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The course will demonstrate that Microsoft Project™ is designed to align with all the essential elements of a structured project. Microsoft Project™ software was built as a tool for project managers and covers nearly all the aspects of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) from the Project Management Institute (PMI®). The course will include exercises and case studies for application of the concepts.
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MS Project Basics
The first day will be devoted to understanding how MS Project works and what makes it different than Excel for managing projects.
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Time Management
This day will focus on the participants' use of MS Project to manage time and people. This day will also include a case study for students to apply the skills learned.
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Cost Management
The last day will cover entering costs into MS Project as well as base lining and tracking a project. The day will end with participants applying their skills to an oil and gas industry-based case study.
Students who wish to know the basic goals and approach of Microsoft Project™ 2013 in managing oil and gas projects.
An understanding of the fundamentals of project management and each participant must have a laptop and prior experience in managing project scope, time, and costs.


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Happy belated birthday to out tennis player Martina Navratilova! Navratilova turned 55 yesterday.
Saved actress and adorable songstress Mandy Moore will be coming to the small screen — well, hopefully. ABC has bought a single-camera half-hour comedy starring Moore as "a young newlywed." Shawn Levy (Real Steel) is attached to direct the untitled pilot.
Queer as Folk's Thea Gill is starring in the stage play Dusk Rings A Bell. The story is about a brief high school romance between Molly and Ray, who then meet by chance 25 years later. Dusk Rings A Bell runs until November 13 at the 2nd Stage Theatre (6500 Santa Monica Blvd. Hollywood, CA.)
On Saturday, November 12 the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian center will host their 40th Anniversary Gala & Auction honoring Chaz Bono and featuring Jane Lynch. The silent auction begins at 6 p.m. at The Westin Bonaventure Hotel (404 S. Figueroa Street, Downtown Los Angeles).The night will also honor How I Met Your Mother's Neil Patrick Harris and his fiancé David Burtka.
Kristen Stewart was injured on the set of Snow White and the Huntsman yesterday. The set wrapped for the day and one of the actors, Max Manganello, tweeted that Stewart was not seriously injured and the film will continue shooting on Friday. Get well soon Kristen!
The ever-chic Miss Piggy is featured in the November issue of InStyle magazine. For a pig puppet she is very photogenic.
On Friday, October 21 TLC's Say Yes to the Dress features a lesbian couple, Meighan and Christina, from Washington D.C. set to pick out two white wedding gowns. I definitely will be tuning in at 9:30 p.m. to see if the brides rock a strapless mermaid or a lace couture dress or … something else.
Check out this video in which mogul Oprah Winfrey teaches lesbian talk show host Rosie O'Donnell how to do a tequila shot. I'm more of a rum girl, myself.
Lesbian/Bi Video of the Day:
Over at NewNowNext, Uh Huh Her sat in for a session of "Ask the Celebrity Expert," answering a PDA-related question.


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One of the last and most powerful things said to me by my Dad before he died was "never grow tired of being thankful." I tend to believe that I have, for the most part, always been a relatively thankful person. Many of my parishioners can quote my famous line: "the greatest sin of the first world is the sin of ingratitude." My health experience in the last few months has shown me even more the importance of the gift of gratitude. Having a heart issue and not responding real well on the hospital table has given me much reason to reflect. You see, I wasn't scared of dying. My mind, my heart, my whole being was okay with the reality of going to be with God. What I struggled with was that I had not thanked the people in my life for everything they had done for me. One of my favourite penances in the confessional is to call to mind the blessings God has given and to thank God in a special prayer. Since returning to full time work, I've made it an even more important mission to promote a message of gratitude. No gas pump jockey, no teller, no cashier and no teacher goes without a word of thanks from me. Transforming the world and changing the attitudes of people begins with a spirit of gratitude on our part. Dialogue, communication and appreciation are key to a sustainable world peace.
The recent situations of my life have also compelled me to reflect upon and find joy in the little things of life, little things that are too often taken for granted. I am still waiting to hear the sound of a meadowlark this spring. How I loved the spring days in Macklin driving down the road to Denzil with the windows open and that shrill, yet beautiful sound of the meadowlark piercing the skies. To me, the meadowlark is like the voice of God - a reassuring presence in the face of change. Then there's the robins that congregate on the fence and dive bomb the dog even though their nests are far away. Their informal game of "tag" always ends up with the birds winning and a so-called smart dog that doesn't realize she will never win this game. There's sunrises and sunsets, some of the most beautiful in all the world with colours filling the horizon, leading our minds to imagine that if the world is this beautiful how much more beautiful will Heaven be?
Then, of course, there is the sound of thunderstorms and the smell in the air when the first spring rains water the earth and that beautiful smell of prairie on a quiet evening. It was for this reason that last week I thrust open the window in my bedroom as far as it would go and breathed in as far as I could. As I lay there, I thought of my Dad - wondering what he would be smelling on a spring day in Heaven. And I was missing him. Missing him to the point that it almost felt painful. It wasn't even that I was wishing to talk to him. It was more just a desire to know he was present like he was in his chair at the kitchen table playing solitaire or looking at the birds in the back yard. I just wanted to see him smile again or to wink his eye; something to know that he was okay and that all would be well.
Almost as if orchestrated, I breathed in deeply and smelled the most prolific, most memorable smell from the days on the farm... the lingering smell of the spray of a skunk. And I laughed. I was missing Dad and wishing him present and here he was, winning this round of "pull my finger," and being very present. I was grateful. Grateful for Dad, and for thunderstorms, for robins and meadowlarks, for wet kisses from the dog and, on that particular evening, the re-assuring smell of a skunk. God is great.


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In Gabon, the High Authority for Communication (HAC) suspended for 30 days the private television channel Media +.
According to the allegations of officials of the institution, Abu Becker Ndiaye, the managing director of Media +, refused to receive on the premises of the channel a delegation of the HAC.
"It was illustrated by a behavior which is nothing other than the obvious translation of a lack of respect and which constitutes a flagrant violation of the provisions. Yet, they had all been warned of the delegation's stay led by the president of our institution, "said Lucie Akalane, spokesperson for the HAC.
"We have not received any call, let alone a letter. It is still an institution of the Republic that moves without warning. We will continue to issue until we receive an administrative notification from the HAC in due form," retorted the director of Media +.


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The estimation problem of stochastic nonlinear parametric models is recognized to be very challenging due to the intractability of the likelihood function. Recently, several methods have been developed to approximate the maximum likelihood estimator and the optimal mean-square error predictor using Monte Carlo methods. Albeit asymptotically optimal, these methods come with several computational challenges and fundamental limitations.
The contributions of this thesis can be divided into two main parts. In the first part, approximate solutions to the maximum likelihood problem are explored. Both analytical and numerical approaches, based on the expectation-maximization algorithm and the quasi-Newton algorithm, are considered. While analytic approximations are difficult to analyze, asymptotic guarantees can be established for methods based on Monte Carlo approximations. Yet, Monte Carlo methods come with their own computational difficulties; sampling in high-dimensional spaces requires an efficient proposal distribution to reduce the number of required samples to a reasonable value.
In the second part, relatively simple prediction error method estimators are proposed. They are based on non-stationary one-step ahead predictors which are linear in the observed outputs, but are nonlinear in the (assumed known) input. These predictors rely only on the first two moments of the model and the computation of the likelihood function is not required. Consequently, the resulting estimators are defined via analytically tractable objective functions in several relevant cases. It is shown that, under mild assumptions, the estimators are consistent and asymptotically normal. In cases where the first two moments are analytically intractable due to the complexity of the model, it is possible to resort to vanilla Monte Carlo approximations. Several numerical examples demonstrate a good performance of the suggested estimators in several cases that are usually considered challenging.


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website copyright © 2020 Charles Pascoe
Charles Frohman was born on July 15, 1856 in Sandusky, Ohio, USA.
His parents were German immigrants, Henry and Barbara Frohman.
Charles had two older brothers, Daniel and Gustave.
He lived his life as a theatrical producer. Some would say he was the greatest theatre producer ever.
He would never marry.
He died on May 7, 1915 in the Atlantic Ocean during the torpedoing of the RMS Lusitania.
Charles Frohman (or CF to his friends) was one of the greatest theatre impresarios to have ever lived. He rose from humble beginnings in Sandusky in Ohio to run a huge number of famous theatres in London, New York and Paris. He was a great friend and supporter of J M Barrie and he staged the first production of Peter Pan in December 1904 at the Duke of York Theatre when no other producer would back it. The play was an immediate success and was run by Frohman in his theatres round the world until his untimely death. It has continued to enthrall millions of children over the succeeding decades right up to the present day. Frohman visited England every summer from 1900 and he often visited Marlow which he regarded as the most beautiful spot in the entire world, particularly admiring the view from The Causeway over the bridge and the river to The Compleat Angler. During the First World War, the threat of U-boat attack on merchant shipping plying the Atlantic was very real and CF is reported as having many premonitions of an attack. He took the precaution of dictating his entire program for the next season before sailing, something that was unprecedented for him. He also made several jokes including: "Well, Al, if you want to write to me, just address the letter care of the German Submarine, U-4." "When you consider all the stars I have managed, mere submarines make me smile." Sadly, his premonitions were accurate and he lost his life in the sinking of the Lusitania by a German submarine. He chose to stay on the sinking ship and was reported by a survivor to say "Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure of life," echoing the famous line from Peter Pan, "To die would be an awfully big adventure". His body was washed ashore on the west coast of Ireland and he was buried in a Jewish Cemetery in New York City. (biography courtesy of Geoff Wood)


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The mission of Wisdom of the ages in sound bites™is to provide inspiration and motivation through quotations from diverse voices as citizens work to restore democracy from the grass roots up to influencing the United States Congress and President in implementing public policy based on progressive values. This project builds on previous work by Paideia LLC marketed as Wisdom of the World in Sound Bites™ and used in cards, a book of quotations entitled Believe Again in America™ and calendars entitled Believe We Can Transform America™
Quotations selected from the collection
Have you ever considered how complicated things can get, what with one thing always leading to another? E. B. White
Modern industrial society is a fanatical religion. We are demolishing, poisoning, destroying all life-systems on the planet. We are signing IOUs our children will not be able to pay…We are acting as if we were the last generation on the planet. Without a radical change in heart, in mind, in vision, the earth will end up like Venus, charred and dead. Jose Antonio Lutzenberger, Brazilian Minister for the Enviroment
Humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. Without doubt, these dreamers do not deserve wealth, because they do not desire it. Even so, a well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research. Marie Curie
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world. Woodrow Wilson
Interdependence is a fundamental law of nature. Even tiny insects survive by cooperating with each other. Our own survival is so dependent on the help of others that a need for love lies at the very core of our existence. This is why we need to cultivate a genuine sense of responsibility and a sincere concern for the welfare of others. Dalai Lama
So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. Matthew 7:12
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all of these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved with another. Thomas Merton
Values, morals, religion and spirituality
A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge. Proverbs 29:7
I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., from "Beyond Vietnam," an address delivered to the Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam, at Riverside Church, New York City on April 4, 1967
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. Desmond Tutu
We have the right to our own opinions, but not our own facts. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
All opinions are not created equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others. Douglas Adams
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. Isaac Asimov
Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason for the sake of humanity. We must be that cure. Neil DeGrasse Tyson
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is important. Thomas H. Huxley
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. Carl Sagan
The way to change things is to shine the light of truth upon them. Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Planet earth
Because past environmental destruction was the result of ignorance, we can easily forgive it. Today, we are better informed. Therefore, it's essential that we make an ethical examination of what we have inherited, what we are responsible for, and what we will pass on to coming generations. Ours is clearly a pivotal generation. We have global communication and yet confrontation is more common than dialogue. Dalai Lama
I ask myself, have nations ever declined from a loss of moral sense rather than from physical reasons or the pressure of barbarians? I think that they have. Barbara Tuchman
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? Robert Redford
Older men declare war. But is the youth who must fight and die. And it is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war. Herbert Hoover
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. Marshall McLuhan
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. Sigmund Freud
Education is the transmission of civilization. Ariel and Will Durant
I like paying taxes. With them I buy civilization. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
Kindness and compassion toward all living things is the mark of a civilized society. Cesar Chavez
Society is indeed a contract. It becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born. Edmund Burke
American culture – racial justice
If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him someone to look down on and he'll empty his pockets for you. Lyndon Johnson
Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy life they have been ruthlessly suppressed and exploited, degraded into slavery. The modern prejudice against Negroes is the result of the desire to maintain this unworthy condition. Albert Einstein
Economic justice
Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all. John Maynard Keynes.
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. Thomas Jefferson
Education and democracy have the same goals: the fullest possible development of human capabilities. Paul Wellstone
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither permanent freedom or justice can be maintained. James Garfield
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary. Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The secret of freedom lies in educating people whereas the secret of tyranny is keeping them ignorant. Maximilien Robespeierre
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. Gore Vidal
The propagandist's purpose is to make one group of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. Aldous Huxley
Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell
Yes, the long memory is the most radical idea in this country. It is the loss of that long memory which deprives our people of that connective flow of thoughts and events that clarifies our vision, not of where we're going, but where we want to go. Bruce "Utah" Phillips
America has no functioning democracy. Jimmy Carter July 16, 2013
It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible. Reinhold Neibuhr
We can have Democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. Louis D. Brandeis
We must renew democracy itself. We have to fight cynicism and inertia and restore faith in the advancement of our country. Paul Wellstone
What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise. Barbara Jordan
Democracy assumes there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. Harry Emerson Fosdick
If the predators of democracy are going to use brass knuckles to pulverize us, we have to fight back with sharp elbows. Bob Edgar
If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values, because you don't. Jimmy Carter
What stuns me most about contemporary politics is not even that the system has been so badly corrupted by money. It is that so few people get the connection between their lives and what the bozos do in Washington and our state capitols. Molly Ivins
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power. Franklin D. Roosevelt
The world no longer has a choice between force and law; if civilization is to survive it must choose the rule of law. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Activism is the price I pay for living on this planet. Alice Walker
As captains of our own character, it is essential we understand the great legacy of trust and integrity. We will be remembered for truthful disclosures and promises kept. John Huntsman
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences. Susan B. Anthony
Democracy doesn't work without citizen activism and participation, starting at the community…What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it – as if the cause depends on you, because it does. Bill Moyers
I love this country more than any other country in this world, and exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. James Baldwin
It must be laid down as a primary position and the basis of our system, that every citizen who enjoys the protection of a free government owes not only a proportion of his property, George Washington
Leaders are indispensable, but to produce a major social change many ordinary people must also be involved. Anne Firor Scott
Silence in the face of evil is evil itself. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act. Deitrich Bonhoeffer
Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind – even if your voice shakes. Maggie Kuhn
The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times. The best moments usually occur if a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it's not. The Lorax, Dr. Suess – The Climate Reality Project
You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral. Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. Steve Jobs
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint. Alexander Hamilton
Let us not be afraid to help each other – Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials but the voters of this country. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The government is us; we are the government, you and I. Theodore Roosevelt
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport. Barbara Jordan
Truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go. Gerald Ford
What is the State? It is the duly constituted representative of an organized society of human beings, created by them for their mutual protection and well-being. One of the duties of the State is that of caring for those of its citizens who find themselves the victims of such adverse circumstances as make them unable to obtain even the necessities of mere existence without the aid of others. Franklin D. Roosevelt
We've been at war for 12 years now. Experts put the total cost at $4 – $6 trillion. Imagine if we had invested that in our own country and people. Linda Bilmes, Harvard Kennedy School, The Other 98%
Politics and power
Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that "Oh, I don't believe in politics" as if that somehow makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty. In a republic, liars and panderers would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable. Bill Maher
Politics is what we create out of what we do, what we hope for, what we dare to imagine. Paul Wellstone
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass
There is no such thing as not being involved in politics. Not doing anything is a political act. Bill O'Keefe
A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation. James Freeman Clarke
A liberal is someone who looks ahead, not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of people – their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties – someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a 'Liberal,' I'm proud to say I'm a Liberal. John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Conservatism is the vague fear that somewhere, someone you consider as your inferior is being treated as your equal. The Christian Left, Facebook post
Something terrible has happened to the soul of the Republican Party. We've gone from bad economic doctrine. We've even gone beyond selfishness and special interests. At this point we're talking about a state of mind that takes positive glee in inflicting further suffering upon the already miserable. Paul Krugman
Money in politics
Government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob. Franklin Roosevelt
The total amount of money that Wall Street handed out in bonuses last year was double the total income of ALL full-time minimum wage workers. That's obscene. Elizabeth Warren
To destroy this invisible government, this unholy alliance between corrupt businesses and corrupt politics, is the first task in the democracy of today. Theodore Roosevelt
Progressive movement
Action without vision is merely passing time. Vision without action is merely day dreaming, but vision with action will change the world. Nelson Mandela
Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society. Bill Moyers
We are the ones we've been waiting for. June Jordan
Moral politics
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity — the law of nature and of nations. G.K. Chesterton
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. Susan B Anthony
I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it. The Rev. Billy Graham
It is not necessary to believe in God to be a good person. In a way, the traditional notion of God is outdated. One can be spiritual but not religious. It is not necessary to go to church and give money – for many, nature can be a church. Some of the best people in history did not believe in God, while some of the worst deeds were done in His name. Pope Francis
My call for a spiritual revolution is not a call for a religious revolution. Nor is it a reference to a way of life that is somehow otherworldly, still less to something magical or mysterious. Rather it is a call for a radical reorientation away from our habitual preoccupation with self. It is a call to turn toward the wider community of beings with whom we are connected, and for conduct which recognizes others' interests alongside our own. The 14th Dalai Lama
My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, with whatever I have to make a difference. Jimmy Carter
My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values. Marian Wright Edelman
The Navajo do not have separate words to refer to religion and science. Instead, they have a single concept they call 'the sacred depths of nature' which encompasses their beliefs about the natural world. Dr. Fred Begay, Navajo Physicist
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity — the law of nature and of nations. G.K. Chesterton
We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all nations may have their great human needs satisfied, that those now denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearn for freedom may experience its spiritual blessings; that those who have freedom will understand, also, its heavy responsibilities; that all who are insensitive to the needs of others will learn charity; that the scourges of poverty, disease and ignorance will be made to disappear from the earth, and that, in the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address
We want people to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame and popularity. Brigham Young
We must move forward in the days ahead with audacious faith. The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
It has taken thousands of years, but within the century both scientists and spiritual seekers alike have once again begun to see the laws of nature and the laws of God as expressions of the same truth. Rosalyn L. Bruyere


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Featuring routines, comedy lines and advice from the UK's top comedy performers, Mel Mellers book 'The Travelling Trickster' is a staple for not only comedy performers, but kids performers too. Mel shares his vast experience, including audience management, misdirection and how to put an act together.
Mel Mellers has rightly established himself as one of the nation's favorite stand up performers with his hilariously sharp yet playful put-down lines and quirky comedy plots. Equally at home in front of lay people or a theater full of magicians, Mel's individual performance style, which has been honed over many years as a pro and through countless performances all over the world, is a delight to experience.
In this book you get the chance to go behind the scenes with this truly inspiring performer and learn how you too can become a top-flight entertainer. As well as advice on performance, audience management, misdirection and how to put an act together, Mel also covers creativity, the 6 rules of comedy, practicing, hecklers and entertaining children and families.
He shares with you scores of hilarious one-liners covering all manners of performing situations that you will be able to use in your shows too. Plus he gives full details of over 50 of his feature routines and ideas, most of which are simple to do and which come with Mel's presentations and patter lines.
Mel Mellers is one of magic's real larger-than-life characters, and this book will also explain some of his background, give you various anecdotes from his closest friends in magic about the antics that Mel has gotten into over the years, and will provide you with a thoroughly entertaining and instructive read.
The ebook is 148 pages produced in color throughout.
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I'm not gonna lie: 2011 was not my favorite year.
It was a year of losing someone very dear to me. It was a year of loneliness. It was a year of failing, time and time again, to really do my best. It was a year of stagnation.
It's New Year's Eve morning, 2011 and I'm sitting -- literally and figuratively -- in the same place I was 365 days ago. I am still a barely-employed stay-at-home mom/consultant. I still start evey day with a promise to write something/anything. I still end nearly evey day with the shame of having frittered away my time. I still walk around with that same gnawing sense that something essential is missing. 2011 is ending, and I have not brought my best. I've not even come close.
Stagnation is an odd thing though, and not entirely without blessings. My lack of motion left me with a whole lot of time to squirm around in my skin. In 2011, I was like a car stalled on a desolate back road. Without movement, I had no choice but to stare at the same scene day after day after day. Stalled out on that desolate back road, I frequently found myself nose-to-nose with bits of myself that were easily blurred and overlooked by the motion of more momentous years.
These bits and I -- we've have a bit of a showdown in 2011. Some of them I picked like scabs, then wallowed in various combinations of grief and self-pity as I bled. Some of them I tried to cover, like hanging a picture over a chunk of broken drywall. Some were ugly. Many more, surprisingly, were not. They all shouted for attention. They all demanded to be claimed.
So that's what I did in 2011: I tentatively and reluctantly began to lay claim to myself. I have brushed against my own ugliness and beauty, envies and desires, hopes, fears, and scars. And, sitting in that stalled car on a desolate back road, I've learned a little bit about each of them.
I've learned that even the ugliest thing isn't so awful. I've learned that envy makes me a smaller person. I've learned that I often don't put enough energy into things that matter, and put way too much into things that don't.
I've learned that desires and hopes need voices before they can even begin to take form. I've learned that my deep sensitivity and deep compassion go hand in hand and neither should be stemmed.
I've learned that the most frightening thing to claim is my own beauty and power, because once I own them, I can no longer deny my responsibility to myself.
I hope I can get my car stated in 2012, because while I've made some peace with this view, I suspect there's lots more for me to see.
Happy 2012 to us all.
May we all be be loved and accepted.
May we all love and accept.
May we all bless the spaces and people we touch.
May we all be blessed.


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The tragedy of director/star Ralph Fiennes' uneven literary period drama The Invisible Woman isn't so much that his Charles Dickens is an arrogant swot who can't stop himself from swooning over a young woman who is not his wife. What gets your attention instead is the sparking charge that comes in the few close dialogue scenes between Fiennes' Dickens and the young woman's mother, Frances Ternan (Kristin Scott Thomas). She's an itinerant actress, he's a gadfly author who also loves putting on plays of his own work and, where possible, acting in them; all to hoover up as much acclaim as possible. The two share an easy understanding of artifice, the need to play a role. This knowledge creates a titillating electricity between the two. For a minute, you wish they could just run off and have an extravagently bad affair like the two actors did with The English Patient. It might have been an improvement on the affair presented.
In 1857, Dickens is just about the most popular writer in the world, but Fiennes makes sure we see every bead of flop sweat. When surrounded by crowds thrusting their hands at him as though he were the Crown Prince, Dickens looks in his element: overwhelmed but somehow content, as though all the fuss were keeping the demons at bay. Where Dickens doesn't have any idea of what to do is whenever he's in the presence of Nelly Ternan (Felicity Jones), the only one of Ternan's daughters who doesn't appear to have the acting gene. So it is that Frances is forced to look for some kind of sinecure, and the balding, nervously chatty writer of means who keeps hanging around even after the Ternans have finished working on his last play seems like a good choice. No matter that he's in his mid-forties at a time when that was just about the limit of life expectancy and she was just 18.
As scripted by Abi Morgan from the book by Claire Tomalin, The Invisible Woman is a story where the woman in question is never asked what she might want, as though she were in some kind of arranged affair instead of marriage. As directed by Fiennes, and acted by Jones, it's a film that doesn't seem terribly interested in Nelly's perspective. She's a passive creature , befitting the age difference. But although the affair dragged on for some years, there's little maturing for Nelly. Even in the dry and dramatically inert framing device that shows Nelly 30 years on, successfully married to another man, there's little spark in her eyes or indeed any sign of what Dickens stammered on about decades earlier.
Fiennes is a careful director, as he showed in 2011's muscular but straightforward adaptation of Shakespeare's Coriolanus. He doesn't overwhelm his story or performers as many period pieces do with showy scenery; though there is one stupendous segment set at a race that serves little purpose but to show the smart set in all their Sunday finery contemplating the race, their heads whipping first one way and then the other. He lets the story breathe out, as Dickens and Nelly circle each other, warily at first but then increasingly fascinated. The moments of cruelty come fast and sharp, like the scene where Dickens answers his wife Catherine's (Joanna Scanlan) perplexed insistence that he can't keep a mistress secret: his reply of "Yes, I can" is as petulant as any spoiled child told he cannot have dessert before dinner. What Fiennes cannot do, ultimately, is conjure any real electricity between Dickens and the object of his affection. In the end, their affair seems as full of life as the bleak ocean the older Nelly walks on every day, dressed in black and wondering what it was all about.


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Planet X Store Opens in Chinatown
Walk up the stairs at 99 Canal, and you will be greeted with electric colors, neon lights, and a collage of collaborations with designers, carefully curated by Venus X and the GHE20G0TH1K team. These will make up for missing out on the syringes filled with black vodka-infused beverages and medical waste containers full of Mission Chinese food chosen for the opening festivities.
Although the MP Nails pop up was also a one-nighter, there is no doubt you will still find ravishing eccentricity, expertly DJ-ed music, and some sick gear to sport. And hopefully you will run into the lovely Venus X herself, whose philosophy in everything she does is to bring all that is underground/cult/uninhibited to life. It's obvious and contagious.


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Saturday, November 29, 2008
I love train rides. I can sit at a train window and watch the passing scenes for hours, whether beautiful landscapes or the backyards of inner cities. The ride from Grand Central to Poughkeepsie is one I've taken countless times but never grow tired of. Did so again on Thursday. From the three or so miles of underground mystery before you emerge at 97th St. (dim lights seen hundreds of feet off into the dark--there's an enormous web of tunnels undergirding the east side of Manhattan) through Spanish Harlem, across the Harlem river into the Bronx (chop shops, banks of weeds, the basaltic rise of the Palisades across the Hudson), the landscape getting "greener" with surprising rapidity as you go through obscure little towns like Philipse Manor, Scarborough--through Sing Sing Prison (largely--totally?--abandoned, the watchtowers and barbed wire still there--for much of my youth I thought references I'd hear in movies and such were about some mythical ur-Prison; didn't know it actually existed!), the trainyards at Croton-on-Hudson, Indian Point nuclear plant, West Point across the river, imposing in a hyper-military way, Bannerman's Castle,
an object of much mystery as a youngster, the massive Storm King Mountain, it's scarred sides the result of its having been used as a "target" of cannons during the Civil War, their manufacture having taken place in Cold Spring across the river, the large number of abandoned factories and other buildings of obscure purpose, their hollow husks weathering along the banks for decades, only gradually falling to construction of fashionable townhouses--it takes a while even this close to NYC, some 40-75 miles, the ruins dotting the shore right up to Poughkeepsie and, I imagine, well beyond.
Beautiful trip, beautiful area. I'll probably do it a few dozen more times before I'm through.
[Edit: Oh yeah, almost forgot. At Thanksgiving dinner, I found out that my aunt Irene, a stunner in her youth (still, actually) dated Harry Belafonte for a year or so, I guess around 1950, shortly before he made it big, but after having shared the stage with Miles, Roach, etc. Coolio.]
Listened to my two Pierre Droge LPs this morning. I think I came to him in the mid 80s hoping for something along the lines of Bengt Berger, that is, a Northern European making imaginative use of African melodies and structures. Dorge's approach, I think, is more aligning early jazz (20s Ellington, for example) with its African roots. He succeeds on occasion (although coming nowhere near the heights of Berger's "Bitter Funeral Beer") but more often a plodding rhythmic sense drags down the pieces. He does have the great John Tchicai along for the ride as well as Harry Beckett and, on the earlier recording, Dyani (on the latter, an early appearance on record by Hamid Drake) and both albums have their moments, but overall they're somewhat forgettable. Dorge has a unique and beautiful tone on guitar, I'll grant. Picked up a CD later on, Live in Chicago, but lost interest rather quickly. I've no idea what he's up to these days.
This one's an interesting bird, a relatively successful, early-ish (1983) attempt to meld minimalism with a kind of Satie-esque tonality, in some ways not dissimilar to Ron Geesin's Patruns from the mid 70s, though less pyrotechnic. Never got around to investigating any of Duckworth's other music, though; suggestions welcome.
New listening:
Peter Rehberg - Work for GV (Mego)
Taylor Ho Bynum - Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths (hatology)
Asad Qizilbash - Sarod Recital Live in Peshawar (Sub Rosa)
Group Inerane - Guitars from Agadez (Sublime Frequencies)
Posted by Brian Olewnick at 11/29/2008 12:02:00 PM
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- Richard Pinnell said...
Thanks for the notes on your train journey Brian. I completely agree that railway journeys and particularly lengthy ones are the best form of transport. I only wish the journey to and from London (which I've just completed for the sixth time in eight days) was as beautiful as yours looks. I spent the afternoon with Mr and Mrs Rowe by the way, both on good form.
As for the town of Scarborough... I only hope it doesn't follow after the town that I assume gave it its name...!
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Alex Zacarias has been working over the course of the last few years in documenting the Taíno resurgence on video, producing numerous important videos along the way, and even launching a large and bustling Taíno social network around the broader film project. It is a massive, collaborative project, and what follows is the latest trailer.
Especially poignant are the words of Roberto Mucaro Borrero, of the United Confederation of Taíno People (UCTP), who explains that in a context of erasure, of a formalized genocide where governments and academics have written the Taíno out of existence, simply announcing oneself as Taíno is itself as a political act.


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So I created another push example theoretically more simple.
It is a countdown after which the page will navigate back to the main menu. In this case the widget generates its own output by decreasing the variable. It also illustrates the use of Hamlet.
Note that
- push has a new parameter that is the delay for a new ajax request when the previous connection has been lost.
- The last push after 0, send a script that forces a navigation to the menu. And then kill itself.
pushDecrease= do tv ← liftIO $ newTVarIO 10 page $ [shamlet| <div> <h2> Maxwell Smart push counter <p> This example shows a reverse counter <p> To avoid unnecessary load, the push process will be killed when reaching 0 <p> The last push message will be an script that will redirect to the menu" <h3> This message will be autodestroyed within ‥ |] ++> counter tv <++ b << "seconds" where counter tv = push Html 0 $ do setTimeouts 100 0 -- kill the thread if the user navigate away n ← atomic $ readTVar tv if (n≡ -1) then do script << "window.location='/'" ++> noWidget liftIO $ myThreadId ↠ killThread else do atomic $ writeTVar tv $ n - 1 liftIO $ threadDelay 1000000 h1 << (show n) ++> noWidget atomic= liftIO . atomically
Ops.. No.
killThread is never called since noWidget return an invalid formlet value, so the next statements are not executed in the View monad (See: The promising land of monadic formlets).
That kill is in order to drop the process immediately, but otherwise, the timeout of setTimeouts would do the same job. Since the delay between push sends is one second, by shortening the timeout from 100 to two seconds will do the same job. So the killthread line can be eliminated.


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New Boston Huron?s girls basketball team started its season off with a 46-33 victory over Allen Park Cabrini Thursday.
NEW BOSTON - New Boston Huron?s girls basketball team started its season off with a 46-33 victory over Allen Park Cabrini Thursday.
?We didn?t shoot very well, but we played good defense,? said Mark Vitale. ?I am really happy with their stamina.?
The Chiefs were led by senior Lissa Kowalewski, who logged 11 points and sophomore Hailey Richardson, who made a 3-point field goal and went 100 percent at the free throw line for 9 points.
Olivia Olson and Savannah Floyd also played well.
Patriots win opener
CLARKSTON ? Mike Kerekes poured in 30 points and Jordan Sancrant added 21 as State Line Christian won its opening game 59-49 over Midland Calvary Christian Thursday night in the Eagle Cup Tournament.
Sancrant ? playing with a broken hand ? connected on five 3-pointers.
The 4-0 Patriots advance to today?s 8 p.m. semifinals.
Junior High Basketball
Miller wins game
Will Miller dumped a free throw with 3.9 seconds left in the game to help the 7th grade Summerfield team top Whiteford 29-28 Wednesday. Miller logged 9 points and Michael Parker added 12 points. Summerfield improved its undefeated record to 3-0.
Whiteford (2-1) was led by Thomas Eitriear with 10 points.
The 8th grade Whiteford team beat Summerfield 27-22 with John Heifer recording 8 points for Summerfield.
Bedford 7th wins
Bedford Red 7th grade team improved its record to 4-1 with a 27-19 victory over Saline Gold Wednesday.
Jake Garner, Colin Woolford and Luke Beadle played well.
The Bedford 8th grade fell to Saline 20-12.


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Social Media Marketing Strategy (created in real life and documented on video)
If you are searching for content on how to develop a social media strategy or what are the best practices and ways to create and execute a social media strategy check out this video of Gary Vaynerchuk go over his Social Media Strategy in 2018 with his team of 17 Social Media strategists for his "GaryVEE" brand.
Gary Vaynerchuk along with Tai Lopez and Grant Cardone get the most attention by far than any other people in the social media scene or industry.
Here are some insights we took from Gary Vaynerchuk's meeting with his social media team for team GaryVee brand their social media strategy
- His videographer and team capture a lot of content but not all is shared
- Gary hesitates on what he should share and he doesn't share any personal/family time EVER
- He loves Q&A for users to create the content for him as he can answer questions asked from his audience
- He uses what he wants to promote URL/website wise in his social media profiles
- For example, he linked to his podcast on Instagram profile when he wanted to promote that more
- Mentions using his new K-Swiss sneaker on his website GaryVaynerchuk.com
- He talks about unfollowing everyone on Instagram and only following one person similar to what DJ Pauly D did with Ellen to "hack" instagram
- He looks at each platform different and only wants his documenting "ask gary vee" as a recall for when he is right on what he is noticing already happening
- Twitter is his "thank you economy" and using it to give Meek Mill who just got out of jail 1000 roses and film it. "Taylor Swift thank you economy" Gary Vee Santa Claus
- He has to constantly rethink everything and readjust to these social platforms and "reform" his social media team for his personal brand
- Using celebrities on Instagram stories
- Instagram shoutouts for Garyvee instagram is like pennies on the dollar to gain more followers
- He constantly talks about doing "unexpected" things to grab more attention or give back to his audience and provide a "PURE WOW"
- Gary loves Q&A the most which makes sense because he loves sharing what he knows and it's the easiest way to show off his skills while creating content
- Twitter is the water cooler, he mentions sending a celebrity a burger if they say they are hungry on Twitter (real time thank you economy of listening know the celeb will share it)
- He noticed a "good photo" of himself got 70k likes
- He says optimism and motivation as a strategy is getting him on to something he hasn't figured out yet…
- He thinks Sunday nights is a big thing on social media and a unique moment
- He said commenting on the top people instagrams is a big hack right now.. which is similar to people doing the same type of spam comments on top blogs, youtube videos, replies on Twitter to top accounts ect.. as well.
Our takeaways about a Social Media Strategy in general based on this meeting and video
- Social Media strategies will be forever changing because the algorithms change, platforms change ect..
- Social Media ads are easier vs. organic Social Media (similar to SEO on Google vs. Google Adwords (PPC Management)
- Social Media marketing takes a crap load of money, time, and people is is hard!!
- Even the top social media people like Gary Vaynerchuk hesitate, think what they should share, and still don't share everything (family, personal, client meetings, THE WORK)
- You see the end result "Garyvee" but most people forget he now has a 17 person agency, and 800 employees doing all the work at a computer at a desk for clients
- Your only as good as your last post, update, or the video, tweet, podcast you did, if you stop it will fade and fade quick ..
- Watching the strategy meeting shows why most brands rather just run Ads or use something like SEO that is more evergreen to target people already looking for what they sell.. That method is a money game vs. a time/energy/people game


text: In this lecture sociologist David Redmalm will talk about pets and their liminal status in human society. He will show how thinking with pets can challenge ingrained stereotypical ideas about the distinction between nature and culture, and how this distinction shapes human and nonhuman lives. To show how pets can enable a more nuanced understanding of what we think of as nature and culture, David Redmalm will draw on a number of examples from his own research: Chihuahuas and their symbolic and material role in Western society, the media narrative of Obama family's dog Bo Obama, pet cultural expressions of grief for lost pets, and the curious habits of the scaly anteater.


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Reddit Hacked one more day, another critical data breach. Reddit said in a blog post Wednesday that a hacker broke into the organization's frameworks in June and accessed an assortment of information, including client email, source code, inner records, and all Reddit information from 2007 and previously. And it likely could have been maintained a strategic distance from if some Reddit workers were utilizing two-factor authentication applications or physical keys rather than their phone numbers.
"On June 19, we learned that an attacker compromised a few of Reddit's accounts with cloud and source code hosting providers by intercepting SMS 2FA verification codes," a Reddit spokesperson said in a statement. (Advance Publications, which owns WIRED publisher Condé Nast, is Reddit's majority shareholder.) "We are working with federal law enforcement, and have also taken measures to both address this current situation and prevent similar incidents in the future. A small number of users were affected and have been notified."Reddit Mentioned in a Blogpost.
Reddit employees utilize two-factor authentication to secure their credentials to the site, the attack depended on capturing instant messages that should achieve those workers containing single-utilize login codes.
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This occurrence demonstrates how powerless SMS-based 2FA components are the point at which any convict can block instant messages or have your telephone number exchanged to another telephone.
How To Know If Your Account Reddit Hacked?
The hacker additionally got logs containing Reddit's email digests sent between June 3 and June 17 of this current year. On the off chance that you didn't have an email address related to your record, or weren't receiving digests amid that period, this part won't affect you.
On the off chance that you are one of the records the hacker hit, you should reset your Reddit password and ensure you're not utilizing it on some other site.
Regardless of whether you got such an email, it's as yet a decent a period as any to think about turning on two-factor identification utilizing an authentication application, as opposed to SMS on your Reddit account. That component can be flipped on in your inclinations under the password/email tab.
For Reddit clients who may have had their login certifications stolen in the breach, the site will reset passwords and message influenced clients with tips on how they can ensure themselves.


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Morson International expands construction division
Morson International, the Manchester-headquartered technical recruitment and resourcing specialist, is expanding its specialist construction division to continue proactively supporting the built environment in attracting the best talent.
The company has been sourcing skilled construction staff for more than 40 years and is capitalising on growing market confidence, national infrastructure spend and demand for talent by recruiting six new consultants and developing a dedicated in-house team.
The standalone division manages clients' requirements and matches candidates to a variety of roles including architectural and interior design, planning, surveying, building services, structural engineering, BIM and project management.
Phil Beardwood, director at Morson International, said, "Our reputation is based on providing the right expertise for business critical roles and we will leverage that know-how as we take our new construction division forward.
"We partner with some of the world's best construction firms and have a great network of contacts in the sector. Now, our continued investment is evidence of our pro-active approach to ensuring we provide this growing sector with the strategic talent and excellent service we've come to be known for in the construction industry."


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Deepavali is a festival where people from all age groups participate. They give expression to their happiness by lighting clay lamps, decorating the houses, bursting crackers, inviting near and dear ones to their households for partaking in a sumptuous feast and exchanging sweets.
During Deepavali season there are many astrologically significant configurations that make it prime time for evil forces to attack (Poverty is one kind of evil force too). It is also a time when the Gods and Goddesses come to the earth plane to help us with the battle; the army of light.
So on this day Goddess Lakshmi and Kubera is worshipped to protect us from poverty the evil forces. Goddess Lakshmi would be in her benevolent mood and fulfill the wishes of her devotees because it was on this day that Goddess Lakshmi emerged from Pal Kadal ( Ocean of Milk ), when the Gods and demons were churning the sagara (ocean) for nectar (Amirtha). Lakshmi Pooja is performed in the evenings when tiny clay lamps are lit to drive away the shadows of evil forces.
Goddess Lakshmi is the deity of wealth, but Kubera is the treasurer. Some people possess the art of earning money but do not know how to save it. However, saving money and spending it appropriately is far more important than earning it. Since most people do not know how to spend money properly, their spending is unwarranted and ultimately, and they become bankrupt. Kubera is the deity Who teaches the art of saving money as He Himself is the treasurer. Therefore, in this ritual, the worship of Lakshmi and Kubera has been recommended. Though all people celebrate this festival, the business community in particular does so with great enthusiasm and splendor. Remember poverty is also a demon (evil force).
Even Lord Balaji or Venkateswara at Thirupathi is said to have Borrowed money form Kubera for his marrige and he is still paying the interest on the loan amount.
Kubera (God of Wealth)
Kuber is regarded as the god of wealth, in Hindu mythology. Lord Kubera is also known as the god of yakshas (savage beings). Kubera is always remembered with the goddess of fortune, Lakshmi. Chanting of Kuber Mantra blesses the worshipper with money and prosperity by drawing new avenues and sources of income and wealth. Mantra of Kubera helps to increase the flow of funds and the ability to accumulate wealth.
Kubera Mantra : Om Shreem Om Hreem Shreem Hreem Kleem Shreem Kleem Vitteswaraaye Namaha
-It is composed of bija mantras, rough meanings: Shreem for Lakshmi (love, beauty, health, prosperity), Hreem for Great Goddess/Sun (illumination/dispel illusion), kleem for Kama/Krishna (love and fulfiller of desires from material to moksha, where your intention is) and Vitteswaraay (Kubera)
Sri Lakshmi Kubera Mantra : Om Shreem Hreem Im Kubera Lakshmiai Kamaladharinyai Dhana Akrashinyai Swaaha
The celebration of Deepavali proceeds as follows:
– On Deepavali neatness is important. Every house should be cleaned and walls are coulered, decorated with flowers and leaves specially mango leaves. Clay lamp is lighted in night to welcome Gods and Goddess the army of lights to destroy evil forces which can bring poverty. On Depavali eve midnight one should sweep the house with new broom, accumulate the garbage in a dustbin and throw it out. This is called 'driving off' of alakshmi (garbage – poverty). Remember sweeping/vacuuming the house and throwing the garbage out at night is forbidden on other days.
-One should wake up early in the morning and take an oil bath. On the day of Deepavali new moon(amavasai) sesamee oil(nallanai) is very important. On these day our mystics says that goddess Lakshmi lives in sesamee oil and goddess Ganga lives in warm water. This bath removes bad luck and attract prosperity. After the bath, wear new dress and jewels.
– After an auspicious bath at dawn, one should do Tarpanam for their ancestors. You can put Moksha Villaku (lamp) at Sivan temple or do Tarpanam yourself at home since Deepavali will always fall on Amavasai ( New Moon ).
The Secret of Why We Light Lamp (deepam)
The Gods and Goddess will personally become present in the jothi for you when you light lamp in your house. This is the secret behind lamp jothi worship.
The lamp jothis also have the power to neutralize negative forces since they bring the divine inside your house. They are a simple way of marshalling the divine force to drive away the negative forces from your house.
The departed soul (ancestral beings with great spiritual power who are responsible for the spiritual welfare of those souls that are part of their blood lines) also can make themselves present in the lamp jothi. When the pithrus are present in your house, they will bless you with contentment and peace of mind. Wherever they go, they bring goodwill and peace with them.
What kind of lamp, oil and wick to use ?
Earthen lamps and lamps made out of brass, bronze, copper, silver or gold are the ones that are ideal for lamp jothi worship. To start with, light your lamp jothis using sesame oil and wicks made out of cotton. First pour the oil in the lamp and then place the wick in it.
How to cool the Lamp?
The Siddhas insist that the spiritual aspirant must never allow the oil to run out in the lamp. Always ensure that there is enough oil in the lamp for the jothi. When you think it's time to cool the jothi, drag the wick by its tail portion into the oil while saying Om Santha Svaroopine Namaha. This is the proper procedure for cooling the lamp.
Mytology related to Deepavali
The Vanquishing of the demon Naraka by Lord Krishna's wife Sathyabhama.
Naraka, son of Bhudevi, acquired immense power from a blessing given by Lord Brahma after a severe penance. Narakasura ruled the kingdom of Pradyoshapuram . Under his rule, the villagers suffered a lot of hardship as the demon tortured the people and kidnapped the women to be imprisoned in his palace with his invincible might. Unable to bear the tyranny of the demon, the celestial beings pleaded with Lord Krishna to save them from his torture. But Naraka had a boon that he would face death only at the hands of his mother Bhudevi. So, Krishna asks his wife Sathyabhama, the reincarnation of Bhudevi, to be his charioteer in the battle with Naraka.
When Krishna fell unconscious after being hit by an arrow of Naraka, Sathyabhama takes the bow and aims the arrow at Naraka, killing him instantly. Later Lord Krishna reminds her of the boon she had sought as Bhudevi.
One, who worships lord Kubera and Lakshmi, can never fall short of money and material comforts. The special puja of Kubera is performed on Deepawali, asking for prosperity and his blessings : / Om Sri Lakshmi Kuberaya Namaha


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He had never seen an A-League game before and had no clue what life in the harbour city would offer - but Sydney FC defender Nikola Petkovic says his decision to travel halfway around the globe was well worth the 'risk'.
He had never seen an A-League game before and had no clue what life in the harbour city would offer - but Sydney FC defender Nikola Petkovic says his decision to travel halfway around the globe was well worth the 'risk'.
The Serbian arrived in Sydney shortly before the A-League season started and has been a mainstay of the Sky Blues' back four in all eight games of the campaign so far.
But while he has looked right at home on the field in central defence, Petkovic admits he was apprehensive when he first touched down in Australia.
"It was strange a little bit when I first arrived, first of all when I got the offer I thought about whether to come or not," Petkovic admitted.
"Australia, it's far. Everything's good about the country and Sydney's one of the best cities in the world, but it's far from Europe.
"But when I decided to come here I was surprised. The people are very friendly, everybody wants to help you, the players, the staff in the club, even people in the city if you go to restaurants, it's nice so life is good."
Petkovic's football journey has taken him to Israel, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Russia and Turkey in nine seasons as a professional.
Pressed on why he decided to accept Sydney FC's approach, the 27-year-old, who has set up home with his wife and young son, admits lifestyle was a big factor
"To play here it's a good life. I like my family to feel comfortable and this is the story I heard about Australian life, so I said 'ok I'll take the risk'," he explained.
He admits he has been impressed by the standard of the A-League and says the arrival of former team-mate Ranko Despotovic has also made him feel even more at home.
"I played with him a long time ago when I was 19 in Serbia and he is a good player," Petkovic said of the Sky Blues' new striker.
"He's fast and strong and he's played 60-70 minutes and has scored two goals and I hope he will continue like this.
"Now he'll be in the first XI for the first time on Saturday night and for our team it's important to have one really, really good striker like him."
But while Petkovic says he has clicked with all of his team-mates, he openly admits he is still star struck by one of them.
"To be honest every day when I see him I say, 'wow, I play with Alessandro'," he said of skipper Alessandro Del Piero.
"For me it is something special, every day when I shake hands with him I can't believe it.
"We are lucky because we have this guy in the team, it's really amazing."


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Printed Wonders pops-up in ClerkenwellOctober 24, 2012 at 8:00 am | Posted in Events, Products | Leave a comment
Come along to the Printed Wonders pop-up shop on Clerkenwell Green, open daily this week until Saturday 27th October. On sale are new printed tote bags, Halloween goodies, cards, vinyl window / wall stickers, bunting and prints by Xtina Lamb. Drop in and see her making window vinyls and halloween decorations.
The Corner Shop at Craft Central
21 Clerkenwell Green, London, EC1R 0DX Map
Open 11am – 6.30pm daily
Mon 22nd – Sat 27th October 2012
Points Of The Compass, photographed by Vic PhillipsAugust 2, 2012 at 4:45 pm | Posted in Events, Products | Leave a comment
Tags: exhibition, photography, sewing, ships
One of the lovely visitors to our Points Of The Compass show at Craft Central recently, was photographer Vic Phillips, who took a liking to our style as it fits very nicely with his own. Here's a selection of the photographs he took of us and our work during the exhibition. Vic's Facebook page has more vintage inspired portraits and wedding photos with lovely retro styling.
Bunting StoriesNovember 8, 2011 at 12:25 am | Posted in Products | 1 Comment
Tags: bunting, customers, printed wonders
Xtina makes bunting as all sorts of wedding, birthday, Christmas and bedroom decorations, and it's fantastic to sometimes get a photo back of the banners being used in their new homes.
Earlier this year Lucy bought some bunting with lucky motifs and promptly emigrated with it. She sent this great photo with the message "Just to say thank you for getting the gorgeous bunting to me in time before we flew. We moved into our Chicago apartment with nothing but an inflatable bed, a duvet and your bunting, it was the perfect instant decoration and has indeed brought us much luck."
Greg got in touch in September with the delightful idea of commissioning custom alphabet bunting to help him propose to his girlfriend Cathy. He chose the style that threads onto tape with a hem, so that he could assemble the letters himself and build a sense of anticipation! Plus the bonus of being able to rearrange them into amusing anagrams afterwards. Thankfully Cathy is now his fiancé, and Greg sent this photo with the news "Just to let you know that I finally asked and she said "yes"! Your bunting worked a treat. Everyone was very impressed!". Phew! What a great idea, who could resist a proposal written in bunting, and someone sweet enough to think of it?
Lucky BagsApril 15, 2011 at 3:24 pm | Posted in Events, Products | Leave a comment
Tags: craft fair, London, Lucky Bag
Xtina has printed up a small batch of bags with the same motifs as her Lucky Bunting. The unbleached cotton bags come as a light weight tote with long handles, or a thicker canvas weight with shorter shopping bag style handles. Screen printed in red, black and green with symbols including a horseshoe, back cat and wishbone on the front, and a four leaf clover on the back. Great for carrying off the best boot fair treasure, or bagging the very last packet of chocolate hob nobs in the supermarket.
Available tomorrow Sat 16th April at the fab Crafty Fox Market in Brixton (The Dogstar), where the lucky first person to buy one will get a bonus gift.
Seaside Sisters have a stall and are running a drop in workshop where you can hand sew one of these lovely fabric brooches from vintage fabrics.
Handmade WeddingApril 1, 2011 at 3:35 pm | Posted in Events, Fairs, Products | Leave a comment
Tags: bespoke services, bunting, wedding fair, weddings
Hurray! Printed Wonders has been selected for a fantastic handmade wedding fair Craft Central Gets Hitched! This new event in Clerkenwell opens its doors for three days 23-25 June 2011, and features work from over 30 UK designer-makers.
Xtina is excited to be launching her new wedding bunting website at the fair, showing flags embellished with trimmings and lace, and her new range of screen printed wedding bunting. Designs will include confetti, cakes, hearts, lucky symbols, couples, vintage cars and letters of the alphabet.
Bespoke options on offer at Craft Central Gets Hitched! will include Xtina's custom wedding bunting & handmade wedding stationery services, with screen printed and letter pressed wedding invites, place markers and congratulations cards. Many samples will be on show and available to buy. Xtina works with new fabrics and vintage / recycled textiles, and loves spending time with brides, finding out all about their colour schemes, creative themes and highly individual wedding plans.
Find out about the crafty hen party and bridal shower activities on offer, including screen printing custom decorations to match a wedding theme, making keepsakes, corsages and party favours.
This is going to be a really lovely event, so whether you're looking for the perfect handmade details for your wedding, or just fancy a bit of daydreaming while browsing the most romantic-themed goodies in town, we hope you can make it along.
Vintage inspired Christmas buntingNovember 26, 2010 at 10:50 pm | Posted in Events, Products | 2 Comments
Xtina has drawn ten new motifs for Christmas bunting, cards and wrapping paper. With a vintage look inspired by 40s and 50s illustrations, they make the perfect festive decorations for a stylish Christmas.
There's a choice of two colour ways for the bunting: red and greens making a nod to Scandinavia, or a subtle mix of lavenders and greens that look Christmassy without being too traditional.
Christmas cards screen printed with the same motifs are available on recycled card in pretty colours, paired with recycled envelopes. Sheets of wrapping paper with a repeat version of the designs, are litho printed in vegetable inks on recycled FSC certified paper.
A few unique editions of the bunting printed onto vintage fabrics will also be available at the Eco Design Christmas Fair in Islington.
Printed Wonders bunting (£25), cards (£3) and wrapping paper (£2.50) are available at:
Covet, 21 Arlington Way, London EC1R 1UY
Printed Wonders, buy online
Bust Christmas Craftacular, 28th November
York Hall, 5-15 Old Ford Road London E2 9PJ
Bust Craftacular Facebook Event
Eco Design Christmas Fair, 4th & 5th December
Assembly Hall, Islington Town Hall, Upper Street, London N1 2UD
YuleTIDE, 18th & 19th December
LV21 Lightship, Gillingham Pier, Pier Approach Rd, Kent, ME7 1RX
Vintage fabrics galoreOctober 15, 2010 at 2:47 pm | Posted in Events, Products, Workshops | 2 Comments
Tags: material, vintage fabrics, workshops
Wow, we've been busy collecting fabric for upcoming workshops and making new bags, owls, cushions and accessories. This lot was amassed in one morning at boot sales and a big jumble.
If you join us for our bunting and Christmas decoration making workshop at the Eco Design Fair, you'll be sewing with some of these goodies.
Horrockses & Pat Albeck talkSeptember 21, 2010 at 8:30 am | Posted in Events, Products, Things We Like | Leave a comment
The Fashion and Textile Museum in Bermondsey has a great exhibition on at the moment, celebrating Horrockses Fashions: Off the Peg Style in the '40s and '50s. Seaside Sisters are in love with the patterned prints and tailoring of this era, and we're excited to be attending the talk by Horrockses designer Pat Albeck on Friday 24th September.
The exhibition runs until 24th October 2010, and the museum is open Wednesday – Sunday.
If you go along, check out Bermondsey Fayre a short walk down Bermondsey Street at number 212, a lovely boutique gallery and shop where Linda is selling her owls, bags and purses. Linda has recently made zodiac purses from an original Pat Albeck designed fabric, and these are available from Bermondsey Fayre and Covet in Islington.
Vintage fabric shoulder bagsSeptember 20, 2010 at 7:32 pm | Posted in Products | Leave a comment
Tags: Autumn, bags, barkcloth, cycling, fabric, handbag, reflective, shoulder bag, table cloths, vintage
Xtina has made a fine selection of shoulder bags that will go a treat with Autumn fashions. She's been working with some very pretty pre-war table cloths and vintage barkcloth curtains, with leafy patterns and green abstracts. A few new fabrics have caught her eye too, and prints with lighthouses, twigs, and camping gear have also been paired up with vintage linings and made up into lovely bags.
The bags have long, strong straps with pretty trims and adjustable vintage sliders – so they can be carried by hand, worn on the shoulder or across the body. An ideal size for carrying all your bits and pieces plus a book or two.
They're great for cycling, and some have been sewn with reflective tape on the bag and strap. They show up as a bright sash, without without making you look like you've come straight from a cycling proficiency course.
£30 – 35 each
Available at Covet, 21 Arlington Way, Islington, London EC1R 1UY
LuckyAugust 20, 2010 at 7:09 pm | Posted in Products | 1 Comment
Tags: bunting, lucky
Good luck symbols are one of Xtina's obsessions, and she has just added some colourful lucky-themed items to her Printed Wonders store on Etsy.
On offer are lucky bunting, greetings cards and exercise books, all featuring illustrations including a lucky horseshoe, nautical star, black cat crossing your path, number 7, wishbone, key, henna hand, four-leafed clover, ladybird, and a pair of dice rolling two sixes.
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Course Prefix: LAW-626
Course Section: 001
Credit Hours: 3
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Persuasion is part art and part science, part instinct and part method. In this course students will examine the power of different persuasive practices. Building upon perspectives from different disciplines, such as rhetoric and cognitive psychology, students will gain a deeper understanding of what makes an argument or document persuasive. The course will investigate how the tools of persuasion work, and what tools work best. Students will creatively apply different theories of persuasion in several writing assignments and oral presentations.
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Skills Requirement: Yes
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Final Exam Given: No
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Check out the trailer for "Sleepwalk With Me," one of the year's funniest films
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Hand's down, "Sleepwalk With Me" is easily one of the best films of the year. Gentle and genuinely funny, the film is loosely based on comedian Mike Birbiglia's issues with sleepwalking, and his long-term relationship with his girlfriend played by Lauren Ambrose. Birbiglia wrote, directed and stars in the film, and he enlisted a bevy of colleagues to help him out, including Marc Maron, Kristen Schaal, Wyatt Cenac and David Wain. The result is a touching, hilarious film that also doubles as one of the best portrayals of what it's like starting out as a stand-up comic.
The first trailer for "Sleepwalk With Me" had now been released, which you can watch below. The movie hits theaters August 24.
(Disclosure: "Sleepwalk With Me" is distributed by IFC Films, a sister company of IFC)


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One of the most exciting and the most popular model from Japanese factories is Suzuki's crossover Grand Vitara. All fans will be excited and surprised, since carmaker is preparing new model for 2017. With performance boost, that crossover could attract attention of buyers that got used to other vehicles from same segment. Nevertheless, 2017 Suzuki Grand Vitara will get cosmetic update also, so, more attractive design could bring new users. Then, price could be last card which crossover could lure more fans of SUV vehicles, since base models are going to be valued around $30,000.
2017 Suzuki Grand Vitara exterior
Overall look of the 2017 Suzuki Grand Vitara is different comparing to its predecessors. Refreshment was needed, since selling numbers started to fall, and designers had a task to make this crossover more attractive and competitive. Appearance is more sophisticated. Length is the same as for current vehicle, but styling of the front and side could make people buy Grand Vitara. Roof is more aggressive and with its new curves, aerodynamic is improved. Rear is familiar and entrance to storage area is big, so huge things could be stored there very easily.
2017 Suzuki Grand Vitara interior
Comfort and convenience are two things that will be improved the most. Dark colors are used inside, and it turns out to be great move by designers. Also, 2017 Suzuki Grand Vitara has plenty of space inside, and power-seats are excellent choice, because leg-room can be modified. Door panels and dashboard are covered with quality materials, while latest systems are installed for enjoy of passengers.
2017 Suzuki Grand Vitara engine
Under the hood of the 2017 Suzuki Grand Vitara is a 1.4-l iV-4 unit with four cylinders. This engine is ready to deliver 205 hp and 225 pounds-feet of torque. Powertrain is mated to a 6-speed transmission box, that sends power to all wheels. Fuel economy numbers are unknown yet, but we expect slight improvement. This is one of the things that should keep 2017 Grand Vitara in step with main competitors. Crossover sprints to 60 mph in just under 7 seconds, while top speed is around 150 mph.