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So far, we have had many little miracles as we have made the effort to go over there that lets us know this is right. My wife, in talking to the Bishop's wife - over there (mentioned in previous blog post about Kalispell as a gathering spot), said there are 13 families who have suddenly and for no apparent reason other than a feeling to get out of their existing locations, have moved into the ward. That is just one ward in the Stake - and there are a total of nine wards in that general area. Makes me wonder what the other adjacent wards are experiencing. It was this good woman who was pivotal in getting my wife 100% on board with this whole thing. I have always felt God's hand in this plan - my wife just moves more cautiously, I guess. Not a bad combination - me more impulsive and she more cautious. Just sometimes a little unnerving when you have to be yoked together and you feel the urgency to move quickly....
I really feel this is one of the crown jewels of the blog because of its sincerity and simplicity in bearing principle of the basics of life and how God wants us to operate here on this earth - well above our means and striving to our full God-centered potential. God doesn't care what kind of car we drove, the size of the house we lived in, or even the positions we held in the church. He just wants us to recognize Him, our dependence on Him and to show our gratitude to Him by serving our fellow man. Here is that experience typed out (thank you again for doing that kind act of service!):
We were trailing 600 head of cattle from the upper Little Bighorn valley
to our Wolf Mountain ranch, a distance of 65 miles. The drive lasted
four days.
At the outset, I became very despondent. A gloom settled over me like I
had never known before. Try as I would, I could not get relief from it
nor could I determine it's cause. There was no known reason for it. It
seemed that prayer was of little consequence. On the fourth day, we
were neraing our South range where the cattle would enter the ranch. I
was not too well acquainted with the country so I went on ahead of the
herd to scout out the best route. I pondered my feelings all the way
and without hardly knowing it I came to the gate where we would enter
the ranch with the herd. Not feeling inclined to dismount, and to open
the gate, I sat thinking over the situation. I had prayed earnestly
while riding along to get an answer to this problem, when to my
astonishment a voice said to me, "What are you doing with your
Priesthood? Why don't you use your Priesthood and bless your ranch?" I,
therefore, dismounted and obedient to the voice, I blessed by the
authority I held, the grass, the vegetation of all varieties, the air
and sky above, the water resources, the springs, the wells, the
reservoirs; I blessed the cattle and all else pertaining to our
property. Then I rebuked each and every agency of destruction that
would in any way harm the property. Having done this, I mounted and
headed back to the herd.
As I rode along, a peace came over me of such a heavenly nature, and a
happiness that I had scarecely ever felt, causing the tears to run down
my face, and a serge of gratitude to the Lord for his Goodness.
During the subequent days and years things happened on the ranch that
one could scarecely believe. The previous year had been a very dry one.
The neighboring ranchers drilled new wells and deepened existing wells,
and since the years following were very dry, this practice continued,
while my springs increased their flow, likewise my wells. The neighbor
on the North and West lost his springs and his well dried up, leaving
his cattle solid against my line fence bawling their heads off while my
well a hundred yards away pumped large volumes of water, keeping two one
thousand gallon tanks running over into the canyon below. I was getting
ready to build a corridor into my tanks for his cattle when he moved
My neighbor on the Southwest lost his water and watered his stock from
my spring surplus runoff. Rain fell on my property from clouds which
seemed to form without any incoming clouds. For an example, I was in
the meadow one day and a little black cloud began to form just over my
head. It grew blacker until the rain fell in torrents, the cloud not
extending beyond my fence line. I was on my South range one day and the
same thing took place. A neighbor said to me one day, "Jim, we are
going to burn up!" "No, Oscar," I said, "it is going to rain." In a
day or two a long beautiful rain came. I was riding with a neighbor on
our North range one day, I was pasturing some of his cattle, his range
had dried up, when he said to me, "This is a cow heaven." My grain
cut-produced that of my neighbor year after year, even though I believe
he was the best farmer.
The neighbors were constantly telling me that they could see the hand of
Providence in my affairs. I met a neighbor on the road one day and he
startled me with this request, "We want you to go home and do whatever
you have to do to get US some rain." This from a man whom we always
thought to be far from anything Heavenly.
This Saturday night I was coming off the the Bighorn Mountains with a
cattle truck loaded with horses. The Aaronic Priesthood and I had been
on an outing. As we broke out of the mountains into the valley we were
startled with a sight which frightened us. Off to the Northwest
extending for many miles was this ominous black cloud. It was showing a
furry seldom seen in a cloud. We just got into Hardin, a town where we
had a home in town as the storm broke. The hail came in torrents. Over
in the Yellowstone Valley, 32 miles away, the hail piled up until the
cars were pushing it with their bumpers like a bulldozer. Billings had
a hail damage of six million dollars. Everything growing for fifty
miles North and South and one hundred miles East and West was beaten to
a pulp, not a living thing left. Roofs in our vicinity were beaten off
the houses. The hail stones were as large as hen eggs. We went to our
Sunday meetings and then headed for the ranch 40 miles away. We were
only able to get within ten miles of the ranch as Sarpy Creek was out of
it's banks and the bridge flooded. I asked a rancher at this place how
extensive the total destruction was. He said it was many miles in all
Sister Ferrell and I returned to Haqrdin and waited until Monday morning
when we set out again. We scarcely said a word as we rode the forty
miles, each possessed of the same thoughts and Oh! that question! As we
topped the rise to where we could see our grain fields, we hardly dared
breathe, bubt imagine our feelings when we viewed with tears in our eyes
those precious heads of grain standing erect, waving a welcome to us in
the gentle breeze. Our grass was not damanged, the vegetation on our
ranch was scarcely touched.
We drove down the driveway and I was still with the truck when the
neighbor came roaring in with his jeep. He leaped to the ground and
began to wave his arms in the direction of our grain fields, exlaiming,
"I have seen a miracle! If I had not seen it with my own eyes I would
never have believed it, and seeing it I scarcely believe." He then
said, "There is no question but that your Maker is watching over you."
It was in the spring the last week in April, My son Dick and I had just
finished getting ready for Priesthood meeting. I opened the front door
to leave when a feeling came over me. I turned to Dick and said to him
that I felt impressed that we should leave at once for the ranch. He
said, "Well, Dad, if you feel that way that's what we had better do."
We turned around, told my wife of my feeling in which she concured. I
gave the books and records to my daughter to take to the chapel, and
Dick and I left for the ranch.
By the time we arrived there a fierce northern blizzard was blowing in
with already four inches of snow. We were in the midst of calving out a
large herd of cows. We quickly saddled our horses and began to press
the cattle toward the barns and correls. They were scattered in all
directions within a mile or two of the home place. As is always the
case, a storm will start the calves coming thick and fast, and this was
the case. The blizzard increased in intensity until the cattle could
hardly be seen. Dick and I carried new born calves on the horses,
wrapping our sheepskin coats around them to keep them from instantly
freezing, until after midnight until we had all the stragglers houses.
Dick and I nearly perished from exposure ourselves. The storm raged for
three days and nights until we had thirty six inches of snow on the
level. All gullies and canyons up to 60 to 70 feet deep were filled to
the level. We lost just one calf and that one we bedded down in some
willows with a bale of straw. He was smothered but his mother got out.
Our neighbor, the Scott Land and Livestock, lost 80 head of big fine
heifers smothered in a canyon. One neighbor to the South and East who
could not get to his cattle for a week came back by our ranch and said
almost still in shock, "I'm not going back. I can't stand what I saw up
How wonderfully blessed we have been. How good the Lord has been to us.
Stalk through the land, and if so who may abide the evil day? I think
the challenge is crying in our ears as the people of the Lord. How can
we stand as an ensign to the people, to our neighbors, when the ravages
of an earth in rebellion because of the wickedness upon her face,
ravages the people of the Lord, even as it does the wicked of the earth,
or those that know not the Lord. I am deeply convinced that the Lord of
the harvest would love us more, and smile ever so approvingly upon us if
we would arise from our lethergy, and move and have our being in the
realm in which we are called and to which we are ordained.
I have been show that in these perilous times, now that we have had the
Priesthood in our midst for about a hundred and forty years, in the
which time it ought to have been made such a part of our lives, and so
familiar with it's power and blessing, ought we to have become, that it
now, in this hour of great need the Priesthood could stay the hand of
the destroyer, calm the winds, dispell the frost, provide a spirit of
peace, gladden the earth over which we preside, make our fields blossom
as the rose, and make of our dominion a garden of Eden, and I say I have
seen that this power given us long ago, if by it's use we cannot save
ourselves, because God will not do for us what we have the power to do
for ourselves, or could have had, or ought to have.
I would pray therefore, that while it is called today, we arise with a
mighty will and put into motion these glorious forces, so that Zion may
disperse desolation so that all things over which we have jurisdiction
and control may be a holy place where we may stand and not be moved out
of this place, so that our neighbors and those not of us may be
constrained to acknowledge that the God of the Latter Day Saints is not
dead neither doth he sleep.
There will come a time that our farmers will have to unite as we have
never hitherto done. This ought to be done now, that those less
skilled, and with less machinery may get help from those endowed with
both, so that there may not be a lonliness and discouragement in the
hearts of our brethern who are toiling under heavy loads and cannot help
themselves. Would it not be a glorious thing for those thus afflicted
to know that they do not stand alone but their more able and more
fortunate brethern are instantly at hand to sustain and support them?
This I know will come, for upon this principle will Latter Day Zion be
Said the Lord, this thing will be established in Zion even if it must
needs be by the things which my people suffer. It would be ever so much
better if the brethren would come into their own voluntarily.
President Baker, I have made this too long, but how could I say it
shorter. May the Lord bless and sustain you and your brethern in
happiness and peace.
Kindest personal regards.
Sincerely your brother,
Jas. A. Ferrell


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Trading is the best way to get FIFA 15 coins on FIFA 15 Ultimate Team.However,if you know the ways to trade in FIFA? Let's start with the most basic of the tendencies: from the beginning and until the end of the game, prices are constantly falling. Forget about building a squad focusing on its valorization in the future, because this will never happen. After a month it'll be worth less than you paid for and after two months the devaluation will be even bigger. The more time passed, the less your cards will be worth on the market. It's the natural law.
Along this guide we'll be illustrating our conclusions through graphics. It's the clearest and most exact way there is for us to explain the influence each one of these factors have on market prices. It's good if you're able to interpret simple graphics such as this one. As you can see, it represents the price variations through time. It's a descending line and the inclination varies according to the cards.
This representation of ours is too simplistic, though. In cases where the cards' prices get close to their quick sell value, there is a converging aspect for the price such as the following image shows. So when the cards' prices fall enough for them to get close to their quick sell value, they reach a minimum that's kept until the end. It doesn't go below that. The time it takes for a card to reach this final balanced price depends on its initial price (marked with an 'A' on the image). If the card's initial price is sufficiently high, it will never be close to its quick sell value, that's more appropriate for what the first image illustrates.
Except for rare situations, which we'll explain later on this article, investing on players whose prices are close to their quick sell value is a bad strategy. Soon they'll hit their historic minimum and the price will never increase again.
We said that the player cards' prices decrease from the beginning and until the end of the game. But actually that doesn't happen on the first day. Prices will go up until they hit a historic maximum after approximately two weeks, and only then the tendency is falling. We all get bronze teams initially and little by little we make improvements. So what happens is that the demand for average players is ridiculously higher than the market's supply at the moment. Once the market has a bigger supply of these players, many people start going for the top players and the law of supply and demand goes back to being active.
The increment on prices during the first two weeks is very similar to all cards. However, the price falling that comes right after varies from player to player. Some get more devaluated because they didn't match the expectations. This period of two weeks corresponds to the game's learning curve and at this point players are already sharp enough into the game play to realise if the players are effectively good or if their price needs adjustment.
The price behaviour we described here isn't equal to all players. The most expensive cards tend to lose their value more slowly. This happens because the amount of coins circulating gets bigger with time and more people are able to buy stars. They no longer want to buy ordinary players and so go for the expensive ones, those that are missing for their squad's completion. More people are willing to pay more to have good players. This makes the most expensive players' prices get even more distant to the less expensive ones, as you can see on the image below.
In some extremely rare cases, such as what happens with Messi and Ronaldo, the player's price never goes down. It can be the opposite, though: it might go up. Obviously there are fluctuations, but those are justified by other factors that we'll explain later on this guide. We're just talking about general tendencies. The justification for this potential price increment is the same as the ones we gave before: while there's game, there will always be someone wanting to buy these players. If that's your case do it, but have the coins for them first, of course. If you postpone your purchase, you'll probably pay more unless you also get the coins for other players that just had their price lowered.

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Mrs. Mogul posts on the following stores that went out of business in what she thinks is due to their poor naming.
Candle Store – The Almost Edible Candle Gourmet Shop
Ice Cream Store – The Marble Slab
Pet Store – Doggy Style
Your business name is the most critical piece of your branding. How do you know if your clever name will be worthless or a winner?
Try test marketing with these short questions (with strangers for best results).
1. What images does this name make you think of?
2. What feeling does this name give you?
3. If you purchased something from this store, who would it be for?
4. What product/service do you think this company offers?
5. What if I told you this company sold _________? What do you think now?
An effective brand is congruent with the company purpose. If you find the answers to these questions out of whack, revise your name until it's right. There's a lot at stake – so it's worth the investment.
Andrea Morris is a marketing coach who specializes in helping visionaries, entrepreneurs, consultants and small businesses use high-ROI strategies to get the right message to the right people. For more information, please visit writeideasmarketing.com


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A recent study by Accenture Security uncovered a disconnection between how organizations perceive cyber threats and the actual reality of the situation.
The High Performance Security Report 2016 revealed that 75% of security executives claimed they were confident in their cybersecurity strategies, and 70% reported that their organizations have already adopted a culture of cybersecurity – yet one in three targeted attacks succeeded, resulting in a breach.
It's time to face reality
To close the gap between perception and reality, organizations should "reboot their approaches to cybersecurity". The following six steps to help you rethink your cybersecurity strategy have been taken from the report:
- Define cybersecurity success
The misalignment between cybersecurity strategy and business imperatives is the root cause of why perceptions don't match reality. Overcome this issue by identifying the best strategy for your company based on your assets and capabilities, the cyber threats your company is facing and the way success or failure is measured in business terms.
- Pressure-test security capabilities the way adversaries do
Engage ethical hackers to run attack simulations and realistically assess your ability to defend your company from external threats. IT Governance is a CREST member and its range of penetration tests have been verified as meeting the high standards mandated by CREST. Moreover, all of our penetration testers hold the Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) qualification.
- Protect from the inside out
Internal hackers are advantaged compared to external ones because they know where key assets are located. Prioritize securing your key assets from insider threats. If you want to know more about insider threat, read the bestselling Insider Threat – A Guide to Understanding, Detecting, and Defending Against the Enemy from Within.
- Invest to innovate and outmaneuver
Widen and diversify your strategy to stay ahead of cyber criminals more easily by investing in seven key cybersecurity domains: business alignment, strategic threat context, extended ecosystem, governance and leadership, cyber resilience, cyber response readiness, and investment efficiency. Don't just spend money on existing programs.
- Make security everyone's job
The security team isn't always the first to detect a breach. The breach will often become apparent to front line staff first, who then notify the security team. As a result, it's vital that staff keep up to date with the latest cyber threats and cybersecurity best practices to improve your organization's threat detection capabilities and reduce the chances of staff-related security incidents. Empower your staff by implementing a staff awareness program based on individual eLearning courses and make your staff part of your cybersecurity strategy.
- Lead from the top
Cybersecurity should not just be confined to the IT room, but should be discussed with senior management on a daily basis. The CISO needs to proactively engage with enterprise leadership and make cybersecurity a top priority.
If you want to know more about protecting your company from cyber threats, call us toll free on 1 877 317 3454 or email email@example.com.


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Lydia Rose Bright has come a long way since she burst on to our screens wearing a giant floppy hat on The Only Way Is Essex, now, well she's a bonafide fashion star with her own fashion collection for LipstickBoutique.com.
The new spring summer collection sees the Lydia Rose Bright label evolve from a 10-piece capsule range to an extensive womenswear range. Watch our exclusive video with Lydia Rose Bright below and scroll down to find out more on what Lydia had to say about the end of TOWIE, her love of Victoria Beckham and what her boyfriend Tom Kilbey really thinks about her style.
Lydia Rose Bright on… Carrie Bradshaw
"She is one of my main style icons so I have taken inspiration from some of the dresses that she's worn in the past for my new collection."
Lydia Rose Bright on… Style icons other than Carrie Bradshaw
"I'm really into the 50s era of fashion so the big style icons for me were of course Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot, Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn. When designing my collection I researched what kind of dresses they wore. I'm also inspired by present style icons too; Olivia Palermo, Blake Lively, Sienna Miller…"
"I always knew it was something I wanted to do, and obviously TOWIE came along and that changed my world. It was something that just came naturally to me… I've absolutely loved it. I feel like it's a career now."
Lydia Rose Bright on… Victoria Beckham
"She's an inspiration to me, not in the style aspects because we have different styles, I like more feminine, vintage styles. But in terms of business she's an inspiration. She's created an empire. She's definitely someone to look up to."
Lydia Rose Bright on… Her mum
"My mum always steals my shoes, she always buys flat shoes and then when it comes to red carpet events she always raids my wardrobe for my heels."
Lydia Rose Bright on… Her boyfriend Tom Kilbey
"He loves my new collection, he's really proud… he's got a completely different style to me. If he designed a collection for girls, it would be completely different to this. It would be jeans, slogan t-shirts, fringing. But saying that, he loves my style."
Lydia Rose Bright on… Festival fashion
"I've designed a lot of dresses, most of them are for proms and balls but there are some dresses that are versatile - perfect for shopping or at a festival."
Lydia Rose Bright on… Whether she's changed
"I think my style has evolved, I was always into my vintage shopping but now as I've got older I've really found my own style. As a person, I really hope not! I've definitely grown up when I started on the show I was 18, and I've just turned 22. When I started on TOWIE I'd just got back from travelling and I'd never had a proper job, and now I've got my own business, my own fashion collection and a house!"
Lydia Rose Bright on… Her fave beauty look
"My favourite look is Hollywood glamour. I love really matte, porcelain finishes over the dewy fresh look. I like smokey eyes, I don't go to heavy, I stick to browns and good to bring blue eyes out. Lashes, obviously I love my lashes! For lips, I love a red lip, a lovely nude lip and as we go into summer bright pinks."
Lydia Rose Bright on… 2013
"2013 is about continuing to build the Lydia Rose Bright brand so really focus on my fashion career and carry on designing my new ranges and as well branching out from just clothing, doing footwear and accessories - everything within the fashion bracket."
Shop Lydia Rose Bright's collection now at Lipstickboutique.co.uk


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Oh! Wow! Blogger and Safari have finally decided to play together nicely so I can post without jumping through hoops! What a nice surprise. How exciting! Woot! For me anyway.
The long summer marched on as one of the most humid on record. Soooo glad fall is here, even if it's not very cool and dry yet. At least we're out of the 90s.
So....currently. We are into pirates. A very inexpensive trip to the dollar store brought so much joy. He's Captain Hook and I'm Captain Awesome. :-D
A trip to Walmart added a hat and sword. Everyone asks if he is going to be a pirate for Halloween. "NO!" he says. "I'm a pirate for my birthday."
Stardust has recently had some experience being a fairy. What a lovely idea. I'm feeling quite sad I wasn't there having my picture taken too. Crone Fairy. LOL
In other news, the road around the pond has been completely replaced. It's fabulous not bumping and splashing through major potholes and crumbling patches.
The recent rains have forced time stuck in the house so one day last week was finger puppet day. He chose cats.
In the interest of actually finishing something, I dragged out this quilt top I put together a number of years ago.
Scarily, I bought the pattern and fabric back in the early 1990s. Yikes.
I bought several of the American Legacy patterns and the fat quarter packs over several years at the Bayberry Quilters quilt show in Cape Cod. I'm assuming it's this store as they offer "Sweet Treats" packaged up like mine are and I remember they were from San Diego. That was back before you could buy fabric on the internet and shops traveled across country to the smaller quilt shows with RVs loaded to the gills with goodies. I remember how much my children enjoyed earning a few dollars helping the vendors move their inventory in and out of the venue. The booth full of Sweet Treats and patterns was particularly popular!
Now. How to quilt it? Cross hatching should take care of all of those pinwheels nicely. I took a workshop with Sue Nickels a couple of years ago and am thinking feathers would be a nice touch in the white borders. My usual freehand feathers are fun, but I need a challenge so I found the bin with my book and class instructions and started practicing.
Not terrible, but not ready for prime time yet. :-)
And good grief! It's raining again.
Friday, September 30, 2016
2 comments:
- Chookyblue...... said...
Goodluck finishing your quilt....
- September 30, 2016 at 5:55 PM
- Jenny said...
Hello Captain Awesome! I think you must be really awesome if you can quilt feathers - I'm a bit afraid of them. Haven't ever tried though, perhaps I should give it a go.
- October 2, 2016 at 5:40 PM
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Have you ever thought about introducing electric car charging stations at your business? It's best that you jump on it, as the train has already left the station.
Research shows that over 35 million electric vehicles will be on roads around the globe by 2022. Why? Because the major shift in fuel distribution and transportation will drive the demand for electric car charging stations.
If you're the chief executive officer of a company, the manager of an apartment complex, a university administrator, a hotel owner, a parking lot owner, a hospital administrator, a government organization leader, a utility manager, or a commercial building owner, now is the perfect time to connect with EV Connect to begin taking advantage of the growing consumer trend of electric vehicle charging. Let's take a look at why EV Connect has an edge among today's electric car charging station companies.
Why EV Connect, and Why Now?
EV Connect stands out among electric car charging station companies today for its strong track record of attracting and retaining employees, tenants, and customers. It has proved time and time again that it is an excellent business partner in the electric car charging market space.
Now is a smart time to partner with EV Connect for a variety of reasons. First, the company can help you to experience potentially significant installation-related cost savings by installing stations on your property now instead of next year, when prices may rise as demand increases, or through locally available subsidy programs.
In addition, with electric car charging stations, you can more easily build and enrich your relationships with your employees, customers, and tenants long term. Finally, you may be able to take advantage of federal, state, and/or local subsidies to help with offsetting your installation and purchase costs.
The EV Connect Solution
EV Connect remains a leader among electric car charging station companies today because it can easily design a comprehensive solution for your business. In addition to answering any questions you may have, EV Connect can help you to establish as well as maintain an optimal infrastructure for your electric vehicle charging stations.
For starters, the company works with several leading electric car charging station companies. This is made possible by EV Connect's "equipment agnostic" setup. In other words, unlike its competitors, which each typically offers a solution that works with just one vendor, EV Connect can help you to choose the best station options from among various vendors for your unique business environment.
The result? More feature functionality, more long-term cost savings, and greater value overall for you and your customers, tenants, and employees.
EV Connect Customization Puts It Steps Ahead of Other Electric Car Charging Companies
An important step in building the right station solution for you is determining where to install stations on your property. EV Connect will thoroughly survey your site and figure out the most ideal station installation location based on factors such as installation costs, power availability, and your parking lot's usage.
After determining a good location for your stations, the company will customize your system for managing your electric vehicle charging stations. Thanks to EV Connect's EV Cloud, you can monitor and maintain your stations, offer support to your drivers, and generate detailed monthly activity reports for your stations.
Not many electric car charging station companies offer the type of highly integrated, scalable, robust, and intelligent charging station software platform that EV Connect provides. Therefore, when you partner with EV Connect, you can be confident that you are making the most of your electric car charging station investment and will continue to reap its benefits.
What Does EV Connect's Charge Cloud Include?
EV Connect's breakthrough software platform offers a variety of services designed to improve electric car drivers' experiences and benefit your company by minimizing downtime and maximizing utilization. These services include the following:
- Setup
- Configuration
- Usage reports regarding greenhouse emission and kWh savings
- Uptime monitoring/reporting
- Pricing controls and access
- Support related to your equipment warranty
- Flexible and customized pricing plans designed for various driver groups
Get into the Electric Car Charging Game Now!
Making electric car charging technology completely accessible is the first step in achieving a more sustainable future—EV Connect's objective. That's why EV Connect remains in demand among today's electric car charging station companies. Our company has more than 35 years of electric car charging experience, during which it has deployed and overseen thousands of charging stations.
EV Connect takes pride in offering tailored charging solutions that puts it ahead of other electric car charging station companies. Get in touch with EV Connect to find out more about how the company can help you to decrease your charging station ownership costs and boost the return on your investment for a strong bottom line and green reputation long term.


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The FAA has temporarily grounded the planes in the U.S. after a series of mishaps and malfunctions.
The FAA action applies effectively only to United Airlines, which is the sole domestic carrier currently flying the new airplanes. But other aviation authorities around the world may take similiar actions, per a recommendation by the FAA. There are a total of 50 Dreamliners, Boeing's newest airplane, in active fleets globally.
Here's Boeing's statement on the FAA action:
Boeing Statement on Federal Aviation Administration 787 ActionCHICAGO, Jan. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Boeing Chairman, President and CEO Jim McNerney issued the following statement today after the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued an emergency airworthiness directive that requires U.S. 787 operators to temporarily cease operations and recommends other regulatory agencies to follow suit:
"The safety of passengers and crew members who fly aboard Boeing airplanes is our highest priority.
"Boeing is committed to supporting the FAA and finding answers as quickly as possible. The company is working around the clock with its customers and the various regulatory and investigative authorities. We will make available the entire resources of The Boeing Company to assist.
"We are confident the 787 is safe and we stand behind its overall integrity. We will be taking every necessary step in the coming days to assure our customers and the traveling public of the 787's safety and to return the airplanes to service.
"Boeing deeply regrets the impact that recent events have had on the operating schedules of our customers and the inconvenience to them and their passengers."


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The grief process due to loss can be difficult to go through, but it helps if you know what to expect.
During grief, it is common to have many conflicting feelings. Sadness, anxiety, loneliness, sorrow, anger and guilt often accompany serious losses. Having so many strong feelings can be very stressful.
Identifying your feelings and failing to work through the five stages of grief is harder on the body and mind than it is to actually go through them. Often times people suggest to "look on the bright side," or other ways of cutting off difficult feelings. The grieving person may feel they have to hide or deny these emotions. Instead, this makes it take longer for the healing to take place.
Some stages of grief are easier to handle and quicker to resolve, while some may seem to go on for an eternity. Often, something you thought was resolved may reappear.
The following are the key components of the grief process:
- Shock. You may experience disbelief, denial or feel numb. It may seem as if the world has fallen apart.
- Flood of emotions. Crying, screaming and other emotional releases are normal. Crying is a natural healer and stress reducer and should not be held back.
- Physical symptoms. You may experience insomnia or sleep more than usual; or you may experience discomfort, fatigue, and loss of appetite or other changes.
- Anger. It's not uncommon to be angry with the loved one for leaving. The best way to work through this is to share these feelings with someone. If you express your anger, it will eventually subside.
- Guilt. Even if there is no factual reason for it, you may feel guilty. You may go through "if only" feelings. Openly sharing these feelings with others is very helpful in forgiving yourself.
- Depression. You may feel that you will never recover – never be happy again. If you allow yourself to grieve, however, you will eventually regain your happiness. (If you have suicidal feelings, please contact an emergency help line, a family member, or a friend immediately.)
- Idealization and realization. At first you may feel that the past was perfect and the future will never be quite as good. As you work through your grief, however, you'll find that the past was good and bad, and that the future may not be so bleak.
- Detachment. As you begin to see the past as the past, you can develop new routines in your life.
- Continuing your life. Over time, if the normal stages of grieving have not been inhibited, you will adjust to the loss and go on with life. You do not forget the loss (and are still periodically saddened by it), but you will no longer be consumed by the grief or let it dictate your life.
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One of the hardest things about life is staying calm in a very difficult situation. Most people cannot handle the difficult situations of life without getting angry. In fact for most people, it takes very little to make them very angry.
The problem is when anger appears, you can guarantee that all wisdom is gone. I have been amazed over the years to watch adults, in fits of anger, act like little children. In fact, at times, I have wished I had a video camera to film the person as they are acting out their anger.
For most people, they think that anger is not that big of a deal. The trouble is that it is always a big deal. It has profound impact upon our families. He causes deep hurts that take a long time to heal..
I could keep explaining all that the problems that "anger" brings in our lives. But we all have been the brunt of someone's anger and we fully understand the pain that comes from anger.
So the question is: Why do some people stay calm in life? What ingredient do they have that the rest can never find? Solomon records in Proverbs 14:29 a simple statement about how to stay calm. He says, "He who is slow to anger has great understanding." Calm people have one ingredient that the rest of the world does not have – great understanding.
- They understand the work of God in their lives.
- They understand the presence of Jesus in their lives (Gal. 2:20 – I have been crucified with Christ, it is not longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.)
- They understand human nature and why people act the way that they act.
- They understand the importance of walking correctly in life.
- They understanding that doing good is really a good thing.
- They understand that God is a God of vengeance, so they leave vengeance to the hands of God.
- They understand that God is good and all the time that God is good!
- They have an great understanding of God's grace and how to show grace to all they come in contact with in life.
- They understand the importance of giving thanks and in giving thanks they find peace.
It is a simple truth of life – angry people are arrogant and dumb (no understanding). Calm people have figured out life and are truly enjoying it with all humility.
Proverbs 17:27 He who restrains his words has knowledge, And he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.


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After leaving Silicon Graphics, Jim Clark wanted to get into the interactive-television business, but wasn't sure where fire would next strike. With Mosaic, Clark thinks he has found the spark.
__When Wired last spoke with Jim Clark, in the fall of 1993 for a profile of Silicon Graphics Inc. (issue 2.01, page 116), he was chair of the red-hot company that continues to dominate 3-D interactive computer graphics. But Clark was clearly unhappy with how he'd been treated at his own company, and during the course of a lengthy interview, he let his hair down, revealing that he almost resigned when SGI executives, including company president Ed McCracken, were resistant to his ideas for bringing the company into the future. What he didn't say then was that while it appeared that SGI was adapting to Clark's view of the future, a future in which SGI technology would fuel interactive-TV networks and Nintendo videogames, he was viewed less like a visionary than as an eccentric uncle - tolerated, but not taken very seriously. "I was not happy there for about four years," Clark now says. "It was too much of a struggle to get anything done."
So in a February 1994 SGI board of directors meeting, Clark handed in his resignation. Within weeks, he was talking vaguely about a software company that would develop graphical user interfaces. During one conversation with Wired more than a month before he made public his new company, his response to a casual question about his thoughts on Mosaic elicited a telling reply: "Why are you asking me that?" He suddenly sounded wary, almost paranoid.
In April, Clark announced that he had formed Mosaic Communications Corporation - which would be producing a commercial version of Mosaic with new and improved features - with Mosaic author Marc Andreessen.
Michael Goldberg met with Clark at his new offices in Mountain View, California. After years of frustration at SGI, he seemed content.__
Wired: Six months ago, you were chair of the board of Silicon Graphics; now you're heading a new software company, Mosaic Communications Corporation. How did that come about?
Jim Clark:
A lot of the things that I was trying to get done at SGI were going as rapidly as a company that size was going to be able to push them. I wasn't happy with the pace.
What was wrong?
SGI isn't pushing volume into the marketplace. Volume is going to set the standard and it may be already too late. My challenge to the company is make that technology available at prices that are competitive with PCs. It's doable; just do it. That's what I used to tell them, but no one ever got it. If I wanted to right now, I could just blow SGI to smithereens. I'd never do it. But all that's got to happen is somebody takes the basic graphics library - there's no patent on it, I had that technology, parts of it, before SGI ever started - and builds an absolutely killer chip. It does take some knowledge, and - fortunately for the company - most of that knowledge is held within SGI. But just build it, design it. Design it for ultra-high volume, strike a deal with Bill Gates. Say: "You embed this set of graphics calls into your operating system, and I will sell this chip set, just like Intel sells the X86. We have a balanced CPU and graphics system; you support it in your software. And there would be no reason to buy these high-end expensive things that SGI sells." But I'm not going to do that. And I don't think anybody else has either the knowledge or the ability to muster what would be required. But it could be done. That's their most serious vulnerability. It's an excellent group of people but they - and people at every other company - begin to define themselves by what they have been doing, not by what they can do.
That seems to be human nature. It's comfortable.
Something has gone wrong when you stop valuing the person that tries to set a little bit of farsightedness. I didn't feel valued there. I feel incredibly happy to be out of that place. It was too much of a struggle to get anything done. And that's too bad. It's a sign of bad things when a company 154 c loses its founders. I think it was bad when Steve Jobs left Apple. If Steve had done the NeXT product inside Apple, it would have been wonderful. But he was going against the grain when he was doing it outside of Apple. Just as I would if I had left SGI and started another graphics workstation company. If I had gone down the road of trying to make this chip and do a PC with advanced graphics, it would have been a real struggle, because I would have been going against the whole culture over there. Right now no one over there has anything against me. I'm not trying to hurt them. None of this is aimed at hurting; it's more just observation.
You're known for speaking your mind. You've made comments about Apple and Trip Hawkins and IBM -
What I said about Apple was that they made a serious mistake by not capturing something else besides user interface stuff and trying to protect that when, in fact, Steve Jobs copied that from Xerox. He had no patent. And had Jobs been there, he'd have been pushing them to create something new, rather than trying to protect their current territory. Apple circled the wagons around GUI, and that was the wrong thing to do. GUI wasn't protectable. Rather than creating a new thing like the NeXT box and like object-oriented programming or any of that kind of stuff, they circled the wagons. Later they started to make notebooks, that was a good thing. And what I said about Trip Hawkins was that he was hyping the 3DO player too much. I still believe that Trip got way out ahead of himself. He basically started believing all of the things he was saying. He complains about me in some recent article, "I didn't ever do anything to Jim Clark." No, he didn't ever do anything to me except he trivialized 3-D. Claimed it was easy. It isn't trivial. It's hard to do. It's hard to pull off all those tricks with smoke and mirrors. So he trivialized it, and I think it's going to catch up with him. He made the world believe he was going to deliver 3-D for $500 to $600. And I don't think he will. No, I don't think I've gotten myself in trouble.
Why Mosaic?
Mainly because I ran into Marc Andreessen immediately upon leaving SGI, and Marc was the author of Mosaic. The original thought was to go into interactive television in some fashion. But what is Mosaic? A navigator for interactive stuff on a network. The network happens to be called the Internet, but the physical network is slowly improving in bandwidth and someday it will be capable of carrying video. The slope of growth of the television industry is zero. It's even negative. Television doesn't change. Cable is nothing but an overlay of a physical delivery scheme for broadcast television that has been around for 40 years. There's no two-way interactivity, nothing. So I began to think about the difficulties of the transition of the cable industry into interactivity. It's a completely daunting task. First of all, you have to cause the television industry to get accustomed to digital technology, which is a major change. Then it has to think of two-way interactivity, which is a major change. And it has to make the physical network carry switched-video capability. That's just a whole group of major changes.
That's not even talking about the consumer.
Right. People don't have problems with interactivity on computers. More and more, computers are being built so you can see video on them. You look at those dynamics, and you look at the dynamics on the other side of the ledger, and you say, What are you doing over here? Get over there.
I'm sure you've followed all the concern about the coming commercialization for the Internet.
That to me is peculiar. When the phone system was invented it was primarily for voice. We commercialized it when we began to use it for business, and we commercialized it further when we began to do data transfers over the wire, money transfers over telephone lines. It's exactly the same thing. Commercialization of the Internet is as inevitable as the sun coming up tomorrow.
While heading SGI you came to believe that the future lies in interactive TV. You made the deal with Time Warner for servers and set-top boxes. This is a big change.
Tele-Communications Inc. is a great company. But it represents a blockage in the system because it doesn't have the bandwidth to deal with all the deals. If I'm sitting here waiting to do a deal with the cable industry, I have to do it with Time Warner or TCI. And that's just too small a market. I'd rather deal with something that's more organic, that has lots of ways you can get into it. That's how I view the Internet. Even by the end of the year, based on current growth rates, the total number of users on the Internet is going to be as big as cable. US cable serves 60 million homes; we're currently at 25 million Internet users. By the end of the year, that will be 50 million. By the middle of next year, you'll be over and above what US cable operations touch. It's a big market, and no single entity is in control of it. It's much more organic and grass-roots, which I find appealing.
Ten years from now, are movies-on-demand going to come in over the Internet to computers?
I think what you call a computer today will mutate. A stripped-down version of today's computer will be used as an interface to a television. The television display will become higher quality. The television display will be able to display text. In other words, it will look like a computer screen. So the television as we know it goes away. And now the ordinary consumer says, Well it's a better-looking picture, and I've got this different remote, and I can point to things on the screen, and it's a higher-quality picture. But I can watch movies and see video - ordinary television.
That kind of user you could call the couch-potato user. Meanwhile, there are the 25 million plus with computers. Even the average person who uses a computer is sophisticated, compared to the couch-potato user.
And that audience is growing every day. The cable industry, or traditional television, counts on the stupidity of the consumer. The PC counts on the intelligence of the consumer. But the point is, even a nonliterate person will be able to use what the PC becomes, because when you remove the keyboard and put a big display on it, you have television, but you also have computing. You have things that you associate with a computer today. Those things you traditionally associate with each medium are going to come together, and I think they're going to come together with the center of gravity around computing, not around the old television technology. When you change the entire screen, the entire analog system to digital, the underlying broadcast to an interactive schema, you have computing, not television. So the computer becomes a TV, rather than the TV becoming the computer. Maybe the flaw in my thinking was that I felt television and the cable industry could move quickly. I thought they could. I was wrong. I don't believe they can. The rate at which cable can change the installed plant doesn't compare to the rate at which computing technology is going to become a television.
How did you conclude that?
Well, I wasn't allowed to come to that conclusion when I was the chair of SGI. I couldn't say, Let's take our technology and become a PC. That would have meant taking the MIPS machine and building a PC out of it. That means that you can't add any value because the people in Redmond, Washington, determine the flow at which you can add value or add capability to DOS and Windows. Those are the constraining things. They constrain that market.
Do you think Time Warner and TCI and the others are wrong about the infohighway? Are their tests going to fail?
If they wanted to be successful, they would have had to act in unison. Time Warner and TCI had to say, We hereby endorse this thing. Had they said that, the whole world would have focused behind it. Everyone would have started applying intense energy into making it low cost, et cetera, et cetera. But Time Warner and TCI couldn't see eye-to-eye. I tried my best. Even with complete unison they would have had to run like hell, because the computing industry is changing in a nonstop way for many, many more years.
Has Malone actually spent a day on the Internet?
I don't know. Malone is a very smart guy. He'll pick up on this very quickly. I just don't think he's figured out yet how to leverage his current holdings, a combination of content via Liberty Media and the wire business, into this new area. By the time they get interactive switched-video circuits, the Internet will have scaled into something that can do the same thing. Or the Internet will be able to ride on top of it. The way to think of the Internet then is a protocol riding on top of whatever physical network is there.
Would it be difficult if, right now, he wanted to put computers on his cable systems?
He could offer Internet access right now. Intel has just introduced a modem to let anybody connect a PC to the cable. They fully intend to do that. The fascinating thing is, once they get there, how do they control the content?
They can't.
So they become a utility. A data-carrying utility.
Look down the road 15 years: what's coming?
Fifteen years is adequate time to have lightweight portable things that give you most of the media you want to read or view. The notion of media will be completely blended in one digital stream. Moving pictures and static pictures and text and audio - the mix of any of those will be commonplace. Imagine turning the pages of a magazine: every one of the images is a sound clip, and when you put your cursor over one of them, the audio comes. That's absolutely going to be happening in 15 years. Full convergence of media and television and computers.
Do big companies dominate?
I don't have any way to predict that. If they act properly, they can. If I were Sony, just to give you an example, I would be acquiring more software. Not content, but more underlying software. Because software is where the added value is going to be, and they're not acquiring any. There's a layer of software that's enabling, that connects content to hardware, that they don't know anything about.
If you had to start a hardware company, what would you do?
I've got an idea there, but I'm not going to start a hardware company. I would build an extremely inexpensive box that connected to cable television and that had enough power to take in decoded video signals and programmability and the ability to run Mosaic. Now, such a box could be built today for very little cost. I think what I'm talking about is what the set-top box should become. But whether it will is a completely open issue.
Is it true that you were unfamiliar with the Internet until recently?
That was a misinterpretation. Of course I knew what the Internet was. But I hadn't thought about what the implications were in terms of its growth rate. The Internet is a protocol running on top of a physical connection network. That underlying physical network can be changed and the protocol can still be called the Internet. As the underlying physical network changes, all of these applications you develop for the Internet port right over there. You would be astounded at the number of terabytes of data that are served by Mosaic today, daily, running on numerous platforms. It's sort of the standard network tool.
What are you going to do with it? Right now it's available for free.
It's like saying you get 1.0 for free. What about 2.0? Do you want it? Of course you want the upgrades and the new features. So the first release was free. Second release? Depends on how we structure it. It's a new game, and we're going to build a business around it.
How long before a commercial version will be available with security ad billing?
Six months to a year. Actually, it will be later this year.
You started SGI with half a million dollars and six students and turned it into a billion-dollar company. Can you do it again?
I'm relying on Andreessen to strike fire the second time. The vision is really Marc Andreessen's, not mine. And I think he can strike fire the first time. He kind of struck it already, and now he's going to do it in a commercial sense.


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Postdocs at PMB
Postdoctoral scholars at PMB enjoy a rich and diverse working and research environment, along with extensive support from the greater university community. There are more than 100 postdocs in the department.
According to a recent survey of our postdocs, 46% of the respondents are from Europe, 30% from the U.S., 18% from Asia and 6% from Central and South America.
In addition to research, some postdocs also contribute to mentoring of graduate and undergraduate students, participate in teaching and outreach activities and help with lab management.
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Berkeley Postdoctoral Enterpreneur Program (BPEP) aims to foster entrepreneurship in the UC Berkeley postdoctoral and graduate community. They provide tools for fostering entrepreneurship and host frequent seminars on a variety of topics related to moving research innovations into the marketplace. Learn more at: bpep.berkeley.edu
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The city is often referred to as the "Rose of the North" because of its amazing flowers and tropical jungle, and its mountainous terrain encompasses the entire region. This backdrop provides you with some unique scenery to enjoy during your Thailand golf vacation.
Chiang Mai golf offers excellent golfing holidays of international standards, where traditions and way of life remain unchanged for centuries. At Golfasian we can arrange a customized Thailand golf package, with plenty of activities and attractions to enhance every Chiang Mai golf experience.
Visitors today will find themselves in a world that is unchanged for centuries, and where traditions and way of life remain the same. There are six main hill-tribes here that continue to work the land and have maintained their beautiful customs and crafts. These native tribes each have their own language, religion, culture and dress, and particular way of living off the land. Over the years they have migrated down from Laos, Burma, and China to find more fertile earth and easier ways of life. Today their arts and handicrafts of silver, teak and silk are valued pieces for visitors and locals alike to buy and treasure.
The city of Chiang Mai has evolved considerably over recent years and it has an abundance of museums and art galleries, café's and bars. There are over 300 Buddhist temples in the city, with some of the finest and oldest Temples in the Kingdom
Hotels and restaurants cater to all tastes and feature local specialties and international cuisine. This is also the best place in Thailand to go trekking, explore the jungle by elephant, or glide down its tranquil rivers on a bamboo raft. This cool northern climate and its caring, friendly people will stay in your memory for a lifetime.


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The Hairy Hobo is an inhabitant of Cleveland. He makes an appearance in the episode, Farm Pit.
The hairy hobo has clear blue eyes and thick brown eyebrows. He has gray, shaggy hair which covers most of his face and neck. He also bears a thick, ragged beard. He wears a green sweater paired with some torn jeans, and he is covered in dirt and stains due to the poverty he lives in.
The homeless man appears to be somewhat delusional, evidenced when he mumbles, "The voices are back, man...". This can also be assumed when Cosmo states that the homeless man needs his "calming down medicine," to which the hobo replies and shouts, "I WANNA GO TO FLORIDA!". Cosmo then tells him to use his inside voice.
The hairy hobo is first seen in Cleveland where Cosmo, believing that Cleveland was the Magical Land of Oz and that the homeless man was the cowardly lion, drags him along on his journey to see the "wizard" along with a mop and mailbox who were deemed the "brainless scarecrow" and the "tin man." When the wizard turned out to be part of the name of a restaurant chain called The Wizard of Cod, Cosmo took him to the restaurant where the homeless man complained about being too cold. In the end of the episode, Cosmo summoned a tornado that brought the hobo back, who then sang the Magical Land of Cleve Song with Cosmo and Wanda while running off to Cleveland.


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नई दिल्ली New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has asked the Centre to list out steps it proposes to take for controlling pollution caused by plastic products and human defecation around railway tracks.
A bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar directed Ministry of Railways, Railway Board, Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) and others to file a reply within two weeks.
"We direct the respondents to specifically state in their replies and place policy or other relevant documents on record to show as to what steps they propose to take for the purpose of preventing and controlling the pollution caused by throwing of Municipal Solid Waste particularly plastic products on and around railway tracks as well as use of the tracks or adjacent for human evacuation.
"It will also be indicated as to how the respondents propose to protect the railway tracks to ensure that such pollution, which is causing serious environmental hazards, is not permitted in future," the bench said, and listed the matter for next hearing on September 15.
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Well we are nearly there! No, I am not talking about Christmas, that's still some way off. I am talking about Advent.
Advent has a lot to teach us not just about theology but about life in general, which isn't surprising really because theology's concern is life, both eternal and temporal.
If theology is about life, if we 'do theology,' through living our faith, it follows that theology can inform our approach to economic life. Indeed, it must, because theology and economics, at their very heart, ask the same basic question:
Whose interests do I serve?
Marxists will answer that our primary economic concern is to serve the state. Capitalists, by contrast, will suggest that in serving self we better the lot of everyone. 'My good' becomes a 'public good.'
People of faith aspire to serve the Kingdom of God (which necessitates serving each other).
In the West Marxism is widely discredited. But, does this leave capitalism as the only answer? The contributors to Theonomics suggest not, arguing that capitalisms biggest error is to assume that financial capital and human capital are on-in-the-same. The Bible teaches that this is not so. The Rich Man (in the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus – Luke 16, 19-31) made this mistake and look where it got him!
Yet switch on the T.V. or go into the shops and you will be encouraged (or should I say manipulated) to believe that your human value is directly proportionate to your ability to consume. Consider the strap lines: 'Because you're worth it.' 'Just do it.' And so on. And if you can't just do it because you haven't got the wherewithal there is a whole industry just waiting to lend you money; 'praying' on your vulnerability, your need to consume (and mine).
So what can Advent teach us? Simply this; the virtue is often in the waiting. Advent reminds us of an ancient economic value, one held dear by Adam Smith, 'deferred gratification.'
Advent says 'yes, you are worth it,' and 'if you wait your greatest need will be answered in the form of a gift.' Advent goes further and suggests that the gift is a collective gift, given for the benefit of all humanity. Advent asks us to spend some time reflecting on the value of the ultimate gift and, whether we are prepared to use the gift as an act of service, in the full knowledge that the value of the gift to its recipients grows as it is shared.
Now that is a different way of considering the economic question.
Let me finish with a prophecy from the Cree Native Americans:
Only after the last tree has been cut down,
Only after the last river has been poisoned,
Only after the last fish has been caught,
Only then will you realise that money cannot be eaten
If you would like a copy of Theonomics please do be in touch! Theonomics is an edited book (by me!) and includes a series of interesting reflections: +Alan Wilson and Rosey Harper's reflection on the Rich Man and Lazarus is recommended as 'an Advent Read.'


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Stop Motion Videos
This is our first attempt at stop motion videos this year. We have created these videos for our vocabulary words for our weekly story. Check them out!
Book Club Trailers
Check out the book trailers that students have created to showcase their book club books.
More coming soon!
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We created our Fashion Crossover London in 2016 with the intention of encouraging both emerging and established designers and creatives to join us and build an international design network.
All members' professional background and work contacts will be shared internally with permission. We will invite our members for social networking and private events held by Fashion Crossover London only.
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Tmart is a great Hong Kong online store for a price-conscious shopper looking for electronics, accessories, apparel and other products by Chinese and Hong Kong manufacturers.
Tmart is a great store for a person in search of cheap consumer electronics, gadgets, car accessories, surveillance video systems or even cheap yet stylish Chinese apparel. It's hard to think of a product that can't be purchased here – Tmart offers everything from smartphones and Android tablet PCs to pet supplies.
The company behind Tmart is located in Hong Kong, close to its main suppliers. What should definitely be mentioned too is this shopping site's interface allowing you to find gifts for your friends and relatives, sorting them by particular holiday – Christmas, Labor Day, Mother's Day, etc.
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Sept. 30 - Oct. 4, 2013
National Coverage
After Years of Political Talk, The Obamacare Fight Gets Real
NPR Morning Edition
Health care historian Jonathan Oberlander says that's why he's not sure even a flawless rollout will change perceptions. "This is not a program like Medicare or Social Security; it is a program that really is a series of policies and regulations and subsidies," he says. [Note: This interview was recorded in the Carolina News Studio.]
Obamacare fight vs. birth of Social Security: Which was uglier?
They said one program would end freedom in America, and worried that another was akin to socialism. No, we're not talking about aspects of the Affordable Care Act. If you think politicians up in arms about the upcoming launch of Obamacare, you must not be old enough to remember the name-calling and dire predictions that predicated the introduction of two other major legislative milestones: Medicare and Social Security. "There is a history around these government programs of controversy … said Jonathan Oberlander, a professor of health policy and management at the University of North Carolina.
State & Local Coverage
Local leaders react to Atkinson's departure with diplomacy
Triangle Business Journal
Reaction to the sudden departure of Bill Atkinson, former CEO of WakeMed Health & Hospitals, came in over the weekend, with some expressing shock and others saying they saw it coming, even if they benefitted from hindsight…
"WakeMed is an important organization for our community and provides excellent care. UNC Health Care and Rex Healthcare look forward to strengthening the relationship we've shared with WakeMed for many years. We wish Bill Atkinson well in his future endeavors," said David Strong, president of Rex Healthcare.
Similarly, Dr. Bill Roper, CEO UNC Health Care said, "WakeMed is an important partner in UNC Health Care's mission of training the next generation of physicians and ensuring access to top medical care for North Carolinians. I wish Dr. Atkinson well in his future endeavors."
Local groups offer public forums on the Affordable Care Act
News & Observer
Local hospital officials and lawyers will offer a series of three public forums on the Affordable Care Act for people interested in signing up for subsidized insurance under the new healthcare law.The free events, sponsored by UNC Health Care and Legal Aid of N.C., will include an opportunity for those in attendance to schedule a private consulation with a trained "navigator" to help with enrollment.


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Shirt Primark, Leggings Select, Necklace H&M, Ring Topshop.
So i've finally found a work placement
My laptop STILL hasn't arrived yet, apparently it's been sent from the actual warehouse and that's why it's taking so long to arrive. They said it should be here before the end of march so at least another 3 weeks to wait ! Just want it already so I can get back to regular blogging.
I hope your all enjoying your week ?


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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Vice President Del Harvey said they plan to further "evolve" the social-media platform's policies to counter "hate speech," after discussions with company employees regarding controversial radio host Alex Jones.
While Facebook, Apple, Google, Spotify, and others booted many of Jones' pages, channels, and podcasts for violating "hate-speech" policies, Twitter didn't follow, because Jones "hasn't violated our rules," Dorsey said in an Aug. 8 tweet.
After pushback from some employees, however, Dorsey said he's "definitely not happy" with current Twitter policies, which need to "constantly evolve."
On Aug. 9, Harvey published an email to employees saying the company had "a number of conversations with staff about Alex Jones" and decided to accelerate plans to review a new policy against "dehumanizing speech" to "help customers feel safe as it relates to hate speech."
She said that "speech that treats or describes others as less than human" has been linked with violence, such as in historical examples of mass violence. Moreover, the company has found it "concerning" and "problematic," in its own user research.
The company is also evaluating whether it should consider "off-platform behavior" when enforcing policies.
Jones, known for his hot-headed outbursts, faces a defamation suit by parents of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, some of whom he accused of being "crisis actors." Jones later repeatedly apologized to the families in his videos.
But Facebook stated it didn't shut Jones down for making false claims, but "for glorifying violence, which violates our graphic-violence policy, and using dehumanizing language to describe people who are transgender, Muslims and immigrants, which violates our hate-speech policies."
The company didn't provide any examples of Jones's content that violates their policies.
Jones denounced the tech company's move as a broader attempt to silence him—an attempt that appears to have backfired, as internet searches for his name skyrocketed since the ban, along with the popularity of his iPhone and Android apps.
Uncertain Future
The murky "hate-speech" policies used against Jones have worried conservatives, libertarians, and other free-speech advocates, who increasingly see the tech companies as playing the role of arbiter while pretending to run content-neutral platforms.
"Those who refuse to see this as the first step toward a more aggressive campaign of de-platforming conservatives are being obtuse," said Sonny Bunch, executive editor of the Washington Free Beacon, in an Aug. 8 Washington Post op-ed. "There is a growing belief that speech can be considered violence, that racist speech is by definition violence and that conservative thought is inherently racist. I don't need a whiteboard or lizard people to connect the dots."
Twitter's practices of suppressing "bad-faith actors," automated "bot" accounts, and obscuring search results based on "quality," have been exposed to have heavily hit right-leaning users, while letting similar behavior by left-leaning users slide. Twitter has addressed some of those issues, but the phenomenon doesn't appear to have abated.
If proven to favor or suppress users of a particular political persuasion, the platforms could be legally considered as publishers. That may open the door to lawsuits that the companies previously dodged by claiming that as neutral platforms they're not responsible for user-created content.
Both Facebook and Twitter recently have experienced dramatic drops in market value. Facebook is down nearly 16 percent since July 25, while Twitter stock has fallen by almost 28 percent in the same period.
Watch Next:
The First Ever Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom Inspires Hope
The freedom of belief was at the center of the United States' founding.


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Meet Jennifer of List Plan It
Tell us a little about you . . .
My name is Jennifer Tankersley. I am a wife of 14 years and a mom to 3 (7, 5, 3). I was born and raised in Kansas, but have lived in 4 other states and one other country since graduating from high school. We live in Maine and hope to grow old here. We love it! Even the winters.
What is your business and where can we find it?
I am the founder of ListPlanIt.com (http://www.ListPlanIt.com). It contains over 350 lists and planning pages to organize your life and put your world in order! Members will find grocery lists and meal planning pages, birthday and holiday planning pages, cleaning lists and packing lists, to do lists and calendars, and everything in between.
Is it mom-owned, invented, created . . .?
I had the inspiration late one night just before New Year's. I was so excited about my idea that it was launched as a website just 5 months later. Since that time, I've added at least 150 lists and planning pages.
A little about your entrepreneur journey so far?
I knew very little about anything business-related when I began. It has been a crash course throughout, but I've learned so much and understand that I have so much more to learn. I've had a lot of help from my family and other website owners. It is everything I've wanted for myself: my own business in something that I am absolutely passionate about and use everyday myself!
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I have created 2 blogs: List Mama Blog (http://www.ListMamaBlog.com) has Lists for List-Lovin' Mamas and 100 Days to Christmas (http://www.100DaystoChristmas.com) is a daily dose of inspiration and motivation to help you prepare for the busy holiday season. I am also on Facebook. You can find me with the following email address: email@example.com. I would love a follow on Twitter at http://twitter.com/listplanit. I am a member of these social networks: Mom Bloggers Club.com, TwitterMoms.com, and PoshMama.com.
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I have a weekly email newsletter called The L.I.S.T. in which I write about organizing your home, family, and business.


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Excerpt from Essence of Vedanta
Fitness for Wisdom
One who is fit for receiving Wisdom of the Self shall receive it 'in due time.' Self-effort and passage of time work simultaneously and one cannot be distinguished from the other, for Providence and Personal exertion cannot be separated as they both work simultaneously and are interdependent. Rather, these are only two names for one and the same force of action.
Sri Sankaracharya had already exhorted that one has to undergo the disciplinary stages of Viveka, Vairagya, Sama, Dama, Uparati, Titiksha, Sraddha, Samadhana, and Mumukshutva before getting initiate into the mystery of Existence. One should not be initiated into the Truth of the Absolute unless he is found well developed in all these qualities.
Nowadays generally we find that aspirants do not have a strong desire for liberation. They may have a ray of Viveka and Vairagya of a mild variety. But it is very difficult to find an aspirant who cares for nothing but final Emancipation, who treats the whole world and its contents as mere straw, who meditates incessantly upon how to attain Salvation from embodied existence.
It is not easy to understand the meaning of Liberation.
How can it be possible for raw men of the world to realise the nullity of earthly existence and of worldly activities? Even advanced aspirants sometimes have got strong desire for doing something wonderful in this world, something which none has done before. Such people cannot have a real desire for Liberation. And such people are unfit for receiving Brahma Vidya.
It is only the Uttama-Adhikari, the best qualifier, who cares for nothing, who is totally indifferent to the ways of the world, who is ever silent and serene due to the dawn of proper knowledge, who is ever the same among the diverse men of the world, who is undisturbed by the distracted activity of the world, who is calm and peaceful, who has withdrawn himself from the bustle of life, who cares not for either death or life, who is unmindful of what is happening in the world, who is careless towards either this or that, that is really fit to receive the Ultimate wisdom of the Absolute!
Even if there is the slightest desire lurking inside other than the Realisation of the Absolute, the man will not be able to comprehend the true import of the Vedantic instructions by the Spiritual Teacher (Preceptor). He will have thousands of doubts and distractions in the mind which will entirely pull him down from the Vedantic Meditation.
A person should be desire for nothing else, than the realisation of Brahman. There should be no other thought throughout the day than of the way of attaining Self-realisation.
Every thought, every speech, every action, nay, every breath of the person should illustrate the method of realising the Absolute. Such a person is fit to receive Vedantic Wisdom.
Withdrawal From Multiplicity
Self-restraint is the opposite of self-expression. The latter tends towards Pravritti or life in the variegated Samsara, and the former leads to the Highest Integration through Nivritti of stepping back to Truth.
The creative diversifying power is turned in and sublimated into the spiritual splendour.
The withdrawal from multiplicity and centring oneself in Unity is effected through self-restraint which is the austere transformation of the creative objective force into the conscious Power that causes the blossoming of the sense of individual finitude into the expanse of objectless consciousness.
Variety is the meaning of manifestation. Every individual force is a copy of the limitless creative force and the natural tendency of this energy is to move towards the creation of multiplicity. This is the reason why the control of the action of creativity is found to be difficult in the case of those who are tied to individual physicality. An individual finds it hard to properly direct the cosmic habit unless he takes recourse to process of Spiritual Realisation. A spiritual Sadhaka goes to the source of this objectified energy and compel the force to diffuse itself in the serene Ground-Noumenon.
A person who has let loose the flow of the creative force gets entangled in the process of multiple-creation and ever remains away from the knowledge of the Non-Dual Truth of his Eternal Self. This is the root-background of the universal ethics that self-control is imperative to a seeker after the Absolute Reality.
Those who have discriminatively grasped the spiritual character of human life refrain from the instinctive practice of self-multiplication and devote themselves to the glorious task of directing the potential energy to conscious contemplation on the Spiritual Ideal through the triple transformation of the active emotional and intellectual aspects of the general human nature.
Such integrated persons possess a mighty power of understanding, analysis and meditation.
The Chhandogya Upanishad says that when purity and Sattva are increased, there is a generation of immense memory which paves the way to the shattering open of the knot of self.
The most intricate technic of the art of Self-realisation is mastered by the genius of an austere who has learnt to expand his formative lower into the plenitude of limitless life. Such austere spiritual beings flow with the lustrous spiritual strength which handles with ease even the most formidable of the diversifying forces of nature.
Fear is unknown to them and their divinised energy is centred in the Self to be utilised in transcending the realm of the ego-sense. They establish themselves in the unbroken vow of leaping over phenomenon into the heart of Existence. Such is the glory of self-restraint!
The control of the objective instincts is the preparation for world-renunciation in the quest of the Ultimate Essence. An abandonment of earthly nature effected by a distaste for particularities is what marks the character of a true austere Sadhaka. He should not enter the household, for, his path leads to Unity and not the creative social activity.
Alone and unfriended should he carry on the duty of Self-integration through unceasing selflessness and remembrance of the Divine Ideal. Selfless service polishes the self and rubs the ego and thus renders the person fit for the higher life of Dhyana and Brahma-Chintana.
A cutting off from acquaintance with relatives is necessary, for, Nivritti-Marga does not allow of any transient connections.


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A Washington, D.C. native, Rell Battle studied theater at the University of Maryland before moving to Los Angeles to pursue stand up. Soon after his arrival, he was chosen to perform at Jamie Foxx's Laffapalooza festival as a "New Face" of comedy. Since then, he has performed at comedy clubs throughout the country and overseas.
Battle is the creator and an executive producer of Roast Battle, an energetic live show that was subsequently adapted as a television series for Comedy Central. His additional television credits include Key and Peele, The Eric Andre Show, Coming to the Stage, and Adam Devine's House Party. Also, he has written for Comedy Central's Hood Adjacent.
Battle's birthday is August 21. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram @rellbattle.


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On Wednesday the 18th of September 2013, the MimosaLiFE team re-initiated their Oeuvre Street Fashion Series at the Fresher's Fair. Despite the wet dripped Glaswegian morning, the atmosphere around the Glasgow University campus was nothing sort of electric. Autumn is a season that often celebrates for shades of grey, charcoal and black in fashion, however the individuals we encountered displayed bold and colourful tones in the individual fashion choices. We'll like to give a massive thank to all those that participated in our street fashion photo shoot. Enjoy the photos below.
Category Archives: Street Fashion Initiative
Winter Wonderland [Oeuvre]
In the 'coldest' winter, we braved the below negative 1 wind and icy side walks of West End Glasgow for our final 'Oeuvre ' street fashion photo shoot of 2012. It was without a doubt that Christmas was on the horizon as the crowded streets of Byres road was filled with shoppers and some of the city's most charming citizens. We encountered individuals who displayed a great balance of taste and comfort in the heart of winter. Enjoy, share and be inspired.
West End Promenade [Oeuvre]
On Friday November 17th, a quiet afternoon in the West End of Glasgow. The busy streets of Byres Road were awfully silent, the city appeared to be hibernation.Despite the piercing cold and rain, we encountered brave souls in our journey along Byres Road, Great Western Road and the Hillhead area. These individuals were clearly advocates of style over colourless layers, timeless fashion over trends or fads. Enjoy, share and hopefully be inspired.
Glasgow City Centre Promenade [Oeuvre]
On a chilly November afternoon, Oeuvre our street fashion initiative made its debut in Glasgow's Centre area. We were astonished by the fashionistas we encountered in our promenade along St Enoch, Argyle street and Buchanan street. Without fail, these individuals demonstrated an unequivocally level of taste and uniqueness in their respective fashion choices. Enjoy, share and be inspired.
Forever Autumn II [Oeuvre]
Forever Autumn [Oeuvre]
Autumn is the season where those sun kissed tans of summer are long gone and winter's chill is on the horizon, however that never deters any fashionista from adapting and procuring autumn-ready layers that express an elegant and refreshing taste in style. In our travels around the Glasgow University campus, we encountered such individuals that demonstrated in the midst of this wet, melancholic and windy season their taste in style and couture would not be compromised. Enjoy, Share & Be Inspired.
The Devil Is In The Details [Oeuvre]
Arguably, for many individuals fashion accessories – bags, jewelry, belts e.t.c are often an afterthought. However, the citizens in the Greater Glasgow Area that we came across in our travels make a strong case for accessories being the ultimate fashion statement. We came across an array of different pieces – tribal, elegant, eccentric and alternative which enhanced their outfits and style on that day. Enjoy, Share and Be Inspired!
Genesis – Inspiration Has No Destination [Oeuvre]
On Wednesday the 13th of September 2012 ,'Oeuvre' – the guerrilla style street fashion initiative of Mimosa was born. The muses of this project were university students from the Greater Glasgow Area, they proved that style and chic are one of the ultimate forms of expression. These individuals displayed a great sense of colour, taste in couture and an overall representation of their respective personas. Enjoy,'Oeuvre' coming to an avenue, boulevard or street near you.


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The perfect addition to a 10x10 Trade Show Booth, our custom pop up displays are simple to set up and are always priced competitively. Choose from our easy expand pop up display with end caps included or our tube tension pop up display with a zippered fabric sleeve. Graphic design services are available as well as optional accessories like the pop up podium to help you create the perfect booth.
Trade Show Pop up Display
What is a Pop up Display?
At Top Custom Print, our pop up displays are the main part of your booth. It is the large 8ft or 10ft backdrop that creates the most impact. Our pop up display comes in two types: tube and standard pop up.
What is the difference between the tube and standard pop up?
The standard pop up display has an expanding frame that is one singular piece. It is an easily collapsible backdrop that locks into place using push-in hooks in the center of the frame. The standard popup display uses hook and loop fasteners to attach the graphic onto the frame. A benefit to this display is that the graphics include end caps, which gives you space on the sides of the display to use for graphics.
On the other hand, a tube pop up is a frame of multiple connecting tubes. The tubes are assembled without needing any tools and this display type is more sturdy because it is made of aluminum. While the tube popup frame takes more time to assemble, it tends to last longer than the standard pop up. The popup print is slipped on like a pillow case and zipped at the bottom.
Do the displays come with a carry bag?
Yes, each frame comes with a zippered oxford bag by default. We also offer upgrades for a hard case with wheels. The popup hard case can be converted into a podium and we offer an upgrade to get the podium graphic print as well.
Which pop up display should I choose?
The type of popup backdrop you choose should depend on the following factors: How large your booth staff is and how many events you attend in a year. If your booth staff only has 2-3 people, you may find the standard pop up frame more beneficial as it is easier and faster to set up. This display can easily be set up by one person just by expanding the frame. If you attend many events in the year however, you may find the tube popup frame suits your needs because the aluminum frame is more durable and built to last.