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Divinity series
Group DescriptionDivinity is a series of role-playing games by the Belgian developer Larian Studios. The games take place in a fantasy world known as Rivellon and have an overarching story involving the Divine Lucian and his adopted son Damian, who eventually becomes the series' main antagonist. Though the protagonist in each game is different, there are a few recurrent characters and themes as well.
Most of the installments belong to the action RPG genre and have light humorous undertones. The first game, Divine Divinity (2002), was a 2D action RPG with fast-paced combat influenced by Diablo games, but also contained interaction with NPCs and role-playing decisions, as well as an open world design.
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Once you go looking for whoopsiedoodles by non-native speakers of various languages, the fun never ends.
I have a link to Hanzi Smatter (for Asian character stupidity) in my Blogroll, and it's well worth a look if you think you really really want something in an Asian alphabet.
Today's discovery is Bad Hebrew Tattoos. It never ceases to amaze me the amount of trouble one can get into, not actually being able to write a language. 🙂I hope you'll submit my posts to your favorite social media sites. Just don't "submit" them to your own site pretending to be yours. Thanks!

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I've been shopping at The Body Shop for quite some time and I recently got an invite to attend a members evening! They've just released the new Oils of Life line and the Intensely Revitalising Facial Oil* in particular had caught my eye. So of course I said Yes to an evening of pampering, chatting and generally having a lovely old time of it!
We were greeted with a lovely glass of prosecco as we arrived, good start. Then we pottered about for half an hour, my friend & I spent most of that time smelling things…that's entirely normal in The Body Shop surely? Although it did involve an incident of getting a bit too close to a moisturiser…I may have ended up with a blob of it on my nose…We were given a lovely talk all about the new oils of life line, including the intensely revitalising bi-phase essence lotion*, which seems interesting, you apply directly after cleaning and before toning. There is also an Intensely Revitalising Cream* and Gel Cream*, both of which are lovely. Along side all these products is also a Twin Ball Facial Massager, which was such fun to try out and I would actually consider purchasing it. I normally give myself a massage at the end of the day, but I've got out the habit. It will return!
Once the talk was done, we had the option to have a facial massage using the new Intensely Revitalising Facial Oil, have a hand massage using an oil from the also new Spa of the World line, or to have a makeup make-over. I of course jumped at the chance to have a facial massage. Once my makeup was removed it was on with the massage, it was thoroughly relaxing, I mean seriously. Just what the doctor ordered at the end of a long day in work! The scent of the oil is just wonderful, it really does remind me of a high end spa. I've only been to one or two of those (more needed). Obviously there was a fair amount of the oil used as it was a massage rather than normal application. My skin looked radiant and after about 20 minutes the oil had entirely sunk into my skin leaving it looking and feeling soft and healthy. My friend had the makeup make-over and was delighted with the results, I also sat chatting her while she had a hand massage done too, again the massage oils from the Spa of the World line smell amazing. I'm incredibly tempted by the Japanese Camellia Cream*, it smells divine and is so fabulous to apply to the skin.
We were given a goodie bag with the All in One Universal Instablur primer*, Aloe Soothing Gel* and Vitamin C Energizing Face Spritz*, not half bad! I did pick up the Intensely Revitalising Facial Oil, I fell very much in love with it and cannot wait to play with it. All in all it was a wonderful way to spend an evening. All the women in the shop were so welcoming and we had great chats! Mostly about books in the end. I went home smiling and laughing with my friend. I did some vlogging while I was at the event, so you can catch up with that on Sunday!


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When Javier opened Wild Seduction gallery in an industrial area of Miami, Fla. with his wife, Peli, he invited me to exhibit. I think my friend Les Barany introduced my work to Javier. Felice and I went down there in 2003 or so and we partied. Mutton chops, crazy shirts,
hipster language...my kind of company. (note the county jail orange shirt and the sheriff cigs). We met up again in Madrid and hit apartment jazz clubs and dined with his filmaker friends Luis Boulanga and Jess Franco (he just died at 82 yrs old) low budget horror and softcore girlie films.
Then down to Key West to visit my friend and collector Shirrel Rhoades when we dated a manatee family.
I stayed a few days on his couch and drank tequila in the backyard overlooking a water way
in north Miami Beach. and across from a pristine beach.
Hit the Cuban restaurants which I always NEED. He and I sought mermaids and went north to the Wreck bar in Ft. Lauderdale then onto Weeki Wachi and finally to a funky motel opposite Silver Springs state Park.
I was completely happy to be with mermaids but it was Javier that I sought. He was as interested as me in finding the funky fish shack, the dangerous bbq joint, the back roads to nowhere.
Most female road companions I have been with want a soft safe bed to sleep on or complain that I am taking TOO long to shoot an alligator carcass. Not so Javier. He was looking for and wanted to write about, old Florida
and we were finding it
in mildew places. visiting my old friends and eating food we will never forget.
Here we are visiting photographer Brad (a member of my wedding in 1980) on Brad McCourtney's veranda (that's Faukterian Brad on the left...fishes with bow and arrow from his fine wooden canoe)
Brad is one of those that make seein his fine work almost impossible. He shoots 8x10 b&w negatives of the pilars of his county. Pinning him down past his (ironic) laugh is equally impossible. He cameacross Florida for my WEAM opening and chatted Leah up. That is the way he is. Once he came to visit me in NYC and disappeared for a day and came back saying he had to try crack and went up into Harlem. That is the way he is. He had a swamp wedding when he married Sandy. He shot for and was friends with, the crushed car parts sculptor John Champerlain. To get him out of state is hard. I'd like to drive with him into Wyoming but some family crisis will keep him. I will have to come to him to hear his laugh.


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If you're in the SF Bay Area, and are interested in such shenanigans, I'll be teaching a Bodice Draping Workshop (for the Victorian era) for GBACG on Feb. 11th (advance signups required). I'll demo how to drape a basic dart-fitted bodice, then students will pair up and drape each other. You'll learn how to drape, plus we'll go through all the mockup stages so that you leave with a perfectly fitted pattern that you can adapt to most eras of the 19th century. Should be fun!
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January 4, 2007 at 7:16 pm
Signed up. : )
January 4, 2007 at 8:13 pm
Signed up too
January 4, 2007 at 10:43 pm
Signed up, but no confirmation yet.
*drums fingers*
*checks mail again*
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I'm not very good at being patient


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Joe Biden used his time at the Democratic National Convention to trash Donald Trump, calling his promises "malarkey" and saying that he had "no clue" about how to be president. His thunderous speech received a rapturous reception.
"His lack of empathy and compassion can be summed up in the phrase: 'You're fired!'" Biden said. "He's trying to tell us he cares about the middle class? Give me a break! That's a bunch of malarkey!" The crowd erupted in cheers.
"This guy doesn't have a clue about the middle class," Biden continued. "Not a clue. Because, folks, when the middle class does well … the rich do very well and the poor have hope. They have a way up. He has no clue about what makes America great. Actually, he has no clue, period."
Biden started another critical portion of the speech by saying, "let me talk to you about something other politics."
"This is a complicated and uncertain world we live in," he continued. "The threats are too great. The times are too uncertain to elect Donald Trump as president of the United States."
As the crowd began cheering, Biden had to say "now let me finish."
Biden's speech wasn't all a takedown of Trump though.
In a heartbreaking moment, Biden said it was "bittersweet" to be on the stage after the death of his son, Beau Biden, last year. "You got a glimpse at what an incredibly fine young man Beau was," Biden said. Beau Biden, a major in the Army National Guard and Delaware's Attorney General, introduced his father in 2008.
He also talked about his relationship with President Obama, saying they are "brothers."
Biden ended his speech appealing to the American national identity.
"We do not scare easily. We never bow. We never bend. We never break when confronted with crisis!" Biden yelled to the cheering crowd. "We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don't forget it!"


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Goal-Directed Design necessarily involves first-hand research with real-world users. Whether these interviews last 30 minutes or two hours, the first few minutes of discussion are vital to establishing rapport with your participant.
Outside of celebrities and politicians, few people are practiced at giving interviews. And while participants are almost always willing to help as best as they can, there may be some unspoken questions troubling them before an interview begins. This article offers a list of common topics that proactively address these questions and make participants feel at ease.
1. Introduction: Who are these people?
If you don't have anyone introducing you, such as a department head or client chaperone, introduce yourself with a handshake at the first opportunity. Offer a business card or write your name and email address somewhere visible as a friendly reminder. Providing your contact information in the beginning establishes a communication channel that is easy to refer to again at the end of the interview. Write down the participant's name at the top of your notes. This will help you refer to his or her name should you need a reminder without having to ask or obviously glance at their business card.
One important subtlety to this introduction is to be sure to—in the eyes of the participant—distance yourself from the product or service you are designing. As consultants, we distinguish ourselves from the client and introduce ourselves in our current role as "researchers" (our business cards merely read "consultant.") This helps to avoid the politeness effect, which could skew participants' responses toward being overly complementary, and hide dissatisfaction about the product or service you may be redesigning. If you are working for a product company, it may be more challenging if you already know the participants or they know of your design role. If that is the case, distance yourself from the existing product by saying something such as, "We're wearing our researcher hats in this interview, and want to hear the good and the bad of what you have to say."
2. Explanation: What's going on here?
Even if you've already exchanged emails explaining the purpose of the interview, spend some time to explain your process again. Practice what you are going to say so that it becomes accessible and concise. Though designers and engineers enjoy talking about the details of the process, most interviewees won't benefit from the detail (and you rarely have the time the give it). Participants just want to know how they're contributing so they can frame their responses accordingly. For example, "We're interested in learning about your role in the purchasing process, so we'll be asking you some questions about your workflow, frustrations, and so on." If a participant does have detailed questions about your process, assure him that these are best answered at the end of the interview.
3. Time: Will this take long?
Double-check the participant's time availability. A meeting may have come up, she may have a "hard stop," or she may have more time available than she originally planned. Write down the end time and provide visual reassurance that you'll be punctual by placing a timepiece in your direct field of vision.
4. Control: What if they ask me something I don't know or don't want to say?
Explain that what you are doing is research; that is, there are no wrong answers and even "I don't know" is good input to the process. If you're talking about business processes, give the participant permission to bow out of sensitive questions that have proprietary answers. This gives the participant a sense of control and ease and encourages honest responses.
5. Confidentiality: What if I say something that will come back to haunt me?
Sometimes participants fear that what they say might get back to their supervisors, such as an admission of not knowing something they feel they should, or circumventing a best practice. They can get especially nervous if you are recording audio or video during the interview. For this reason, assure participants of whatever level of confidence you can keep, such as that their information will only be shared with your (or your client's, if you are a consultant) product team, or that notes won't be shared with the participant's company.
Once you've set them at ease by answering these questions, you still have a few things to establish for yourself before proceeding with the interview.
6. Permission: Get social permission to learn
Interview participants are often selected because of their expertise, and they may find it difficult to recall what it's like not to know their domain. If you don't set their expectations, they may become frustrated with what they consider to be general-knowledge or first-principle questions. Establish that you will be asking deliberately naïve questions (that exact phrase is a useful way to communicate this notion), and occasionally asking, "Why is that good?" in order to understand as thoroughly as possible.
7. Consent: Get permission for recording
If you are recording audio or video of the interview, you must acquire the participant's consent before beginning. Explain how the recording will be used, who will have access to it, and, if necessary, ask for the participant's signature on a release form. What is most useful for the participant to understand when obtaining permission is how the distribution of the recording will be restricted.
Regarding photography, we often find that having a photograph of the participant aids our recall of the interview, but asking for it beforehand can be off-putting for the participant. For that reason, we often request a snapshot at the end of the interview, after rapport has been built, and explain that having a photograph stapled to our handwritten notes helps our memory.
8. Questions: Ask for questions before beginning
Invite the participant to ask any questions before starting; this lets the interviewee understand that you are initiating a conversation rather than administering a test. Genuinely answer any questions posed to you in response, although if you think your answer may taint the interview, be frank and tell the participant. Explain that you will answer the question after the interview, and write it down so you are sure to remember it.
9. Icebreaker: Begin with a "no-brainer"
Though the conversation up to this point will make your participant more comfortable, it's useful to get him talking now in the context of the interview. Set the tone by beginning with an open-ended, fact-focused interview question that will get the participant "warmed up," even if it is only cursorily related to the core subject of the interview. For example, you may want to get him to tell a story or give a quick overview of the work experience that led to his current position.
This may seem like quite a lot to remember, especially with the actual interview questions floating around in your head. At the risk of appearing pedantic, here is simple mnemonic you can use to make sure you've touched on everything you need to before you begin:
If Every Thing's Covered Completely, People Commence Quality Interviews
You can jot down the initial letters in the margin of your notes and check off each one as you complete them. Note the comma that separates those first topics that set the participant at ease from the latter topics that help you as an interviewer.
Can all this really be done in five minutes? With practice, the answer is yes. Note also that you may be able to skip parts based on the actual interview situation and whether the participant appears comfortable right away. A practiced interviewer, however, can quickly get through these nine points. The five-minute investment sets a positive tone for a productive and information-rich interview.


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My friend Lauren has lived in Australia for a couple of years now. She is British and has settled into the low key lifestyle Australia has to offer perfectly. She has an adorable blog that she uses as an online visual diary – sharing her thoughs and inpiration with the world. She let's us take a peek into her lifestyle there. Below she shares her thoughts on Yamba one of her favourite beaches.
Here's her Blog Baumbach
The Yamba Story.
I live in the land of sun and sky, beaches and beauty. I moved to Australia from the UK just over two and half years ago and have based myself in Brisbane.
Just over three hours drive from home and I can be in Yamba. One of Australia's best-kept secrets, same beauty and wonder as Byron Bay but imagine it before the travelers took over.
One pub perched on the cliffs overlooks the beach and a perfect place to sip beer and soak up the views. The home of Billabongs creator and a pro surfer attraction with the famous Angourie surf break just down the road.
Yamba calms me, it has a presence and a serenity that I search for and haven't found anywhere else yet. Beautiful coastline, perfect for learner surfers like myself to practice my surf skills and to get tossed around by the waves.
Pitching a tent and spending a few days is all you need to unwind and escape from the city.
Yamba I love you with all my heart, one day when I have made my mark I will buy a plot near the beach and call you home.


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Dear all,
I came up with a loadlock error just now. The robot arm failed to move out after I loaded
my sample. I followed the poped-out instructions, but the tool turned into a critical
state finally.
I cannot reach James right now. If some of you had similar experience before and was
able to fix it, I would really appreciate that you can come and take a look.


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Two stories.
Story One. I was at a large tradeshow recently. There must have been close to 1,500 exhibitors. I walked around the exposition floor and somehow managed to have my badge scanned by 25 companies. I had little to no conversation with any of the booth staff, but they were pretty aggressive and scanned my badge.
The day after the conference I received 20, "Thank you for stopping by the booth, lets jump on call" emails. The same day, l also received 10 follow-up phone calls. Over the course of the next two weeks, I received 57 follow-up calls and 224 follow-up emails from those 25 companies, follow-ups like...
- "Did you receive?"
- "When can we connect?"
- "Curious to know if you are interested?"
- "I'm just circling back to my previous email?"
- "I am keen on establishing a conversation?"
My list of such nonpersonal follow-up examples could go on forever. We all get them. We all delete them, but marketing today is playing a numbers games, so this type of correspondence will continue to grow.
Now, to add one more layer of complexity to story No. 1, I received another 110 emails from other companies that were exhibiting at the conference that I did not even visit. Somehow, they managed to find my email, maybe by testing out our email nomenclature or going through my website to get my email. So, my official scoreboard of inbound communications from that one single tradeshow so far has been 411 follow-ups.
Story Two. I was doing some research for a new SaaS-based business simulation that my company is developing. I needed to better understand some of the business models, financial results, and challenges in the industry; so, as part of my secondary research I downloaded five whitepapers from five companies that I found as a result of a Google search. What happened next was astounding.
Literally within two minutes of downloading, I received an email from all five companies. Within five minutes of the download, I received four phone calls. I did not even have the chance to look at any of the articles or whitepapers before I was inundated with follow-up communications.
Within two weeks of downloading, I received an additional 42 follow-up emails and 17 phone calls. The scorecard from downloading five articles was 68 new inbound communications.
Take the first step (it's free).
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Par SideHustle1 le 21 Septembre 2016 à 17:26
Streetwear Marketplace
The web market is one of the brainchildren of the internet age that revolutionized the shopping experience on the net. The expansion of the internet is most probably one of the most talked about issues. The world wide web is currently in nearly every sphere of our life. Not long back, the world wide web enabled us to look and get things online. This created if anything-but a pattern that trapped on wildfire. Now almost everyone does a large amount of these shopping online. However, this shopping on the internet comes with an unique pair of risks, which do not get this to go through the salubrious.
A number of the greatest hazards that produce folks avoid online shopping are that of online fraud and bank card misuse. These are very wild. There are always a amount of ruses online, where the points of the eproducts never fit the object once you obtain them. While onlineshopping features a number of people using it, it could possibly be even bigger. But these risks keep a lot of individuals from using this excellent benefit of shopping out of your home. The concept of the online marketplace hopes to alter that.
What Is It
The online industry isn't something that can completely eliminate the dangers, nevertheless it will certainly reduce them a great deal by wanting to enhance the purchasing experience online. Online shopping can be a really impersonal deal where a buyer or possibly a retailer can never make certain of who is to the different end and exactly what the product is about. On most of the favorite websites for getting and buying, all you could get are facts about the merchandise involved and extremely small concerning the individual engaged on either side of the transaction.
This can be probably one of many major causes as to why people buy phony products or cheap quality and belong to deceptive specials. Since it tries to create the entire experience of buying on the internet better the internet industry differs. The merchandise are listed by an internet marketplace from all-the traders on the web after operating its inspections to the individual promoting the item. Some might disagree the investigations are never tough enough. But, in that industry, the deals that happen on the webpage will be the occupation of the marketplace site. The dealings that deliver the buyers money are through the marketplace site. This means that it is possible to quickly inform them about any difference.
Streetwear Marketplace
This can help many individuals obtain money-back in the event of a poor option. In such a conference, in places, you would have now been left within the lurch. The only real solution left to you personally is always to register an official criticism within the desire that you may identify the rogue vendor. But, the internet marketplace would have the facts of owner and so, perhaps, you can consider action that is direct if you need to. This makes this kind of market a much better and better solution. The addition of the 3rd party is definitely greater because then you certainly could have a perfect report taker of the complete transaction.
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Looking for the best Harley Quinn Tattoo Design Ideas? We've got you covered.
Ever since the release of the movie 'Suicide Squad' in 2016, a lot of the characters in the movie starring an ensemble cast of some of Hollywood's famous names, gained popularity, though none of them were discussed as much as Harley Quinn. Paul Dini and Bruce Timm created the fictional character of the DC Comics, Harley Quinn is a rage amongst youngsters.
A supervillain, an accomplice and lover to the Joker, she was his psychiatrist at the Arkham Asylum in Gotham City. The characters of Joker and Harley Quinn share rather complicated, unhealthy, manipulative and crazy love affair and is admired by the fans.
The characterization of Harley Quinn as Joker's sidekick in clown-themed attire, she appeared in Suicide Squad as a blonde with blue and pink dye on either side and blue and red shorts with fish-net stockings, sporting a rather crazy look like her character which became hugely popular with the general audience. Now, what caught the audience's fancy the most, was the statement Harley Quinn tattoos the character sported, that created a new wave of popularity in the world of tattoos.
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The Meaning Behind Harley Quinn's Tattoos
Margot Robbie who plays Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad revealed in an interview that Quinn inked these tattoos herself in prison, " they're stuck and poke tattoos, prison-style tattoos, that you do when you don't have a tattoo gun. She did them herself out of boredom and desperation."
- Love for Joker and the toxic, dysfunctional relationship she shares with him.
- Her Fearlessness and Independence which makes her the cool supervillain she is.
- Strength and Power to fight.
- Obsession and Loyalty towards Joker.
Harley Quinn Tattoo Ideas
So, tattoos are most often about symbolism and hold some deeper meaning within them. Now, all the Harley Quinn tattoos are full of quirkiness and funky colors. However, they primarily reflect traits associated with the character.
- If your personality is as crazy as Harley, irrespective of gender, the ideal colors are red and black and pink and blue, the colors associated with Quinn's character.
- They can be large portrait sized tattoos, small minimalistic tattoos, comic book style tattoos, cartoon or watercolor tattoos of Harley Quinn figure or face.
- Pure heart and diamond designs.
- Phrases like 'I heart Puddin'', 'Daddy's Lil Monster' and words like 'Rotten.'
- Couple tattoos of Joker's and Quinn's faces inked on you and your partner.
- Harley Quinn diamond and Poison Ivy's, creeping ivy plant design incorporated together, symbolizing their bond.
Placement Ideas for Harley Quinn Tattoos
- Face, Harley Quinn has a tiny black heart inked on her face.
- Chest, as she has a tattoo with the phrase "Daddy's Lil Monster" on her chest.
- Thighs, as a Puddin and a heart with an arrow passing through it are inked on the thigh.
- Abdomen, as a "Lucky You" tattoo on the lower abdomen.
- Legs have a tattoo of "Ha Ha Ha" text.
- In addition to the original Harley Quinn tattoo positions, you can get small, quirky tattoos on your wrist. Also, you can get one around your fingers, forearms, neck, and shoulders.
Final Words
All in All, the Harley Quinn tattoos are a new cult of tattoo designs. Also, the rage is not stopping anytime soon as there are demands for a solo Harley Quinn spin-off DC movie. Hence, your Harley Quinn tattoo is not running out of style anytime soon. Also, if you have a personality as fun and edgy, and it reflects your style, you should definitely get a Harley Quinn Tattoo!


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Camilleri, a mega-bestseller in his native Italy and quite popular in other countries as well, created Sicilian inspector Salvo Montalbano, who has been featured in a
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His novels have been shortlisted several times for the British Crime Writers Assn's International Dagger. As there are few resources available on his work in English, this companion should be useful to fans and scholars alike.
Update, 4-5-12. Andrea Camilleri: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction is now available from McFarland.


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There's no butter or oil in these crisp cookies, which are perfect with the Fruit In Spiced Wine For the best texture, be sure to slice them thinly. To keep them crunchy, carry them to the picnic in an airtight container.
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- Makes about 36
- 3 large eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3/4 teaspoon almond extract
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup chopped toasted almonds
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease 18x12x1-inch baking sheet. Combine first 4 ingredients in bowl of heavy-duty electric mixer fitted with paddle attachment. Beat until well blended. Mix flour, almonds, cinnamon, baking soda and salt in medium bowl. Gradually add to egg mixture, beating until blended (dough will be soft).
- Turn dough out onto floured surface and gather together. Roll dough between palms and work surface into 16-inch-long log. Transfer to prepared sheet. Flatten log to 1-inch thickness. Bake until light brown and cracked on top, about 30 minutes. Transfer sheet to rack; cool log 10 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 325°F.
- Transfer warm log to work surface. Using serrated knife, cut log on sharp diagonal into 1/4- to 1/3-inch-thick slices. Arrange on baking sheets. Bake 10 minutes per side. Transfer to racks and cool (biscotti will harden while cooling). (Can be made ahead. Store airtight up to 1 week.)
Per Cookie: calories, 78; total fat, 2 g; saturated fat, 0.5g; cholesterol, 27 mg


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How to Go about Buying a Canoe Stabilizer
If you are searching out a canoe, you need to ensure you purchase the proper one on your needs. In a lot of cases, the canoe you accept is travelling to depend on what you plan on the use of your canoe. In maximum cases, canoes which can be wonderful for tenting journeys are not always going to paintings well for driving via the rapids. To enable you to locate the correct kayak, here are a couple of tips and rules that should enable you to settle on the correct decision.
The primary tip to recall when you are purchasing a kayak is to make sense of how you will be utilizing it. Are you planning on demography the canoe out in a nice basin area the sea is gentle? Is it true that you will experience white water rapids in your kayak? Will you be fishing or will you be racing the canoe? The use of your canoe will accept a huge appulse on the one you choose.
Another tip is to consider a solid versus a light kayak. Unless you plan on spending a lot of money, you will not get both. If you are going through white-water, you need something quick and robust. If you may be racing, a light and long canoe will include paintings properly. Angling kayaks ought to be sufficiently substantial and stable. Outdoors choices are more often than not on the heavier side too.
Length ought to likewise be remembered on the off chance that you are buying a kayak. Longer canoes are going to be faster, and the longer ones will keep their route better too. The hassle is that its miles tougher to transport, store, and manage a canoe this is longer.
You will also need to pick the form of the hull. The hull, that's the bottom of the canoe, is going to have a huge impact on your canoe's stability. For performance, you'll wish a v-shaped bark or an angled hull. You don't need to reach as far to paddle when you have tumblehome, however, you'll upset simpler if there is excessively tumblehome. In case you have decided to go out, avoid having more tumblehome than required.
Make certain you take a look at out the tumblehome earlier than you are making your final choice in a canoe. This alludes to the sides of the kayak and the way they bend. They help to give materials that are wobbly more quality. You do not accept to ability as far to paddle if you accept tumblehome, but you'll invert easier if there is too abundant tumblehome. If you are travelling out in water that may be rough; you wish to beacon bright of accepting added tumblehome than is needed.
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_ Human Rights stem directly from Christian thought – it is easy to explain why every human being has certain rights if we hold that every human being is made in God's image. Secular attempts to justify human rights have a much harder time. But this post isn't about human rights in the normal way we understand it to mean: the rights of a man in relation to other men. Instead, this post is about the rights of men before God and the fact that we have none.
As facts go this one in particular we hate and the extent to which we hate it is reflected by the extent to which we fail to grasp the nature of God and the nature of man. At heart, we all like to think that God is pretty equal to us and that we can relate to him much as though it were a relationship of equals. To be told that we don't have a single right before God, even to life, goes against our grain and usually diminishes our view of God. 'Well,' we huff 'If God does not value my rights as a human being then he obviously isn't a very good God and I'm not going to value him.'
_ The more pride we have in ourselves the more this fact galls us for when we look at ourselves we see plenty to be pleased with and consider that we must have rights before God. Yes, we will admit to having our little character flaws but by in large as good people we feel that God should respect where we're coming from and realize that we do have the right to ask certain things of him and insist he doesn't do other things to us.
Where this thinking goes wrong is in its failure to grasp the exceeding sinfulness of man and the exceeding righteousness of God. Two verses to this affect:
"And they were calling to one another: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory." Isaiah 6 v 3
"There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one."
"Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit. The poison of vipers is on their lips. Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood; ruin and misery mark their ways, and the way of peace they do not know. There is no fear of God before their eyes."
Romans 3 v 10 - 18
We have here the stark contrast between God and man: God as holy, pure, good, morally perfect and beautiful and man as wicked, deceitful and bitter. Jesus' assessment on man was: "For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander." (Matthew 15v19) and John writes: "This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil." (John 3v19)
We have no grounds to stand before God on merit, he does not owe us anything, in fact, we are deserving of death for that is the wages of our disobedience to God. Our only right is to claim justice before the Judge and that would result in our condemnation.
As our Creator God is at perfect liberty to do with us what he will and: "All the peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he pleases with the powers of heaven and the peoples of the earth. No one can hold back his hand or say to him: "What have you done?" (Daniel 4 v 35).
When we grumble at God, when we despise him, when we go before him and insist we have rights he must respect then we are blind to the facts of the matter: he is God and we are but men, sinful, rebellious and wayward in everything we do and think. Our correct response to the holiness of God should be like Isaiah who upon seeing the glory of God said: "Woe to me!" I cried. "I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty." (Isaiah 6v5)
Unless we grasp the wickedness of our own hearts and the holiness of God we will continue to resent the fact that God does not deal with us as though we have rights for we don't. Instead, and this annoys us even more, he deals with us through grace and wrath; grace being his unmerited favour and wrath being his righteous response to evil.
Firstly his grace extends to the entire human race in that: "He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous." (Matthew 5v45). Theologians call this 'common grace' and it covers a lot more than the weather: any good thing is from God, any gift you have, any joy in your life, any comfort in this world, all are given to us by God. Our very lives are a result of his grace, every beat of our hearts a gift, God gives good things to all of mankind. We think we deserve them, we think we deserve a good life, we rarely thank God for the good things we have but oh, when things go wrong, we are swift to blame him! We have no right even to the breath in our lungs or the money in our bank account for all is given by God to us. Jacob said: "I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant." (Genesis 32v10) and that should be our attitude, we do not deserve the least of God's mercies to us.
Additionally, God not only deals with us through common grace but saving grace. That is, he extends common grace to all people but he only extends saving grace to his people. If you are a Christian, born again, then it is by grace you have been saved. While a topic for a different day it is worth saying that there are many blessings which are connected with saving grace and so only apply to God's people. God did not have to send Jesus to die for sins and thereby open up a way for people to be saved but out of his great love he chose to. Thus he has every right to extend the gift of salvation to those whom he will and withhold it from others for none have the right to demand salvation. If they did it would cease to be of grace and become of works.
The second way in which God deals with humanity is by his wrath, his anger against sin for: "The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness," (Romans 1v18) and "Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows." (Galations 6v7). Not only is God's grace an active force in this world but so is his wrath. In this life and certainly at Judgement Day we will all be held to account for our sin and justly punished. How could a morally perfect God do anything other than punish evil? So we see in this world: pain, suffering, anguish, death – all a consequence for our sins because of God's wrath. Note: he is not the author of sin but his wrath is set against it.
Rightly it is said: "Behold the goodness and severity of God" (Romans 11v22). We have no rights before him, we cannot object to how he deals with us, our only response should be to turn to him, humble ourselves and seek mercy. Such is God's love that he looks upon us with such compassion and desires that all should turn and repent of their evil. It is easy to think that God has not treated us as we deserve, when we do this we should bear two things in mind: first is that we deserve hell and second that by his grace we have a way to be saved by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Hannah Reese
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Ah, but to those who received Him, to those who believe in His name, He gave the right to become the children of God. And we have received the spirit of adoption, by which we cry Abba, Daddy! ('Abba' does not mean 'Father', it's what little children call their dads. 'Father' implies a certain distance and unapproachableness.)
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What The Hell Just Happened? 'Tyranny By Executive Order' | By Constitutional Attorney Michael Connelly, J.D.
January 26, 2013
What the hell just happened? That is the question that many Americans should be asking themselves following the news conference where Obama unveiled his plan for destroying the Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution. At first glance it appeared to be a case of Obama shamelessly using the deaths of innocents, and some live children as a backdrop, to push for the passage of radical gun control measures by Congress. Most of these have no chance of passing, yet, Obama's signing of Executive orders initiating 23 so called Executive actions on gun control seemed like an afterthought.
Unfortunately, that is the real story, but it is generally being overlooked. The fact is that with a few strokes of his pen Obama set up the mechanisms he will personally use to not only destroy the Second Amendment to the Constitution, but also the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments. It will not matter what Congress does, Obama can and will act on his own, using these Executive actions, and will be violating both the Constitution and his oath of office when he does it.
Here are the sections of the Executive Order that he will use:
"1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background-check system."
What exactly is relevant data? Does it include our medical records obtained through Obamacare, our tax returns, our political affiliations, our military background, and our credit history? I suggest that all of the above, even if it violates our fourth Amendment right to privacy will now be relevant data for determining if we are allowed to purchase a firearm.
"2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background-check system."
This should be read in conjunction with section 16 of the order that says:
"16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes."
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It took civilization thousands of years to get us off the farm, & Facebook just one year to send us back. ~ George Takei
I resisted for at least a week. Maybe two, or even three. Come "farm with your friends," the banner taunted. Every time I launched Facebook and read the updates from my friends, their farming progress would dot my screen, luring me to join them. Like a lemming over the cliff, I shortly thereafter planted my first crop. I don't remember exactly when. Farmville, the Facebook farming application that has swept more than seventy-four million fans into its grasp, launched in June 2009, so it was sometime shortly after that. Probably July. Since then, I have been a faithful part of a daily farm bureau reaching around the globe who log on, at the rate of twenty-eight million times per day, to farm their little piece of digital Zynga earth. At last count, I have planted 152,673 crops. I am addicted.
My addiction comes naturally; farming is in my blood, no matter how much I wanted to leave it behind me. I grew up in a small farm town in the middle of Illinois, where my dad was a farmer as was his father before him. The farm was strictly crops–corn, wheat, and beans, planted with predictable regularity. We never raised traditional farm animals, like cows or pigs, though I had friends who did. Occasionally, my father seemed quietly disappointed in not having a son, so that he could pass along the farm to another generation. Like his name, that legacy would stop with me.
My father taught me tasks when he needed my help. For my third birthday, he gave me a long magic wand which he claimed would search out elusive buried treasure. For hours, I swept it back and forth across the gravel floor of the barn, just like he showed me. Occasionally, pieces of pirate booty, encased in ordinary dirt and grime to hide it from riff-raff and thieves, would fly up from the gravel to latch, with magnetic magic, to the end of my wand. A night soaking in a barrel of used oil revealed a shiny piece of silver to my young pirate glee. Years later, lurking in the nuts and bolts aisle, I learned that pirate silver could be purchased for pennies a piece at the local hardware store. As I grew older, the tasks grew in responsibility. After I was taller than the soybeans in May, I learned to handle a hoe and walk the half-mile rows, taking out weeds and stray corn so his fields wouldn't look like succotash from the highway. I had to be that tall so as not to disappear among the waist-high soybeans. That first summer, I was just a hat and a hoe to those driving by on the highway. My non-farm friends thought I was talking about my dog when I told them I spent the summer "walking beans." Later, but still long before I got a learner's permit, let alone a driver's license, I handled a tractor with skill, if not grace. The various levers and pedals fascinated me, but I was mystified by the changing of gears. One early attempt was only a few inches shy of disaster when I nearly took out the farm's propane tank. "Try not to hit anything you can't replace," was my dad's sage advice. "Or that explodes."
Raised in a household where John Deere green was a decorative color scheme, I once asked my father why he always bought Deere tractors. He shrugged, "Dutch sells Deeres." "Dutch" graduated high school in the same class as my father in 1930, at the start of the Great Depression. He also happened to own the local Deere dealership, two villages to the north. My father's simple statement explained a lifelong brand loyalty as well as a friendship. The same logic applied to the family cars; his classmate "Pony" owned the hometown Ford dealership and was certainly more trustworthy than the "Class of '52 kid" who ran the Chevy place. Recently, I purchased some equipment in Farmville, so that I could plow, plant, and harvest my digital dirt with greater efficiency. At the time, the only tractor choices were girly pink or International Harvester red. I felt an immediate sense of disloyalty, as though purchasing non-green farm equipment somehow violated the family honor. I bought a John Deere coffee cup and a tractor-a-day calendar to keep next to the computer, just in case.
I don't remember the moment I decided to leave the farm behind me. I doubt there was a single moment, probably more a combination of things. It wasn't because I didn't enjoy farm life. I love the rhythm and flow of the seasons, watching plants grow and mature in nature's own time. I remember spending hours driving a tractor up and down the field, living many lives in my head as I daydreamed of things yet to be. I remember the kindness of friends and small-town neighbors, people you spent your entire life living beside. Sharing local news over coffee at the local restaurant or in line at the grocery store. Knowing who was on vacation because their pew was empty on Sunday morning. But there were many things I didn't like about farm life, too. The hard scrabble for money when it was a bad year for the crops, the daily unpredictability of Mother Nature. The long hard days spent putting in crops in the spring and harvesting them in the fall. The solitude, the loneliness, the knowledge that most often my father was by himself, working under his own tightly run organization and by his own rules, and the responsibilities he carried because of that. Perhaps that is why his shoulders were so broad, and so bowed.
I return to my digital farm more regularly than I care to admit. Part of the reason is, like the seventy-plus million other players, I respond to the competitive aspects of the game. I work hard to earn my ribbons and awards. I spend time building my farm so that it looks like something that could function in the world outside the computer, trying not to mix my soybeans with my morning glories or my pigs with my chickens. At least the beans don't need to be digitally walked. I can tell a lot about my Farmville neighbors by looking at their farms. Some of my old high school friends, who grew up like me with farming all around them, rotate their crops with skill and have digital acreage that looks, well, like an actual farm. Others, I suspect, have never set foot on a farm. Their fields are put together like a can of Veg-All, and their animals lined up like boot-camp soldiers for inspection.
And it is during moments like that when, just for second, I'm back on the farm with my father, walking row after row of beans and learning all he has to teach me. As I click to plant another row of digital crops, the faintest trace of wet, loamy earth teases my nostrils and I feel my feet sink into the evenly turned dirt between the rows. When I select my un-green digital tractor, I hear the distinctive and almost musical thwump-thump of a John Deere tractor firing up in the distance. As I survey my portion of the Zyngian world of Farmville, I imagine my father looking over my shoulder, wondering how on earth his daughter ended up a farmer.
[Note: This post is #6 of 26 of the April A-to-Z Challenge. Please see the button at the lower left of the page for more information.]


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New LTU team won the Swedish Championship in Yukigassen
After a tough final against Team Piteå KREwasion Invasion this year's Swedish Championship in Yukigassen was won by I & Co. The team, made up of students studying Industrial Engineering at Luleå University of Technology, has devoted much time to prepare and are pleased with their victory.
- It is the third year we play in Yukigassen SM, the first year we came second and had the opportuniti to go to the European Championships in Finland and last year, we finished third and this year we won and it's fantastic, says Mårten Sandström the team's spokesman.
Even the Championship title in fireworks were held in the evening, between four competing teams, and won by a team from Chalmers University of Technology.
- The winner has by a colorful variation and with a rhythmic pace, lighting up Luleå winter darkness in a crispy and artistic way, explained the jury chairman.
This year's Championships in Yukigassen, where 16 teams competed, inaugurated traditionally by Johan Sterte Vice Chancellor at Luleå University of Technology. He noted that snowball contest now evolved into an SM worthy of its name and pointed out that it is students at Luleå University of Technology who took the initiative so that the Japanese snowball fight has its own Championship in Sweden, now well established.
- I think we all must work for it to become an Olympic sport, if not before, so to 2026, said John Sterte.
The interest in snowball sport has grown over the years which was clarified by an audience, counted during the whole evening, most likely at least 1000 people.
- Yes, people did come and go during the night and I believe that about as many have been here and by that one can be totally satisfied, says Karin Jonsson LTU's project manager for SM in Yukigassen.
Right from Harstad in northern Norway came Anita Louise Rubach and Kjell Kjær to watch the fireworks and SM in Yukigassen.
- It is very good and we came here just for this, said the happy couple
In the initial qualifying games, where all 16 teams would be "measured in", you could note that the veterans and last year's winner of the Yukigassen SM, Backyard Porsön, did well. The Vice Chancellors team wasn´t that lucky and the team was forced to see themselves beaten by the LKAB team.
Before the semi-finals the exitement was concentrated in four teams, where I & Co got the opportunity to meet a pro basketball team with the name Armada. Last year's winners Backyard Porsön met KREwasion invasion. A little bit unespected perhaps, that the basketball players in Armada was defeated by the LTU student team I & Co. Although the team was in good spirits.
- Really fun game, but we are cruelly disappointed, said coach Håkan Larsson.
The second semifinal match got a turbulent end after closed judgments deliberation. The defending champions in Yukigassen three years a row was defeated by the team KREwation Invation which is a mixed team of students and their buddies from Piteå.
The Bronzematch was a bit of an anticlimax many people thought, while others laughed at it. Three fixed up sets became more theatrical than an ordinary match and finally the whole thing was settled by throwing snowballs at plastic bags until hit, a final test that was won by Backyard Porsön.
In the decisive finale, as earlier staded, I & Co became the year's Swedish champion in Yukigassen.


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Last weekend, Pete and I headed to Hague's Christmas Trees with Betty White in tow to search for our very own Christmas tree. This was our first time cutting one down all by ourselves, and I must say, I liked the farm experience much more than picking a pre-cut tree. We ended up going with a Scotch Pine, which had loads of adorable pine cones on it (although most of them didn't survive the bumpy ride home).
Sorry for the unfortunate photos of us—the sun was harsh and made us look crazy, but at least it was warm out.
They had loads of wreaths, berries, glittery pine cones, and other goodies to choose from. Where do you guys get your seasonal decor—did anyone else go to a local tree farm to spread some holiday cheer?


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New Mercedes-Benz Dealership Coming To St. George
Understanding the seismic demographic change happening in Southern Utah, Stephen Wade's auto dealership is currently constructing a new Mercedes-Benz dealership – offering the new influx of St. George's high net worth individuals greater access to "The best or nothing."
Adding to his already massive empire, Stephen Wayne's auto dealership center is currently constructing their new 20,000 ft.² building located at the northwest corner of Hilton Drive and Blackridge Drive.
Representing only the 385th Mercedes-Benz dealership to be authorized in the United States, the new dealership will provide Southern Utah's wealthier individuals both new and used vehicles, as well as a much-needed Mercedes-Benz service department.
Those tired of having to drive an 1 ½ hours south to Las Vegas, or several hours north to the Salt Lake area – just to have their car serviced by a certified Mercedes mechanic – will soon get some much-needed relief.
According to The Spectrum, the new Mercedes dealership was awarded based on a formula that considered several factors; population growth, per capita income and the belief that southern Utah will continue to grow at an exponential rate.


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COLUMBIA, SC (AP) - Superintendent Molly Spearman says the state's move to a 10-point grading scale next school year allows South Carolina students to fairly compete for college entry and scholarships.
The State Board of Education approved the change unanimously Tuesday for high school, beginning Aug. 1. Supporters say it removes the unfair advantage that students outside South Carolina have when applying to colleges.
Currently, an A in South Carolina is 93 to 100. But most states, including neighboring Georgia and North Carolina, use the 10-point scale. That means, for example, that a South Carolina student who earns a 90 receives a 3.0 toward his grade-point average, while a Georgia student earns a 4.0.
Middle schools aren't required to make the change but are encouraged to, since many eighth graders take high school courses.
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Rahsaan Roland Kirk was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist who played tenor saxophone, flute and many other instruments. He was renowned for his onstage vitality, during which virtuoso improvisation was accompanied by comic banter, political ranting, and the ability to play several instruments simultaneously. #
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So until we see you again, bright moments and keep searchin? for your mystery note on the universal piano of life. ∞
When I die I want them to play the BLACK AND CRAZY BLUES, I want to be cremated, put in a bag of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hope they got something out of it. ∞
I wish we could just stay on the bandstand, it?s so peaceful up here. ∞


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The DuBois Pioneer Home is open for public tours (Photo by Bill DiPaolo)
After a $600,000,000 renovation, the DuBois Pioneer Home is scheduled for a grand opening Wednesday, March 2 at 10:30 a.m.
The DuBois Home is located in DuBois Park, 19075 DuBois Road, Jupiter.
The event is free and open to the public.
Built on an ancient Indian shell mound in 1898 by north county pioneers Harry and Susan DuBois, the two-story, historic home attracted a steady stream of visitors until tours were halted after damage from hurricanes led to its closing in 2008.


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UK Lord asks if mosques will be monitored for "hate speech," is threatened with "hate speech" prosecution for asking
UK Lord asks if mosques will be monitored for "hate speech," is threatened with "hate speech" prosecution for asking
A chronicle of a society in its death throes: Lord Pearson asks if "Her Majesty's Government whether, in pursuit of their anti-terrorism strategy," will "require preaching in mosques and teaching in madrassas in England and Wales to be monitored for hate speech against non-Muslims."
In response, the Muslim Baroness Warsi issues a warning: "I shall be really careful how I phrase this with reference to the original Question. Could I ask Her Majesty's Government whether, in pursuit of their antiterrorism strategy, they will require preaching in the form of Oral Questions and debate in your Lordships' House to be monitored for hate speech and Islamophobia against Muslims?"
So the question of whether the government will monitor the mosques for "hate speech" is thrust aside, and Pearson is threatened for his "Islamophobia." Everyone present except for Lord Pearson appears to assume that all the mosques in the UK teach peace and brotherhood, and that this should not be questioned. It would be "indiscreet" to question it, as Lord Bourne says: "I agree with about the importance of people in this House exercising discretion—of course, within the bounds of free speech—about what they say."
Within the bounds of free speech? Free speech properly understood has no bounds except actual incitement to violence and approval of criminal activity. If questions cannot even be asked about actual and serious national security issues, then there is no freedom of speech in Britain, and as a free society, it is finished.
See Also: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2018-06-27/debates/25A169DE-AF92-4F39-8643-DFD5900E5E41/Anti-TerrorismHateSpeech
'Fed Up' UKIP Peer Hits Back After Radical Mosque Question Jeered in Lords Debate


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Juventus' Gianluigi Buffon unaware of Boca Juniors interest - agent
Gianluigi Buffon is not aware of any interest that Boca Juniors have in signing him, according to his longtime agent, Silvano Martina told Clarin.
Ole reported on Sunday that Boca want to sign Buffon this summer, when the 40-year-old goalkeeper becomes a free agent.
Clarin also reported Boca's interest, claiming that Boca president Daniel Angelici once met Buffon when fellow Argentine and Boca star Carlos Tevez played for Juventus.
"I've read in Italy that in Argentina, they are talking about this possibility," Martina said. "But I honestly know nothing about this. I think it's just a report like any other. We know nothing about this."
Boca want to strengthen their backline with an experienced keeper, with Agustin Rossi, 22, their current No. 1.
Rossi has made 22 league appearances for the Superliga leaders, conceding 15 goals.
Buffon, the 2006 World Cup winner and eight-time Scudetto champion, has been expected to retire this summer but has increasingly hinted he could continue playing for another season.
Adriana Garcia is a Valencia-based football writer who covers La Liga for ESPN FC.
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Child on child sexual abuse touches and troubles the lives of thousands of children each year and the state of Florida is launching a new effort to stop it.
Reporter: Tara Herrschaft
New research by the Justice Department shows more than a third of sex crimes against children are committed by other children.
The Florida Department of Children and Families identified more than 8300 children as either alleged perpetrators or victims of child on child abuse from 2008 to 2009.
And officials say it's critical to respond immediately. "Because many of the children that are abused at some point could later become abusers," said Alan Abramowitz, the State Director of the Family Safety Office for DCF.
The death of 7 year-old Broward County boy Gabriel Myers has sparked the DCF Secretary to form a task force. Myers was sexually abused by a 12 year-old boy and killed himself back in April. He was also on psychotropic drugs, which officials believe may have been another contributing factor. Now the group is holding hearings around Florida, gathering feedback to prevent future crimes.
"A lot of times we don't know particularly how to react to it. Either in the law enforcement side, the parental side, or the social worker side. So we've got to do a better job of preparing parents and in our case, foster parents with dealing with these issues. We've also got to do a better job of making sure the support systems are in place. Because it takes specialized psychological and emotional services to be able to deal with the child who's been victimized and equally important to deal with a child who's the victimizer," said Jim Sewell, the Special Assistant to the DCF Secretary.
The first hearing was a couple weeks ago, and there will be about five more. The Tallahassee meeting is scheduled for March 11th. Organizers are planning on submitting a report of their findings and recommendations to the DCF Secretary and then the legislature.


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By having a range of projects being delivered throughout the LINQ Precinct students can easily investigate, experiment and prototype in areas of their passion.
"Project initiatives have been designed to provide students with an opportunity not only to expand their skills but also to apply them in a real world context."Mr Jarrod Pleass, Director of Teaching and Learning Secondary
BlueShift is a business case competition for high schools, hosted by the QUT Business School.
With support from the QUT Business School students and experienced business professionals, students apply theory learnt in class to a problem faced by real businesses. Past case studies have included The Courier Mail and Australia Post. Sheldon College has been a finalist each year.
The mooting competition is where students are presented with a law case and must argue the evidence by making reference to other case law.
Essentially students are demonstrating advocacy skills in a court of appeal on areas of law including negligence, refugee applications, and property ownership.
QUT Start is offered by QUT to High-achieving Year 12 students to extend their studies in their final year of high school.
This is a great opportunity to get a head start on an undergraduate course. Once completed, students can receive credit for your studies accelerating the course.
QUT's School of Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations with support from The Communications Council, the Asia Pacific Design Library's Design Minds and ATOM offer high school students a unique opportunity to work as an advertising team and create a campaign for a real-life client who is active in the youth marketplace.
QUT Adspace is for students in Years 10 to 12 from schools across Brisbane and its surrounds. Students will be briefed by the client, work with university and industry mentors, and pitch to a panel of judges from the advertising world.
This Program provides an opportunity for high-achieving Year 12 business students to experience University first-hand. Students are able to participate in a three-day intensive on-campus experience. As a result of completing the program, students are provided direct entry into a business course.
ASX Share Market Game is an integral component of the Senior Economics course hosted by the Faculty of Business. Students receive a virtual $50,000 that they can invest over a 10 week period, in 200 companies listed on the ASX. The prices students buy and sell at are the same prices as they would get in the live market so this is as close to real life share trading as you can get.
Students research a consumer issue and present it to a target audience of their choice. They can be as creative as they want in how they present their issue. In the past, students have entered everything from board games to picture books and rap videos. Sheldon College has been a finalists for the past 5 years.
The $20 Boss project provides Year 8 students with the opportunity to run their own small business and develop entrepreneurial competencies. All proceeds at the end of the experience are given to a charity of the students' choice.
A key to understanding the real world of operating a business, requires students to run their own business in a facilitated environment. As such, the venture program is an essential aspect of the development of the next generation of entrepreneurs. As a result of the program, many students have begun successfully operating their own business either whilst at school or beyond.
In order to achieve this, students are offered the opportunity to be monitored by a business leader. The program has seen great success, with both students and mentors alike valuing the opportunity, as well as creating a relationship for future endeavours.
Further opportunities have extended in providing students with internships.
Students will experience how business operations adapt to a dynamic environment and ensure sustainability. International relations and trade is what the Australian nations wealth, prosperity and sustainability is built upon.
The trip will also provide the students with a competitive edge when entering a Business Degree at University and assist them in the corporate world. It also acts as a support to the programs we are offering within the faculty.
Students are able to participate in a three-day intensive on-campus experience. As a result of completing the program, students are provided direct entry into a business course.
Students involved are able to work side by side with industry experts.
This industry standard production integrates all aspects of the Arts program including live production, live recording and the use of integrated technologies for staging and screen use.
The LINQ STEAM Inspired Makerspace, provides students with a tool kit of core STEAM based skills and many broader socially based skills, which will continue to be quantified as the students engage with future Faculties based within the LINQ Precinct.
Preparatory students designed and created animals made from a range of 3D shapes, plastered and wired up using Makey Makey and Scratch computer code. Visitors of this project were able to interact with the animals and when touched the animals played student created sounds. Our Preparatory students were extremely engaged in circuit development, interactive design and computer coding.
Year 2 students engage in an inquiry based project, whereby students draw on curriculum from Science, Geography, Drama and Technology to create a magical night garden.
'Uno's Garden' is a sanctuary of futuristic creatures and their unique features that will aid them to survive in the distant future. To construct the futuristic creatures, students were challenged to use Make-Do screws, motors, sensors, LED Lights, Fans and other Little Bits electronics.
Year 3 students explore the dynamic world of space by working in teams to code and simulate how planets rotate and revolve around the sun. Students collaborate in teams to code a physical representation of how the newly discovered planet rotates and revolves around the sun using iPads, Ozoblocky code and OzoBots.
Year 4 students create and exhibited a unique interactive and Living Museum in the College's new ArtScapes dedicated Mixed Reality and Digital Art Facility. Students created their exhibits by researching and taking on the roles of "Historians" and "Curators". Using the latest approaches to learning, students developed 3D artefacts, physical artworks, sound scapes, holograms and virtual experiences which mapped significant milestones in history.
Working in the Makerspace, students conducted a range of plant experiments using electronics (LittleBits) to explore the optimal conditions for plant growth. This included using sensors and timers to play music to plants or make the plant move over a period of time.
This project was supported by the University of Queensland who were conducting similar experimental inquiries.
The Year 7 Shining Light Project is an English, Science and Technology cross-curricular project launched as a student-driven, social business initiative. Year 7 students work in small business units, to design, construct and market a financially self-sustainable solar panel light.
Staff from the different Faculties are assigned various coaching roles and work alongside experts from the Scientists and Mathematicians in Schools (SMiS) national program, managed by CSIRO to deliver this program. At the completion of the unit, students promote and sell their uniquely designed products during a tradeshow.
A group of Year 4 to Year 11 Sheldon College students led the way by providing guided, practical workshops for more than sixty educators from various educational sectors. The workshops consisted of 'students teaching the teachers' with students sharing their skills in mixed reality, computational thinking and how emerging technologies such as 3D Printing and micro-computers can challenge real-world problems such as energy poverty. Workshop participants collaborated in round-table discussions and were guided through practical workshops to make informed decisions for Maker Spaces and STEAM initiatives in their Schools. The educators left the workshop equipped with an array of skills and project-based ideas relevant to many curriculum areas.
Attendees become an inventor in the Sheldon College STEAM MakerSpace where they are challenged to:
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COIMBATORE: Ruling out scrapping of reservation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched a veiled but strident attack on Congress, saying a "campaign of lies" has been let loose on the issue of Dalits under a "deliberate conspiracy" to disintegrate the country.
"In the name of Dalits, lies are being spread. Wherever they go, whenever they go, repeatedly, at the top of their voice, they utter lies. A campaign of lies has been let loose to mislead and fool the Dalits.
"It is a deliberate conspiracy to disintegrate the country, to make people fight against each other. They are feeling frustrated because power has been taken away from them. They always believed that they (Dalits) are their voters and now Modi is working for them. They fear what to do with Modi. They want to prevent Dalits from backing Modi," he said.
Though he did not take any names, the Prime Minister's target appeared to be Congress and its Vice President Rahul Gandhi who has recently made two trips to Hyderabad Central University to join protests over the suicide of a Dalit scholar Rohit Vemula.
On Saturday, Gandhi had accused Modi and RSS of trying to crush the spirit of students by imposing "one idea from the top".
Modi was addressing a public meeting which was expected to launch BJP's campaign for the coming Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu but he completely skipped local politics.
Utilising the occasion, the Prime Minister said "lies are also being spread that Modi is going to take away reservation from Dalits, OBCs, oppressed and the depressed. Please listen to me carefully. I assure the nation that nobody can do away with reservation till the name of Dr B R Ambedkar remains alive."
He listed various steps and initiatives taken by his government in commemoration of Ambedkar's 125th birth anniversary.
Modi underlined that unity, harmony and peace were essential for the country to progress.


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What strikes me most about this – is the seemingly infinitesimal scale of the nuclear changes that are occurring which yield radioactive decay that is so dangerous and the massive scale of the materials containing it – in contaminated water such at Fukushima right now and in spent fuel rods, containment ponds holding them and sitting at nuclear waste and containment facilities. It is hard to conceive both those things at all, let alone to realize the on-going and long term impacts of them.
In considering solutions, they must be both massive in their application, do-able and work simultaneously at both extremes of the scale to be effective. The things that make these materials radioactive are occurring at such a minute level and yet the mass of materials are mind-boggling in their entirety.
– cricketdiane
I had read this article – although there are a number of them lately with more and more insistent calls for help from a greater community to render solutions –
Fukushima operator pleads for international help as radiation crisis deepens
Published time: August 22, 2013 22:21
The International Nuclear Information System (INIS) hosts one of the world's largest collections of information on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
Obviously Boron is used as a way to control radioactive decay so I looked it up first.
Did a search on google for boron nuclear neutralization –
Checked these –
Dairy Farmers Fight Radiation with Boron
June 14, 2011
An open letter from organic dairy farmers in Hawaii explains how to reduce radiation in milk and vegetables (etc.)
This one has quite and interesting list including the sources of these approaches –
Nuclear Waste Neutralization Technologies
The text of Porringa's brief descriptions of nine alternative, peer-reviewed techniques as candidates for the global clean-up of nuclear waste is copied below. (in the article at the link below) –
Nuclear Experts: One century before Japan tries to deal with Fukushima's melted cores? — "More likely what's left of reactors will be left in situ for 100 years or more" (VIDEO)
Published: August 15th, 2013 at 7:27 am ET
By ENENews
'Beyond the Cloud' Yanaoshi 3.11, June 3, 2013 – French nuclear engineer Gérard Aleton (at 3:30 in): When a nuclear power plant is built […] workers can access all building parts, including the tank — But dismantling is another story. […] There's no longer a conventional access to those parts of the building. No human can enter those tanks and radioactive areas. (etc.)
Although a site for a water treatment company – some interesting basic info about boron – and about boron's solubility in water, where it is found, etc.
This has a little about the types of boron used in nuclear plants to control the reactions – (from a company specializing in those compounds) –
A list of items to be reported to the IAEA – interesting –
Extraction of Boron –
America's ongoing problem with nuclear waste materials cleanup and containment –
Hanford Nuclear Waste Cleanup Plant May Be Too Dangerous
Safety issues make plans to clean up a mess left over from the construction of the U.S. nuclear arsenal uncertain
May 9, 2013, Scientific American
(Definitely read all three pages of that one and the comments – amazing and insightful.)
A little heady – but great to read anyway –
Best reference list to get a better grasp on the subject too – will probably go look up some of those –
That was among several that came from here which are very interesting on the subject of containment, possible options for the fouled up radioactive mess including Fukushima et al. –
That list contained this written material from the link below it – the explanation is sort of basic and after reading a bit of it – went to wikipedia to look up radio-nuclides to see some of the half-life spans of these elements –
Alpha Particle Radioactivity DecayAn alpha particle is an ionized helium nucleus. It consists of two neutrons and two protons bound together. The measured electric charge is 9.58 x 10-10 esu (electrostatic units) or about twice the basic electronic charge. The mass is that of the helium nucleus which is 4.003 amu (atomic mass units).Examples of alpha particle radioactivity decay are given in Table 1-1.Alpha decays occur naturally in the uranium, actinium, and thorium radioactivity decay series. The decay process can be described by using the Bohr-like model that was used above to describe neutron and proton particle decay. Here the alpha decay process is assumed to be triggered by decay of one of the neutrons in the parent atom to produce a proton the can cause electrostatic ejection of the alpha particle from the atom. (pg.10)
Radionuclide (wikipedia)
A radionuclide, or a radioactive nuclide, is an atom with an unstable nucleus, characterized by excess energy available to be imparted either to a newly created radiation particle within the nucleus or via internal conversion.
During this process, the radionuclide is said to undergo radioactive decay, resulting in the emission of gamma ray(s) and/or subatomic particles such as alpha or beta particles.[1]
These emissions constitute ionizing radiation. Radionuclides occur naturally, or can be produced artificially.
Radionuclides are often referred to by chemists and physicists as radioactive isotopes or radioisotopes.
|Radiation types
|Energies (KeV)
|3256 TBq/Kg (88 Ci/g)
|30.1 years
|Gamma & beta
Just because it is interesting –
There was an article about the re-manufacture of nuclear waste into a more stable and manageable material from India and its engineering geniuses but I will have to check my other computer for it or find it again.
That, and thinking about the coconut trees on the Pacific Islands where the nuclear tests were done that literally were found to have taken these radioactive materials from the soil and sand and rainwater, then processed them through their plant chemistry to have cleaned them from the soil. The isotopes were found in the coconut milk however. But, it lends the question – what, in that plant allowed it to do that? Hkmmm…
Just thinking about it.
There look to be a lot of technologies which suggest answers and some research done already on the question of getting this nuclear waste contained and something done with it to make it safe, but all of those things suggested and researched can't be done on the massive scale that accidents like Fukushima require. 300 tons of contaminated radioactive water going out of a leak – is a massive lot especially if it is happening to that volume each day – no matter where it goes. The sea can't process that in our lifetimes – can it? The ground and rivers can't – can they? It looks like any technological answer would require a much bigger test than any lab could offer before even being used on the actual event despite the fact that it is currently continuing to unfold much to everyone's detriment.
Hmmm – needs a better answer.
I was just wandering through some info about it tonight and thought to post it here. – cricketdiane
I'm adding this to check later at the library – found by google search for – wolfram radioactive decay
Table of Radioactive Isotopes
A convenient source of radiation data which incorporates the changes dictated by present-day science and computer technology, presented with a high degree of uniformity, completeness, and consistency in both the data and appendices. Includes tables of adopted properties for all radiations emitted by nuclei, which were derived from experimental data plus reliable calculations, along with adopted properties based on statistical analyses of existing experimental data alone. Other derived adopted properties (e.g. average photon energies per disintegration) are calculated when strong user demand is anticipated. Over 260 drawings accompany the text.
|Table of Radioactive Isotopes
A Wiley-interscience publication
|Edgardo Browne
|Virginia S. Shirley
|Photographs by
|Richard B. Firestone, Virginia S. Shirley
|Wiley, 1986
|929 pages
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God's opinion on slavery in the American South and United States in 1840 and 1985 according to Durkheim respectively
In the southern part of the United States of America, slavery was something common. This led many people to come up with various explanations concerning it. In addition, such people explained various God's opinions about slavery. In fact, they have gone as far as coming up with theories concerning the way God viewed slavery in 1840 and in 1985. According to Durkheim, in 1840, he came up with a theory on God's option about slavery in South America. He stated that, slavery was like a social death. This based on the sociological argument of Durkheim. He claimed that being a slave meant that one do not have socialization freedom. In 1985, he came up with a theory based on his psychological point of argument. He stated that God viewed slavery as a violation of humanity freedom that was against his will.
Analysis of whether God view this in the same way
To some extent, I would think that God viewed slavery in the same way. Based on Durkheim sociological argument, when one is a slave he or she do not have the social freedom. In addition, one is not able to share the social part of life with others freely. As a result, it is just the same as being dead socially. Based on the psychological argument of Durkheim, he states that it is just the violation of an individual's right forcefully. God could also view slavery in the same way. This is because; one is not free to move from place to place, do what he or she feels that is good to him or her, and enjoy whatever he or she feels is good. According to the will of God, one should not undergo denial of freedom in as long as he or she feels comfortable with it. In addition, people should have freedom, as they will be accountable for their wrong did in the Day of Judgment.
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Govt fails To Pass Women University Multan Bill
THE Opposition in the Punjab Assembly on Monday foiled the bid of the coalition partners to pass "The Women University Multan Bill 2010" after it pointed out quorum.
The Treasury could not pass the bill for the second consecutive day after the Opposition pointed out quorum. Deputy Speaker Rana Mashud had to adjourn the proceedings till Tuesday (today).
Immediately after the Treasury took up The Women University Multan Bill 2010 clause-by-clause, Mohsin Leghari from the Opposition pointed out the quorum. The chair asked for ringing the bells for five minutes but the Treasury could not gather the required strength as there were only 63 members present in the House at that time.
Earlier, Speaker Rana Muhammad Iqbal Khan constituted a parliamentary committee to review Pakistan's transit for Delhi-Kabul trade under the Afghan Transit Trade Agreement.
Ali Haider Noor Khan Niazi from the MMA, on a point of order, expressed his serious concerns over the federal government for not taking the Punjab government into confidence on the pact. He said New Delhi had turned down Pakistan's demand for transit to have an access to Bhutan, Nepal and Far East and demanded the House debate on it.
PPP's Azma Zahid Bokhari along with other female parliamentarians criticised Mr Niazi for derogatory remarks against the federal government, however, the Speaker expunged the objectionable remarks.
Meanwhile, the Law Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan, on a point of order, said that the issue was of immense importance and suggested the Speaker to constitute a committee comprising besides him (Rana Sana), Senior Minister Raja Riaz Ahmed, Finance Minister Tanvir Ashraf Kaira, Opposition Leader Chaudhry Zaheeruddin and Mohsin Khan Leghari.
The law minister, however, urged Raja Riaz and Tanvir Ashraf Kaira to ensure provision of a copy of the agreement from the federal government to enable the parliamentary committee to have a thorough review.
On a point of order, Opposition Leader Chaudhry Zaheeruddin said that Pakistan must not provide transit to India until and unless the Kashmir issue was resolved in accordance with the UNO resolutions.
Meanwhile, Punjab Minister for Livestock and Dairy Development Malik Ahmed Ali Aulakh told the Punjab Assembly that an effective monitoring system had been placed in all the departments of the ministry for improving its performance.
During question-hour regarding his department, he said all auction and sale of cattle would be done through monitoring committees before the video cameras to ensure transparency.
Aulakh said that on special directive of the Punjab chief minister, a special programme worth Rs 1 billion was launched during fiscal year 2008/09, under which the small and poor farmers were being provided with free vaccination, fodder, de-warming and insemination of their cattle.
This programme, he added, substantially increased the milk production in the province. To a question, he said, Pakistan was the fifth largest milk-producing country in the world with production of 41 billion litres of milk, out of which 60 percent was contributed by Punjab. Livestock and Dairy Development Department had initiated several projects to increase the milk production, he added. The minister admitted that oxytocin hormones injections for buffalos to get more quantity of milk had no injurious effects on human health, citing that dangerous germs vanished during the boiling of milk. He said that the Buffalo Research Institute, Pattoki, was working on conservation and development of the breed of Sahiwal cow and Neeli Ravi and Cholistani buffalo breeds.
Later, MPA Ejaz Ahmed Khan sought from the House one-month extension to the report of Standing Committee on Law and Parliamentary Affairs regarding the Punjab Assembly Privileges (Amendment) Bill 2009 and the house allowed him the extension.
The House also allowed one-month extension to a report of Standing Committee on Labour and Manpower on the request of MPA Tahir Hundli. MPA Nafeesa Amin presented a report of Standing Committee on Health in the House.