will embrace, on condition of its detachment from a hierarchical Platonic ontology, and its corresponding epistemological hierarchy.28
27 Turner, Darkness of God, p. 29.
28 See ibid., pp. 26-33, for a fuller account of the role of hierarchy in the thought of the pseudo-Denys.
Perhaps theologians of that way of thinking will feel sustained in their hopes for such selectivity by the fact that the theology of the pseudo-Denys is governed by a double movement of thought, the one rooted in an antique hierarchical ontology, the other, corrective of the first, in the directly Christian teaching of the creation of all things 'out of nothing'. If, from the first point of view, a theological language of greater and lesser distance from God is legitimised, from the second point of view this hierarchicalism is radically qualified: all things are also in a certain sense equidistant from the God whose action sustains them equally in existence as opposed to the nothingness 'from which' they are created. For there is no such kind of thing as the kind of thing which exists; there is no kind of being, therefore, which, prior to or beyond its character as pure gift, has any claim on existence because of the kind of being that it is. Hence, even if, given its existence, an angel possesses an existence 'more necessary' than that of a worm, from this 'absolute' point of view of creation - that it exists at all - an angel has no better claim on existence than a worm has. The 'aristocratic' theological language of the angelic hierarchy cannot be justified except in its dialectical tension with, and ultimate subordination to, the 'democratic' ontology of creation ex nihilo. As 'the Cause of all' God stands in the same relation to the whole hierarchy as its Creator: he does not stand as top being on that hierarchy.
Nonetheless, those hopes are vain which are sustained by a prospect of a Dionysian apophaticism rooted in the democratic negativity of creatio ex nihilo but detached from a hierarchical affirmativity, not least because of the distortions thus visited upon the pseudo-Denys's theological project. For a theological apophasis whose denials are disengaged from the hierarchy of affirmations will have to abandon, along with the hierarchy of affirmations, also the pseudo-Denys's careful distinctions within the hierarchy of denials themselves - or, to put it in other terms, within the hierarchy of 'difference', and so within the differentiations intrinsic to our language about God.
Hence, it is not so easy as it might be thought to distil out, as a pure 'rhetoric', an apophatic theology from that hierarchical ontology which, in antique and medieval traditions, underpinned an affirmative theology. For it is once again necessary to emphasise that at work within the pseudo-Denys's articulation of theological language is the Aristotelian principle, eadem est scientia oppositorum - affirmations and their corresponding negations are one and the same knowledge. In general, therefore, 'otherness' and negation are inconceivable except in terms of'sameness' and affirmation; hence, what it is to deny something - what kind of 'otherness' you thereby affirm - depends on what it is to affirm it. It further follows that if the logic of affirmation is hierarchically differentiated, then we have to say that the logic of negation and 'otherness' is differentiated. And it follows finally that if 'otherness' is differentiated, then the differences between one kind of otherness and others are themselves intelligible only against the background of sameness. The conception of an 'otherness' being 'tout autre' is, therefore, strictly unintelligible. Just so, says the pseudo-Denys: to the 'tout autre' we would have to give the name 'God', for it is here alone that logic breaks down, and the principle eadem est scientia oppositorum itself fails, as it must, since God 'is beyond [not only] every assertion .. .[but also] beyond every denial'. As it were, to reverse Nietzsche's famous formulation: we can get God only at the point where we get rid of grammar, where we have pressed 'grammar' beyond its breaking point.
Hence to dislodge any one element in this complex structure of differentiated difference is to cause the whole edifice of theological language to collapse. What, of course, it collapses into if we remove from it that articulation of differentiated differences is precisely what we get in Derrida: a univocity of difference for which every difference is reduced to a generalised indeterminacy, an indeterminacy which is, moreover, logically impossible as of anything finite: 'total difference'. What the pseudo-Denys recognises is that no two anythings can be 'totally different', for that is why he concludes that God, being totally different from all creatures, could not be any kind of thing. As between God and creatures there is, of course, all the difference, but, being beyond description, it cannot be a difference of any kind; but the thought that that, precisely, is how God is different from creation - more 'other' in respect of any creature than any two creatures could be in respect of each other - is one which gets its full development in later Dionysian theologies, in particular those of Meister Eckhart and Thomas Aquinas, to the first of whom we must now turn, leaving the discussion of Thomas to the next chapter.
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17 Sep 10 08:47:48 am
I am a new player in online business, I want to ask what the liquidators??, and what's the difference with the dropshipper, wholesaler? thanks u
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Hi keanejar and welcome to SaleHoo
Liquidation or Surplus as it is also called, is where a retailer, wholesaler or manufacturer disposes of stock cheaply for quick cash flow. Now there are quite a few reasons why this might happen, example: Old stock taking up valuable shelf space, customer returned stock, damaged stock that can't be sold as new, going out of business, insurance write-off and quite a few others, but that should give you the picture.
The provider of the stock sells the stock that has become surplus to their requirements cheaply, and people/companies called liquidators will buy this stock by the truckload (on most occasions) and then on-sell to the general public for them to resell through various avenues.
Because there are so many different types of stock when it comes to liquidations, it's important you understand clearly what you are purchasing. It might be really cheap, but it may also not be worth you buying it.
Let's consider electronics for this equation. Very popular product genre among consumers, so the chances of old stock of a popular item being liquidated is minimal, therefore if you are looking at buying a pallet of electronics from a surplus provider without knowing in what condition this products are in, chances are you will be getting a hight percentage of products with faults.
Faulty equipment is a very popular reason for liquidating that type of stock. Even customer return loads will usually have a very high degree of faulty units as customers don't return electrical goods for reasons they will return clothing.
You might take a shirt back because it's the wrong size, wrong colour, wrong design, missing a button, just changed your mind or your son hated it. So if you were buying a load of containing customer return shirts, then the chances of the products being perfectly good are much higher.
It all comes down to serious research when dealing in liquidated stock. Know the product your are buying as well as you possibly can, and you can only do that by visiting them in person or asking as many questions as it takes!
OK, so that is essentially liquidations covered for you. Drop Shipping is a no or low cash outlay way of doing business. A Drop Shipper holds products in stock, you pay to advertise them through your preferred marketing avenues such as eBay and so on. Once a sale is made, you take your profit from the sale out of what the customer has paid you, then pass on the cost of the product to the Drop Shipper, along with shipping instructions and the Drop Shipper then sends the sold product to the end customer, not to you.
Wholesale, this is a volume based purchasing option. The more stock you purchase from a wholesaler, the better the price you receive for that stock essentially. Of course the cheaper you can buy a product for, the more chance you have of competing and making money!
So those are the basics of all three platforms, each have benefits and pitfalls, and research is required to examine which platform would best suit you as a supply source.
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thank you for answering my questions. maybe in the future I will be a lot more questions, I beg your patience in answering my question, because I am still a newbie. thanks
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No problems at all, that's what we're here for : )
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Fudjj has pretty much said it all. I just want to add that if you haven't already done so, download a copy of the SaleHoo User Manual and the rest of the PDF guides, you'll find them quite useful.
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For a satisfying and rewarding cycle ride, nothing beats a steady mountain ascent with glorious views. Valais has many such routes, thanks to its special topography, clearly marked for a smooth ride. Set off from the valley floor to reach a variety of summits, dams or mountain passes: choose according to your mood. Here is a selection of marked routes sure to delight hill climbers, with thrilling hairpin bends, steep gradients and panoramic views along the way.


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Cute overload…. WARNING, too cute.
It was dry this evening, so we made the most of it.
Jen and I went outside with the bunnies on their leads.
Bart is wearing the pink set and Mo is in dark green.
These photos make it seem like a lazy evening, but these bunnies are untrained and cheeky things, I was mostly running the circles around our Christmas tree. After a short time, Jen abandoned me and got his bike and helmet and cycled up and down the paths, whilst I
walked the bunnies followed them about.
And finally… both boys, tired out on my sofa.


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These executive office spaces occupy the fifth and sixth floors of a popular early 20th century building in the luxury shopping district of Murray Hill, New York City. There are a range of shops, bars and restaurants within walking distance, offering ideal venues for informal meetings and relaxed down time. The building itself is beautifully designed, and the entrance is through a stunning wrought-iron arched door, creating a great first impression with guests. Many major national and international corporations are situated nearby, offering ideal networking opportunities to any business.
Offices are fully furnished and serviced, and are well equipped for business with high speed internet access and dedicated phone lines. A virtual office service is provided on request, dealing with call handling, mail forwarding and administration in the name of the business, from this prestigious address. There are also friendly and professional staff on hand throughout the day to provide support and assistance as required.
This location is close to many major road networks, and LaGuardia Airport is just 16 minutes away by car. Public transport services are also within walking distance.
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No.CHQ/AIAPASP/Upgradation/GP/2017 Dated 19.02.2018.
The Secretary (Posts)
Department of Posts,
Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg,
New Delhi 110001.
Sub:- Non implementation of Directorate Orders of dated 24.10.2017 vide which the Grade pay of Inspector of Posts has been upgraded to Rs. 4600/- (PB-2) w.e.f. 01.01.2006 in the 6th CPC structure in pursuance of Para 7.6.14 of its report.
Respected Sir,
Your kind attention is invited towaeds the meeting held in your chamber on 27.12.2017 with members of this association regarding issuance of clear cut directions to field units to refix the pay of IP/ASP in compliance to orders issued by Pay Commission Cell of Directorate vide letter No. 2-12/2013-PCC dated 24.10.2017. A memorandum was also submitted to your kind honour by the then General Secretary vide letter of even no. dated 27.12.2017 for issuance of clarification in this regard.
The 40th all India Biennial conference of this association was recently held in Rajgir (Bihar) in which all members have shown great disappointment on the issue that after a lapse of almost two months no fruitful order regarding clarification on refixation of pay of IP/ASP have since been issued by directorate in this regard.
The matter is therefore, once again briefed to your kind honour with submission that after a long battle in hon'ble CAT Ernakulam Bench, this cadre has succeeded in getting upgraded pay scale at par with their counter parts working in CBDT/CBEC and assistants in CSS. The orders issued vide Directorate No. 2-12/2013-PCC dated 24.10.2017 in compliance to orders of Hon'ble CAT Ernakulam Bench is still not implemented in circles for want of clear cut directions regarding the manner in which the pay of IP/ASPs are to be fixed w.e.f 01.01.2006. Only a few directly recruited IPs have been given the benefit in some of the Circles so far.
It is pertinent to mention here that various Tribunals, High Courts and even Apex Court has already given judgments with directions to fix minimum pay of the promottee candidates as per criteria fixed for direct recruits also in revised pay structure. The nodal department DoE has also issued certain circulars in this regard to fix pay in respect of promottee officials w.e.f 01.01.2006 in 6th CPC pay structure. But, it's a matter of great concern for this cadre that despite issuance of order by the Directorate on 24.10.2017 the same has not been implemented in its true spirit because of want of clarification from higher ups about the manner in which the pay is to be refixed in case of promottee officials. In this regard, submission of Association was made as under:-
1) The pay of IPs promoted through LDCE AND Direct recruited IPs through SSC, who joined as IP prior to 01.01.2006, has to be re-fixed @ 4600 Grade pay in revised 6th CPC pay structure w.r.t fitment table S-13 corresponding GP of Rs. 4600.
2) The pay of IPs, who were promoted through LDCE and joined between 01.01.2006 to 30.08.2008 and opted to fix their pay from the date of promotion, shall be re-fixed @ 4600/- Grade pay under Rule 11 of 6th CPC gazette. (Annex-03) equal to pre revised upgraded pay scale of Rs. 7450.
3) The manner of fixation of pay of officials promoted as Inspector Posts between on or after 01-09-2018. It is to mention that various Tribunals, High Courts and even Apex Court has already pronounced judgments with direction that initial Pay of the officials promoted on or after 01-01-2006 may not be fixed lower than the entry level pay which could be drawn by a direct recruit appointee on or after 01-01-2006".
Therefore association once again urges to Secretary Posts to take necessary action for issuing early clarification regarding the manner in which the pay of IPs/ASPs is to be refixed in revised pay structure of 6th CPC in pursuance of para 7.6.14.
For the sake of uniformity it is once again requested to your kind honour to kindly issue common order regarding upgradation of pay of Inspector Posts w.e.f 01.01.2006 in pursuance of para 7.6.14 in 6th CPC w.r.t fitment table S-13 corresponding GP of Rs. 4600.
This association hopes an early and favorable order for strengthening the backbone of the department by granting the benefit in its true spirit to all IP/ASP w.e.f 01.01.2006.
With regards
Yours sincerely
(Rajiv Kumar)
General Secretary


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Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteering at LifeServe Blood Center is a great way to get involved in your community! We depend on volunteers to assist with a variety of tasks, all of which support the vital mission of savings lives by creating access to a safe blood supply.
By volunteering your time, you will be part of the organization that is responsible for collecting, testing and distributing more than 150,000 units of blood each year. As a volunteer, you can take pride in knowing that your time is well spent and that your contribution will impact the lives of hundreds of people every day.
Benefits of Volunteering
- Be a part of an organization dedicated to helping others and saving lives
- Use your skills and spend your time in a positive working environment
- Meet new people and build new friendships
- Be recognized for your contributions at a formal appreciation event
- Receive newsletters and rewards
Volunteers Bob and Susan Woodard have been with LifeServe for three years, faithfully lending a hand on a weekly basis at the Des Moines Donor Center. After their first meeting with the volunteer coordinator, they knew they were in the right place.
"Taking the tour and seeing the different options that were available," Bob explained, "that was something that truly did impress us. Believe it or not, we've done a whole lot of those different things over the course of our three years. We're not just coming in to do one thing or another thing. We do a number of things!"
For Susan, it's the warm feeling that keeps her coming back. "There's never been a time where we've come in and volunteered without someone recognizing us as a volunteer and saying thank you," she said. "It makes you feel as if your volunteer work is very important."
Thanks to the variety of projects and duties available as well as the genuine gratitude from the LifeServe team, the Woodards don't plan to stop volunteering any time soon.
"It's a great opportunity for anybody who wants to have fun, enjoy what it is they're doing, and know they've done something that is truly appreciated," Bob said.
"It's just one small way for us to give back," Susan agreed.
At LifeServe Blood Center, we work closely with potential volunteers to match their time and talents with our needs. Volunteers make a big impact in almost every department in our organization. Here are some examples of volunteer activities at LifeServe Blood Center:
- Transport blood products and supplies between hospitals, donor centers, mobile blood drives and LifeServe Blood Center distribution sites
Administrative Support:
- Scan documents
- Make photocopies/print documents
- Data entry
- Assist with mailings, labeling
- Packet assembly
Building and Grounds Maintenance
- Sweep garage and store rooms
- Plant and water flowers
- Keep parking lot clean
- General building repairs and maintenance
- General vehicle maintenance and cleaning
Donor Services
- Monitor donors following blood donation
- Set-up and serve juice and cookies in the canteen area
- Greeting visitors at donor center locations
- Gather supplies for mobile blood drives
Donor Recruitment and Retention:
- Make appointment reminder phone calls
- Process and fill online store gift orders
- Print and mail certificates and other recruitment materials
Most volunteer activities are based from the Des Moines Donor Center (431 E. Locust St.) and Sioux City Donor Center (1019 Jones St.) during daytime, weekday hours. Volunteer drivers are needed at all hours of the day, every day of the week and are based from Des Moines, Ames, Sioux City, Mason City, Waterloo and Omaha, NE sites. Volunteers are occasionally needed to assist with donor service activities and events in other areas and can be contacted on an as needed basis.
It takes a special person to volunteer their time – let us know if that's you!
Volunteer Today!
For more information about volunteering, fill out the form on our Contact Us page and make sure you select "Volunteer".


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A supervisor was gunned down in an apparent murder-suicide last night in Milwaukee. According to police, 23-year-old Thaiv Xiong of Milwaukee shot his 58-year-old boss multiple times in a meeting about 6 p.m. Thursday at Trans-Coil International, which is at 7878 N. 86th Street. He then turned […]Read more →


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Art form: Painting
Subject and objects: Still life, Landscape, Portrait, Nude, Fantasy, Mythological scene, Interior, Allegorical scene
Style of art: Abstractionism, Impressionism, Art Nouveau, Symbolism
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Valérie Dashwood
Point Blank 2010
Samuel Pierret (Gilles Lellouche) is a nurse who saves the wrong guy -- a thief (Roschdy Zem) whose henchmen take Samuel's pregnant wife (Elena Anaya) hostage to force him to spring their boss from the hospital. A race through the subways and streets of Paris ensues, and the body count rises. Can Samuel evade the cops and the criminal underground and deliver his beloved to safety?
Category: Action, Crime, Thriller
Stars: Gilles Lellouche,Roschdy Zem,Gérard Lanvin,Elena Anaya,Mireille Perrier,Claire Pérot,Moussa Maaskri,Pierre Benoist,Valérie Dashwood,Virgile Bramly,Nicky Naudé,Adel Bencherif,Vincent Colombe,Chems Dahmani,Grégoire Bonnet
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Alexanderwerk Inc. supports TechCeuticals Seminar in Cleveland (OH), USA in August, 2019
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The Nationals welcomed 10-year-old cancer patient Parker Staples as the newest addition to their team on Friday, in conjunction with the Make-A-Wish Mid-Atlantic Foundation. While battling lymphoma, Staples learned he would receive a wish and didn't hesitate about what he wanted to choose. After being sidelined for two years during treatment, Parker couldn't wait to celebrate his remission by becoming part of his favorite baseball team
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Help wish kids take flight.
Give your air miles now.
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phone: 301.962.WISH (9474)
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DCM Tech
DCM Tech is a US Designer & Manufacture of Industrial Machine Tools. Our main product lines are Industrial Rotary Surface Grinders and Magnetic Particle Inspection Equipment. One of our Rotary Surface Grinders is the IG080M. This machine provides process automation within a compact footprint and is used by many Domestic and Foreign Aircraft Maintenance Facilities for aircraft brake rotor resurfacing. DCM Tech, headquartered in Winona, Minnesota, conducts business both domestically and worldwide We offer a proven product with 40 years of grinder design and manufacturing experience. 1-800-533-5339


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Your Guide to Choosing the Right Camera Strap
You're probably thinking camera straps are no big deal and that it's as easy as picking up a pair of socks, so why read an article about it, right?
If you've spent enough time carrying around a camera all day with the original strap, complete with nagging fatigue, you surely understand the importance of upgrading to a 'proper' camera strap.
The thing is, stock or original camera straps don't really do anything special – this is most likely why the average photographer thinks that all camera straps are the same.
However, the moment you experience the sheer joy and luxury of an aftermarket leather camera strap that's designed for not only safety, security and comfort but also makes a bold style statement, you will never look back.
Without further ado, here are some things to consider when you're buying a high quality aftermarket camera strap:
What's it Made of?
Materials used in a camera strap are quite important for many reasons – for instance, durability, aesthetics, and namely, comfort. Keeping that in mind, there really is no better adjustable camera strap for DSLR than a leather one, particularly if it's handcrafted using premium Full Grain Vegetable Tanned Leather from Spain.
These leathers are known for ageing quite beautifully as they form a unique patina over time.
Leather can very easily conform to the natural outline of your shoulders and happens to be incredibly durable, even after years and years of use.
How Good is the Padding?
Durability and comfort in a good quality leather camera strap go hand in hand. When inspecting camera straps up close, pay close attention to how comfortable the padding is. Full leather padding means you can adjust the length as you please without compromising any comfort or functionality, as the padding will seamlessly blend with the contours of your hand or shoulders.
At the end of the day, you need padding that does not rub your shoulder or hand raw and stays put without causing any fatigue at all.
Can I Easily Hook it up with My Camera?
In your quest for ultimate durability and comfort when it comes to leather camera straps, you're also going to need one that can be easily hooked up with your DSLR.
Go with a camera strap that focuses on versatility – we're talking stress-free end lugs and adjustable length as prerequisites. You need hooks that boast stability without adversely affecting comfort, because when you're busy snapping away, the last thing you want to worry about is one of the ends of the strap getting loose.
Is it Long Enough?
Ideally, you'd want to choose a leather camera strap that can accommodate anything from small-medium and large hands as well as regular to burly, plus-size shoulders.
The adjustable leather camera strap by Harber London offers plenty of length to easily accommodate short and tall builds. The main body straps span 74x2.5 cm, while the adjustable ends are 21cm long, offering plenty of versatility.


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Meet Pieter Sieperda and experience how summer feeding has increased the yield from his heard of 120 dairy cows almost 15%.
Starting from April Pieter is doing summer feeding, meaning he is feeding his cows fresh cut grass every day.
Pieter Sieperda
Dairy farmer, Groningen, The Netherlands
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Where do your dreams take you, on board a luxury yacht, your own private plane or a loft apartment in Uptown Queens? We can't promise to make your dreams come true, but with the extra plush Queens collection of mattresses you can ensure you're getting a luxury night's sleep while you dream away. Deep bouncy pockets are this little beautys sleep secret, coupled with layers of lush deep fillings, all encompassed with eye-catching coloured walls and luscious knit sleeping surface.
In 1871 Hedley Chapman founded a mattress factory in Trowbridge, Wiltshire or to be more precise, he began to manufacture straw palliases at the very reasonable price of 3s 6d a pair. He was a firm believer in quality and value for money and as a result the company went from strength to strength. In the early 1900s as mass produced mattresses became more sophisticated, so did the processes by which they were made and a programme of modernisation was introduced which ensured that the company was always at the forefront of technology.


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Langley has been sick. Started coughing last Wednesday, fever started Saturday and it got up to 104.2 in the wee hours of Sunday morning. Thank the Lord for urgent care, she has a sinus infection and started antibiotics Sunday. I've kept her home from school because she's been pretty puny but hasn't had fever since Sunday evening.
How pitiful does she look (eating a nutrigrain bar in our bed, in mismatched pjs?)
Last week we did a craft. We made a necklace out of noodles and then decorated a shirt to go with it :-)
Aubrey got in the bumbo for the first time. She was kind of confused at first, but she likes it and sits in it every day!
Look at the eyes! Aubrey is so pretty! Josh and I often talk about how we still can't fathom how we produced the two most beautiful girls in the world :-)