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Temporary exhibition "Dodona. The oracle of sounds"
The Acropolis Museum started in 2015 a series of temporary exhibitions displaying important ancient artifacts, deriving from significant archaeological sites of the Greek periphery. The Museum's goal is to present unusual subjects that will intrigue the current visitor and at the same time urge him to visit the places the exhibits originated from.
The second exhibition of the series concerns the Oracle of Dodona and it will open on 20 June 2016 and last until 10 January 2017. The exhibition aims at providing wider knowledge about the oldest Greek oracle, tracing the way it functioned, its role and importance in the ancient world, and at the same time showcasing the human need to predict the future.
Read more information about the temporary exhibition "Dodona. The oracle of sounds".


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A music video using stills, time lapse, stop motion and archival footage. The stills are from the fort at Pt. Nepean, an interesting yet 'undiscovered' part of Victoria.
So Long Ago is a song about history, which is probably pretty obvious from the title. The song is a mixture of genres jazz/blues/industrial and finally some metal.

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Council Takes No Action on Cell Tower Ordinance
In one of its briefest meetings in recent memory, the Berkeley City Council deferred staff action on revamping the city's cellphone tower ordinance Tuesday night, saying that city staff already had too many projects to work on.
While the council generally lets out between 10:30 and 11, Tuesday's light-agenda meeting adjourned at 8:30.
In other action Tuesday night, the council appointed—without discussion—Zach Cowan and Jane Micallef to the positions of city attorney and director of housing and community services, respectively. Both Cowan and Micallef had been serving in those positions in an acting capacity, Cowan for two years and Micallef for one.
And in a pre-meeting budget update workshop, councilmembers learned that Berkeley could be facing hiring freezes, salary reductions, and service cuts in the upcoming year due to a projected decline in city revenues.
Earlier this year, upon recommendation of the city's Planning Commission, the council made minor changes to Berkeley's Wireless Telecommunication Facilities Ordinance, the city law that governs the placement and regulation of cellphone towers in Berkeley. In its recommendation, the Planning Commission said that a wholesale revamping of the ordinance might be in order, and Tuesday's meeting was supposed to begin that process.
Among the changes being suggested are setting up city-approved zones where cellphone towers can be located, a procedure that might spread the towers to more areas of the city, as well as finding ways to entice or encourage cellphone companies to adopt technologies that generate less electrical transmissions in their immediate vicinities, thus lowering the impact of those transmissions on surrounding neighborhoods.
But after a staff report threw cold water on the ability of city staff to begin the work of producing a Telecommunications Master Plan—saying, among other things, that the complicated project would require two years of work and tie up staffers from the Planning, Public Works, Information Technology, and city attorney's departments and cause either a shift from other council priorities or additional hiring—the council took Mayor Tom Bates' suggestion to set up a two- and possibly three-member council subcommittee to begin to look at how the city might modify its cellphone laws. Bates asked Councilmember Gordon Wozniak to head up that committee and Jesse Arreguín agreed to serve. Councilmember Max Anderson—a frequent and vocal critic of cellphone companies—was asked to serve on the subcommittee as well, but saying that he did not trust those companies to work in the best interests of Berkeley neighborhoods, Anderson said that he would "weigh my participation" on the committee before deciding.
While councilmembers asked the subcommittee to begin the process by meeting with cellphone company representatives, industry experts, and Berkeley citizens who have voiced interest in the issue over the years, in order to get back ideas on what technologies might be possible or desirable in the city, no timetable was set for subcommittee action or a report back to the full council.
In its budget workshop, city staff members told the council that the city's two-year budget was already calling on $1.53 million in cuts in fiscal year 2011, beginning next July. In its workshop report, staff said it is "now considering implementing these cuts sooner as well as identifying additional cuts."
Details of those proposed cuts are expected to be presented in regular council session sometime later this year.


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Contrary to what was said above, I don't think 20$ is enough reason to be serious (this post doesnt mean I am signing up, I will wait till first patch to play in any tournament match)
I'm too scared to play with these guys lol. But Good luck~ I'll be watching :3
I'm in.
Yo wolf, you say you get to ban an opponents decks, what exactly do you know of what they are playing. Exact deck lists? their command zone? their purities? their decks name in deck editor?Also how are decks for game 1 selected, both people announce at the same time?
@Weak_Wolf How are you choosing the 10 people who will be participating? Is it sign in order, ranked rating, people you know/recognize, etc? Also when should we submit our decks, before or after we know if we are officially on the roster?
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Chief Master Sgt. Richard Simonsen hugs his service dog, Yoko, while on a walk. (U.S. Air Force photo/SrA Christina Brownlow)
Air Force Public Affairs Agency
11/8/2012 – WASHINGTON (AFNS) — (This feature is part of the "Through Airmen's Eyes" series on AF.mil. These stories focus on a single Airman, highlighting their Air Force story.)
Coming back from deployment, Airmen face the home-station work environment, reintegrating with family and settling back into day-to-day life.
What happens when an Airman is diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and mild Traumatic Brain Injury upon return?
For one Airman, his path to recovery has been slow, but he's overcome the challenges he's faced.
"I gave myself permission to let my traumatic brain injury and PTSD be there," said Chief Master Sgt. Richard Simonsen, Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling senior enlisted leader. "Then, I gave myself permission to reset everything and not be embarrassed by it."
Simonsen's last deployment was as a Public Affairs officer with a provincial reconstructive team in both Nuristan and Kandahar Provinces in Afghanistan. He completed 66 outside-the-wire missions with five attacks on their team. Due to the attacks, he was hospitalized for back and hip injuries and again for head injuries.
Upon return, he said he felt depressed and anxious, and he had difficulty being in crowds.
"The toughest thing is feeling you cannot be as productive as you used to be," Simonsen said. "Concentration was more difficult; writing e-mails was more difficult; composing my thoughts and expressing myself was more difficult."
A big piece of the recovery process for Simonsen has been his service dog.
"Yoko is a wonderful addition to my life," said the wounded warrior. "I say she's a resiliency tool of the first order. My recovery was really, really slow – it still is. Physically, I'm broken. And, the emotional, mental part was recovering slowly as well."
While at the TBI clinic one day, he interacted so positively with the facility dog that it was suggested he look into getting a service dog for himself.
"Once they placed her with me, the change was almost immediate," Simonsen said. "I'm not the old Rich Simonsen – I never will be. But, I'm a lot closer, because of her. She's an unobtrusive companion; she provides a calming influence. She's a good wingman for me."
Yoko also enables him to be in crowds and speak in public, like when he speaks to Airmen at Right Start briefings or Airmen Professional Enhancement Courses. And, although Yoko is noticeable, she doesn't detract from the chief's message.
"A lot of his focus I felt was on ways to deal with people," said U.S. Air Force Honor Guard Ceremonial Guardsman Airman 1st Class Nicholas Priest at an APE Course. "I thought he had a lot of valuable information on how to deal with what we may have issues with. If you have a positive work environment, it helps people work a lot harder. Look out for people, especially where sexual assault prevention and suicide awareness are concerned. We're one force, so we need to work as a team."
Though Simonsen said he has a tendency to isolate himself and has a hard time dealing with the physical pain from his injuries, he tries not to focus solely on the negative.
"The biggest difference on a positive side is I take a little more time to think about things before I respond," the senior enlisted leader said. "That gives me a little more contemplative way of being."
Aside from the resources of mental health and the Air Force Wounded Warrior Program, Simonsen said his family and church have been a huge source of support for him.
"My wife has followed me around the world for going on 25 years," he said. "She loves me no matter what. But, she knew I was suffering when I came home. She pushed me to get help. Everyone has a support system they can tap into. We need to use them in our recovery, but we also have to remember they're there working hard and taking a lot of the stress."
For those who may be suffering silently with PTSD, Simonsen offers this piece of advice.
"Coming forward shows courage and strength and is in line with our core values. You can go get help and still succeed in your career."
Though there are many programs out there for wounded warriors, November helps shed light on issues facing wounded veterans as it is Wounded Warrior Month.
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StubHub set up a booth at San Francisco Design Week 2017. This poster was part of an internal communications plan to invite coworkers to visit.
Every day, 100,000 people attend events all over the world with tickets they bought at StubHub. The UX design team (and all of us in product) pride ourselves in building experiences that lead to happy, lifelong memories for our customers. That thought drove the idea, which was the favorite among several I presented to my team.
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In this guest lecture a group of graduate students were invited by Carlos Largacha Martinez, vice-director for research of EAN to hear Ernst von Kimakowitz talk on the effect of foreign direct investments (FDI) of large transnational corporations (TNCs) on economic and social development. This lecture was held with a focus on the role of backward linkages between TNCs and small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). These are those relationships where large international business organizations are buying intermediate goods and services from domestic SMEs. Such backward linkages were traditionally viewed as a potent development lever but more recent empirical evidence is rather sobering. The question thus is what can be done to ensure that the potential of backward linkages between TNCs and domestic SMEs in developing countries to be development conducive comes to fruition. Please follow this link to view the presentation or go here to view the English version of the EAN University website.
A lively discussion emerged after the lecture and the participating business students demonstrated both, a keen interest in the topic of moving development theory and practice beyond purely utilitarian views and also a fundamental awareness that business is required to and can play a more active role in nourishing development efforts.


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We live in an instant society. We want everything in a hurry.
We log onto the internet and can open multiple pages at a time. While you wait for a YouTube video to load, you can read the news, catch up on the latest gossip via Facebook, and even shop on Amazon. No waiting. We expect to drive through and pick up a quick dinner in less than five minutes. We rarely use the stove to warm food…after all, the microwave produces heated food in a minute or two. Don't have the money saved to buy a new TV? No worries. You can run down and sign up for no payments and no interest for 6 months. Take the TV home today and pay later. No waiting.
Waiting is not something Americans are comfortable with. So it's no wonder, that when it comes to life choices, we don't want to wait. We want that perfect spouse NOW. We want that new house NOW. We want to be successful NOW.
But sometimes God answers our prayers by saying, "Not now. Wait."
This answer to prayer is a very hard one to accept. We don't understand why God would make us wait….and wait….and wait. Often waiting is followed by giving up. We become frustrated and decide for ourselves that we know better than Him. If He won't give us the answer now, we will do it ourselves. It's during those times that we often make life choices we later regret.
So why does God force us to wait on answers? Why do we have to wait for what He has for us?
My pastor has been preaching on finding the will of God. And this past Sunday, he brought something up I had never really thought of before. We are constantly asking God to show us what He wants of us. What to do. We are constantly asking Him for the desires of our heart. Yet, we often don't do what He tells us. The Bible is full of His instruction on how to live our life. How often do we ignore what the Bible says because it's not something we want to do? It's hard. Being obedient to His word is uncomfortable, so we ignore His instruction that is clearly in black and white and pray and ask Him to send us a sign, a direction. Have you ever thought that He just may be making you wait because He is waiting for you to be obedient?
God wants us to be faithful and obedient to Him. He wants us to use the Bible to help guide us and govern our life choices. When we choose our timing instead of His, we can miss the blessings He has in store for us. When we refuse to wait on God, we will always be settling for second best. His will is always better than anything we can do for ourselves. His will for our life includes following His commandments.
Even when it's hard.
Even when it's not what we want.
Even when we have to wait.
Follow Him.
Be obedient to Him.
Wait on Him.
You must be willing to wait without giving up. After you have done what God wants you to do, God will give you what He promised you. –Hebrews 10:36
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At the end of a recent public discussion of ours, there was an active dispute about the latest AKTION MENSCH campaign. Not all of the participants were familiar with the campaign, thats why we share it with you here:
[All three pictures taken from the AKTION MENSCH campaign, 2010]
And this one here is taken from last year's campaign. It reads: "Who sees the disability first, does not see the person".
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Counselling for couples and individuals with relationship problems
Are you a couple struggling with any of the following?
- breakdown in communication
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- problems with sex and intimacy
- recovering from an affair
- lifecycle changes, such as a new baby, redundancy, retirement etc
- difficulties over stepchildren
- coping with the effects of stress, bereavement or illness.
These are just some of the many reasons why couples may seek relationship therapy.
Are you an individual dealing with any of the following?
- in a relationship where there a difficulties, but the partner is unwilling to attend
- struggling to come to terms with the loss of a relationship whether through separation, divorce or death
- finding yourself repeating patterns in unsuccessful relationships
- not sure that you are in a relationship that is right for you.
Relationship counselling could be helpful in dealing with these and many other issues.
If you identify with any of these issues and would like to talk about it in a safe and confidential space please contact me. I always suggest you book in for an initial appointment to meet me and see if you think the kind of relationship counselling I am offering could be helpful to you. If you want to work with me we go on to book a series of weekly appointments.


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From Democrat & Chronicle:
When Loretta C. Ford was a pediatric public health nurse in the 1960s, she was often the sole medical practitioner available in rural areas near Boulder, Colo.
It prompted her to co-develop the nurse practitioner model at the University of Colorado in 1965.
In 1972, when the University of Rochester department established its School of Nursing, Ford — the school's founding dean — further changed the way nurses are trained by pioneering and implementing the unification model, an expanded combination of education, practice and research.
There are now more than 140,000 nurse practitioners in the United States today, and about 400 nurse practitioners at UR Medical Center's Strong Memorial Hospital.
On Saturday, Ford will be one of 11 women inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls.


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Genshi XML Template Language
Genshi provides a XML-based template language that is heavily inspired by Kid, which in turn was inspired by a number of existing template languages, namely XSLT, TAL, and PHP.
This document describes the template language and will be most useful as reference to those developing Genshi XML templates. Templates are XML files of some kind (such as XHTML) that include processing directives (elements or attributes identified by a separate namespace) that affect how the template is rendered, and template expressions that are dynamically substituted by variable data.
See Genshi Templating Basics for general information on embedding Python code in templates.
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1 Template Directives
Directives are elements and/or attributes in the template that are identified by the namespace http://genshi.edgewall.org/. They can affect how the template is rendered in a number of ways: Genshi provides directives for conditionals and looping, among others.
To use directives in a template, the namespace must be declared, which is usually done on the root element:
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In this example, the default namespace is set to the XHTML namespace, and the namespace for Genshi directives is bound to the prefix "py".
All directives can be applied as attributes, and some can also be used as elements. The if directives for conditionals, for example, can be used in both ways:
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Bar

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This is basically equivalent to the following:
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Bar

 </py:if> ...
The rationale behind the second form is that directives do not always map naturally to elements in the template. In such cases, the py:strip directive can be used to strip off the unwanted element, or the directive can simply be used as an element.
1.1 Conditional Sections
1.1.1 py:if
The element is only rendered if the expression evaluates to a truth value:

 ${bar}

Given the data foo=True and bar='Hello' in the template context, this would produce:

 Hello

This directive can also be used as an element:

 <py:if test="foo"> ${bar} </py:if>

1.1.2 py:choose
The py:choose directive, in combination with the directives py:when and py:otherwise provides advanced conditional processing for rendering one of several alternatives. The first matching py:when branch is rendered, or, if no py:when branch matches, the py:otherwise branch is rendered.
If the py:choose directive is empty the nested py:when directives will be tested for truth:

 0 1 2

This would produce the following output:

 1

If the py:choose directive contains an expression the nested py:when directives will be tested for equality to the parent py:choose value:

 0 1 2

This would produce the following output:

 1

1.2 Looping
1.2.1 py:for
The element is repeated for every item in an iterable:

${item}

Given items=[1, 2, 3] in the context data, this would produce:

1

2

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This directive can also be used as an element:

 <py:for each="item in items">
${item}
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1.3 Snippet Reuse
1.3.1 py:def
The py:def directive can be used to create macros, i.e. snippets of template code that have a name and optionally some parameters, and that can be inserted in other places:

 Hello, ${name}!
 ${greeting('world')} ${greeting('everyone else')}

The above would be rendered to:

 Hello, world!

 Hello, everyone else!

If a macro doesn't require parameters, it can be defined without the parenthesis. For example:

 Hello, world!
 ${greeting()}

The above would be rendered to:

 Hello, world!

This directive can also be used as an element:

 <py:def function="greeting(name)">
Hello, ${name}!
 </py:def>

1.3.2 py:match
This directive defines a match template: given an XPath expression, it replaces any element in the template that matches the expression with its own content.
For example, the match template defined in the following template matches any element with the tag name "greeting":

  Hello ${select('@name')}  <greeting name="Dude" />

This would result in the following output:

  Hello Dude

Inside the body of a py:match directive, the select(path) function is made available so that parts or all of the original element can be incorporated in the output of the match template. See Using XPath for more information about this function.
This directive can also be used as an element:

 <py:match path="greeting"> Hello ${select('@name')} </py:match> <greeting name="Dude" />

1.4 Variable Binding
1.4.1 py:with
The py:with directive lets you assign expressions to variables, which can be used to make expressions inside the directive less verbose and more efficient. For example, if you need use the expression author.posts more than once, and that actually results in a database query, assigning the results to a variable using this directive would probably help.
For example:

 $x $y $z

Given x=42 in the context data, this would produce:

 42 7 52

This directive can also be used as an element:

 <py:with vars="y=7; z=x+10">$x $y $z</py:with>

Note that if a variable of the same name already existed outside of the scope of the py:with directive, it will not be overwritten. Instead, it will have the same value it had prior to the py:with assignment. Effectively, this means that variables are immutable in Genshi.
1.5 Structure Manipulation
1.5.1 py:attrs
This directive adds, modifies or removes attributes from the element:

Bar

Given foo={'class': 'collapse'} in the template context, this would produce:

Bar

Attributes with the value None are omitted, so given foo={'class': None} in the context for the same template this would produce:

Bar

This directive can only be used as an attribute.
1.5.2 py:content
This directive replaces any nested content with the result of evaluating the expression:

Hello

Given bar='Bye' in the context data, this would produce:

Bye

This directive can only be used as an attribute.
1.5.3 py:replace
This directive replaces the element itself with the result of evaluating the expression:

 Hello

Given bar='Bye' in the context data, this would produce:

 Bye

This directive can only be used as an attribute.
1.5.4 py:strip
This directive conditionally strips the top-level element from the output. When the value of the py:strip attribute evaluates to True, the element is stripped from the output:

foo

This would be rendered as:

 foo

As a shorthand, if the value of the py:strip attribute is empty, that has the same effect as using a truth value (i.e. the element is stripped).
1.6 Processing Order
It is possible to attach multiple directives to a single element, although not all combinations make sense. When multiple directives are encountered, they are processed in the following order:
2 Includes
To reuse common snippets of template code, you can include other files using XInclude.
For this, you need to declare the XInclude namespace (commonly bound to the prefix "xi") and use the <xi:include> element where you want the external file to be pulled in:
 <xi:include href="base.html" /> ...
Include paths are relative to the filename of the template currently being processed. So if the example above was in the file "myapp/index.html" (relative to the template search path), the XInclude processor would look for the included file at "myapp/base.html". You can also use Unix-style relative paths, for example "../base.html" to look in the parent directory.
Any content included this way is inserted into the generated output instead of the <xi:include> element. The included template sees the same context data. Match templates and macros in the included template are also available to the including template after the point it was included.
By default, an error will be raised if an included file is not found. If that's not what you want, you can specify fallback content that should be used if the include fails. For example, to to make the include above fail silently, you'd write:
<xi:include href="base.html"><xi:fallback /></xi:include>
See the XInclude specification for more about fallback content. Note though that Genshi currently only supports a small subset of XInclude.
Incudes in Genshi are fully dynamic: Just like normal attributes, the href attribute accepts expressions, and directives can be used on the <xi:include /> element just as on any other element, meaning you can do things like conditional includes:
<xi:include href="${name}.html" py:if="not in_popup" py:for="name in ('foo', 'bar', 'baz')" />
3 Comments
Normal XML/HTML comment syntax can be used in templates:

However, such comments get passed through the processing pipeline and are by default included in the final output. If that's not desired, prefix the comment text with an exclamation mark:

Note that it does not matter whether there's whitespace before or after the exclamation mark, so the above could also be written as follows:

See also: genshi.template, Genshi Text Template Language, Documentation, GenshiRecipes


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Wrong again.
Yesterday US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice told Jake Tapper on This Week,
"We're not impotent. We're not even less popular to challenge that assessment."
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Rice was wrong about that, too.
US popularity in the Arab World has plummeted during the Obama years.
Newsmax reported on this Zogby poll last year:
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The poll of over 4,000 citizens in six Arab nations — Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates — shows the favorability rating of the United States dropping precipitously in four of them.
U.S. favorability has increased by 2 points in Lebanon and 17 points in Saudi Arabia since the Bush era. But those were the only nations where U.S. favorability is now higher.!


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The Palm Springs Police Department is responsible for security and all matters pertaining to law enforcement, as mandated by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) rules and regulations. Palm Springs police officers are assigned to patrol the airport exclusively. Their primary roles are to respond to security screening alerts, traffic collisions, traffic control, security patrols and investigating crimes which occur on airport property.
Thanks to generous donations from our community, the Police Department's Airport Bureau uses explosives detection dogs. The dogs and their handlers are permanently assigned to the airport, but can be used on a call out basis for many different assignments.
The Palm Springs International Airport Covers 954 acres, is located on the east city limit of Palm Springs and serves the Coachella Valley, which has a combined population of over 410,000.
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Men of War is the second in a new series of Doctor Who audio short stories from BBC Audio (the first being The Thing From The Sea, by Paul Magrs). In many ways though, it feels like it should be the first, demonstrating as it does an energetic new beginning for this ambitious new range. That's partly down to it being a First Doctor story, and partly the scale of its storytelling, which is at once contained and satisfying, but strongly hints at a larger arc which will no doubt develop in later stories in the range, across the Doctor's various incarnations.
Justin Richards, an established writer of both novels and audio stories in the Doctor Who universe, sets the story in a particular period during the 1960s epic The Daleks' Master Plan, when the First Doctor was accompanied by space pilot Steven Taylor and space security officer Sara Kingdom, but don't that put you off – it's really just the Doctor, with his companions, turning up somewhere and finding something terribly wrong.
Given the First Doctor's recent TV return in last year's Christmas special, which saw him (and Peter Capaldi's Twelth Doctor) witness the Christmas Armistice of World War I, Men of War has something of a companion-piece feel to that story, as it takes the First Doctor to the battlefield of the Somme, where, curiously, nothing is happening.
According to history, a million soldiers died on the Somme, and when the First Doctor, Steven and Sara arrive, they should have been dying for four long, awful, devastating weeks. But this time, there's no fighting, a whole month after one of the bloodiest engagements in one of the world's bloodiest wars should have begun…
Something else is happening though: the mud of the trenches moves at night. Ghastly, muddy hands seems to reach for the night-watching soldiers, pulling them down, pulling them under. And they're never seen again.
Justin Richards, ladies and gentlemen – writer of creepy stuff extraordinaire!
Unfortunately, the set-up lends itself to listeners correctly guessing what's going on without too much difficulty in at least one direction pretty early on, but there are still a solid handful of mysteries to ponder as we go through this story. Why has the Battle of the Somme not started when the Doctor thinks it should have? Will whatever is empowering the mud of the Somme be stoppable, and if so, how? Who or what is behind the non-battle?
And later, the story reserves a whole other level of punch to hit us with, making use of the First Doctor's complete inability to accurately pilot the TARDIS, meaning that just knowing a problem exists somewhere isn't enough to let him go there and deal with it. Major Who-fans will get a shiver or two of possibility when they hear what's happening, but even casual fans will be hooked by the questions this story poses, and the dangling threads it leaves for other Doctors to pick up later in the run; there's very definitely a resolution to the immediate problem in this story, but there's also a sense that something bigger is afoot, and that the Doctor is as yet powerless to confront that larger scheme.
Peter Purves, who played Steven Taylor on TV, has been playing both him and the First Doctor on audio for some years now, and he's a joy to listen to here. There are a few moments of disconnect at the very start of the story, because Richards' story is told in the first person, but not the first person of either Steven or the Doctor, so having Purves tell the story leads to a jump in the groove of your brain when he names his viewpoint-character as Captain Mark Steadman, and you could easily assume that Steven has gone undercover on the front line until Steadman recounts his meeting with the pilot. However, Purves' reading style is inviting and inclusive, and soon it's easy to forget that Peter Purves the reader exists, as he draws you into the characters' voices and their story on the Somme.
Doctor Who: Men of War is a cracking listen, and sets us off on what feels like a multi-Doctor adventure that could well build to some enormous consequences later in the run. A definite reminder of the charms – and the occasional necessary bleakness – of the First Doctor. The original, you might say.


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I'm a shy sort of person and it feels like I am becoming forced to do some thing that is not organic in me. And that is unfair for other teachers with the proper capabilities and for the students who deserve the ideal teachers. I assume you are asking why did hippies hate Charles Manson. The Very first Beast will pretend like he is Jesus Christ, a Joseph and as Daniel. Ancient history of Noah's flood has not only showed us the wrath of God but the covenant of God in the rainbow. Listen to 3 or much more soppy adore songs and try to pick out the phrases you would use (or would never use) in a adore letter.
Had you been in an university or college, you could be promoted to Professor in Nov 2011 (date you had been awarded your Ph.D.). This anomaly is due to the change of designation of Scientist (SG) to Scientist soon after implementation of 6th Spend revision. This shows that corruption in Nigeria improved by a single step when compared with that of 2000. It was a 90-minute drive, and Jason preferred his personal church, but it was providential that he meet the congregation at Crenshaw Christian Reformed Church.
His aim was use the public schools to undermine faith in God, and faith in the American Way. The greatest thing you can do for them is to show unconditional enjoy and pray somehow they obtain it. Being a teacher your self you know how challenging it is to assist children get free from their past. This is a wonderful lens with some wonderful memories for you and your family members, not to mention the other residents of Pendleton. The anxiety on parents and teachers and students is as well much. What a fantastic collection of Sunday School songs – they are heartwarming and uplifting.
Corruption is in the DNA of these who get into power in Nigeria. It has hyperlinks to all of my different hubs here about becoming in Saudi Arabia. And when the teachers say this, we are told we never believe the children are intelligent. I'm not positive…. Lensrolled to my Life as a Foster Youngster-thanks for the comments BTW. Further encounter is needed to see if it eliminates the uncertainty in identifying a blighted ovum. I think numerous teachers start out passionate about teaching but are worn down by the job and then basically go by way of the motions.


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LGSS1 – Shillinglee Junction: The intersection of Shillinglee Road with Plaistow Road (which joins Fisher Lane) forming a triangle traffic island. This land is within the South Downs National Park. Hundreds of years of horses, carts, carriages and then cars turning left and right have created these mini oases at country junctions. Largely untouched, they can provide a haven for wild flowers and insects. The original elm trees died from Dutch elm disease but local residents have since planted new trees on the site. Local Green Space designation is proposed to preserve the setting and special character of this part of the Parish that lies within the South Downs National Park and alongside listed buildings of historic importance to the Parish.
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For ukiyo-e woodblock prints, Carthamus tinctorius (safflower) was the primary red and pink colorant used consistently for all of the time periods and printing methods.
Safflower - benibana The florets of Carthamus tinctorius (safflower) produce a wide range of colors from cherry red to pink (fig. 7). Native to northern India and the Near East, this popular dye plant was widely cultivated throughout Asia and Europe by the end of the 13th century. The florets are picked, then dried and crushed into a paste. The paste is washed with water to remove the non-lightfast yellow chromophors including several quinochalcones. The red colorant, primarily carthamin, is then extracted in an alkaline bath. The deepest reds are obtained through several initial washings to remove all of the water-soluble yellows.
Red regions containing safflower were usually seen as brightly fluorescence during the preliminary examination of the prints with a hand-held UV light. Thus, it was no surprise that the EEM fluorescence technique provided a unique and definitive pattern for safflower, even when it was visually observed in the print as a faded brown color. In addition to the fluorescence for the red chromophor, the pattern often contained an additional peak for the yellow chromophore that was supposedly removed in the preparation of the red colorant but often needed several washings for complete elimination.
The presence of this mixture throughout the history of color printing seems to indicate that the tone obtained by mixing dayflower blue and safflower was preferred over other possible mixtures of reds and blues to yield purple (for example indigo and madder).
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my sophomore year of college i studied abroad in england. the first day i showed up on campus, i unexpectedly found out that there were two william and mary students, me and another guy, and we were living in the same flat. we introduced ourselves and immediately headed to the campus bar. (yeah, in england the universities have bars on campus as part of their university center. it's spectacular.) we spent a couple of hours getting drunk, telling each other our life stories, and becoming besties.
the next year found us living in the same dorm again. i introduced him to my friends and he introduced me to his. for a year, the older, cool kids let me tag along, and somewhere along the way they accepted me as one of their own. ever since, we've celebrated together and gotten drunk together; over the years we've gone to each others' weddings and shared in our good news. this past september, we did it again; we got together for one last wedding. we celebrated, we danced, we sang at the top of our lungs, and we exuded tribe pride. and even though we're adults now, and there are no real excuses to get together and party, we will. because that's what friends do.
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There has been much celebration in the local press this week about the newly published Ofsted report of one of our local secondary schools, Brentwood County High School (BCHS). The school has received an across the board "Good" rating having been judged as "Satisfactory" since 2001.
Much of the coverage centres on the acknowledgement within the report of the effect that the school's head teacher, Mr Stephen Drew, has had on the school since his appointment eighteen months ago. The fact that he is already a figure recognised outside of education circles makes it an attractive press story, one paper has actually described him as a ""Showbiz" head", but that should not detract from his achievement and that of his staff, governors, students and parents.
What interests me about the press coverage however, is that he has taken the opportunity within it to firmly state his commitment to comprehensive, inclusive education. I hope his profile means that people will listen and consider and adjust their behaviour locally and nationally.
The full article in the Brentwood Gazette is available here:
Mr Drew is quoted within the piece as follows:
"I want us to be the school parents look at and have total confidence in, knowing that we can deliver an education for their child whatever their child's needs.
"That's a massive thing but that's what a proper comprehensive should be.
"We either believe in comprehensive education or we don't – and I absolutely believe in the comprehensive education system."
A statement that you would expect from any state school head wouldn't you think? But, in the era of "parental choice" and promotion of competition between schools, it seems to be rarely expressed.
Sadly, the response of many schools to the current landscape, against a background of being judged via league tables, seems to have been to shrink their curriculum and seek to skew their intake to maximise their chances of a high "5 A-C", "EBacc" or SATS test score.
Catering for local children "whatever their needs" should surely be the prerequisite for any school that receives state money? I passionately believe that it should and, since we formed our group two years ago, my view has hardened on the matter.
I believe this is currently not the case in Brentwood and beyond.
Policies of successive governments have eroded, accidentally or more deliberately, the comprehensive ideal and some are enthusiastically taking advantage of the loosening of, what should be, an obligation.
Frankly, I am sick and tired of the effect that this has on our communities.
This is most obvious in the growing complexity of admissions policies in primaries and secondaries. I am aware that catchment policies are not perfect, but I fervently believe that no state school should have an admissions policy that prioritises anyone over the most local children to a school. I cannot accept that any school funded by the taxpayer should be acting as their own admissions authority or have a requirement for a supplementary information form.
Some selective behaviour is less obvious but is being revealed more frequently. It is not acceptable for a state funded school to suggest to a local parent that wants to send their child with special needs to your school that they "would be better catered for" elsewhere for example.
Against this backdrop we add in our local situation. Having opened in 2012, despite officially acknowledged surplus places in the area, the PR emanating from the local free school seems to be directly contradictory to serving the local community. Not a press release goes by without references to "stretching the most able" or professing to cater for those aiming to attend "Russell Group universities".
The latter may be a pathetic attempt to establish a link to their sponsor the "Russell Education Trust" (to be absolutely clear, there isn't one) but the underlying impression that they wish to convey is clear – we wish to cater for the most academic.
You may describe yourself as a "state funded independent school" but that means you are independent of local authority control not the state. You have an obligation to cater for those who fund you no matter their background or ability.
To properly support the comprehensive provision of education to all of our children we must strengthen the stake of the community in our schools. We should all have an interest in their successes, and the achievements of children of all abilities.
There is talk of an increased obligation to collaborate with neighbouring schools in the latest Labour Party policy review, the fact that it has been identified as an area that needs tackling should concern us all.
Locally there has been a joint initiative by Shenfield High and BCHS to provide some much needed vocational options to some of their pupils but this is a regrettably isolated example.
It should not need legislation to encourage the sharing of best practice but we must move away from a situation where schools "pull up the drawbridge" to others in the locality. It seems incredible that any should wish to increase their Pupil Admission Number (PAN) whilst there are vacancies elsewhere for example.
Just because my children attend certain schools it does not prevent me from taking an interest in others. I was delighted to visit Larchwood Primary recently and loved the atmosphere and commitment to inclusivity of its headteacher. I enjoy reading about primary schools visiting our secondaries for creative writing or science days. I am proud that one of our schools, Shenfield High, has recently been identified as one of the "Top 20 state schools for sport" in a recent magazine.
Sadly, the "parental choice" agenda appears to encourage insularity and misinformation that is of no benefit to children themselves. League tables exacerbate this nonsense as they seek to label "good" and "bad" schools based on raw statistics reported with no regard to intake or the prosperity of the locality.
It is in this context that we should view Mr Drew's comments. I see it as a commitment to the whole community and a call to all of our schools to be as inclusive as possible and to do their best to make sure all our young people are ready for the next stage in their lives. "Russell Group University" or otherwise.
I should now declare my interest as a BCHS parent and as a proud former pupil. I fully endorse the stance that the school has adopted and am a strong supporter of its inclusive policy. They are not alone in Brentwood but I would like this to be universal practice.
Some suggest that I am in the minority these days but I refer you to the Ofsted "Parent View" survey that accompanied the Inspection Report. 93% of respondents would recommend the school to other parents.
Whatever their background.
Parent View http://www.bchs.essex.sch.uk/64/latest-news/article/177/ofsted-visit-2014
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"Written with an arsenal of tension-building armaments, and wearing all the hallmarks of a science fiction thriller that's done its worldbuilding homework, Garcia's first novel leaves readers eagerly anticipating a sequel. Lex Talionis sings a bloody song of both forgetting and redemption, and of the price we pay for a little tenderness, when least we expect to be taxed for our freedoms."
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LEX TALIONIS by R. S. A. Garcia reviewed by Caribbean Beat Magazine
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LEX TALIONIS by R. S. A. Garcia won the silver medal at the Independent Publishers Book Award
We are all very excited to congratulate R. S. A. Garcia on receiving a silver medal at the Independent Publishers Book Awards (affectionately known as IPPY) for her debut novel Lex Talionis.
LEX TALIONIS is a highly critically acclaimed debut science fiction thriller that has received a starred review by Publishers Weekly and has been endorsed by the bestselling award-winning author Elizabeth Bear. R. S. A. Garcia lives and works in Trinidad and Tobago and is rapidly gaining recognition wordlwide as an emerging talent in speculative fiction.
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Celebrate "Read an Ebook Week" with Dragonwell Publishing!
To celebrate "Read an Ebook Week" (March 1-7), Dragonwell Publishing is offering one title for FREE and discounted six others to only $1.50.
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An award-winning dark fantasy based on Russian fairy tales.
A pre-apocayptic dystopian fantasy, highly critically acclaimed.
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Radio interview by R. S. A. Garcia, the author of LEX TALIONIS
R. S. A. Garcia has just did her first radio interview with Radio Ujima of Bristol, UK, talking about growing up in Trinidad and her roots in science fiction writing. Please excuse a minor technical glitch in the beginning of the program, where the interview restarts after the first few lines.
The entire podcast of the program will go up next week, and that will be the one where everyone can learn more about the book. In the mean time, check out this link:
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NEW RELEASE: LEX TALIONIS by R. S. A. Garcia out today!!!
Happy release day to R. S. A. Garcia with her debut novel "Lex Talionis", a science fiction thriller that Publishers Weekly calls a "stunning debut" in their starred review.
The recently posted SF Crowsnest review characterizes this book as "astounding" and "remarkable". And, during the pre-publication weeks we heard lots of other praise for this amazing debut from a Caribbean author.
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LEX TALIONIS by R. S. A. Garcia: Nebula weekend, giveaway, and media round-up
Click on the cover to enter a Goodreads giveaway for 5 print copies of this stunning debut novel by a Caribbean science fiction author. The giveaway will be open until the release day on May 30, 2014.
R. S. A. Garcia's science fiction thriller is receiving a great response from readers and early reviewers, in the wake of the starred review from Publishers Weekly that came out earlier this month. Here is what the reviewers say about the book:
"The setting is handled in an effortless way that makes aliens and advanced technology feel commonplace. Artificial breeding, interplanetary settlement, and political rebellion are just a few of the concepts that Garcia infuses with ethical tensions and deep personal emotion in this intense and intriguing work." — Publishers Weekly
"A tense, morally complex science fiction thriller that tackles hard questions of loyalty, exploitation, and human decency without compromising on plot." — Elizabeth Bear
"I could not put the book down and stayed up all hours reading." — Angela Street
"Wow. WOW." — Kate McNeil
"This is a very complex book with many different aspects and if you can follow along without getting lost it is very much worth the read. The story ends, yes, but it does leave it open for more and I hope their are more books coming. " — Hannah
"An exciting and thought-provoking story! I hope it is the beginning of a series." — Jay Williams
"A compelling, thought-provoking novel. R.S.A. Garcia is an author to watch!" — Analouise Keating
"the story was entirely compelling, I couldn't put it down and when it came to the end, I read and re-read the last chapters wishing it weren't over and trying to eek every last nuance out of it." — Erin Burns
"I had some preconceived notions about this novel as the author is new and the publisher fairly unknown. What surprised me was how much I enjoyed everything about this novel. The characters were very well developed within the movement of the story-line. I really liked Troi and Chris even though they had minimal appearances. The world building is splendid in that you get a sense of the alien/human interaction that promises a truly unique experience." — Koeur
"R.S.A. Garcia is good at tense moments that hook the reader… The way the scenes flowed together was flawless and enthralling." — Beverly
"Worth a look at." — Jaiw
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An NPR segment introduced me to a really cool art project. Rejected Princesses puts a Disney spin on real-life women who were heroines or villains. Jason Porath was a Disney animator. One day, he and his buddies were sitting around, talking about how Disney would portray women that were too brave, capable, deadly, or otherwise too awesome for the typical princess role. Disney, of course, isn't doing any stories on women who were Russian tank commanders, leaders of ancient fighting forces, or British spies. So now Jason is doing it.
This attractive young lady, Tomyris, for example, was a widow in what is now Kazakhstan. When the leader of the world's largest empire tried to marry her to expand his empire, she spurned his advances. When he tried to take over by invading, she mustered up an army, kicked his ass, cut off his head, and publicly defiled it so badly that her name was a household word for centuries. Not exactly Disney's idea of a pretty young thing who needs a prince to take care of her.
These images are well-researched. Tomyris' outfit is authentic, as is the helmet of the defeated, decapitated, and defiled emperor, and so is the landscape. Jason really knows how to tell a story with his images, something that I can really appreciate but cannot do nearly as well as he does.
Jason posts a new story every week. I'm still digging through all the cool ones that he's already done. Go take a look and check it often!


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"Deliver Us From Evil" is that rare blend of movies that manages to walk the line between some very distinct genres and have a crystal clear sense of the movie that it is trying to be.
It's just another day on the job seeing the worst of the worst that humanity has to offer for New York police officer Ralph Sarchie (Eric Bana), however when he begins to investigate a series of disturbing and inexplicable crimes, he joins forces with an unconventional priest (Edgar Ramírez), schooled in the rituals of exorcism, to combat the frightening and demonic possessions that are terrorizing their city.
"Deliver Us From Evil" is ultimately a solid piece of entertainment that sticks to what it knows and what it is trying to do for some fairly positive results and it works as a fun piece of popcorn cinema that gets just scary enough to make sure we all have a good time with it.
In his follow up to his chilling hit "Sinister", co-writer/director Scott Derrickson straddles the line between a straight up cop movie and a super natural thriller with a certain amount of ease and aplomb from beginning to end. Shooting primarily at night in the dirty streets of New York City, Derrickson gives it an otherworldly feel from minute one as we see these characters who have to deal with evil that we can barely dream about on a daily basis. Inspired by the book "Beware The Night" by Ralph Sarchie, the material feels grounded in a certain sense of reality even acknowledging how ridiculous some of these stories can be. While it certain leans on the paranormal elements and moments of demonic possession, but it is equally about dealing with what people believe and how it can manifest itself. The narrative is solid and doesn't go in for anything overly incredible as the ensemble cast brings it home.
Despite his thick Brooklyn accent that was bordering on distracting, Eric Bana can still carry a movie and as the no nonsense cop Ralph Sarchie who is pushed to the brink with some of the horrible things that he sees, it all works quite well. Bana is smart enough to play it with a certain level of sarcasm and skepticism, never quite embracing what is happening around him until he has absolutely no choice. Edgar Ramirez plays the unconventional partner and priest quite well as both these men learn that they are investigating the same thing. Joel McHale plays Bana's smart aleck, adrenaline junkie police partner and it works pretty well as he adds some much needed comic relief and tension breakers to those moments that desperately needed them. Sadly Olivia Munn is more or less wasted as Bana's wife but the great Sean Harris makes up for it in spades as the possessed Santino who is wreaking havoc across the city as things are getting stranger and stranger. He plays it to the absolute hilt with great results particularly towards the film's big conclusion.
I'll admit that there a couple of sequences that get a little more Hollywoodized then they perhaps need to be, and with Jerry Bruckheimer that is probably pretty hard to avoid, but it doesn't take away from the fact that "Deliver Us From Evil" just works. It's got enough scares for the horror crowd to keep them happy, it plays great as a straight crime procedural and the times during the movie that you'll laugh are by design. It's nothing flashy, but it doesn't have to be to be quality entertainment.
4 out of 5 stars.
"Deliver Us From Evil" is now available on DVD, Blu-Ray, On Demand and Digital Download from all major retailers and providers.
Picture and sound quality on the Blu-Ray are top notch and the special features include a making of "Deliver Us From Evil" and three behind the scenes featurettes.


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By Patrick Brogan
Chinese Democracy is a Guns N' Roses album that seemed to take forever to make. It became something of a mythical beast within the music industry. For a time, I thought it was a conceptual joke, Chinese democracy will never happen. Indeed, China has many problems relating to freedom that some in the West have overlooked.
Freedom of expression, democratic values and human rights abuses are way behind standards Europeans and North Americans take for granted. Given the rise of Daesh, the civil war in Syria and Kim Kardashian's necklace theft, the Chinese civil rights abuses have gone under the radar. For this reason, most people won't have heard of Ilham Tohti and his imprisonment.
Who is He?
He is a Chinese economist and a member of the Turkic Uighur community, which is mainly Muslim. Born in Xinjiang, in China's northwest, he migrated east to Beijing for his studies. Although living a city thousands of miles away, his thoughts were never far from his homeland. He started to write about his homeland and the issues that were affecting his people.
As his writing was critical of the Chinese system, it wasn't long before the authorities took notice of him. In 2014, tensions in the region escalated and it wasn't long before the Chinese intelligence service came clamping down and Ilham Tohti was no exception.
Trial and Prison
In February of that year, he was charged with separatism. In the September, Tohti was tried. Many human rights observers described it as a "politicized show trial". Although he advocated peaceful protest and wanted to build a bridge between the various factions, he was found and given a life sentence.
Just to give you a flavour of the pantomime nature of the trial, Human Rights Watch reported; "The indictment also cited as evidence a survey Tohti re-posted about Uighurs' attitudes toward independence and a meeting on religion at a Hong Kong university that Tohti suggested some of his students to attend. The authorities alleged that Tohti's expressions and writings have "subversive intent." The indictment gives no evidence or precise details about how these articles, interviews, or meetings constitute "separatism." His lawyers said that none of these writings incited violence or terrorism."
Since then, many human rights campaigners have tried to highlight his imprisonment –he recently was awarded the Martin Ennals award for defending human rights– but the rest of the global media have been slow giving his plight the attention it deserves.
International Reaction
Maybe China is out of the news cycle and the Tohti story is not sexy enough to be covered. Maybe the world needs another Tiananmen Square to stand up and take notice. Really, they shouldn't. There is enough evidence to highlight China's abuses. Although the official numbers of death penalties remain a State secret, China is without doubt one of the most persistent offenders in this regard. Also, equally important is the dubious nature surrounding a number of the convictions. Workers' rights also leaves a lot to be desired, particularly for migrant workers. Interestingly, China is run by a communist party. There have been many labour strikes in the last few years with people demanding better rights and conditions. Gender equality is lacking, too. In recent weeks, it has come to light that many financial institutions are using pictures of women naked as collateral on loans.
China's reputation may change with Trump's election in the US. Although, the US ran Guantanamo for years and may want to lay off the human rights issues for a few years. The trade China does with the rest of the world puts it in a strong position and almost above criticism. Unless this changes, nobody will seriously question them on these issues. If the international community keeps patting itself on the back rather than challenging nations' deplorable behaviour people will continue to suffer. The Chinese Government will certainly not do it on their own volition.
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Everything You Need to Know About Giorgio Armani Face Fabric FoundationMarch 28, 2018
Giorgio Armani Face Fabric Foundation is officially back by popular demand. Formulated 10 years ago, the product amassed a dedicated cult following, especially from the likes of celebrities. So when the product disappeared from the shelves, beauty lovers (including those aforementioned celebs) panicked. According to our friends at Cosmopolitan, the liquid foundation even made its way into a certain "K" named sisters' list of "most missed products in makeup history." For a product deserving that kind of attention and longing following its discontinuation, you know it had to be really good. Hence, its long-awaited revival.
If you're wondering about the product's denim-themed packaging or why it's named "face fabric," the brand poetically relates the foundation to the experience of trying on the *perfect* pair of jeans. In the same way those jeans hug your body shape, Face Fabric foundation creates a "second skin effect," for a casual, matte finish that's as much of a staple in your everyday routine as your jean & T-Shirt combo.
Its unique formula starts as a mousse and melts into your skin to become a lightweight, powder matte — which is different from a lot of formulas we're used to. The buildable formula makes it ideal for spring and summer months when you want a natural finish with just the right amount of coverage. If you're looking for a foundation that'll blur your pores and imperfections like an Instagram filter without masking your face with product, this foundation's your answer.
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Henry Werner (credit: Passaic County Prosecutor's Office)
CLIFTON, N.J. — A homeless man stabbed two men, killing one, at the Richfield Shopping Center in Clifton on Monday morning, authorities said.
Police have arrested Henry Werner, 61. Witnesses told CBS 2 that Werner started beating up an 81-year-old man for no apparent reason. The victim's 67-year-old friend died from a stab wound when he stepped in and tried to stop Werner.
"The two fellows who were stabbed came down from Dunkin' Donuts, and Henry followed them down," Debbie Roon, who runs the Town Wash Tub laundromat, told 1010 WINS' Al Jones.


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Sat 9/28/13: Saturday is here!!!! Lots going on this weekend.
First and foremost…going to get a short early walk in then a really good Foundation workout in. Have to get stretched out good for my golf tournament this morning. The Foundation Training Poses just lengthen my muscles out so well! After play today, home for some Ole Miss-vs-Ala football. I know on paper Alabama wins…but we all like the home team and the underdog. Lets go Rebels! Then mostly resting up for tommorrow to finish golf tournament….another early start. That's my weekend….gonna be good!
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A Big Enough Byte
Backups are usually a thorn in the side of most IT shops — especially in small offices. Take it from someone who knows: Tech staffs dread spending the time necessary to create these backups; plus, the cost can be enormous. But with the advent of disk-to-disk solutions, checking the logs every morning and swapping out the tapes will soon be a thing of the past.
As storage prices come down, it may be time to consider upgrading older backup approaches to something more robust and flexible. Even so, it's not time to let go of that precious tape system just yet.
Here are a few best practices that should help your school make a successful move toward disk-to-disk-to-tape backup.
Choose the Right Software
Application selection will play a major role in the completeness of your school's backups, the time spent managing them and the thoroughness of any data recovery efforts. It's wise to spend a lot of time evaluating products to find the one that meets your particular needs.
The initial upfront investment makes the value of a little research worthwhile to avoid headaches later on. A few things to look for: the ability to use versioning, a user-friendly interface, thorough reporting and stability.
One way to save money is to have a central server that you can pull all of the data to before the backup software takes over. For most backup systems, application charges are based on the number of servers or workstations, which can quickly add up to big bucks. If you can copy the data on your SQL server or web server to your main backup server before you run a backup, then you can save money on licenses for those servers, as well as on yearly maintenance contracts.
In my shop, we use the utility rsync to grab data from most of the servers for consolidation on a main backup server before the backup app stores files to a tape system and manages versioning.
Hold Onto the Tape
Most schools have tape backup systems in place, so continuing to use them does not increase costs. Sure, you have to pay to keep the warranty current on the hardware and buy tape when needed, but those are minor expenses and probably already built into your budget. Plus, it's easy to store tape offsite: Tape can be stored just about anywhere, doesn't take up much space and offers a great secondary backup. You're not likely to get in trouble for having too many backups, especially if disaster strikes.
The best thing about using your tape backup system as a secondary solution is you can run backups whenever you want because you will be backing up from the central backup server. You will not use any network bandwidth, and you will not have to take servers offline to complete the backup.
Choose the Optimal Hardware
When people first consider disk storage, there's a tendency to assume that an expensive storage area network will be necessary to house the disk-to-disk backups. While a SAN does allow redundancy and boosts throughput, it's not essential to move to disk storage. For disk-to-disk backup, there are a few main requirements, for which you don't necessarily need to implement a SAN.
First, you need a lot of storage. Take the entire amount of data you want to back up and multiply it 15 or 20 times: That's how much capacity you should plan to have for your current backups.
You can always plan for more, especially if the amount of data you store has been increasing steadily over the years. But the reason the 15-to-20 multiplier works is because we don't do full backups every single day. By using incremental, differential and versioning backups, you can streamline and store only the changes made to files, and not duplicate complete files over and over again.
Second, you need hardware that's prepared for any type of failure. Using some sort of RAID configuration is a must, and purchasing a system with redundant hardware also makes sense to ensure continuity of operations. For instance, I buy extra hard drives that I keep in case I have one or two that break down in my configuration. RAID 6 is my choice because it provides dual parity and will protect against failure even if two drives die in my configuration.
Set a Schedule
There are many ways to craft a backup schedule, and a lot of outside factors will affect what you choose to do. You should consider the size of your backup window, how it affects available bandwidth, whether the backup will require server downtime and how often certain servers need to be backed up.
Let's say you have five database servers that need to be backed up once a day only. You can schedule these backups to happen at different times and then move the files to the main backup server. Using the existing tools in most databases, you can back up a database without having to affect users. If you stagger each backup and copy job by 15 minutes, you will prevent an overload of traffic on the network during peak usage hours.
Another thing to think about is how you want to manage your full and incremental versioning. In the past, with tape systems, most people made full backups at the end of each week and each month and incremental backups during weekdays. With versioning and fast disk-to-disk storage, you can back up a lot more data more often. If your backup software can do versioning, then you have flexibility in how long you keep your backups. For example, if you have backup jobs that run daily, weekly and monthly, you might set the expiration for the daily runs at two weeks, weekly backups at six weeks and monthly jobs at two years. This scenario means each backup overlaps another and protects your data against any unusual or unexpected failure. Plus, with versioning, you can make efficient use of available hard-drive space.
Use Versioning
Think of versioning as keeping a running log of all the changes to your files over a length of time. Let's say you have a file that you work on almost daily. Something happens to the file that causes some ill effect, and day after day it continues to deteriorate. With versioning, you can pick a certain point in time from which to restore the file.
Versioning makes backups more efficient because it lets you create one full backup, and then back up only changes to files. This leaves you with more available storage, so you can buy less storage capacity up front or keep your existing backups for a longer period of time.
Backing Up Versus Archiving: What's the Difference?
Backups are copies of information, made at regular intervals, whose sole purpose is to provide the option of restoring data from a specific point in time.
Archives are created to store data that rarely changes or only rarely needs to be accessed. Archived information is migrated to another location (preferably only once), where data can be retrieved through keyword or metadata searches.
In this context, a mix of disk and tape makes sense (especially relative to pricing, because tape remains the less-expensive option). For instance, you might slowly move all your backups to disk, while maintaining your archives on tape.


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A Grisly Discovery
Archaeologists in Italy recently told of a vampire sighting of their own when they discovered the remains of what was believed to have been a female vampire. They uncovered the body and found it with a brick forced into its jaw. Forensic archaeologists told worldwide news outlets that the discovery took place while researchers were investigating a 1576 mass grave said to contain the bodies of plague victims.
It was common during the Middle Ages for victims of the plague to be buried and then unburied as more bodies were added to these mass graves. It was reported that some of the unburied bodies would have a dark, blood-like substance under their noses and mouths. The workers believed this was a sign that these dead bodies were the bodies of vampires and that they were part of the cause of the plague. To prevent these "undead" creatures from continuing to spread the plague, the gravediggers would put bricks or rocks into the mouth of the corpse in hope of preventing the plague from spreading further. The body discovered by the archaeologists is proof of that practice taking place.
The Curious Case of Anastasie Dieudonne
The St. Petersburg Times reported the story of Anastasie Dieudonne in 1927. The young woman, who originated from Haiti, had confessed to drugging her niece and draining her blood by making a small incision between her toes. The paper reported that Anastasie was driven to act by an uncontrollable urge and that she was mentally ill. Many social historians have claimed that the story of Anastasie Dieudonne was driven more by a disorder than by her adoption of vampirism, but the act of drinking blood from another living human being qualifies Anastasie as a vampire.
Arnold Paole: The Soldier Who Returned
A Serbian soldier returned home from war to settle down in 1727. His name was Arnold Paole, and it didn't take long for those around him to remark that he had changed considerably since going to war. Arnold finally admitted that he had been attacked by a vampire while serving in the army. He then claimed that he tracked and killed the creature of the night. However, he still feared that he would become a vampire.
After Arnold Paole died a short time later, a lot of people claimed to have seen him. His body was exhumed, and it seemed that new skin was growing beneath the dead skin on top. His body was staked and, from reports of the time, it was said that he groaned in pain. Locals removed his head and burned his body.


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Bathsheba was the wife of Uriah the Hittite. While he was away at war, King David caught a glimpse of Bathsheba bathing on the roof of her home. He found her beautiful and sent for her. He slept with her and she became pregnant. In order to try to cover his sin, he brought Uriah home from war to sleep with his wife, but he did not, citing the fact that no one else was allowed the luxury of returning to their home, so he wished to stay with his men. This was very troubling to David, who was hoping that Uriah could claim the pregnant Bathsheba as carrying HIS child. When this plan didn't work, David had Uriah sent to the front lines of the war where he would no doubt be killed. When Bathsheba got word that her husband had died, she grieved for him. When her mourning period was over, David brought her into his household as his wife.
Nathan the prophet was sent to David to express the Lord's displeasure in what he had done, and Bathsheba's son was stricken ill and died. Soon after the baby's death, Bathsheba bore another son, and they named him Solomon.
In David's old age, Bathsheba next appears to plead to the king that her son Solomon should be the next king, not Adonijah. David proclaimed that Solomon would be his successor and had him anointed king.
In 1Kings 2, Bathsheba was also asked to be a messenger from Adonijah to his brother, King Solomon. Bathsheba is mentioned as the mother of Solomon in 1 Chronicles and also in Psalm 51:1
You can read the full story of David and Bathsheba in 2 Samuel 11:1- 12:25, 1 Kings 1:1- 2:22, 1 Chronicles 3 and Psalm 51.
Sarai was the wife of Abram. Sarai was unable to conceive a child and was barren for a very long time. Sarai faithfully followed her husband to many new lands, both traveling by faith. Several times, Sarai was asked to lie for her husband. He told her twice to tell the ruler of a land they entered that she was Abram's sister, so that he would not be killed for her beauty. The Lord inflicted bad illnesses on the households of the rulers who took her as his wife, so she was returned to her husband and they were told to leave the land. Sarai's barrenness caused her to lose faith that God would provide, so she gave her slave, Hagar, to her husband in hopes that Hagar would conceive a child for her. Hagar did conceive and gave birth to a son, Ishmael. Sarai mistreated Hagar and she ran away, but the Lord promised to increase the descendants of Ishmael, so she returned to Sarai. For Abram's faithfulness, God changed his name to Abraham (when he was in his 90's) and changed Sarai's name to Sarah. The Lord told him at that point that Sarah would conceive him a son and they would call him Isaac, and the Lord would bless the descendants of this son. Abraham and Sarah laughed, since she was such an elderly lady, but the Lord kept his promise. Sarah conceived a son when she was in her elderly years and named him Isaac. Sarah lived to be 127 years old.
You can read more about Sarai/Sarah in the book of Genesis (Genesis 12 – Genesis 23)