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July 28, 2015
Categories: Anarchist, London, Red and Black T.V. . Tags: Anti fascist, Freedom, workers . Author: wessexsolidarity . Comments: Leave a comment
Industrial Workers of the World Dorset
The appeal to the referendum by "for the first time" Left government was the natural outcome of a futile political negotiation which aimed "to have its cake (capital) and eat it too" (to satisfy both its needs and those of institutions). To be sure, this frame of negotiations took place without the real subject that shall pay the cost of remaining in Europe, whether in Euro or drachma, that is the working class, the unemployed, the precarious workers, the immigrants and the pensioners. The point is that, despite the Left tone of dignity that the Left governmental administrators use, this is a one-way blackmail. We need a radical change of shift, not in words but in action.
In today's circumstance, the workers have one and only choice. We have to stand out, with all our strength, against the big interests, which gradually sink the workers…
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Class fucking war!
Let me tell you what it's like to wake up and find yourself a single mother of three children. To find you're suddenly without an income or any realistic means of earning one because you've got two kids still not even at primary school yet and another one literally a babe in arms. Three children that you need to feed somehow, to house, that you know keep relentlessly growing out of their clothes and their shoes every few months, that you need to pay for heating for to keep them all alive in the Scottish winters, where the hell is all that money going to come from? Not from their dad in my case, who I didn't get any money out of on a regular basis until five whole years later, after a lot of wrangling via the CSA. Do you know what it's like? It's terrifying. Proper staring-into-the-abyss terrifying. I barely slept…
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Every single mainstream media has the following narrative for the economic crisis in Greece: the government spent too much money and went broke; the generous banks gave them money, but Greece still can't pay the bills because it mismanaged the money that was given. It sounds quite reasonable, right?
Except that it is a big fat lie … not only about Greece, but about other European countries such as Spain, Portugal, Italy and Ireland who are all experiencing various degrees of austerity. It was also the same big, fat lie that was used by banks and corporations to exploit many Latin American, Asian and African countries for many decades.
Greece did not fail on its own. It was made to fail.
In summary, the banks wrecked the Greek economy, and then deliberately pushed it into unsustainable debt … while revenue-generating public assets were sold off to oligarchs and international corporations…
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Hello everyone! I hope you all had fantastic weekends! Mine was… hot. Which is quite funny because I literally just wrote a post on welcoming fall at the end of last week. But yes, I feel like summer in the Bay Area is a bit extended and really doesn't end until late October so the days have not exactly been getting cooler. At any rate I'm going to keep pretending autumn is here until it truly arrives in November haha.
So, speaking of hot weather, we decided to get out of our blistering apartment and head over to the Bicycle Music Festival in Oakland on Sunday – which was an absolute blast! Basically we grabbed a spot on the amphitheater lawn, lounged around in the sun next to the lake, and chatted the day away with friends. They also had the most delicious smoothies and ice cream that you made by peddling bicycles with blenders and churners attached. At the end of the day the entire festival (including the performers who hopped onto a pedal powered mini-stage) got on their bikes and paraded down the Oakland streets to the Omni Commons for an indoor concert. So yes, it was a pretty awesome way to spend a Sunday and I've made a small gallery for you to share the experience with me!
I'll be honest with you, we didn't quite make it to the indoor concert. We popped in for a few minutes, but were so hungry after the parade that we decided to leave and stop in at the Hog's Apothecary for dinner. We had cool water and cooler drinks to start. Speaking of as a side not to our waiter – I see what you did there making our alcoholic beverages cooler and more refreshing. Tricky. Eric & the boys all got the 'Who's the Basa' kielbasa whilst I went with the 'I'd Like to Buy a Valve' (which the wonderful chefs made GF on request.) The food was great, the drinks were fantastic and it really was the perfect way to end the day. I'd highly recommend checking it out if you're in the neighborhood!
So I hope you enjoyed the post & I'll see you all later!

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Wow 16 years today. Sometimes it really seems so much longer and sometimes just like yesterday.
|Thank you My Love for Being here Through the thick and thin the impossible and the mundaine.
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Note to Subscribers: Gmail Fails, Comcast Fails, Grr!
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Saturday August 09, 2014 - 12:01:00 PM
For the past two or three weeks I've been sending the usual letters with article links to a list of "subscribers" via my Gmail account, since Comcast changed its interface so that my previous mail program no longer works. Now Google in its infinite wisdom has decided that our list of subscribers is suspiciously long, so they've unilaterally disabled ALL my outgoing email. I sincerely hope this can be fixed. Any ideas would be welcome. My incoming email still works, just can't reply.


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Marble aluminum composite panel structure is essentially composed of three layers which together along with a covering of highly pressurized marble like paint (PE or PVDF) combine to form a flat panel that represent art as well as the traditional marble look. The two layers of aluminum sheets are bonded together permanently with an internal core of polyethylene which when covered through the paint makes the surface even more flat and highly resistant. An important point is that only the front of the panel is coated with PE (Polyester) Paint so that the desired look could be given. The following are some of the feature of Marble aluminum composite panel:
As far as the physical and chemical properties of wooden panels are concerned it has a variety of features that enables it to be among the best of flat panels. The thickness of the panel itself ranges from 2mm-6mm which makes it quite flexible when it comes to personal usage. Moving on the width and length follow a similar course providing the buyer plenty of options, the standard accepted width is 1000mm which can be increased up to a maximum of 2000mm. Similarly length goes up to 6500mm which further provides buyers plenty of options to consider.
The Coating:
We often see how buildings often used marbles as they look good appropriate but the truth is that marble does not really have the qualities that can match what marble aluminum composite panel offers. Not only has it given quite an identical look when we compare it with real marble.
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Marble aluminum composite panels are well known for their features such as excellent fireproof properties, sound insulation, strength & durability, surface flatness and smoothness. Along with these features the most important one that the marble panel covers is that of being weather resistant as results indicate that marble panels can withstand extreme weather.
Marble coated aluminum panels have been in high demand over the last few years; this is because of the fact that marble coated panels present quite diverse options with consistent features. The most common applications of marble coated panels would be the usage in wall boards & ceilings, used in kitchens & balconies, shop face decorations, interior and external wall claddings of offices. One of the biggest advantages of using marble panels instead of marble is the fact that it along with natural looks and feels of real marble it gives us qualities that even surpass any type of marble in the world. Furthermore, it has quite a dependable life span.


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These Amazing Easter Eggs Will Make Going On The Internet Even More Awesome.
Even if you're erudite enough to know that the Internet isn't simply "a series of tubes," there's still so much you likely have to learn. With so much information that could be accessed in just a few clicks, there's no way you'll be able to find it, let alone absorb it all.
That's especially true when all of these sites have such fun hidden messages and games on them. Why do research when you can play Atari? (And it only gets cooler from there.) Take a look at these Internet Easter Eggs!
1.) Google Images
3.) IMDb
4.) skyBET
5.) Black Acre Brewing Co.
6.) MailChimp
7.) Wikipedia
8.) Google
9.) YouTube
10.) Wistia
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Wow. Every time I think I'm fully aware of just how cool the Internet is, I get absolutely blown away by some new piece of information like this.
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In search of a new and exciting take on a hidden object game to amuse you? Weird Park: Broken Tune brings you intriguing adventure and spooky twists combined with puzzle adventure games as you investigate a rash of 'accidental' deaths at an eerie amusement park. There's no clowning around in this chillingly cool mystery, so don't miss out!
You're hired to look into a wave of deaths that happened at an amusement park before the city officials shut it down. The deaths were supposedly 'accidental'. As you search for clues, you discover that the mystery of the deaths surround a clown who died at the park while performing in the circus act. You'll journey through a spookily haunted park as you complete hidden object scenes and fragmented object scenes piecing together clues that will help you nab the culprit.
Weird Park: Broken Tune is a fast-paced and thrilling hidden object game of mystery solving and adventure that will make your limbs tremble as you search for clues all while being followed by a tiny joker trying to impede your progress and haunted by the dead clown's ghost.
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- Solve object association games to get more clues towards solving the mystery.
- Use your magnifying glass to inspect an object more closely.
- You can use your journal to view the important information you've already found and help you find codes and hints to puzzles.
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Hello all.
Happy Pancake day! Hope you all will have a chance to have some delicious pancakes today. I can't wait myself to come back home and make some pancakes with maple syrup. I can even feel their taste in my mouth now. Yam.
For this special pancake day I put on my midi skirt. Yes, again midi skirt. One more in my wardrobe :) Just can't get enough. I combined it with a cropped sweater and a yellow statement necklace. I found so many beautiful statement necklaces at Debenhams, check them out below.
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What You May Not Know About Your Financial Adviser
MADISON, Wis. – When a financial adviser gives you advice about where your money should be is that person telling you which investments will get him or her the highest commission, or which investments will actually be the best for your purposes?
That question has led the U.S. Department of Labor to propose a rule that would require the adviser to recommend what's best for the client.
Nancy LeaMond, national executive vice-president of AARP, says bad investment advice is a huge problem.
"Last year alone the hidden fees, the unfair risk and possible bad investment advice robbed Americans of as much as $17 billion," she points out. "That's according to a recent study, and it's awfully hard to know how much is unreported."
LeaMond acknowledges that many retirement plans involve a multitude of complex decisions, and many financial advisers give great advice.
But she says too many are allowed to make recommendations that are really not in the client's best interest.
Financial planners who have earned certification as a CFP from the Institute of Financial Planning have pledged to put their client's interests first.
AARP supports the newly proposed regulations, which LeaMond says would serve clients' best interest by keeping fees and costs low, to protect retirement nest eggs.
"The Department of Labor issued proposed regulations this past April that will protect people against conflicts of interest and also require that anyone who gives financial advice only recommends investments that are in their client's best interest," LeaMond states.
Previously, employers managed pension investments for their employees, but today, most workers and retirees have to manage their own money.
LeaMond says that's why it's important that before you start a relationship with a financial adviser, banker, broker or fund manager that you ask that person point blank about what kind of recommendations he or she will make for you.
"Absolutely, it's very important to find out if that adviser is covered under the conflict of interest rule," she emphasizes. "Now our hope is that down the road, anybody who gives financial advice will be acting in people's best interests."


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The Four Pillars of Endpoint Security
Dan Griffin's new book is The Four Pillars of Endpoint Security: Safeguarding Your Network in the Age of Cloud Computing and the Bring-Your-Own-Device Trend.
Security is an advantage: the Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) trend in enterprise IT has caused users to expect anywhere/anytime access to sensitive data, from any mobile device. But IT managers are nervous about serving sensitive corporate data to devices that lack sophisticated security controls.
By applying the Four Pillars of Endpoint Security, businesses can embrace BYOD, stay competitive and operate without interruption, which leads to higher productivity and business velocity.
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What are the four pillars of endpoint security? In short, a framework for analyzing and prioritizing security technology investment in the enterprise. The pillars are:
- Endpoint Hardening
- Endpoint Reliability
- Network Prioritization
- Network Reliability
Endpoint Hardening
Technologies such as platform attestation allow server-side resources to extract high-assurance security claims from mobile devices . This helps to keep sensitive data off of malware and rootkit infested devices and can also be used to enforce client attributes such as the use of hardware-based disk encryption. The latest generation of mobile devices supports a variety of high-integrity security features, including TPMs, SIMs, and other hardened cryptographic and data protection features.
Endpoint Reliability
The ability to make mobile devices self-healing is still a work in progress, but all of the major platforms have recognized the increased support cost, and negative user experience, that comes from supporting a wide-open application ecosystem in which discerning good software from bad is impossible for the layman. Curated app stores help endpoint reliability, although they don't guarantee it.
This is moving in the right direction, but enterprises with sophisticated security needs must still necessarily distinguish between managed (e.g., a Active Directory domain-joined laptop) and unmanaged (typical smartphone) devices when it comes to granting information access. Enforcing patching and platform updates is key to maintaining endpoint reliability; technologies exist to do this across all platforms.
Network Prioritization
Link encryption is a must-have. All web applications should enforce TLS; all clients support it. Don't waste bandwidth on unencrypted or untrusted requests.
More broadly, consider the role that network access control can play in protecting servers from unauthorized hosts by denying access to bandwidth. For example, there are countries from which network traffic destined for critical internet-accessible infrastructure – such as US banks – should be completely and permanently blocked as a matter of national security. That doesn't mitigate the risk presented by compromised hosts located domestically, it reduce it.
More nuanced application-level network prioritization policies can be employed, as well. For example, media servers prioritize audio over video. VoIP systems prioritize control data higher than voice data. VLANs, while generally ineffective as a security boundary, do make an effective policy boundary when it comes to network prioritization. Also, consider standards such as DiffServ, IPsec, and the Quality of Service policy features present in operating systems such as Linux and Windows.
Network Reliability
Many of the same proven security technologies and practices apply equally across traditional enterprise computing assets: routers, servers, laptops, and desktops. Don't forget that (a) they need to be utilized and (b) they're constantly increasing in sophistication. This applies whether the assets are mobile, private cloud, or public cloud.
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Child Evangelism Fellowship of Tennessee Greater Chattanooga Chapter is a chapter of the largest children's missionary organization in the world. We pride ourselves in daily sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with children. We believe that by sharing the Gospel with children in a clear and understandable manner we are answering God's calling for us in building His kingdom and fulfilling His command in the Great Commission.
Our staff and Board members are a diverse group of individuals with a wide range of skills and expertise with a goal of making a difference in the lives of children and those around them. Don't just stand on the sideline, get engaged in your community, become a volunteer to work in schools, recreation centers, homes, and many other venues to share Jesus Christ with children.
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It's a fact that some physicists are investigating the idea of alternate time-lines, multiple universes, and so on, and doubtless are quietly experimenting with penetrating these cosmic options. Clearly some experiment somewhere nudged us into an alternate universe where Trump is President. The Absurdity becoming President of the USA–quite impossible in the universe I lived in last summer. (Could the scientist have been…Russian?)
I would like to offer myself and my family to be part of the crew, in the experiment that sends a group of people back into their proper, original universe. Me and my family volunteer to go. These boffins, as the British call scientists, have bungled, and they owe it to us. I call dibs, I was first to volunteer. Send me back to the real world. This one is the offspring of a perverse imagination. I reject it.


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By Amrita Paul
She was a liberal feminist, he was an aspiring Lawyer. She knew she hadn't liked anyone so much in a long time, he knew he couldn't afford to fall in love as he had dreams to fulfill, promises to keep and miles to go before he could sleep. The attraction between them was evident, but no one was ready to take the leap of faith. She would be ranting about him every day in college, hyperventilating, nervous, unable to decide what to do with herself. He on the other hand had never mentioned about her to anyone, at all. The last thing he wanted to do was come across as a frivolous chap who wasn't focused enough to accomplish the goals he had set for himself.
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It was crazy how simple things were. But mutual denial always came in the way, making things unnecessarily complex. She thought he could never like her, she was too plain, too cheery and not to forget too emotional. He thought of her as an independent young woman who was perfectly capable of taking care of herself, hence effectively ruling out the requirement of his presence in her life. She on the other hand continued to cling on to the memories of the first and only time they had met. Her friends advised her to 'control' her feelings lest she get hurt. His friends grumbled about their own break ups because he was the only guy in the group who had never been in a relationship. May be, if they kept meeting once in a while things would take a turn for the better. Or, may be, one of them would find a partner in their respective cities and move on.
They were twenty and inexperienced. And they were unsure of each other.
'Take things slowly ..." her friend suggested, - " .. Even though he is totally into you."
"I wish I could." She smiled sheepishly.
She knew she was smart enough to not get hurt, but she knew that she couldn't afford to lose him as a friend. She could practically see through everything he stood for and believed in, but when it came to matters of the heart, she was clueless.
He for once, wanted to embrace love, to experience it to its fullest, but was "she" the girl? Someone he could love more than life itself? It was a question only time could answer.
Will such numerous confusions stand the test of time? Will their mutual longing make them inseparable soul mates?
Valentine's Day was near. May be it was an indication for either of them to take a call, be brave and confide in to the other person. To take the final leap of faith, to just let go or perhaps to hold on. Who knows what the future may hold. All they could do is try, after all we all are born of love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.


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Making up for lost time
Legendary make-up and prosthetic artist Rick Baker is to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame, recognising his iconic body of work over a career spanning more than forty years. While make-up artists are rarely recognised for their work in the same way as actors or directors, Baker's exquisite touch at creature creation has defined many of his most famous movies, including An American Werewolf In London, Star Wars, Harry And The Hendersons, The Frighteners, the Men In Black series and Hellboy. Even his work on critical bombs like Eddie Murphy's The Nutty Professor, Jim Carrey's The Grinch Who Stole Christmas or Tim Burton's Planet Of The Apes remake was often acclaimed.
Baker has both won and been nominated for Makeup Oscars, more than any other man in filmmaking history. During his Walk Of Fame ceremony, he will officially be inducted into the Guinness Book Of World Records for his achievements. The man's an icon for horror aficionados and his facial hair is pretty spectacular too, so this recognition on the world's most famous boulevard is long overdue.
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A little while back, I shared my Ninja Stars Take a Backseat pattern design with you. Today, those ninja stars are front and center. This is Ninja Stars:
I laid out the stars so they create diagonal lines of color. I really like making quilt block-style patterns—I get all of the fun of designing a quilt without having to do the work of making the quilt. Maybe I will get to that someday, but I am sticking with my crochet and embroidery for now.
For fabric, gift wrap, and wallpaper, visit my Spoonflower shop. It would be pretty cool if you got some of this fabric that looks like a quilt to put into a quilt you are making. Mind. Blown.
Cut-and-sew patterns, like the raglan shirt above, are available from Sprout Patterns.
Furniture, kitchen linens, and pillows can be found in my Roostery shop.
For tote bags, pouches, throws, and more, visit my Society6 shop.
Journals, finished clothing, phone cases, and such are available in my RedBubble shop.
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Sometimes 64,389 square feet just doesn't cut it. We've all been there.
For billionaire Ira Rennert, it was time to add a pilates studio, spa bath, sauna, steam shower, and three extra bathrooms to one of the two pool houses on his Hamptons estate, Newsday reports.
But in a bit of poetic justice, Rennert — who amassed his $6.5 billion net worth from junk bonds — needs zoning approval from the Village of Sagaponack.
The single bathroom at the pool "greatly under-serves a family social gathering," the application states. The closest bathroom in the main house "is over a 200-foot, several-minute, indirect walking distance away."
The 633-square-foot addition to the existing 386-square-foot pool house "would complete the offerings of a modern, fully equipped family swimming facility," the application says.
[Rennert's lawyer] Flanagan, in an interview, said, "Quite frankly, to walk several hundred feet to go to the bathroom is inappropriate."
One of Rennert's neighbors summed the whole thing up pretty well: "Enough already."


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My string looks like this:
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I want to extract just "Path/To/My_File.gif".
Here is the check I have:
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I see "Found it!" printed to the console but also get an error saying that $1 is uninitialized. What am I missing here?


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Director Guillermo del Toro is known for juggling quite a few projects at once, but with Pacific Rim hitting theaters this Friday, the filmmaker has a pretty solid schedule lined up for the next year or so. Del Toro will direct the pilot for the FX series The Strain this fall, after which he will move directly into production on his next feature film, a classical gothic romance ghost story called Crimson Peak. Beyond that, though, we don't quite know which of del Toro's many projects he'll be tackling.
Steve recently sat down with del Toro for a lengthy interview in anticipation of the release of Pacific Rim, and the director provided updates on a couple of his major upcoming projects: Justice League Dark and The Haunted Mansion. Del Toro said that the process of writing JLD has been one of his most enjoyable screenplays, and noted that they're simply waiting for their writer to be available. The director also provided an update on Haunted Mansion and his upcoming book Cabinet of Curiosities, and teased a bit of Kung Fu Panda 3. Hit the jump to read on.
Del Toro has been developing an adaptation of the comic series Justice League Dark for a little while now, and he told Steve that he's currently doing revisions on the screenplay:
"Justice League Dark is very active. I'm doing one more revision while we wait for the writer. It's somebody big, [and] we're patiently waiting for that writer. I think it's worth it, I think it's a guy we all admire. I'm doing my revisions on my sort of Bible, on my story for the film. I can tell you it's the writing project I've enjoyed the most in English. Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth are in Spanish, but of all my writing and screenplays, this was so much fun because it was character. It was a pretty easy plot, but the character interaction, Swamp Thing with Deadman and Demon, it's so joyful for me to write that. Constantine is such a great character, so dry. I think it could be a great movie. I don't want to do many changes until the proper writer comes onboard."
The director also provided an updated on his adaptation of the Disney ride Haunted Mansion, which was first announced nearly three years ago. Del Toro confirmed that he will only be producing the film due to his busy schedule:
"Haunted Mansion we chased the writer for a year and a half, we didn't get the writer, we're going after another writer. That one I would produce and I co-wrote, but I won't direct… I'm a huge fan of Haunted Mansion and I would love to do it, but Disney at the same time wants to move really fast on it, and I'm busy for a year and a half or two so they don't want to wait that long. But if we keep chasing writers that we don't get, it's getting to be difficult."
Watch the portion of Steve's interview with del Toro regarding Justice League Dark and The Haunted Mansion below, which also includes the director talking about Kung Fu Panda 3 and his upcoming book Cabinet of Curiosities.
If you missed any of our previous stories, click here to see what del Toro had to say about Hellboy 3 and click here for his updates on The Strain and Crimson Peak.


text: Dawn Cooke: What is a Tattoo? 6 Other Artists Who Get It! By Dawn Cooke Every day I ask myself this question. And if you think I always have the correct answer, I do not. Every tattoo that I do gets me closer to figuring out exactly what a tattoo is. Some of the first thoughts I have when I meet a client lead me to my conclusions about that particular piece. Each piece is different and every piece is a different answer to the question... But often times when I am trying to figure out what a tattoo is I have to remind myself about what it is not. A tattoo is not an illustration. You can make an illustration for the purpose of making a tattoo but the tattoo itself is not an illustration such as the ones made on paper. Paper is a flat surface with no curves and a drawing utensil never penetrates the surface of the paper. A tattoo is made on a curved and soft surface with a needle, which penetrates the skin, pushed by a mechanical device. This is a different thing altogether then any drawing or illustration alone. And trust me when I say that my life's quest so far has been trying to fully understand this. A tattoo is not a painting. A painting involves the application of pigments and medium to some flat and or hard surface generally, speaking traditionally. This is different than a tattoo because a tattoo is pigment inserted into the layers of the skin. The only thing I have taken away from painting that I can apply to tattooing is color theory and some compositional technique. Warm and cool tones create a push and pull of contrast. But a tattoo still needs hard lines and black shading in order to help contain the shape. Unlike a painting and or an illustration a tattoo lives in a person's skin and ages with that person. A body will overtime consume the pigment. So a tattoo needs high contrast, proper spacing between shapes, and it must be an appropriate size to accommodate the amount of detail. A tattoo is not a graphic design. Tattoo artists are not computer printers. The beauty of a tattoo is that it is hand-made. Some amazing work still has the human imperfection as part of its quality. What makes every tattoo artist unique is that his or her hand cannot be duplicated. A vector drawing done on the computer has it's own character and may easily be turned into a good tattoo but the human hand cannot easily duplicate this rigid straight soul-less and flat vector print-out. When clients bring these ideas to me I enjoy collaborating with them and sharing my perspectives. I will use their ideas and transform them into a tattoo. A tattoo is its own medium and form. There is nothing else like it. It allows the wearer to take an image and idea and display it within the skin. Then the wearer can carry this idea and image with them. If your body is your home in this life than a tattoo is like a decoration. It is a representation of something residing with the wearer. A tattoo can exist just for the sake of itself. I have many tattoos that mean nothing when I got them but I was attracted to the idea or the image represented. Later in my life I looked back and those pieces had meaning for me. As an artist my job is to take an idea and turn it into a tattoo. I never try to make a tattoo something that it is not. To me doing that is like going against nature, which has always seemed to be non productive in the course of history. The tattoo has a nature, history and tradition that should be honored. Here are six other tattoo artists whose work you might like to know: Henry Rodriguez I've been tattooing for five years and enjoy doing tattoos based in the American traditional style with my own twists and influenced by a lot of folk art, old skateboard graphics and poster art. I also enjoy most types of tattooing especially when they challenge my skills. www.tattoosbyhenry.com Oddball Tattoo 2716 SE 21st Portland, OR 97214 503.231.1344 Andrew Stickler I'm generally drawn towards doing what my clients desire, while striving to push my understanding of a wearable and strong visual image in the skin. Generally drawn towards Americana style stuff, but more so enjoy giving people what they are after in an educated fashion. www.sticklertattoo.com Odds N Ends Tattoo 1349 S. Alpine Rd. Rockford, IL 61108 Lola Garcia From Barcelona, Spain 12 years tattooing in LTW Now on the road... Address : C/ Tallers 29 Zip code : 08001 City : Barcelona - Spain Area : Ciutat Vella Email : email@example.com Website : LTW Tattoo Opening hours : From 9am to 9pm Phone : 93 318 36 62 Fred Pinckard Salvation Tattoo 819 W. Cary St Richmond VA 804 643 3779 Heather Bailey Spider Murphy's Tattoo 1006 Lincoln Ave. San Rafael, CA 94901 (415)460-6979 Tim Pausinger My name is Tim Pausinger and I'm 23 years old. I've been tattooing around five years now, I work currently out of my shop, Most Precious Ink in Coburg, Germany. I started traveling a year ago, since then I've probably had the best time since I've been tattooing... It's so much fun to work in all this great shops with all these great people and awesome tattooers. I got to learn so much from them and I really appreciate the support of all these people. 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The Braven 705 is a substantive piece of audio equipment. It is somewhat small. However, the sound is good and the unit is somewhat heavy. Normally, the heavier a speaker is, the better the sound. There is no known logic set behind this thinking. This is simply the sum of our personal experience with smaller, Bluetooth speakers.
The fact that it is waterproof is just icing on the cake. Our unit is a lovely blue, which is somewhat striking against the black portions of the speaker. There is an elongated black strip on the bottom of the unit, which is great for grip. Other color choices include pink, yellow, black, gray, purple, white and turquoise.
Braven recommends the purchase of two of these speakers, for a more enjoyable audio experience and really, the thought is divine! The speakers have ports and controls at either end. One of these is a wireless sync, to enable streaming audio with your mobile device. It was so incredible to listen to our mobile phone files in the shower!
Included with the speaker purchase is a USB-to-micro-USB cable. Shipping is free and a warranty is included. The speaker retails for $99.99 and is available at certain brick and mortar shops and online stores.
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"An issue with the 'paying for things twice' viewpoint is that the costs of 'making the invention' (the research and patenting costs) are generally DWARFED by the development/marketing costs. If someone can't get return on THOSE costs, they won't invest."Sphere: Related Content
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VINTAGE 2012 by Olivier Humbrecht MW
Winter was extremely dry and finished very warm in March. Some colder weather and
rain in April was followed by unstable conditions with significant rainfalls, delaying
flowering to mid-late June. June and July were very wet, and as a result spraying of
Bio-dynamic permitted copper/sulphur and plant preparations was more frequent.
With August, the warm and dry weather returned progressively to peak in a heat wave
towards the end of the month. From then the weather was very dry in Turckheim and
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Adidas – Upto 50% off
Reebok – Upto 50% off
Levi's – Grab offer – Grab 1, get 10% off, Grab 2, get 20% off, etc. Upto 50% off
Pepe – Upto 40% off
Restaurant Basil – Anniversary celebration, desserts are on the house.
And what exactly happened?
Nike, Adidas, Reebok, Pepe – The merchandise worth buying are not on sale. The ones I wouldn't touch with a barge pole, incidentally, are.
Levi's – Ditto reason above. And the worst part is, every single pair of jeans there costs upward of 2k. After the darn discount!
Basil – Apparently 'on the house' means 'complimentary'. Pardon moi for thinking it actually meant I can order what I want on the dessert menu and it's 'on the house'. No sir. They decide what dessert I eat. And FYI, it contained 2 milligrams of coconut-burfi like thing, 2 teaspoons of Kubani ka meetha and 2 microscopic pieces of rasmalai floating in a nanogram of the malai – all this for 2 people!
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Putin and the Neoconservatives
By William Pfaff
Comment by Julio Severo: This article was kindly sent and recommended to me by a Pentecostal minister in the U.S. Its author, William Pfaff, said, "The resemblance of President Putin's ambitions for his Russia to those of the neoconservatives in the contemporary United States bear a striking formal resemblance in the wish of both to recall a romanticized past." For pro-family Christians, the important point is whether a president supports a pro-family agenda or anti-family agenda. We supported George W. Bush because of his generally pro-life stances, even though his neocon decision of invading Iraq, not Saudi Arabia (where the 9/11 terrorists came from), resulted in complete disaster for Christians. Before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, there were over 2 million Christians. Today they number less than 300,000. Could not Bush have been concerned about the Christian fate over his invasion? Could not he have intervened to help them? Politicians will always have political interests. But our interests are very different. We much prefer pro-life and pro-family neocons than pro-abortion and pro-sodomy neocons. Likewise, we much prefer a pro-life and pro-family Putin than a pro-abortion and pro-sodomy Putin. The problem is, while Russia under Putin has consistently opposed abortion and sodomy in the United Nations, there is no similar example of American neocons opposing abortion and sodomy in the United Nations. In fact, in spite of the massive power of American neocons, the U.S. has become the main exporter of abortion and sodomy around the world. Putin and U.S. neocons are free to build their "romanticized pasts." But they should remember to oppose abortion and sodomy in the United Nations and around the world. And they should denounce and take measures against Christian genocide by Muslims. Here is Pfaff's article:
Russia and the United States are engaged in a profound ideological confrontation—one that isn't widely understood in Western Europe or even at the White House.
It began in February a year ago. President Vladimir Putin of Russia found himself engaged in what seemed a simple defensive battle against American intervention in Ukraine. He is now under siege by the U.S. and NATO. The Western powers promoted the advancing "color revolutions" in states neighboring Russia, culminating in the coup in Ukraine and the small war that followed. Events did not go as the State Department and NATO planned, and now they are looking for revenge.
Germany and France intervened at Minsk to block a further American intervention with new arms for Kiev. A truce prevails for the moment. However, NATO has launched an exceedingly imprudent program to encircle Russia with demonstrations of force.
This includes shows of military power in recent days in Poland and the Baltic states, continued last week in Romania, and scheduled to be staged in the near future in Bulgaria and the Czech Republic. Washington has also been reaching out to Turkey, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan with political and economic inducements meant to block Russia's Eurasian trading and development ambitions.
The Russian president claims that his real political ambition is to restore to Russia the culture, religion and historical mission of its past. Reunion with Crimea was a prize offered him by a clumsy American intervention in Ukraine. It was not an invitation to aggression but rather an opportunity for Putin to advance his mission at Washington's expense. He wishes to remake the "New Russia" that existed at the end of the Romanoff era.
He has restored the Orthodox Church to the primacy it then occupied, and interestingly enough has distributed among his senior officials the works of Christian philosophers of the pre-revolutionary period (and later, of those in exile), including Nicholas Berdyaev, Vladimir Solovyov and Ivan Ilyin, and has promoted philosophical-historical reflection among these officials, summoning them to a major conference last year in the period following the seizure of Crimea. The subject of the conference was the destiny of Russia.
Putin has denied that he wishes to impose a religio-ideological state doctrine in the place of Marxism, but he does wish to sponsor the reintroduction of Russian elites to the national past and its historical culture. He wishes to see a sovereign democracy that is "qualitative" rather than arithmetical or quantitative. This is not likely to find willing listeners in the West today.
The French writer Michel Eltchaninoff suggests a comparison with the "new state" created by Antonio Salazar in Portugal between 1933 and 1974, usually called fascist but, while authoritarian, should more accurately be described as conservative, religious and nationalist. It is a response to what Putin views as the decadent and "anthropocentric," or egoistic and materialistic, modern West.
Politically, Putin is moved by pan-Slavism and the Eurasian attachments of historical Russia, and seeks alliances and support from West Europeans of the politically incorrect persuasion, which to some extent he is finding. All this has nothing to do with the "Hitlerian" comparisons and accusations of aggressive war and expansionist intentions toward the West of which he was accused by Western governments and press during and after the Ukrainian crisis.
Against him stands the American foe. The energy behind the coup in Ukraine and the proposals to deploy Western arms there and relaunch the crisis is generally, and I think correctly, recognized as the work of the neoconservative alliance in Washington to which President Obama seems to have sub-leased his European policy.
This group includes the European affairs office in the State Department, senior Defense Department and NATO officials, certain Washington think tanks and elements in the national press.
The nature and aims of their program are fairly well known in American political circles, but not in Europe. Anne Norton's 2004 book, "Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire," provides a splendid introduction.
Intellectually, neoconservatism has been a movement that embodies, among other influences, ideas of two German philosophers, Leo Strauss and Carl Schmitt. Strauss, born in Germany, a classicist, migrated to America and taught at the University of Chicago in the 1950s and 1960s, having a great influence upon students who were to become important enemies of the prevailing secular liberalism in American intellectual and political life.
Schmitt was an influential political scholar who defended the concept of the unlimited power of the state. He became a Nazi Party member in January 1933 and held important academic posts in Germany during the Second World War. His work enjoyed a revival in America during the George W. Bush administration and after. It influenced that administration's controversial concepts of "unlawful combatants" exempt from international legal rights, the practice of "enhanced interrogations," among others.
The foreign policy ambitions of the movement have been expressed in various efforts to build a political movement to create "a new American century." Although this no longer is made explicit, the programs of the neoconservatives in Washington envisage the United States becoming a "New Rome," exercising its unmatched military power "against civilization's opponents" in order to revive classical values and eventually establish a universal American dominion—a New Rome.
The resemblance of President Putin's ambitions for his Russia to those of the neoconservatives in the contemporary United States bear a striking formal resemblance in the wish of both to recall a romanticized past. The means they are willing to use resemble one another as well. That is a troubling conclusion.
Visit William Pfaff's Web site for more on his latest book, "The Irony of Manifest Destiny: The Tragedy of America's Foreign Policy" (Walker & Co., $25), at www.williampfaff.com.
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Girl With a Movie Camera
A reinvention of 1920s Russian classic Man With A Movie Camera. Post-war urban transformation through the eyes of a contemporary 14-year-old.
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According to a survey conducted by Trend Monitor, a Korean statistic website, 42.7% of the college students have sought for a job abroad. If you are one of those people, especially if you are a Korean seeking for a job in the US, you may want to read this post on my own experience of job seeking activities in both Korea and America.
I, having only a year left in college, realized that there is no time to put off any more for the preparation to find a job. Last year, I decided to start looking for an internship position, applied for a few companies and succeed to get an offer from one of the companies. Now in the states, I am looking for an internship, expecting to experience and learn the way people work and make a business in the USA. My job-seeking experiences allowed me to perceive the difference in terms of the job/internship recruitment process in Korea and the US.
Applying for Job Positions
One of the biggest differences is how people initiate the job achieving process. In Korea, there are two "official recruitment seasons" each year: spring and fall recruitment seasons. Throughout the periods, almost every company starts to recruit their new employs. Job seekers, both for internships and actual job positions, apply through each company's official recruitment website. They fill out the application form online, usually consisted with yes or no questions and dropdown questions asking about personal information including educational backgrounds and computer or language proficiency certificates. It is also required for them to submit a 2000 words self-introduction essay.
In America, however, the way it works is totally different. Applicants contact the companies via email, website or people. Job seekers are expected to ask about the job vacancies in person, or check the availability through the websites. In addition, in most of the cases, having a network with people who are currently working inside the industry is critical. Unlike Korea, where having a connection is considered as a cheating, knowing people is one of the good sources to get a job or an internship in America.
Instead of filling out the blanks for the questions provided by each company or submitting a long self-introduction essay, applicants are expected to bring a one-page long cover letter or a resume. There is no certain form required for the documents, which means that the applicants can choose what to include or exclude from the cover letter or the resume.
Expected Attitudes for Job Seekers
Collectivism in Korea can be usually found in recruitment processes. The most important value of all in recruitments is the degree to which the applicant can be absorbed to their already-existing employees' group. Therefore, it is important for the applicants to show that they are humble and even that they are not too excel then others if it is needed.
On the other hand, Americans value 'confidence' very highly. They want to recruit someone who can confidently tell them what they can do for the company. On my first arrival here, I was frustrated by myself for not being able to list down the things that I excel at. Now, I have realized that what it means by 'can do something' does not mean that I can perform perfectly, or can do better than others can. Rather, it literally means that I can do it.
What I learned from my experience on job seeking in the states is that it is necessary to have more autonomy. You need to step out of your comfort zone and be confident to initiate communication with the company. Most importantly, you are expected to talk to them in a confident manner.
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In a recent Daily Dough newsletter, I asked if people consider cash bonuses in picking credit cards, bank accounts, and brokerage accounts. You can see the responses to this question here. One reader responded with an interesting question of her own:
Nowadays, with my credit card paying all my bills, I think twice before switching cards just for a temporary bonus. I only use cash-back cards and I magnify the benefits by filtering all bills through them. Is there a way to pay a credit card bill with another credit card?
The short answer is yes. You can pay a credit card with another credit card. But there's a little more to it than that. So let's start with what you can't do.
Making your monthly credit card payment
A credit card company will not accept payment via another credit card. For example, you can't make your minimum monthly payment on, say, a Discover Card with a Chase credit card. Discover won't accept that form of payment.
The reason has to do with fees. If Discover were to accept credit card payments, they would have to pay what are called interchange fees to the bank that issued the credit card and to the card network (e.g. Visa or MasterCard). Most retailers pay these fees as a cost of doing business. But most finance companies (e.g. credit card issuers, mortgage companies) won't.
Getting around the rule – 0% balance transfers
There are some special circumstances, however, where you can pay one credit card with another. The most common is with a balance transfer offer.
When you apply for certain cards, they will offer you a 0% balance transfer option. With these cards, they will effectively "transfer" your balance from one or more of your existing credit cards over to your new balance transfer card. And as an incentive, most of these deals won't charge you interest on the transferred balance for some period of time (today typically six, 12, 15, or 18 months). You can check out our page listing the best balance transfer deals, which is updated daily.
These offers typically do come with a balance transfer fee. While the amount of the fee does vary from card to card, 3% is standard. As an alternative to paying double-digit interest on an existing card, the fee is usually worth the cost. While no-fee offers are rare, there is one available today which you can check out here.
Getting around the rule – 0% on purchases
This approach takes a little more work, but is ideal if you're not interested in a balance transfer. Several cards offer 0% not only on balance transfers, but also on purchases. As with transfer deals, these 0% offers typically last for six to 18 months. Basically, you use the card as you normally would, but you won't pay any interest on your balance during the introductory period. You'll still have to make a minimum monthly payment, but it all goes to the principal balance, not interest.
With a 0% on purchases card, you can charge purchases you'd normally pay cash for each month. Then take the cash you would have spent and pay down your existing high interest cards. The result is similar to a balance transfer, although it occurs purchase by purchase rather than all at once. The advantage is that you avoid a balance transfer fee.
So yes, you can pay one credit card with another credit card. But it does take some work. The upside is that you can take advantage of 0% offers at the same time.


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Going green to clean is fine until you meet the really tough stains that won't budge, like the build-up in pots, pans and oven or the grime that collects at the bottom of the bird bath. Here you need to bring out the big guns and use something abrasive. Before you reach for that environmentally toxic stuff, grab some eggs! Why? Because you can use the shells to make a super duper abrasive powder that is harmless to you, your kids, pets and the environment. Plus you get to use something that you would probably toss in the bin anyway. So it's almost free.
Make Your own Natural Cleaning Powder
What you do:
- Save your egg shells (you need at least 20 or so to make this worthwhile)
- Boil them in a large pot to get rid of bacteria and any eggy bits
- Remove with a slotted spoon and drain
- Spread cooled shells on a baking tray
- Dry them thoroughly in the sun or on a very low heat in the oven (must be bone dry)
- Roughly crush shells before pulverising completely in a coffee grinder or pestle and mortar
- Decant into a jar and add 1 part baking soda to one part egg shell powder
- Mix the two together and you are good to go
- If you want to get fancy, you can add a drop or two of your favourite essential oil
- A large plastic salt or flour shaker works well as a container too
This works well for cleaning the bathtub, basins, shower, tiles, tile grout, linoleum floors, sink, counter tops, oven – just about anywhere. If you don't have baking soda on hand, you can also just use water and dish soap with the egg shell powder. The baking soda is useful as a degreaser though.


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SYDNEY/PERTH: A robotic search vehicle is likely to be sent deep into the Indian Ocean on Tuesday to look for wreckage of a missing Malaysian jetliner on the sea floor, as officials say the chance of finding anything on the surface has dwindled.
Angus Houston, head of the Australian agency coordinating the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, said the month-long hunt was at a critical stage given the black box recorder batteries were dying - or had died.
An Australian ship that picked up signals consistent with the beacons from aircraft black box recorders over the weekend had not registered any further pulses, Houston said.
"The locator beacon has a shelf life of 30 days and we are now passed that time and as a consequence there is a chance that the locator beacon is about to cease transmission, or has ceased transmission," Houston told Australian Broadcasting Corp radio.
The black boxes record cockpit data and may provide answers about what happened to the plane, which was carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew when it vanished on March 8 and flew thousands of kilometres off its Kuala Lumpur-to-Beijing route.
Authorities have not ruled out mechanical problems as a cause of the plane's disappearance but say evidence, including loss of communications, suggests it was deliberately diverted.
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Bryan – converted to Jesus Christ
Posted in converted to Christ, education, Free will, history, Jesus Christ, prayer, today in history, uncategorized, worship, tagged Bryan - converted to Jesus Christ on April 26, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Edgar A Bryan was converted to Jesus Christ, 4/26/1956, in the village of Bremen, OH. It was at the old Pilgrim Holiness Church, (in town) then pastored by the impressive J D (John Denver) Webb, Sr. (father of evangelist Orlow C Webb). It was a Thursday night revival service. The evangelist is not remembered but could have been Bro Howard Williams as the Williams were at Bremen more than once in those years.
Yours truly was raised (youngest of four) in the Christian home of Clyde D & Ruth E Bryan & knew better than to use "four letter" language around them, but had picked up a foul-mouth habit, which was practiced at school in Somerset. The next day on lunch break four or five of us were returning to campus from eating "down town" when I, from habit used the word "h_ _ l." It was said without thinking but immediately I felt badly. I told the rest of the guys to go on & as I walked slowly up the alley I asked God to forgive me – He did, restored the joy to my heart, & to God be the glory, I have never said that word "as a bad word" since. I cannot testify that I never sinned after that Spring Thursday night but I can say it was THE major turning point. Though at times I yielded to temptation the set of my soul was toward God & heaven.
That conversion kept me through the last weeks of the 7th grade, all the 8th grade, & propelled me toward God's Bible School. The decision to go there (some 140 miles of two-lane road away) was a mutual one between my God-loving parents & 14½ yours truly. All four years of high school were spent at God's Bible School. There I made many life-long friends. There I participated in the famous Thanksgiving Dinners. There I held my first job (off campus) at Jewish Hospital. There I attended my first IHC – never forgot the night I heard H Robb French. And, there I met my life-love, the former Martha M Scarbrough.
Cromwell – born
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Oliver Cromwell was born 4/25/1599 at Huntingdon, England. He received his education at the grammar school in Huntingdon (now Cromwell Museum) & at Cambridge. He converted to being a Puritan at 28.
In August of 1620, Oliver Cromwell married Elizabeth Bourchier, born in 1598 the oldest of 12. Their marriage was a happy one. While on a campaign in Scotland, Oliver wrote Elizabeth, 'Thou art dearer to me than any creature; let that suffice' & 'My Dearest, I could not satisfy myself to omit this post, although I have not much to write; yet indeed I love to write to my dear, who is very much in my heart. It joys me to hear thy soul prospereth; the Lord increase His favours to thee more and more…The Lord bless all thy good counsel and example to all those about thee, and hear all thy prayers, and accept thee always'. Only one letter to Oliver survived (December 1650) in which Elizabeth writes, 'Truly my lif is but half a lif in your abseinse, deid not the Lord make it up in heimself, which I must ackoleg to the prase of heis grace'.
Cromwell was a notable military leader in England's "civil war" & became "Lord Protector" (1653 to death). He, who's been called "Chief of Men" & a "Brave Bad Man," is said to have made the following contributions: 1) established a period of peace in England, Scotland & Ireland, 2) made England an "world power," 3) established non-conformity i.e. living separate from the established church. He died 9/3/1658.
Cromwell Quotes:
"No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going."
"What is all our histories but God showing himself, shaking & trampling on everything that he has not planted."
"I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken."
Samuel Zwemer – born "Apostle to Islam"
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Samuel Marinus Zwemer was born 4/12/1867, Vriesland, MI, 13th child of a full-blooded Dutch couple. His father pastored the local Dutch Reformed Church & mother dedicated Samuel to God "as she laid him in his cradle." He graduated from Hope Academy & College (BA) & New Brunswick Seminary (BD 1890).
Still at Hope he offered himself for work among the Muslims. He & his classmate, James Cantine, moved to Basra on the Persian Gulf & later moved the mission to Cairo. Arabia & Egypt were home for him from 1890-1929, first doing evangelism then writing/publishing. He became known as "The Apostle to Islam." Though he personally saw few Moslems converted he showed the need to reach them & inspired others.
It was while Zwemer was a part of the Church Missionary Society in Arabia (1890-1913) that he met Amy Elizabeth Wilkes. He & this fellow missionary were married 5/18/1896. 1929-1937. He was professor of the history of religion & Christian missions at Princeton Theological Seminary & later taught at the Biblical Seminary of New York & at Nyack Missionary Training Institute. He died 4/2/1952.
He called Islam the "Calvinism of the Orient," & saw their grasp of Monotheism as a great strength AND also a great deficiency; for without an "understanding of the Trinity, God was unknowable and impersonal."
Wordsworth – born
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William Wordsworth was born 4/7/1770 at Cockermouth, Cumbria, England, the 2nd of 5 children of John & Anne (Cookson) Wordsworth. William's "mum" died in 1778: he was sent to Hawkshead Grammar School where he penned his first poems. While at Hawkshead his dad also died. By 1787 he was at St John's College, Cambridge. During one summer vacation (1788) he trekked through Cumberland county & later Wales. Before graduation he did the "European Gentleman thing" – a walking tour of France, Switzerland & Germany. While there he came to an understanding/sympathy with the French Revolution.
After returning to England he & his younger sister, Dorothy, were re-united. Also he met Samuel Taylor Coleridge; they published Lyrical Ballads, containing his "Tintern Abbey" & Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner." By 1802 he felt he could financially afford to marry & did. He bride was Mary Hutchinson, friend from his childhood. They were blessed with 5 children but sadly 2 of them died, Catherine & John. Following the death of Robert Southey (1843) Wordsworth became Poet Laureate. He died 4/23/1850; his wife Mary published The Prelude, considered his most famous work 3 months later.
Wordsworth Quotes:
"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility."
"Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be."
"The World Is Too Much With Us…"
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Jerusalem Paper (imaginary ad) – AVAILABLE –
1 Cross
Used less than half a day (in that time bore the "weight of the world")
Rough – has three nails embedded in its fiber
Heavily blood stained – no bone fragments
Comes with placard – words in Hebrew, Greek, Latin
– eab, 4/20/11
Booker T Washington – born
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In May 2015, the seven largest national diversity-serving professional organizations came together to form the ASSIST collaborative, a research partnership to proactively address the lack of diversity in engineering education. This collaboration was vital and historic because it was the first time that all these organizations committed to a single, common agenda and strategy for actively increasing diversity in the engineering professorate.
In the fall of 2015, NSF's Broadening Participation in Engineering program funded the seven organizations collaborative to pursue a common goal of supporting diverse engineering faculty success through ASSIST: Strengthening Engineering Faculty through Diversity‐Serving Professional Organization Engagement (EEC #1548322, EEC #1548197, EEC #1548200, EEC #1548319, and EEC #1548214).
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The Secret Destiny of the American Empire
Foreword by Professor Stephen Joel Trachtenberg
Trachtenberg School of Public Policy
George Washington University
A visitor to the National Archives may stop to notice a wise figure in seated contemplation at the Pennsylvania Avenue entrance, inscribed with the message: "Study the Past." By carefully examining the influence of Freemasonry on the Founding Fathers, Commercial Providence provides valuable insights for the student of history and the modern political leader alike. It takes the reader on an intellectual and reflective journey to understand the mindsets of the Founding Fathers through little-known linkages between the Pilgrims, Enlightenment philosophers, Thomas Jefferson, Adam Smith, and the Federalists.
Out of many points of historical curiosity, Commercial Providence creates one vision of America's founding history. Author Patrick Mendis argues that the American experiment has, since the founding, been grounded in a universal concept of global unity through trade and commerce. Mendis connects American's esoteric history to this founding conviction through a careful study of the Constitution, the Masonic ideas represented in American symbols, and the structural design of the nation's capital. Freemasonry is cast as the invisible high priest in American history, guiding the Founding Fathers at every turn.
History reveals that real world problems are not bound by academic disciplines or formal occupations. Author Patrick Mendis brings an unbounded career and a unique background to his investigation. He was born in Sri Lanka, came to the United States as an AFS exchange student, was adopted by Minnesotans when the civil war erupted in Sri Lanka in 1983, and is now a naturalized American citizen. Through a career spanning academe, government, and the private sector, Mendis has been exposed to an eclectic group of world leaders and scholars. His distinctly American experience adds insight to his perceptive analysis; this book is a testament to what he represents as an American.
Mendis presents an optimistic view of the American experiment and a useful framework for leaders in contemporary crisis situations. His treatise reveals themes of freedom, universal order, and unity in diversity. Unlike Dan Brown in the Lost Symbol, Patrick Mendis has a serious scholarly purpose as he explores the ancient symbols impressed in the architecture of the American capital city: through extensive research, he illuminates the shared belief among many Founding Fathers that the birth of a new nation was a providential act.
By examining the meanings of Masonic symbols and beliefs, Commercial Providence explores the roots of the Founders' belief in universal and democratic values. The heart of his theory is that the Founding Fathers believed trade and commerce, rather than religion, to be the most effective tools of statecraft and fonts of national unity. Mendis argues that Constitutional architects established a "wall of separation," as Jefferson described the concept, between church and state to protect the fledgling nation from Old World religious strife, tyranny, and persecution. He extends these beliefs and applies them to modern domestic and foreign policy, maintaining that departure from this founding vision will create domestic religious factions and worsen international tensions.
Reflecting American abolitionist Wendell Phillips's assertion that "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty," Mendis counsels vigilance to the founding wisdom that prescribes trade with all nations and entanglements with none. He concludes that our governing principles were born with conviction, and that without such convictions American policy may spawn dictators and religious zealots to oppose those policies around the world. As a champion of freedom in the world, America stands for none of these fundamentalist endgames.
Thomas Paine could have been describing the first decade of the 21st century when he discussed "the times that try men's souls." In truth, American history is replete with trying times. Through depression, war, and civil upheaval, America has been resilient, undergirded by vigilance to her strong constitutional institutions and founding principles. Our enduring American identity rests upon the foundation of shared convictions and shared history. Aspiring leaders, students of history, and visitors to the nation's capital alike will find Commercial Providence an intriguing look at the origins of our American identity, seen through the eyes of the Founding Fathers and the Masonic Architect of the Universe.
Professor Stephen Joel Trachtenberg
President Emeritus and University Professor of Public Service
Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration
George Washington University


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Average of 150 referrals a day turned away from NHS children's mental health services
More than 100,000 children referred to local specialist NHS mental health services have been rejected for treatment in the last 2 years.
New figures obtained from NHS Trusts in England confirm that from a total of 652,023 cases referred to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), 109,613 children were turned away – equivalent to an average of 150 a day.
The number could be significantly higher, as one in five Trusts which responded to the request failed to report the number of rejected referrals.
The charity is now calling on Government to shift the focus of children and young people's mental health services towards early intervention, to ensure that young people's mental health does not have to reach crisis point before they are able to get help.
Record numbers of children contacted Childline about suicidal feelings in 2016/17, it was revealed by Childline's Not Alone Anymore annual review. Mental and emotional health is now the most common reason for a child to contact Childline, with the service carrying out 63,622 counselling sessions in 2016/17.


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My Faith in the Lady
My Faith in the Lady
Jul 30 2019, 08:29 AM
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From: Southampton
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Greetings All,
I visit today with a heavy heart and a troubled soul. Whilst I am relatively new in the service of the lady I am a realist, and felt it prudent to take up an armoured approach in my service, resigned to the fact that combat and death are inevitable.
This Sunsdays just gone I was assisting on a Order of Mercenaries hire to retrieve a son of House Argent who had fallen in with a suspected cult known as The Shining Light within Deci. I, as did most, assumed this was some amusing jape on the part of the cultists, to mock those of a light heart.
Whilst we were successful in returning the young Argent boy to his house the cult troubled me greatly. They are a group of extreme light hearted individuals who reinforce their strength by kidnapping children and beating and starving them into submission such that their will is weakened and they willing convert in order to save their lives.
It seems their overall intent was to convert as many as possible within Deci, including those of noble blood to swing the balance of the city to light and drive out any that would stand against such. Whilst my belief in the light is strong, the methods used by this group are abhorrent.
My own personal trouble stems from the actions my fellow mercenaries took, whilst in accordance with the Imperial Hire, some were quick to resort to lethal methods to get the job done. Towards the end of the day I was in deep conversation with one of the devout followers of the cult only to seem him crumble before my under a magical attack from my group, with his last words being 'how could you do this, i trusted you...' This impacted me greatly at which point I spoke the prayer of Haven to be at my ladies side.
After some reflection, I know this cult to have been doing wrong, and whilst I personally took no life I can see that my fellow mercenaries had no other choice and I believe the approach to have been justified.
This troubles me in my faith, my thoughts at the moment I wish to continue helping others, healing their wounds but feel who am i to judge the actions of others? They will answer to higher powers than me in time. I feel I am resigning my self to the knowledge that others will take life, this is inevitable and I should sustain life where I can. Where I can't, where there is a need to put an end to wrong, others travelling with me can fill this need.
My concern is my ladies view on what is becoming my rather simplistic and possibly callous, realistic?, view of life. I apologise for my ramblings, I had much to unburden.
Rain of Stormvale
Cathbad Dannan - Arch Druid / Spirit Warrior
Trellis D'Terne - Warrior Priest of The Lady of the Stars
Rain - Stormvale Armoured Priest of Shaehan
Slate - Orc Psi Master
Jul 30 2019, 08:42 AM
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I would invite you to take a pilgrimage to Ishma and sit with me for a while in the temple there.
I like you have been troubled In faith, back when Radah and the Murder posed a very real threat, I pleaded with our lady to cast them from her gaze and let them perish without her divine mercy, but this is not her, or our way.
I walk quite a different path to most of our faith now, and I would be happy to discuss with you at great length the merits of lady Shaehan in bringing peace to the world.
These are troubling times, with so much evil in the world at present it can be hard to know what to do to help, but I assure you that your view of life will make you no less useful and no less important in the times to come.
Feel free to contact me at any time,
Joshua De'Fontaine
Shaehans patriarch of Ishma
Only the good die young.
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Jul 30 2019, 08:57 AM
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From: Essex
Member No.: 574
Greetings Rain,
I used to travel on occasion in Deci with a group of local mercenaries and at times I did find the best way to deal with their more violent acts was just to leave, but you can do any number of things to curb their hostility before such a final statement on their behavior. You can ask people to stop being so outwardly violent (If they wish to be healed) and if they don't you can greatly reduce the effectiveness with which they are healed - the Church's Teachings are a great way of stemming the violence, for it to heal they need to stop fighting for 15 minutes... refuse to heal them any other way until they stop resorting to killing everyone.
That being said goodly "not white enough" types are often worse than those of dark heart, remember a key pillar of our faith is that everyone has a right to life regardless of their moral outlook. While I come from the Heavens as do many Angels of War they are often singular in their views and goals and I find myself more at conflict at times with them than those so called "moderate" evil doers. I would urge anyone to consider each person you meet on their individual actions, prejudging someone on the color of an aura is not conducive to people getting along, first listen, second speak and then decide for yourself.
I'd urge you to not be put off, just enter every situation with an open mind and a hope that everyone there wishes a peaceful resolution to the problem, if one can't be found just help any way you can. Anything is possible I've spent many years travelling with our Brothers in Faith of Mortai and have turned them from killing Undead in the past so anything is possible.
In Peace
Arch Angel of Light and Mercy
Jul 30 2019, 10:47 AM
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From: London
Member No.: 158
It is always a difficult path we tread.
I have always said that our faith is our own, and our first responsibility is to how we put our mark on the world. I have never been a big fan of "converting" people to our Ladies way of thinking. We live by example and hope that others will take inspiration and learn from how we exist in the world.
Your realisations are a sad process many of us go through. Light, dark, good, evil... In some ways these concepts can become redundant in the context of how we live. The sanctity of life, the drive for peace, the belief in freedom of spirit... These are not things you can force on someone to affect meaningful change. People must find their own way and either they shall... Or shall not.
It's not an easy world with simple choices. Often we must sacrifice whilst others falter. And the only soul, the only actions we can truly own and take responsibility for are our own. Feel sadness, grief, anger, frustration at what others do. Those are natural, mortal things to feel. But do not let those feelings change your actions, or doubt your faith.
Continue to be the person you wish others were more like, and do not see it as a failure when they do not follow, for it was their choice to make.
High Priest
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Jul 30 2019, 12:43 PM
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It can be a struggle to understand that most mortals are unwell. It is not their fault. They are subjected to horrific torture and agony throughout their lives. They constantly struggle with each other for their very existence. A few, a very few, manage to do so without their soul being torn to pieces or tainted by the struggles they must face.
Treat this madness as you would any other sickness. Sometimes a trivial prayer will not be enough and you may have to tend them for days, months or years to help them to heal.
Primus was created as a realm of sickness, and you are a healer within. Do not take the existence of sickness as any slight on you, not as a reason to falter.
Sheehan loves them all.
Spirit of Haven
Jul 31 2019, 06:50 PM
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From: Southampton
Member No.: 4,528
I thank you all for these supportive words, I will think on everything that has been said.
I am in your debt.
Cathbad Dannan - Arch Druid / Spirit Warrior
Trellis D'Terne - Warrior Priest of The Lady of the Stars
Rain - Stormvale Armoured Priest of Shaehan
Slate - Orc Psi Master
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Accommodation in Switzerland is quite expensive and most people opt for renting a home, making competition high. Costs are especially high within the cities, including Zurich.
Accommodation is normally rented unfurnished. This means without light fittings, curtains, cabinets or furniture. A stove/oven and sink may be provided. In larger apartment blocks, there are often joint washing machines in the cellar/basement. That is why serviced apartments are a popular option for people staying for a year or two. However, these apartments are usually at the top price points.
The quality of serviced apartments here is high, with even the less-expensive offering a large array of amenities including high-speed Internet, security, and an choice of available services. If you choose to live in a serviced apartment, most landlords in Zurich will require you to pay at least two months' rent prior to moving in, made up of the first month's rent and a security deposit.
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The Swiss Statistics Office offers a basic average rents per month
Cities tend to be much more expensive. The average rent for an unfurnished 120-m2 apartment in Zurich is 2,800 euro per month.
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